Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter O

An Argentine film director who is best known for co-founding, along with Fernando Solanas, the Grupo

An Argentine film director who is best known for co-founding, along with Fernando Solanas, the Grupo Cine Liberación and the school of Third Cinema.

A Japanese film director.Oku Shutaro, who is currently enjoying a flourishing career as a film direc

A Japanese film director.Oku Shutaro, who is currently enjoying a flourishing career as a film director, started his career as a visual planner in 1996, contributing to stage productions for TOHO musicals, NODA-MAP, Takarazuka Revue, and Otona Keikaku, etc. Since then, he has been engaged in a wide range of stage performances such as fringe theatre, ballet, dance and musicals. His best known works include "Elisabeth," "Mozart!" (TOHO Musical), "2001 people Play", "Oil", "Run, Merusu!" (NODA-MAP), "Bara no Fuin", "Never say goodbye" (Takarazuka Revue), and "One Seed" (EXPO2005 AICHI JAPAN, Japan Pavilion). Recently he has also been involved in the stage direction of ground breaking tap dance and Japanese calligraphy shows, which have caused a sensation with their effective use of visual images on the stage.

Was a popular and influential Czech film director.

Was a popular and influential Czech film director.

Is a Danish film director, actor and producer.He wrote and directed Nattevagten (Nightwatch, 1994),

Is a Danish film director, actor and producer.He wrote and directed Nattevagten (Nightwatch, 1994), a thriller about a law student who works in a morgue as a night-watchman, and becomes implicated in a series of murders of prostitutes. He also directed an English language remake (Nightwatch) in 1997, starring Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte and Patricia Arquette. In 2002, he directed I Am Dina.

Is a Danish movie director and script writer, responsible for several movies and TV series that has

Is a Danish movie director and script writer, responsible for several movies and TV series that has achieved success in Denmark. Among the most successful projects are the movies Flammen og Citronen, Prague, Nordkraft and the TV series Rejseholdet and Edderkoppen

A German film director. His works include Das Experiment and the controversial Der Untergang.

A German film director. His works include Das Experiment and the controversial Der Untergang.

Is an American film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series

Is an American film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, which he participated in as an American infantry soldier, and his work has continued to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially.

Is a French film director and screenwriter.While working at Cahiers du cinéma, Assayas wrote loving

Is a French film director and screenwriter.While working at Cahiers du cinéma, Assayas wrote lovingly about European film directors he admires but also about Asian directors. One of his latest films is a documentary about Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsi

Is a French film director, writer, graphic novel author, and animation historian. After studying mus

Is a French film director, writer, graphic novel author, and animation historian. After studying music, ballet, fine arts and films, he worked 15 years in the industry as director, flame artist and director of special effects, with such people as Wim Wenders (Until the End of the World), Roman Polanski (Death and the Maiden), Costa-Gavras (Mad City), Bob Swaim (The Climb), Josiane Balasko (Un grand cri d'amour), Jaco van Dormael (The Eighth Day), Leos Carax (Pola X), and Matthieu Kassovitz (Assassin(s)).

Is a fictional character, a Musketeer of the Guard in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years

Is a fictional character, a Musketeer of the Guard in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père.In The Three Musketeers, he and the other two musketeers Porthos and Aramis are friends of th

Is a French film director and screenwriter. His third directed film, La Vie En Rose (film), was the

Is a French film director and screenwriter. His third directed film, La Vie En Rose (film), was the first French cinema film ever to win two Academy Awards, including its first acting Oscar in the French-language. In 1991, Olivier Dahan received a diploma in art at the Art school of Marseille, then shot several short subjects and clips.

Is a French film director, screenwriter and sound editor who currently works in collaboration with p

Is a French film director, screenwriter and sound editor who currently works in collaboration with partner Jacques Martineau. To date, they have completed five films together. After spending his adolescence in Rouen, Martineau moved to Paris to study film and theatre at the University of the New Sorbonne. In 1988 he directed a short musical comedy, Le Goût de plaire. In the same year, he acted as assistant to his mentor, Jacques Demy, on the film Trois places pour le 26, the last film Demy completed before his death in 1990. Ducastel spent the early 1990s working as a sound editor on various films.[1]

Is a Finnish film director. He has directed films such as Ambush, Bad Luck Love and Rollo and the Wo

Is a Finnish film director. He has directed films such as Ambush, Bad Luck Love and Rollo and the Woods Sprite. His next film will be "Suden Vuosi" (Year of the Wolf), which is based on a book written by Virpi Hämeen-Anttila. Suden Vuosi will debut in Finland in February 2007.

