Famous film directors

Daniel Espinosa

Jorge Daniel Espinosa is a Swedish film director.

Olivier Cotte

Olivier Cotte is a French writer, graphic novel scriptwriter, animation historian, illustrator, and a director.

Nick Ryan

Nick Ryan is a film director and producer from Dublin, Ireland. Ryan directed A Lonely Sky (2006), The German (2008), Electric Picnic: The Documentary (2008), and the award-winning documentary The Summit (2012); In 2016 he produced the award winning Feature I Am Not A Serial Killer directed by Billy O'Brien starring Max Records and Christopher Lloyd; he was also the producer for Ruairi Robinson's short films The Silent City, BlinkyTM, and Corporate Monster. In 1995 he and two others founded I...

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Federico Fellini

Italian filmmaker (1920–1993)

Andrew Stanton

American animator, film director and screenwriter (born 1965)

Jordi Mollà

Catalan actor and artist

Uwe Boll

German filmmaker (born 1965)

Roberto Benigni

Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and film director (born 1952)

Takeshi Kitano

Japanese film director, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter and video game designer (born 1947)

Marjane Satrapi

French and Iranian author and director (1969–2026)

Jason Reitman

Canadian-American film director

Tia Lessin

Tia Lessin is an American documentary filmmaker. Lessin has produced and directed documentaries, earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary, three Emmy Awards, two primetime Emmy Nominations, the duPont Columbia Award, and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary.

Michel Gondry

French film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1963)

Nandita Das

Indian actress and film director

Asghar Farhadi

Iranian screenwriter and film director

Aki Kaurismäki

Finnish film director (born 1957)

Céline Sciamma

French director and screenwriter (born 1978)

Klaus Maria Brandauer

Austrian actor and director

Shia LaBeouf

Shia Saide LaBeouf is an American actor and filmmaker. His accolades include a BAFTA Award and Daytime Emmy Award.

Gunter Sachs

German photographer, author, and industrialist (1932–2011)

François Ozon

French film director and screenwriter (born 1967)

Peter Jackson

New Zealand film director, screenwriter, producer and actor (born 1961)

M. Night Shyamalan

American filmmaker (born 1970)

Andrei Konchalovsky

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and film producer