Movie Directors

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  1. 2. It Happened One Night (1934) became the first film to win all five top Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay).
  2. 4. Her first feature film, the documentary Hotel Monterey (1972), along with the short films La Chambre 1 and La Chambre 2, use long takes and structuralist techniques that would become trademarks of her style.
  3. 7. American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre.
  4. 10. One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute.
  5. 11. Released the thriller The Conversation, which received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
  6. 12. directed and co-wrote the LGBT-themed independent drama Moonlight (2016), which won numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture.
  7. 13. His trademark styles include extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, graphic depictions of extreme violence, and liberal use of profanity.
  8. 14. English film director with a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watched and studied today.
  9. 18. He directed the large-scale epics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970), and A Passage to India (1984).
  10. 20. His movies are noted for emotional austerity and slow, stately pacing, frequent themes of social intolerance, the inseparability of fate and death, and the power of evil in earthly life.
  11. 22. Is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. Has received many accolades, including the most nominations (16) for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
  12. 23. New Zealand filmmaker, actor and comedian.
  13. 24. His credited feature film debut came with Targets (1968), before his career breakthrough with the drama The Last Picture Show (1971) which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
  14. 26. He is best known for his silent films during the 1920s, in which he performed physical comedy and inventive stunts.
  15. 28. In a career of more than 50 years, he directed over 140 films between 1917 and 1965 (although most of his silent films are now lost), and received six Academy Awards including a record four wins for Best Director
  16. 30. Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed 30 films in a career spanning over five decades.
  17. 31. He was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films.
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  1. 1. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director in film history
  2. 3. He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing films such as Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Paterson (2016).
  3. 5. His work has continually explored race relations, issues within the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues.
  4. 6. He directed or wrote the story for ten of the 100 highest-grossing movies at the North American box office, adjusted for ticket-price inflation.
  5. 8. ith a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies.
  6. 9. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Classic Hollywood cinema.
  7. 10. One of the key themes they note is the usage of dreams and dreamlike imagery and structure, something they relate to the "surrealist ethos" of relying "on the subconscious to provide visual drive".
  8. 15. Work has been subject to criticism, such as the depictions of violence and frequent inclusion of racial slurs.
  9. 16. His films were nearly all adaptations of novels or short stories, spanning a number of genres and gaining recognition for their intense attention to detail, innovative cinematography, extensive set design, and dark humor.
  10. 17. films have explored themes such as transcendence, nature, and conflicts between reason and instinct. They are typically marked by broad philosophical and spiritual overtones. Translated Martin Heidegger's The Essence of Reasons and was published in 1969.
  11. 19. Work is infused with a metaphysical outlook, his films thematise epistemology, existentialism, ethics, the construction of time, and the malleable nature of memory and personal identity. They feature mathematically inspired images and concepts, unconventional narrative structures, practical special effects, experimental soundscapes, large-format film photography, and materialistic perspectives.
  12. 21. Made his directorial film debut with heavy metal mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap (1984).
  13. 25. He pioneered many aspects of film editing and expanded the art of the narrative film.
  14. 27. His films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes and are known for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery and preoccupation with nature and memory.
  15. 29. His films have been described as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul"