Which director began making movies earlier, Richard Linklater or Arthur B. Woods?
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Richard Linklater Richard Stuart Linklater ( ; born July 30, 1960) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. Linklater is mostly known for his realistic and natural humanist films which mainly revolve around suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. Some notable films of his include the observational comedy film "Slacker" (1990), the coming-of-age comedy "Dazed and Confused" (1993), the romantic drama film trilogy "Before Sunrise" (1995), "Before Sunset" (2004), and "Before Midnight" (2013); the music-themed comedy "School of Rock" (2003), and the rotoscope animated "Waking Life" (2001) and "A Scanner Darkly" (2006). In 2002 he began filming "Boyhood" (2014), a passion project which took over twelve years to finish. The film was premiered in 2014 to critical acclaim. Linklater won the Golden Globe, Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and BAFTAs for Best Director and Best Picture. He also received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, along with nominations for Original Screenplay and Picture. In 2015, "Time" magazine named Linklater one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual "Time 100" list.
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Arthur B. Woods Arthur Bickerstaffe Woods (17 August 1904 – 8 February 1944) was an English film director with 27 credits between 1933 and 1940. Woods' films were mainly quota quickies but were diverse in style, from light comedy and musicals to dark crime thrillers. His most acclaimed film is 1938's "They Drive by Night". By the end of the 1930s Woods was gaining a reputation as one of Britain's most promising and versatile young directors, but put his career on hold to volunteer for war service in the Royal Air Force, the only British film director to do so. He was killed while on active service in February 1944, leaving his potential largely unfulfilled.
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Ralph Bakshi Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938) is an American director of animated and live-action films. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 2015, he directed ten theatrically released feature films, six of which he wrote. He has been involved in numerous television projects as director, writer, producer and animator.
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Richard Friedenberg Richard Friedenberg is an American screenwriter and film director. He wrote the screenplay for "A River Runs Through It" (1992), starring Brad Pitt, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, and the screenplay for the Hallmark Hall of Fame television film "Promise" (1986), starring James Garner and James Woods, for which he won an Emmy Award. He also wrote the screenplay for "Dying Young" starring Julia Roberts and wrote and directed "The Education of Little Tree" (1997).
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Arthur Mayer Arthur L. Mayer (March 28, 1886, Demopolis, Alabama - April 14, 1981, New York City) was an American film producer and film distributor who worked with Joseph Burstyn in distributing films directed by Roberto Rossellini and other famous European film directors. Some films were distributed under the name Burstyn-Mayer Inc. Mayer was also interviewed by Warren Beatty for Beatty's film "Reds" (1981).
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Arthur Laurents Arthur Laurents (July 14, 1917 – May 5, 2011) was an American playwright, stage director and screenwriter.
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Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman ( ; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. A five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, Altman was considered a "maverick" in making films with a highly naturalistic but stylized and satirical aesthetic, unlike most Hollywood films. He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in American cinema.
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Eric Linklater Eric Robert Russell Linklater (8 March 1899 – 7 November 1974) was a Welsh-born Scottish writer of novels and short stories, military history, and travel books. For "The Wind on the Moon", a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British subject.
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Richard LaBrie Richard LaBrie is an American clinical psychologist and Emmy-nominated editor, director, producer, and writer.
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The Wachowskis Lana Wachowski (formerly Laurence "Larry" Wachowski, born June 21, 1965) and Lilly Wachowski (formerly Andrew Paul "Andy" Wachowski, born December 29, 1967) are American film directors, screenwriters, and producers. They are siblings, and are both trans women. Collectively known as The Wachowskis ( ) and formerly as The Wachowski Brothers, the pair made their directing debut in 1996 with "Bound", and achieved fame with their second film "The Matrix" (1999), a major box office success for which they won the Saturn Award for Best Director. They wrote and directed its two sequels: "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions" (both in 2003), and were deeply involved in the writing and production of other works in that franchise.
