Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Is a multi-awarded film director in the Philippines. He is presently teaching at the Marilou Diaz Ab

Is a multi-awarded film director in the Philippines. He is presently teaching at the Marilou Diaz Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center in Antipolo City, Philippines.Meily has made several short films that won several prizes. He won the Best Short Feature Award at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1989. He also received a nomination from the Gawad ng Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino (Philippine Movie Critics Award) known as the Urian Awards for Best Short Feature.[1] He represented the Philippines at the Festival of Independent Cinema in Belgium for the years 1988, 1989 and 1998.[1]

His debut album Here Comes the Fuzz, focused on American hip hop. Despite including collaborations w

His debut album Here Comes the Fuzz, focused on American hip hop. Despite including collaborations with Sean Paul, Nate Dogg and Ghostface Killah, it failed to make an impact on the charts.His second album, Version focused on the British music scene, with covers of songs by the likes of Radiohead, Maxnmo Park, The Smiths, Amy Winehouse, The Zutons and Kaiser Chiefs. The album includes three top ten hits and won Ronson a BRIT Award for Best Male Artist 2008. He is the first person to win a BRIT award who does not sing on the actual recording.

Is an American actor, film director and producer.Rydell began his career as an actor and first becam

Is an American actor, film director and producer.Rydell began his career as an actor and first became known for his role as Walt Johnson on The Edge of Night and as Jeff Baker on As the World Turns, which he played from 1956 to 1962. He won plaudits for his role of violent Jewish mob kingpin, Marty Augustine, in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973). His most recent significant film role was in Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending.

Is a Finnish film director, screenwriter, editor and owner of film production company Suomen Filmite

Is a Finnish film director, screenwriter, editor and owner of film production company Suomen Filmiteollisuus. Pölönen's best known work is the 2004 film Dog Nail Clipper — directed and written by Pölönen — which was honoured with five awards at the 2005 Jussi Awards including Best Direction and Best Script[1] and which film critic Jay Weissberg from Variety called Pölönen's "most mature work to date".[2] Pölönen has been awarded an additional four Jussi awards while being nominated for two more.

Is a Finnish film producer and director.Antila studied in Tampere at the Art and Film School, workin

Is a Finnish film producer and director.Antila studied in Tampere at the Art and Film School, working first for TV, where he developed his own music format. First directing at Finnish music television MTV3 for 2 years. During that time he made around 40 music videos. Marko Antila moved into commercial business in 1998 where he is well known for his great sense of humour and working with actors. Marko is a storyteller with good visual touch. Marko has won several national and international awards such as Cresta, Epica, Fab. In 2004, Marko directed the TV series "Pelastakaa sotamies Hytönen"

Is a writer-director from the Netherlands. Gorris is known as an outspoken feminist and supporter of

Is a writer-director from the Netherlands. Gorris is known as an outspoken feminist and supporter of gay and lesbian issues which is reflected in much of her work.She wrote and directed the films A Question of Silence (1982), Broken Mirrors (1984), The Last Island (1991), and Antonia's Line (1995 - Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film), Mrs. Dalloway (1997 - based on the novel by Virginia Woolf) and The Luzhin Defence (2000 - originally a Nabokov novel).

Is a Georgian-born Russian filmmaker. Khutsiev is best known for his films from the 1960s, which inc

Is a Georgian-born Russian filmmaker. Khutsiev is best known for his films from the 1960s, which include I Am Twenty and July Rain. Khutsiev was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. His father, Martyn Levanovich Khutsishvili (the family's original Georgian surname)

Is a Dutch film director.It was his next (and first feature length) film however that established hi

Is a Dutch film director.It was his next (and first feature length) film however that established his name, also outside of the Netherlands. Suzy Q (also made for television) became the most awarded Dutch film of 1999 and established both Koolhoven's career and that of actress Carice van Houten, who Koolhoven worked with several times in the films to come.

Was an American director, actor, and playwright who worked in both film and theater. He was born in

Was an American director, actor, and playwright who worked in both film and theater. He was born in New York City.Ritt originally attended and played football for Elon College in North Carolina. The stark contrasts of the depression-era South, against his New York City upbringing, instilled in him a passion for expressing the struggles of inequality, which is apparent in the films he directed. After leaving St. John's University, Ritt found work with a theater group, and began acting in plays. His first performance was as Crown in Porgy and Bess. After his performance drew favorable reviews, Ritt concluded that he could "only be happy in the theater." Ritt then went to work with the Roosevelt administration's New Deal Works Progress Administration as a playwright for the Federal Theater Project, a federal government-funded theater support program.

A film director, photographer and, at the same time, an author of an dozens of documentary and artis

A film director, photographer and, at the same time, an author of an dozens of documentary and artistic films. Born 1958 in Mariánské Lázne, Czech Republic.GRAND PRIX A ZLATÁ MEDAILE - ALFA VIDEO 86, Brno 1986 BRONZOVÁ MEDAILE - FESTIVAL KRÁTKÝCH FILMU, Varna 1987 CESTNÉ UZNÁNÍ -TOURFILM 92 , Karlovy Vary 1992 STRÍBRNÝ KVET - TOURFILM 94, hlavní cena, Karlovy Vary 1994 GRAND PRIX - C.I.F.F.T., Víden 1994 STRÍBRNÝ KVET - TOURFILM 97, Karlovy Vary 1997 ZLATÁ MEDAILE - MEFEST Zlatibor 1997 ZLATÁ MEDAILE - Varese Film Festival

Was a Japanese film director of more than 230 films. His father was director Shozo Makino and the re

Was a Japanese film director of more than 230 films. His father was director Shozo Makino and the recent pseudonym of film director Masahiko Tsugawa, Makino Masahiko, is a tribute to Masahiro.

