In between Henry Selick and John Badham, who was the director of Coraline?
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Henry Selick Henry Selick (born November 30, 1952) is an American stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing "The Nightmare Before Christmas", "James and the Giant Peach" and "Coraline". He studied at the Program in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts, under the guidance of Jules Engel.
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John Badham John MacDonald Badham (born August 25, 1939) is an English-born American director of film and television, best known for the films "Saturday Night Fever" (1977), "Dracula" (1979), "Blue Thunder" (1983), "WarGames" (1983), "Short Circuit" (1986), and "Stakeout" (1987).
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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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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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Jonathan Demme Robert Jonathan Demme ( ; February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He rose to prominence in the 1980s with his comedy films "Melvin and Howard" (1980), "Swing Shift" (1984), "Something Wild" (1986), and "Married to the Mob" (1988), as well as the critically acclaimed concert film "Stop Making Sense" (1984), in collaboration with the band Talking Heads. He became best known for directing "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. He later directed the acclaimed films "Philadelphia" (1993) and "Rachel Getting Married" (2008).
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The Wayward Girl The Wayward Girl is a 1957 American drama film directed by Lesley Selander and written by Houston Branch and Frederick Louis Fox. The film stars Marcia Henderson, Peter Walker, Katherine Barrett, Whit Bissell, Rita Lynn and Peg Hillias. The film was released on September 22, 1957, by Republic Pictures.
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John Abbott (actor) John Albert Chamberlain Kefford (5 June 1905 – 24 May 1996) was an English character actor professionally known as John Abbott. His memorable roles include the invalid Frederick Fairlie in the 1948 film "The Woman in White" and the pacifist Ayelborne in the "" episode "Errand of Mercy". He also played Sesmar on an episode of "Lost in Space", "The Dream Monster", in 1966. Abbott was known as a Shakespearean actor.
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The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941 film) The Trial of Mary Dugan is a 1941 American drama and thriller film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and written by Bayard Veiller. The film stars Laraine Day, Robert Young, Tom Conway, Frieda Inescort, John Litel, Marsha Hunt, Marjorie Main and Henry O'Neill. The film was released on February 14, 1941, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Les Guthman Les Guthman is an American director, writer and production executive, who has the distinction of both having produced three of the "20 Top Adventure Films of All Time", according to "Men’s Journal" magazine, and having won the National Academy of Science’s (U.S) nationwide competition to find the best new idea in science television, which led to his film, "Three Nights at the Keck", hosted by actor John Lithgow.
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Nymphomaniac (film) Nymphomaniac (stylised onscreen and in advertising as NYMPH()MANIAC) is a 2013 European two-part art film written and directed by Lars von Trier. The film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe and Connie Nielsen. The film was originally supposed to be only one complete entry; but, because of its multiple hour length, von Trier made the decision to split the project into two separate films. "Nymphomaniac" was an international co-production of Denmark, Belgium, France, and Germany.
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David O. Selznick filmography David O. Selznick (1902–1965) was an American motion picture producer whose work consists of three short subjects, 67 feature films, and one television production made between 1923 and 1957. He is perhaps most notable as the producer of the 1939 epic "Gone With the Wind". Selznick was born in Pittsburgh and educated in public schools in Brooklyn and Manhattan. He began working in the film industry in New York while in his teens as an assistant to his father, jeweler-turned-film producer Lewis J. Selznick. In 1923, he began producing films himself, starting with two documentary shorts and then a minor feature, "Roulette" (1924). Moving to Hollywood in 1926, Selznick became employed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), where he produced two films before switching to Paramount in early 1928. After helping to guide Paramount into the sound era, Selznick moved to RKO Radio in 1931 where he served as the studio's executive producer. During his time at RKO he oversaw the production of "King Kong" (1933) and helped to develop Katharine Hepburn and Myrna Loy into major film stars.
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J. H. Wyman Joel Howard "J. H." Wyman (born January 5, 1967) is an executive producer, screenwriter, director and musician.
