List of Turkish film directors
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This is a List of Turkish
film directors.
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film directors.
- Kerem Topuz - Film director
- Ömer Lütfi AkadÖmer Lütfi AkadÖmer Lütfi Akad, aka Lütfi Ömer Akad, was a Turkish film director, who directed movies from 1948-1974. In 1949, he debuted as a film director with Vurun Kahpeye an adaptation of Halide Edip Adıvar's book of the same title. He became one of the pioneers of the period in the "Director Generation"...
- Film director - Fatih AkınFatih AkinFatih Akın is a German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent.- Personal life :Akın was born in 1973 in Hamburg to parents of Turkish ethnicity...
- German film Director of Turkish descent - Zeki AlasyaZeki AlasyaZeki Alasyam is a Turkish actor and director. Alasya is of Turkish Cypriot descent and is the cousin of Kıbrıslı Mehmed Kamil Pasha....
- Film director, actor - Mustafa AltıoklarMustafa AltioklarMustafa Altıoklar is a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter.He was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1958. His childhood house overlooked a projection room, owned by the Board of Censors, where the members of the board were cutting the films...
- Film director, producer - Remzi Aydın JöntürkRemzi Aydin JöntürkRemzi Aydın Jöntürk was a prominent Turkish film director, actor, screenwriter, producer as well as a sculptor and a paint artist...
, Film Director, (1938-1988) - Kutluğ AtamanKutlug AtamanKutluğ Ataman is a filmmaker and contemporary artist. He lives in Istanbul.-Life and career:Kutluğ Ataman received his school education in Istanbul before doing his university studies in the US. His interest in film started an early age, and led him to do film studies at UCLA where he graduated...
- Film director - Tunç BaşaranTunç BasaranTunç Başaran is a Turkish screenwriter, film director, film producer and actor.- Biography :After attending the Faculty of Literature for a while he left school and started working as a script writer for the director Memduh Ün. He then continued to be the assistant of Memduh Ün for a long time...
- Film director - Nuri Bilge CeylanNuri Bilge CeylanNuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish photographer and film director. He is married to the filmmaker, photographer, and actress Ebru Ceylan, his co-star in İklimler .-Life:Ceylan learned photography at age 15, and developed an interest in film at 22....
- Film Director - Sinan ÇetinSinan ÇetinSinan Çetin is a Turkish actor, film director, and producer.Çetin was born as the son of a customs officer and studied art history at Hacettepe University. Çetin has produced full-length films and television series, and foremost, commercials...
- Film director - Zeki DemirkubuzZeki DemirkubuzZeki Demirkubuz is a contemporary Turkish film director, screenwriter, producer and film editor.- Biography :...
- Film director - Haldun DormenHaldun DormenHaldun Dormen is a famous Turkish theatre, movie and TV series actor and film director. Dormen is of Turkish Cypriot descent.- Biography :...
- Film director, actor - Ertem EğilmezErtem EgilmezErtem Eğilmez was a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter. He is known as the name behind some of the most popular films in Turkish film history...
- Film director, (1929-1989) - Reha ErdemReha ErdemReha Erdem is an award-winning Turkish film director and screenwriter.-Biography:He attended Galatasaray High School and he studied history at Boğaziçi University before leaving to study film in 1983. He obtained a B.A. in Cinema Studies and an M.A...
- Film director - Yılmaz ErdoğanYilmaz ErdoganYılmaz Erdoğan is a Turkish filmmaker, actor and poet, who is most famous for his box-office record-breaking debut comedy film Vizontele and the television series Bir Demet Tiyatro ....
- Film director, actor - Metin ErksanMetin ErksanMetin Erksan is a Turkish film director and art historian.- Biography :...
- Film director - Muhsin ErtuğrulMuhsin ErtugrulMuhsin Ertuğrul , aka Ertuğrul Muhsin Bey, was a Turkish actor and director.Muhsin Ertuğrul, who had important contributions to both Turkish theatre and Turkish cinema, was born in İstanbul on March 7, 1892...
- Film director, (1892-1979) - Şerif GörenSerif GörenŞerif Gören is a Turkish film director. Aside from important films under his own signature, he is also the winner of the Palme d'Or award in Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for the film Yol, which he had directed on behalf of Yılmaz Güney, who at the time was serving a prison sentence for the murder...
- Film director - Yılmaz GüneyYilmaz GüneyYılmaz Güney, was a Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor from Turkey. Many of his works are devoted to the plight of ordinary, working class people in Turkey.- Biography :...
- Film director - Çağan IrmakCagan IrmakÇağan Irmak is a Turkish film and television writer and director, who has managed to attract a large audience in Turkey and is best known for the TV series Çemberimde Gül Oya and Asmalı Konak , and for the hit films Alone and My Father and My Son , for which he received Turkish Cinema Writers...
- Film director - Çetin İnançÇetin InançÇetin İnanç is a Turkish film director who has directed movies for the past five decades.- Biography :Born in Ankara in 1941, Inanç spent his youth pursuing a career in Law. He later abandoned his career in law. He began his cinema career as the assistant of well-known Turkish director Atıf...
- Film director - Türker İnanoğluTürker InanogluTürker İnanoğlu is a Turkish screenwriter, film director and producer.-Life:...
