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Notable Female Directors (7)

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  • Andrea Arnold
  • Greta Gerwig
  • Agnès Varda - Faces, Plaes (2017), Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
  • Ava DuVernay - This is Life, Selma, 13th
  • Kathryn Bigelow - Point Break, Strange Days, Zero Dark Thirty
  • Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady - Jesus Camp, 12th and Delaware
  • Wachowski Sisters
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List of Influential Directors (15)

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  • PTA
  • Coen Brothers
  • Kubrick
  • Nolan
  • Scorsese
  • Tarantino
  • Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Martin McDonagh
  • Coppola
  • Hitchcock
  • Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman
  • Edgar Wright’s earlier movies
  • Armando Iannuci
  • Taika Waititi
  • Andrea Arnold
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Who Directed Two Arabian Nights (1927)

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Lewis Milestone

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Black Directors

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  • Jordan Peele
  • Spike Lee
  • Barry Jenkijns
  • Antoine Fuqua
  • Ava Duvernay
  • Antoine Fuqua - Training Day, Magnificent Seven, Tears of The Sun,
  • Ryan Coogler - Black Panther 1,2, Fruitvale Station
  • John Singleton - Baby Boy, Boyz n the Hood, Four Brothers
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What else did Barry Jenkins direct

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  • Medicine for Melancholy (2008)
  • Moonlight (2016)
  • If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
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Who Directed Moonlight

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Barry Jenkins

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What else did Lewis Milestone direct? (3-5)

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  • Two Arabian Knights (1927)
  • Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) - Marlon Brando
  • Of Mice and Men (1939)
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  • Edge of Darkness (1943)
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Who Directed Blue is The Warmest Color

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Abdellatif Kechiche

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What has Alejanro G Inarritu directed (mexican) (2-5)

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  • The revenant
  • Birdman
  • Biutiful
  • Babel
  • 21 grams
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What has Guillermo Del Toro directed (mexican) (3)

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  • Pan’s labyrinth
  • Hell boy
  • Shape of water
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What has Paul Thomas Anderson directed (4-7)

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  • Hard Eight
  • Boogie Nights
  • Magnolia
  • Punch Drunk
  • There Will Be Blood
  • The Master
  • Inherent Vice
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Who Directed The Revenant and Birdman

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Alejanro G Inarritu

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Who Directed Pan’s Labyrinth

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Guillermo Del Toro

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Who Directed Erin Brockovich and The Informant

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Steven Soderbergh

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Who Directed Blue Velvet

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David Lynch

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What has Steven Soderbergh direted (3-5)

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  • Oceans 11
  • Logan Lucky
  • Erin Brockovich
  • Kafka
  • The Informant
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What has David Lynch directed (2-6)

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  • Eraserhead
  • Wild at Heart
  • Blue Velvet
  • Mullohand Drive
  • Elephant Man
  • Dune
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Who Directed Howl’s Moving Castle

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Hayao Miyazaki

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4 Iconic movies Hayao Miyazaki directed?

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  • My neighbor Totoro (1988)
  • Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
  • Spirited Away (2001)
  • Howls Moving Castle (2004)
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Who Directed The Pianist

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Roman Polanski

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4 Iconic Movies Roman Polanski has directed

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  • The Pianist
  • Chinatown
  • Rosemarys Baby
  • The Tenant
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Who Directed Trainspotting

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Danny Boyle

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3-5 movies Danny Boyle Directed

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  • Slumdog millionaire
  • Trainspotting
  • 28 Days later
  • Sunshine
  • * Shallow Grave *
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Who Directed Lost in Translation

