2. Alfred Hitchcock is a very well known British
film director born on 13/08/1899 who is most
famous for his thriller film ‘Psycho’. The
reason that this film is so famous is because it
was the first film to use all of the conventions
of a thriller within one film; in effect creating
the thriller genre. During his life Hitchcock
earned many awards including a Bafta. One
of Hitchcock’s specialties was using camera
shots and movements to create a maximum
amount of anxiety and tension within the
viewer. He also created twist endings that
had every viewer surprised at the end of
many of his films.
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4. David Fincher is an American film director
born on 28/08/1962 and created the
famous film ‘Seven’ (Se7en). In 2008 he
won the award for best director in the
Golden Globes for his film ‘the social
network’. He has also won and been
nominated for many other awards. In a lot
of his work he tends to use dark colours
and lighting to create a very gloomy
atmosphere to the film.
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6. Jonathan Demme is an American film
director born in 22/02/1944. One of his
most famous films is ‘The Silence of the
Lambs’ made in 1991. He then won an
Oscar for this film for best director. He
has then been nominated for several
other awards after this. In this film he
was able to make very scary yet realistic
antagonists that made every audience
cringed with fear. This is one of the
reasons that this film was so famous.