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James Woods James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor and producer. He is known primarily for playing villainous roles, and has appeared in a variety of films, including "The Way We Were" (1973), "The Onion Field" (1979), "Videodrome" (1983), "Once Upon a Time in America" (1984), "Best Seller" (1987), "Chaplin" (1992), "Casino" (1995), "Nixon" (1995), "Vampires" (1998), "Straw Dogs" (2011) and "White House Down" (2013). On television, he is known for portraying the titular protagonist of "Shark" (2006–2008), and for playing himself on eight episodes of the animated series "Family Guy", as well as on one episode of "The Simpsons".
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Lesli Linka Glatter Lesli Linka Glatter (born July 26, 1953) is an American film and television director. She began her career as a dancer and choreographer. Her first film, "Tales of Meeting and Parting" (1984), produced by Sharon Oreck, was nominated for an Academy Award in the Live Action Short Film category. She made the film as part of the American Film Institute Directing Workshop for Women, of which she is an alumna. She has made several television films for cable networks, but the majority of her work is in television series. Glatter has received four nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, for the "Mad Men" episode "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency" (2009), and the "Homeland" episodes "Q&A" (2012), "From A to B and Back Again" (2014) and "The Tradition of Hospitality" (2015).
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Sybil Christopher Sybil Christopher (27 March 1929 – 7 March 2013) was a Welsh actress, theatre director, and founder of popular celebrity New York nightclub "Arthur". She first came into the public eye as the first wife of Richard Burton.
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Richard the Second Richard the Second is a 2001 American film adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Richard II", directed by John Farrell.
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Kate Woods Kate Woods is an Australian film and television director.
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Arthur Lawson (designer) Arthur Lawson (1908–1970) was a British art director. He had a long association with film directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, beginning in 1943 when he was floor manager on "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp". Three years later, when Powell and Pressburger, also known as The Archers, made "A Matter of Life and Death", Lawson had graduated to assistant art director. He worked with Alfred Junge on the sets for "Black Narcissus" in 1947, and earned an Oscar for the set designs on "The Red Shoes" in 1948. Lawson’s association with Powell continued right through to "Peeping Tom" (1960). He received a BAFTA nomination for "The Bedford Incident" in 1965.
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Joseph H. Lewis Joseph H. Lewis (April 6, 1907 – August 30, 2000) was an American B-movie film director whose stylish flourishes came to be appreciated by auteur theory-espousing film critics in the years following his retirement in 1966. In a 30-year directorial career, he helmed numerous low-budget westerns, action pictures and thrillers and is remembered for original mysteries "My Name Is Julia Ross" (1945) and "So Dark the Night" (1946) as well as his most-highly regarded feature, 1949's "Gun Crazy", which spotlighted a desperate young couple (Peggy Cummins and John Dall) who embark on a deadly crime spree.
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Arthur Davis (animator) Arthur "Art" Davis (June 14, 1905 – May 9, 2000) was an animator and a director for Warner Brothers' Termite Terrace cartoon studio.
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Irving Allen Irving Allen (born Irving Applebaum, November 24, 1905 – December 17, 1987) was a theatrical and cinematic producer and director.
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Arthur Dreifuss Arthur Dreifuss (sometimes credited as Dreyfuss; 1908–1993) was a German-born American film director, and occasional producer and screenwriter.
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The Legend of Frank Woods "The Legend of Frank Woods" is a re-edited version a 1972 film entitled "To Hell You Preach".
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Lowell Sherman Lowell J. Sherman (October 11, 1885 – December 28, 1934) was an American actor and film director. At a time when it was highly unusual, he was both the actor and director on several films in the early 1930s, before completely transitioning to the role of director. At the height of his career, after scoring huge successes with his direction of the films "She Done Him Wrong" and "Morning Glory" (which starred Mae West and won her first Academy Award for Katharine Hepburn respectively), he succumbed to pneumonia after a brief illness.