Golden Eagle Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Nominations and awards
Table:
Year

International title

National title[A]

Production
country

Director(s)

Producer(s)

Ref

2002

Amélie‡

Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain

France[4]

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Marc Deschamps, Claudie Ossard

[3][5]

2002

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

United States[6]

Ron Howard

Ron Howard, Brian Grazer

[3][5]

2002

The Piano Teacher

La Pianiste

France[7]

Michael Haneke

Michael Katz,† Yvon Crenn†

[3][5]

2003

The Pianist‡

Pianista

France[8]

Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde, Gene Gutowski†

[9][10]

2003

Dogville

Dogville

United Kingdom[11]

Lars von Trier

Vibeke Windeløv

[9][10]

2003

Good Bye, Lenin!

Good Bye, Lenin!

Germany[12]

Wolfgang Becker

Stefan Arndt

[9][10]

2004

The Passion of the Christ‡

The Passion of the Christ

United States[13]

Mel Gibson

Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson, Stephen McEveety, Enzo Sisti

[14][15]

2004

Life Is a Miracle

La vie est un miracle!

France[16]

Emir Kusturica

Alain Sarde, Emir Kusturica, Maja Kusturica

[14][15]

2004

Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation

United States[17]

Sofia Coppola

Ross Katz, Sofia Coppola

[14][15]

2005

The Aviator‡

The Aviator

United States[18]

Martin Scorsese

Michael Mann, Sandy Climan, Graham King, Charles Evans, Jr.

[19][20]

2005

House of Flying Daggers

十面埋伏 (shí miàn mái fú)

China[21]

Zhang Yimou

William Kong, Zhang Yimou

[19][20]

2005

Madagascar

Madagascar

United States[22]

Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath

Mireille Soria

[19][20]

2006

Volver‡

Volver

Spain[23]

Pedro Almodovar

Esther García, Agustín Almodóvar†

[24][25]

2006

Match Point

Match Point

United Kingdom[26]

Woody Allen

Letty Aronson, Gareth Wiley, Lucy Darwin

[24][25]

2006

Munich

Munich

United States[27]

Steven Spielberg

Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg, Barry Mendel, Colin Wilson

[24][25]

2007

The Queen‡

The Queen

France[28]

Stephen Frears

Andy Harries, Christine Langan, Tracey Seaward, Francois Ivernel,†
Cameron McCracken,† Scott Rudin†

[29][30]

2007

Apocalypto

Apocalypto

United States[31]

Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson, Farhad Safinia, Bruce Davey, Ned Dowd

[29][30]

2007

Babel

Babel

United States[32]

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Alejandro González Iñárritu, Steve Golin, Jon Kilik

[29][30]

2008

There Will Be Blood‡

There Will Be Blood

United States[33]

Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar, Scott Rudin

[34][35]

2008

No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men

United States[36]

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin

[34][35]

By analysing the tabular data along with the context snippets listed at the end.

Provide an answer to this question: What is the national title of the film whose production country is a unitary semi-presidential republic ? Provide just your answer in a JSON object {"answer": "YOUR ANSWER"}. Avoid adding external knowledge.

Amélie ( also known as Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain ; French pronunciation : ​ [ lə fabylø destɛ̃ d‿ameli pulɛ̃ ] ; English : The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain ) is a 2001 French romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet . Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant , the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life , set in Montmartre . It tells the story of a shy waitress , played by Audrey Tautou , who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better while struggling with her own isolation . The film was a co-production between companies in France and Germany . Taking in over $ 33 million in a limited theatrical release , it is to date the highest-grossing French-language film released in the United States , and one of the biggest international successes for a French movie . The film received critical acclaim and was a major box office success . Amélie won Best Film at the European Film Awards ; it also won four César Awards in 2002 ( including Best Film and Best Director ) , two BAFTA Awards ( including Best Original Screenplay ) , and was nominated for five Academy Awards .
France ( French : [ fʁɑ̃s ] ( listen ) ) , officially the French Republic ( French : République française , pronounced [ ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛːz ] ( listen ) ) , is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . [ XIII ] The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea , and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean . It is bordered by Belgium , Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast , Switzerland and Italy to the east , and Andorra and Spain to the south . The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . The country 's 18 integral regions ( five of which are situated overseas ) span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres ( 248,573 sq mi ) and a total population of 67.02 million ( as of July 2019 [ update ] ) . France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris , the country 's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban areas include Lyon , Marseille , Toulouse , Bordeaux , Lille and Nice . France , including its overseas territories , has the most number of time zones of any country , with a total of 12 . During the Iron Age , what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls , a Celtic people . Rome annexed the area in 51 BC , holding it until the arrival of Germanic Franks in 476 , who formed the Kingdom of Francia . The Treaty of Verdun of 843 partitioned Francia into East Francia , Middle Francia and West Francia . West Francia , which became the Kingdom of France in 987 , emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages , following its victory in the Hundred Years ' War ( 1337-1453 ) .
Jean-Pierre Jeunet ( French : [ ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ ʒœnɛ ] ; born 3 September 1953 ) is a French film director , producer , and screenwriter . His films mix elements of fantasy , realism and science fiction either to create idealized realities or to give relevance to mundane situations . A former animator , his movies are marked by quirky , slapstick humor , alongside surrealist visuals . Debuting as a director with the acclaimed 1991 black comedy Delicatessen alongside his collaborator Marc Caro , Jeunet went to collaborate with Caro once again with The City of Lost Children ( 1995 ) . His work with science fiction and horror led Jeunet to become the fourth director to helm the Alien film series with Alien Resurrection ( 1997 ) , his first and only experience with an American film . In 2001 , he would find his biggest success with the release of Amélie , gaining international acclaim and reaching BBC 's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century . Widely regarded as one of the most influential and important directors in modern French cinema , his critical and commercial success earned him three BAFTA Awards for Best Direction and two Academy Award nominations .
A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of the American mathematician John Nash , a Nobel Laureate in Economics and Abel Prize winner . The film was directed by Ron Howard , from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman . It was inspired by a bestselling , Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar . The film stars Russell Crowe , along with Ed Harris , Jennifer Connelly , Paul Bettany , Adam Goldberg , Judd Hirsch , Josh Lucas , Anthony Rapp , and Christopher Plummer in supporting roles . The story begins in Nash 's days as a graduate student at Princeton University . Early in the film , Nash begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while watching the burden his condition brings on wife Alicia and friends . The film opened in the United States cinemas on December 21 , 2001 . It went on to gross over $ 313 million worldwide and won four Academy Awards , for Best Picture , Best Director , Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress . It was also nominated for Best Actor , Best Film Editing , Best Makeup and Best Original Score . It was well received by critics , but has been criticized for its inaccurate portrayal of some aspects of Nash 's life , especially his other family and a son born out of wedlock . However , the filmmakers have stated that the film was not meant to be a literal representation of Nash 's life .
The United States of America ( USA ) , commonly known as the United States ( U.S. or US ) or America , is a country consisting of 50 states , a federal district , five major self-governing territories , and various possessions . [ g ] At 3.8 million square miles ( 9.8 million km2 ) , it is the world 's third or fourth-largest country by total area [ b ] and is slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe . Most of the country is located in central North America between Canada and Mexico . With an estimated population of over 328 million , the U.S. is the third most populous country in the world . The capital is Washington , D.C. , and the most populous city is New York City . Paleo-Indians migrated from Siberia to the North American mainland at least 12,000 years ago . European colonization began in the 16th century . The United States emerged from the thirteen British colonies established along the East Coast . Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the colonies led to the American Revolutionary War lasting between 1775 and 1783 , leading to independence . The United States embarked on a vigorous expansion across North America throughout the 19th century - gradually acquiring new territories , displacing Native Americans , and admitting new states - until by 1848 it spanned the continent . During the second half of the 19th century , the American Civil War led to the abolition of slavery in the United States . The Spanish-American War and World War I confirmed the country 's status as a global military power .
Ronald William Howard ( born March 1 , 1954 ) is an American filmmaker and actor . Howard first came to prominence as a child actor , guest-starring in several television series , including an episode of The Twilight Zone . He gained national attention for playing young Opie Taylor , the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor ( played by Andy Griffith ) in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show from 1960 through 1968 . During this time , he also appeared in the musical film The Music Man ( 1962 ) , a critical and commercial success . Howard was cast in one of the lead roles in the coming-of-age film American Graffiti ( 1973 ) , which received widespread acclaim and became one of the most profitable films of all time . The following year , Howard became a household name for playing Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days , a role he would play from 1974 through 1980 . Howard continued appearing in films during this time , such as the western film The Shootist ( 1976 ) and the comedy film Grand Theft Auto ( 1977 ) , which also marked his directorial debut . In 1980 , Howard left Happy Days to focus on directing . His films include the science-fiction/fantasy Cocoon ( 1985 ) , the fantasy Willow ( 1988 ) , the thriller Backdraft ( 1991 ) , the historical docudrama Apollo 13 ( 1995 ) , the Christmas comedy How the Grinch Stole Christmas ( 2000 ) , the biographical drama A Beautiful Mind ( 2001 ) , the biographical sports drama Cinderella Man ( 2005 ) , the thriller The Da Vinci Code ( 2006 ) , the historical drama Frost/Nixon ( 2008 ) , Solo : A Star Wars Story ( 2018 ) , and the documentary Pavarotti ( 2019 ) . For A Beautiful Mind , Howard won the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture . In 2003 , Howard was awarded the National Medal of Arts . Asteroid 12561 Howard is named after him .
Brian Thomas Grazer ( born July 12 , 1951 ) is an American film / television producer and , occasionally , a screenwriter . He co-founded Imagine Entertainment in 1986 , with Ron Howard . The films they produced have grossed over $ 13 billion . The movies include four for which Grazer was personally nominated for an Academy Award : Splash ( 1984 ) , Apollo 13 ( 1995 ) , A Beautiful Mind ( 2001 ) , and Frost/Nixon ( 2008 ) . His films and TV series have been nominated for 43 Academy Awards and 187 Emmys . In 2002 , Grazer won an Oscar for Best Picture for A Beautiful Mind ( shared with Ron Howard ) . In 2007 , he was named one of Time 's 100 Most Influential People in the World .
The Piano Teacher ( French : La Pianiste , lit . 'The Pianist ' ) is a 2001 French-language erotic psychological drama film , written and directed by Michael Haneke , that is based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Elfriede Jelinek . It tells the story of an unmarried piano teacher at a Vienna conservatory , living with her mother in a state of emotional and sexual disequilibrium , who enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with her student . A co-production of Austria and France , Haneke was given the opportunity to direct after previous attempts to adapt the novel by filmmakers Valie Export and Paulus Manker collapsed for financial reasons . At the 2001 Cannes Film Festival it won the Grand Prix , with the two leads , Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Magimel , winning Best Actress and Best Actor . It went on to receive positive reviews and other awards and nominations .
Michael Haneke ( German : [ ˈhaːnəkə ] ; born 23 March 1942 ) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter . His work often examines social issues and depicts the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society . Haneke has made films in French , German , and English and has worked in television‚ theatre , and cinema . He also teaches film direction at the Film Academy Vienna . His directorial debut , The Seventh Continent , won the Bronze Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1989 . He later won the Grand Prix at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for The Piano Teacher and the Best Director Award for Caché at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival . He subsequently directed the 2007 remake of his controversial 1997 film Funny Games . At the 2009 Cannes Film Festival , his film The White Ribbon won the Palme d'Or , and at the 67th Golden Globe Awards the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film . In 2012 , his film Amour premiered and competed at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival . The film would go on to win the Palme d'Or , making it his second win of the prestigious award in three years ; this made him the seventh director ( at the time ) to have won it twice and the only Austrian director to have accomplished this . The film received five Academy Award nominations , including Best Picture , Best Director , Best Original Screenplay , and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Emmanuelle Riva ; it won in the category of Best Foreign Language Film . In 2013 , Haneke won the Prince of Asturias Award for the arts .
