The term auteur (French for author) is used to describe film directors (or, more rarely, producers or writers) who are considered to have a distinctive, recognizable vision, because they (a) repeatedly return to the same subject matter, (b) habitually address a particular psychological or moral theme, (c) employ a recurring style, or (d) demonstrate any combination of the above. In theory, an auteur's films are identifiable regardless of their genre. The term was first applied in its cinematic sense in François Truffaut's 1954 essay "A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema" (see Auteur theory). The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Look up genre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... François Truffaut. ... The auteur theory is the theory that a film (or a body of work) by a director (or, rarely, a producer) reflects the personal vision and preoccupations of that director, as if he or she were the works primary author (auteur). ...

List of auteurs

The following is a list of directors whose status as an auteur is supported by published studies of their body of work.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Chantal Akerman (1950–). Belgian, makes films in France.^[1]
• Robert Aldrich (1918–1983). American Hollywood director. ^[2]
• Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (1928-1996). Cuban^[3]
• Woody Allen (1935–). American independent filmmaker. ^[4]
• Pedro Almodóvar (1951–). Spanish. ^[5]
• Wes Anderson (1969-). American.
• Theo Angelopoulos (1936–). Greek. ^[6]
• Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–). Italian, makes film in Europe and the United States. ^[7]
• Dorothy Arzner (1897-1979) American, Hollywood 1920s-30s. ^[8]
• Hal Ashby (1929-1988) American, worked in Hollywood. ^[9]

Chantal Akerman (born June 6, 1950) is a Belgian filmmaker and director based in Paris, who is known for her deconstructive style and pessimistic humor. ... Robert Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was a United States film director, writer and producer notable for a number of films including What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and The Dirty Dozen. ... ... Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (December 11, 1928 – April 16, 1996) was a Cuban cinema director. ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, musician, and comedian. ... An independent film (or indie film) is a film initially produced without financing or distribution from a major movie studio. ... Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (pronounced ) (born September 24, 1949) is a Spanish filmmaker. ... Drawing of Wes Anderson Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American Academy Award nominated writer, producer, and director of films and commercials. ... Photo of Angelopoulos Theodoros Angelopoulos (Θόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος in Greek) (born April 27, 1936) is a noted Greek film director. ... Michelangelo Antonioni (born September 29, 1912, Ferrara, Emilia Romagna) is an Italian modernist film director whose films are widely considered as some of the most influential in film aesthetic. ... World map showing Europe Political map (neighbouring countries in Asia and Africa also shown) Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. ... Dorothy Arzner, born on January 3, 1897 in San Francisco, California, was a pioneering director during the Golden Age of Hollywood, a period in which there were few if any other women directors. ... Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929 - December 27, 1988) was an American film director and Academy Award winner. ...

B

• Shyam Benegal (1934- ). Indian. ^[10]
• Ingmar Bergman (1918– ). Swedish. ^[11]
• Bernardo Bertolucci (1941–) Italian, makes films in Europe and the USA. ^[12]
• Robert Bresson (1901–1999). French. ^[13]
• Mel Brooks (1926-). American, Comedy
• Luis Buñuel (1900–1983). Spanish, made films in Europe and Mexico. ^[14]
• Tim Burton (1958–). American Hollywood filmmaker. ^[15]

Shyam Benegal is a prolific Indian director, born 14 December 1934 in Alwal, Hyderabad, British India Andhra Pradesh. ... Ingmar Bergman (IPA: in Swedish) (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the second half of the twentieth century. ... Bernardo Bertolucci. ... Robert Bresson (September 25, 1901–December 18, 1999) was a French film director well known for his mastery of minimalist film-making. ... Mel Brooks in the 2005 film of The Producers Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, writer, director, and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies, or as he says, spoofs. ... Luis Buñuel Portoles (February 22, 1900 – July 29, 1983) was a Spanish-born Mexican filmmaker. ... Timothy William Burton (born August 25, 1958 in Burbank, California) is an American film director, writer and designer known for his off-beat and quirky style. ...

