Film & TV

Performers, filmmakers, and the people behind the screen.

People in Film & TV

501 profiles

Actor

Angelina Jolie

Playing Lara Croft and Maleficent.

Actor

Brad Pitt

Playing Tyler Durden and producing 12 Years a Slave.

Actor

Jon Voight

Starring in Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home.

Actor

Audrey Hepburn

Playing Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Actor

Charlie Chaplin

Creating the bowler-hatted Tramp.

Filmmaker

Akira Kurosawa

Directing Seven Samurai and Rashomon.

Actor

Meryl Streep

Playing Miranda Priestly and Margaret Thatcher.

Actor

Kate Bosworth

Playing a surfer in Blue Crush and Lois Lane in Superman Returns.

Filmmaker

Hayao Miyazaki

Directing Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro.

Actor

Rowan Atkinson

Playing Mr. Bean, Blackadder and Johnny English.

Actor

Nicolas Cage

Starring in Leaving Las Vegas, Face/Off and National Treasure.

Actor

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Playing Elaine Benes in Seinfeld and Selina Meyer in Veep.

Filmmaker

David Lynch

Creating Twin Peaks and directing Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive.

Actor

Paul Newman

Starring in The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Broadcaster

Oprah Winfrey

Hosting The Oprah Winfrey Show and building her own media company.

Actor

Clark Gable

Playing Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind.

Actor

Simon Pegg

Co-writing and starring in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

Actor

Rashida Jones

Playing Ann Perkins in Parks and Recreation and co-directing Quincy.

Actor

Lupita Nyong'o

Playing Patsey in 12 Years a Slave and Nakia in Black Panther.

Actor

Chuck Norris

Starring in Walker, Texas Ranger and martial-arts action films.

Actor

William H. Macy

Playing Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo and Frank Gallagher in Shameless.

Actor

Jerry Lewis

Starring in The Nutty Professor and performing with Dean Martin.

Actor

Bruce Willis

Playing John McClane in Die Hard.

Filmmaker

Spike Lee

Directing Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X.

Actor

Gary Oldman

Playing Sirius Black, Commissioner Gordon and George Smiley.

Actor

Steve McQueen

Starring in The Great Escape, Bullitt and The Thomas Crown Affair.

Actor

Keira Knightley

Playing Elizabeth Swann and Elizabeth Bennet.

Actor

Ewan McGregor

Playing Mark Renton in Trainspotting and Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars.

Actor

Bette Davis

Playing formidable, complicated women in films including All About Eve.

Actor

Mary Pickford

Becoming a silent-film star who also helped take control of film distribution.

Actor

Shirley Temple

Becoming a major child star before a second career in American diplomacy.

Filmmaker

Satyajit Ray

Directing the Apu Trilogy and bringing Bengali everyday life to world cinema.

Filmmaker

Orson Welles

Directing and starring in Citizen Kane.

Actor

Henry Fonda

Playing principled Americans in The Grapes of Wrath and 12 Angry Men.

Actor

Ian McKellen

Playing Gandalf and Magneto alongside a major Shakespearean stage career.

Actor

Marilyn Monroe

Starring in Some Like It Hot and becoming an enduring Hollywood icon.

Actor

Hattie McDaniel

Becoming the first Black performer to win an Academy Award.

Actor

Nicole Kidman

Starring in Moulin Rouge!, The Hours and Big Little Lies.

Filmmaker

Mel Brooks

Creating screen comedies including The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.

Actor

Tom Hanks

Playing Forrest Gump, Captain Miller and the voice of Woody.

Actor

Daniel Radcliffe

Playing Harry Potter throughout the eight-film series.

Actor

Clara Bow

Becoming silent cinema’s original It Girl.

Filmmaker

Alfred Hitchcock

Directing Psycho, Vertigo and carefully controlled suspense.

Actor

Halle Berry

Becoming the first Black woman to win the leading-actress Oscar.

Filmmaker

Gene Kelly

Turning athletic dance into cinematic storytelling.

Actor

Keanu Reeves

Playing Neo in The Matrix and the assassin John Wick.

Actor

Peter Sellers

Playing Inspector Clouseau and three roles in Dr. Strangelove.

Actor

Sophia Loren

Winning an Oscar for the Italian-language drama Two Women.

Actor

Julie Andrews

Playing Mary Poppins and Maria in The Sound of Music, with a voice inseparable from both films.

Filmmaker

Buster Keaton

Turning dangerous stunts, precise visual jokes and an unchanging expression into silent-film classics.

Actor

Kate Winslet

Playing Rose in Titanic and emotionally complex women in films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Actor

Amitabh Bachchan

Defining Hindi cinema’s “angry young man” in Zanjeer and Deewaar, then building a second career as an elder leading actor.

Actor

Bela Lugosi

Giving Dracula the voice, gaze and commanding presence that helped define the screen vampire.

Actor

Shah Rukh Khan

Becoming one of Hindi cinema’s defining romantic stars, from DDLJ to Devdas.

Actor

Vivien Leigh

Playing Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Actor

Sally Field

Moving from television comedy to Oscar-winning performances in Norma Rae and Places in the Heart.

Actor

Grace Kelly

Starring in Hitchcock thrillers before becoming Princess of Monaco.

Actor

Whoopi Goldberg

Combining dramatic roles, comedy and television, from The Color Purple to Sister Act.

Filmmaker

Martin Scorsese

Directing Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas, films about ambition, violence and guilt.

Actor

Julianne Moore

Playing complex, vulnerable women in films including Boogie Nights, Far from Heaven and Still Alice.

Animator

Walt Disney

Building the Disney studio, developing Mickey Mouse and creating Disneyland.

Actor

Vanessa Hudgens

Playing Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical films.

Actor

Milla Jovovich

Playing Leeloo in The Fifth Element and Alice in the Resident Evil films.

Actor

Jonah Hill

Starring in Superbad and earning Oscar nominations for Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street.

Actor

Jane Fonda

Starring in Klute, Coming Home and 9 to 5, alongside a long public life in activism.

Actor

Ava Gardner

Starring in The Killers, Mogambo and The Night of the Iguana.

Actor

Denzel Washington

Starring in Malcolm X, Training Day and Glory, with major roles on both screen and stage.

