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 directors. So, let’s find out more about some of the most famous!
- Leigh Whannell was born on January 17, 1977
- He is an Australian screenwriter, actor, film producer, and film director
- He is best known for writing films directed by his friend James Wan
- Including Saw (2004), Dead Silence (2007), Insidious (2010), and Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
- Whannell made his directorial debut with Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
- He has since directed two more films, Upgrade (2018) and The Invisible Man (2020)
- Whannell and Wan are the creators of the Saw franchise
- Whannell wrote the first installment
- He co-wrote the second and third instalments
- He was producer or executive producer for all the films
- He appeared as the Adam Stanheight character in four of the instalments
- He was also the writer of the Saw video game (2009)
- And co-writer of the 2014 film Cooties
- Whannell was born in Melbourne, Australia
- He believes that he inherited his love of storytelling from his mother
- And his fondness of filmmaking from his father, who was a cameraman in the television industry
- Whannell is currently working on a reboot of Escape From New York
- He has expressed interest in writing and directing a sequel to Upgrade
- Cathy Yan is a Chinese-born American film director, screenwriter, and producer
- Her films include the comedy-drama film Dead Pigs (2018) and Birds of Prey (2020)
- Birds of Prey is the eighth installment of the DC Extended Universe
- Yan was born in China
- She was raised in Northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C
- She moved to Hong Kong when she was 14 years old
- She received her BA from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 2008
- She graduated with an MBA in general management from New York University Stern School of Business
- And an MFA in producing from New York University Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program in 2016
- Yan worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal in New York, Hong Kong and Beijing before turning to filmmaking
- After writing and directing several short films, Yan made her feature debut with Dead Pigs (2018)
- The film was inspired by the 2013 Huangpu River dead pigs incident
- In this incident 16,000 dead pigs were found floating down the Huangpu River
- Funded by Chinese investors, Yan shot the dark comedy in Shanghai with a bilingual crew then completed the film in New York
- “Sixth Generation” filmmaker Jia Zhangke executive produced it
- Dead Pigs premiered at the Sundance Film Festival
- It won a Special Jury Award for ensemble acting
- In April 2018, Yan was selected to direct the Harley Quinn DC Extended Universe superhero film Birds of Prey
- The film is based on the comic of the same name
- The film was released on February 7, 2020 with positive reviews
- Margot Robbie starred and co-produced
- Christina Hodson wrote the script
- Yan was the second woman and the first Asian woman to direct a DC film
- Or any US superhero film
- As of January 2020, Yan is working on the Sour Hearts film for A2.
- Her full name is Greta Celeste Gerwig
- She was born on August 4, 1983
- She is an American actress and filmmaker
- She first garnered attention after working on and appearing in several mumblecore films
- Between 2006 and 2009, she appeared in a number of films by Joe Swanberg
- Some of which she co-wrote or co-directed
- These include Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) and Nights and Weekends (2008)
- Since the early 2010s, Gerwig has collaborated with her partner Noah Baumbach on several films
- Including Greenberg (2010), Frances Ha (2012), for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination, and Mistress America (2015)
- She has also appeared in the films Damsels in Distress (2011), To Rome with Love (2012), Maggie’s Plan (2015), Jackie (2016), and 20th Century Women (2016)
- Gerwig’s solo directorial ventures were the coming-of-age films Lady Bird (2017) and Little Women (2019)
- For the former, she received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay
- She is a native of Sacramento, California
- Gerwig is the daughter of Christine, an OB-GYN nurse
- And Gordon Gerwig, who worked for a credit union on small business loans
- She is close to her parents and they make an appearance in Frances Ha as her character’s parents
- She has an older brother, a landscape architect
- And sister, a manager at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- She has German, Irish, and English ancestry
- She was raised a Unitarian Universalist
- She attended St. Francis High School, an all-girls Catholic school in Sacramento
- She has described herself as having been “an intense child”
- She showed an early interest in dance
- She had intended to complete a degree in musical theatre in New York
- She ended up graduating from Barnard College with a degree in English and philosophy
- Outside class, she performed in the Columbia University Varsity Show with Kate McKinnon
- Gerwig will collaborate with Baumbach in co-writing and potentially directing a live-action Barbie film
- In the film, Margot Robbie will star in the title role
- Gerwig’s films tend to be based on her own experiences
- In a behind-the-scenes video on the set of Lady Bird she said, “I tend to start with things from my own life, then pretty quickly they spin out into their own orbit”
- Gerwig presses her actors to incorporate their personalities into their performances as well
- And says of her writing and directing, “it’s all about actors.”
- In addition, she allows little line improvisation and the script is followed fairly closely
- Her works have common themes: the growth and emotional maturation of the leading woman, and relationships among family members, friends, and significant others, with a special interest in female dynamics
- Characters are reportedly never villainized, and all are sympathetic
- She tends to imbue her films with a unique and specific deadpan sense of humor
- Visually they also carry a very specific atmosphere
- Simultaneously having the warmth of looking back on something in memory and displaying things as they are, stripped of any sort of showiness
- Gerwig moved to New York City at 19 to attend Barnard College
- She lives in Brooklyn with filmmaker Noah Baumbach
- They are partners since late 2011
- In March 2019, it was announced Gerwig had given birth to their son Harold
- Gerwig had become the fifth woman in history to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director
- Quentin Tarantino was born March 27, in 1963!
- He has a middle name and it’s Jerome!
- He has Cherokee, Irish and Italian ancestry.
- Inglourious Basterds was written by him in between of Jackie Brown and Kill Bill! So he was writing three plays at once!
- He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee!
- He dropped out of school when he was 16, and after dropping out of school he started to train at James Best Theatre Company but he left that too after 2 years!
- He played one of a group of Elvis impersonators in “Sophia’s Wedding: Part 1”!
- He worked at Video Archives and he started developing even more interest in movies!
- He believes that gun violence in movies has nothing to do in reality!
- He has said that he wants to retire when he is 60!
- Quentin Tarantino is a person that has being targeted a lot because of the way he directs! Especially when it comes to the language he uses in his movies and the way he promote violence!
- Quentin Tarantino has an IQ of 160!
- He has played small, roles in some of the movies he has directed!
- He does not like brand placements in films. That’s why he creates his own and replaces them
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