Directors

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1. One that supervises, controls, or manages.

2. A member of a group of persons chosen to control or govern the affairs of an institution or corporation.

3. A person who supervises the creative aspects of a dramatic production or film and instructs the actors and crew.

4. The conductor of an orchestra or chorus.

5. An electronic device that continually calculates and displays information used for firing weapons at moving targets, such as missiles or aircraft.

di·rector·ship n.

director [dɪˈrɛktə daɪ-]

1. a person or thing that directs, controls, or regulates

2. (Business / Commerce) a member of the governing board of a business concern who may or may not have an executive function

3. (Business / Professions) a person who directs the affairs of an institution, trust, educational programme, etc.

4. (Performing Arts) (Communication Arts / Broadcasting) the person responsible for the artistic and technical aspects of making a film or television programme Compare producer [4]

5. (Music / Classical Music) Music another word (esp US) for conductor [2]

directorial adj

directorially adv

directorship n

directress fem n

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Noun	1.	director - someone who controls resources and expenditures manager, managing director administrator, decision maker - someone who administers a business bank manager - manager of a branch office of a bank district manager - a manager who supervises the sales activity for a district manageress - a woman manager
	2.	director - member of a board of directors board - a committee having supervisory powers; "the board has seven members" committee member - a member of a committee
	3.	director - someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show theater director, theatre director stage director - someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a stage show supervisor - one who supervises or has charge and direction of
	4.	director - the person who directs the making of a film film director film maker, film producer, filmmaker, movie maker - a producer of motion pictures
	5.	director - the person who leads a musical group conductor, music director bandleader - the leader of a dance band bandmaster - the conductor of a band drum major - the leader of a marching band or drum corps drum majorette, majorette - a female drum major musician - artist who composes or conducts music as a profession

director

noun controller, head, leader, manager, chief, executive, chairman, boss (informal), producer, governor, principal, administrator, supervisor, organizer, baas (S. African) He is the director of the unit.

