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Facts

Born February 23, 1889 • Pasadena • California
Died January 6, 1949 (aged 59) • Arizona
Awards And Honors Academy Award (1940)
Notable Works “Bombshell” • “Gone with the Wind” • “Joan of Arc” • “Red Dust” • “The Wizard of Oz”

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Victor Fleming directs Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable on the set of Gone With the Wind, with film crew and equipment visible in the foreground.
Clark Gable stands at the foot of a bed while Jean Harlow, in a light dress, sits on the bed in a scene from the 1932 film Red Dust. Two other men stand nearby.
Captains Courageous
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Gone with the Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion, Jack Haley as the Tin Man, Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow, Judy Garland as Dorothy, and Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch in a stone-walled room from The Wizard of Oz.
Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow, Judy Garland as Dorothy, Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion, and Jack Haley as the Tin Man stand together on the Yellow Brick Road in a forest scene from The Wizard of Oz.
Gone with the Wind
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William Wyler
William Wyler
German-born American director
George Stevens
George Stevens
American director
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
American filmmaker
Mutiny on the Bounty
Lewis Milestone
American film director
Braveheart
Mel Gibson
American-born Australian actor, director, and producer
Bernardo Bertolucci in 2013, wearing a navy shirt and gray jacket, posing in front of a maroon backdrop.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Italian director
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Richard Attenborough
English actor, director, and producer
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Ethan Coen
American filmmaker
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Joel Coen
American filmmaker
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
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
Vincente Minnelli, seated at right, discusses a storyboard with actress Lana Turner, seated at left in costume, on the set of The Bad and the Beautiful.
Vincente Minnelli
American director
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
American director, writer, and actor
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Frank Capra
American film director
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz
Hungarian-American director, actor, and writer
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
Clint Eastwood wearing a light suit and olive shirt with tie, standing outdoors at the Cannes Film Festival.
Clint Eastwood
American actor and director
George Cukor
George Cukor
American film director
Mike Nichols, wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, stands smiling at a podium with a star-shaped award in front of him at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Mike Nichols
American director

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