Jim Jarmusch: Quick Facts

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Born	January 22, 1953 (age 73) • Akron • Ohio
Awards And Honors	Cannes film festival (2005)
Notable Works	“Broken Flowers” • “Father Mother Sister Brother” • “Gimme Danger” • “Paterson” • “The Dead Don’t Die”

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Director Jim Jarmusch wearing a black suit at the gala premiere of Only Lovers Left Alive at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.

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Scene from Life Is Beautiful

Roberto Benigni

Italian 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

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Ethan Coen

American filmmaker

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Joel Coen

American filmmaker

Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson

American screenwriter and director

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Harold Ramis

American actor, writer, and director

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Maggie Gyllenhaal

American actress

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Michael Cimino

American director

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James Ivory

American director

Steven Spielberg wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival.

Steven Spielberg

American film director and producer

Woody Allen speaking into a microphone with hands raised beside his face during a press conference, against a red background.

Woody Allen

American director, writer, and actor

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

American actor, director, and writer

Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background.

Martin Scorsese

American filmmaker

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

John Huston

American director, writer, and actor

Billy Wilder poses in a suit and hat, leaning against a streetlamp with a sign reading Sunset Blvd. in a promotional photo for the film Sunset Boulevard.

Billy Wilder

Austrian-born American director and producer

Francis Ford Coppola, with a beard, sits on a camera dolly surrounded by crew and actors on the set of The Godfather: Part II, with storefronts in the background.

Francis Ford Coppola

American director and screenwriter

American director Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

American director

Elia Kazan stands on a docked ship set with arms outstretched, directing a scene for Panic in the Streets in New Orleans, with crew members and rigging visible behind him.

Elia Kazan

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William Wellman

American director