David Lynch. David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American film director, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor.
Known for his surrealist films, he has developed a unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", a style characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design. Jia Zhangke. Jia Zhangke (simplified Chinese: 贾樟柯; traditional Chinese: 賈樟柯; pinyin: Jiǎ Zhāngkē; born 1970) is a Chinese film director and screenwriter.
He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai, Lou Ye, Wang Quan'an and Zhang Yuan.[1] Palme d'Or. The Palme d'Or (English: Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival.[1] It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee.
From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film.[2] In 1964 it was replaced once again by the Grand Prix du Festival[3] before being reintroduced in 1974. History The Commune of Cannes coat of arms As of 2014, Jane Campion is the only female director to have won the Palme d'Or, for The Piano. Abbas Kiarostami. Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی Kiarostami has worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and has designed credit titles and publicity material.
He is also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. He is part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and includes pioneering directors such as Masoud Kimiai, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Dariush Mehrjui, Bahram Beyzai, Nasser Taghvai and Parviz Kimiavi. These filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues.[5] Lars von Trier. Paul Greengrass. Akira Kurosawa. Michael Haneke. In 2013 Haneke won the Prince of Asturias Award for the arts.
Life and career[edit] Haneke was born in Munich, Germany, the son of the German actor and director Fritz Haneke and the Austrian actress Beatrix von Degenschild. His stepfather, the composer Alexander Steinbrecher (de), had later married the mother of actor Christoph Waltz.[6] Haneke was raised in the city of Wiener Neustadt, Austria, and later attended the University of Vienna to study philosophy, psychology and drama after failing to achieve success in his early attempts in acting and music.
After graduating, he became a film critic and from 1967 to 1970 he worked as editor and dramaturg at the southwestern German television station Südwestfunk. He made his debut as a television director in 1974. Haneke says that films should offer viewers more space for imagination and self-reflection. His next film will be entitled Flashmob. William Wyler. Jean-Luc Godard. Jean-Luc Godard (French: [ʒɑ̃lyk ɡɔdaʁ]; born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic.
He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave". Like his New Wave contemporaries, Godard criticized mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality", which "emphasized craft over innovation, privileged established directors over new directors, and preferred the great works of the past to experimentation. " To challenge this tradition, he and like-minded critics started to make their own films. John Ford. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Ford directed more than 140 films (although nearly all of his silent films are now lost) and he is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential film-makers of his generation.[3] Ford's films and personality were held in high regard by his colleagues, with Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman among those who have named him as one of the greatest directors of all time.
Warren Beatty. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Robert Zemeckis. Early life[edit] Zemeckis was born in Chicago, Illinois,[1] the son of Rose (née Nespeca) and Alphonse Zemeckis.[5] His father was Lithuanian American and his mother was Italian American.
Zemeckis grew up on the south side of the city.[6] He attended a Roman Catholic grade school.[7] Zemeckis has said that "the truth was that in my family there was no art. Judd Apatow. Academy Award for Best Director. The Academy Award for Best Directing (Best Director), usually known as the Best Director Oscar, is one of the Awards of Merit presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to directors working in the motion picture industry.
While nominations for Best Director are made by members in the Academy's Directing branch, the award winners are selected by the Academy membership as a whole. Charlie Kaufman. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards: twice for Best Original Screenplay for Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, winning the award for the latter, and Best Adapted Screenplay (with his fictional brother) for Adaptation.
He also won two BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplays, one BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a Saturn Award for Best Writing. Early career[edit] Film[edit] Kaufman also penned the screenplay for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, a biopic based on the "unauthorized autobiography" of Chuck Barris, the creator of such popular game shows as The Dating Game and host of The Gong Show. The film focuses on Barris's claim to have been a CIA hit man. In late December 2010, several sources indicated that Kaufman would be reuniting with longtime collaborator Spike Jonze.[8] Very little is known about the project except that it will be a political satire.[9] Coen brothers. Todd Haynes. Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Haynes was born January 2, 1961, in Los Angeles, and grew up in nearby Encino. His father, Allen E. Haynes, was a cosmetics importer, and his mother, Sherry Lynne (née Semler), studied acting (and makes a brief appearance in I'm Not There).
Haynes is Jewish on his mother's side.[1] His younger sister is Gwynneth Haynes of the band Sophe Lux. Paul Thomas Anderson.