Famous film directors and their birthdays

Andy WarholFilm director · August 6Akira KurosawaFilm director · March 23Steven SpielbergFilm director · December 18, 79Ingmar BergmanFilm director · July 14Federico FelliniFilm director · January 20Stanley KubrickFilm director · July 26Woody AllenFilm director · November 30, 90James CameronFilm director · August 16, 72David LynchFilm director · January 20George LucasFilm director · May 14, 82Quentin TarantinoFilm director · March 27, 63Martin ScorseseFilm director · November 17, 83Hayao MiyazakiFilm director · January 5, 85Michael MooreFilm director · April 23, 72Christopher NolanFilm director · July 30, 56Luc BessonFilm director · March 18, 67Francis Ford CoppolaFilm director · April 7, 87Guillermo del ToroFilm director · October 9, 62Peter JacksonFilm director · October 31, 65Jacques CousteauFilm director · June 11Andrei TarkovskyFilm director · April 4Jean-Luc GodardFilm director · December 3François TruffautFilm director · February 6Pedro AlmodóvarFilm director · September 25, 77Tim BurtonFilm director · August 25, 68Rob ReinerFilm director · March 6Luis BuñuelFilm director · February 22Oliver StoneFilm director · September 15, 80Ron HowardFilm director · March 1, 72Sergio LeoneFilm director · January 3Terry GilliamFilm director · November 22, 85Miloš FormanFilm director · February 18Bernardo BertolucciFilm director · March 16Michael CrichtonFilm director · October 23Vittorio De SicaFilm director · July 7Ang LeeFilm director · October 23, 72Lars von TrierFilm director · April 30, 70Robert ZemeckisFilm director · May 14, 74Elia KazanFilm director · September 7Billy WilderFilm director · June 22Michelangelo AntonioniFilm director · September 29Andrzej WajdaFilm director · March 6Karan JoharFilm director · May 25, 54Wim WendersFilm director · August 14, 81Steven SoderberghFilm director · January 14, 63Danny BoyleFilm director · October 20, 70Werner HerzogFilm director · September 5, 84Sydney PollackFilm director · July 1Kevin SmithFilm director · August 2, 56Zack SnyderFilm director · March 1, 60Luchino ViscontiFilm director · November 2Alejandro González IñárrituFilm director · August 15, 63Sidney LumetFilm director · June 25Abbas KiarostamiFilm director · June 22Kathryn BigelowFilm director · November 27, 74M. Night ShyamalanFilm director · August 6, 56Wes CravenFilm director · August 2William WylerFilm director · July 1Roberto RosselliniFilm director · May 8David FincherFilm director · August 28, 64John HustonFilm director · August 5Robert AltmanFilm director · February 20David CronenbergFilm director · March 15, 83Sofia CoppolaFilm director · May 14, 55Krzysztof KieślowskiFilm director · June 27J. J. AbramsFilm director · June 27, 60Andrei KonchalovskyFilm director · August 20, 89Taika WaititiFilm director · August 16, 51Spike LeeFilm director · March 20, 69Brian De PalmaFilm director · September 11, 86Michael HanekeFilm director · March 23, 84Makoto ShinkaiFilm director · February 9, 53Robert RodriguezFilm director · June 20, 58John CarpenterFilm director · January 16, 78Jonathan DemmeFilm director · February 22Kim Ki-dukFilm director · December 20Farhan AkhtarFilm director · January 9, 52Alain ResnaisFilm director · June 3Agnès VardaFilm director · May 30Denis VilleneuveFilm director · October 3, 59Michael BayFilm director · February 17, 61Guy RitchieFilm director · September 10, 58Giuseppe TornatoreFilm director · May 27, 70David LeanFilm director · March 25Roland EmmerichFilm director · November 10, 70Joss WhedonFilm director · January 23, 62Mahesh BhattFilm director · September 20, 78Farah KhanFilm director · January 9, 61Jim JarmuschFilm director · January 22, 73Joseph L. MankiewiczFilm director · February 11Bong Joon-hoFilm director · September 14, 57Sam MendesFilm director · August 1, 61Sam RaimiFilm director · October 23, 67Asghar FarhadiFilm director · May 7, 54Rainer Werner FassbinderFilm director · May 31Wes AndersonFilm director · May 1, 57Alan ParkerFilm director · February 14James GunnFilm director · August 5, 60Jean-Jacques AnnaudFilm director · October 1, 83Jafar PanahiFilm director · July 11, 66Mike NicholsFilm director · November 6Sergei BondarchukFilm director · September 25RBRobert BressonFilm director · September 25Leonid GaidaiFilm director · January 30Chris ColumbusFilm director · September 10, 68Darren AronofskyFilm director · February 12, 57Paul VerhoevenFilm director · July 18, 88Michel HazanaviciusFilm director · March 29, 59Gus Van SantFilm director · July 24, 74Claude ChabrolFilm director · June 24Terrence MalickFilm director · November 30, 82Aki KaurismäkiFilm director · April 4, 69Sergei ParajanovFilm director · January 9Bob FosseFilm director · June 23George A. RomeroFilm director · February 4Paul Thomas AndersonFilm director · June 26, 56James WanFilm director · February 26, 49Isao TakahataFilm director · October 29Carlos SauraFilm director · January 4Jacques TatiFilm director · October 9

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