Comedian

Ricky Gervais

Co-creating The Office and playing David Brent, the boss desperate to be liked.

Actor

Leonardo DiCaprio

Starring in Titanic, Inception and The Revenant.

Actor

Tom Cruise

Playing Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible and Maverick in Top Gun.

Actor

Jackie Chan

Combining martial arts, comedy and elaborate stunt work in films such as Police Story.

Actor

Bruce Lee

Making martial-arts cinema an international phenomenon through Enter the Dragon.

Actor

Rajinikanth

Becoming a defining star of Tamil cinema through films such as Baashha and Enthiran.

Actor

Michelle Yeoh

Starring in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Actor

Viola Davis

Playing Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder and Rose in Fences.

Actor

Dwayne Johnson

Becoming wrestling’s The Rock before starring in action films and voicing Maui in Moana.

Actor

Johnny Depp

Playing Jack Sparrow and unconventional leads in films such as Edward Scissorhands.

Actor

Robert Downey Jr.

Playing Iron Man and winning an Oscar for Oppenheimer.

Actor

Al Pacino

Playing Michael Corleone in The Godfather films and Tony Montana in Scarface.

Actor

Morgan Freeman

Playing Red in The Shawshank Redemption and bringing a distinctive voice to film narration.

Actor

Jack Nicholson

Playing memorable outsiders in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Chinatown and The Shining.

Actor

Anthony Hopkins

Playing Hannibal Lecter and portraying dementia in The Father.

Actor

Katharine Hepburn

Winning four Best Actress Oscars and creating a screen image of independence.

Actor

Ingrid Bergman

Playing Ilsa in Casablanca and leading films across Swedish, American and Italian cinema.

Actor

Frances McDormand

Playing sharply drawn characters in Fargo, Three Billboards and Nomadland.

Actor

Cate Blanchett

Playing roles from Elizabeth I and Galadriel to the conductor in Tár.

Actor

Emma Stone

Winning Oscars for La La Land and Poor Things after breaking through in comedy.

Actor

Octavia Spencer

Winning an Oscar for The Help and portraying Dorothy Vaughan in Hidden Figures.

Actor

Mahershala Ali

Winning supporting-actor Oscars for Moonlight and Green Book.

Actor

Forest Whitaker

Winning an Oscar as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland.

Filmmaker

Bong Joon-ho

Directing Parasite, the first non-English-language film to win the Best Picture Oscar.

Filmmaker

Ang Lee

Directing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi.

Filmmaker

Chloé Zhao

Directing Nomadland and becoming the first woman of colour to win the directing Oscar.

Filmmaker

Asghar Farhadi

Directing A Separation and The Salesman, both Academy Award-winning films.

Filmmaker

Steven Spielberg

Directing Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

Filmmaker

Christopher Nolan

Directing The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception and Oppenheimer.

Filmmaker

Guillermo del Toro

Creating dark fairy tales including Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water.

Filmmaker

Alfonso Cuarón

Directing Gravity, Children of Men and Roma.

Filmmaker

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Directing Birdman and The Revenant and winning consecutive directing Oscars.

Filmmaker

Jane Campion

Directing The Piano and The Power of the Dog.

Filmmaker

Peter Jackson

Bringing The Lord of the Rings to the screen as a three-film epic.

Filmmaker

Clint Eastwood

Moving from iconic Western roles to directing Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby.

Filmmaker

James Cameron

Directing Titanic and Avatar while advancing large-scale visual filmmaking.

Filmmaker

Steven Soderbergh

Directing Traffic, Erin Brockovich and Ocean’s Eleven across independent and mainstream cinema.

Filmmaker

Barry Jenkins

Directing Moonlight, an intimate coming-of-age film that won Best Picture.

Filmmaker

Kathryn Bigelow

Becoming the first woman to win the directing Oscar, for The Hurt Locker.

Filmmaker

Jordan Peele

Using horror to explore race and social anxiety in Get Out, Us and Nope.

Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis

Winning three Best Actor Oscars for My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood and Lincoln.

Actor

Jamie Foxx

Winning an Oscar for portraying Ray Charles while maintaining careers in comedy and music.

Actor

Olivia Colman

Winning an Oscar as Queen Anne in The Favourite after a career spanning comedy and drama.

Actor

Brie Larson

Winning an Oscar for Room and playing Captain Marvel.

Actor

Jessica Chastain

Winning an Oscar for The Eyes of Tammy Faye and leading films including Zero Dark Thirty.

Actor

Susan Sarandon

Winning an Oscar for Dead Man Walking and starring in Thelma & Louise.

Actor

Jennifer Lawrence

Leading The Hunger Games and winning an Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook.

Actor

Will Smith

Moving from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to global film stardom and an Oscar for King Richard.

Actor

Julia Roberts

Starring in Pretty Woman and winning an Oscar for Erin Brockovich.

Actor

Jennifer Aniston

Playing Rachel Green in Friends and leading The Morning Show.

Actor

Aamir Khan

Leading films including Lagaan, 3 Idiots and Dangal.

Actor

Salman Khan

Becoming a major Hindi-film star through romances, action films and Bajrangi Bhaijaan.

Actor

Deepika Padukone

Becoming a leading Hindi-film actor through Om Shanti Om, Piku and historical dramas.

Filmmaker

Ousmane Sembène

Helping establish African cinema as a medium for social criticism.

Actor

Genevieve Nnaji

Becoming a leading Nollywood actor and directing Lionheart.

Actor

Gong Li

Starring in Raise the Red Lantern and other defining films of modern Chinese cinema.

Actor

Sidney Poitier

Becoming the first Black winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Actor

Wes Studi

Bringing commanding Native American characters to major films.

Actor

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde

Becoming a leading Nollywood performer through films including Mortal Inheritance.

Actor

Emma Watson

Playing Hermione Granger throughout the Harry Potter film series.

Actor

Alan Rickman

Playing Hans Gruber in Die Hard and Severus Snape in Harry Potter.

Actor

Maggie Cheung

Starring in In the Mood for Love and winning leading acting prizes at Berlin and Cannes.

