People and organizations matching the keywords,"director".
- Alan J. Abramson
- Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney is an Oscar-, Emmy- and duPont-Columbia-award winning American film director and producer. His works as director include ''The Trials of Henry Kissinger'' (2002), '''' (2005) (nominated for an Academy Award), ''The Human Behavior Experime... [Wikipedia]
- Allison Anders
- Ang Lee
- Antoine Fuqua
- Barry Levinson
- Bartlett Sher
Bartlett Sher is an American theatre director. He received the 2008 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for hid direction of the Broadway revival of ''South Pacific''.Sher was born in San Francisco, California where he attended St. Ignatius College Prepa... [Wikipedia]
- Baz Luhrmann
Baz Luhrmann (born Mark Anthony Luhrmann on September 17 1962) is an Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer. His films are distinguished by their flamboyant theatricality and oversaturated colours. Luhrm... [Wikipedia]
- Ben Stiller
Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, actor, film producer and director. He is the son of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. After beginning his acting career with a... [Wikipedia]
- Bill Condon
William "Bill" Condon (born October 22, 1955) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter and director.Condon was born in New York City, the son of a detective,[http://www.filmreference.com/film/12/Bill-Condon.html Bill Condon Biography (1956?-... [Wikipedia]
- Bill Paxton
- Billy Crystal
- Brett Ratner
- Brian Flemming
- Cameron Crowe
- César Gaviria Trujillo
#redirect César Gaviria [Wikipedia]
- Charlotte St. Martin
- Christopher Guest
Christopher Guest (born February 5, 1948) is an American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor and comedian. He is most widely known for having written, directed and starred in several "mockumentary" films that feature a repertory-like en... [Wikipedia]
- Craig Littlepage
Craig Littlepage (born August 5, 1951, in La Mott, PA) is the athletic director at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was named to that position in 2001 and has been with the school as an administrator since 1990.Littlepage p... [Wikipedia]
- Darren Aronofsky
- David Chase
- David Lynch
- David O. Russell
David Owen Russell (born 20 August 1958) is an American film director and screenwriter. He directed and wrote ''Three Kings'' and the existential comedy ''I ♥ Huckabees''. Earlier films include independent films ''Flirting with Disaster'' and ''Spank... [Wikipedia]
- Diane Paulus
- Don McKellar
- Don Roos
- Donald Fehr
Donald Fehr (born July 18, 1948) is the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. He has held the position since .As a young lawyer Fehr assisted the MLBPA in the Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally arbitration case (later kn... [Wikipedia]
- Dr. Margaret Chan
- Dustin Lance Black
- Edward Norton
Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American film actor and director. In 1997, his supporting role in the courtroom drama ''Primal Fear'' garnered him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. A year later, his ... [Wikipedia]
- Eli Pariser
- Errol Morris
Errol Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American Academy Award winning documentary film director. In 2003'' The Guardian'' listed him as number seven in their [http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/page/0,11456,1082823,00.html list] of the world's 4... [Wikipedia]
- Ethan Coen
#REDIRECT Coen brothers [Wikipedia]
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Frank Zappa
- Franklin Cudjoe
- Fred Lebow
Fred Lebow (June 3, 1932 - October 9, 1994) (born: Fischel Lebowitz) was an avid road runner and founder of the New York City Marathon. Born in Transylvania, Romania, he transformed the marathon from a small race with 55 finishers in 1970 to one of t... [Wikipedia]
- George A. Romero
George Andrew Romero (born February 4, 1940) is an American director, writer, editor and actor. He is best known for his Dead Series of five horror movies featuring a zombie apocalypse theme and commentary on modern society. He is the father of filmm... [Wikipedia]
- George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) served as the forty-first President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Bush held a multitude of political positions prior to his presidency, including Vice President of the United States in the adm... [Wikipedia]
- George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is the creator of the epic space opera franchise ''Star Wars'' and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jone... [Wikipedia]
- George Tenet
- Gil Kerlikowske
- Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born October 9, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican filmmaker. He is one of the film directors known as the ''Three Amigos'' (Spanish: Cineastas, Trío de Amigos) that include Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñá... [Wikipedia]
- Gus Van Sant
- J. J. Abrams
Jeffrey Jacob "J.J." Abrams (born in 1966) is an American Emmy Award-winning film and television producer, writer, actor, composer, director and founder of Bad Robot Productions.Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, to television producer Geral... [Wikipedia]
- Jackie Chan
- James Cameron
- James Gray (director)
- James Scurlock
- James Woolsey, Jr.
- Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerome Leon Bruckheimer (born September 21, 1945), better known by his professional name Jerry Bruckheimer, is an American film and television producer. He has achieved great success in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. His best known... [Wikipedia]
- Joel Coen
#REDIRECT Coen brothers [Wikipedia]
- Joey Lauren Adams
- John August
John August (born August 4, 1970 in Boulder, Colorado as John Meise) is an American screenwriter and film director.Born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, August earned a degree in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa and an MFA in film... [Wikipedia]
- John Carney (director)
John Carney (born 1972 in Dublin) is an Irish film and TV writer/director who specialises in low-budget indie films. He is best known for his award-winning 2006 movie ''Once''. He is also a co-creator of the Irish TV drama series ''Bachelors Walk''. ... [Wikipedia]
- John E. McLaughlin
- John P. Walters
John P. Walters was sworn in as the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) on December 7 2001. As the nation's "Drug Czar," Mr. Walters coordinates all aspects of federal drug programs and spending.From 1989 to 199... [Wikipedia]
- John Scott Redd
- John Waters (filmmaker)
- Josette Sheeran
Josette Sheeran is the eleventh Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). She was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Jacques Diouf in November 200... [Wikipedia]
- Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow (born December 6, 1967) is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for producing a distinct series of critically and commercially successful comedy films, including '''' (2004), ''The 40-Year-Old Virgin'' (... [Wikipedia]
- Julie Gerberding
- Ken Burns
Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29 1953) is an American director and producer of documentary films known for his style of making use of archival footage and photographs. Among his most notable productions are ''The Civil War'' (1990), ''Baseball'' (1... [Wikipedia]
- Kenneth Pollack
Kenneth Michael Pollack (born 1966) is a noted former CIA intelligence analyst and expert on Middle East politics and military analysis. He has served on the National Security Council staff and has written several articles and books on related topics... [Wikipedia]
- Kevin Smith
Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American screenwriter, writer, film director, actor and comic book writer. He is also the founder of View Askew Productions along with Scott Mosier. Smith's films are often set in his home state of New ... [Wikipedia]
- Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor and film director. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclai... [Wikipedia]
- Kevin White (athletic director)
Dr. Kevin White (born September 25, 1950) is the Director of Athletics at Duke University. He has held this position since May 30, 2008. He held similar positions at the University of Notre Dame, Arizona State University, Tulane University, the Unive... [Wikipedia]
- Kirby Dick
- Larry David
Lawrence Gene David (born July 2, 1947) is an American actor, writer, comedian, producer, and film director. Formerly a standup comedian, David went into television comedy, writing and starring in ABC's ''Fridays'', as well as writing briefly for ''S... [Wikipedia]
- Louis Malle
Louis Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, working in both French and English.Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries, Nord, France. He initially studied political science at the Sorbonn... [Wikipedia]
- M. Night Shyamalan
#REDIRECT M. Night Shyamalan [Wikipedia]
- Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, screenwriter, film producer, and historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a ... [Wikipedia]
- Matt Stone
- Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky; June 28, 1926)Parish, pp. 16–17 is an American director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks is a member of the short list... [Wikipedia]
- Mel Smith
Mel Smith (born in Chiswick, London on 3 December, 1952) is an English comedian, actor, film director, writer, and producer.Smith's father Kenneth was born in Tow Law, County Durham, and worked at a coal mine in the Second World War looking after the... [Wikipedia]
- Michael Hayden
Michael Vincent Hayden, (born March 17, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was a United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. From April 21, 2005–May 26, 2006 he was the Principal Deputy Direc... [Wikipedia]
- Michael Mann
- Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, author and liberal political commentator. He is the director and producer of ''Bowling for Columbine'', ''Fahrenheit 9/11'', and ''Sicko'', three of the top f... [Wikipedia]
- Mohamed ElBaradei
- Morgan Freeman
- Morgan Spurlock
- Myles Brand
Myles David Brand (born May 17, 1942) is the president of the United States' National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and prior to that served as the sixteenth president of Indiana University.Born May 17, 1942, Brand earned his Bachelor of Sci... [Wikipedia]
- Nancy Meyers
Nancy Jane Meyers (Born December 8, 1949 in Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:102687~T1 Biography] ''Allmovie''. Her second solo venture, ''What Women Want'' (2... [Wikipedia]
- Norman Dorsen
- Norman Siegel
Norman Siegel (born 1943) was the director of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), New York's leading civil rights organization, under the umbrella of the nationwide American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Siegel served as director from 1985 un... [Wikipedia]
- Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone (born 15 September, ) is an American film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work cont... [Wikipedia]
- Paul Jay
- Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970)[http://www.cigarettesandredvines.com/biography.php paul thomas anderson ::], Cigarettes and red vines. accessed April 24, 2006. is a five-time Academy Award-nominated American filmmaker.Anderson was born in S... [Wikipedia]
- Pedro Almodóvar
#REDIRECT Pedro_Almodóvar [Wikipedia]