Michael Katz is an Austrian film producer . He has produced films for cinematic release as well as made-for-television movies and television series . He has worked with Michael Haneke on most of his films , including Amour . He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for Amour along with Margaret Menegoz , Stefan Arndt and Veit Heiduschka in 2013 .
The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war drama film produced and directed by Roman Polanski , with a script by Ronald Harwood , and starring Adrien Brody . It is based on the autobiographical book The Pianist , a Holocaust memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman , a Holocaust survivor . The film was a co-production of France , the United Kingdom , Germany , and Poland . The Pianist met with significant critical praise , and received multiple awards and nominations . It was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival . At the 75th Academy Awards , The Pianist won Oscars for Best Director ( Roman Polanski ) , Best Adapted Screenplay ( Ronald Harwood ) , and Best Actor ( Adrien Brody ) , and was nominated for four other awards , including the Academy Award for Best Picture . It also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film and BAFTA Award for Best Direction in 2003 , and seven French Césars , including Best Picture , Best Director , and Best Actor for Brody . It was included in BBC 's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century .
Roman Polański ( /pəˈlænski/ pə-LAN-skee , Polish : [ ˈrɔman pɔˈlaj̃skʲi ] ( listen ) ; born 18 August 1933 in Paris ; original name Raymond Thierry Liebling ) is a French-Polish film director , producer , writer , and actor . Since 1978 , Polanski has been a fugitive from the U.S. criminal justice system ; he fled the country while awaiting sentencing in his sexual abuse case , in which he pleaded guilty to statutory rape . His Polish-Jewish parents moved the family back from Paris to Kraków in 1937 . Two years later , Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany starting World War II and the Polanskis found themselves trapped in the Kraków Ghetto . After his mother and father were taken in raids , Polanski spent his formative years in foster homes under an adopted identity , trying to survive the Holocaust . Polanski 's first feature-length film , Knife in the Water ( 1962 ) , was made in Poland and was nominated for a United States Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . He has since received five more Oscar nominations , along with two BAFTAs , four Césars , a Golden Globe Award and the Palme d'Or of the Cannes Film Festival in France . In the United Kingdom he directed three films , beginning with Repulsion ( 1965 ) . In 1968 , he moved to the United States and cemented his status by directing the horror film Rosemary 's Baby ( 1968 ) . A turning point in his life took place in 1969 , when his pregnant wife , Sharon Tate , and four friends were brutally murdered by members of the Manson Family . Following her death , Polanski returned to Europe and eventually continued directing . He made Macbeth ( 1971 ) in England and back in Hollywood , Chinatown ( 1974 ) , which was nominated for eleven Academy Awards .
Dogville is a 2003 crime revenge tragedy film written and directed by Lars von Trier , and starring an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman , Lauren Bacall , Paul Bettany , Chloë Sevigny , Stellan Skarsgård , Udo Kier , Ben Gazzara , Harriet Andersson , and James Caan . It is a parable that uses an extremely minimal , stage-like set to tell the story of Grace Mulligan ( Kidman ) , a woman hiding from mobsters , who arrives in the small mountain town of Dogville , Colorado , and is provided refuge in return for physical labor . The film is the first in von Trier 's projected USA - Land of Opportunities trilogy , which was followed by Manderlay ( 2005 ) and is projected to be completed with Washington . The film was in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival but Gus Van Sant 's Elephant won the award . It was screened at various film festivals before receiving a limited release in the US on March 26 , 2004 . Dogville opened to polarized reviews from critics . Some considered it to be pretentious or exasperating ; it was viewed by others as a masterpiece , and has grown in stature since its initial release .
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the United Kingdom ( UK or U.K. ) or Britain , [ note 11 ] is a sovereign country located off the north­western coast of the European mainland . Existing under its current name since 1921 , the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain , the north­eastern part of the island of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland . Otherwise , the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to the east , the English Channel to the south and the Celtic Sea to the southwest , giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world . The Irish Sea separates Great Britain and Ireland . The total area of the United Kingdom is 94,000 square miles ( 240,000 km2 ) . The United Kingdom is a unitary parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy . [ note 12 ] The current monarch is Queen Elizabeth II , who has reigned since 1952 , making her the world 's longest-serving current head of state . The United Kingdom 's capital and largest city is London , a global city and financial centre with an urban area population of 10.3 million . Other major cities include Birmingham , Manchester , Glasgow , Leeds and Liverpool . The United Kingdom consists of four constituent countries : England , Scotland , Wales , and Northern Ireland . Their capitals are London , Edinburgh , Cardiff , and Belfast , respectively .
Lars von Trier ( born Lars Trier ; 30 April 1956 ) is a Danish film director and screenwriter with a prolific and controversial career spanning almost four decades . His work is known for its genre and technical innovation ; confrontational examination of existential , social , and political issues ; and his treatment of subjects such as mercy , sacrifice , and mental health . Among his more than 100 awards and 200 nominations at film festivals worldwide , von Trier has received : the Palme d'Or ( for Dancer in the Dark ) , the Grand Prix ( for Breaking the Waves ) , the Prix du Jury ( for Europa ) , and the Technical Grand Prize ( for The Element of Crime and Europa ) at the Cannes Film Festival . Von Trier is the founder and shareholder of the international film production company Zentropa Films , which has sold more than 350 million tickets and garnered seven Academy Award nominations over the past 25 years .
Good Bye Lenin ! is a 2003 German tragicomedy film , directed by Wolfgang Becker . The cast includes Daniel Brühl , Katrin Saß , Chulpan Khamatova , and Maria Simon . The story follows a family in East Germany ; the mother ( Saß ) is dedicated to the socialist cause and falls into a coma in October 1989 , shortly before the November revolution . When she awakens eight months later in June 1990 , her son ( Brühl ) attempts to protect her from a fatal shock by concealing the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism . Most scenes were shot at the Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin and around Plattenbauten near Alexanderplatz . Good Bye , Lenin ! received numerous honours , including 2003 's European Film Award for Best Film and German Film Award for Best Feature Film .
Germany ( German : Deutschland , German pronunciation : [ ˈdɔʏtʃlant ] ) , constitutionally the Federal Republic of Germany ( German : Bundesrepublik Deutschland , listen ( help·info ) ) , [ f ] is a country in Central and Western Europe . It borders Denmark to the north , Poland and the Czech Republic to the east , Austria and Switzerland to the south , France to the southwest , and Luxembourg , Belgium , and the Netherlands to the west . Germany includes 16 constituent states , covers an area of 357,386 square kilometres ( 137,988 sq mi ) , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate . With 83 million inhabitants , it is the second most populous state of Europe after Russia , the most populous state lying entirely in Europe , as well as the most populous member state of the European Union . Germany is a very decentralised country . Its capital and largest metropolis is Berlin , while Frankfurt serves as its financial capital and has the country 's busiest airport . Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity . A region named Germania was documented before AD 100 . Beginning in the 10th century , German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire . During the 16th century , northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation . After the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire , the German Confederation was formed in 1815 . The German revolutions of 1848-49 resulted in the Frankfurt Parliament establishing major democratic rights .
Wolfgang Becker ( born 22 June 1954 ) is a German film director and writer . He is best known to the international audience for his work Good Bye Lenin ! ( 2003 ) .
The Passion of the Christ ( or simply The Passion ) is a 2004 American biblical drama film produced , co-written and directed by Mel Gibson and starring Jim Caviezel as Jesus of Nazareth , Maia Morgenstern as the Virgin Mary , and Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalene . It depicts the Passion of Jesus largely according to the Gospels of Matthew , Mark , Luke and John . It also draws on pious accounts such as the Friday of Sorrows along with other devotional writings , such as the reputed Marian apparitions attributed to Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich . The film primarily covers the final twelve hours before Jesus ' death , consisting of the Passion , hence the title of the film . It begins with the Agony in the Garden in the Garden of Olives ( or Gethsemane ) , the betrayal of Judas Iscariot , the brutal Scourging at the Pillar , the suffering of the Blessed Virgin Mary as prophesied by Simeon , the crucifixion and death of Christ , and ends with a brief depiction of His Resurrection . However , the film also has flashbacks to particular moments in Christ 's life , some of which are Biblically based , such as The Last Supper and The Sermon on the Mount , and others that are artistic license , such as when Mary comforts Jesus and the scene where Jesus is crafting a table . It was , for the most part , shot in Italy . The dialogue is entirely in Hebrew , Latin , and reconstructed Aramaic . And , although Mel Gibson was initially against it , the film also has subtitles . The film has been controversial and received largely polarized reviews , with some critics calling the film a religious classic while others found the extreme violence distracting and excessive , and claimed that the film subliminally promoted antisemitism . The film grossed over $ 622 million worldwide and became the seventh-highest-grossing film domestically at the end of its theatrical run . It is currently the highest-grossing Christian film of all time .
Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson AO ( born January 3 , 1956 ) is an American actor and filmmaker . He is best known for his action hero roles , particularly his breakout role as Max Rockatansky in the first three films of the post-apocalyptic action series Mad Max and as Martin Riggs in the buddy cop film series Lethal Weapon . Born in Peekskill , New York , Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney , Australia , when he was 12 years old . He studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art , where he starred opposite Judy Davis in a production of Romeo and Juliet . During the 1980s , he founded Icon Entertainment , a production company , which independent film director Atom Egoyan has called an alternative to the studio system . Director Peter Weir cast him as one of the leads in the World War I drama Gallipoli ( 1981 ) , which earned Gibson a Best Actor Award from the Australian Film Institute , as well as a reputation as a serious , versatile actor . In 1995 , Gibson produced , directed , and starred in Braveheart , a historical epic , for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director , the Academy Award for Best Director , and the Academy Award for Best Picture . He later directed and produced The Passion of the Christ , a biblical drama that was both financially successful and highly controversial . He received further critical notice for his directorial work of the action-adventure film Apocalypto ( 2006 ) , which is set in Mesoamerica during the early 16th century . After several legal issues and controversial statements leaked to the public , Gibson 's public image plummeted significantly , affecting his careers in acting and directing . His career began seeing resurgence with his performance in Jodie Foster 's The Beaver ( 2011 ) , and his directorial comeback after an absence of 10 years , Hacksaw Ridge ( 2016 ) , which won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another four , including Best Picture and Best Director for Gibson , his second nomination in the category .
Bruce Davey is an Australian film producer . A partner in Icon Entertainment alongside Mel Gibson , Sydney-born Davey has produced many films including Apocalypto , The Passion of the Christ , Push , and Braveheart for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture . Davey began as Gibson 's CPA after being recommended by Gibson 's running coach in Gallipoli . After becoming Gibson 's business manager , the two men founded Icon Productions in 1989 .
Stephen Mark Steve McEveety ( born November 4 , 1954 ) is an American film producer , who has over 40 years experience in senior positions in the entertainment industry . McEveety is one of six children , and attended Notre Dame High School and Loyola Marymount University . He and his wife Susie have four children . As a child , Steve McEveety appeared in episodes of the TV series ' Gunsmoke , My Three Sons , and Star Trek ( Miri , 1966 ) . Later , he worked as an assistant director and production manager . McEveety worked many years at Mel Gibson 's Icon Productions where he executive produced What Women Want , Payback , Anna Karenina , Immortal Beloved , The Man Without a Face and Braveheart , the last of which gained ten Academy Award nominations and received five Oscars . McEveety produced The Passion of the Christ , Airborne , which he also wrote , as well as 187 , Paparazzi , and We Were Soldiers . After completing an exclusive producing deal with Icon , McEveety partnered with David Segel , John Shepherd and Todd Burns to launch Mpower Pictures . The company 's first release was the Toronto Award Winning Bella . McEveety produced An American Carol , written & directed by David Zucker , and The Stoning of Soraya M. , written & directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh , that took 2nd Runner-up at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival . Through Mpower Pictures McEveety also produced the movie Snowmen ( October 2011 ) , which won the Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award , Runner-up , the Dallas International Film Festival Audience Award , the TIFF Sprockets Golden Sprocket Award and the Heartland Crystal Heart Award . Most recently , McEveety produced Machine Gun Preacher with Mpower Pictures , in association with a number of other companies .
Life Is a Miracle ( Serbian : Život je čudo/Живот је чудо ) is a Serbian drama film directed by Emir Kusturica in 2004 . It was entered into the 2004 Cannes Film Festival .
Emir Kusturica ( Serbian Cyrillic : Емир Кустурица ; born 24 November 1954 ) is a Serbian filmmaker , actor and musician . He also has French citizenship . He has been recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films , as well as his projects in town-building . He has competed at the Cannes Film Festival on five occasions and won the Palme d'Or twice ( for When Father Was Away on Business and Underground ) , as well as the Best Director prize for Time of the Gypsies . Kusturica has also won a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for Arizona Dream and a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Black Cat , White Cat . In addition he was also named Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . Since the mid-2000s , Kusturica 's primary residence has been in Drvengrad , a town built for his film Life Is a Miracle , in the Mokra Gora region of Serbia . He had portions of the historic village reconstructed for the film . He has been a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska since 9 November 2011 .
Alain Sarde is a French film producer and actor .
Lost in Translation is a 2003 comedy-drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola . It stars Bill Murray as aging actor Bob Harris , who befriends college graduate Charlotte ( Scarlett Johansson ) in a Tokyo hotel . The movie explores themes of loneliness , insomnia , existential ennui , and culture shock against the backdrop of a modern Japanese city . Lost in Translation was nominated for four Academy Awards , including Best Picture , Best Actor for Bill Murray , and Best Director for Coppola ; Coppola won for Best Original Screenplay . Murray and Johansson each won a BAFTA award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Leading Role respectively . The film grossed $ 119 million on a budget of $ 4 million .
Sofia Carmina Coppola ( /ˈkɒpələ/ , Italian : [ ˈkɔppola ] ; born May 14 , 1971 ) is an American screenwriter , director , producer , and former actress . The daughter of filmmakers Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola , she made her film debut as an infant in her father 's acclaimed crime drama film , The Godfather ( 1972 ) . Coppola later appeared in a supporting role in Peggy Sue Got Married ( 1986 ) and portrayed Mary Corleone , the daughter of Michael Corleone , in The Godfather Part III ( 1990 ) . Her performance in the latter was severely criticised , and she turned her attention to filmmaking . Coppola made her feature-length debut with the coming-of-age drama The Virgin Suicides ( 1999 ) , based on the novel of the same name by Jeffery Eugenides . It was the first of her collaborations with actress Kirsten Dunst . In 2004 , Coppola received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama Lost in Translation and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director . In 2006 , Coppola directed the historical drama Marie Antoinette , starring Dunst as the ill-fated French queen . In 2010 , with the drama Somewhere , Coppola became the first American woman ( and fourth American filmmaker ) to win the Golden Lion , the top prize at the Venice Film Festival . In 2013 , she directed the satirical crime film The Bling Ring , based on the crime ring of the same name . At the 2017 Cannes Film Festival , Coppola became the second woman in the festival 's history to win the Best Director award , for the drama film The Beguiled .
Ross Katz ( born May 19 , 1971 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American film producer , screenwriter and film director . Prior to becoming a producer , Katz was a commercial rock DJ on 94 WYSP FM in Philadelphia . He got his start in movies working as a grip on Quentin Tarantino 's Reservoir Dogs , then interned at Good Machine eventually becoming Ted Hope 's assistant . It was Hope who encouraged Katz to try his hand at producing . His first effort was Jim Fall 's Trick . The film was one of the early independents to explore homosexual cinema treated as romantic comedy . Next he co-executive produced , along with Ted Hope & Anne Carey , an HBO television mini-series of Moisés Kaufman 's play The Laramie Project . The mini-series version of The Laramie Project was adapted by Kaufman and members of New York 's Tectonic Theater Project who went to Laramie , Wyoming after the murder of Matthew Shepard . The piece is based on more than 200 interviews they conducted while there . It follows and in some cases re-enacts the chronology of Shepherd 's visit to a local bar , his kidnap and beating , the discovery of him tied to a fence , the vigil at the hospital , his death and funeral , and the trial of his homophobic killers . The mini-series mixes real news reports with actors portraying friends , family , cops , killers , and other Laramie residents in their own words . It concludes with a Laramie staging of Angels in America a year after Shephard 's death .
The Aviator is a 2004 American epic biographical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan . It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes , Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn , and Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner . The supporting cast features Ian Holm , John C. Reilly , Alec Baldwin , Jude Law as Errol Flynn , Gwen Stefani as Jean Harlow , Kelli Garner as Faith Domergue , Matt Ross , Willem Dafoe , Alan Alda , and Edward Herrmann . Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes : The Secret Life by Charles Higham , the film depicts the life of Howard Hughes , an aviation pioneer and director of Hell 's Angels . The film portrays his life from 1927-1947 during which time Hughes became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder ( OCD ) . The Aviator was released in the United States on December 25 , 2004 . The film grossed $ 214 million at the box office . At the 77th Academy Awards , it was nominated for eleven awards , including Best Picture , Best Director , Best Original Screenplay , Best Actor for DiCaprio , and Best Supporting Actor for Alda , winning five : Best Cinematography , Best Film Editing , Best Costume Design , Best Art Direction , and Best Supporting Actress for Cate Blanchett .
Martin Charles Scorsese ( /skɔːrˈsɛsi/ , Italian : [ skorˈseːze ; -eːse ] ; born November 17 , 1942 ) is an American film director , screenwriter , producer and actor , whose career spans more than 50 years . One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era , he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential directors in film history . Scorsese 's body of work explores themes such as Italian-American identity , Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption , faith , machismo , crime and tribalism . Many of his films are known for their depiction of violence , and the liberal use of profanity and rock music . In 1990 , he founded The Film Foundation , a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation , and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation . He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema , and has won an Academy Award , a Palme d'Or , Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award , Silver Lion , Grammy Award , Emmys , Golden Globes , BAFTAs , and Directors Guild of America Awards . He has established a filmmaking history involving repeat collaborations with actors and film technicians , including nine films made with Robert De Niro . His films with De Niro are the vigilante-thriller Taxi Driver ( 1976 ) , the biographical sports drama Raging Bull ( 1980 ) , the black comedy The King of Comedy ( 1983 ) , the musical drama New York , New York ( 1977 ) , the psychological thriller Cape Fear ( 1991 ) , and the crime films Mean Streets ( 1973 ) , Goodfellas ( 1990 ) , Casino ( 1995 ) and The Irishman ( 2019 ) . Scorsese has also been noted for his successful collaborations with actor Leonardo DiCaprio , having directed him in five films : the historical epic Gangs of New York ( 2002 ) , the Howard Hughes biography The Aviator ( 2004 ) , the crime thriller The Departed ( 2006 ) , the psychological thriller Shutter Island ( 2010 ) , and the Wall Street satire The Wolf of Wall Street ( 2013 ) . The Departed won Scorsese the Academy Award for Best Director , in addition to winning the award for Best Picture . Scorsese 's other film work includes the black comedy After Hours ( 1985 ) , the romantic drama The Age of Innocence ( 1993 ) , the historical adventure drama Hugo ( 2011 ) , and the religious epics The Last Temptation of Christ ( 1988 ) and Silence ( 2016 ) . His work in television includes the pilot episodes of the HBO series Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl , which he also co-created .