Actor

Salma Hayek

Portraying Frida Kahlo and building a career across Mexican and Hollywood film.

Actor

Omar Sharif

Starring in Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.

Actor

Lily Gladstone

Portraying Mollie Burkhart in Killers of the Flower Moon.

Actor

Penélope Cruz

Building an international film career and winning an Oscar for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

Actor

Margot Robbie

Playing Harley Quinn and Barbie while building a film-production career.

Actor

Funke Akindele

Creating Jenifa and building a major Nigerian screen-production career.

Actor

Christian Bale

Playing Batman and transforming himself for demanding dramatic roles.

Actor

Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Giving restrained, expressive performances in Hong Kong cinema.

Actor

Sônia Braga

Bringing Brazilian screen performances to international audiences.

Actor

Adel Emam

Becoming one of the Arab world’s best-known comedy and film stars.

Filmmaker

Taika Waititi

Combining offbeat comedy with emotionally direct films such as Jojo Rabbit.

Actor

Heath Ledger

Playing the Joker in The Dark Knight and Ennis in Brokeback Mountain.

Actor

Priyanka Chopra Jonas

Building a film and television career across India and the United States.

Actor

Chow Yun-fat

Defining a style of Hong Kong action cinema through films with John Woo.

Actor

Fernanda Montenegro

Leading Central Station and becoming a major figure in Brazilian theatre and cinema.

Actor

Soad Hosny

Becoming an enduring star of Egyptian film musicals and dramas.

Actor

Deborah Mailman

Creating memorable Indigenous Australian characters across television and film.

Actor

Hugh Jackman

Playing Wolverine while sustaining a major musical-theatre career.

Actor

Javier Bardem

Playing Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men and leading major Spanish dramas.

Actor

Donnie Yen

Portraying Ip Man and developing a distinctive screen-fighting style.

Actor

Ricardo Darín

Leading internationally acclaimed Argentine films including The Secret in Their Eyes.

Actor

Faten Hamama

Becoming a defining dramatic actor in Egyptian cinema.

Actor

Chris Hemsworth

Playing Thor in Marvel films.

Actor

Kamal Haasan

Building a versatile Tamil film career as actor and filmmaker.

Actor

Antonio Banderas

Building an international career from Almodóvar films to Hollywood.

Actor

Jet Li

Bringing elite wushu technique to martial-arts cinema.

Actor

Yalitza Aparicio

Playing Cleo in Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma.

Filmmaker

Abbas Kiarostami

Creating influential films that blur documentary and fiction.

Actor

Samuel L. Jackson

Creating memorable roles from Pulp Fiction to Marvel’s Nick Fury.

Actor

Madhuri Dixit

Combining leading Hindi-film performances with celebrated dance sequences.

Actor

Toshiro Mifune

Giving Akira Kurosawa’s films a commanding, volatile screen presence.

Actor

Pedro Pascal

Leading The Mandalorian and The Last of Us.

Actor

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Starring in Indian cinema after winning Miss World in 1994.

Actor

Juliette Binoche

Moving between intimate French dramas and international films, with an Oscar for The English Patient.

Actor

Isabelle Huppert

Intense, ambiguous performances in films including The Piano Teacher and Elle.

Actor

Marion Cotillard

Transforming into Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose and winning the Best Actress Oscar.

Actor

Catherine Deneuve

A defining presence in French cinema, from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg to Belle de Jour.

Actor

Isabelle Adjani

Emotionally extreme performances in The Story of Adèle H., Possession and Camille Claudel.

Actor

Emmanuelle Riva

The unforgettable leads of Hiroshima mon amour and Amour, made more than fifty years apart.

Actor

Jeanne Moreau

Playing Catherine in Jules et Jim and becoming a central face of the French New Wave.

Actor

Anna Magnani

The defiant mother in Rome, Open City and an Oscar-winning turn in The Rose Tattoo.

Actor

Monica Vitti

The searching, alienated figures in Michelangelo Antonioni’s films, followed by a major career in comedy.

Actor

Marcello Mastroianni

Playing Federico Fellini’s restless protagonists in La Dolce Vita and 8½.

Actor

Roberto Benigni

Performing in Down by Law and directing Johnny Stecchino.

Filmmaker

Pedro Almodóvar

Vivid Spanish dramas about desire, identity and family, including All About My Mother and Talk to Her.

Filmmaker

Jacques Audiard

Intense dramas about outsiders, including A Prophet, Rust and Bone and Dheepan.

Filmmaker

Federico Fellini

Dreamlike Italian films including La Dolce Vita, 8½ and Amarcord.

Filmmaker

Ingmar Bergman

Films that probe faith, identity and intimate relationships, including The Seventh Seal and Persona.

Filmmaker

Andrei Tarkovsky

Meditative films such as Andrei Rublev, Solaris and Stalker.

Filmmaker

Wong Kar-wai

Atmospheric Hong Kong films about missed connections, including Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love.

Filmmaker

Park Chan-wook

Stylised thrillers including Oldboy, The Handmaiden and Decision to Leave.

Filmmaker

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Quietly powerful family dramas, including Nobody Knows, Still Walking and Shoplifters.

Filmmaker

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Drive My Car, a patient drama of performance, grief and communication.

Filmmaker

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Dreamlike Thai cinema, including the Palme d’Or-winning Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.

Filmmaker

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Slow-burning Turkish dramas including Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and Winter Sleep.

Filmmaker

Nadine Labaki

Capernaum and other films that place everyday Lebanese lives at the centre of social conflict.

Filmmaker

Mira Nair

Films about migration and belonging, including Salaam Bombay!, Monsoon Wedding and The Namesake.

Actor

Shabana Azmi

Leading performances in Indian parallel cinema, including Ankur, Arth and Paar.

Filmmaker

Sidney Lumet

Directing 12 Angry Men, Serpico and Network: tense dramas about justice, power and compromised institutions.

Filmmaker

David Lean

Directing Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai and other expansive historical epics.

Filmmaker

Frank Capra

Directing It's a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, stories of ordinary people confronting powerful systems.

Filmmaker

Billy Wilder

Directing and co-writing Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, mixing sharp comedy with moral discomfort.

