FILM DIRECTOR

Ari Folman

1962 - Today

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Ari Folman (Hebrew: ארי פולמן; born December 17, 1962) is an Israeli film director, screenwriter, animator, and film-score composer. He directed the Oscar-nominated animated documentary film Waltz with Bashir (2008) and the live-action/animated film The Congress. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ari Folman has received more than 289,957 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ari Folman is the 814th most popular film director (up from 830th in 2019), the 254th most popular biography from Israel (down from 228th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Israeli Film Director.

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  • 290k

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  • 57.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ari Folman ranks 814 out of 2,041. Before him are Claude Miller, Edmund Goulding, Ulu Grosbard, Vladimir Gardin, Gulzar, and Matthew Vaughn. After him are Edgar Reitz, Aleksander Ford, Sion Sono, Sean S. Cunningham, Andrew Davis, and Urban Gad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Ari Folman ranks 177. Before him are Bertrand Gachot, Joan Osborne, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Nawal El Moutawakel, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, and Jack Irons. After him are Julio César Chávez, Kim Vilfort, Birgit Fischer, Rita, Choi Myung-gil, and Yuri Gidzenko.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Ari Folman ranks 254 out of 466. Before him are Amnon Lipkin-Shahak (1944), Amira Hass (1956), Nurit Peled-Elhanan (1949), Israel Finkelstein (1949), Ayelet Zurer (1969), and Nehemiah Persoff (1919). After him are Benny Morris (1948), Yossi Benayoun (1980), Yaakov Neeman (1939), Joseph Raz (1939), Ilanit (1947), and Elia Suleiman (1960).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Israel

Among film directors born in Israel, Ari Folman ranks 6. Before him are Amos Gitai (1950), Assi Dayan (1945), Menahem Golan (1929), Ralph Bakshi (1938), and Avi Arad (1948). After him are Elia Suleiman (1960), Hany Abu-Assad (1961), Samuel Maoz (1962), Oren Peli (1970), and Etan Cohen (1974).

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