Which famous directors in the world are from non-professional courses?

I don't know why lz has such a problem, and I'm not sure whether I graduated from the director department or the film academy, but I believe these things I found are still useful, at least they can inspire those who have dreams, because the following people have proved the saying that "heroes don't ask the source" with their own efforts and success. I hope my answer can be seen by all interested people. Although there may be only one person in 100 who may make the same effort, you may become one of them one day as long as you persist. (If you love movies, of course)

Let me start with a few I know in China.

Xiaogang Feng 1

Love art and literature since childhood. After graduating from high school, he joined the Beijing Military Region Cultural and Art Troupe as a director. After joining the army and changing jobs, he became a trade union cultural and sports officer in Beijing Urban Construction Development Corporation. From 65438 to 0985, he was transferred to Beijing Television Art Center to become an artist, and worked as an art designer in several influential TV series at that time, such as Big Lin Mang, Triumph at Midnight, Plainclothes Policeman and Good Boys and Girls.

"Meeting Passion" is the first work directed by him and Zheng Xiaolong, which was later made into a film by Xia Gang. The film was nominated for the China Golden Rooster Award for Best Screenplay, and the TV series The Story of the Editorial Department written by him and Wang Shuo made him a household name. 1992 co-wrote the screenplay "Big Slabber" with Zheng Xiaolong again. After the film was put on the screen, he was nominated for best feature film and best screenwriter in the 13th China Golden Rooster Award.

2, Zhang Yimou (he is also in the same class, but he is a photographer, many photographers, and finally only a hot-blooded photographer)

1968: After graduating from junior high school, I jumped the queue to work in the countryside of Ganxian County, Shaanxi Province, and then worked as a worker in the No.8 Guomian Factory in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province. 1978: studied in the photography department of Beijing Film Academy. 1982: After graduation, I worked as a photographer in Guangxi Film Studio.

3. Gu Changwei's Peacock (this is also a photographer, but the photography technology is not bad)

1957 65438+February 65438+Born in Xi 'an in February. He loved painting since childhood and dreamed of becoming a painter. 1978 was admitted to the photography department of Beijing Film Academy. 1982 After graduation, I worked as a photography assistant in Xi 'an Film Studio.

From 65438 to 0984, he worked as a photographer for Teng Wenji's "Shanghai Beach". He used a lot of natural light to seek a more realistic means of expression, which brought a big impact to the film industry in China, and successively filmed the films "Big Star" and "God's Whip". What really shows Gu Changwei's photographic talent is Chen Kaige's king of the children and Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum. The still photography of king of the children is rich in connotation and beautiful in style. Red Sorghum is free and easy, showing a sense of life in nature. Gu Changwei's western style is quite different. The film creatively uses photographic modeling methods to show a series of visual images with shocking power and profound artistic conception, and won the Best Photography Award in the 8th Golden Rooster Award.

4. Yang Dechang's One by One and Brighter Summer.

One of the most important representatives of Taiwan's new movies. Meixian, Guangdong, was born in Shanghai. 1949 moved to Taipei. 1969 graduated from the control engineering department of "national chiao tung university" in Taiwan Province province. 1970 studied in the United States and obtained a master's degree in electronic engineering from Florida State University. 1974 Go to the University of Southern California to study movies. After that, I worked as a computer software designer at Washington University in Seattle for 7 years.

foreign

1, Alfred Hitchcock (Big Brother is the biggest brand, known as the uncrowned king of Oscar).

Hitchcock did not receive any orthodox film or drama training, and his father was just a fruit and vegetable dealer in the East End of London. He studied in the Maritime Engineering School. At the age of 19, he joined the telegraph company and became a skilled worker. At the same time, he studied art courses at London University, which laid an important foundation for his future achievements. Later, he began to develop into television and advertising. During this period, he also began to contact movies. I entered the film industry at the age of 20 and worked as a title designer and editor. Therefore, when we appreciate his works, we can find a strong opening caption style, revealing a fascinating movie plot. Of course, the concise and creative scene scheduling in his works is closely related to his unconventional editing skills. At the age of 22, he began to work as a screenwriter and artistic director in five films, including Woman to Woman, and left London for Hollywood at the age of 39. The following year, the first film directed in the United States, Butterfly Dream, won the Oscar for best film in one fell swoop, which made him famous at one fell swoop. Later, in the history of Oscar winning, it can be said that it was brilliant. With Psycho and other films, it won the Oscar for Best Director for five times, and won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Motion Picture Association of America with 1979.