Filmmaker

John Ford

Directing The Searchers, Stagecoach and The Grapes of Wrath, and winning four Oscars for directing.

Filmmaker

William Wyler

Directing Ben-Hur, Roman Holiday and The Best Years of Our Lives, with three directing Oscars across his career.

Filmmaker

Stanley Kubrick

Directing 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and Dr. Strangelove, with meticulous images and unsettling views of human behaviour.

Filmmaker

Sergio Leone

Reinventing the screen Western through the Dollars trilogy and Once Upon a Time in the West.

Filmmaker

Michelangelo Antonioni

Directing L'Avventura and Blowup, films that made uncertainty and modern alienation central to cinema.

Filmmaker

Vittorio De Sica

Directing Bicycle Thieves, a defining film of Italian neorealism about poverty, work and a father and son.

Filmmaker

Agnès Varda

Pioneering a personal, playful cinema through Cléo from 5 to 7, Vagabond and The Gleaners and I.

Filmmaker

Chantal Akerman

Directing Jeanne Dielman, the film that topped Sight and Sound’s 2022 critics’ poll.

Filmmaker

Claire Denis

Directing Beau Travail, an acclaimed study of military discipline, jealousy and desire.

Filmmaker

Lina Wertmüller

Becoming the first woman nominated for the directing Oscar, for Seven Beauties.

Filmmaker

Samira Makhmalbaf

Directing The Apple and winning Cannes Jury Prizes for Blackboards and At Five in the Afternoon.

Filmmaker

Deepa Mehta

Directing the Elements trilogy: Fire, Earth and Water, about desire, Partition and the treatment of widows.

Filmmaker

Aparna Sen

Directing 36 Chowringhee Lane and Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, alongside a major Bengali acting career.

Filmmaker

Shōhei Imamura

Winning two Cannes Palmes d’Or with The Ballad of Narayama and The Eel.

Filmmaker

Kenji Mizoguchi

Directing Ugetsu and Sansho the Bailiff, celebrated for flowing camera movement and stories of suffering and compassion.

Filmmaker

Ritwik Ghatak

Turning the displacement of Bengal’s Partition into powerful cinema, especially The Cloud-Capped Star.

Filmmaker

Mrinal Sen

Helping shape Indian parallel cinema through Bhuvan Shome, Calcutta 71 and socially critical Bengali films.

Filmmaker

Youssef Chahine

Directing Cairo Station and Alexandria… Why?, bringing personal and political questions into Egyptian cinema.

Filmmaker

Souleymane Cissé

Directing Yeelen, the Bambara-language film that won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 1987.

Filmmaker

Abderrahmane Sissako

Directing Timbuktu and Bamako, films examining power through the lives of ordinary people.

Filmmaker

David Fincher

Directing Seven, Fight Club and The Social Network, with exacting visual control and an interest in obsession and power.

Actor

Marlon Brando

Playing Stanley Kowalski, Terry Malloy and Vito Corleone in performances that changed screen acting.

Filmmaker

Francis Ford Coppola

Directing The Godfather films, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now.

Actor

Elizabeth Taylor

Starring in Cleopatra, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Filmmaker

Ridley Scott

Directing Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise and Gladiator.

Actor

Sridevi

Leading Hindi, Tamil and Telugu films including Mr. India, Chandni and English Vinglish.

Filmmaker

Mani Ratnam

Directing Nayakan, Roja and Bombay, combining intimate relationships with wider social conflicts.

Actor

Zhang Ziyi

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers and The Grandmaster.

Filmmaker

Jia Zhangke

Still Life, Platform and films about people living through China’s rapid transformation.

Actor

Song Kang-ho

Playing the father in Parasite and leading roles in Memories of Murder and The Host.

Filmmaker

Yasujirō Ozu

Tokyo Story and quietly powerful films about family, marriage and generational change.

Actor

Takeshi Kitano

Hana-bi, Sonatine and a career spanning crime films, comedy and Takeshi’s Castle.

Filmmaker

Mati Diop

Atlantics and Dahomey, films connecting migration, memory and cultural restitution.

Actor

Nora Aunor

Playing Elsa in Himala and portraying women facing poverty, injustice and difficult choices.

Filmmaker

Haifaa al-Mansour

Directing Wadjda, a Saudi girl’s pursuit of a bicycle and greater freedom.

Actor

Gael García Bernal

Starring in Amores perros, Y tu mamá también and The Motorcycle Diaries.

Filmmaker

Greta Gerwig

Writing and directing Lady Bird, Little Women and Barbie.

Actor

Charlize Theron

Playing Aileen Wuornos in Monster and Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road.

Filmmaker

Fred Zinnemann

Directing High Noon, From Here to Eternity and A Man for All Seasons.

Actor

Cheng Pei-pei

Playing Golden Swallow in Come Drink with Me and Jade Fox in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Filmmaker

S. S. Rajamouli

Directing the Baahubali films and RRR, large-scale Telugu action epics.

Actor

Humphrey Bogart

Playing Rick Blaine in Casablanca and Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon.

Filmmaker

Zhang Yimou

Directing Raise the Red Lantern, To Live and Hero with striking colour and visual composition.

Actor

Cary Grant

His comic elegance in screwball comedies and starring role in North by Northwest.

Filmmaker

Mikio Naruse

Directing Floating Clouds and When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, dramas of women’s lives and economic pressure.

Actor

Dilip Kumar

His dramatic performances in Devdas, Mughal-e-Azam and Gunga Jumna.

Filmmaker

Safi Faye

A pioneering Senegalese filmmaker who brought village life and women’s experiences to African cinema.

Actor

Zhou Xun

The Chinese actor known for Suzhou River, Perhaps Love and Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace.

Filmmaker

Kaouther Ben Hania

The Tunisian director of Four Daughters and The Man Who Sold His Skin, blending documentary and staged storytelling.

Actor

Choi Min-sik

The actor behind Oldboy’s imprisoned protagonist and Admiral Yi Sun-sin in The Admiral: Roaring Currents.

Filmmaker

Sofia Coppola

The director of Lost in Translation and The Virgin Suicides, known for portraits of isolation inside privileged worlds.

