Directors Flashcards
Andrei (Arsenyevich) Tarkovsky
1932-86 Soviet director - Andrei Rublev (1966); Solaris (1972); Mirror (1975); Stalker (1979) - Known for slow pacing y long takes - Considered one of greatest filmmakers, y several works are ranked among greatest ever made
Ang Lee (李安)
1954- Taiwanese director - Eat Drink Man Woman (1994); Sense and Sensibility (1995); Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000); Brokeback Mountain (2005-Best Director); Lust, Caution (2007); Life of Pi (2012-Best Director)
(Samuel) Billy Wilder
1906-2002 Austrian-American director y screenwriter - Ninotchka (1939); Double Indemnity (1944); The Lost Weekend (1945-Best Director, Best Screenplay); Sunset Boulevard (1950-Best Screenplay); The Seven Year Itch (1955); Love in the Afternoon (1957); Some Like it Hot (1959); The Apartment (1960-Best Director, Best Screenplay); Sabrina (1954) - The first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, y screenwriter for the same film (The Apartment) - Nominated for Best Director 8 times
Busby Berkeley (Berkeley William Enos)
1895-1976 American director y choreographer from CA - Known for elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex geometric patterns, y large numbers of showgirls - Gold Diggers (1935); Ziegfeld Girl (1941); Dames (1934)
David Lean
1908-91 English director from Surrey - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957-Best Director); Lawrence of Arabia (1962-Best Director); Doctor Zhivago (1965); Brief Encounter (1945) - Nominated for Best Director 7 times
Elia Kazan (Elias Kazantzoglou)
1909-2003 Greek director from Constantinople - Gentleman’s Agreement (1947-Best Director); East of Eden (1955); On the Waterfront (1954-Best Director); A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - Introduced James Dean y Marlon Brando
Federico Fellini
1920-93 Italian director - La Dolce Vita (1960-Palm d’Or); 8½ (Otto e Mezzo-1963-Oscar Best Foreign Film); Amarcord (1974-Oscar Best Foreign); La Strada (1954-Oscar Best Foreign); Nights of Cabiria (1957-Oscar Best Foreign) - Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 1993
Female Directors Nominated for Best Director (7)
- Lina Wurtmuller (ITA) - 1976 - Seven Beauties
- Jane Campion (NZ) - 1993 - The Piano
- Sofia Coppola (USA) - 2003 - Lost in Translation
- Kathryn Bigelow (USA) - 2009 - The Hurt Locker (Won)
- Greta Gerwig (USA) - 2017 - Lady Bird
- Emerald Fennell (UK) - 2020 - Promising Young Woman
- Chloe Zhao (CHN) - Nomadland (Won)
François (Roland) Truffaut
1932-84 French film director y screenwriter - One of founders of the French New Wave - The 400 Blows (1959); Jules and Jim (1961); Two English Girls (1971); Day for Night (1973-Oscar Best Foreign Film); Love on the Run (1979)
Frank Capra (Francesco Rosario Capra)
1897-1991 Italian-American director from Sicily - It Happened One Night (1934-Best Director); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936-Best Director); You Can’t Take it With You (1938-Best Director); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) - During WWII, served in the Army Signal Corps y produced propaganda films, such as the Why We Fight series - Nominated for Best Director 6 times
George A(ndrew) Romero
1940-2017 American-Canadian filmmaker from NYC - Known for horror films about the zombie apocalypse - Night of the Living Dead (1968); Dawn of the Dead (1978); Martin (1978); Day of the Dead (1985); Monkey Shines (1988); Tales from the Darkside (TV series - 1983-88)
Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿)
1941- Japanese director - Known for successful anime films - Spirited Away (2001-highest grossing film of all-time in Japan); Princess Mononoke (1997); My Neighbor Totoro (1988); Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) - Co-founder of Studio Ghibli
(Ernst) Ingmar Bergman
1918-2007 Swedish director y screenwriter - The Seventh Seal (1957); Wild Strawberries (1957); The Virgin Spring (1960-Oscar Best Foreign);Through a Glass Darkly (1961-Oscar Best Foreign); Persona (1966); Cries and Whispers (1972); Fanny and Alexander (1983-Oscar Best Foreign)
Jean Renoir
