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Mexican film director and producer [296] Manos Zacharias: 1922– 102: Greek film director, cinematographer and actor [297] Vladimir Zeldin: 1915–2016: 101: Soviet-Russian actor [298] Hilda Žīgure: 1918–2022: 104: Latvian stage actress [299] Adolph Zukor: 1873–1976: 103: Austro-Hungarian-born American film producer; co-founder of ...
Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira GCSE GCIH (Portuguese: [mɐnuˈɛl doliˈvɐjɾɐ]; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about World War I.
List of film director and composer collaborations; List of Spaghetti Western directors; References This page was last edited on 1 February 2025, at 19:09 ...
One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, [105] Martin Scorsese, [106] [107] James Ivory, [108] Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, [109] Steven Spielberg, [110 ...
Since the first narrative films in the mid-late 1890s, filmmakers have sought to capture the power of live theatre on the cinema screen. Most of these filmmakers started as directors on the late 19th-century stage, and likewise, most film actors had roots in vaudeville (e.g. The Marx Brothers [6]) or theatrical melodramas. Visually, early ...
The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the film industry .
This is a list of film directorial debuts in chronological order. The films and dates referred to are a director's first commercial cinematic release.Many filmmakers have directed works which were not commercially released, for example early works by Orson Welles such as his filming of his stage production of Twelfth Night in 1933 or his experimental short film The Hearts of Age in 1934.
The film saw Hitchcock receive the 1938 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director. [110] Benjamin Crisler of The New York Times wrote in June 1938: "Three unique and valuable institutions the British have that we in America have not: Magna Carta, the Tower Bridge and Alfred Hitchcock, the greatest director of screen melodramas in the ...