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Finally, it is another year's school season, after a long period of epidemic, I believe that everyone is looking forward to the "opening of school"!
Today, the time jun will take stock of those well-known directors who graduated from famous schools.
In the United States, UCLA, the University of Southern California School of Motion Picture Arts (USC), the New York University Film School (NYU), and the three major film schools in the United States, the students who graduate from these three schools constitute almost the entire Academic system of Hollywood.
The great directors we are familiar with, such as George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee, Woody Allen, francis Coppola, etc., have graduated from these three famous schools.
Many of the directors' early masterpieces were developed from student works; some directors had a hard time getting into prestigious schools, but they dropped out of school and did not graduate successfully; and some directors were too rebellious to know how to graduate.
On the road to becoming a director, it can be said that all roads lead to Rome, but what remains unchanged is the spirit of seeking to learn and the love of film.
North America
1. University of Southern California (USC)
The USC School of Motion Picture Arts is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious film school in the United States. Located in Los Angeles, close to Hollywood, its excellent location has become a major advantage for the school, and the number of alumni who have won Oscars is the number of Oscars in the United States.
George Lucas (b. 1944)
George Lucas is probably usc's most influential alumnus, and the Star Wars franchise has made him famous overseas. In 2006, Lucas announced a $175 million donation to the College, the largest individual donation the College had ever received.
In the 1960s, Lucas entered USC to study film, where he made several short films, including an early version of THX1138, which later became his first feature film.
A group of filmmakers who studied at USC in the mid-to-late '60s, including George Lucas, Walter Murch (a famous editor), Hal Barwood (screenwriter of Contact OF THE THIRD), John Milieus (screenwriter of "Apocalypse Now"), known as "The Dirty Dozen", all of them have achieved great success in the Hollywood industrial system with technological innovation.
Interestingly, a director once took Lucas's study story in USC as a model and made a short film called "Lucas Love History".
Ron Howard (b. 1954)
He won the Oscar for "A Beautiful Mind", winning best director and best picture, and "The Da Vinci Code" made audiences around the world remember him. Ron Howard studied film at USC but did not get his diploma. Still, the USC listed him as an honorary alumnus.
He also participated in the Star Wars series of films by senior Lucas, and in 2017 filmed "Ranger Solo: A Star Wars Story", but this movie is "recognized" as the worst of "Star Wars" in terms of both word-of-mouth and box office.
Robert Zemeckis (b. 1952)
Robert Zemeckis's notable works are the sci-fi film Back to the Future and the live-action animated film Who Framed Roger the Rabbit. In 1994, he won the Academy Award for Best Director for "Forrest Gump".
Zemeckis has said that his classes at USC were very difficult, and that professors always preached to them how difficult it was to hang out in the film industry, but he was not upset by it.
While at school, he became good friends with Bob Gayle (screenwriter of the Back to the Future series).
He once recalled, "The USC graduate students all had an intellectualistic tendency, so bob and I were attracted to each other because we both wanted to make Hollywood-style movies." We have no interest in the French New Wave. "Later, he did have great success in the mainstream Hollywood film industry.
Matt Reeves (b. 1966)
Matt Reeves is the director of the last two parts of the Rise of the Apes trilogy, which has sold well around the world and has his name remembered by audiences around the world.
While in school, he co-wrote a screenplay with others, which later developed into the film "Hidden Dragon 2" starring Stephen Siege, and he was one of the signed screenwriters.
In addition, some of USC's teachers have had a profound influence on him, and a few years ago he tweeted in memory of his deceased teacher David Shepard, "I will never forget his silent film class at USC." He was a great teacher and gave so much to the film. ”
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2. New York University (NYU)
New York University is located in new York, the center of contemporary art, backed by Broadway, so that NYU Film School has long been in the position of USC.
Ang Lee (b. 1954)
Ang Lee and NYU's sister Yan Zheng'an
After graduating from the National Taiwan College of the Arts, Ang Lee went to the United States to study drama at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he successfully earned a bachelor's degree, and then went on to study for a master's degree in film production at New York University. At that time, Ang Lee and Spike Lee, who later became famous, were classmates and participated in his graduation thesis film.
While studying at New York University, Ang Lee completed the 16mm short film Shades of the Lake, which won the Taiwan Golden Spike Award for Best Drama Short Film. His own graduation work, Fine Line, is a 43-minute feature film that won the New York University Warseman Award for Best Director and Best Picture.
Compared with some young directors who became famous at a young age, Ang Lee, who became a family cook for six years after obtaining a master's degree from New York University, came to prominence with "Pusher", which is a late bloom.
This hard-won rise could have been even later, because despite the generous invitation of Xu Ligong, the vice president and production manager of China Film in Taiwan at the time, and promised a budget of 12 million Taiwan dollars, Ang Lee, who had left Taiwan to study in the United States for ten years, hesitated.
He feared that the unarted and unproductive Pusher would allow him to practice his sword for ten years, only to be hacked to death in his first battle down the mountain. Until later Hou Xiaoxian said: "I used to only have eight million, we also shoot, there is a chance to shoot!" Only then did Ang Lee make up his mind to sign a contract to shoot.
