Xavier Dolan

Xavier Dolan-Tadros

20 March 1989

Spotlight (2015)

"Break the story. Break the silence."

Directed by Tom McCarthy
Produced by Blye Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Michael Sugar
Written by Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography: Masanobu Takayanagi
Edited by Tom McArdle
Production companies: Anonymous Content, First Look Media, Participant Media, Rocklin/Faust
Distributed by Open Road Films
Release date: 6 November 2015 (United States)
Running time: 129 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $20 million
Box office: $27.3 million

"Spotlight" is a biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. The story is about how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Produced by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole
Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., Armando Bo
Starring: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts
Music by Antonio Sánchez
Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki
Edited by Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione
Production сompany: Regency Enterprises, New Regency Pictures, M Productions, Le Grisbi Productions, TSG Entertainment, Worldview Entertainment
Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release date: 13 November 2014 (Mexico)
Running time: 119 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $18 million
Box office: $51.3 million

"Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" is a comedy–drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. The story is about Riggan Thomson, a washed-up Hollywood actor famous for playing the superhero Birdman in blockbuster movies decades earlier. He hopes to reinvent his career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver's short story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". However, is it what Riggan wants to do? And what he wants to be?

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

April 7 1939

Peter Jackson

Peter Robert Jackson 

31 October 1961

Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin

16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977

Tim Burton

Timothy Walter "Tim" Burton

25 August 1958

Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese

17 November 1942

Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg 

18 December 1946

Wes Anderson

Wesley Wales "Wes" Anderson

1 May 1969

Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky 

12 February 1969

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

26 July 1928 – 7 March 1999

Woody Allen

Allan Stewart Konigsberg

1 December 1935

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock

13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980

Black Swan (2010)

"You have to love and respect yourself before you can expect anyone else to"

Directed by Darren Aronofsky
Produced by Ari Handel, Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver
Screenplay by Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John McLaughlin
Based on the story of Andres Heinz
Starring: Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder

Music by Clint Mansell
Cinematography: Matthew Libatique
Edited by Andrew Weisblum
Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release date: September 1, 2010(Venice)
Running time: 108 minutes
Country: United States

"Black Swan" is a drama mystery thriller film directed by Darren Aronofsky. The story is about a hard-working ballerina Nina who have a chance to become a great one. The main role in "Swan Lake" of Tchaikovsky makes her feel bad: Nina can play the fragile and innocent White Swan perfectly, but dark and sensual Black Swan doesn't yield her. However, it can be embodied only by a new arrival, Lily. This thought makes Nina go crazy and the competition becomes a real nightmare.