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Im Kwon-Taek: Quick Facts

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Born May 2, 1936 (age 90) • South Korea
Awards And Honors Cannes film festival
Notable Works “Painted Fire”
Jules Dassin
Jules Dassin
American film director
Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
American screenwriter and director
Wim Wenders, wearing glasses and a patterned jacket over a red shirt, speaks into a microphone at a panel discussion with a video camera recording him in Berlin, Germany.
Wim Wenders
German director
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Ethan Coen
American filmmaker
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Joel Coen
American filmmaker
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Luc Dardenne
Belgian filmmaker
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Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Belgian filmmaker
Barbra Streisand in 2010, wearing a layered necklace and a black jacket, with straight shoulder-length hair, smiling slightly at an event.
Barbra Streisand
American singer and actress
Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood in Singin' in the Rain, joyfully hanging from a lamppost with an umbrella during a nighttime rainstorm on a city street.
Gene Kelly
American actor, dancer, and director
Jerry Lewis, dressed in blue surgical scrubs and cap, stands with arms outstretched in a hospital room scene from The Disorderly Orderly (1964), with other staff and a patient's feet visible.
Jerry Lewis
American comedian, actor, and director
Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi
Iranian director and screenwriter
Steve McQueen, wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiles while holding the Camera D'Or award in its open case at the Cannes Film Festival.
Steve McQueen
British director, screenwriter, and artist
Sofia Coppola smiling at the camera with shoulder-length wavy hair, wearing a sparkly top at the premiere of The Bling Ring in Los Angeles.
Sofia Coppola
American director
Chen Kaige
Chen Kaige
Chinese director
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Atom Egoyan
Egyptian-born Canadian writer and director
Mira Nair
Mira Nair
Indian-born director
Alice Guy-Blaché
Alice Guy-Blaché
French film director
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Pawel Pawlikowski
Polish-born British director and screenwriter
Kawase, Naomi
Naomi Kawase
Japanese film director
Director Jim Jarmusch wearing a black suit at the gala premiere of Only Lovers Left Alive at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
Jim Jarmusch
American director and screenwriter