Famous film directors
The most-searched film directors right now, with the latest news on each.
J. J. Abrams
American filmmaker (born 1966)
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Travis Knight
Travis Andrew Knight is an American filmmaker, animator, and former rapper. The son of Nike co-founder Phil Knight, he has worked as the lead animator and is the current CEO of the stop-motion animation studio Laika as well as the director of the company's films Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) and Wildwood (2026). He also directed the live-action films Bumblebee (2018) and Masters of the Universe (2026). For his work at Laika, Knight has earned three Academy Award nominations for Best Animate...
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Tim Burton
American filmmaker and artist (born 1958)
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Karthik Subbaraj
Karthik Subbaraj is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter working mainly in Tamil cinema.
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Christopher Nolan
English and American filmmaker (born 1970)
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Steven Spielberg
American filmmaker (born 1946)
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Roman Polanski
French-Polish filmmaker (born 1933)
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David Lynch
David Keith Lynch was an American filmmaker and artist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective "Lynchian". In a career spanning more than five decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Honorary Award, a Palme d'Or and Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievemen...
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Bruce Lee
Martial artist and actor (1940–1973)
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Charlie Chaplin
English actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
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Martin Scorsese
American filmmaker (born 1942)
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Sam Wood
Samuel Grosvenor Wood was an American film director and producer who is best known for having directed such Hollywood hits as A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Pride of the Yankees, and For Whom the Bell Tolls and for his uncredited work directing parts of Gone with the Wind. He was also involved in a few acting and writing projects.
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Anthony Hopkins
Welsh actor (born 1937)
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Sally Field
American actress
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Woody Allen
American filmmaker, actor and comedian (born 1935)
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Andy Warhol
American artist and filmmaker (1928–1987)
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Francis Ford Coppola
American filmmaker (born 1939)
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Walt Disney
American animator, producer and entrepreneur (1901–1966)
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Elia Kazan
Elias Kazantzoglou, known as Elia Kazan, was a Greek-American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".
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Wes Anderson
American filmmaker (born 1969)
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Werner Herzog
German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director (born 1942)
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Brian De Palma
American filmmaker
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David Cronenberg
Canadian filmmaker (born 1943)
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Jay Duplass
Lawrence Jay Duplass Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, producer and author widely known for his films The Puffy Chair (2005), Cyrus (2010), and Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), made in collaboration with his younger brother, Mark Duplass. Jay and Mark run Duplass Brothers Productions together.
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