C

• Silvio Caiozzi. Chilean
• Frank Capra (1897-1991). American ^[16]
• Marcel Carné (1906–1996). French. ^[17]
• John Cassavetes (1929-1989) American independent filmmaker. ^[18]
• Youssef Chahine (1926- ) Egyptian. ^[19]
• Claude Chabrol (1930–). French. ^[20]
• Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977). British, made films in Hollywood. ^[21]
• Yash Chopra (1932- ) Indian. ^[22]
• René Clair (1898–1981). French. ^[23]
• Henri-Georges Clouzot (1904–1977). French. ^[24]
• Jean Cocteau (1889–1963). French. ^[25]
• Joel and Ethan Coen (b. 1954, 1957). American independent filmmakers.^[26]
• David Cronenberg (1943–). Canadian, makes films in North America.^[27]

Frank Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films. ... Marcel Carné (August 18, 1906 - October 31, 1996) was an important French film director. ... John Nicholas Cassavetes (Greek: Ιωάννης Νικολάου Κασσαβέττης) (December 9, 1929 - February 3, 1989) was a Greek-American actor, screenwriter, and director. ... Youssef Chahine (Arabic: يوسف شاهين) (born January 25, 1926 in Alexandria, Egypt) is an Egyptian film director. ... Claude Chabrol (born June 24, 1930) is a French movie director and has become well-known in the 40 years since his first film, Le Beau Serge, for his chilling tales of murder, including Le Boucher. ... For other people named Chaplin, see Chaplin (disambiguation). ... Yash Chopra (* 27 December 1932) is a writer, director and producer of Bollywood movies. ... René Clair (November 11, 1898 – March 15, 1981) was a French filmmaker. ... Henri-Georges Clouzot (November 20, 1904 - January 12, 1977) was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. ... Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker. ... Joel and Ethan Coen at Cannes 2001 Joel and Ethan Coen, commonly known as The Coen Brothers have written and directed numerous successful films, such as comedies O Brother Where Art Thou, Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski, as well as darker film noir dramas such as Fargo, Millers... David Cronenberg at Cannes 2002 David Paul Cronenberg OC, FRSC (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director and occasional actor. ...

D

• Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne (Belgium) ^{[citation needed]}
• Jules Dassin (France) (b.1911-) ^{[citation needed]}
• Jacques Demy (France) ^{[citation needed]}
• Vittorio De Sica (Italy) ^{[citation needed]}
• Alexander Dovzhenko (USSR) ^{[citation needed]}
• Carl Theodor Dreyer (Denmark) ^{[citation needed]}
• Guru Dutt (India) ^{[citation needed]}

Jean-Pierre Dardenne (born April 21, 1951 in Engis, Liège, Belgium) is a filmmaker. ... Luc Dardenne is a belgian filmmaker. ... Jules Dassin (born Julius Dassin on December 18, 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut) is an American film director. ... The director and screenwriter Jacques Demy (1931 - 1990) was one of the most approachable filmmakers of the French New Wave. ... Vittorio de Sica (July 7, 1901 - November 13, 1974) was an Italian neorealist director and actor. ... Alexander Dovzhenko was a Soviet filmmaker. ... Carl Theodor Dreyer (February 3, 1889 - March 20, 1968) was a Danish film director. ... Guru Dutt in Pyaasa Guru Dutt (1925 - 1964) was an Indian film director, producer, and actor. ...

E

• Blake Edwards (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Atom Egoyan (Canada) ^{[citation needed]}
• Sergei M. Eisenstein (USSR) ^{[citation needed]}

This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Atom Egoyan and wife Arsinee Khanjian at the Golden Apricot Film Festival in Yerevan, Armenia. ... Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн) (January 23, 1898–February 11, 1948) was a Russian director noted for his films Battleship Potemkin and Oktober, both...