Michael Kenneth Mann ( born February 5 , 1943 ) is an American director , screenwriter , and producer of film and television who is best known for his distinctive brand of stylized crime drama . His most acclaimed works include the crime films Thief ( 1981 ) , Manhunter ( 1986 ) , Heat ( 1995 ) , and Collateral ( 2004 ) , the historical drama The Last of the Mohicans ( 1992 ) , and the docudrama The Insider ( 1999 ) . He is also known for his role as executive producer on the popular TV series Miami Vice ( 1984-89 ) , which he later adapted into a 2006 feature film . For his work , he has received nominations from international organizations and juries , including the British Academy of Film and Television Arts , Cannes , and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Total Film ranked Mann No . 28 on its list of the 100 Greatest Directors Ever , Sight and Sound ranked him No . 5 on their list of the 10 Best Directors of the Last 25 Years , and Entertainment Weekly ranked Mann No . 8 on their 25 Greatest Active Film Directors list .
Sanford ( Sandy ) Climan is an American film producer , best known for Martin Scorcese 's The Aviator and the film U2 3D . He is the Founder and President of Entertainment Media Ventures , a Los Angeles-based strategic advisory and media investment company .
Graham King OBE ( born 19 December 1961 ) is an English film producer .
Charles Evans Jr. is an American film producer and documentary film director . He produced Johnny Depp 's first directorial effort , The Brave . He was one of four producers on the 2004 Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator , although his production credit was controversial . Evans is the nephew of former motion picture studio executive Robert Evans , and the son of fashion industry executive and motion picture producer Charles Evans .
House of Flying Daggers ( Chinese : 十面埋伏 ) is a 2004 wuxia romance film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Andy Lau , Zhang Ziyi and Takeshi Kaneshiro . Unlike other wuxia films , it is more of a love story than purely a martial arts film . The film opened in limited release within the United States on 3 December 2004 , in New York City and Los Angeles , and opened on additional screens throughout the country two weeks later . The film grossed $ 11,050,094 in United States box office , and then went on to significantly overperform in home video market in the United States . The film was chosen as China 's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for the year 2004 , but was not nominated in that category ; however , it received a nomination for the 2004 's Academy Award for Best Cinematography .
China ( Chinese : 中国 ; pinyin : Zhōngguó ) , officially the People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) , is a country in East Asia and is the world 's most populous country , with a population of around 1.428 billion in 2017 . Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers ( 3,700,000 sq mi ) , it is the third largest country by area . [ j ] Governed by the Communist Party of China , the state exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , [ k ] five autonomous regions , four direct-controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ) , and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau . China emerged as one of the world 's first civilizations , in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain . For millennia , China 's political system was based on hereditary monarchies , or dynasties , beginning with the semi-mythical Xia dynasty in 21st century BCE . Since then , China has expanded , fractured , and re-unified numerous times . In the 3rd century BCE , the Qin reunited core China and established the first Chinese empire . The succeeding Han dynasty , which ruled from 206 BCE until 220 CE , saw some of the most advanced technology at that time , including papermaking and the compass , along with agricultural and medical improvements . The invention of gunpowder and movable type in the Tang dynasty ( 618-907 ) and Northern Song ( 960-1127 ) completed the Four Great Inventions . Tang culture spread widely in Asia , as the new Silk Route brought traders to as far as Mesopotamia and the Horn of Africa . Dynastic rule ended in 1912 with the Xinhai Revolution , when the Republic of China ( ROC ) replaced the Qing dynasty . China , as a whole , was ravaged by feudal warlordism and Japan during World War II .
Zhang Yimou ( [ ʈʂáŋ î.mǒu ] ; born 14 November 1951 ) is a Chinese film director , producer , writer and actor , and former cinematographer . He is part of the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers , having made his directorial debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum . Zhang has won numerous awards and recognitions , with Best Foreign Film nominations for Ju Dou in 1990 , Raise the Red Lantern in 1991 , and Hero in 2003 , Silver Lion and Golden Lion prizes at the Venice Film Festival , Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival , and the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival . In 1993 , he was a member of the jury at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival . Zhang directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games , which received considerable international acclaim . One of Zhang 's recurrent themes is the resilience of Chinese people in the face of hardship and adversity , a theme which has been explored in such films as To Live ( 1994 ) and Not One Less ( 1999 ) . His films are particularly noted for their rich use of colour , as can be seen in some of his early films , like Raise the Red Lantern , and in his wuxia films like Hero and House of Flying Daggers . His highest budgeted film to date is the 2016 monster film The Great Wall , set in Imperial China and starring Matt Damon .
William Kong sometimes credited as Bill Kong ( simplified Chinese : 江志强 ; traditional Chinese : 江志強 ; pinyin : Jiāng Zhìqiáng ) ( born 1953 ) is a film producer known for his active role in the Hong Kong film industry and International co-production . He is most famous for co-producing the wuxia film Crouching Tiger , Hidden Dragon ( 2000 ) , which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture as well as a BAFTA Award for Best Film . He co-produced the historical drama war film The Flowers of War . Among his other films are Rise of the Legend ( 2014 ) , Monster Hunt ( 2015 ) and The Whistleblower ( 2019 ) . Monster Hunt at the time of its release the largest grossing film in Chinese history .
Madagascar is a 2005 American computer-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures . It was directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath from a screenplay by Mark Burton , Billy Frolick , Darnell , and McGrath , and features an ensemble cast , consisting of Ben Stiller , Chris Rock , David Schwimmer , Jada Pinkett Smith , Sacha Baron Cohen , Cedric the Entertainer , Andy Richter , Tom McGrath , Chris Miller , Jeffrey Katzenberg , Christopher Knights , Conrad Vernon , Eric Darnell , David P. Smith , Elisa Gabrielli , Bob Saget , David Cowgill , and Stephen Apostolina . Released on May 27 , 2005 , it received mixed reviews from critics , but was a success at the box office , and was one of the biggest-selling films of 2005 . The film launched a franchise with a series of films , including the sequel , Madagascar : Escape 2 Africa in 2008 . Another film , Madagascar 3 : Europe 's Most Wanted was released in 2012 , and a spin-off featuring the series ' penguin characters , Penguins of Madagascar , was released on November 26 , 2014 .
Eric Darnell ( born 1961 ) is an American animator , director , writer , songwriter and occasional voice actor best known for co-directing Antz with Tim Johnson , as well as co-directing and co-writing Madagascar , Madagascar : Escape 2 Africa and Madagascar 3 : Europe 's Most Wanted with Tom McGrath .
Thomas Henry McGrath ( born August 7 , 1964 ) is an American voice actor , animator and film director . He is known for co-directing ( with Eric Darnell ) the 2005 comedy Madagascar and its sequels , Madagascar : Escape 2 Africa in 2008 and Madagascar 3 : Europe 's Most Wanted in 2012 , also providing the voice of Skipper in all films , short films and The Penguins of Madagascar television series . He has also worked as a voice actor on other DreamWorks Animation features like Flushed Away in 2006 and Shrek the Third in 2007 . He also stepped in on Flushed Away to help make improvements prior to its release . He has also directed the DreamWorks films Megamind and The Boss Baby , earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for the latter .
Mireille Soria is an American film producer , most notable for working at DreamWorks Animation on many of their films . She produced Spirit : Stallion of the Cimarron , Sinbad : Legend of the Seven Seas , and Madagascar . She also produced the sequels Madagascar : Escape 2 Africa and Madagascar 3 : Europe 's Most Wanted . After DreamWorks saw a series of financially disappointing films , DreamWorks Animation named Soria co-president of feature animation in early 2015 . Along with Bonnie Arnold , she was tasked with overseeing the creative development and production of DWA 's theatrical releases . However , in December 2016 , Soria stepped down from her role as co-president of feature animation at DWA and returned to producing . In July 2017 , Soria was hired by Paramount to be the president of its animation division , Paramount Animation .
Volver ( Spanish pronunciation : [ βolˈβeɾ ] , meaning to go back ) is a 2006 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar . Headed by actress Penélope Cruz , the film features an ensemble cast also starring Carmen Maura , Lola Dueñas , Blanca Portillo , Yohana Cobo , and Chus Lampreave . Revolving around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of Madrid , Cruz plays Raimunda , a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula . To top off the family crisis , her mother Irene comes back from the dead to tie up loose ends . The plot originates in Almodóvar 's earlier film The Flower of My Secret ( 1995 ) , where it features as a novel which is rejected for publication but is stolen to form the screenplay of a film named The Freezer . Drawing inspiration from the Italian neorealism of the late 1940s to early 1950s and the work of pioneering directors such as Federico Fellini , Luchino Visconti , and Pier Paolo Pasolini , Volver addresses themes like sexual abuse , loneliness and death , mixing the genres of farce , tragedy , melodrama , and magic realism . Set in the La Mancha region , Almodovar 's place of birth , the filmmaker cited his upbringing as a major influence on many aspects of the plot and the characters . Volver premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival , where it competed for the Palme d'Or . It received critical acclaim and ultimately won two awards at the festival , for Best Actress ( shared by the six main actresses ) and Best Screenplay . The film 's Spanish premiere was held on 10 March 2006 in Puertollano , Spain , where the filming had taken place . Cruz was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Actress , making her the first Spanish woman ever to be nominated in that category .