After the advent of "Pusher", it won nine Golden Horse Award nominations, which made Ang Lee a successful name, out of the long-term economic difficulties since the film, and began his career as a director of independent film production.
Martin Scorsese (b. 1942)
In the 1960s, Martin Scorsese entered the film department of New York University, and during his studies, at a time when the European art film movement was surging, the more innovative and free-spirited European films that had a huge impact on Scorsese began to imitate and shoot short films in a similar style.
He made three short films during his college days, "What Is Such a Good Girl Here" (1963), "It's Not Just You, Murray!" (1964) and Shaving (1967), of which the anti-Vietnam War theme of "Shaving" is the most famous.
Martin Scorsese has not only made serious films such as "Taxi Driver" and "Angry Bull" that have become classics in film history, but also excelled at making blockbuster commercial films such as "Confinement Island" and "The Wolf of Wall Street". Martin Scorsese won best director at the 79th Academy Awards for Infernal Walker.
In 2020, Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman", although it is a dozen and zero Oscars, still does not affect the interest of the old man, he will work with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro on the new film "Flower Moon Killer", which will be a Western.
Woody Allen (born 1935)
Woody Allen is known for his speed and voluminous film productions, and he has directed more than 50 films.
After graduating from high school, Woody Allen enrolled in film at New York University, dropped out of a course called "filmmaking," and then went to another university but didn't make it through a semester. Eventually he decided to teach himself.
It is not the most difficult to shoot a romantic little fresh, it is rare to be romantic at the age of 80 - 83-year-old Woody Allen can also make a work like "A Rainy Day in New York", under the change of dim lights, New York time and space is like jazz music.
However, due to the controversial relationship with his adopted daughter, Woody Allen was still "tracked down" in his later years. Under the #MeToo# anti-sexual assault movement, the old story was repeated, no American company was willing to release his film, and finally european studios saved the film.
Oliver Stone (b. 1946)
If people think of academic directors as mainstream and meticulous as Spielberg's films, oliver Stone can definitely break that stereotype.
Many of his films have been controversial, with The Assassination of Kennedy and George W. Bush being controversial for its political stance, while Born Killer is considered one of the most controversial films of all time for its unbridled violence and theme subverting mainstream moral ideas.
Oliver Stone returned from the Vietnamese army to study at New York University and earned a bachelor's degree in film in 1971, one of his teachers was Martin Scorsese.
He once mentioned in an interview that he had not figured out why he was going to New York University to study film, and the main driving force behind it was "feeling that I didn't have a college degree and that there was a welfare policy for veterans that could pay 80 percent of tuition."
3. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
The UCLA School of Drama, Film and Television is known as a film paradise for public universities. UCLA and the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, the New York University School of Film, and the three major film schools in the United States, the students who graduated from these three schools, together with the above-mentioned School of Cinematic Arts, constitute almost the entire Hollywood academic system.
Francis Coppola (b. 1939)
Coppola directed the Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now and Four Hundred Years of Vampire. He was fascinated by cinema from an early age, and at the age of 17 he entered the drama department of the Hofstra Academy, where he could do almost anything while attending on-campus theatrical performances.
After graduating from college, Coppola entered the California Film Institute to specialize in film, directing several short films during her studies. During this time, he was hired on the film crew of Hollywood director Roger Coleman as a handyman.
Coppola and Jim Morrison were classmates at UCLA, and Morrison later became the lead singer of the famous rock band "Gates".
Starting with Coppola, a graduate of the California Film School, he started as a screenwriter, but his talent was not discovered by the public at first. It wasn't until 1970, when he won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay for "General Patton," that he finally gained social recognition.
Lin Yibin (born 1971)
Lin Yibin was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the United States with his family as a child. His best-known works include the Fast and Furious series and Star Trek III: Beyond the Stars.
His latest work is "Fast and Furious 9", which has been successful for 19 years, and the final chapter of the series, "Rapid 10", will also be directed by him.
In Lin Yibin's view, "the school's film education has given me nourishment, letting me understand to some extent what it is like to make movies." But in fact, how to make a movie after graduation is another matter. ”
When talking about the secret of his success, Lin Yibin once said: "The most important thing is to have your own point of view - this is also the consistent style of UCLA. It can be said that UCLA graduate filmmakers do not forget to maintain an independent attitude even when working for large studios. ”
4. American Film Institute (AFI)
AFI is not a university in the traditional sense, it is a professional vocational education institution under the American Film Institute, which only offers graduate degree education and only the most important majors in the six film production processes of directing, screenwriting, production, editing, fine arts and photography.
Most applicants to the American Film Academy have experience in the Hollywood industry or have considerable field experience.
David Lynch (b. 1946)
Ghost director David Lynch artistically interpreted Freud's theories of unconsciousness and sexual repression through films such as "Rubberhead", "Blue Velvet", and "Mulholland Road". His films are fragmented on the surface, like dreams, but they reflect people's deep complexes and desires.