2. luc besson

French director, concurrently producer, screenwriter, actor, editor, etc. 17 years old, joined Gao Meng Film Company as an assistant before graduating from high school, then worked as an intern in Hollywood and served as an assistant director after returning to China. The feature film debut "Decisive Battle" 1983 won the special prize of Cannes Film Festival. In the next ten years, he made five more films, almost all of which had sensational effects, one of which was Black Boy Not Too Cold. His second film, The Subway, directed by 1985, won thirteen nominations and three awards from1French film César Awards. The blue sea and blue sky in 1987 won eight nominations and two awards from 14 César Awards; Nikita in 1989 received nine nominations and one prize in 16 César Awards. Later, he directed several large commercial films in succession.

3. quentin tarantino

/kloc-After graduating from high school at the age of 0/8, she worked in a video rental store called "Video Archives" in Manhattan Beach. During this period, I gradually learned and mastered a lot of film knowledge and skills. 199 1 year, he decided to use the $50,000 from the sale of Fatal Romance to start shooting his third play, Reservoir Dogs. Pulp Fiction, the second film directed by 1994, won the Palme d 'Or at Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay the following year, which established his position in Hollywood. He is good at expressing violence in extreme and black ways.

4. Jean-Jacques Arnold

French director, joined the army after obtaining a bachelor's degree in literature, directed a large number of military educational films in the African army, and worked in advertising on TV after retirement.

1976, according to his military career, he directed his debut "Singing Victory", which was a blockbuster and won the Oscar for best foreign language film. 198 1 Creating Man, a film that boldly tells the life of prehistoric primitive people, won the Cesar Award for best film and best director.

From 1992, Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Ka Fai and 15 newcomer Jane March started filming erotic films's Lover, which caused a sensation in the Chinese world. He is one of the few French directors whose major production bases and markets are overseas. Good at expressing historical themes.

5. Kitano Takeshi

Born in Tokyo. Graduated from Meiji University Engineering Department, worked as a taxi driver and a striptease comedian. 1973, he and Jin formed a cross talk group "Erpai" which was active in TV and radio and was popular with spicy and black humor, and became the soul of Japanese cross talk craze in 1980s.

198 1 began to participate in the performance of movies and TV series. 1983 first appeared as a movie actor in the movie Merry Christmas in the Battlefield directed by the famous director Takeshima Takeshima. 1989 took the place of Kinji Fukasaku, a famous action film director, and directed and performed his debut "Violent", which was a blockbuster. This film includes the best film, the best director, the best actor and the newcomer award in all previous Japanese film awards. Kitano Takeshi plays a policeman who confronts cold-blooded killer, which is unforgettable. His later works laid the foundation for him to become the standard-bearer of the backbone of Japanese directors in the 1990s. Since 1989 directed the violent man for the first time, it has continuously destroyed the "standard" film grammar and lines, and created a unique "cutting aesthetics". These images based on blue make "Northern Wild Blue" famous all over the world. According to Kitano Takeshi himself, the blue background, on the one hand, can show the difficulty of living emotionally, on the other hand, from the perspective of performing arts, it can also set off the subtle changes of the characters like white paper. 1995 An accident occurred while driving a motorcycle, resulting in paralysis of one face. 1997, in the third year after the tragic car accident, Kitano Takeshi's Fireworks was published. In this film, we can find Kitano Takeshi's own shadow, and his reflection on life and himself is vividly on the paper. This film won the Golden Lion Award at Venice Film Festival and the Best Director Award at Montreal Film Festival. The media around the world tied him to Akira Kurosawa and even called him the standard-bearer of Japanese film revival. Fireworks has also become the masterpiece of the second climax of Japanese movies. This is the third Japanese to win the Golden Lion Award in 39 years after Rashomon by Kurosawa/KOOC-0/95/KOOC-0/and Life Without Asuncion by Hiroshi Inagaki/KOOC-0/958.

2003 was the most glorious year in Kitano Takeshi. For the nth time, he put the famous blind man in Japanese history on the screen and released Sakamoto City. In 2004, Kitano Takeshi starred in Yoichi Sai's Blood and Bone, which tells the ups and downs of a tyrant's life. 1920 The hard life of a group of Koreans who fled to Osaka, Japan. Jin Junping, the hero played by Kitano Takeshi, is a man who has gone through hardships but is still fierce and even very cruel. It depicts the struggles and struggles of Koreans living in Japan from various aspects. Although the hardships of life and the changes of the environment have made the Koreans and their descendants in other places exhausted, their blood has never forgotten their "roots".

