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| Name | Nationality | Date of Birth | Date of Death |
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| Abel Ferrara |
American |
July 19, 1951 |
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| Adrian Lyne |
English |
March 4, 1941 |
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| Agnes Varda |
French |
May 30, 1928 |
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| Akira Kurosawa |
Japanese |
March 23, 1910 |
September 6, 1998 |
| Alain Resnais |
French |
June 3, 1922 |
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| Alan Parker |
British |
February 14, 1944 |
|
| Alan Rudolph |
American |
December 18, 1943 |
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| Alejandro Amenabar |
Spanish |
March 31, 1972 |
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| Alex Cox |
British |
December 15, 1954 |
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| Alexander Kluge |
German |
February 14, 1932 |
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| Alexander Payne |
American |
February 10, 1961 |
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| Alfred Hitchcock |
English |
August 13, 1899 |
April 29, 1980 |
| Allan Carr |
|
May 27, 1937 |
June 29, 1999 |
| Allan Dwan |
Canadian |
April 3, 1885 |
December 21, 1981 |
| Amy Heckerling |
American |
May 7, 1954 |
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| Andrzej Wajda |
Polish |
March 6, 1926 |
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| Andy Wachowski |
American |
December 29, 1967 |
|
| Ang Lee |
Chinese |
October 23, 1954 |
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| Anthony Minghella |
British |
January 6, 1954 |
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| Antoine Fuqua |
American |
January 19, 1966 |
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| Arthur Hiller |
Canadian |
November 22, 1923 |
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| Atom Egoyan |
Canadian |
July 19, 1960 |
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| Auguste Lumiere |
French |
October 5, 1864 |
June 6, 1948 |
| Barbet Schroeder |
French |
August 26, 1941 |
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| Barry Levinson |
American |
April 6, 1922 |
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| Bill Condon |
American |
October 22, 1955 |
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| Bill Conti |
American |
April 13, 1943 |
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| Bill Forsyth |
Scottish |
July 29, 1946 |
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| Bille August |
Danish |
November 9, 1948 |
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| Billy Wilder |
American |
June 22, 1906 |
March 27, 2002 |
| Blake Edwards |
American |
July 26, 1922 |
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| Bobby Farrelly |
American |
June 17, 1958 |
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| Brian De Palma |
American |
September 11, 1940 |
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| Bruce Beresford |
Australian |
August 16, 1940 |
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| Bruce Brown |
American |
December 1, 1937 |
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| Bryan Singer |
American |
September 17, 1965 |
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| Busby Berkeley |
American |
November 29, 1895 |
March 14, 1976 |
| Cameron Crowe |
American |
July 13, 1957 |
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| Charles Guggenheim |
American |
March 31, 1924 |
October 9, 2002 |
| Chris Marker |
French |
July 29, 1921 |
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| Chris Wedge |
American |
March 20, 1957 |
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| Christopher Guest |
British |
February 5, 1948 |
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| Christopher Nolan |
British |
June 30, 1970 |
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| Chuck Jones |
American |
September 21, 1912 |
February 22, 2002 |
| Claude Berri |
French |
July 1, 1934 |
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| Claude Chabrol |
French |
June 24, 1930 |
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| Curtis Hanson |
American |
March 4, 1945 |
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| D. W. Griffith |
American |
January 22, 1875 |
July 23, 1948 |
| Daniel Petrie |
Canadian |
November 26, 1920 |
August 22, 2004 |
| Danny Boyle |
English |
October 20, 1956 |
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| Dario Argento |
Italian |
September 7, 1940 |
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| Darren Aronofsky |
American |
February 12, 1969 |
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| Darryl F. Zanuck |
American |
September 5, 1902 |
December 22, 1979 |
| David Cronenberg |
Canadian |
March 15, 1943 |
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| David Fincher |
American |
May 10, 1962 |
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| David Lean |
British |
March 25, 1908 |
April 16, 1991 |
| David Lynch |
American |
January 20, 1946 |
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| David McNally |
American |
|
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| David O. Russell |
American |
August 20, 1958 |
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| David R. Ellis |
American |
September 8, 1952 |
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| David Swift |
American |
July 27, 1919 |
December 31, 2001 |
| David Zucker |
American |
October 16, 1947 |
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| Derek Jarman |
British |
January 31, 1942 |
February 19, 1994 |
| Dino De Laurentiis |
Italian |
August 8, 1919 |
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| Don Cornelius |
American |
September 27, 1936 |
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| Douglas Sirk |
German |
April 26, 1897 |
January 14, 1987 |
| Douglas Trumbull |
American |
April 8, 1942 |
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| Dziga Vertov |
Russian |
January 2, 1896 |
February 12, 1954 |
| Ed Wood |
American |
October 10, 1924 |
December 10, 1978 |
| Edward Dmytryk |
American |
September 4, 1908 |
July 1, 1999 |
| Edward Zwick |
American |
October 8, 1952 |
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| Elaine May |
American |
April 21, 1932 |
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| Elia Kazan |
American |
September 7, 1909 |
September 28, 2003 |
| Emeric Pressburger |
Hungarian |
December 5, 1902 |
February 5, 1988 |
| Emir Kusturica |
Serbian |
November 24, 1954 |
