FILM DIRECTOR

Arthur Cohn

1927 - 2025

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Arthur Cohn (4 February 1927 – 12 December 2025) was a Swiss film producer and a multiple Academy Award winner. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Cohn is the 842nd most popular film director (down from 340th in 2024), the 435th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 176th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swiss Film Director.

Arthur Cohn was a Swiss independent film producer renowned for winning six Academy Awards—more than any other independent producer in history—including three for Best Documentary Feature and three for films that won Best Foreign Language Film. He is particularly celebrated for producing the acclaimed Holocaust-era drama The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970), which earned the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Arthur Cohn ranks 842 out of 2,041. Before him are Pyotr Chardynin, Ronald Neame, Alexandre Trauner, Grigory Chukhray, Henri Decoin, and Ruben Östlund. After him are Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Gianni Amelio, Gregory Hoblit, Frederick Wiseman, Aleksei Balabanov, and Alexander Rou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Arthur Cohn ranks 258. Before him are Simin Behbahani, Elisabeth Söderström, Edmund Szoka, Jarl Kulle, Piero Tosi, and Luis Rijo. After him are John Cranko, Althea Gibson, Johan Ferner, Dimitar Iliev Popov, Roger Carel, and Tore Svensson. Among people deceased in 2025, Arthur Cohn ranks 289. Before him are John Bryson, Alon Abutbul, Roger Norrington, Asrani, Dobromir Zhechev, and Emmanuel Kundé. After him are Julian McMahon, José Araquistáin, Yaroslav Yevdokimov, Barbie Hsu, Baldur Preiml, and Émilie Dequenne.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Arthur Cohn ranks 435 out of 1,015. Before him are Ludwig Schläfli (1814), Walter Breisky (1871), Alphons Egli (1924), Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza (1958), Justus Dahinden (1925), and Fabian Cancellara (1981). After him are Hermann Obrist (1863), Pierre Aubert (1927), Constant Fornerod (1819), Vreni Schneider (1964), Johann III Bernoulli (1744), and Karl Schenk (1823).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Switzerland

Among film directors born in Switzerland, Arthur Cohn ranks 7. Before him are Alain Tanner (1929), Marc Allégret (1900), Claude Goretta (1929), Robert Frank (1924), Daniel Schmid (1941), and Henri Colpi (1921). After him are Eugeniusz Bodo (1899), Baran bo Odar (1978), and Dani Levy (1957).

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