Was a Greek film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 55 films between 1931 and 1971. He al

Was a Greek film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 55 films between 1931 and 1971. He also wrote scripts for 24 films between 1929 and 1971.

A musician and film director and producer. Born in the Hyogo Prefecture of Japan, Chosei Funahara wa

A musician and film director and producer. Born in the Hyogo Prefecture of Japan, Chosei Funahara was educated in both America and Japan. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Nihon University College of Art's Cinema Department in Tokyo. While pursuing New York University's NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science (Cinema Studies), he performed as bass player and founding member of the cult punk rock group the Plasmatics.

Is a Lithuanian theatre director. Between 1988 and 1994 Oskaras Koršunovas studied at the Music Aca

Is a Lithuanian theatre director. Between 1988 and 1994 Oskaras Koršunovas studied at the Music Academy of Lithuania and received Bachelors and Masters degrees in theatre directing. After graduating, he staged more than 20 performances, first at Academic

Is a Czech film director, script writer and pedagogue. He was born in Hradec Králové, Austria-Hung

Is a Czech film director, script writer and pedagogue. He was born in Hradec Králové, Austria-Hungary, (now Czech Republic)Vávra attended the Universities in Brno and Prague, where he studied architecture. During 1929-30, still a student, he participated in couple of documentaries and wrote movie scripts. In the 1931 Otakar Vávra produced an experimental film Svetlo proniká tmou (Light Penetrating Darkness). The first movie he directed was Filosofská historie in 1937.

Is a Georgian-French film maker. Due to censorship, his films were repeatedly banned in the USSR, in

Is a Georgian-French film maker. Due to censorship, his films were repeatedly banned in the USSR, inducing Iosseliani to migrate to France in 1982.

Is a Brazilian filmmaker. He is a graduate of the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television, and cu

Is a Brazilian filmmaker. He is a graduate of the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television, and currently divides his time between Brazil and Los Angeles. He married Luciana Ferraz, a Brazilian television producer in 2006.At present, Juliano is working on two additional feature-length films. The first, THE MUSIC TREE, is a depiction of the plight of the brazilwood, the species of tree that gave Brazil its name, and whose unique red-colored wood is used in the manufacture of bows for fine violins and similar instruments. Its current endangered status represents a serious threat to classical music worldwide. The second film will recount the extreme danger free-diving Brazilian lobster fishermen expose themselves to on a daily basis.

Is a French-Vietnamese film director, producer and screenwriter. Khanh began his career in France in

Is a French-Vietnamese film director, producer and screenwriter. Khanh began his career in France in the early 1980s, Khanh[1][2] directing television programmes and advertisements. Following his desire to become more involved in 'meaningful' films, in 1993 he moved to Southern California and then Mexico where he independently produced and directed Ballads without a Face[3], a documentary film about the Zapatista Army of National Liberation uprising in Southern Mexico.

Was an Austrian film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature fil

Was an Austrian film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura (1944). In the 1950s and 1960s, he directed a number of high-profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with topics which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955), rape (Anatomy of a Murder, 1959), and homosexuality (Advise and Consent, 1962). He was twice nominated for the Best Director Academy Award. He also had a few acting roles.

As an activist, he founded U-thèque, an independent film and video organization; As an editor and g

As an activist, he founded U-thèque, an independent film and video organization; As an editor and graphic designer, he is known for his seminal book New Sound of Beijing; As a curator, he initiated the biennale exhibition Get It Louder (2005, 2007) and launched the sound project in China Power Station, co-organized by Serpentine Gallery and Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art; As an artist, he is known for the urban research projects such as San Yuan Li, commissioned by 50th Biennale di Venezia (2003), and Da Zha Lan, commissioned by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. He is a frequent contributor of various magazines, books and exhibition catalogues and has lectured around the world. In 2008, he was appointed the chief curator of 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture. In 2009, he is chosen to be the jury member of the 8th Benesse Prize at the 53rd Venice Biennale. He’s currently based in Beijing, and is the director of Shao Foundation.

Was an Armenian-Iranian filmmaker who established the first film school in Iran. His first film, Abi

Was an Armenian-Iranian filmmaker who established the first film school in Iran. His first film, Abi and Rabi(1930) was Iran's first feature length movie