1894-1979 French director from Paris - La Grande Illusion (1937); The Rules of the Game (1939); The Human Beast (1938) - Son of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Lifetime Achievement Award (1975)
Jean-Luc Godard
1930- French director from Paris - Part of 1960s French New Wave movement - Breathless (1960); Pierrot le Fou (1964); My Life to Live (1962); Contempt (1963) - Known for radical Marxist influence in his work
John Carpenter
1948- American filmmaker y screenwriter from NY - Known for horror y sci-fi films, some commercially successful, many cult classics - Halloween (1978); The Fog (1980); Escape from New York (1981); The Thing (1982); Starman (1984); Big Trouble in Little China (1986) - Composed music for most films himself
John Ford
1894-1973 American director from Maine - Record 4 Best Directors: The Informer (1935); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); How Green Was My Valley (1941); The Quiet Man (1952); - Also directed Stagecoach (1939); Mister Roberts (1955); The Searchers (1956); The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - Served in Navy during WWII
John (Marcellus) Huston
1906-87 American director y screenwriter from MO - The Maltese Falcon (1941); The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948-Best Director); Key Largo (1948); The Asphalt Jungle (1950); The African Queen (1951); Moulin Rouge (1952) - Directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins in different films
Martin (Charles) Scorsese
1942- American director from NYC - Taxi Driver (1976); Raging Bull (1980); The Last Temptation of Christ (1988); Goodfellas (1990); Cape Fear (1991); Casino (1995); Gangs of New York (2002); The Departed (2006-Best Director); Hugo (2011); The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) - Nominated for Best Director 8 times
(George) Orson Welles
1915-1985 American director y actor from WI - Citizen Kane (1941); The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); Touch of Evil (1958); The Lady From Shanghai (1947); Chimes at Midnight (1966) - Founded the Mercury Theatre in 1937, which became famous for its 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds
Ridley Scott
1937- Engish director - Alien (1979); Blade Runner (1982); Thelma and Louise (1991); Gladiator (2002); The Martian (2015)
Robert (Bernard) Altman
1925-2006 American director from Kansas City - MASH (1970 - Palme d’Or); McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971); Nashville (1975); The Player (1992 - Cannes Best Director); Short Cuts (1993); Gosford Park (2001) - Nominated for Best Director 5 times, y was awarded Academy Honorary Award in 2006
Robert (Earl) Wise
1914-2005 American director from IN - The Sound of Music (1965-Best Director); West Side Story (1961-Best Director); The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951); The Andromeda Strain (1971); Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) - Editor of Citizen Kane (1941) - Pres. of Director’s Guild y AMPAS
Ryan Coogler
1986- American director from Oakland - Fruitvale Station (2013 - Sundance winner); Creed (2015); Black Panther (2018) - Highest-grossing African-American director of all time
Steven (Allan) Spielberg
1946- American director from Cincinnati - Jaws (1975); Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind (1977); Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); E.T. (1982); The Color Purple (1985); Jurassic Park (1993); Schindler’s List (1993-Best Director); Saving Private Ryan (1998-Best Director); Lincoln (2012) - Co-founder of DreamWorks - Highest grossing director of all time - Nominated for Best Director 7 times
Victor (Lonzo) Fleming
1889-1949 American director from CA - The Wizard of Oz (1939); Gone with the Wind (1939 - Best Director)
William Wyler
1902-81 German-American director - Mrs. Miniver (1942-Best Director); The Best Years of Our Lives (1946-Best Director); Ben-Hur (1959-Best Director); Roman Holiday (1953); Jezebel (1938); Wuthering Heights (1939) - Only person to direct 3 Best Pictures - Last director to win more than 2 Best Directors (Capra, Ford) - Holds record for most Best Director nominations (12)
