FILM DIRECTOR

Nelly Kaplan

1931 - 2020

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Nelly Kaplan (11 April 1931 – 12 November 2020) was an Argentine-born French writer and film director who focused on the arts, film, and filmmakers. She studied economics at the University of Buenos Aires. Passionate about cinema, she abruptly put her studies on hold to go to Paris to represent the new Argentine film archive at an international convention and later became a correspondent for different Argentine newspapers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nelly Kaplan has received more than 70,229 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Nelly Kaplan is the 1,180th most popular film director (down from 1,088th in 2019), the 485th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 414th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Argentinean Film Director.

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  • 15

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  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Nelly Kaplan ranks 1,180 out of 2,041Before her are Vadim Abdrashitov, Luciano Emmer, Károly Makk, Tomas Alfredson, Jon Avnet, and Lajos Koltai. After her are Břetislav Pojar, Hany Abu-Assad, Benny Chan, Ardeshir Irani, Jaume Collet-Serra, and Lee Tamahori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Nelly Kaplan ranks 436Before her are Hansjörg Felmy, Barry Foster, Andrija Fuderer, E. C. George Sudarshan, Jiří Feureisl, and Marina Popovich. After her are Gilles Perrault, Charles Bassett, Peter Kirby, Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, Naci Erdem, and Pál Várhidi. Among people deceased in 2020, Nelly Kaplan ranks 476Before her are Ron Tauranac, Ivan Král, Diane di Prima, Shere Hite, Ben Bova, and Tomisaku Kawasaki. After her are Mohammad Mirmohammadi, Sam Lloyd, Benny Chan, Ivan Bohdan, Caroline Cellier, and Hadi Khosroshahi.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Nelly Kaplan ranks 485 out of 1,154Before her are Néstor Togneri (1942), Gustavo Zapata (1967), Ricardo Güiraldes (1886), Lucas Biglia (1986), Gabriela Michetti (1965), and Alberto Acosta (1966). After her are Jorge González (1966), Santiago Vernazza (1928), Luis Brunetto (1901), Rodolfo Fischer (1944), Angélica Gorodischer (1928), and Andrés D'Alessandro (1981).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Argentina

Among film directors born in Argentina, Nelly Kaplan ranks 8Before her are Héctor Babenco (1946), Fernando Solanas (1936), Luis Puenzo (1946), Fernando Birri (1925), Juan José Campanella (1959), and María Luisa Bemberg (1922). After her are Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (1924), Lucrecia Martel (1966), Andy Muschietti (1973), Damián Szifron (1975), Sebastián Lelio (1974), and Pablo Trapero (1971).