Film directors

Robert Aldrich (U.S.), Woody Allen (U.S.), Pedro Almódovar (Spanish), Robert Altman (U.S.), Lindsay Anderson (British), Michelangelo Antonioni (Italian), Gillian Armstrong (Australian), Anthony Asquith (English), Richard Attenborough (British), John Badham (U.S.), Warren Beatty (U.S.), Ingmar Bergman (Swedish), Bernardo Bertolucci (Italian), Luc Besson (French), Peter Bogdanovich (U.S.), John Boorman (English), Robert Bresson (French), Peter Brook (British), Mel Brooks (U.S.), Luis Buñuel (Spanish), Tim Burton (U.S.), James Cameron (U.S.), Jane Campion (New Zealander), Frank Capra (U.S), John Carpenter (U.S.), Marcel Carné (French), Claude Chabrol (French), René Clair (French), Jean Cocteau (French), Ethan Coen (U.S.), Joel Coen (U.S.), Francis Ford Coppola (U.S.), Roger Corman (U.S.), David Cronenberg (Canadian), Michael Curtiz (American-Hungarian), Joe Dante (U.S.), Cecil B de Mille (U.S.), Johnathan Demme (U.S.), Brian de Palma (U.S.), Vittoria De Sicca (Italian), Richard Donner (U.S.), Aleksandr Petrovitch Dovzhenko (Russian), Clint Eastwood (U.S.), Blake Edwards (U.S.), Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Russian), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (German), Federico Fellini (Italian), Victor Fleming (U.S.), Bryan Forbes (English), John Ford (U.S.), Milös Forman (Czech), Bill Forsyth (Scottish), Stephen Frears (English), William Friedkin (U.S.), Abel Gance (French), Terry Gilliam (U.S.), Jean-Luc Godard (French), Peter Greenaway (English), John Grierson (Scottish), D(avid) W(ark) Griffith (U.S.), Sacha Guitry (French), Peter Hall (English), Howard Hawks (U.S.), Werner Herzog (German), George Roy Hill (U.S.), Alfred Hitchcock (English), John Huston (U.S), James Ivory (U.S.), Peter Jackson (New Zealander), Derek Jarman (English), Neil Jordan (Irish), Chen Kaige (China), Lawrence Kasdan (U.S.), Philip Kaufman (U.S.), Elia Kazan (U.S.), Krzysztof Kieslowski (Polish), Stanley Kubrick (U.S.), Akira Kurosawa (Japanese), John Landis (U.S.), Fritz Lang (Austrian), David Lean (English), Spike Lee (U.S.), Mike Leigh (English), Richard Lester (U.S.), Barry Levinson (U.S.), Ken Loach (English), George Lucas (U.S), Sidney Lumet (U.S.), David Lynch (U.S.), Jim McBride (U.S.), Alexander Mackendrick (Scottish), Louis Malle (French), Joseph Mankiewicz (U.S.), Georges Méliès (French), Sam Mendes (English), Ismail Merchant (Indian), George Miller (Australian), Jonathon Wolfe Miller (English), Vincente Minnelli (U.S.), Kenji Mizoguchi (Japanese), Mike Nichols (American-German), Laurence Olivier (English), Max Ophüls (German), G(eorge) W(ilhelm) Pabst (German), Marcel Pagnol (French), Alan Parker (English), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian), Sam Peckinpah (U.S.), Arthur Penn (U.S), Roman Polanski (Polish), Sydney Pollack (U.S), Michael Powell (English), Otto Preminger (Austrian-U.S.), Emeric Pressburger (Hungarian), Vsevolod Pudovkin (Russian), David Puttnam (English), Satyajit Ray (Indian), Robert Redford (U.S.), Carol Reed (English), Carl Reiner (U.S.), Rob Reiner (U.S.), Edgar Reitz (German), Jean Renoir (French), Alain Resnais (French), Leni Riefenstahl (German), Guy Ritchie (English), Hal Roach (U.S.), Tim Robbins (U.S.), Nicholas Roeg (English), Eric Rohmer (France), George Romero (U.S.), Roberto Rossellini (Italian), Ken Russell (English), John Schlesinger (English), Martin Scorsese (U.S.), Ridley Scott (British), Don Siegal (U.S.), Steven Soderbergh (U.S.), Steven Spielberg (U.S.), Robert Stevenson (English), Oliver Stone (U.S.), Preston Sturges (U.S.), Quentin Tarantino (U.S.), Andrei Tarkovsky (Russian), Jacques Tati (French), Bertrand Tavernier (French), François Truffaut (French), Roger Vadim (French), Luchino Visconti (Italian), Joseph von Sternberg (Austrian-U.S.), Erich von Stroheim (Austrian-U.S.), Andrei Wajda (Polish), Peter Weir (Australian), Orson Welles (U.S.), Wim Wenders (German), Billy Wilder (Austrian-U.S.), Michael Winner (English), Robert Wise (U.S.), Zhang Yimou (Chinese), Franco Zeffirelli (Italian), Robert Zemeckis (U.S.), Fred Zinnemann (Austrian-British)

Translations

director [dɪˈrektəʳ] N [of company] → directivo/a m/f; (on board of directors) → miembro mf del consejo de administración, consejero/a m/f; [of institution, department] (also Theat, Cine, Rad, TV) → director(a) m/f
director's cut (Cine) → versión f íntegra
director general → director(a) m/f general
Director of Public Prosecutions (Brit) → Fiscal mf General del Estado
see also board D
see also executive C
see also funeral B
see also managing, music B

director [dɪˈrɛktə^r daɪˈrɛktə^r] n

[organization, educational programme, institution] → directeur/trice m/f

(= board member) → administrateur/trice m/f

(THEATRE) [play] → metteur m en scène

(CINEMA, TV) [film, programme] → réalisateur/trice m/f
director general director-general n → directeur/trice m/f général(e)
Director of Public Prosecutions n (British) → procureur mf général, procureure f générale
director of studies n → directeur/trice m/f d'études
director's chair n → fauteuil m de metteur en scène

director

(of company, institution) → Direktor(in) m(f), → Leiter(in) m(f); (Univ) → Rektor(in) m(f); director of studies → Studienberater(in) m(f); director of music → Musikdirektor(in) m(f); director of Public Prosecutions → Oberstaatsanwalt m → /-anwältin f

(Rad, TV) → Direktor(in) m(f); (Film, Theat) → Regisseur(in) m(f)

(Mil) → Richtgerät nt

director [dɪˈrɛktəʳ] n (Comm) → dirigente m/f, direttore/trice (d'azienda); (of play, film, TV programme) → regista m/f

director → مُدِير ředitel instruktør Direktor διευθυντής director johtaja directeur direktor direttore 管理者 감독 directeur direktør dyrektor director, diretor директор chef ผู้อำนวยการ direktör giám đốc 董事

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