F

• Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany) ^{[citation needed]}
• Federico Fellini (Italy) ^{[citation needed]}
• Miloš Forman (Czechoslovakia/USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• John Ford (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Lucio Fulci (Italy)
• Samuel Fuller (USA) ^{[citation needed]}

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982) was a German movie director and actor, one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema. ... Federico Fellini Federico Fellini (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993) was one of the most influential and widely revered Italian film-makers of the 20th century and is considered to be one of the finest film directors of all time. ... Jan Tomáš Forman (born February 18, 1932), better known as Miloš Forman, is a film director, actor, screenwriter and professor. ... John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was one of the most accomplished American film directors of the 1930s to 1960s, known particularly as a director of the Westerns, although his tributes to the veterans of World War II and Americana are also equally effective. ... Lucio Fulci (born June 17, 1927 in Rome, Italy - died March 13, 1996 in Rome, Italy (diabetes-related illness)) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. ... Samuel Fuller Samuel Michael Fuller (August 12, 1911 – October 30, 1997) was an American film director. ...

G

• Costa Gavras (Greek, makes films in France and the United States)
• Ritwik Ghatak (1925-1976) (India) Independent Bengali filmmaker & film theorist. ^[28][29]
• Terry Gilliam (UK, US born) ^{[citation needed]}
• Jean-Luc Godard (France) ^{[citation needed]}
• Michel Gondry (France) ^{[citation needed]}
• Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941- ) (India) Indian independent filmmaker. ^[30]
• Peter Greenaway (UK) ^{[citation needed]}
• D.W. Griffith (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Yilmaz Güney (Turkey) ^[31]

Constantinos Gavras (born February 12, 1933, Loutra-Iraias, Greece), better known as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French filmmaker best known for films with overt political themes. ... Ritwik Ghatak Ritwik Ghatak (1925 - 1976) was a Bengali Indian filmmaker. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Terry Gilliam at Karlovy Vary 2006. ... Jean-Luc Godard (photograph by David Horvitz) Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930 in Paris) is a Franco-Swiss filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave. Born in Paris to Franco-Swiss parents, he was educated in Nyon, later studying... Michel Gondry, 2005 Michel Gondry (born May 8, 1963) is a Academy Award winning screenwriter, film, commercial, and music video director noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. ... Adoor Gopalakrishnan standing next to his portrait Adoor Gopalakrishnan (b. ... Peter Greenaway Peter Greenaway (b. ... David Lewelyn Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 - July 23, 1948) was an American film director (commonly known as D. W. Griffith) probably best known for his film The Birth of a Nation. ... Yilmaz Güney Yilmaz Güney (April 1, 1937-September 9, 1984) is a Turkish(kurdish) film director, writer and scenarist. ...

H

• Michael Haneke (Austria) ^[32]
• Howard Hawks (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Werner Herzog (Germany) ^{[citation needed]}
• Alfred Hitchcock (UK) ^{[citation needed]}
• Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan) ^{[citation needed]}
• King Hu (1931-1997) (Taiwan) HK and Taiwan director. ^{[citation needed]}

Michael Haneke A feature film is twenty-four lies per second. ... Howard Hawks Howard Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and writer of the classic Hollywood era. ... Werner Herzog. ... Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a highly influential director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. ... Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Chinese: 侯孝賢; pinyin: ) (born April 8, 1947) is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwans New Wave cinema movement. ... King Hu (胡金銓, pinyin: Hú Jīnquán, April 29, 1931 - January 14, 1997) was a Hong Kong and Taiwan-based Chinese film director whose wuxia films brought Chinese cinema to new technical and artistic heights. ...

I

• Kon Ichikawa (1915- ) (Japan) Postwar Japanese filmmaker. ^[33][34]
• Shohei Imamura (1926-2006) (Japan) Key figure in the Japanese Nuberu bagu. ^[35][36]
• James Ivory (United States)

Kon Ichikawa (市川 å´‘ Ichikawa Kon) (born November 20, 1915, Mie Prefecture, Japan) is one of the better known Japanese film directors. ... Shohei Imamura (今村 昌平 Imamura Shōhei) (born 15 September 1926 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese film director. ... Nuberu bagu (from French nouvelle vague) is the term for a group of Japanese film directors emerging from the late 1950s through the early 1970s. ... There are two famous individuals named James Ivory: James Ivory (mathematician) James Ivory (director) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

J

• Jim Jarmusch (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet (France) ^{[citation needed]}

Jim Jarmusch Jim Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953 in Akron, Ohio, USA) is a noted film director. ... Jean-Pierre Jeunet (born 3 September 1953) is a French film director. ...

