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This category is for directors who have made significant contributions to the science fiction film genre. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Richard Alfred Marquand (22 September 1937 – 4 September 1987) was a Welsh film and television director active in both US and UK film productions, [1] best known for directing the 1983 space opera Return of the Jedi, the final film in the original Star Wars trilogy.
Brett Leonard (born May 14, 1959) is an American film director, producer and music video director specializing in the science fiction and horror genres. A few of his films such as The Lawnmower Man (1992) and Virtuosity (1995) feature groundbreaking computer animation and visual effects. [1]
Pages in category "American science fiction film directors" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
According to Vivian Sobchack, a British cinema and media theorist and cultural critic: . Science fiction film is a film genre which emphasizes actual, extrapolative, or 2.0 speculative science and the empirical method, interacting in a social context with the lesser emphasized, but still present, transcendentalism of magic and religion, in an attempt to reconcile man with the unknown.
The Saturn Award for Best Director (or Saturn Award for Best Direction) is one of the annual awards given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.The Saturn Awards, which are the oldest film-specialized awards to reward genre fiction achievements, in particular for science fiction, fantasy, and horror (the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is the oldest award for ...
Hawks was a versatile director whose career includes comedies, dramas, gangster films, science fiction, film noir, and Westerns. Hawks's own functional definition of what constitutes a good film is characteristic of his no-nonsense style: "three good scenes, and no bad ones."
Margheriti grew up reading science fiction comics, and when he was offered the film Space-Men, he signed on as director. [2] He followed up this film with Battle of the Worlds starring actor Claude Rains, [2] which was in turn followed by The Golden Arrow with Tab Hunter and some more peplum-style films such as The Fall of Rome and Giants of Rome. [2]