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Sofia Copolla

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Movies Directed by Sofia Copolla (2-6)
* Virgin Suicides (1999) * Lost in translation (2003) * \* Virgin Suicides \* * Marie Antoinette (2006) * The Bling Ring (2013) * The Beguiled (2017)
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Who Directed The Favourite
Yorgos Lanthimos
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movies directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (3-6)
* Killing of a sacred deer (2018) * The favourite (2017) * The lobster (2015) * Alps (Greece) (2011) * Dogtooth (Greece) (2009) (won Cannes + Oscar nom) * Kinetta . (Greece) (2005)
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Who Directed 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Martin McDonagh
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3 Martin Mcdonagh Movies
* In Bruges * 7 psychopaths * 3 Billboards
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Hitchcock Movies (7-11)
* “Suspicion” (1941) * Spellbound (1945) * Notorious (1946) * Strangers on a Train (1951) * Rear Window (1954) * To Catch A Theif (1955) * The Man Who Knew Too Much”(1956) * Vertigo (1958) * “North by Northwest” (1959) * Psycho (1960) * The Birds (1963)
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Who Directed Death of Stalin
Armando Iannucci
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What has Armando Iannucci directed?
Death of Stalin In the loop \* Tube tales\*
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What has Mike Judge Created (4)
* Office Space * Idiocracy * King of The Hill * Silicon Valley
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Who Directed City of God
Kátia Lund and Fernando Meirelles
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What has Fernando Meirelles directed
* City of God (2002) * The Constant Gardner (2005) * Blindness (2008) * Two Popes (2019)
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Who Directed Road To Perdition
Sam Mendes
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What has Sam Mendes directed (4-7)
* 1917 * Spectre * Skyfall * Revolutionary Road * Jarhead * Road to Perdition * American Beauty
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Who wrote and directed Manchester By The Sea
Kenneth Lonergan
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Who Directed Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
Michael Gondry
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Directed by Michael Gondry (4)
* Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind * “The Science of Sleep” (2006) * “Is The Man Who is Tall Happy?” (2013) * “The We and the I” (2012)
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Who Directed Parasite
Bong Joon Ho
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What has Bong Joon Ho Directed
Parasite Okja Snowpiercer Mother
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Directed by Spike Jonze?
* Three Kings * Being John Malkovich * Adaptation * Where the Wild Things Are * Her * Synecdoche New York
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Who Directed Old Boy
Park-Chan Wook
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4 films by Park-Chan Wook
* Old Boy “Joint Security Area” (2000) ' * “The Handmaiden” (2016) * “Lady Vengeance” (2005)
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What has Charlie Kaufman Directed?
* Anomalisa (2015) * Synechdoche, New York (co director)
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Best of Francis Ford Copolla
* The Outsiders (1983 * “The Rain People” (1969) * Godfather Part 1 Godfather Part 2 * The Conversation” (1974)
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Who Directed Lady Bird
Greta Girwig
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What else has Greta Gerwig directed
Nights and Weekends (2008) Lady Bird (2017) Little Women (2019)
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Who Directed Selma
Ava Duvernay
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What else has Ava Duvernay directed?
* Selma * This is Life * A wrinkle in Time * 13th (prison doc)
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Who directed Point Break (1991)
Kathryn Bigelow
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What else has Kathryn Bigelow directed?
* Zero Dark Thirty * Strange Days (1995) * Point Break * Detroit (2017)
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What has Andrea Arnold directed?
* American Honey * Fish Tank * Red Road * Wuthering Heights
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Who Directed One of Us
Heidi Ewing
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What else has Heidi Ewing directed?
* One of Us (co-director) * Jesus Camp (co-director) * 12th and Delaware * Freakanomics (co-director)
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Preston Sturges great films (4)
* Unfaithfully Yours ('48) * Sullivan's Travels ('41) * Miracle of Morgan's Creek * ('43) Christmas in July ('40)
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John Huston (5) greats
* The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) * The Maltese Falcon (1941) * The Man Who Would Be King (1975) * The African Queen (1951) * The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
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Orson Welles
* Touch of Evil (1958) * The Lady from Shanghai (1947), * Citizen Kane (1941) * The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
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Top 5 IMDB movies of Billy Wilder
* Sunset Blvd. (1950) * Some Like It Hot (1959) * Ace in the Hole (1951) * Double Indemnity (1944) * The Apartment (1960)
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Who Directed Shaun of The and Hot Fuzz and Scott Pilgrim
Edgar Wright
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What has Noah Baumbach directed (2-13)
* (1995) Kicking and Screaming * (1997) Highball * (1997) Mr. Jealousy * (2000) Conrad & Butler Take a Vacation * (2005) The Squid and the Whale * (2007) Margot at the Wedding * (2010) Greenberg * (2013) Frances Ha * (2014) While We're Young * ( 2015) Mistress America * (2015) De Palma (Documentary) * (2017) The Meyerowitz Stories * (2019)Marriage Story
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Who Directed Kramer vs. Kramer
Robert Benton
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Notable Projects of Robert Benton (2-7)
* Kramer vs. Kramer (Screenwriter /Director) —1979 * Superman (Screenwriter)—1978 * The Late Show (Director /Screenwriter\_—1977 * Bad Company (Director / Screenwriter)—1972 * What's Up, Doc? (Screenwriter)—1972 * There Was a Crooked ManScreenwriter—1970 * Bonnie and Clyde (writer) - 1967
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Who Directed The Drop
Michaël R. Roskam
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Notable projects directed by Taika Waititi (3-5)
* Flight of The Conchords * What We Do In The Shadows * Hunt For The Wilderpeople * Thor Ragnorak * JoJo Rabbit
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