A film director is someone who controls a film’s artistic and dramatic aspects by visualizing how the script will be actually on screen.
So, the film director is very important about a movie, and this is why one of the most important categories in the Oscar Awards is the director’s. So, let’s find out more about some of the most famous!
- His full name is J. J. Abrams
- He is a famous director
- He has directed two Star Wars movies
- He has a production company named Bad Robot
- Abrams has created numerous television series
- Including Felicity (co-creator, 1998–2002), Alias (creator, 2001–2006), Lost (co-creator, 2004–2010), and Fringe (co-creator, 2008–2013)
- He won two Emmy Awards for Lost
- These are for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series
- His directorial film work includes Mission: Impossible III (2006), Star Trek (2009), Super 8 (2011), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
- He also directed, produced and co-wrote The Force Awakens
- The seventh episode of the Star Wars saga and the first film of the sequel trilogy
- The film is also his highest-grossing, as well as the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time not adjusted for inflation
- He returned to Star Wars by co-writing, producing and directing the ninth and final installment of the saga, The Rise of Skywalker
- Abrams’s frequent collaborators include producer Bryan Burk, producer/director Tommy Gormley, actors Greg Grunberg, Simon Pegg and Keri Russell, composer Michael Giacchino, writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, cinematographers Daniel Mindel and Larry Fong, and editors Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey
- Abrams was born and raised in New York City
- He is the son of television producer Gerald W. Abrams (born 1939) and executive producer Carol Ann Abrams (1942–2012)
- His sister is screenwriter Tracy Rosen
- He attended Palisades High School
- After graduating from high school, Abrams planned on going to art school rather than a traditional college
- But eventually enrolled at Sarah Lawrence College, following his father’s advice
- His father’s advice was: “it’s more important that you go off and learn what to make movies about than how to make movies”
- Abrams is married to public relations executive Katie McGrath
- He has three children
- He resides in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California
- He is Jewish and his wife is Roman Catholic
- He sometimes takes his children to religious services on Jewish holidays
- Abrams serves on the Creative Council of Represent.Us, a nonpartisan anti-corruption organization
- In 1989, Abrams met Steven Spielberg at a film festival
- There Spielberg spoke about a possible Who Framed Roger Rabbit sequel, with Abrams as a possible writer and with Robert Zemeckis as producer
- Nothing came up from this project, although Abrams has some storyboards for a Roger Rabbit short
- In July 2002, Abrams wrote a script for a possible fifth Superman film entitled Superman: Flyby
- Brett Ratner and McG entered into talks to direct
- Although Abrams tried to get the chance to direct his own script
- However, the project was finally cancelled in 2004
- Instead Superman Returns was released in 2006
- In November 2009, it was reported that Abrams and Bad Robot Productions were producing, along with Cartoon Network Movies, Warner Bros., Frederator Films and Paramount Pictures, a film adaptation of Samurai Jack
- However, in June 2012, series creator Genndy Tartakovsky stated that the production of the film was scrapped after Abrams’ departure from the project to direct Star Trek
- For this and other reasons, Tartakovsky decided to make a new season instead of a feature film
- Also in 2009, it was reported that Abrams and Bad Robot Productions would produce a film based on the Micronauts toy line
- However, a film has never gone into production.
- His full name is Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE
- He was born on August 1, 1965
- He is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter
- He is best known for his directoral debut film American Beauty (1999)
- It earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director
- He is also known for the crime film Road to Perdition (2002), the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015), and the war film 1917 (2019)
- He also is known for dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003)
- He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013)
- For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019
- In 2000 Mendes was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for “services to drama”
- In the same year was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany
- In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain
- In 2008 The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 15 in their list of the “100 most powerful people in British culture”
- Mendes was born in Reading, Berkshire
- His father, who is from Trinidad and Tobago, is a Roman Catholic of Portuguese Creole descent
- His mother is an English Jew
- His grandfather was the British Trinidadian writer Alfred Hubert Mendes
- Mendes’s parents divorced when he was a child
- He grew up in Oxfordshire and attended Magdalen College School and Peterhouse, Cambridge
- There he graduated with a first in English
- While at Cambridge, he was a member of the Marlowe Society and directed several plays
- Including a production of Cyrano de Bergerac with Tom Hollander among the cast member
- He was also a “brilliant” schoolboy cricketer
- According to Wisden and played for Magdalen College School in 1983 and 1984
- He also played cricket for Cambridge University
- Aged 24 Mendes directed a production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in the West End that starred Judi Dench
- Soon he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company
- There his productions, many of them featuring Simon Russell Beale, included Troilus and Cressida, Richard III and The Tempest
- He worked at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1988 as assistant director on a number of productions
- Including Major Barbara, and directing in “The Tent”, the second venue
- He later directed at the Royal National Theatre
- Helming Edward Bond’s The Sea, Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, and Othello with Simon Russell Beale as Iago
- Mendes and actress Kate Winslet met in 2001
- Then Mendes approached her about appearing in a play at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre, where he was then artistic director
- They married in May 2003, on what they characterised as a whim, while on holiday in Anguilla
- Their son Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes was born on 22 December 2003 in New York City
- Mendes also had a stepdaughter, Mia
- From Winslet’s first marriage to filmmaker Jim Threapleton
- Amid intense media speculation of an affair between Mendes and actress Rebecca Hall, he and Winslet announced their separation in 2010
- They divorced in 2011
- Mendes and Hall were in a relationship from 2011 to 2013
- Mendes married trumpeter Alison Balsom in January 2017
- Their daughter was born in September 2017
- He was born on July 30, 1970.
- His middle name is Edward.
- He is one of the highest-grossing directors in history, and among the most successful and acclaimed filmmakers of the 21st century.
- Christopher Nolan was born in London.
- His English father, Brendan James Nolan, was an advertising executive, and his American mother, Christina, worked as a flight attendant and an English teacher.
- His childhood was split between London and Chicago, and he has both British and American citizenship
- He has an older brother, Matthew, and a younger brother, Jonathan
- He began making films at age seven, borrowing his father’s Super 8 camera and shooting short films with his action figures.
- Growing up, Nolan was a great admirer of Star Wars (1977), and around the age of eight he made a stop motion animation homage called Space Wars.
- His uncle who worked at NASA, building guidance systems for the Apollo rockets, sent him some launch footage. “I re-filmed them off the screen and cut them in, thinking no-one would notice,” Nolan later remarked.
- From the age of 11, he aspired to be a professional filmmaker.
- When Nolan’s family relocated to Chicago during his formative years, he started making films with Adrien and Roko Belic.
- He has continued his collaboration with the brothers, receiving a credit for his editorial assistance on their Oscar-nominated documentary Genghis Blues (1999).
- Christopher Nolan also worked alongside Roko (and future Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Gettleman) on documenting a safari across four African countries, organized by the late photojournalist Dan Eldon in the early 1990s.
- Christopher Nolan was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College, an independent school in Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire, and later read English literature at University College London (UCL).
- He chose UCL specifically for its filmmaking facilities, which comprised a Steenbeck editing suite and 16 mm film cameras.
- Christopher Nolan was president of the Union’s Film Society, and with Emma Thomas (his girlfriend and future producer) he screened 35 mm feature films during the school year and used the money earned to produce 16 mm films over the summers.
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