César Award winners

Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)

Swedish director and screenwriter (1918–2007)

Heywood "Woody" Allen is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and comedian. In a career spanning eight decades, he has written for film, television, and theater. Allen has received many accolades, including the most wins and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has won four Academy Awards, ten BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for an Emmy Award and a Tony Award. Allen has also received numerous honors, including an Honorary Golden Lion in 1995, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, an Honorary Palme d'Or in 2002, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2014. Two of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

David Keith Lynch was an American filmmaker, producer, actor, painter, and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective "Lynchian". In a career spanning more than five decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Honorary Award, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival, a Palme d'Or and Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, two César Awards, and a (posthumous) Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and nine Primetime Emmy Awards.

Spanish filmmaker (born 1949)

Italian film director and screenwriter (1941–2018)

American filmmaker and author (born 1954)

American filmmaker (born 1971)

Chinese-born Hong Kong filmmaker (born 1958)

English film director and screenwriter (born 1936)

American film director, screenwriter and producer (1922-2010)

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

2003 film directed by Wolfgang Becker

Russian film director, screenwriter and actor (born 1964)

Italian film director (1916-2008)

filmmaker (1941-2011)

Belgian director and writer

Dutch animator

American film directors and producers

Spanish filmmaker (born 1982)

French film director (born 1968)

director and filmmaker