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Also Known As	Rian Craig Johnson
Born	December 17, 1973 (age 52) • Silver Spring • Maryland
Notable Works	“Brick” • “Glass Onion” • “Knives Out” • “Looper” • “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” • “The Brothers Bloom” • “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery”

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Rian Johnson wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and patterned tie, smiling at the camera against a light background.

Carrie Fisher as Leia Organa and Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron face each other in a tense moment aboard a spaceship in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Ana de Armas and Katherine Langford stand indoors, looking off to the side with concerned expressions, in a scene from the film Knives Out.

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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

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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

Film director Blake Edwards, right, holding up a cloth and speaking to actor Peter Sellers, left, on the set of The Pink Panther, with ornate architecture in the background.

Blake Edwards

American director and screenwriter

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John Frankenheimer

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Mel Brooks in a tuxedo smiles widely and points at his Emmy Award trophy while posing in front of a blue Emmy Awards backdrop.

Mel Brooks

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James Gunn

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Sam Peckinpah

American director

Ben Affleck wearing a dark suit, blue shirt, and navy tie, posing for a photo at the premiere of the film AIR with a blurred event backdrop behind him.

Ben Affleck

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Ryan Murphy in a patterned green tuxedo holds an Emmy Award trophy while standing in front of a black backdrop with the word Emmy visible.

Ryan Murphy

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Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich

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Paul Mazursky

American actor, writer, and director

Film director Darren Aronofsky wearing a green sweater, blue cap, glasses, and headphones around his neck on a city street set in New York City.

Darren Aronofsky

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Taylor Sheridan

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Louis C.K.

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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

Olivia Wilde smiles at the camera, wearing a black turtleneck and layered gold necklaces, with straight, shoulder-length blonde hair.

Olivia Wilde

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