K

• Aki Kaurismäki (Finland) ^{[citation needed]}
• Buster Keaton (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Abbas Kiarostami (1940- ) (Iran) Iranian filmmaker. ^[37]
• Krzysztof Kieslowski (Poland) ^{[citation needed]}
• Takeshi Kitano (Japan) ^{[citation needed]}
• Masaki Kobayashi (Japan) ^{[citation needed]}
• Stanley Kubrick (1928 – 1999) (USA)
• Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) (Japan) Post-war Japanese filmmaker. ^[38][39]
• Emir Kusturica (Serbia) ^{[citation needed]}
• Stanley Kwan (Hong Kong) ^{[citation needed]}
• Im Kwon-Taek (South Korea) ^{[citation needed]}

Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (born April 4, 1957 in Orimattila, Finland) is a Finnish script writer and film director. ... Joseph Frank Keaton Jr. ... Abbas Kiarostami (عباس کیارستمی in Persian) (born June 22, 1940 in Tehran) is one of the most influential and controversial post-revolutionary Iranian filmmakers and one of the most highly celebrated directors in the international film community of the last decade. ... Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Kieślowski (June 27, 1941, Warsaw – March 13, 1996, Warsaw) was an influential Polish film director and screenwriter, known internationally for his film cycles Three Colors and The Decalogue. ... Takeshi Kitano at Cannes, 2000 Takeshi Kitano (北野 æ­¦, Kitano Takeshi, b. ... Masaki Kobayashi (小林正樹 Kobayashi Masaki, February 14, 1916–October 4, 1996) was a Japanese director who is probably best known for Kwaidan (怪談), a collection of four ghost stories (drawn from the book by Lafcadio Hearn), each of which has a surprise ending. ... Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928–March 7, 1999) was an American film director and producer, generally considered one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers of his generation. ... Kurosawa redirects here. ... Emir Kusturica (Serbian Cyrillic: Емир Кустурица; IPA: ) (born November 24, 1954) is a Bosnian Serb filmmaker born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (today Bosnia and Herzegovina). ... Stanley Kwan (Traditional Chinese: 關錦鵬; Simplified Chinese: 关锦鹏; Hanyu Pinyin: ; born October 9, 1957) is a Hong Kong film director and producer. ... Im Kwon-taek (born Jangseong, May 2, 1936) is one of the most famous Korean directors. ...

L

• Fritz Lang (Germany) German and American (Hollywood) filmmaker. ^{[citation needed]}
• David Lean (UK) ^{[citation needed]}
• Spike Lee (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Mike Leigh (United Kingdom) ^{[citation needed]}
• Sergio Leone (Italy) ^{[citation needed]}
• Jerry Lewis (US) ^{[citation needed]}
• Ken Loach (UK) ^{[citation needed]}
• Ernst Lubitsch (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• George Lucas (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Ida Lupino (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• David Lynch (1946- )(USA) ^{[citation needed]}

Friedrich Anton Christian Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-American-jewish film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from Germanys school of expressionism. ... Sir David Lean, KBE (March 25, 1908 – April 16, 1991) was an English film director and producer, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Doctor Zhivago . ... Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia), better known as Spike Lee, is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor noted for his films dealing with social and political issues. ... Mike Leigh (born February 20, 1943) is an award winning British film and theatre director. ... Sergio Leone (January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director who is considered to be one of the greatest Western directors of all time. ... Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch on March 16, 1926), is an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer and director known for his slapstick humor and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. ... Ken Loach (born June 17, 1936) is a British television and film director, known for his social realist style and socialist themes. ... Ernst Lubitsch (January 28, 1892 – November 30, 1947), was a German-born Jewish film director. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Lupino in 1979 Ida Lupino (February 4, 1918 – August 3, 1995) was a film actress, director, and a pioneer in the field of women filmmakers. ... David Lynch at Cannes in 2001. ...

