Category: Directors

  • Lena Waithe (Director)

    Lena Waithe

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    BORN 1984-05-17
    ID FNS-DIR-1059572

    BIOGRAPHY

    Lena Waithe (/weɪθ/; born May 17, 1984) is an American actress, producer, and screenwriter. She is the creator of the Showtime drama series The Chi (2018–present) and the BET comedy series Boomerang (2019–20) and Twenties (2020–21). She also wrote and produced the crime film Queen & Slim (2019) and is the executive producer of the horror anthology series Them (2021–present).

    Waithe gained recognition for her role in the Netflix comedy-drama series Master of None (2015–2021) and became the first African-American woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 2017 for writing the show’s “Thanksgiving” episode, which was loosely based on her personal experience of coming out to her mother. She has also appeared in Steven Spielberg’s 2018 adventure film Ready Player One and the HBO series Westworld. In 2023, she was nominated for Best Play at the 76th Tony Awards, her production work on the sketch-comedy play Ain’t No Mo’.

    Waithe was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2018 and was included on Fast Company’s Queer 50 list in 2021 and 2022.

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  • Dario Scardapane (Director)

    Dario Scardapane

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    BORN 1966-05-20
    ID FNS-DIR-1246914

    BIOGRAPHY

    Dario Scardapane (born May 20, 1966) is an American television producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in two television series of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, serving as a producer and writer for The Punisher (2017–2019) and the showrunner of Daredevil: Born Again (2025–present).

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  • Reinaldo Marcus Green (Director)

    Reinaldo Marcus Green

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    BORN 1981-12-16
    ID FNS-DIR-1415665

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    Reinaldo Marcus Green (born December 16, 1981) is an American director, producer and writer. His films include Monsters and Men (2018), Joe Bell (2020), and Bob Marley: One Love (2024). His 2021 film, King Richard, was nominated for Best Picture at the 94th Academy Awards.

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  • John Griffin (Director)

    John Griffin

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    BORN N/A
    ID FNS-DIR-2347147

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  • Emerald Fennell (Director)

    Emerald Fennell

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    BORN 1985-10-01
    ID FNS-DIR-1252934

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    Emerald Lilly Fennell (born 1 October 1985) is an English actress, filmmaker, and writer. She has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.

    Fennell first gained attention for her roles in period films, such as Albert Nobbs (2011),  Anna Karenina (2012), and The Danish Girl (2015). She gained prominence for her starring role in the BBC One drama series Call the Midwife (2013–2017) and for her portrayal of Camilla Parker-Bowles in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2019–2020), the latter of which garnered her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

    As a writer-director, Fennell is known as the showrunner for season two of the BBC spy thriller series Killing Eve (2019), which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She made her feature film directorial debut with the thriller Promising Young Woman (2020), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and received nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. Fennell also wrote the book for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cinderella (2021) and directed her second film, the psychological thriller Saltburn (2023).

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  • Jim Mickle (Director)

    Jim Mickle

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    BORN 1979-01-01
    ID FNS-DIR-87082

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    Jim Mickle (born 1979) is an American director and writer, known for such films as Mulberry Street, Stake Land, We Are What We Are and Cold in July. He also co-developed the SundanceTV series Hap and Leonard, and the Netflix series Sweet Tooth.

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  • Bill Lawrence (Director)

    Bill Lawrence

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    BORN 1968-12-26
    ID FNS-DIR-1216859

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  • Tim Miller (Director)

    Tim Miller

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    BORN 1964-10-10
    ID FNS-DIR-55252

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    Timothy Miller (born October 10, 1964) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, and visual effects artist. He is best known for directing the films Deadpool (2016) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). He is also the creator of the animated anthology series Love, Death & Robots (2019–present), for which he has won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program.

    Miller is the co-founder of the visual effects company Blur Studio. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film as co-story writer and executive producer of the short animated film Gopher Broke (2004). He also designed the title sequences of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013).

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  • Nurullah Yenihan (Director)

    Nurullah Yenihan

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    BORN N/A
    ID FNS-DIR-2841497

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  • David E. Kelley (Director)

    David E. Kelley

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    BORN 1956-04-04
    ID FNS-DIR-59650

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    David Edward Kelley (born April 4, 1956) is an American television writer, producer, and former attorney.

  • Sam Levinson (Director)

    Sam Levinson

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    BORN 1985-01-08
    ID FNS-DIR-96172

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    Samuel Levinson (born January 8, 1985) is an American filmmaker and actor. He is the son of Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson. In 2010, he received his first writing credit as a co-writer for the action comedy film Operation Endgame. The following year, he made his directorial film debut with Another Happy Day (2011), which premiered at Sundance Film Festival. He then received a writing credit on his father’s HBO television film The Wizard of Lies (2017). He continued writing and directing feature films for Assassination Nation (2018) and Malcolm & Marie (2021). 

    In 2019, Levinson created the HBO teen drama series Euphoria, adapted from the Israeli series of the same name. The series is popular with audiences and received positive reviews from critics. In 2023, he created the HBO series The Idol, which was controversial and received negative reviews.

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  • Victoria Mercanton (Director)

    Victoria Mercanton

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    BORN N/A
    ID FNS-DIR-53771

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    Victoria Mercanton, or Victoria Spiri-Mercanton (1911-2006), is a French film editor and director, born Victoria Pozner Saint Petersburg (Russia), active from the 1930s to 1970s. -Wikipedia

    Victoria is credited for being an editor on 46 movies and has been credited as directing three.