A Japanese film director, married to the actress Shima Iwashita. He retired from directing after mak

A Japanese film director, married to the actress Shima Iwashita. He retired from directing after making the historical epic Spy Sorge.

Was a Japanese director.Kobayashi also directed The Human Condition, a trilogy on the effects of Wor

Was a Japanese director.Kobayashi also directed The Human Condition, a trilogy on the effects of World War II on a Japanese pacifist and socialist. The total length of the films is over 9 hours. Other notable films include Harakiri (1962) and Samurai Rebellion (1967).

Was a Japanese screenwriter and director in the 1960s and 1970s. Best known for his writing collabor

Was a Japanese screenwriter and director in the 1960s and 1970s. Best known for his writing collaborations with directors Koji Wakamatsu and Nagisa Oshima, he also directed a number of his own films, usually dealing with left-wing political themes. He stopped making films in the early 1970s and joined the Japanese Red Army, an armed militant organization. After residing in Lebanon for 28 years, he was arrested for passport violations. He was found guilty of passport violations in September 2001 and received a four-year sentence, suspended to 18 months. After his release he was deported to Japan via Jordan, where he was re-arrested on other passport violations. After being held for a year and a half he was convicted and released based on the time he had already served. Since his release, he has resumed making films after a 30 year absence.

He has written lyrics for many musical groups and individual artists, sometimes under the pseudonym

He has written lyrics for many musical groups and individual artists, sometimes under the pseudonym Reiji Aso (?? ??, Aso Reiji?).[2]After graduating from Tochigi Prefectural Ashikaga High School, he graduated in 1974 with a degree in literature from Sophia University. After graduating, he worked as a copy writer for the advertising firm Mannensha (????), which went bankrupt in 1999. Due to missing an error in an advertisement in a national newspaper, though, he was forced to do other work. While working at Tokyu Agency International (now Frontage), he made his lyricist debut with the 1981 Chanels song Hoshi Kuzu no Dance Hall.[2][3]

A Japanese film director, critic, and sometimes an actor; he is best known to Western audiences as O

A Japanese film director, critic, and sometimes an actor; he is best known to Western audiences as Omura in The Last Samurai and as Mr Mita in Fearless. In both his acting roles he portrayed the villain who wants Japan to westernize under the Meiji Restoration in the meantime trying to remove the old ways.

A Japanese actor and filmmaker.He was a model and an actor in Osaka until he was cast in Tsukamoto’s [Bullet Ballet] at 17 years of age. When he moved to Tokyo to do Shinya Tsukamoto’s [Bullet Ballet] it left such an impact on him that he decided to stay in Tokyo and make his own film. Being a first time director with a very limited budget, he did most of work in front of and behind the camera himself, including acting in the lead role, Akira. The film reflects some of his own teenage experiences around excessive violence, and it took over three years to complete. He was thrilled when the distribution company THERE’S ENTERPRISE

A Japanese film director. He is perhaps best known for his two Japan Academy Prize-winning films, 19

A Japanese film director. He is perhaps best known for his two Japan Academy Prize-winning films, 1992's Sumo Do, Sumo Don't and 1996's Shall We Dance?."The most important thing for me in movie making is to love the characters of the movie, so even though you only have a few seconds with a character, that person has to have his own life. Therefore, I want to respect it, I want to make movies where each character has his own individuality."[1]

A film director, screenwriter and film producer. He received an M.A. in cinema from the San Francisc

A film director, screenwriter and film producer. He received an M.A. in cinema from the San Francisco State University (1977). In his feature films, he generally deals with heroic subjects in the natural environment with a historical and epic tone. Some of his films were awarded local prizes.

Groening was born on February 15, 1954 in Portland, Oregon USA. He grew up in Portland, the middle c

Groening was born on February 15, 1954 in Portland, Oregon USA. He grew up in Portland, the middle child of five children. His mother, Margaret Wiggum, was once a teacher, and his father, Homer Philip Groening, was a filmmaker, advertiser, writer and cartoonist.[6] Homer, born in Main Centre, Saskatchewan, Canada, grew up in a Mennonite, Plautdietsch-speaking family. Matt's grandfather Abram Groening was a professor at Tabor College

Is an Australian movie and TV producer

Is an Australian movie and TV producer

Is a Dutch film producer. He is mostly known for producing Voor een verloren soldaat.His son Matthij

Is a Dutch film producer. He is mostly known for producing Voor een verloren soldaat.His son Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. is filmmaker and gived his us debut with the prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing[2], who will begin to shoot in March 2010.[3]

A Finnish film director who achieved fame as one of the most prominent Finnish filmmakers in the 195

A Finnish film director who achieved fame as one of the most prominent Finnish filmmakers in the 1950s and 60s. He is most famous for the series of four Inspector Palmu movies, based on the character created by Mika Waltari. During his long career, he has won seven Jussi awards and received numerous other commendations.

Is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He directed 22 films between 1955 and 1993. His film Yk

Is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He directed 22 films between 1955 and 1993. His film Yksityisalue was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

Is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He directed eight films between 1968 and 2003. His 19

Is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He directed eight films between 1968 and 2003. His 1970 film The Prophet of Hunger was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]