Artists 158

Ana Mendieta

Youssef Chahine

Egyptian film director (1926–2008)

Ravi Shankar

Indian sitar player (1920–2012)

Terry Gilliam

American born-British filmmaker, comedian, and actor (born 1940)

Zoë Bell

New Zealand actress

Vincent Cassel

French actor (born 1966)

Roberto Benigni

Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and film director (born 1952)

Nam June Paik

American video art pioneer (1932–2006)

Russell Crowe

New Zealand actor

Luis Llosa

Peruvian film director

Yukio Mishima

Japanese author (1925–1970)

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Chilean-French filmmaker and comics writer

Àlex Brendemühl

Spanish/German actor

Soi Cheang

Macau-born Hong Kong filmmaker (born 1972)

Stan Douglas

Canadian photographer (born 1960)

Andy Warhol

Yousry Nasrallah

Egyptian film director

Manobala

Tamil director and comedian actor (1953–2023)

Stanley Kubrick

American filmmaker (1928–1999)

Sam Neill

New Zealand actor (born 1947)

Maiara Walsh

Brazilian-American actress and singer

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual (1922–1975)

Moon Geun-young

South Korean actress

John Polson

born 1965; Australian actor and director

Christian Meier

Peruvian actor, director and singer

Yoko Ono

Japanese artist and activist based in the United States (born 1933)

Alejandro Amenábar

Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer

Jacinto Benavente

Spanish writer (1866-1954)

Jin Yong

Hong Kong writer (1924-2018)

Angela Anderson

Sonallah Ibrahim

Egyptian novelist

Mani Ratnam

Indian film director

Patti Smith

American singer, songwriter, author and poet (born 1946)

Rose McIver

New Zealand actress

Ivete Sangalo

Brazilian singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, actress, presenter and businesswoman

Nanni Moretti

Italian screenwriter, film director, and actor (born 1953)

Minka

South Korean-American pornographic actress and adult model

Errol Flynn

Australian actor (1909–1959)

Lautaro Murúa

Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter (1926-1995)

Mahiro Maeda

Japanese animator, character designer, animation director (1963-)

Alberto Fuguet

Chilean writer and film director

Pilar Mercedes Miró Romero

Film director, Screenwriter (1940-1997)

Ai Weiwei

Chinese Conceptual artist (born 1957)

Barbara Loftus

Riccardo Freda

Italian film director (1909–1999)

Dara Singh

Indian professional wrestler and actor (1928-2012)

Moby

American musician, DJ and record producer

Michael Hurst

New Zealand actor, director and writer

Helena Ignez

Brazilian actress

Luchino Visconti

Italian director (1906–1976)

Lee Chang-dong

South Korean film director, screenwriter and novelist

Cate Blanchett

Australian actor and producer (born 1969)

José María Arguedas

Peruvian writer (1911–1969)

Beny Wagner

Nour El-Sherif

Egyptian actor (1946–2015)

Aruna Irani

Indian actress (b. 1946)

Marcel Duchamp

French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)

Martin Campbell

New Zealand film and television director (born 1943)

Flávio Migliaccio

Brazilian actor, film director and screenwriter

Franco Battiato

Italian singer-songwriter and musician (1945-2021)

Kim Ki-duk

South Korean film director (1960–2020)

Sam Worthington

Australian actor

Alexis Amore

pornographic performer (b. 1978)

Bewegung Nurr

Hisham Abdel Khalek

film producer, director and scriptwriter

Amal Neerad

Indian cinematographer, film director, and producer

Leonard Nimoy

American actor (1931–2015)

Lucy Lawless

New Zealand actress

Bruno Barreto

Brazilian film director (born 1955)

Federico Fellini

Italian filmmaker (1920–1993)

Jo Eun-ji

South Korean actress

Bill Viola

Farid Shawqi

Egyptian actor, screenwriter, and film producer (1920–1998)

Ajay Devgn

Indian film actor, director and producer

Harold Lloyd

American actor and comedian (1893–1971)

Kerry Fox

New Zealand actress (born 1966)

Adriana Calcanhotto

Brazilian composer and singer

Carlo Lizzani

Italian film director, screenwriter and critic (1922-2013)

Jenna Ushkowitz

Korean-American actress and singer

Chantal Akerman

Ashraf Fahmy

Egyptian film director (1936–2001)

Aishwarya R. Dhanush

Indian classical dancer and playback singer

Dennis Hopper

American actor and film director (1936–2010)

Jane Campion

New Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1954)

Christiane Torloni

Brazilian actress

Andrei Tarkovsky

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)

Koo Hye-sun

South Korean actress, director and singer

Christiaan Tonnis

Daoud Abdel Sayed

Egyptian director and screenwriter

A. R. Rahman

Indian composer and musician

David Lynch

American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor (1946–2025)

Fran Walsh

New Zealand screenwriter and producer

Christian Boltanski

Ahmad Abdalla

Egyptian film director

Farah Khan

Indian film director and choreographer (born 1965)

Andy Warhol

American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)

Christiane Kubrick

Ahmed Badrakhan

Egyptian film director and screenwriter (1909–1969)

Guru Dutt

Indian film director, producer, choreographer and actor (1925–1964)

Eija-Liisa Ahtila

Atef El Tayeb

Egyptian film director

M. G. Ramachandran

film actor, chief minister of Tamil Nadu (1917 – 1987)

Ella Bergmann-Michel

Atef Salem

film director

Eva Moll

Fatin Abdelwehab

Egyptian film director (1913–1972)

Georg Herold

Ovidio G. Assonitis

Egyptian show business executive, film producer, screenwriter, and film director

Hannah Wilke

Harry Dodge

Harun Farocki

Heinrich Brocksieper

Herbert Achternbusch

Jack Smith

Jesse Richards

John Chamberlain

John Duncan

Juan Pablo Echeverri

Julian Schnabel

Julika Rudelius