Screen Door's success attracting celebrated directors and stars is directly linked to their commitment to the script.

The situation can only be worse for the other, less celebrated directors of this financially impoverished but creatively rich national cinema.

Sturges was the first Hollywood screenwriter to also establish himself as a celebrated director.

Among the many celebrated directors of Italian and international cinema Zavattini worked with in his more than 80 films are:

"It's not that people don't want to go out to the movies," said Jiang Wen, one of the country's most celebrated directors and actors.

In his swan song, the celebrated director once again proved why his legacy will be hard to match.

AS a child, George Stevens Jr. loved to hang around the movie sets where his father, the celebrated director, was working.

Many celebrated directors have been influenced by Kurosawa and/or have expressed admiration for his work.

Mr. Kazan is at once a celebrated director and, to many minds, the unforgivable informer nonpareil.

Ramu Karyat went on to become a celebrated director in the 1960s and 1970s.