Actor

Setsuko Hara

The star of Late Spring and Tokyo Story, central to some of Japanese cinema’s most enduring family dramas.

Filmmaker

Michael Powell

The British director who created The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death with Emeric Pressburger.

Actor

Tony Jaa

The martial-arts star whose acrobatic fighting in Ong-Bak brought Thai action cinema to a worldwide audience.

Filmmaker

S. Shankar

The Tamil director behind Indian and Enthiran, combining social themes with large-scale visual spectacle.

Actor

Wagner Moura

The Brazilian actor known for Elite Squad, Narcos and his Cannes-winning performance in The Secret Agent.

Filmmaker

Chen Kaige

The director of Farewell My Concubine, the first Chinese film to win the Palme d’Or.

Actor

Pete Edochie

The Nigerian actor whose portrayal of Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart became a defining television role.

Filmmaker

Nagisa Ōshima

Directing provocative films including In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.

Actor

Mona Zaki

Starring in Egyptian films and television dramas including Sleepless Nights and Under Guardianship.

Filmmaker

Ava DuVernay

Directing Selma, 13th and When They See Us.

Actor

James Stewart

Starring in It’s a Wonderful Life, Vertigo and classic American films.

Actor

Sean Connery

Defining James Bond on film and winning an Oscar for The Untouchables.

Filmmaker

Anurag Kashyap

Directing Gangs of Wasseypur and helping reshape independent Hindi crime cinema.

Actor

Sharmila Tagore

Bridging Bengali art cinema and Hindi stardom in films including The World of Apu and Aradhana.

Actor

Raj Kapoor

Creating Hindi cinema classics including Awara and Shree 420.

Filmmaker

Hou Hsiao-hsien

Directing A City of Sadness and helping define Taiwan’s New Cinema.

Actor

Zhao Wei

Playing Little Swallow in My Fair Princess and directing So Young.

Filmmaker

Spike Jonze

Directing Being John Malkovich and Her, turning unusual premises into intimate films.

Actor

Lee Byung-hun

Starring in Joint Security Area and portraying the Front Man in Squid Game.

Filmmaker

Ken Loach

Directing Kes and socially engaged dramas including I, Daniel Blake.

Actor

Hiroyuki Sanada

The Japanese actor known internationally for The Last Samurai and his Emmy-winning role in Shōgun.

Filmmaker

Rajkumar Hirani

The director of 3 Idiots and the Munna Bhai films, known for mixing comedy with criticism of social institutions.

Actor

Iko Uwais

The martial-arts star of The Raid who helped bring Indonesian silat to international action cinema.

Filmmaker

Paul Thomas Anderson

The director of Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood and The Master.

Actor

Diego Luna

The actor behind Cassian Andor in Star Wars and the breakthrough Mexican film Y tu mamá también.

Filmmaker

Mike Leigh

The director of Secrets & Lies and Vera Drake, known for developing characters through extensive rehearsal.

Actor

Olu Jacobs

The actor whose career connected British theatre and international films with the growth of Nollywood.

Filmmaker

Wes Anderson

The director of The Grand Budapest Hotel, known for meticulous compositions and eccentric fictional worlds.

Actor

Yousra

The Egyptian screen star known for films with Adel Emam and Youssef Chahine, and for major television dramas.

Filmmaker

Lynne Ramsay

The Scottish director of Ratcatcher and We Need to Talk About Kevin, known for intensely visual storytelling.

Actor

Jodie Foster

The two-time Oscar-winning actor who played Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.

Actor

Idris Elba

The actor known for Stringer Bell in The Wire and detective John Luther.

Actor

Irrfan Khan

The actor whose understated performances connected Indian cinema with films such as The Namesake and Life of Pi.

Actor

Fan Bingbing

Starring in My Fair Princess, Buddha Mountain and I Am Not Madame Bovary.

Actor

Jung Woo-sung

Leading Korean films including Beat, The Good, the Bad, the Weird and Innocent Witness.

Actor

Ken Watanabe

Bridging Japanese and international cinema in The Last Samurai and Letters from Iwo Jima.

Actor

Joe Taslim

Bringing elite martial-arts experience to The Raid, Warrior and Mortal Kombat.

Actor

Fernanda Torres

Playing Eunice Paiva in I’m Still Here and winning major international acting awards.

Actor

Joke Silva

Building a long stage and screen career in Nigerian drama.

Actor

Gregory Peck

Playing Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird and leading classic Hollywood dramas.

Actor

Richard Burton

Bringing a powerful Welsh voice to Shakespeare, cinema and dramatic leading roles.

Actor

Mammootty

Becoming a leading figure in Malayalam cinema through versatile dramatic performances.

Actor

Li Bingbing

Starring in Chinese dramas and international action films.

Actor

Gong Yoo

Starring in Train to Busan, Coffee Prince and Guardian.

Actor

Tadanobu Asano

Playing distinctive roles in Japanese cinema and Lord Yabushige in Shōgun.

Actor

Dian Sastrowardoyo

Playing Cinta in Ada Apa dengan Cinta? and Dasiyah in Cigarette Girl.

Actor

Alice Braga

Playing Teresa Mendoza in Queen of the South after breaking through in City of God.

Actor

Rita Dominic

Becoming a leading Nollywood actor through films including The Meeting and Shattered.

Actor

Lauren Bacall

Bringing a distinctive voice and screen presence to To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep.

Actor

Peter O'Toole

Playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia.

Actor

Mohanlal

Leading Malayalam cinema through films such as Bharatham, Vanaprastham and Drishyam.

Actor

Tang Wei

Starring in Lust, Caution and Decision to Leave.

Actor

Hyun Bin

Leading Korean dramas including Secret Garden and Crash Landing on You.

Actor

Koji Yakusho

Starring in Shall We Dance?, Cure and Perfect Days.

Actor

Lázaro Ramos

His breakthrough performance in Madame Satã and leading roles across Brazilian cinema and television.

Actor

Spencer Tracy

Winning consecutive acting Oscars and forming a celebrated screen partnership with Katharine Hepburn.

Actor

Richard Harris

Starring in This Sporting Life and playing Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films.

Actor

Dev Anand

Starring in Guide and helping shape Hindi cinema through Navketan Films.

