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Highest-grossing directors worldwide [1]; Rank Name Worldwide box office Highest-grossing film 1 Steven Spielberg: $10,753,640,095 $1,114,456,337 (Jurassic Park) 2 James Cameron
Ernst Ingmar Bergman[a] (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors of all time, [1][2][3] his films have been described as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul". [4]
Academy Award for Best Director. 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.
Federico Fellini Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (Italian: [fedeˈriːko felˈliːni]; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time.
World War II Victory Medal. John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and producer. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers during the Golden Age of Hollywood, [ 3 ] and was one of the first American directors to be recognized as an ...
[1] [199] In 2005, he was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. [200] He was also on The Daily Telegraph list of "Top 100 Living Geniuses" in 2007. [201] Filmmaker and historian Peter Bogdanovich has called him "the single most influential director of his generation".
Melvin Van Peebles, the influential filmmaker behind "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," and father of director and actor Mario Van Peebles, has died.He was 89. "Dad knew that Black images matter ...
Sergio Leone (Italian: [ˈsɛrdʒo leˈoːne]; 3 January 1929 – 30 April 1989) was an Italian filmmaker, credited as the pioneer of the spaghetti Western genre. [1][2] He is widely regarded as one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema. [3][4][5][6] Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with ...