Famous film directors

Ajay Devgn

Indian film actor, director and producer

Jafar Panahi

Iranian film director

Majid Majidi

Iranian film director, film producer, film actor and screenwriter

Michele Placido

Italian actor and film director

Jerzy Skolimowski

Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor

Chen Kaige

Chinese film director and screenwriter

Mike Flanagan (filmmaker)

Mike Flanagan is an American filmmaker, best known for his horror work. Flanagan wrote, directed, and edited the films Absentia (2011), Oculus (2013), Hush, Before I Wake, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Gerald's Game (2017), Doctor Sleep (2019), The Life of Chuck (2024), and the upcoming The Exorcist: Martyrs (2027). He also wrote the first draft of the script for the upcoming film Clayface (2026) for the DC Universe. He created, wrote, produced, and served as showrunner on the Netflix horror series ...

David Hamilton (photographer)

David Hamilton was a British photographer and film director best known for his photography of young women and girls, mostly nude. Hamilton's images became part of an "Art or pornography?" debate.

Graham Linehan

Graham George Linehan is an Irish comedy writer and anti-transgender activist. He created or co-created the sitcoms Father Ted (1995–1998), Black Books (2000–2004), The IT Crowd (2006–2013), and Count Arthur Strong (2013–2017), and the sketch comedy show Big Train (1998–2002). He also contributed to other comedy shows, including The Fast Show, The Day Today, and Brass Eye. During the 1990s, his writing partner was Arthur Mathews, with whom he created Father Ted and Big Train.

Trinadha Rao Nakkina

Trinadha Rao Nakkina is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Telugu cinema. He is known for his films Cinema Choopistha Mava, Nenu Local and Dhamaka.

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S. J. Suryah

Samanasapandian Justin Selvaraj(born 20 July 1968), known by his stage name S. J. Suryah, is an Indian actor, film director, producer, playback singer, writer and philanthropist who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. He sought to become an actor but started out directing, assisting Vasanth and Sabapathy.

Satish Kaushik

Satish Chandra Kaushik was an Indian actor, director, producer, comedian, editor and screenwriter. He found fame in Bollywood with Mr. India starring Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, and Amrish Puri, where he played the iconic character of a cook named Calendar. He later directed films such as Tere Naam.

Adam Elliot

Adam Benjamin Elliot is an Australian animator and filmmaker based in Melbourne. Established as an independent auteur of minimalistic animation, all of his films have generally made use of tragicomedy genre with themes of bittersweet nature and psychological development to the characters; based loosely on his family and friends, each of his films is considered a Clayography – a portmanteau genre of clay animation and biography, coined by himself.

Claude Lelouch

French filmmaker and writer (born 1937)

Spike Lee

American filmmaker (born 1957)

Fyodor Bondarchuk

Russian cinematographist

S. S. Rajamouli

Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli, is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Telugu cinema. Known for his epic, action drama, and fantasy genre films, he is one of the most prolific and the highest-paid directors in Indian cinema. Rajamouli is a recipient of various national and international honours including a New York Film Critics Circle award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, two Saturn Awards, four National Film Awards, five Nandi Awards, and five Filmfare Awards. In 2016, the G...

Karoline Herfurth

German actress (born 1984)

Heinz Rühmann

German actor (1902–1994)

Katharina Thalbach

German actress and stage director

Bernardo Bertolucci

Italian filmmaker (1941–2018)

Bertrand Blier

French film director and writer (1939–2025)

Francis Huster

French filmmaker and actor

David Foenkinos

French author and screenwriter