Film And Theater Icons Codexery

A source-cited reference to film and theater icons

Film And Theater Icons (15)

• Roman Polanski — Award-winning filmmaker and fugitive from U.S. justice.
• Satyajit Ray — One of the greatest and most influential film directors in cinema history.
• Sergei Eisenstein — Pioneer of montage and master of Soviet cinema.
• Sidney Poitier — Trailblazing actor and diplomat who broke barriers on screen and in life.
• Sophia Loren — Italian actress and Golden Age Hollywood icon.
• Stanley Kubrick — Perfectionist American director whose films across many genres became landmarks of cinema.
• Vittorio De Sica — Italian neorealist director and actor, four-time Oscar winner.
• Vivien Leigh — British actress, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, and above all a stage performer.
• Werner Herzog — Pioneer of New German Cinema, filmmaker of impossible dreams.
• William Wyler — German-born American director with 12 Oscar nominations, three wins.
• Winsor McCay — Pioneer of animation and master of the comic strip.
• Wong Kar-wai — Hong Kong auteur of moody, colour-saturated films such as Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love.
• Woody Allen — Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and…
• Yasujirō Ozu — Japanese director of quiet family dramas, including Late Spring and Tokyo Story.
• Samuel Goldwyn — Warsaw-born glove salesman who became Hollywood's most successful independent producer.

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