His films were concerned with personal or social issues of special concern to him. Kazan writes, "I don't move unless I have some empathy with the basic theme." His first such "issue" film was Gentleman's Agreement (1947), with Gregory Peck, which dealt
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Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 – April 10, 1962) was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director. He had early credits as Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész. He directed more than fifty films in Europe and more than one hundred in the Un
Continue reading >>Rob Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and four-time Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Awa
Continue reading >>William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Stone came into public attention in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for writing and directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he
Continue reading >>Michael Cimino (/tʃɪˈmiːnoʊ/ chi-MEE-noh;born February 3, 1939) is an American film director. He is best known for co-writing, producing and directing the 1978 Academy Award-winning film The Deer Hunter and writing and directing t
Continue reading >>Martin Charles Scorsese (/skɔrˈsɛsɛ/; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time. In 1990 he founded The F
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