FILM DIRECTOR

Tom Tykwer

1965 - Today

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Tom Tykwer (German: [ˈtɪkvɐ]; born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films Run Lola Run (1998), Heaven (2002), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), and The International (2009). He collaborated with The Wachowskis as co-director for the science fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012) and the Netflix series Sense8 (2015–2018), and worked on the score for Lana Wachowski's The Matrix Resurrections (2021). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tom Tykwer has received more than 988,958 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Tom Tykwer is the 524th most popular film director (up from 549th in 2019), the 2,770th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,875th in 2019) and the 26th most popular German Film Director.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Tom Tykwer ranks 524 out of 2,041. Before him are James Wong, Luis García Berlanga, Claude Autant-Lara, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Peter Yates, and Seijun Suzuki. After him are Benoît Jacquot, Ulrich Seidl, Mikhail Romm, Gorō Miyazaki, Ken Annakin, and Jennifer Lee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Tom Tykwer ranks 81. Before him are Jean Castex, Shania Twain, Kristin Davis, Ion Andoni Goikoetxea, John C. Reilly, and Eddie Irvine. After him are Fredrik Reinfeldt, Quique Sánchez Flores, Paul W. S. Anderson, Marlee Matlin, Manuel Sanchís Hontiyuelo, and David Wenham.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Tom Tykwer ranks 2,770 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896), Johann Andreas Stein (1728), Thomas Fincke (1561), Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony (1893), John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt (1383), and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (1962). After him are Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1462), Elisa Radziwiłł (1803), Conradin Kreutzer (1780), Christoph Amberger (1505), Christian Schmidt (1957), and Günter Wallraff (1942).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Tom Tykwer ranks 26. Before him are Wolfgang Reitherman (1909), Walter Ruttmann (1887), Oskar Fischinger (1900), Walter Frentz (1907), Alexander Kluge (1932), and Henry Koster (1905). After him are Uli Edel (1947), Oliver Hirschbiegel (1957), Peter Stein (1937), Bernd Eichinger (1949), Fatih Akin (1973), and Werner Schroeter (1945).

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