Film Director

Hideaki Anno

Japanese animator and film director

1960 - today

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His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Hideaki Anno is the 341st most popular film director (down from 263rd in 2024), the 587th most popular biography from Japan (down from 360th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Film Director.

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#587 / 6,943

Hideaki Anno ranks #587 among 6,943 people in Pantheon born in Japan, inside the top 9% of that group.

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Hideaki Anno's Wikipedia page drew 840k views over the past year, 3.9× the average among Film Directors.

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Among Film Directors

Among film directors, Hideaki Anno ranks 341 out of 2,296. Before him are Steven Soderbergh, Luigi Comencini, Tex Avery, Menahem Golan, Darren Aronofsky, and Jacques Feyder. After him are Satoshi Kon, Ub Iwerks, Jean Girault, Barbet Schroeder, Francis Veber, and Jim Henson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Hideaki Anno ranks 85. Before him are Gia Carangi, Jeremy Clarkson, Pierre Littbarski, Christian Stocker, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Taneti Mamau. After him are Jennifer Grey, Gazebo, Jonas Gahr Støre, Daryl Hannah, Hiroshi Amano, and John Schneider.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideaki Anno ranks 587 out of 6,943. Before him are Saitō Makoto (1858), Rei Kawakubo (1942), Masayoshi Ōhira (1910), Tsutomu Hata (1935), Emperor Murakami (926), and Shūsaku Endō (1923). After him are Junji Ito (1963), Satoshi Kon (1963), Miho Kaneda (1950), Saichō (767), Yasuji Okamura (1884), and Shinran (1173).

Among Film Directors In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Hideaki Anno ranks 12. Before him are Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Nagisa Oshima (1932), Shohei Imamura (1926), and Mamoru Oshii (1951). After him are Satoshi Kon (1963), Makoto Shinkai (1973), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955), Kinji Fukasaku (1930), Ishirō Honda (1911), and Hirokazu Kore-eda (1962).

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