In need of a model for his statuette, Gibbons was introduced by his future wife Dolores del Río to Mexican film director and actor Emilio " El Indio " Fernández.

was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor.

After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director in 1943, during World War II with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata ( a. k. a. Judo Saga ).

In the last of Kurosawa's films as an assistant director, Horse ( Uma, 1941 ), Kurosawa took over most of the production, as Yamamoto was occupied with the shooting of another film.

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.

There, he met director Carlos Marcovich and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, and they made what would be his first short film, Vengeance is mine.

His television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several Latin American film productions including Gaby: A True Story and Romero, and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.

* Adrian Hoven ( 1922 – 1981 ), Austrian actor, producer and film director

* Adrian Pasdar ( born 1965 ), American actor and film director

* Assistant director, a film crew member who manages various tasks

* 1969 – Martin Koolhoven, Dutch film director and screenwriter

The film marked Broadway director Hal Prince's second time as a motion picture director.

A storyboard artist worked closely with the director in order to blend the shots from the Joan of Arc storyboards with the battle scenes in his film.

Bille August ( born 9 November 1948 ) is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director.

Bille is the first foreign director to be hired by the Chinese film company.

Aged 15, she appeared on an 8 March 1950 cover of ELLE and was noticed by a young film director, Roger Vadim, while babysitting.

On 13 August 2010, Bardot lashed out at director Kyle Newman regarding his plans to make a biographical film on her life.

Brian Russell De Palma ( born September 11, 1940 ) is an American film director and writer.

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen ( his wife from 1979 to 1983 ), Gary Sinise, John Lithgow, William Finley, Charles Durning, Gerrit Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond ( see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations ), set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and Pino Donaggio.

* Jeffrey Blitz, American film director and screenwriter

In 1966, at the age of 52, Lancaster appeared nude in director Frank Perry's film, The Swimmer.

Bruce Lorne Campbell ( born June 22, 1958 ) is an American film and television actor, director, writer, producer and author.

Also in the early 1970s, the soundtrack for the ground-breaking animated film Fritz The Cat contained his song " Bo Diddley ", in which a crow idly finger-pops along to the track.

* 1890 – Fritz Lang, Austrian-born film director ( d. 1976 )

The company that hired Coppola to edit Tonight for Sure brought him back to re-cut a German film titled Mit Eva fing die Sünde an directed by Fritz Umgelter.

While City Streets and other pre-WWII crime melodramas such as Fury ( 1936 ) and You Only Live Once ( 1937 ), both directed by Fritz Lang, are categorized as full-fledged noir in Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward's film noir encyclopedia, other critics tend to describe them as " proto-noir " or in similar terms.

Friedrich Christian Anton " Fritz " Lang ( December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976 ) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor.

* 2000: Metropolis ( soundtrack to the Fritz Lang film )

* 1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.

* In Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris ( 1963 ), German film director Fritz Lang plays himself attempting to direct a film adaptation of the Odyssey.

Fritz Hippler, producer of one of the most powerful propaganda films of the time, 1940's The Wandering Jew, ran the film department under Goebbels.

In California, Adorno made the acquaintance of Charlie Chaplin and became friends with Fritz Lang and Hanns Eisler, with whom he completed a study of film music in 1944.

** Fritz Lang, Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer ( b. 1890 )

* March 13 – Fritz Lang's culturally influential film Metropolis premieres in Germany.

In 1928, Fritz Lang made the film Spies which contained many tropes that became popular in later spy dramas, including secret headquarters, an agent known by a number, and the beautiful foreign agent who comes to love the hero.

She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong, realistic screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra.

Production and filming were marred by internal disagreements between Eastwood and long-time friend and producer Fritz Manes, as well as between Eastwood and the United States Department of Defense who expressed contempt for the film.

Tracy in Fritz Lang's Fury ( 1936 film ) | Fury ( 1936 ), his first major hit

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang.

In an interview, Fritz Lang reported that " the film was born from my first sight of the skyscrapers in New York in October 1924 ".

Shooting of the film was a draining experience for the actors involved, due to the demands made of them by director Fritz Lang.

Helm recalled her experiences of shooting the film in a contemporary interview, saying that " the night shots lasted three weeks, and even if they did lead to the greatest dramatic moments — even if we did follow Fritz Lang ’ s directions as though in a trance, enthusiastic and enraptured at the same time — I can ’ t forget the incredible strain that they put us under.

Fritz Lang later expressed dissatisfaction with the film.