Vittorio de Sica
Italian-born Bernardo Bertolucci, who won the Oscar for Best Director for The Last Emperor (1987).
I believe that Steven Spielberg is best known as a writer and film director.
Kathyrn Bigelow
Lex Steele also known as Lexington Steel is best known as an award winning American pornographic actor. He is also the director and director of the Mercenary Motion Pictures and Black Viking Pictures Inc.
Actor/director
Tim Burton
Zombie films
Carl Reiner was probably best known as an actor in films and television, but he was also a director. He may be best known for his performances on "Your Show of Shows".
Lina Wertmuller
Kathryn Bigelow has so far become the only woman to win the Best Director Oscar for her work on the 2009 film "The Hurt Locker." Sofia Coppola was nominated for Best Director for the 2003 movie, "Lost in Translation." Italian director Lina Wertmüller was nominated for Best Director in 1976 for "Seven Beauties." New Zealand's Jane Campion was nominated for Best Director for "The Piano" in 1993 (she won an Oscar that same year for Best Original Screenplay).
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Nino Cerruti is best known for being an Italian businessman and a stylist. Nino Cerruti is most famous for founding the Italian fashion house known as Cerruti.