Actor

Shu Qi

Starring in Millennium Mambo, Three Times and The Assassin.

Actor

Son Ye-jin

The star of Crash Landing on You, The Classic and The Last Princess.

Actor

Rinko Kikuchi

Her Oscar-nominated performance in Babel and her role as Mako Mori in Pacific Rim.

Actor

Selton Mello

Brazilian films including A Dog’s Will, The Clown and I’m Still Here.

Actor

James Cagney

Bringing explosive energy to gangster films and Oscar-winning dancing to Yankee Doodle Dandy.

Actor

Ben Affleck

Co-writing Good Will Hunting and directing the Best Picture-winning thriller Argo.

Actor

Roger Moore

Playing James Bond in seven films and television adventurer Simon Templar in The Saint.

Filmmaker

Guru Dutt

Creating Pyaasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool, landmark films about aspiration, art and disillusionment.

Actor

Brigitte Lin

Becoming a star of Taiwanese romance and Hong Kong martial-arts cinema.

Actor

Jun Ji-hyun

Starring in My Sassy Girl and My Love from the Star.

Actor

Rie Miyazawa

Starring in The Twilight Samurai, Tony Takitani and Her Love Boils Bathwater.

Actor

Edward G. Robinson

Defining the screen gangster in Little Caesar and playing memorable roles in film noir.

Actor

Timothy Dalton

Playing James Bond in The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill.

Actor

Nargis

Playing the resilient mother at the centre of Mother India.

Actor

Andy Lau

Starring in Infernal Affairs and becoming a leading Hong Kong film and Cantopop performer.

Actor

Song Hye-kyo

Leading Korean television dramas including Full House, Descendants of the Sun and The Glory.

Actor

Hideko Takamine

Playing enduring roles in Twenty-Four Eyes, Floating Clouds and When a Woman Ascends the Stairs.

Actor

Burt Lancaster

Starring in From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry and The Leopard.

Actor

Pierce Brosnan

Playing James Bond in four films, beginning with GoldenEye.

Actor

Madhubala

Playing Anarkali in Mughal-e-Azam and becoming a defining star of Hindi cinema.

Actor

Stephen Chow

Turning absurdist comedy into hits such as Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle.

Actor

Kim Hye-soo

Leading Korean films and dramas including Tazza and Juvenile Justice.

Actor

Kinuyo Tanaka

Starring in Japanese cinema classics and pioneering a career behind the camera.

Actor

Kirk Douglas

Playing Spartacus and helping challenge the Hollywood blacklist.

Actor

Daniel Craig

Playing James Bond from Casino Royale to No Time to Die.

Actor

Meena Kumari

The emotionally powerful performances of Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam and Pakeezah.

Singer

Aaron Kwok

Becoming one of Cantopop’s Four Heavenly Kings and an acclaimed screen actor.

Actor

Jeon Do-yeon

Becoming the first Korean performer to win an acting prize at Cannes.

Actor

Machiko Kyō

Starring in Rashomon, Ugetsu and other landmarks of Japanese cinema.

Actor

Robert Mitchum

Giving film noir some of its most memorable outsiders and villains.

Actor

Michael Caine

Bringing a distinctive Cockney voice to films from Alfie to The Dark Knight.

Actor

Waheeda Rehman

Performances in Indian cinema classics including Pyaasa and Guide.

Actor

Kim Min-hee

Starring in The Handmaiden and winning Berlin’s acting award for On the Beach at Night Alone.

Actor

Takashi Shimura

Playing the central roles in Ikiru and Seven Samurai.

Actor

Tilda Swinton

Playing Orlando and winning an Oscar for Michael Clayton.

Actor

Vyjayanthimala

Bringing classical dance and dramatic acting together in Indian cinema.

Filmmaker

Luis Buñuel

Turning surrealism into a provocative language for cinema.

Actor

Hend Sabry

Starring in The Silences of the Palace, Asmaa and Finding Ola.

Filmmaker

Emeric Pressburger

Creating The Red Shoes and other landmark British films with Michael Powell.

Actor

Jeremy Brett

Portraying Sherlock Holmes in Granada’s television adaptations.

Filmmaker

Carlos F. Borcosque

Making films across Chile, Hollywood and Argentine cinema.

Filmmaker

Arie Esiri

Co-directing Eyimofe, a portrait of contemporary Lagos.

Filmmaker

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Pioneering Malayalam cinema’s new wave with Swayamvaram.

Actor

Anna Paquin

Winning an Oscar for The Piano and starring in True Blood.

Filmmaker

Daihachi Yoshida

Directing The Kirishima Thing and Pale Moon.

Filmmaker

Buddhadeb Dasgupta

Bringing a poet’s imagination to Bengali cinema.

Actor

Sanjeev Kumar

Playing contrasting dramatic and comic roles in Hindi cinema.

Actor

Emma Thompson

Winning Oscars for acting in Howards End and adapting Sense and Sensibility.

Filmmaker

Amir Azizi

Directing Temporary and Inside Amir.

Actor

Indrani Haldar

Performing across Bengali cinema and television.

Actor

Anthony Quinn

Portraying Zorba and winning two supporting-actor Oscars.

Actor

Claudette Colbert

Winning an Oscar for It Happened One Night.

Actor

Colin Firth

Playing Mr Darcy and the Oscar-winning role of George VI.

Actor

Maximilian Schell

Playing the defence lawyer in Judgment at Nuremberg.

Filmmaker

Lee Chang-dong

Directing morally searching films including Poetry and Burning.

Actor

Sean Lau

Starring in Hong Kong dramas and thrillers including Mad Detective.

Actor

Uttam Kumar

Becoming a defining star of Bengali cinema, including Nayak.

Actor

Glenda Jackson

Winning major acting awards across film, television and theatre.

Filmmaker

Wang Xiaoshuai

Portraying changing Chinese lives in films including Beijing Bicycle.

Actor

Keerthy Suresh

Portraying Savitri in the biographical film Mahanati.

Actor

Christoph Waltz

Winning Oscars for Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained.

Filmmaker

Sebastián Lelio

Directing the Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman.

Actor

Saranya Ponvannan

Playing complex maternal roles in Tamil cinema.

