Famous Film Directors

The list Famous Film Directors includes Martin Rabbett, Francesca Gregorini, Quentin Tarantino, Rupert Sanders and Sam Taylor-Johnson. The list consists of 13,153 members.

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Martin Rabbett

American, Film Director

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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Francesca Gregorini

Musician

Overview: Francesca McKnight Donatella Romana Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna (born August7, 1968), known professionally as Francesca Gregorini, is an Italian-American screenwriter and film director.

Date of birth: 7 August 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Morgan Wieland Marling (Dating)

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LGBT nobility 25T

20th-century American women singers 2,001T

Moses Brown School alumni 34T
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Tim Burton

American filmmaker and animator (born 1958)

Overview: Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American filmmaker, animator, and artist. He is known for his gothic fantasy and horror films such as Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990) ...

Date of birth: 25 August 1958

Age: 66

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

Partner: Monica Bellucci (Dating)

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Postmodernist filmmakers 79T

20th-century American screenwriters 2,308T

21st-century American screenwriters 1,138T
4.

Sofia Coppola

American filmmaker and actress (born 1971)

Overview: Sofia Carmina Coppola (, born May 14, 1971) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actress. The daughter of filmmakers Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, she made her film debut as an infant ...

Date of birth: 14 May 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

Partner: Thomas Mars (Married)

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Spiegel family 16T

Directors of Golden Lion winners 63T

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director winners 60T
5.

Quentin Tarantino

American filmmaker (born 1963)

Overview: Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, dark humor, aestheticization of violence ...

Date of birth: 27 March 1963

Age: 61

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

Partner: Daniella Pick (Married)

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Male actors of Irish descent 682T

Best Original Screenplay BAFTA Award winners 37T

20th-century American screenwriters 1,746T
6.

Darren Aronofsky

Film director

Overview: Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter. His films are noted for their surreal, melodramatic, and often disturbing elements, usually based in psychological ...

Date of birth: 12 February 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Directors of Golden Lion winners 63T

People from Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn 4T

Edward R. Murrow High School alumni 22T
7.

Rupert Sanders

Film director

Overview: Rupert Miles Sanders (born 16 March 1971) is an English film director.

Date of birth: 16 March 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: British

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)

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Television commercial directors 54T

Advertising directors 157T

English expatriates in the United States 979T
8.

Charlie McDowell

American film director and screenwriter (born 1983)

Overview: Charles Malcolm McDowell (born July 10, 1983) is an American film director and writer. He is most known for his film The One I Love.

Date of birth: 10 July 1983

Age: 41

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

Partner: Lily Collins (Married)

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Screenwriters from California 1,055T

Film directors from Los Angeles, California 286T

American male screenwriters 3,908T
9.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

British film director

Overview: Samantha Louise Taylor-Johnson, OBE (née Taylor-Wood, born 4 March 1967) is an English filmmaker and photographer. Her directorial feature film debut came in 2009 with Nowhere Boy, a film based on the ...

Date of birth: 4 March 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: British

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Female

Partner: Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Married)

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Photographers from London 268T

21st-century women photographers 411T

20th-century women photographers 594T
10.

Tinto Brass

Italian film director

Overview: Giovanni "Tinto" Brass (born 26 March 1933) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. In the 1960s and 1970s, he directed many critically acclaimed avant-garde films of various genres. Today, he is ...

Date of birth: 26 March 1933

Age: 91

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Partner: Caterina Varzi (Married)

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Film people from Milan 39T

Italian libertarians 23T

Italian pornographic film directors 17T
11.

Rob Zombie

American, Film Director

Overview: Rob Zombie (born Robert Bartleh Cummings; January 12, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, and actor. His music and lyrics are notable for their horror and sci-fi themes ...

Date of birth: 12 January 1965

Age: 59

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

Partner: Sheri Moon Zombie (Married)

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American horror film directors 269T

21st-century American singer-songwriters 2,751T

20th-century American singer-songwriters 1,304T
12.

George Lucas

American filmmaker

Overview: George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker, philanthropist and entrepreneur. Lucas is best known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founding Lucasfilm ...

Date of birth: 14 May 1944

Age: 80

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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21st-century philanthropists 248T

AFI Life Achievement Award recipients 47T

Lucasfilm people 40T
13.

Woody Allen

American filmmaker, actor, and comedian (born 1935)

Overview: Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning movies ...

Date of birth: 30 November 1935

Age: 88

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Parody film directors 67T

American parodists 175T

Postmodernist filmmakers 64T
14.

Steven Spielberg

American filmmaker (born 1946)

Overview: Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era and one of the most popular directors and producers ...

Date of birth: 18 December 1946

Age: 77

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

Partner: Kate Capshaw (Married)

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Dyslexic writers 21T

20th-century American screenwriters 1,746T

Filmmakers who won the Best Film BAFTA Award 95T
15.

Sam Mendes

British stage and film director (born 1965)

Overview: Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret ...

Date of birth: 1 August 1965

Age: 59

Nationality: English

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

Partner: Alison Balsom (Married)

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Jewish theatre directors 22T

Filmmakers who won the Best Film BAFTA Award 95T

Action film directors 107T
16.

Roman Polanski

French and Polish filmmaker (born 1933)

Overview: Roman Polański ( pə-LAN-skee, born 18 August 1933 in Paris; original name Raymond Thierry Liebling) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer, and actor.

Date of birth: 18 August 1933

Age: 91

Nationality: Polish

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

Partner: Emmanuelle Seigner (Married)

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Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement recipients 96T

Citizens of Poland through descent 57T

21st-century Polish Jews 38T
17.

Michael Bay

American filmmaker (born 1965)

Overview: Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films characterized by fast cutting, stylistic cine ...

Date of birth: 17 February 1965

Age: 59

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Michael Bay 2T

Action film directors 121T

Film directors from Los Angeles, California 326T
18.

Guy Ritchie

British film director

Overview: Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English film director, producer, writer, and businessman. His work includes British gangster films and the Sherlock Holmes franchise.

Date of birth: 10 September 1968

Age: 55

Nationality: British

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

Partner: Jacqui Ainsley (Married)

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English practitioners of Brazilian jiu-jitsu 32T

English male judoka 36T

English male karateka 21T
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Brett Ratner

American film director

Overview: Brett Ratner (born March 28, 1969) is an American director and producer. He directed the Rush Hour film series, The Family Man, Red Dragon, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Tower Heist. He was also a producer ...

Date of birth: 28 March 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Superhero film directors 65T

Brett Ratner 3T

Jewish American entertainers 18T
20.

Ari Sandel

American filmmaker

Overview: Ari Devon Sandel (born September 5, 1974) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the short film, West Bank Story (2005), which won the 2006 Academy Award in the category Best Live Action ...

Date of birth: 5 September 1974

Age: 50

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

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USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni 372T

People from Calabasas, California 63T

Film directors from California 743T