- Film director - Sabri KalicSabri KalicSabri Kaliç, born on May 19, 1966 in İzmir, Turkey is a Turkish film director, experimental film producer and writer.After receiving his BA in film directing from the Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi in İzmir, he moved to Istanbul in 1992. Having served acclaimed Turkish film director Sinan Çetin as an...
- Film director - Semih KaplanoğluSemih KaplanogluSemih Kaplanoğlu is a Turkish playwright, film director and producer.-Career:He graduated from the Cinema and Television Section of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Dokuz Eylül University in his hometown...
- Film director - Ömer KavurÖmer KavurÖmer Kavur was a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed 14 films between 1974 and 2003. His film Gece Yolculuğu was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival...
- Film director, (1944-2005) - Zülfü LivaneliZülfü LivaneliÖmer Zülfü Livanelioğlu is a popular Turkish folk musician , a novelist, newspaper columnist and a film director who has been highly popular for decades...
- Film director, composer - Ali ÖzgentürkAli ÖzgentürkAli Özgentürk is a renowned Turkish film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was born in 1947 in Adana, Turkey. After studying philosophy and sociology at Istanbul University, he became involved in theater, as an actor, director, and playwright. He founded Istanbul's first street theater...
- Film director - Ferzan ÖzpetekFerzan ÖzpetekFerzan Özpetek is an Italian-Turkish film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy.- Biography :Ferzan Ozpetek was born in Istanbul in 1959. When he was a young student in 1976, he decided to move to Italy to study Cinema History at Sapienza University of Rome...
- Film Director - Zeki Ökten - Film director
- Yavuz ÖzkanYavuz ÖzkanYavuz Özkan is a Turkish professional footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Bursaspor in the Süper Lig.-Life and career:...
- Film director - Halit RefiğHalit RefigHalit Refiğ was a Turkish film director, film producer, screenwriter and writer. He made around sixty films, including feature films, documentaries and TV serials...
- Film director, (1934-2009) - Emre ŞahinEmre SahinEmre Sahin is a Turkish film and television director in Los Angeles, California and Istanbul, Turkey. Sahin is an experienced director, cinematographer, and editor whose award-winning short film Canta won Best Cinematography at the Beverly Hills Film Festival, Audience Choice Award at the West...
, film director - Osman Fahir SedenOsman Fahir SedenOsman Fahir Seden usually credited as Osman F. Seden was a Turkish film director, screenwriter and film producer.He directed and wrote for over 120 films between 1955 and 1987.-References:...
- Film director, (1924-1998) - Osman SınavOsman SınavOsman Sınav is a Turkish director, producer and screenwriter.-Biography:He studied Art at the İstanbul State Fine Arts Academy and also finished courses there in Textile Design as well as cinema and television. From 1979-1980, he worked as a copywriter, and from 1980-1984 in the Grafika Lintas...
- Film director - Türkan ŞorayTürkan Soray- Biography :Türkan Şoray was born to a government official father, Halit Şoray and her mother, Meliha Şoray, was a housewife. She has one younger sister Nazan, who is also an actress in her own right but is nowhere near as famous as Türkan. After the birth of her younger sister, Türkan's parents...
- Actress and film director - Kartal TibetKartal TibetKartal Tibet is a Turkish actor and film director. Some of his famous films include Ölmeyen Aşk, Dağlar Kızı, Senede Bir Gün, Sultan, Zübük, Gol Kralı, Gol Krale and Şalvar Davası. Tibet is also known for his action roles, especially that of the title character in the Karaoğlan and Tarkan film...
- Film director, actor - Yavuz TurgulYavuz TurgulYavuz Turgul is a Turkish film director and screenwriter, who is best known for his box-office hit The Bandit and who has won the Golden Orange for Best Screenplay four times for Abbas in Flower , The Agha , Mr. Muhsin and The Shadow Play ; Golden Oranges for Best Film for Mr...
- Film director - Fuat UzkınayFuat UzkinayFuat Uzkınay was the first Turkish filmmaker.After finishing İstanbul Highschool, he took physics and chemistry classes at İstanbul University. While he started to work at a high school as a principal, there was a growing interest in cinema among the Ottomans...
- Film director, (1889-1956) - Memduh ÜnMemduh ÜnMemduh Ün is a Turkish film producer, director, actor and screenwriter. His film The Broken Pots was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:...
- Film director - Mennan YapoMennan YapoMennan Yapo is an award winning German director, screenwriter, producer and actor of Turkish descent.Born in Munich to Turkish parents, Yapo has been in the film business since 1988, at first working in various assistant jobs and as a publicist....
, director, screenwriter, producer and actor - Atıf YılmazAtif YilmazAtıf Yılmaz Batıbeki was a renowned Turkish Kurdish film director, screenwriter and film producer. He was almost a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He also wrote 53 screenplays and produced 28 movies since 1951. He was active in almost every period of the Turkish...
- Film director, (1925-2006) - Derviş ZaimDervis ZaimDerviş Zaim is a Turkish Cypriot filmmaker and novelist, who has twice won the Golden Orange for Best Director for Elephants and Grass and Dot ; Golden Oranges for Best Film and Best Screenplay for Somersault in a Coffin ; and the Yunus Nadi literary prize for his debut novel Ares in Wonderland...
(born 1964), novelist and filmmaker (Turkish Cypriot)