M

• Guy Maddin (Canada) ^{[citation needed]}
• Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran) ^{[citation needed]}
• Louis Malle (France) ^{[citation needed]}
• Chris Marker (France) ^{[citation needed]}
• Julio Medem (Spain) ^[40]
• Jean-Pierre Melville (France) ^{[citation needed]}
• Hayao Miyazaki (Japan) ^{[citation needed]}
• Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956) (Japan) Key Japanese filmmaker. ^[41]
• Nanni Moretti (Italy) ^{[citation needed]}
• F.W. Murnau (Germany) ^{[citation needed]}
• Michael Mann (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Terrence Malick (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Fei Mu (1906-1951) (China) Pre-revolutionary Chinese filmmaker. ^{[citation needed]}

Guy Maddin (born February 28, 1956) is a Winnipeg writer and director of both features and short films. ... Mohsen Makhmalbaf Mohsen Makhmalbaf (in Persian:محسن مخملباف; born May 29, 1957) is a film director and writer from Iran (Persia), whose films during the last ten years were presented in international film festivals more than 1,000 times. ... Louis Malle (October 30, 1934 – November 23, 1995) was a French film director. ... Chris Marker (born July 29, 1921) is a writer, photographer, film director, multi-media artist and documentary maker. ... Julio Medem (born 21 October 1958) is a Spanish writer and film director. ... Jean-Pierre Melville ( born October 20, 1917 Paris, France) is a noted French director born under the name Jean-Pierre Grumbach. ... Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿, Miyazaki Hayao), born January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, is a director of Japanese animated films. ... Kenji Mizoguchi (溝口 健二 Mizoguchi Kenji; May 16, 1898 – August 24, 1956) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. ... Giovanni (Nanni) Moretti (born August 19, 1953) is an Italian film director. ... F W Murnau Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931) was one of the most influential directors of the silent film era. ... Michael Mann Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943 in Chicago) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. ... Terrence Terry Malick (born November 30, 1943 in Waco, Texas) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. ... Fei Mu (1906-1951) was a major Chinese film director from the pre-Communist era. ...

N

• Mikio Naruse (1905-1969) (Japan) Key Japanese filmmaker. ^[42][43]

Mikio Naruse Mikio Naruse (成瀬巳喜男 Naruse Mikio) (August 20, 1905 – July 2, 1969) was a Japanese film director, writer and producer who directed some 89 films spanning from the end of the silent era (1930) through the sixties (1967). ...

O

• Max Ophüls (Germany) ^{[citation needed]}
• Nagisa Oshima (1932- ) (Japan) Nuberu bagu filmmaker, critic & theorist. ^[44][45]
• Idrissa Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso) ^{[citation needed]}
• Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) (Japan) Key Japanese filmmaker. ^[46][47]

Max Ophüls (May 6, 1902 – March 25, 1957) was a German-born Jewish film director. ... Nagisa Oshima (大島 渚 Ōshima Nagisa, born March 31, 1932) is a famous Japanese director. ... Nuberu bagu (from French nouvelle vague) is the term for a group of Japanese film directors emerging from the late 1950s through the early 1970s. ... Idriissa Ouédraogo is a film director born 21 January 1954 in Banfora, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). ... Yasujiro Ozu (小津 安二郎 Ozu Yasujirō) (December 12, 1903 - December 12, 1963) was an influential Japanese film director. ...

