David Fincher
Also Known As: Dave Fincher , David Andrew Leo Fincher , Дэвид Финчер, 大卫·芬奇, เดวิด ฟินเชอร์, デヴィッド・フィンチャー, 데이비드 핀처, ديفيد فينشر, Девід Фінчер, دیوید فینچر
Biography: David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director. His films, mostly thrillers, have received 40 nominations at the Academy Awards, including three for him as Best Director. Born in Denver, Colorado, Fincher was interested in filmmaking at an early age. He directed numerous music videos, most notably Madonna's "Express Yourself" in 1989 and "Vogue" in 1990, both of which won him the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction. He made his feature film debut with Alien 3 (1992), which garnered mixed reviews, followed by the thriller Seven (1995), which was better received. Fincher found lukewarm success with The Game (1997) and Fight Club (1999), but the latter eventually became a cult classic. In 2002, he returned to prominence with the thriller Panic Room starring Jodie Foster. Fincher also directed Zodiac (2007), The Social Network (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and Mank (2020). For The Social Network, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and BAFTA Award for Best Direction. His biggest commercial successes are The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Gone Girl (2014), both of which grossed more than $300 million worldwide, with the former earning thirteen nominations at the Academy Awards, and eleven at the British Academy Film Awards. He also served as an executive producer and director for the Netflix series House of Cards (2013–2018) and Mindhunter (2017–2019), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the pilot episode of House of Cards. Fincher was the co-founder of Propaganda Films, a film, and music.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, USA
Birthday: August 28, 1962
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Gender: Male
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Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Overview: The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaustive detail. Many interviews with the cast and crew give us an idea of how hard of a time David Fincher had creating his first feature film, as well as present us with much information about every element that went into making this film, including how the plot and script changed drastically through filming.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-02
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Side by Side
Overview: Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-19
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Hard Copy
Overview: This is a mock episode of the 80's-90's era tabloid show was created as part of the film's Internet promotion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-20
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women
Overview: Cast and crew discuss the success of the novel, transitioning it to film and condensing it for the medium, and gender dynamics in Sweden.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-20
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Characters - Salander, Blomkvist and Vanger
Overview: Cast and crew, including Mara, discuss her casting.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-20
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: On Location - Sweden and Hollywood
Overview: A look at the necessity of shooting in Sweden, with emphasis on the country's culture, history, climate, and politics as they play central to the story-line. Also examined is the country's film industry. The supplement offers viewers a glimpse into shooting at the end of the process in Sweden and provides a very brief glimpse into the celebration that followed. It discusses the casting Armansky of actor Goran Visnjic playing the role of Salander's employer at Milton Security. Goran Visnjic works with David Fincher in shaping the character and his performance. additionally this supplement combines a look at the work and style of David Fincher along with the process of shooting some of the scenes in Martin Vanger's house.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-20
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Post-Production
Overview: Divided into several segments: A detailed examination of the editing process, centered around Fincher screening scenes from the film; in the recording studio for post-production dialogue recording; comparing the final title sequence to its earliest stages of development in a three-way composite. - viewers may also watch any off the three variations in a full-screen mode and a supplement that showcases various scenes in different stages of completion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-20
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Metal One Sheet
Overview: A look at the process of creating a metallic poster.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-20
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Murder by Numbers
Overview: A documentary on serial killer films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-16
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
Overview: Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-04
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The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Overview: Join acclaimed director David Fincher, actors Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried, and the cast and crew of MANK, for a peek behind the curtain of Netflix's black-and-white ode to Hollywood's Golden Age.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-27
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Full Frontal
Overview: A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-02
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The Alien Saga
Overview: In 1979, Alien burst onto the scene with a strong female lead in the form of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) battling the ultimate biomechanical creature. The brilliant and terrifying result reinvented the horror and science fiction genres, creating one of the most successful and celebrated film franchises in Hollywood history. This award-winning, feature-length documentary explores the series.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-13
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Exploring 'The Tree of Life'
Overview: A documentary on Terrence Malick and the making of his film "The Tree of Life."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-11
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How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
Overview: This feature-length documentary about the making of "The Social Network" goes back and forth from the elements of storytelling and long rehearsals with the cast and crew, to the shooting itself capturing the extreme attention to detail, filming locations such as Boston and LA, and David Fincher's filmmaking process.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-11
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Being John Malkovich
Overview: One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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The Work of Director Mark Romanek
Overview: More than two-dozen music-videos directed by filmmaker Mark Romanek (One-Hour Photo) are collected together in this compilation from Palm Pictures. Among the songs featured in The Work of Director Mark Romanek are "Novocaine for the Soul" by Eels, "99 Problems" by Jay-Z, and "Hurt" by Johnny Cash.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-13
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The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
Overview: A documentary about the making of David Fincher's 2008 film THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. Virtually every element in the evolution of the Fincher's film is documented here, from the project's attachment to numerous other directors during the 1990s, to its shoot in 2006 and 2007 in New Orleans, to its complex, CGI-intensive postproduction process.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-05
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Shooting 'Panic Room'
Overview: Watch David Fincher's journey of the filming process for Panic Room (2002) in this interesting documentary. We see the entire cast and crew throughout production until the final filming day. Many interviews and on-set footage inform us on how the shoot was.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-30
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Logorama
Overview: Two cops portrayed by Michelin Men chase an armed Ronald McDonald through the streets of a fictionalized, stylized city.
Genres: Animation Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-16
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Zodiac Deciphered
Overview: An exhaustive behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Zodiac (2007).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-08
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