6. Shunji Iwai

Born in Miyagi Prefecture. After graduating from Yokohama National University, he has been engaged in shooting TV series, MTV and commercials, and his works have won numerous awards. Shunji Iwai is famous for his fresh and unique image and delicate feelings, and is considered as the most potential new "image writer". 1993 filmed the TV short film "Fireworks", which received rave reviews. For the first time, the Japan Film Directors Association awarded him the newcomer of the year award for a TV series. The next Bundle of Love is also a TV series, but due to its outstanding achievements, the production company decided to release it in the form of a movie. 1995 Iwai's masterpiece Love Letter was released, which is also his first feature film. The box office and word-of-mouth have reached an unprecedented height, and it is regarded as one of the most important works in Japan's new film movement. So he established the status of "Japan's new movie player". 1996 Dream Traveler also won the news inspector award of Berlin Film Festival. In the same year, the recent film Swallowtail Butterfly, set in a stateless city, was released. It was noticed by the media before it was released and it was very popular. This is by far the most influential movie in Iwai. The later work Everything in Zhou Lili is very famous. The director's work in 2004 was Flowers and Alice. Iwai's works are not many, but his delicate and feminine style has an irreplaceable classic position in the eyes of fans, especially young audiences.

7. Pedro Almodovar.

Pedro-Amodova1949 was born in Carzedda, a poor village in calatrava Province. Pedro grew up in a traditional Spanish family. When he was a child, he studied with Christians and sang in the choir. He always feels a little uncomfortable with his friends. When he later talked about this life, he claimed,' For me, growing up in this environment is like being an astronaut in King Arthur's palace. /kloc-When he was 0/2 years old, Pedro watched richard brooks's emotional film Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and made up his mind to be a believer all his life, because his life was a life of sin and depravity. Since then, Pedro, a teenager, has read many works by billy wilder, douglas sirk, Alfred Hitchcock, Louis bunuel, blake edwards and the neo-realist Marco Ferreri. And the film directed by Fernando Fernand-Gomez, and deeply influenced by it, he decided to become a filmmaker. From 65438 to 0969, Pedro Almodovar left his hometown of calatrava for Madrid.

Because there was no money to go to college, and the Franco government closed all film schools in the early 1970s, Amodova had to sell books on the street to make a living. Later, he joined the national telephone company and worked there for 65,438+00 years. During this period, he worked in a telephone company during the day, and wrote stories, satirical news and other articles at night in exchange for some manuscript fees. At the same time, he shot some short films and feature films over 8 mm 1980, according to the erotic novel of the same name he wrote for a science fiction magazine, he directed and edited the first comedy Pepi, Lucy, Bom. The Legend of the Fierce Woman is a sexy satire, which gave the Spanish society in Franco's time a loud slap in the face. The release of this film caused a great response. From 65438 to 0986, Pedro directed the play The Matador, starring antonio banderas for the first time. The film explores the relationship between sex and death, and describes a variety of sexual relationships to the audience, including fetishism, homosexuality, voyeurism and necrophilia, which deepens the understanding of sexual desire and related legal issues. These sensitive themes were mentioned again in the romantic comedy The Law of Desire, which he directed from 65438 to 0987, but the film also added some spices-open homosexual sex, in which antonio banderas played the gay Antonio. Then Antonio starred in Pedro's next film, Woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown (1988). This film pointedly deals with the sensitive theme of women's sexual characteristics and desires. This is Pedro's most satisfying film about women, and it also established Pedro-Amodova's position as a "female director". This film has won him a lot of fame in the international film industry and made a box office income of 7.8 million dollars in the domestic market. This figure was the highest record in the history of Spanish movies at that time, which lasted for 10 years.

In 2002, Pedro Almodovar released his latest masterpiece, Tell Her. This film tells the story of how two men love women. This is a film about friendship, love, loneliness, survival and dialogue. Pedro spent a lot of time describing the friendship between the two sexes. Although Pedro wants to make a romantic movie about men, all the movies reflect his infatuation with women and his meticulous and sensitive pursuit. With this film, Amodova won the 15 European Film Award and the best director of LA Film Critics Association, the best screenwriter of the 56th British Academy Awards, and the best director and screenwriter nomination of the 75th Academy Awards.

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