Actor

Harold Russell

Winning two Oscars for The Best Years of Our Lives.

Filmmaker

Fernando Siro

Directing Nadie oyó gritar a Cecilio Fuentes.

Actor

Samal Yeslyamova

Winning the Cannes acting prize for Ayka.

Actor

Sylvia Chang

Acting in and directing films including Passion and 20 30 40.

Actor

Bharat Gopy

Playing Sankarankutty in Kodiyettam.

Actor

Geoffrey Rush

Playing David Helfgott in Shine and Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean.

Filmmaker

Mani Kaul

Developing an experimental language for Indian parallel cinema.

Actor

Peggy Ashcroft

Combining a major Shakespearean stage career with acclaimed screen performances.

Actor

Jean Dujardin

Playing silent-film star George Valentin in The Artist.

Actor

Margaret Rutherford

Playing Miss Marple in British film comedies.

Actor

Judi Dench

Playing Shakespearean heroines and M in the James Bond films.

Filmmaker

Na Hong-jin

Directing The Chaser, The Yellow Sea and The Wailing.

Filmmaker

G. Aravindan

Developing an experimental voice in Malayalam parallel cinema.

Actor

Bae Doona

Starring in The Host, Cloud Atlas and Sense8.

Filmmaker

Lu Chuan

Directing Kekexili: Mountain Patrol and City of Life and Death.

Filmmaker

B. V. Karanth

Shaping Kannada theatre and parallel cinema.

Actor

Alicia Vikander

Starring in Ex Machina and winning an Oscar for The Danish Girl.

Filmmaker

Abrar Alvi

Writing Pyaasa and directing Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam.

Actor

Louis Koo

Starring in Hong Kong television dramas and films including Paradox.

Actor

Russell Crowe

Starring in Gladiator, The Insider and A Beautiful Mind.

Filmmaker

Mostafa Heravi

Making films and music videos across Iranian and Dutch cultural contexts.

Actor

Kim Hye-ja

Playing complex mothers in Korean television and Bong Joon-ho’s Mother.

Actor

Eddie Garcia

Building a seven-decade career in Philippine acting and filmmaking.

Actor

Edmund Gwenn

Playing Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street.

Actor

Marie Dressler

Winning an Oscar for Min and Bill after a late-career comeback.

Actor

Bill Murray

Starring in Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and Lost in Translation.

Actor

Maiara Walsh

Playing Meena in Cory in the House and Ana Solis in Desperate Housewives.

Actor

Akshay Kumar

Combining action and comedy in Khiladi, Hera Pheri and Hindi cinema.

Actor

Sandra Bullock

Leading Speed, Miss Congeniality and Gravity.

Actor

Jessie Buckley

Bringing dramatic and musical intensity to Wild Rose, The Lost Daughter and Cabaret.

Actor

Cillian Murphy

Playing Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders and J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Actor

Balan K. Nair

Playing forceful character roles in Malayalam cinema, including Oppol.

Actor

Greer Garson

Portraying wartime resilience in Mrs. Miniver.

Actor

Adam Sandler

Leading comedies such as Happy Gilmore and dramas including Uncut Gems.

Actor

Jiang Qinqin

Playing leading roles in Chinese television, including Qiao’s Grand Courtyard.

Actor

Donald Crisp

Playing the Morgan family father in How Green Was My Valley.

Actor

Alia Bhatt

Playing leading roles in Raazi, Gangubai Kathiawadi and Highway.

Actor

Haing S. Ngor

Winning an Oscar for his debut performance in The Killing Fields.

Actor

John Mills

Playing Pip in Great Expectations and winning an Oscar for Ryan’s Daughter.

Actor

Barry Fitzgerald

Winning an Oscar for Father Fitzgibbon in Going My Way.

Actor

Emil Jannings

Receiving the first Academy Award for Best Actor.

Filmmaker

Luis César Amadori

Directing films of Argentina’s classical cinema, including Dios se lo pague.

Filmmaker

Masoud Jafari Jozani

Directing The Stone Lion and In the Wind’s Eye.

Actor

Katina Paxinou

Winning an Oscar for playing Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Actor

Simone Signoret

Starring in Casque d’or and winning an Oscar for Room at the Top.

Filmmaker

Saeed Akhtar Mirza

Directing Naseem, Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro and Nukkad.

Actor

Youn Yuh-jung

Winning an Oscar for playing Soon-ja in Minari.

Actor

Julie Christie

Starring in Darling, Doctor Zhivago and Don’t Look Now.

Actor

Yū Aoi

Starring in Hana and Alice and Hula Girls.

Actor

Prilly Latuconsina

Starring in Ganteng Ganteng Serigala and the Danur films.

Actor

Monisha Unni

Winning the National Film Award for her debut in Nakhakshathangal.

Actor

Miyoshi Umeki

Winning an Oscar for Sayonara and starring in Flower Drum Song.

Actor

M. G. Ramachandran

Combining Tamil screen stardom with leadership of Tamil Nadu.

Actor

Lila Kedrova

Winning an Oscar and a Tony for portraying Madame Hortense.

Filmmaker

Ann Hui

Directing Boat People, Summer Snow and A Simple Life.

Actor

Will Ferrell

Playing Buddy in Elf and Ron Burgundy in Anchorman.

Actor

Ha Jung-woo

Starring in The Chaser and Along with the Gods.

Actor

Ashok Kumar

Starring in Achhut Kannya, Kismet and Mahal.

Actor

Peter Finch

Playing Howard Beale in Network.

Actor

Yul Brynner

Playing King Mongkut in The King and I.

Actor

Ronald Colman

Starring in Lost Horizon and A Double Life.

Filmmaker

Chuko Esiri

Co-directing Eyimofe with Arie Esiri.

Actor

Madhabi Mukherjee

Playing the central roles in Mahanagar and Charulata.

Actor

Joseph Schildkraut

Playing Alfred Dreyfus and Otto Frank on screen.

Actor

Suhasini Maniratnam

Starring in Sindhu Bhairavi and directing Indira.

Actor

Brenda Fricker

Winning an Oscar for My Left Foot.

Actor

Zhou Dongyu

Starring in Soul Mate and Better Days.

