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Directors of Palme d'Or 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…
- Orson WellesGeorge Orson Welles was born the 6th of May 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His father Richard Head Welles made a fortune inventing a bicycle lamp before…
- Quentin TarantinoQuentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on the 27th of March 1963. His father Tony Tarantino left the family before his son's birth.
- 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…
- Roman PolanskiRoman Polanski was born on the 18th of August 1933 in Paris. His family moved back to Kraków, Poland, in early 1937. Two years later, Nazi Germany invaded…
- William WylerWilli Wyler was born on the 1st of July, 1902, in Mulhouse, Alsace-Lorraine. His father Leopold ran a thriving haberdashery business there.
- 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…
- Francis Ford CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola was born on the 7th of April 1939 in Detroit, Michigan. His father Carmine worked as a flautist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra…
- Akira KurosawaOn the 23rd of March 1910, Akira Kurosawa was born in Tokyo to a samurai family. His father Isamu worked as the director of the Army's Physical Education…
- Michelangelo AntonioniMichelangelo Antonioni was born on the 29th of September 1912 in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna. He grew up in a prosperous family of landowners.
- David LeanDavid Lean was born on the 25th of March 1908 at 38 Blenheim Crescent in South Croydon, Surrey. His parents were Quakers who sent him to the Leighton Park…
- 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…
- Richard LesterRichard Lester Liebman was born on the 19th of January 1932 to a Jewish family in Philadelphia. He graduated from William Penn Charter School at age fifteen…