Lynch was awarded a $5,000 scholarship to study at the American Film Institute, and his graduation project later grew into the film Eraserhead (1977). In June 2012, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the American Film Institute.
Patti Jenkins (born 1971)
With the success of Wonder Woman, Patti Jenkins has become one of Hollywood's brightest female directors, and before that she was unknown, most famously in her 2003 debut" The Witch, starring Charlize Theron.
Jenkins received his master's degree in directing from AFI in 2000. After her current success, the academy's official website posted congratulations, saying that the college "has always been committed to gender balance in the film industry: nearly half of the students at AFI are women."
Darren Aronofsky (b. 1969)
Darren graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a study of social anthropology and film, and then joined AFI to earn an MFA Master of Arts degree, where his classmates include Doug Erlin, Scott Slieve, Mark Waters and other well-known filmmakers.
Films directed by Darren Aronofsky, such as Pi, Requiem for Dreams, Wrestler, and Black Swan, all have a common trait: obsessive-compulsive people who are obstinate, and his films show the state of these people's existence.
He once worked with his girlfriend "big cousin" Jennifer Lawrence on the film "Mother", which was criticized after its release, provoking a fierce reaction from critics and audiences.
5. Columbia University
Columbia university is the only Ivy League school among the five.
Catherine Bigelow (b. 1951)
Catherine Bigelow beat her ex-husband James Cameron's Avatar at the Academy Awards for "Bomb Disposal Force", winning many awards such as Best Picture and Best Director, and became the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director.
She studied film theory and criticism at Columbia University, where her professors include vito Arkenzie and Susan Sontag, among others.
She once confessed that her deep understanding of film theory also had a great impact on her directing films. By the time she entered Columbia, she already had considerable talent for painting, and she studied at the San Francisco Art Institute for two years before deciding to become a filmmaker.
Spielberg – University of California, Long Beach
Spielberg has been in the industry for decades, producing a number of classic Hollywood movies, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series, "Schindler's List", "Saving Private Ryan", "Jurassic Park", "Artificial Intelligence", etc., all of which are acclaimed and acclaimed films, and he has won two Oscars for best director so far.
In 1965, at the age of 19, Spielberg entered California State University, Long Beach. After entering college, he wandered through the various studios and production workshops of Universal Pictures, and gradually became familiar with the production process and skills of Hollywood. This school cannot be called a prestigious school, it is just a springboard in the life of a big director.
During his time at the school, Spielberg's short film film , the 24-minute "Ampering " , attracted the attention of the head of Universal, who signed a 7-year directing contract with Spielberg, and he dropped out of his sophomore year and officially entered the film industry.
Although Spielberg was later awarded an honorary doctorate from Yale University, he has been bitter about the bachelor's degree he did not get. In 2003, Spielberg dragged on for more than 30 years for the undergraduate graduation ceremony, and finally held.
Interestingly, he edited a clip of his Oscar-winning "Schindler's List" and passed the college filmmaking exam.
Imagine if you were a teacher but your student was Spielberg, what would it feel like? And if you're a student and your classmates turn in Schindler's List as homework, how would you feel?
World Chapter
1. Australian Academy of Film, Television and Broadcasting
Jane Campion
"Piano Farewell" director Jane Campion graduated from here. "Piano Farewell" won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Director. She is also the second female director in The History of the Academy Award to be nominated for Best Director and is still the only female director at the Cannes Film Festival to win the Palme d'Or.
2. Beijing Film Academy
Zhang Yimou
It has been called "the cradle of Chinese film talents". The fifth generation of directors (Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Gu Changwei, etc.) who have pushed Chinese films internationally, as well as the sixth generation of directors who have wandered outside the mainstream (Jia Zhangke, Wang Xiaoshuai, Lou Ye, etc.), are all from the Beijing Film Academy.
They do not necessarily come from the directing department, such as Zhang Yimou who studied photography, and Jia Zhangke who graduated from the literature department.
3. Mexican Film Training Center (CCC)
Alfonso Cuarón
CCC and CUEC (Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos) are two of Mexico's most prestigious film schools. Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón, who directed Gravity, tried to study at CCC, but was rejected because he was under 24 and had to enter CUEC to study film.
4. Italian Film Experiment Center
Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni graduated here. A group of Italian neorealist directors, represented by Giuseppe de Santis, also graduated from this school.
5. Prague Film Academy (FAMU)
Emile Kusturica
Almost all of the directors who topped the 100 czech film charts were born at the Prague Film Academy, including Milos Foreman, director of "Flying Over the Madhouse", and Emil Kusturica, director of "The Fantastic Life of a Milk Delivery Man". The former won two Academy Awards for Best Director, and the latter won two Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Compared with these academic directors who come from the class, there are also many big directors who are not from the class.
In addition to the aforementioned Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie both dropped out of school at the age of fifteen or sixteen, James Cameron studied physics in college, Christopher Nolan studied English literature, and Sergio Leone and David Finch chose to learn by doing—early on set.
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