Actor

Maggie Smith

Playing Jean Brodie, Professor McGonagall and Downton Abbey’s Violet Crawley.

Actor

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Playing Velma Kelly in Chicago and Elena in The Mask of Zorro.

Filmmaker

Ali Abbasi

Directing Border, Holy Spider and The Apprentice.

Actor

George Sanders

Playing Addison DeWitt in All About Eve and voicing Shere Khan.

Actor

Karl Malden

Playing Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire and Mike Stone on television.

Actor

Christopher Plummer

Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music and an acclaimed stage career

Actor

Walter Huston

His Oscar-winning performance in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Filmmaker

Leonardo Favio

Argentine films including Chronicle of a Boy Alone and Juan Moreira

Actor

Jeremy Irons

Brideshead Revisited and his Oscar-winning role in Reversal of Fortune

Filmmaker

Rajesh Mapuskar

Directing Ferrari Ki Sawaari and Ventilator

Filmmaker

Rishab Shetty

Writing, directing and starring in Kantara

Actor

George Arliss

His Academy Award-winning portrayal of Disraeli

Actor

Charles Laughton

The Private Life of Henry VIII and directing The Night of the Hunter

Actor

Rex Harrison

Playing Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady

Actor

Paul Scofield

Portraying Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons

Actor

Judy Holliday

Playing Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday

Filmmaker

Agathiyan

Directing and writing Kadhal Kottai

Actor

Luise Rainer

Becoming the first performer to win consecutive acting Oscars.

Actor

Uzoamaka Power

Performances in Mami Wata, The Weekend and With Difficulty Comes Ease.

Actor

Joan Fontaine

Her leading performances in Rebecca and Suspicion.

Actor

Ben Kingsley

His Oscar-winning portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi.

Filmmaker

Srijit Mukherji

Bengali films including Autograph and Chotushkone.

Actor

Marlee Matlin

Her Oscar-winning debut in Children of a Lesser God.

Actor

John Gielgud

Shakespearean stage performances and his Oscar-winning role in Arthur.

Filmmaker

Arash T. Riahi

Films about exile, freedom and the search for self-determination.

Filmmaker

Madhur Bhandarkar

Hindi social dramas including Chandni Bar, Page 3 and Fashion.

Actor

Vikram Gokhale

Performances across Marathi theatre, cinema and Hindi films.

Actor

Kim Hunter

Playing Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire and Zira in Planet of the Apes.

Actor

Susan Hayward

Intense screen performances including I Want to Live!

Actor

Robert Donat

The 39 Steps and his Oscar-winning performance in Goodbye, Mr. Chips.

Actor

Nana Patekar

Forceful performances in Hindi and Marathi cinema.

Actor

P. J. Antony

The temple oracle in Nirmalyam.

Actor

Vanessa Redgrave

An extensive stage and screen career, including Julia.

Animator

Hossein Molayemi

Co-directing In the Shadow of the Cypress.

Actor

Alec Guinness

Versatile film roles from Ealing comedies to Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Actor

Hugh Griffith

Character performances in Ben-Hur and Tom Jones.

Actor

Vikram

Transformative performances in Tamil cinema.

Actor

Celeste Holm

Ado Annie in Oklahoma! and Oscar-winning film work.

Actor

Amy Madigan

Stage and screen roles from Field of Dreams to Weapons.

Filmmaker

Bahman Farmanara

Iranian films examining memory, mortality and society.

Actor

Alan Arkin

Comic and dramatic character acting across seven decades.

Actor

Joanne Woodward

Nuanced portrayals including The Three Faces of Eve.

Actor

Jessica Tandy

Creating Blanche DuBois on Broadway and starring in Driving Miss Daisy.

Actor

Brendan Fraser

The Mummy adventures and an Oscar-winning performance in The Whale.

Actor

Anil Kapoor

Hindi-film roles from Mr. India to international productions.

Actor

Faye Dunaway

Leading roles in Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown and Network.

Actor

Laurence Olivier

Shakespeare on stage and screen and founding Britain’s National Theatre company.

Actor

Kriti Sanon

A National Film Award-winning performance in Mimi.

Actor

Mithun Chakraborty

Disco Dancer and award-winning roles across Indian cinema.

Filmmaker

Shyam Benegal

Helping establish Indian parallel cinema through films including Ankur and Manthan.

Actor

Paul Lukas

An Oscar-winning performance in Watch on the Rhine.

Actor

Rami Malek

Playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody and Elliot in Mr. Robot.

Actor

Ellen Burstyn

Oscar-winning work in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.

Actor

Kirron Kher

Award-winning performances in Indian cinema and a later parliamentary career.

Actor

Peter Ustinov

Oscar-winning supporting roles and portrayals of Hercule Poirot.

Actor

George Clooney

Leading roles in ER and Ocean’s Eleven, and filmmaking including Good Night, and Good Luck.

Actor

Janet Gaynor

Becoming the first winner of the best-actress Academy Award.

Actor

David Niven

An Oscar-winning role in Separate Tables.

Actor

George Kennedy

Playing Dragline in Cool Hand Luke.

Filmmaker

Reza Khatibi

Directing films between Iran and France.

Actor

Liao Fan

Winning Berlin’s acting award for Black Coal, Thin Ice.

Filmmaker

Mario Gallo

Pioneering staged historical films in early Argentine cinema.

Filmmaker

Adrián Caetano

Helping launch New Argentine Cinema with Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes.

Filmmaker

Kamran Qadakchian

Directing Iranian films including The Song of Tehran.

Filmmaker

Damián Szifron

Creating Los simuladores and directing Wild Tales.

Filmmaker

Behtash Sanaeeha

Co-directing Ballad of a White Cow and My Favourite Cake

Filmmaker

Gurvinder Singh

Punjabi films Anhe Ghore Da Daan and Chauthi Koot

Filmmaker

B. Lenin

Editing Tamil cinema and directing Ooruku Nooruper

Filmmaker

Fred Amata

Acting and directing in Nigerian cinema

Actor

Tabu

Complex characters in Hindi and regional Indian cinema.

Actor

Frank Donga

Playing an unassuming job-seeker in The Interview.