Spain ( Spanish : España [ esˈpaɲa ] ( listen ) ) , officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Spanish : Reino de España ) , [ a ] [ b ] is a country in Southwestern Europe with some pockets of Spanish territory across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Atlantic Ocean . Its continental European territory is situated on the Iberian Peninsula . Its territory also includes two archipelagoes : the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa , and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea . The African enclaves of Ceuta , Melilla , and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera make Spain the only European country to have a physical border with an African country ( Morocco ) . [ h ] Several small islands in the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory . The country 's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar ; to the north and northeast by France , Andorra , and the Bay of Biscay ; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean . With an area of 505,990 km2 ( 195,360 sq mi ) , Spain is the largest country in Southern Europe , the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union , and the fourth largest country in the European continent . By population ( about 47 million ) , Spain is the sixth largest in Europe and the fifth in the European Union . Spain 's capital and largest city is Madrid ; other major urban areas include Barcelona , Valencia , Seville , Zaragoza , Málaga and Bilbao . Modern humans first arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 35,000 years ago . Iberian cultures along with ancient Phoenician , Greek , Celtic and Carthaginian settlements developed on the peninsula until it came under Roman rule around 200 BCE , after which the region was named Hispania , based on the earlier Phoenician name Sp ( a ) n or Spania . At the end of the Western Roman Empire the Germanic tribal confederations migrated from Central Europe , invaded the Iberian peninsula and established relatively independent realms in its western provinces , including the Suebi , Alans and Vandals .
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero ( Spanish pronunciation : [ ˈpeðɾo almoˈðoβaɾ kaβaˈʝeɾo ] ; born 25 September 1949 ) is a Spanish filmmaker , director , screenwriter , producer , and former actor . He came to prominence as a director and screenwriter during La Movida Madrileña , a cultural renaissance that followed after the end of Francoist Spain . His first few films characterised the sense of sexual and political freedom of the period . In 1986 , he established his own film production company , El Deseo , with his younger brother Agustín Almodóvar , responsible for producing all of his films since Law of Desire ( 1987 ) . Almodóvar achieved international recognition for his black comedy-drama film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ( 1988 ) , which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , and went on to more success with the dark romantic comedy film Tie Me Up ! Tie Me Down ! ( 1990 ) , the melodrama High Heels ( 1991 ) and the romantic drama thriller Live Flesh ( 1997 ) . His subsequent two films won an Academy Award each : All About My Mother ( 1999 ) received the award for Best Foreign Language Film while Talk to Her ( 2002 ) earned him the award for Best Original Screenplay . Almodóvar followed this with the drama Volver ( 2006 ) , the romantic thriller Broken Embraces ( 2009 ) , the psychological thriller The Skin I Live In ( 2011 ) and the dramas Julieta ( 2016 ) and Pain and Glory ( 2019 ) , all of which were in competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival . His films are marked by his employment of certain actors and creative personnel , complex narratives , melodrama , pop culture , popular songs , irreverent humour , strong colours , and glossy décor . Desire , passion , family , and identity are among Almodóvar 's most prevalent themes . Acclaimed as one of the most internationally successful Spanish filmmakers , Almodóvar and his films have gained worldwide interest and developed a cult following .
Match Point is a 2005 British psychological thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers , Scarlett Johansson , Emily Mortimer , Matthew Goode , Brian Cox , and Penelope Wilton . In the film , Rhys Meyers 's character marries into a wealthy family , but his social position is threatened by his affair with his brother-in-law 's girlfriend , played by Johansson . The film deals with themes of morality , greed , and the roles of lust , money , and luck in life , leading many to compare it to Allen 's earlier film Crimes and Misdemeanors ( 1989 ) . It was produced and filmed in London after Allen had difficulty finding financial support for the film in New York . The agreement obliged him to make it there using a cast and crew mostly from the United Kingdom . Allen quickly re-wrote the script , which was originally set in New York , for a British setting . Critics in the United States praised the film and its British setting , and welcomed it as a return to form for Allen . In contrast , reviewers from the United Kingdom treated Match Point less favourably , finding fault with the locations and especially the British idiom in the dialogues . Allen was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay .
Heywood Woody Allen ( born Allan Stewart Konigsberg ; December 1 , 1935 ) is an American director , writer , actor , and comedian whose career spans more than six decades . He began his career as a comedy writer in the 1950s , writing jokes and scripts for television and publishing several books of short humor pieces . In the early 1960s , he performed as a stand-up comedian , emphasizing monologues rather than traditional jokes , where he developed the persona of an insecure , intellectual , fretful nebbish , which he maintains is quite different from his real-life personality . In 2004 Comedy Central ranked Allen fourth on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians , while a UK survey ranked Allen the third-greatest comedian . By the mid-1960s Allen was writing and directing films , first specializing in slapstick comedies before moving into dramatic material influenced by European art cinema during the 1970s , and alternating between comedies and dramas to the present . He is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late 1970s . Allen often stars in his films , typically in the persona he developed as a standup . Some of the best-known of his over 50 films are Annie Hall ( 1977 ) , Manhattan ( 1979 ) , Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) , Crimes and Misdemeanors ( 1989 ) , and Midnight in Paris ( 2011 ) . In 2007 he said Stardust Memories ( 1980 ) , The Purple Rose of Cairo ( 1985 ) , and Match Point ( 2005 ) were his best films . Critic Roger Ebert described Allen as a treasure of the cinema . Allen has received many accolades and honors . He has won four Academy Awards : three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director .
Ellen Letty Aronson ( née Konigsberg ; born in 1943 ) , is an American film producer and is the younger sister of writer and director Woody Allen .
Gareth Wiley ( born 3 March 1962 , England ) is a film producer , whose professional life started in the world of investment banking , working with County NatWest , Salomon Brothers , and UBS Warburg , moving into film producing in 2002 . Since 2004 , he has produced or acted as executive producer on seven feature films , four of which have been with Woody Allen , having persuaded Allen to move his 2004 movie to London . In January 2009 , Wiley won a Best Picture Golden Globe for Allen 's Vicky Cristina Barcelona . This was Gareths second Golden Globe nomination in four years , having been previously nominated in 2006 for his first collaboration with Allen , Match Point . Wiley studied business with economics and law , before starting his working life as a banker in February 1985 . Involvement in film finance and production began as early as 1993 . Prior to working with Woody Allen , he maintained a career in investment banking ( working in London , Hong Kong and the United States ) in parallel with an increasing involvement in film finance and in 2002 committed himself to working exclusively in film and other creative businesses .
Munich is a 2005 historical drama film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth . It is based on the book Vengeance ( 1984 ) , an account of Operation Wrath of God , the Israeli government 's secret retaliation against the Palestine Liberation Organization after the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics . Munich received five Oscar nominations : Best Picture , Best Director , Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Editing and Best Score . The film made $ 130 million worldwide but just $ 47 million in the United States , making it one of Spielberg 's lowest-grossing films domestically . In 2017 , the film was named the 16th Best Film of the 21st Century So Far by The New York Times .
Steven Allan Spielberg ( /ˈspiːlbɜːrɡ/ ; born December 18 , 1946 ) is an American filmmaker . He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era and one of the most popular directors and producers in film history . Spielberg started in Hollywood directing television and several minor theatrical releases . He became a household name as the director of Jaws ( 1975 ) , which was critically and commercially successful and is considered the first summer blockbuster . His subsequent releases focused typically on science fiction/adventure films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ) , Raiders of the Lost Ark ( 1981 ) , E.T . the Extra-Terrestrial ( 1982 ) , and Jurassic Park ( 1993 ) , which became archetypes of modern Hollywood escapist filmmaking . Spielberg transitioned into addressing serious issues in his later work with The Color Purple ( 1985 ) , Empire of the Sun ( 1987 ) , Schindler 's List ( 1993 ) , Amistad ( 1997 ) , and Saving Private Ryan ( 1998 ) . He has largely adhered to this practice during the 21st century , with Munich ( 2005 ) , Lincoln ( 2012 ) , Bridge of Spies ( 2015 ) , and The Post ( 2017 ) . He co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Studios , where he has also served as a producer or executive producer for several successful film trilogies , tetralogies and more including the Gremlins , Back to the Future , Men in Black , and the Transformers series . He later transitioned into producing several video games . Spielberg is one of the American film industry 's most critically successful filmmakers , with praise for his directing talent and versatility , and he has won the Academy Award for Best Director twice . Some of his movies are also among the highest-grossing films , while his total work makes him the highest-grossing film director in history .
Kathleen Kennedy ( born June 5 , 1953 ) is an American film producer and current president of Lucasfilm . In 1981 , she co-founded the production company Amblin Entertainment with Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall . Her first film as a producer was E.T . the Extra-Terrestrial ( 1982 ) . A decade later , again with Spielberg she produced the Jurassic Park franchise , the first two of which became two of the top ten highest-grossing films of the 1990s . In 1992 , she co-founded The Kennedy/Marshall Company with her husband Frank Marshall . On October 30 , 2012 , she became the president of Lucasfilm after The Walt Disney Company acquired the company for over $ 4 billion . She received the Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018 . Kennedy has participated in the making of over 60 films that garnered 8 Academy Award nominations and over $ 11 billion worldwide , including three of the highest-grossing films in motion picture history . Kennedy is third only to Kevin Feige and Steven Spielberg in domestic box office receipts , with over $ 7 billion as of October 2019 [ update ] .
