David Fincher

David Fincher

Born: August 28, 1962
in Denver, Colorado, USA
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.

Movies for David Fincher...

The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Title: The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Character: Self
Released: February 27, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
Title: Hitchcock/Truffaut
Character: Self
Released: September 4, 2015
Type: Movie
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
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Side by Side
Title: Side by Side
Character: Self
Released: August 19, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Post-Production
Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Post-Production
Released: March 20, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: On Location - Sweden and Hollywood
Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: On Location - Sweden and Hollywood
Released: March 20, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Hard Copy
Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Hard Copy
Released: March 20, 2012
Type: Movie
This is a mock episode of the 80's-90's era tabloid show was created as part of the film's Internet promotion.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women
Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women
Character: Self
Released: March 20, 2012
Type: Movie
Cast and crew discuss the success of the novel, transitioning it to film and condensing it for the medium, and gender dynamics in Sweden.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Metal One Sheet
Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Metal One Sheet
Released: March 20, 2012
Type: Movie
A look at the process of creating a metallic poster.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Characters - Salander, Blomkvist and Vanger
Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Characters - Salander, Blomkvist and Vanger
Character: Self
Released: March 20, 2012
Type: Movie
Cast and crew, including Mara, discuss her casting.
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Exploring 'The Tree of Life'
Title: Exploring 'The Tree of Life'
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 2011
Type: Movie
A documentary on Terrence Malick and the making of his film "The Tree of Life."
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How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
Title: How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
Character: Self
Released: January 11, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Logorama
Title: Logorama
Character: Pringles Original (Voice)
Released: May 16, 2009
Type: Movie
Two cops portrayed by Michelin Men chase an armed Ronald McDonald through the streets of a fictionalized, stylized city.
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The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
Title: The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
Character: Self
Released: May 5, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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Zodiac Deciphered
Title: Zodiac Deciphered
Character: Self
Released: January 8, 2008
Type: Movie
An exhaustive behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Zodiac (2007).
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The Work of Director Mark Romanek
Title: The Work of Director Mark Romanek
Character: Self - Interviewee
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Shooting 'Panic Room'
Title: Shooting 'Panic Room'
Character: Self
Released: March 30, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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Murder by Numbers
Title: Murder by Numbers
Character: Self
Released: March 16, 2004
Type: Movie
A documentary on serial killer films.
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Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Title: Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 2, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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Full Frontal
Title: Full Frontal
Character: Film Director
Released: August 2, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Being John Malkovich
Title: Being John Malkovich
Character: Christopher Bing (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.