Famous Directors Throughout History
235 curated profiles of notable directors across eras.
Christopher Nolan
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Martin Scorsese
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Francis Ford Coppola
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Akira Kurosawa
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Jon Favreau
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Peter Jackson
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Ryan Reynolds
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Ridley Scott
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Oliver Stone
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Guy Ritchie
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Alfonso Cuarón
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Federico Fellini
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Ivan Reitman
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Milos Forman
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Vince Gilligan
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Wes Craven
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Woody Allen
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Robert Zemeckis
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Tim Burton
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John Huston
Director
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Mike Nichols
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Tony Scott
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David Fincher
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Michael Bay
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Spike Lee
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Baz Luhrmann
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Roman Polanski
Director
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Stephen Frears
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Sidney Lumet
Director
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Adam McKay
Director
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Elia Kazan
Director
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Joel Schumacher
Director
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Michael Mann
Director
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Pedro Almodóvar
Director
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Robert Altman
Director
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Sydney Pollack
Director
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Chan-wook Park
Director
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James Wan
Director
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Andrzej Wajda
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David Lean
Director
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John Landis
Director
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Luc Besson
Director
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Roland Emmerich
Director
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Darren Aronofsky
Director
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Michael Apted
Director
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Paul Verhoeven
Director
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Ramesh Sippy
Director
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Tobe Hooper
Director
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Billy Wilder
Director
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Danny Boyle
Director
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Doug Liman
Director
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Mike Leigh
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Peyton Reed
Director
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Zack Snyder
Director
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Richard Donner
Director
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Blake Edwards
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Franco Zeffirelli
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Peter Bogdanovich
Director
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Peter Weir
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Sam Mendes
Director
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Adrian Lyne
Director
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Lawrence Kasdan
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Bryan Singer
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Gary Ross
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Lars von Trier
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Werner Herzog
Director
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Jim Abrahams
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Luchino Visconti
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Stanley Donen
Director
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Antoine Fuqua
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Colin Trevorrow
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Jim Jarmusch
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John McTiernan
Director
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Jonathan Demme
Director
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Paul Thomas Anderson
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Richard Linklater
Director
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Rob Cohen
Director
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Vincente Minnelli
Director
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Alexander Payne
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Rob Marshall
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Todd Howard
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Wolfgang Petersen
Director
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Jean-Pierre Melville
Director
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Marc Forster
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Paul Schrader
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Barry Sonnenfeld
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Ken Loach
Director
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Mike Newell
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Neil Jordan
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Peter Berg
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Jean-Jacques Annaud
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Joseph Kosinski
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Lee Unkrich
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Louis Malle
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Vladimir Menshov
Director
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Claude Lelouch
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Otto Preminger
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Bernardo Bertolucci
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Gus Van Sant
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Paolo Sorrentino
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Steven Soderbergh
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Michael Haneke
Director
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Douglas Trumbull
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Louis Leterrier
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Ted Demme
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Alejandro Amenábar
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Bill Condon
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Ettore Scola
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Hirokazu Koreeda
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Johnnie To
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Ken Russell
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Nicolas Winding Refn
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Tinto Brass
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Darren Lynn Bousman
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James Mangold
Director
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Randal Kleiser
Director
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Andrew Adamson
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Jason Reitman
Director
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Director
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Neil Marshall
Director
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Roger Vadim
Director
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Steven Lisberger
Director
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Tyrone Guthrie
Director
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Isao Takahata
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Nanni Moretti
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Thomas Vinterberg
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Tim Story
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Paul Greengrass
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Abbas Kiarostami
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Brett Ratner
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Dario Argento
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Fred Zinnemann
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Gene Reynolds
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Matteo Garrone
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Nicolas Roeg
Director
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Norman Jewison
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Robin Campillo
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Sergei Parajanov
Director
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Bruce Paltrow
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Delbert Mann
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George Roy Hill
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Laurent Cantet
Director
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Scott Hicks
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Subhash Ghai
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Fatih Akin
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Roger Donaldson
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Stephen Gaghan
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Julian Beck
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Mark Waters
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Harald Zwart
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Jafar Panahi
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Jaume Collet-Serra
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Roger Corman
Director
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Mike Figgis
Director
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Robert Bresson
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Shekhar Kapur
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Fernando Trueba
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Henry Koster
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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Taylor Hackford
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Bennett Miller
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Bertrand Tavernier
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Bille August
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Burr Steers
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Davis Guggenheim
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Duane Jones
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Ermanno Olmi
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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
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Gore Verbinski
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James Toback
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Jesse Peretz
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Jim Sheridan
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Marco Bellocchio
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Michel Hazanavicius
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Paolo Taviani
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Richard Loncraine
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François Ozon
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Andrei Konchalovsky
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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Eytan Fox
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Ian MacNaughton
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Philippe Garrel
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Bruce Beresford
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Danis Tanovic
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James Ivory
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Jeff Nichols
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Terence Davies
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David Frankel
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Peter Greenaway
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Duncan Jones
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Gregg Araki
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Todd Solondz
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Wayne Wang
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Tom Tykwer
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Joe Carnahan
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Alain Guiraudie
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Bruno Dumont
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Edward Dmytryk
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Franck Gastambide
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Paul Mazursky
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Rupert Sanders
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Tom Six
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Alexandre Aja
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Andrew Niccol
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Caleb Deschanel
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Pierre Grimblat
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Fabián Bielinsky
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Ivan Passer
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Fraser Heston
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Chang-dong Lee
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Jaume Balagueró
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José Padilha
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Michael Winterbottom
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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Paolo Virzì
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Pavel Lungin
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Raja Gosnell
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Régis Wargnier
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Francis Veber
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Cristi Puiu
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John Hamburg
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Roger Avary
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Benoît Jacquot
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Pablo Trapero
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Victor Salva
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Walter Salles
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Denys Arcand
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John McNaughton
Director
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Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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Pasquale Squitieri
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John Berry
Director
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Christian Carion
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Jacques Rouffio
Director
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Nicholas Hytner
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