Director
Discover a comprehensive list of renowned celebrities who have left their mark as directors in the entertainment industry. Explore the profiles of these talented visionaries and learn about their significant contributions to film, television, and stage.
Christopher Coppola
USA
USAAmerican director and producer
Edward Wood Jr.
USA
USAAmerican director, actor, producer and screenwriter.
Edward Dmytryk
USA
USAAmerican film director of Ukrainian origin
Gus Van Sant, Jr.
USA
USAAmerican film director, screenwriter, photographer, musician and writer
Chris Columbus
USA
USADirector, screenwriter
Christopher Nolan
Great Britain
Great BritainAnglo-American film director
Edward Gordon Kreg
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish director, artist, theater theorist.
Sergei Loznitsa
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian documentary filmmaker
Janusz Majewski
Poland
PolandPolish film director, screenwriter, artist
Dan Scanlon
USA
USADirector
Kenny Ortega
USA
USAProducer, director, choreographer and actor
Bigas Luna
Spain
SpainSpanish film director, screenwriter and artist
Gennadiy Bazarov
Kyrgyzstan
KyrgyzstanKyrgyz director
John Dahl
USA
USAAmerican director and screenwriter
Pierre Cardinal
France
FranceFrench writer, director, screenwriter and producer
Tod Browning
USA
USAAmerican film director, actor and screenwriter
Alexander Zhukoff
Austria
AustriaAustrian film director and video artist
Andre De Toth
USA
USAHungarian-American film director
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy
ItalyOutstanding Italian film director and screenwriter, classic of European arthouse
Daniel Stamm
Germany
GermanyGerman director and screenwriter
Stanley Tucci
USA
USAAmerican director, actor, screenwriter and producer
Shekhar Kapur
India
IndiaIndian film director and producer
Andrey Yakovlev
Ukraine
UkraineDirector
Claire Denis
France
FranceFrench film director and screenwriter
William Paul
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish film director.
Gillian Armstrong
Australia
AustraliaDirector, screenwriter, producer
Lasse Hallstrom
Sweden
SwedenSwiss screenwriter and director
Pietro Djermi
Italy
ItalyItalian film director
Yury Ilienko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian cinematographer, director, screenwriter
Alexey Vysotsky
Participant of the Great Patriotic War, Soviet journalist, writer, documentary filmmaker
Vincent Moon
France
FranceIndependent French film director and photographer
Peteris Krilovs
Latvia
LatviaSoviet and Latvian theater and film director, teacher
Morten Tyldum
Norway
NorwayNorwegian film director
Jean Gremillon
France
FranceFrench film director
Anselmo Duarte
Brazil
BrazilBrazilian filmmaker.
Andrey Kureichik
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian screenwriter, playwright, director, publicist.
Nikolay Eureinov
Russian and French director, playwright, theorist and reformer of the theatre
Kevin Macdonald
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish film director, producer and screenwriter.
Delbert Mann
USA
USAAmerican film and television director.
Sergio Corbucci
Italy
ItalyItalian film director and screenwriter
John Boorman
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish film director, screenwriter
Leonid Menker
Russia
RussiaRussian film director, screenwriter
Leonid Varlamov
Soviet documentary film director and screenwriter
Rob Cohen
USA
USAFilm director, screenwriter and producer
Philippe de Broca
France
FranceFrench film director
Ivan Reitman
Canada
CanadaCanadian film director and producer
James Rolfe
USA
USAAmerican film director, actor, YouTuber
Ivan Efremov
Soviet actor, director. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1943)
Ishiro Honda
Japan
JapanJapanese director
Konstantin Zhuk
Soviet film director