P

• Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Germany) ^{[citation needed]}
• Padmarajan (India) ^{[citation needed]}
• Jafar Panahi (Iran) ^{[citation needed]}
• Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy) ^{[citation needed]}
• Sergei Parajanov (USSR) ^{[citation needed]}
• Sam Peckinpah (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Nelson Pereira dos Santos (Brazil) ^{[citation needed]}
• Roman Polanski (Poland) ^{[citation needed]}
• Sally Potter (UK) ^{[citation needed]}

Georg Wilhelm Pabst (August 25, 1885 - May 29, 1967) was a film director. ... Padmarajan P. Padmarajan (b. ... Jafar Panahi (born July 11, 1960 in Mianeh, Iran) is an internationally-acclaimed independent filmmaker. ... Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 - November 2, 1975) was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. ... Sergei Parajanov or Paradjanov (Armenian: [Sargis Hovsepi Parajanyan 9 January 1924 — 20 July 1990). ... David Samuel Sam Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American film director. ... Nelso Pereira dos Santos is a Brazilian movie director. ... Roman Polański at Cannes with Adrien Brody, 2002 Roman Polański (born August 18, 1933) is a Franco-Polish film director and actor. ... Sally Potter (1949-) is a British film director and writer. ...

R

• Mani Ratnam (India) ^{[citation needed]}
• Nicholas Ray (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) (India) Indian (Bengali) filmmaker & writer. ^{[48][49][50][51][52]}
• Jean Renoir (France) ^{[citation needed]}
• Alain Resnais (France) ^{[citation needed]}
• Arturo Ripstein (Mexico) ^[53]
• Jacques Rivette (France) ^{[citation needed]}
• Glauber Rocha (Brazil) ^{[citation needed]}
• Ram Gopal Varma (India) ^{[citation needed]}
• Éric Rohmer(France) ^{[citation needed]}
• George Romero (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Roberto Rossellini (Italy) ^{[citation needed]}

Mani Ratnam (June 2, 1956 - ) is an independent filmmaker (screen writer, director and producer) of the Indian film industry. ... Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle) (August 7, 1911–June 16, 1979) was an American film director. ... (Bangla:সত্যজিৎ রায়) (May 2, 1921 - April 23, 1992) was an Indian film director, regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of twentieth century cinema for his subtle, austere and lyrical style of film-making. ... Jean Renoir Jean Renoir (September 15, 1894 – February 12, 1979), born in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France was a film director. ... Alain Resnais (born June 3, 1922 in Vannes, France) is a French film director, and a key founder of the french new wave or nouvelle vague film movement. ... Arturo Ripstein (1943 -) is a Mexican film director. ... Jacques Rivette (born March 1, 1928) is a French film director. ... Glauber Rocha (March 14, 1938–August 22, 1981) was a Brazilian film director, actor, and writer. ... Ram Gopal Varma (born April 7, 1962) is an Indian film director, writer and film producer from Andhra Pradesh. ... Éric Rohmer (born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer, April 4, 1920, Nancy, France) is a French film director. ... George A. Romero (born 4 February 1940) is an American director, writer, editor, actor and composer. ... Roberto Rossellini (May 8, 1906 - June 3, 1977), was an Italian film director. ...

S

• Gus van Sant (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Carlos Saura (Spain) ^{[citation needed]}
• Volker Schlondorff (Germany) ^{[citation needed]}
• Martin Scorsese (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Ousmane Sembene (Senegal) ^{[citation needed]}
• Mrinal Sen (1923- ) (India) ^[54]
• Douglas Sirk (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Victor Sjöström (Swedish) ^{[citation needed]}
• Steven Spielberg (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Josef von Sternberg (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Erich von Stroheim (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Preston Sturges (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Seijun Suzuki (Japan) ^{[citation needed]}

Gus Van Sant Gus Van Sant Jr. ... Carlos Saura (born 4 January 1932, Atarés, Huesca) is a Spanish film director. ... Volker Schlondorff Volker Schlöndorff (born in Wiesbaden, Germany on March 31, 1939) is a Berlin-based German filmmaker. ... Martin Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an acclaimed American film director. ... Mrinal Sen (Bangla: মৄণাল সেন) is a Bengali Indian filmmaker. ... Douglas Sirk - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... â–¶ (help· info), in US sometimes known as Victor Seastrom (born September 20, 1879 – January 3, 1960), was a Swedish actor, screenwriter, and film director. ... Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (born December 18, 1946) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and producer. ... Josef von Sternberg (29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-American film director. ... Erich von Stroheim (September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was a filmmaker and actor, noted for his arrogant Teutonic character parts. ... Preston Sturges (August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and director born in Chicago. ... Seijun Suzuki (鈴木 清順 Suzuki Seijun, born 24 May 1923 in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese film director. ...

