The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Singapore
This page contains a list of the greatest Singaporean Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Singapore. This makes Singapore the birth place of the 97th most number of Film Directors behind Mongolia, and Uruguay.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Singaporean Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Singaporean Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Louis Theroux (b. 1970)
With an HPI of 34.53, Louis Theroux is the most famous Singaporean Film Director. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Louis Sebastian Theroux (; born 20 May 1970) is a British-American documentarian, journalist, broadcaster, and author. He has received three British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award. After graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, Theroux moved to the United States and worked as a journalist for Metro Silicon Valley and Spy. He moved into television as the presenter of offbeat segments on Michael Moore's TV Nation series. Theroux is known for his numerous documentaries with the BBC, beginning with Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends (1998–2000), followed by When Louis Met... (2000–2002) and 50 BBC Two specials (2003–present). His work includes studies of unusual and taboo subcultures, crime and the justice system, and celebrities. The majority of his documentaries are set in the United States, but he has also studied cultures in South Africa, Israel, Nigeria, and the UK. The New Yorker described Theroux's work as "a piercingly humane, slyly funny guide through the funkier passages of American culture".
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Singaporean film directors born between 1970 and 1970. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Singaporean film directors include Louis Theroux.