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| Ernst Lubitsch |
German |
January 28, 1892 |
November 30, 1947 |
| Errol Morris |
American |
February 5, 1948 |
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| Ethan Coen |
American |
September 21, 1957 |
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| Federico Fellini |
Italian |
January 20, 1920 |
October 31, 1993 |
| Francis Ford Coppola |
American |
April 7, 1939 |
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| Franco Zeffirelli |
Italian |
February 12, 1923 |
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| Francois Truffaut |
French |
February 6, 1932 |
October 21, 1984 |
| Frank Capra |
American |
May 18, 1897 |
September 3, 1991 |
| Frank Darabont |
American |
January 28, 1959 |
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| Fred Zinnemann |
American |
April 29, 1907 |
March 14, 1997 |
| Frederick Wiseman |
American |
January 1, 1930 |
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| Fritz Lang |
Austrian |
December 5, 1890 |
August 2, 1976 |
| George A. Romero |
American |
February 4, 1940 |
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| George Lucas |
American |
May 14, 1944 |
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| George Roy Hill |
American |
December 20, 1921 |
December 27, 2002 |
| George Sidney |
American |
October 4, 1916 |
May 5, 2002 |
| George Stevens |
American |
December 18, 1904 |
March 8, 1975 |
| Godfrey Reggio |
American |
March 29, 1940 |
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| Gower Champion |
American |
June 22, 1919 |
August 25, 1980 |
| Greg Garrison |
American |
February 20, 1924 |
March 25, 2005 |
| Guillermo del Toro |
Mexican |
October 9, 1964 |
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| Gus Van Sant |
American |
July 24, 1952 |
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| Guy Hamilton |
British |
September 16, 1922 |
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| Guy Ritchie |
British |
September 10, 1968 |
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| Harmony Korine |
American |
September 1, 1974 |
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| Hayao Miyazaki |
Japanese |
January 5, 1941 |
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| Howard Hawks |
American |
May 30, 1896 |
December 26, 1977 |
| Ingmar Bergman |
Swedish |
July 14, 1918 |
June 30, 2007 |
| J. Lee Thompson |
British |
August 1, 1914 |
August 30, 2002 |
| Jacques Rivette |
French |
March 1, 1928 |
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| James Broughton |
American |
November 10, 1913 |
May 17, 1999 |
| James Cameron |
American |
August 16, 1954 |
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| James Haven |
American |
May 11, 1973 |
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| James Wong Howe |
Chinese |
August 28, 1899 |
July 12, 1976 |
| Jan de Bont |
Dutch |
October 22, 1943 |
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| Jane Campion |
New Zealander |
April 30, 1954 |
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| Jay Roach |
American |
1957 |
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| Jean Cocteau |
French |
July 5, 1889 |
October 11, 1963 |
| Jean Renoir |
French |
May 15, 1894 |
February 12, 1979 |
| Jean-Jacques Annaud |
French |
October 1, 1943 |
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| Jean-Luc Godard |
French |
December 3, 1930 |
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| Jerry Zucker |
American |
March 11, 1950 |
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| Jim Jarmusch |
American |
January 22, 1953 |
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| Jim Mitchell |
American |
November 30, 1943 |
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| Joe Dante |
American |
November 28, 1946 |
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| Joel Coen |
American |
November 29, 1954 |
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| Joel Schumacher |
American |
August 29, 1939 |
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| John Badham |
British |
August 25, 1939 |
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| John Boorman |
British |
January 18, 1933 |
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| John Carpenter |
American |
January 16, 1948 |
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| John Frankenheimer |
American |
February 19, 1930 |
July 6, 2002 |
| John Gilling |
English |
May 29, 1912 |
November 22, 1984 |
| John Grierson |
British |
April 26, 1898 |
February 19, 1972 |
| John Hughes |
American |
February 18, 1950 |
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| John Huston |
American |
August 5, 1906 |
August 28, 1987 |
| John Lasseter |
American |
January 12, 1957 |
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| John McTiernan |
American |
January 8, 1951 |
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| John Milius |
American |
April 11, 1944 |
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| John Sayles |
American |
September 28, 1950 |
|
| John Schlesinger |
British |
February 16, 1925 |
July 25, 2003 |
| John Singleton |
American |
January 6, 1968 |
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| John Waters |
|
April 22, 1946 |
|
| John Woo |
Chinese |
May 1, 1946 |
|
| Jonathan Demme |
American |
February 22, 1944 |
|
| Joshua Logan |
American |
October 5, 1908 |
July 12, 1988 |
| Judd Apatow |
American |
December 6, 1967 |
|
| Julie Taymor |
American |
December 15, 1952 |
|
| Karel Reisz |
Czechoslovakian |
July 21, 1926 |
November 25, 2002 |
| Kathryn Bigelow |
American |
November 27, 1952 |
|
| Ken Burns |
American |
July 29, 1953 |
|
| Ken Russell |
British |
July 3, 1927 |
|
| Kevin Smith |
American |
August 2, 1970 |
|
| King Hu |
Chinese |
April 29, 1931 |
January 14, 1997 |
| Krzysztof Kieslowski |
Polish |
June 27, 1941 |
March 13, 1996 |
| Larry Buchanan |
American |
January 31, 1923 |
December 2, 2004 |
| Larry Cohen |
American |
July 15, 1941 |
|
| Larry Wachowski |
American |
June 21, 1965 |
|
| Lars von Trier |
Danish |
April 30, 1956 |
|
| Lasse Hallstrom |
Swedish |
June 2, 1946 |
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| Lee Strasberg |
American |
November 17, 1901 |
February 17, 1982 |
| Leni Riefenstahl |
German |
August 22, 1902 |
September 8, 2003 |
| Lewis Gilbert |
British |
March 6, 1920 |
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| Lindsay Anderson |
English |
April 17, 1923 |
August 30, 1994 |
| Lloyd Kaufman |
American |
December 30, 1945 |
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| Louis B. Mayer |
American |
July 4, 1882 |
October 29, 1957 |