Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter W

Is a Dutch documentary filmmaker.He is best known for his films on the Holocaust, Israel and the Mid

Is a Dutch documentary filmmaker.He is best known for his films on the Holocaust, Israel and the Middle East, Judaism and Christianity, but has experience in a wide area of documentary filmmaking.In 1988 he won the International Emmy Award for his film The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank. This film contains the testimonies of seven women who were witness to the last months of Anne Frank's life in the Nazi concentration camps, including Hannah Goslar, who knew Anne Frank before she went into hiding, and Janny Brilleslijper who buried her in Bergen-Belsen.

Was a Dutch producer, director, and promoter of movies. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch cinema

Was a Dutch producer, director, and promoter of movies. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch cinema, and one of his movies was recently elected as one of only sixteen "Canonical Dutch movies." With his brother Bernardus Albertus (Albert) (20 June 1879, Harlingen - 1941) he started around the turn of the 20th century one of the earliest Dutch film production companies, Alberts Frères. By the second decade of that century he was making documentary films that premiered for royalty. His second company, Haghefilm, dominated the Dutch film market between the two World Wars.

Was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1959 and 2001.

Was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1959 and 2001.

Is a Polish film director and screenwriter.

Is a Polish film director and screenwriter.

Was a Polish film director, screenwriter and producer.Has made his debut with Harmony (1947), a medi

Was a Polish film director, screenwriter and producer.Has made his debut with Harmony (1947), a medium-length feature, and began making full-length feature films in 1957. In 1974, he was appointed as professor in the directing department at the National Film School in Lódz. Throughout his long and prolific career, he directed such notable films as The Saragossa Manuscript, The Doll and The Hour-Glass Sanatorium (also known as The Sandglass).

Is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1968 and 2001. His film

Is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1968 and 2001. His film Ucieczka z kina "Wolnosc" was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Is a Polish writer and director. He studied filmmaking at Jagiellonian University. His 2004 film, Th

Is a Polish writer and director. He studied filmmaking at Jagiellonian University. His 2004 film, The Wedding (not to be confused with the Andrzej Wajda film of the same title) earned special jury mention at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2005. He started his film career as a video camera operator.

Was a Polish filmmaker who mainly directed faux documentaries. Most of his films were censored by th

Was a Polish filmmaker who mainly directed faux documentaries. Most of his films were censored by the communist authorities due to its pessimistic look at 1970s Poland. Only after his death were they released. His complete works have been released on DVD by Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny.

American television executive and filmmaker, descended from King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia and

American television executive and filmmaker, descended from King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia and Nephew of John F. Kennedy

Is an award winning Hong Kong film director, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually

Is an award winning Hong Kong film director, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized films.Born in Shanghai, he moved to Hong Kong with his parents at the age of five. Coming from the Mainland and speaking only Mandarin and Shanghainese, he had a difficult period of adjustment to Cantonese speaking Hong Kong, spending hours in movie theatres with his mother. After graduating from Hong Kong Polytechnic College in graphic design in 1980, he enrolled in the Production Training Course organized by Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and became a full-time television scriptwriter. In the mid-1980s, he became a scriptwriter/director at The Wing Scope Co. and In-gear Film Production Company, the production houses owned by renowned Hong Kong actor /movie producer Alan Tang. Wong's current nostalgic artsy style took shape during his apprenticeship with Alan Tang Kwong-Wing, who invested in the first movie Wong directed, "As Tears Go By" (1988). Wong's career took off when he directed the film "Days of Being Wild" (1990), despite losing Alan Tang millions of invested dollars.

Is a Chinese actor, director, producer and writer. Wu Ma made his screen debut in 1963, and with ove

Is a Chinese actor, director, producer and writer. Wu Ma made his screen debut in 1963, and with over 180 appearances to his name (plus 38 directorial credits within a twenty-five year period), Wu Ma is one of the most familiar faces in the history of Hong Kong Cinema. He is best known as the Taoist ghosthunter in A Chinese Ghost Story.Wu mainly concentrated on directing in the 1970s, directing several movies - such as Young Tiger (1973) and Wits To Wits (1974). Wits To Wits has been noted as one of the precursors of the knockabout comedy kung fu genre that was later made famous by Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan. Another movie Wu directed, Manchu Boxer (1974), featured Sammo Hung, then a young choreographer and later one of the trend-setters of Hong Kong cinema. This marked the beginning of a strong working relationship between the two, which would become prominent towards the 1980s. He also co-directed with his former mentor Chang in several movies - The Water Margin (1972), The Pirate (1973), All Men Are Brothers (1975) and Naval Commando (1976).

Is a Chinese film director.Wu was the head of China's renowned Xi'an Studio from the beginning of 19

Is a Chinese film director.Wu was the head of China's renowned Xi'an Studio from the beginning of 1984, until political differences forced him to flee to the United States in 1989. Because of his position as the studio head and his oversight of such widely known "Fifth Generation" directors as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, he is sometimes referred to as the "Godfather of the Fifth Generation."[citation needed]

Is a Chinese film director and producer.His first solo film, My Memories of Old Beijing (????), won

Is a Chinese film director and producer.His first solo film, My Memories of Old Beijing (????), won the 3rd Golden Rooster Award for best director. His other films include Evening Rain (????) (1st Golden Rooster Award for best motion picture) (co-directed with Wu Yonggang), The Tribulations of a Young Master (?????), and A Confucius Family (????), among others.

Was a prominent Chinese film director during the 1930s. Today Wu is best known for his directorial d

Was a prominent Chinese film director during the 1930s. Today Wu is best known for his directorial debut, The Goddess. Wu had a long career with the Lianhua Film Company in the 1930s, in Chongqing during the war, and in the mainland after the 1949 Communist takeover. [1]Born in Jiangsu province, Wu Yonggang, was one of the major leftist film directors of pre-Communist China. For the early part of his career, Wu was a set designer with Dazhonghua Baihe, before transferring to the Shaw Brothers' Tianyi Film Company.[2] He was eventually noticed by Shi Dongshan at the newly formed Lianhua Film Company.[1] His first film from the director's chair, 1934's The Goddess (under contract with the Lianhua Film Company), earned both him and the film's star, Ruan Lingyu, rave reviews. A prolific director, Wu continued to make films well into 1970s until his retirement shortly before his death including Evening Rain (co-directed with Wu Yigong) which won Best Picture at the first annual Golden Rooster Awards.

Is a Chinese film director and a member of the "Fifth Generation" film movement, a movement of filmm

Is a Chinese film director and a member of the "Fifth Generation" film movement, a movement of filmmakers who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in the early 1980s.[1] Unlike his better-known contemporaries, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, who made their name with historical dramas, Wu Ziniu is known for his war films.[1] His 1985 film on the Sino-Vietnamese War, Dove Tree, was the first film by a Fifth Generation director to be banned by the Chinese government.[1]

A Thai film director.He is the son of famous Thai diplomat "Kaosayananda". He lived and studied in P

A Thai film director.He is the son of famous Thai diplomat "Kaosayananda". He lived and studied in Pakistan, where his father was posted in Islamabad as an ambassador.His directorial debut was Fah (1998), which at the time was the highest-budgeted film in the history of the Thai film industry.His second film and American debut (which he directed under the shortened callname "Kaos"), Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) was widely panned by both critics and movie-goers as one of the worst films ever. In March 2007, Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film #1 among "The Worst of the Worst" movie list.[1].