- Peter Jackson
Peter Robert Jackson, CNZM (born 31 October 1961) is a three-time Academy Award-winning New Zealand film director, producer and screenwriter, best known for directing ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien. He is... [Wikipedia]
- Peter R. Orszag
Peter R. Orszag (born December 16, 1968) is an American economist and is the Director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. Peter R. Orszag is the seventh Director of the CBO; his four-year term began on January 18, 2007. After graduating from Phi... [Wikipedia]
- Peter Sutherland
Peter Denis Sutherland, KCMG (born April 25 1946) is an Irish businessman and former politician, associated with the Fine Gael party. He is a barrister by profession, and is also Senior Counsel. Educated at Gonzaga College, he graduated from Universi... [Wikipedia]
- Porter Goss
- Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization of violence. His ... [Wikipedia]
- Richard Attenborough
- Richard Linklater
- Ricky Gervais
- Ridley Scott
- Rob Reiner
Robert "Rob" Reiner (born March 6, 1947)[http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:107886~T1 Rob Reiner biography], allmovie.com is an American actor, director, producer, writer, and political activist. As an actor, Reiner first came to national... [Wikipedia]
- Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his ... [Wikipedia]
- Robert De Niro
Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. (August 17, 1943) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor, director and producer. Often regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro has also been called one of the most enigmatic.[http:... [Wikipedia]
- Robert Duvall
- Robert Greenwald
Robert Greenwald (born August 28, 1945) is an American film director, film producer, and political activist, noted in the 2000s for his documentaries critical of Fox News and of the George W. Bush administration, as well as numerous award-winning tel... [Wikipedia]
- Robert Mueller
- Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18 1936)Ancestry.com. ''California Birth Index, 1905-1995'' [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: State of California. ''California Birth Index, 1905-1995''. Sa... [Wikipedia]
- Robert Rodriguez
- Robert Zemeckis
Robert Lee "Bob" Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American film director, producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel ''Back to t... [Wikipedia]
- Robin Pemberton
Robin Pemberton is an American motor racing official, currently the vice president for competition of NASCAR. He has held that position since 2004.Previously, Pemberton was a crew chief for several NASCAR teams over 17 years, heading teams for Rusty ... [Wikipedia]
- Roman Polanski
Roman Raymond Polanski (born August 18, 1933) is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Frenchhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/567499.stm film director, writer, actor, producer and Holocaust survivor. After beginning his career in P... [Wikipedia]
- Ron Howard
Ronald William "Ron" Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American director and producer as well as an actor. Howard came to prominence in the 1960s while playing Andy Griffith's TV son, Opie Taylor, on ''The Andy Griffith Show'' (... [Wikipedia]
- Sean Astin
Sean Astin (born February 25, 1971) is an American film actor, director, and Oscar-nominated producer best known for his film roles as Mikey Walsh in ''The Goonies'', the title character of ''Rudy'', and Samwise Gamgee in the ''Lord of the Rings'' tr... [Wikipedia]
- Sofia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American film director, actress, producer and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is the third female director, and only American woman, to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing, the other... [Wikipedia]
- Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American film director, producer, writer, and actor, noted for his films dealing with controversial social and political issues. He also teaches fi... [Wikipedia]
- Stephen Frears
- Steve Buscemi
- Steven Soderbergh
Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing the films ''sex, lies, and videotape'', ''Erin Brockovich... [Wikipedia]
- Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (born December 18, 1946), page 37 is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. ''Forbes'' magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion. In 2006, the magazine ''Premiere'' listed him as the most powerfu... [Wikipedia]
- Ted Turner
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938)[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9073872/Ted-Turner Ted Turner - Britannica Online Encyclopedia] is an American media proprietor and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder ... [Wikipedia]
- Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British writer, filmmaker, animator and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He has the distinction of being the only American-born Python, as the rest of the group are all nativ... [Wikipedia]
- Tim Burton
Timothy "Tim" William Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, screenwriter and set designer, notable for the quirky and often dark, gothic atmosphere pervading his high-profile films as well as a small dog-shaped birthmark on his ... [Wikipedia]
- Todd Holland
- Tom Osborne
- Trey Parker
- Wade Henderson
Wade Henderson is president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and counsel to the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. Henderson graduated from Howard University and the Rutgers University School of Law (Newark) and was pre... [Wikipedia]
- Wes Anderson
Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American director, writer, actor, and producer of features, short films and commercials. He was nominated for a 2001 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for ''The Royal Tenenbaums''. The second of... [Wikipedia]
- Wes Craven
- William E. Odom
- Wong Kar-Wai
- Woody Allen
Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, comedian, and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him one of the most re... [Wikipedia]
- Zhang Yimou