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Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director winners
- Martin ScorseseMartin Scorsese was born on the 17th of November 1942 in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. He grew up in the Little Italy section of Manhattan where his…
- David LynchDavid Keith Lynch was born at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Montana, on the 20th of January 1946. His father worked as a USDA research scientist and…
- Terrence MalickTerrence Malick was born on the 30th of November 1943 in Ottawa, Illinois. His father Emil worked as a geologist and his mother Irene came from an Irish…
- François TruffautOn the 6th of February 1932, François Roland Truffaut was born in Paris to a mother named Janine de Montferrand. His biological father remained unknown for…
- Ingmar BergmanErnst Ingmar Bergman was born on the 14th of July 1918 in Uppsala, Sweden. He grew up as the son of a Lutheran minister named Erik Bergman and his wife Karin.
- Andrei TarkovskyAndrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was born on the 4th of April 1932 in the village of Zavrazhye. His father, Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky, worked as a poet and…
- Robert BressonRobert Bresson was born on the 25th of September 1901 in Bromont-Lamothe, France. He grew up in a quiet region known as Puy-de-Dôme before moving to Paris…
- John BoormanJohn Boorman was born on the 18th of January 1933 in Shepperton, Middlesex. His father George Boorman served as a captain in the British Indian Army during…