1957 - Today
Jaco Van Dormael (born 9 February 1957) is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and playwright. His films especially focus on a respectful and sympathetic portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities. Van Dormael spent his childhood travelling around Europe, before going on to study filmmaking at the INSAS in Brussels, where he wrote and directed his first short film, Maedeli la brèche (1981), which received the Honorary Foreign Film Award at the Student Academy Awards. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jaco Van Dormael has received more than 257,930 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jaco Van Dormael is the 556th most popular film director (down from 536th in 2019), the 366th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 342nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belgian Film Director.
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Among film directors, Jaco Van Dormael ranks 556 out of 1,580. Before him are Just Jaeckin, Sergio Sollima, Jim Abrahams, Ján Kadár, Ralph Bakshi, and Paul Scheuring. After him are Segundo de Chomón, László Benedek, George Seaton, Lee Chang-dong, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, and Jennifer Lee.
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 550
1921 - 2015
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 551
1944 - Present
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 552
1918 - 1979
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 553
1938 - Present
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 554
1968 - Present
HPI: 63.14
Rank: 555
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 556
1871 - 1929
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 557
1905 - 1992
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 558
1911 - 1979
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 559
1954 - Present
HPI: 63.06
Rank: 560
1932 - Present
HPI: 63.05
Rank: 561
1971 - Present
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 562
Among people born in 1957, Jaco Van Dormael ranks 94. Before him are John Lasseter, Ray Winstone, Stefan Bellof, Steve Lukather, Bret Hart, and Antonio Cabrini. After him are Cynthia Rothrock, Robert Harris, Stephen Dillane, Jaggi Vasudev, Oliver Hirschbiegel, and William Kaelin Jr..
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 88
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 89
1957 - 1985
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 90
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 91
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 92
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 93
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 94
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.11
Rank: 95
1957 - Present
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 96
1957 - Present
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 97
1957 - Present
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 98
1957 - Present
HPI: 62.84
Rank: 99
1957 - Present
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 100
Among people born in Belgium, Jaco Van Dormael ranks 366 out of 899. Before him are Caspar Barlaeus (1584), Romelu Lukaku (1993), Gillis van Coninxloo (1544), Paul Anspach (1882), Prince Laurent of Belgium (1963), and Louis Michel (1947). After him are George Washington (1871), Hieronymus Cock (1518), Eugène Boch (1855), Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662), Arnulf, Count of Holland (951), and Adam van Noort (1562).
1584 - 1648
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 360
1993 - Present
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 361
1544 - 1607
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 362
1882 - 1981
HPI: 63.17
Rank: 363
1963 - Present
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 364
1947 - Present
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 365
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 366
1871 - 1946
HPI: 63.11
Rank: 367
1518 - 1570
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 368
1855 - 1941
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 369
1662 - 1749
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 370
951 - 993
HPI: 63.05
Rank: 371
1562 - 1641
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 372
Among film directors born in Belgium, Jaco Van Dormael ranks 3. Before him are Agnès Varda (1928) and Chantal Akerman (1950). After him are André Delvaux (1926), Raoul Servais (1928), Ulu Grosbard (1929), Benoît Lamy (1945), and Felix van Groeningen (1977).
1928 - 2019
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 1
1950 - 2015
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 2
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 3
1926 - 2002
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 4
1928 - Present
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 5
1929 - 2012
HPI: 59.24
Rank: 6
1945 - 2008
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 7
1977 - Present
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 8