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Laika (company) Laika Entertainment, LLC., or simply Laika, is an American stop-motion animation studio specializing in feature films, commercial content for all media, music videos and short films. It is best known for its stop-motion feature films, "Coraline", "ParaNorman", "The Boxtrolls" and "Kubo and the Two Strings", all co-produced in partnership with Universal Pictures through its Focus Features label.
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Reza Badiyi Reza Sayed Badiyi also known as Reza Sayed Badiei (Persian: رضا بدیعی; April 17, 1929 – August 20, 2011) was an Iranian-American film director. Badiyi also directed episodes of many popular television series. His credits also include developing the opening montages for "Hawaii Five-O", "Get Smart", and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show".
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The Stepfather (1987 film) The Stepfather is a 1987 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Joseph Ruben and starring Terry O'Quinn, Jill Schoelen and Shelley Hack. O'Quinn stars as Henry Morrison, an identity-assuming serial killer who remarries a widow with a teenage daughter. After previously killing his family and changing his identity, his killing spree continues after his stepdaughter becomes suspicious about him. It is loosely based on the life of mass murderer John List, although the plot is more commonly associated with slasher films of the era than a true story. The film was written by Donald E. Westlake, from a story by Westlake, Carolyn Lefcourt and Brian Garfield.
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Five Came Back Five Came Back is a 1939 American black-and-white melodrama from RKO Radio Pictures, produced by Robert Sisk, directed by John Farrow, that stars Chester Morris and Lucille Ball. The film was photographed by renowned film noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, and written by Jerry Cady, Dalton Trumbo, and Nathanael West. Although considered a B movie, the positive notices received by Ball helped launch her as an A-list actress. "Five Came Back" is considered a precursor of the disaster film genre.
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Terror in the Aisles Terror in the Aisles is a 1984 American documentary film about horror films featuring clips from "Friday the 13th" I and/or II, "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", "Halloween" I and II, "Jaws" 1 and 2, "Alien", "John Carpenter's The Thing", "The Shining" and Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" and "The Birds". The film is hosted by Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen. The original music score is composed by John Beal.
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Evangeline (1913 film) Evangeline is a 1913 Canadian drama film based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem of the same name. It is known as the first feature-length dramatic movie filmed in Canada, and it was very successful there and in the United States. Directed by Edward P. Sullivan and William Cavanaugh, it was filmed in Nova Scotia. This film was the first of six features made between 1913 and 1914 by the Canadian Bioscope Company of Halifax. It is now considered to be a lost film.
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Swing Shift (film) Swing Shift is a 1984 American romantic drama war film directed by Jonathan Demme and produced by and starring Goldie Hawn with Kurt Russell. It also starred Christine Lahti, Fred Ward and Ed Harris. Lahti earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her tragic portrayal of heart-broken ex-singer and Hawn's character's close friend Hazel, losing to Peggy Ashcroft for "A Passage to India". Singer Belinda Carlisle made a foray into the film, and Holly Hunter can be seen in one of her first movie roles.
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Herbert L. Strock Herbert L. Strock (January 13, 1918 – November 30, 2005) was an American television producer and director, and a B-movie director of titles such as "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" (1957), "How to Make a Monster" (1958), and "The Crawling Hand" (1963).
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George Glass George Glass (August 19, 1910 – April 1, 1984) was an American film producer and publicist, best known for his work with Stanley Kramer. In Kramer's 1997 autobiography, describing how he formed his first production company in the late 1940s, he called Glass "one of the best publicity men in town", and remarked "I was fortunate to get Glass, with whom I had worked in the Lewin-Loew partnership before the war. He was a bright man and a very smooth operator." In a 1973 biography of Marlon Brando, Bob Thomas wrote:
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Edward Carfagno Edward Carfagno (November 28, 1907 – December 28, 1996) was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Oscar-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952), Joseph Mankiewicz's "Julius Caesar" (1953) and William Wyler's "Ben-Hur" (1959). Carfagno went on to work consistently on a variety of films, including five collaborations with Clint Eastwood including "Tightrope" (1984) and "Heartbreak Ridge" (1987).