Filmmakers

What lands on a date

• 01-01 Ousmane Sembène · Senegalese director and father of African cinema. source
• 01-02 Dziga Vertov · Soviet director and pioneer of documentary cinema. source
• 01-05 Hayao Miyazaki · Japanese animator and director of Studio Ghibli. source
• 01-09 Sergei Parajanov · Armenian-Georgian director of poetic tableaux. source
• 01-20 Federico Fellini · Italian director of lyrical, autobiographical cinema. source
• 01-20 David Lynch · American director of surreal, dreamlike cinema. source
• 01-22 D. W. Griffith · American director who shaped early narrative film. source
• 01-22 Sergei Eisenstein · Soviet director and theorist of montage. source
• 02-01 John Ford · American director of Westerns and national mythology. source
• 02-06 François Truffaut · French director and critic of the New Wave. source
• 03-20 Spike Lee · American director of politically charged cinema. source
• 03-23 Akira Kurosawa · Japanese director of epic humanist cinema. source
• 03-27 Quentin Tarantino · American director of dialogue-driven genre films. source
• 04-04 Andrei Tarkovsky · Soviet director of spiritual, slow cinema. source
• 04-07 Francis Ford Coppola · American director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. source
• 04-16 Charlie Chaplin · English actor and director of silent comedy. source
• 04-30 Jane Campion · New Zealand director of The Piano. source
• 05-02 Satyajit Ray · Indian director of the Apu Trilogy. source
• 05-06 Orson Welles · American director of Citizen Kane and theatrical cinema. source
• 05-08 Roberto Rossellini · Italian director and father of neorealism. source
• 05-14 George Lucas · American director and creator of Star Wars. source
• 05-14 Sofia Coppola · American director of atmospheric, intimate films. source
• 05-16 Kenji Mizoguchi · Japanese director of fluid, tragic long takes. source
• 05-30 Howard Hawks · American director of genre-defining studio films. source
• 05-30 Agnès Varda · Belgian-French director and pioneer of the New Wave. source
• 05-31 Rainer Werner Fassbinder · German director of the New German Cinema. source
• 06-03 Alain Resnais · French director of memory and formal experiment. source
• 06-22 Abbas Kiarostami · Iranian director of philosophical, minimalist films. source
• 07-07 Vittorio De Sica · Italian director of neorealist classics. source
• 07-14 Ingmar Bergman · Swedish director of existential and chamber cinema. source
• 07-17 Wong Kar-wai · Hong Kong director of moody, elliptical romance. source
• 07-26 Stanley Kubrick · American director of formally exact, wide-ranging films. source
• 07-30 Christopher Nolan · British-American director of large-format speculative cinema. source
• 08-13 Alfred Hitchcock · British director known as the master of suspense. source
• 08-14 Wim Wenders · German director of road movies and lyrical documentaries. source
• 09-05 Werner Herzog · German director of ecstatic documentary and fiction. source
• 09-14 Bong Joon-ho · South Korean director of Parasite and social satire. source
• 09-15 Jean Renoir · French director of poetic realism and social cinema. source
• 09-25 Pedro Almodóvar · Spanish director of melodrama and desire. source
• 09-29 Michelangelo Antonioni · Italian director of modernist alienation. source

+ 13 more day-precise entries in the corpus.

The year rail

Some lives are known by year, not by day. Those entries are kept on a rail — never placed on a fabricated date.