Barry Mendel ( born 1963 ) is an American film producer . Two of the films he worked on , The Sixth Sense from 1999 and Munich from 2005 , were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture .
Colin Wilson is an American film producer . His more notable film productions include War of the Worlds , The Lost World : Jurassic Park , John Carter and Avatar .
The Queen is a 2006 British biographical drama film that depicts the death of Diana , Princess of Wales on 31 August 1997 . Initially , the Royal Family regard Diana 's death as a private affair and thus not to be treated as an official royal death . This is in contrast with the views of Tony Blair and Diana 's ex-husband , Prince Charles , who favour the general public 's desire for an official expression of grief . Matters are further complicated by the media , royal protocol regarding Diana 's official status , and wider issues about republicanism . The film was directed by Stephen Frears , written by Peter Morgan , and starred Helen Mirren in the title role of Queen Elizabeth II . The film 's production and release coincided with a revival of favourable public sentiment in respect to the monarchy , a downturn in fortunes for Tony Blair , and the British inquiry into the death of Diana . Michael Sheen reprised his role as Tony Blair from The Deal in 2003 , and he did so again in The Special Relationship in 2010 . The Queen also garnered general critical and popular acclaim for Mirren in the title role , which earned her numerous awards . Mirren was praised by the Queen herself and was invited to dinner at Buckingham Palace . However , Mirren could not attend due to filming commitments in Hollywood .
Stephen Arthur Frears ( born 20 June 1941 ) [ citation needed ] is an English film and television director . Frears has directed numerous films since the 1980s including My Beautiful Laundrette , Dangerous Liaisons , High Fidelity , The Queen , Philomena , and Florence Foster Jenkins . He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director : for The Grifters and The Queen . In 2008 The Daily Telegraph named him among the 100 most influential people in British culture .
Andrew Andy Harries OBE ( born 7 April 1954 ) is chief executive and co-founder of Left Bank Pictures , a UK based production company formed in 2007 . In a career spanning four decades he has produced television dramas including The Royle Family , Cold Feet , the revivals of Prime Suspect and Cracker , as well as the BAFTA-winning television play The Deal . In 2006 he received an Academy Award nomination as producer of The Queen , which saw Helen Mirren win Best Actress for her role , and in 2007 , the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awarded him the Special Award in Honour of Alan Clarke . 2011 saw the Royal Television Society confer a Fellowship on Harries for outstanding contributions to the broadcasting industry . He has been described by Broadcast Magazine as one of the UK 's most outstanding drama producers . Since 2007 , Left Bank has produced the television series Wallander , Strike Back , Outlander ( TV series ) , The Replacement amongst many other acclaimed dramas . In 2016 , they released The Crown , the first American-British television series produced exclusively for Netflix . The Golden Globe , SAG and Emmy winning series , written by Peter Morgan , has been very well received by critics and audiences . Their fourth feature film , Dark River was released on 23 February 2018 . It was written and directed by Clio Barnard , stars Ruth Wilson , Mark Stanley , and Sean Bean . It screened in the Platform section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival . Left Bank Pictures has won numerous industry awards , including Best Independent Production Company at the Edinburgh TV Awards ( 2017 ) and Broadcast Awards ( 2018 ) .
Christine Langan ( born January 1965 ) is an English film producer who has been Head of BBC Films since April 2009 . After graduating from Cambridge University in 1987 and working in advertising for three years , Langan joined Granada Television 's drama serials department where she script edited daytime soap operas . From there , she transferred to Granada 's newly created comedy department , where she developed the acclaimed television series Cold Feet , and other one-off comedies . In 2000 , she left Granada to become a freelance producer , and produced the romantic comedy series Rescue Me for the BBC . She returned to Granada in 2002 , where she produced the acclaimed dramas The Deal ( 2003 ) and Dirty Filthy Love ( 2004 ) . She made her feature film production debut on Pierrepoint ( 2005 ) , which got her a Carl Foreman Award nomination at the 60th British Academy Film Awards . Langan also produced The Queen ( 2006 ) for Granada , which won the BAFTA Award for Best Film and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture . In 2006 , Langan became an executive producer at BBC Films , developing features such as The Other Boleyn Girl ( 2008 ) and The Duchess ( 2008 ) . In April 2009 , she was appointed Creative Director of BBC Films , giving her control of a £12 million annual budget and which projects are commissioned for development . By 2010 , Langan had led BBC Films to a record 13 nominations at the British Academy Film Awards , which included In the Loop ( 2009 ) , Fish Tank ( 2009 ) and An Education ( 2009 ) . Langan lives in London with her partner , writer Christian Spurrier , and their two children .
Tracey Seaward ( born 1965 ) is an English film producer . Seaward was educated at Wolfreton School and Hull College , before studying film and cultural studies at Trinity College , Leeds . She has produced the Stephen Frears-directed films Dirty Pretty Things ( 2002 ) , Mrs Henderson Presents ( 2005 ) , The Queen ( 2006 ) , Chéri ( 2009 ) and Tamara Drewe ( 2010 ) . The Queen was awarded the BAFTA Award for Best Film in 2007 , which Seaward shared with the other two producers . In 2008 Seaward was presented with an honorary degree from the University of Hull . In 2012 Seaward was the Producer of the Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London .
Scott Rudin ( born July 14 , 1958 ) is an American film , TV and theatre producer . His notable films include the Academy Award-winning Best Picture No Country for Old Men , as well as Lady Bird , Fences , The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , The Social Network , School of Rock , The Hours , Zoolander , The Truman Show , The First Wives Club , Clueless , The Firm , The Addams Family , and eight Wes Anderson films . On Broadway , he has won fifteen Tony Awards for shows such as The Book of Mormon , Hello , Dolly ! , The Humans , A View from the Bridge , Fences , and Passion . His television credits include executive-producing Aaron Sorkin 's The Newsroom for HBO and School of Rock for Nickelodeon . In 2012 , Rudin became one of the few people who have won an Emmy , Grammy , Oscar , and Tony Award , and the first producer to do so .
Apocalypto ( /əˌpɒkəˈlɪptoʊ/ ) is a 2006 American epic adventure film co-produced , co-written , and directed by Mel Gibson . The film features a cast of Native American and Indigenous Mexican actors consisting of Rudy Youngblood , Raoul Trujillo , Mayra Sérbulo , Dalia Hernández , Ian Uriel , Gerardo Taracena , Rodolfo Palacios , Bernardo Ruiz Juarez , Ammel Rodrigo Mendoza , Ricardo Diaz Mendoza , and Israel Contreras . Similar to Gibson 's earlier film The Passion of the Christ , all dialogue is in a modern approximation of the ancient language of the setting . Here , the Indigenous Yucatec Maya language is spoken , with subtitles , which sometimes refer to the language as Mayan . This was the last film Gibson directed until 2016 's Hacksaw Ridge ten years later . Set in the Yucatán , Mexico around the year 1502 , Apocalypto portrays the hero 's journey of a young man named Jaguar Paw , a late Mesoamerican hunter and his fellow tribesmen who are captured by an invading force after the devastation of their village and brought on a perilous journey to a Mayan city for human sacrifice at a time when the Maya civilization is in decline . The film was a box office success , grossing over $ 120 million worldwide , and received mostly positive reviews , with critics praising Gibson 's direction , Dean Semler 's cinematography , the performances of the cast , and the portrayal of Mayan civilization . All of the ethnic tribes and peoples depicted in the film were Maya , as Gibson wanted to depict the Maya city built for the story as an Unknown world to the character . The film ends with the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors .
Farhad Safinia ( Persian : فرهاد صفی‌نیا Farhād Safīnīyā ; born 1975 ) is an Iranian-American screenwriter , film/TV producer and director , best known for Apocalypto , Boss and The Professor and the Madman . He has used the pseudonym P. B. Shemran in the past .
Ned Dowd ( born May 26 , 1950 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American film producer and former actor .
Babel is a 2006 psychological drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga . It stars an ensemble cast . The multi-narrative drama completes Arriaga 's and Iñárritu 's Death Trilogy , following Amores perros and 21 Grams . It is an international co-production among companies based in the United States and Mexico . The film portrays multiple stories taking place in Morocco , Japan , Mexico and the US . Babel was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival , where González Iñárritu won the Best Director Award . The film was later screened at the Toronto International Film Festival . The film opened in selected cities in the United States on 27 October 2006 , and went into wide release on 10 November 2006 . Babel won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama , and received seven Academy Award nominations , including Best Picture , Best Director , and Best Supporting Actress for both Rinko Kikuchi and Adriana Barraza , winning for Best Original Score .
Alejandro González Iñárritu ( /ɪˈnjɑːrɪtuː/ ; American Spanish : [ aleˈxandɾo ɣonˈsales iˈɲaritu ] ; born 15 August 1963 ) is a Mexican film director , producer , and screenwriter . He is known for telling international stories about the human condition , and his projects have garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades . His debut film , Amores Perros , was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2000 , premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Critics ' Week Grand Prize . In 2006 , he earned Best Director at Cannes for Babel and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing . In 2014 , he won three Academy Awards : Best Picture , Best Director , and Best Original Screenplay for Birdman or ( The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance ) . The following year , he won a second Academy Award for Best Director for The Revenant ( 2015 ) , making him the third director to win back-to-back Academy Awards , and the first since 1950 . The Revenant also won Iñarritu a DGA Award , making history as the first person to ever win two in a row . Additionally , Iñárritu was awarded a Special Achievement Academy Award for his virtual reality project Carne y Arena in 2017 , the first time it had been awarded since 1995 . Carne y Arena also became the first VR installation ever presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017 . Iñarritu was also the first Mexican to receive these recognitions and awards , except for the Best Director Academy Award , which Alfonso Cuarón received for Gravity in 2014 . Finally , Iñarritu became the first Latin American to become the President of the Jury of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival in 2019 .
