1899 - 1970
Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (Russian: Лев Владимирович Кулешов; 13 January [O.S. 1 January] 1899 – 29 March 1970) was a Russian and Soviet filmmaker and film theorist, one of the founders of the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School. He was given the title People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1969. He was intimately involved in development of the style of film making known as Soviet montage, especially its psychological underpinning, including the use of editing and the cut to emotionally influence the audience, a principle known as the Kuleshov effect. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Kuleshov has received more than 185,320 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Lev Kuleshov is the 168th most popular film director (up from 190th in 2019), the 328th most popular biography from Russia (up from 377th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Film Director.
Lev Kuleshov was a Russian filmmaker who is most famous for his editing technique called the Kuleshov Effect. He found that when a shot of a person was placed next to a shot of food, the viewer would focus on the food, but when the shot of the person was next to a shot of an object, the viewer would focus on the person.
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Among film directors, Lev Kuleshov ranks 168 out of 1,580. Before him are Nikita Mikhalkov, Robert Wise, Guy Ritchie, Lewis Milestone, Nagisa Oshima, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. After him are Marco Ferreri, Robert Aldrich, Blake Edwards, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Francesco Rosi, and Jesús Franco.
1945 - Present
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 162
1914 - 2005
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 163
1968 - Present
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 164
1895 - 1980
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 165
1932 - 2013
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 166
1909 - 1993
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 167
1899 - 1970
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 168
1928 - 1997
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 169
1918 - 1983
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 170
1922 - 2010
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 171
1953 - Present
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 172
1922 - 2015
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 173
1930 - 2013
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 174
Among people born in 1899, Lev Kuleshov ranks 40. Before him are Suzanne Lenglen, Bronislav Kaminski, P. L. Travers, James Cagney, Georg von Békésy, and Jean Moulin. After him are Georges Auric, Chang Myon, Ferhat Abbas, Lucio Fontana, Sobhuza II, and Philipp Bouhler. Among people deceased in 1970, Lev Kuleshov ranks 47. Before him are Bourvil, Percy Spencer, E. M. Forster, Italo Gariboldi, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, and Władysław Anders. After him are Sonny Liston, Erich Heckel, Kiyoo Kanda, B. H. Liddell Hart, Jean Giono, and Francis Peyton Rous.
1899 - 1938
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 34
1899 - 1944
HPI: 70.77
Rank: 35
1899 - 1996
HPI: 70.67
Rank: 36
1899 - 1986
HPI: 70.56
Rank: 37
1899 - 1972
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 38
1899 - 1943
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 39
1899 - 1970
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 40
1899 - 1983
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 41
1899 - 1966
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 42
1899 - 1985
HPI: 69.90
Rank: 43
1899 - 1968
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 44
1899 - 1982
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 45
1899 - 1945
HPI: 69.78
Rank: 46
1917 - 1970
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 41
1894 - 1970
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 42
1879 - 1970
HPI: 70.87
Rank: 43
1879 - 1970
HPI: 70.85
Rank: 44
1893 - 1970
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 45
1892 - 1970
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 46
1899 - 1970
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 47
1932 - 1970
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 48
1883 - 1970
HPI: 69.79
Rank: 49
1900 - 1970
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 50
1895 - 1970
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 51
1895 - 1970
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 52
1879 - 1970
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 53
Among people born in Russia, Lev Kuleshov ranks 328 out of 2,688. Before him are Nikolai Rubinstein (1835), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), Jani Beg (1300), Mathilde Kschessinska (1872), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), and Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797). After him are Otto Nicolai (1810), Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924), Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673), Sergey Ilyushin (1894), and Georgy Chicherin (1872).
1835 - 1881
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 322
1931 - Present
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 323
1300 - 1357
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 324
1872 - 1971
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 325
1810 - 1881
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 326
1797 - 1870
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 327
1899 - 1970
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 328
1810 - 1849
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 329
1823 - 1886
HPI: 70.13
Rank: 330
1924 - 2007
HPI: 70.13
Rank: 331
1673 - 1729
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 332
1894 - 1977
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 333
1872 - 1936
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 334
Among film directors born in Russia, Lev Kuleshov ranks 5. Before him are Andrei Tarkovsky (1932), Konstantin Stanislavski (1863), Andrei Konchalovsky (1937), and Nikita Mikhalkov (1945). After him are Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Leonid Gaidai (1923), Elem Klimov (1933), Alexander Sokurov (1951), Yuri Norstein (1941), Ladislas Starevich (1882), and Eldar Ryazanov (1927).
1932 - 1986
HPI: 81.03
Rank: 1
1863 - 1938
HPI: 79.72
Rank: 2
1937 - Present
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 3
1945 - Present
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 4
1899 - 1970
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 5
1893 - 1953
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 6
1923 - 1993
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 7
1933 - 2003
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 8
1951 - Present
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 9
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 10
1882 - 1965
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 11
1927 - 2015
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 12