T

• Quentin Tarantino (USA)
• Andrei Tarkovsky (USSR) ^{[citation needed]}
• Jacques Tati (France) ^{[citation needed]}
• Julie Taymor (USA)
• Hiroshi Teshigahara (Japan) ^{[citation needed]}
• Lars von Trier (Denmark) ^{[citation needed]}
• Jan Troell (Sweden) ^{[citation needed]}
• François Truffaut (France)
• Ming-liang Tsai (Taiwan) ^{[citation needed]}

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and Oscar-winning screenwriter. ... Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Андре́й Арсе́ньевич Тарко́вский) (April 4, 1932 - December 28, 1986) was a Russian movie director, writer, and actor. ... Jacques Tati (October 9, 1908 – November 5, 1982) was a French filmmaker. ... Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1953) is a critically acclaimed American director on Broadway and in film: she is known for her visual flair and brilliantly colorful costuming choices. ... Hiroshi Teshigahara (勅使河原 宏 Teshigahara Hiroshi, January 28, 1927 - April 14, 2001) was an avant-garde Japanese film-maker. ... Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ... Jan Troell (born July 23, 1931 in Limhamn outside Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden) is a Swedish film director. ... François Truffaut. ... Tsai Ming-liang (蔡明亮, pinyin: Cài Míngliàng) (born in 1957 in Kuching, Malaysia) is one of the most celebrated Second New Wave film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with such contemporaries as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang. ...

V

• Agnès Varda (France)
• Dziga Vertov (USSR) ^{[citation needed]}
• Luchino Visconti (Italy) ^{[citation needed]}

Agnès Varda (born May 30, 1928) is a French filmmaker and director based in Paris and one of the key figures in modern film. ... Dziga Vertov Dziga Vertov (Russian: , January 2, 1896–February 12, 1954) was a Russian documentary film and newsreel director. ... Luchino Visconti, Duke of Modrone (November 2, 1906 - March 17, 1976) was an Italian theatre and cinema director and writer. ...

W

• Wong Kar-wai (Hong Kong) ^{[citation needed]}
• Andrzej Wajda (Poland) ^{[citation needed]}
• Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand) ^{[citation needed]}
• Orson Welles (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• Wim Wenders (Germany) ^{[citation needed]}
• Billy Wilder (USA)^[55]
• Joss Whedon (USA) ^{[citation needed]}
• John Woo (Hong Kong) ^{[citation needed]}

Wong Kar-wai, (Traditional Chinese: 王家衛; Simplified Chinese: 王家卫; pinyin: Wáng Jiāwèi; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Gà Waih; born July 17, 1958) is a Hong Kong based film director known for his unique visual style of romantic art films. ... Andrzej Wajda, Warsaw (Poland), May 2006 Andrzej Wajda (born March 6, 1926) is a Polish film director, one of the most prominent members of the Polish Film School. ... Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thai อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล, born July 16, 1970 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai film director. ... George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American radio broadcaster, theatre director, film director and actor. ... Wilhelm Ernst (Wim) Wenders (born August 14, 1945) is a German-born film director, author and producer. ... Billy Wilder Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was a screenwriter, film director and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. ... Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an American writer, director, executive producer, and creator of the well-known television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. ... John Woo (Chinese: 吳宇森; Hanyu Pinyin: Wú Yǔsēn) (born 1 May 1946, in Guangzhou, China) is a Chinese film director and producer known especially for his Heroic bloodshed movies, which often include balletic violence. // Biography At age five Woos parents were faced with persecution and his Lutheran family...

Y

• Edward Yang (Taiwan) ^{[citation needed]}

Edward Yang (pinyin: Yang De Chang), along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, is one of the leading filmmakers and artists of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. ...

Z

• Robert Zemeckis ^{[citation needed]}
• Yimou Zhang (China) ^{[citation needed]}
• Tian Zhuangzhuang (China) ^{[citation needed]}

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