Steven Aaron Golin ( March 6 , 1955 - April 21 , 2019 ) was an American film and television producer . He was the founder and CEO of Anonymous Content LLP , a multimedia development , production and talent management company and co-founder and CEO of Propaganda Films . Golin graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1976 and attended the AFI Conservatory . He won Best Picture at the 2016 Academy Awards for Spotlight .
There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson loosely based on the novel Oil ! by Upton Sinclair . It stars Daniel Day-Lewis as a silver miner-turned-oilman on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern California 's oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries . Paul Dano , Kevin J. O'Connor , Ciarán Hinds , and Dillon Freasier also feature in the film . The film was produced by Ghoulardi Film Company and distributed by Paramount Vantage and Miramax Films . It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival , where it won the Silver Bear Award for Best Director and a Special Artistic Contribution Award for Jonny Greenwood 's score . The film grossed $ 76.2 million worldwide against its $ 25 million budget . There Will Be Blood received significant critical praise for its cinematography , direction , screenplay , and particularly the performance of Day-Lewis , who won Oscar , BAFTA , Golden Globe , Screen Actors Guild , NYFCC and IFTA Best Actor awards for the role . It appears on several lists of the greatest films of the 21st century , and appeared on many critics ' top ten lists for the year , notably the American Film Institute , the National Society of Film Critics , the National Board of Review , and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association . At the 80th Academy Awards , the film was nominated for eight Oscars ( tying with another Paramount Vantage/Miramax co-production No Country for Old Men ) . The nominations included the Best Picture and Best Director for Anderson . The film won two Oscars , the Best Actor for Day-Lewis and the Best Cinematography for Robert Elswit .
Paul Thomas Anderson ( born June 26 , 1970 ) is an American filmmaker . Born in Los Angeles , Anderson developed an interest in filmmaking from a young age . An alumnus of the Sundance Institute , Anderson made his feature film debut with Hard Eight in 1996 . He found critical and commercial success with Boogie Nights ( 1997 ) , set during the Golden Age of Porn , and received further accolades with Magnolia ( 1999 ) , an ensemble piece set in the San Fernando Valley , and Punch-Drunk Love ( 2002 ) , a romantic comedy-drama film . Anderson 's 2007 film There Will Be Blood , about an oil prospector during the Southern California oil boom , achieved major critical and commercial success and was often cited as one of the greatest films of the 2000s . This was followed by The Master in 2012 and Inherent Vice in 2014 . Anderson 's ninth film , Phantom Thread , was released in 2017 . Anderson 's films are often characterized by their depiction of flawed and desperate characters , explorations of themes such as dysfunctional families , alienation and loneliness , a bold visual style that utilizes moving camera and long takes , as well as memorable use of music . He is noted for his frequent and successful collaborations with actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Daniel Day-Lewis , cinematographer Robert Elswit , musicians Jon Brion and Jonny Greenwood , and costume designer Mark Bridges . Anderson is often considered one of the foremost directors of his generation , and his films have consistently garnered critical acclaim . He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards , one Golden Globe Award and five BAFTA Awards , and has won a Best Director Award at Cannes , a Silver Bear at Berlin and a Silver Lion at Venice .
Daniel Lupi ( born 1961 ) is an English film producer . He is married to producer JoAnne Sellar , and both have a long collaboration with filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson . Lupi was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for the films There Will Be Blood and Phantom Thread , both of which he co-produced .
JoAnne R. Sellar ( born 1963 ) is an English film producer . She is married to producer Daniel Lupi and both have a long collaboration with filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson . Sellar was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for the films There Will Be Blood and Phantom Thread , both of which she co-produced .
No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-western crime thriller film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen , based on Cormac McCarthy 's 2005 novel of the same name . A cat and mouse thriller starring Tommy Lee Jones , Javier Bardem , and Josh Brolin , it follows a Texas welder and Vietnam War veteran in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas . The film revisits the themes of fate , conscience , and circumstance that the Coen brothers had explored in the films Blood Simple ( 1984 ) and Fargo ( 1996 ) . No Country for Old Men premiered in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on May 19 . The film won 76 awards on 109 nominations across multiple organizations ; it won four awards at the 80th Academy Awards - Best Picture , Best Director ( s ) , Best Supporting Actor ( Bardem ) and Best Adapted Screenplay - three British Academy Film Awards ( BAFTAs ) , including Best Director ( s ) , and two Golden Globes . The American Film Institute listed it as an AFI Movie of the Year , and the National Board of Review selected the film as the best of 2007 . More critics included No Country for Old Men on their 2007 top ten lists than any other film , and many regard it as the Coen brothers ' best film . As of February 2018 [ update ] , various sources had recognized it as one of the best films of its decade and still one of the best films of the 2000s . The Guardian 's John Patterson wrote : the Coens ' technical abilities , and their feel for a landscape-based Western classicism reminiscent of Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah , are matched by few living directors , and Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said that it is a new career peak for the Coen brothers and as entertaining as hell . In 2016 , it was voted the 10th best film of the 21st century as picked by 177 film critics from around the world .
Joel Coen ( born November 29 , 1954 ) and Ethan Coen ( born September 21 , 1957 ) , collectively referred to as the Coen brothers ( /ˈkoʊən/ ) , are American filmmakers . Their films span many genres and styles , which they frequently subvert or parody . Their most acclaimed works include Miller 's Crossing ( 1990 ) , Barton Fink ( 1991 ) , Fargo ( 1996 ) , The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ) , O Brother , Where Art Thou ? ( 2000 ) , No Country for Old Men ( 2007 ) , Burn After Reading ( 2008 ) , True Grit ( 2010 ) , Inside Llewyn Davis ( 2013 ) , and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ( 2018 ) . The brothers write , direct and produce their films jointly , although until The Ladykillers ( 2004 ) Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing . They often alternate top billing for their screenplays while sharing editing credits under the alias Roderick Jaynes . They have been nominated for 13 Academy Awards together , and individually for one award each , winning Best Original Screenplay for Fargo and Best Picture , Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for No Country for Old Men . The duo also won the Palme d'Or for Barton Fink ( 1991 ) . The Coens have written a number of films they did not direct , including the biographical war drama Unbroken ( 2014 ) , the historical legal thriller Bridge of Spies ( 2015 ) , and lesser-known , commercially unsuccessful comedies such as Crimewave ( 1985 ) , The Naked Man ( 1998 ) and Gambit ( 2012 ) . Ethan is also a writer of short stories , theater and poetry . Known for many distinctive stylistic trademarks including genre hybridity , the brothers ' films No Country for Old Men , A Serious Man and Inside Llewyn Davis have been ranked in the BBC 's 2016 poll of the greatest motion pictures since 2000 .
Joel Coen ( born November 29 , 1954 ) and Ethan Coen ( born September 21 , 1957 ) , collectively referred to as the Coen brothers ( /ˈkoʊən/ ) , are American filmmakers . Their films span many genres and styles , which they frequently subvert or parody . Their most acclaimed works include Miller 's Crossing ( 1990 ) , Barton Fink ( 1991 ) , Fargo ( 1996 ) , The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ) , O Brother , Where Art Thou ? ( 2000 ) , No Country for Old Men ( 2007 ) , Burn After Reading ( 2008 ) , True Grit ( 2010 ) , Inside Llewyn Davis ( 2013 ) , and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ( 2018 ) . The brothers write , direct and produce their films jointly , although until The Ladykillers ( 2004 ) Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing . They often alternate top billing for their screenplays while sharing editing credits under the alias Roderick Jaynes . They have been nominated for 13 Academy Awards together , and individually for one award each , winning Best Original Screenplay for Fargo and Best Picture , Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for No Country for Old Men . The duo also won the Palme d'Or for Barton Fink ( 1991 ) . The Coens have written a number of films they did not direct , including the biographical war drama Unbroken ( 2014 ) , the historical legal thriller Bridge of Spies ( 2015 ) , and lesser-known , commercially unsuccessful comedies such as Crimewave ( 1985 ) , The Naked Man ( 1998 ) and Gambit ( 2012 ) . Ethan is also a writer of short stories , theater and poetry . Known for many distinctive stylistic trademarks including genre hybridity , the brothers ' films No Country for Old Men , A Serious Man and Inside Llewyn Davis have been ranked in the BBC 's 2016 poll of the greatest motion pictures since 2000 .
Joel Coen ( born November 29 , 1954 ) and Ethan Coen ( born September 21 , 1957 ) , collectively referred to as the Coen brothers ( /ˈkoʊən/ ) , are American filmmakers . Their films span many genres and styles , which they frequently subvert or parody . Their most acclaimed works include Miller 's Crossing ( 1990 ) , Barton Fink ( 1991 ) , Fargo ( 1996 ) , The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ) , O Brother , Where Art Thou ? ( 2000 ) , No Country for Old Men ( 2007 ) , Burn After Reading ( 2008 ) , True Grit ( 2010 ) , Inside Llewyn Davis ( 2013 ) , and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ( 2018 ) . The brothers write , direct and produce their films jointly , although until The Ladykillers ( 2004 ) Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing . They often alternate top billing for their screenplays while sharing editing credits under the alias Roderick Jaynes . They have been nominated for 13 Academy Awards together , and individually for one award each , winning Best Original Screenplay for Fargo and Best Picture , Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for No Country for Old Men . The duo also won the Palme d'Or for Barton Fink ( 1991 ) . The Coens have written a number of films they did not direct , including the biographical war drama Unbroken ( 2014 ) , the historical legal thriller Bridge of Spies ( 2015 ) , and lesser-known , commercially unsuccessful comedies such as Crimewave ( 1985 ) , The Naked Man ( 1998 ) and Gambit ( 2012 ) . Ethan is also a writer of short stories , theater and poetry . Known for many distinctive stylistic trademarks including genre hybridity , the brothers ' films No Country for Old Men , A Serious Man and Inside Llewyn Davis have been ranked in the BBC 's 2016 poll of the greatest motion pictures since 2000 .