Classifica Showrunners
Non solo i film, ma anche le serie tv sono "dirette" da degli autori, ossia gli showrunner, che non ricoprono tanto la veste di regista (alcuni hanno pure ricoperto tale ruolo), ma quella di un produttore e sceneggiatore che si occupa di coordinare creativamente tutte le maestranze coinvolte nella serie tv.
Insomma, sono i creatori/ideatori di una serie tv, ma in questa lista ho scelto i più autoriali e/o degni di nota all'interno del panorama seriale televisivo/streaming.
Per ogni showrunner scelto, indico la sua miglior serie tv.
Insomma, sono i creatori/ideatori di una serie tv, ma in questa lista ho scelto i più autoriali e/o degni di nota all'interno del panorama seriale televisivo/streaming.
Per ogni showrunner scelto, indico la sua miglior serie tv.
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Bryan Konietzko was born on 26 May 1976 in the USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005), The Legend of Korra (2012) and The Last Airbender (2010).Miglior serie tv: Avatar - The Last Airbender- Writer
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Michael Dante DiMartino was born on 18 July 1974 in Shelburne, Vermont, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005), The Legend of Korra (2012) and The Last Airbender (2010).Miglior serie tv: Avatar - The Last Airbnder- Producer
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Sam Esmail was born on 17 September 1977 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Mr. Robot (2015), Homecoming (2018) and Leave the World Behind (2023). He has been married to Emmy Rossum since 28 May 2017. They have two children.Miglior serie tv: Mr. Robot- Writer
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Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future director Jennifer Lynch shortly after he turned 21. That experience, plus attending art school in a particularly violent and run-down area of Philadelphia, inspired Eraserhead (1977), a film that he began in the early 1970s (after a couple of shorts) and which he would work on obsessively for five years. The final film was initially judged to be almost unreleasable weird, but thanks to the efforts of distributor Ben Barenholtz, it secured a cult following and enabled Lynch to make his first mainstream film (in an unlikely alliance with Mel Brooks), though The Elephant Man (1980) was shot through with his unique sensibility. Its enormous critical and commercial success led to Dune (1984), a hugely expensive commercial disaster, but Lynch redeemed himself with the now classic Blue Velvet (1986), his most personal and original work since his debut. He subsequently won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival with the dark, violent road movie Wild at Heart (1990), and achieved a huge cult following with his surreal TV series Twin Peaks (1990), which he adapted for the big screen, though his comedy series On the Air (1992) was less successful. He also draws comic strips and has devised multimedia stage events with regular composer Angelo Badalamenti. He had a much-publicized affair with Isabella Rossellini in the late 1980s.Miglior serie tv: Twin Peaks- Writer
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Mark Frost is an American novelist, producer and screenwriter. He co-created Twin Peaks and wrote episodes of Hill Street Blues. He also wrote The Believers, the cult classic Tim Story Fantastic Four film series starring Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis and Chris Evans, Storyville and The Greatest Game Ever Played, which is a self-adaptation of his golf book.Miglior serie tv: Twin Peaks- Writer
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Hideaki Anno was born on 22 May 1960 in Ube, Japan. He is a writer and director, known for Shin Godzilla (2016), Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007) and The Wind Rises (2013). He has been married to Moyoco Anno since 26 March 2002.Miglior serie tv: Neon Genesis Evangelion- Writer
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Baran bo Odar was born on 18 April 1978 in Olten, Switzerland. He is a writer and director, known for Who Am I (2014), Dark (2017) and The Silence (2010).Miglior serie tv: Dark- Writer
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Jantje Friese was born in 1977 in Marburg, Germany. She is a writer and producer, known for Dark (2017), Who Am I (2014) and 1899 (2022).Miglior serie tv: Dark- Writer
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Award-winning Noah Hawley is one of the most accomplished auteurs and versatile storytellers working in television, film and literature. Hawley balances the art of telling cinematic, unforgettable character-driven stories that linger along after you've been immersed in them.
Over the course of his more than 20-year career, Hawley's work as a novelist, screenwriter, series creator, showrunner and director has garnered acclaim - winning an Emmy®, Golden Globe®, PEN, Critics' Choice, and Peabody Award - and passionate response from audiences.
Also a best-selling author, Hawley has published five novels: A Conspiracy of Tall Men, Other People's Weddings, The Punch, The Good Father, and most recently the bestseller Before the Fall.
Hawley began his television career as a writer and producer on the hit series Bones in 2005, going on to create, executive produce and serve as showrunner for ABC's My Generation (2009) and The Unusuals (2010). Most recently in addition to the groundbreaking series Legion, he serves as executive producer, writer, director and showrunner on FX's award-winning anthology series, Fargo. He will begin production on the fourth installment of Fargo, starring Chris Rock with Hawley directing the first episode, this fall. Both acclaimed series are produced under Hawley's 26 Keys Production banner.
Upcoming projects from Hawley include his feature film directorial debut, Lucy in the Sky, starring Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Dan Stevens, Zazie Beetz, Pearl Amanda Dickson, Tig Notaro, and Ellen Burstyn. The film will be released by Fox Searchlight. In addition, Fargo: This Is A True Story, a companion book to the first three seasons of the series and authored by Hawley, will be released by Grand Central Publishing in October.Miglior serie tv: Legion- Producer
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Drew Goddard was raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He attended Los Alamos High School in Los Alamos, New Mexico and graduated in 1993. He then attended the University of Colorado, and worked as a production assistant in L.A. after graduation. A spec script Drew wrote based on Six Feet Under (2001) came to the attention of both Marti Noxon at Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) and David Greenwalt at Angel (1999). Both wanted him but because Marti found him first, Joss Whedon determined Drew would go to "Buffy". He became a staff writer for Season 7 (2002-2003), writing five episodes. Once "Buffy" was over, Drew moved over to "Angel" and became the executive story editor for Season 5 (2003-2004), writing four episodes. Drew also found time to write the introduction for a book of essays about Buffy, "Seven Seasons of Buffy", and to contribute two stories to the "Tales of the Vampires" comic series. In the summer of 2003, Drew received his first screenwriting award, along with co-writer Jane Espenson, when the Hugos honored "Conversations with Dead People" from "Buffy" with an award for Best Dramatic Presentation/Short Form. That episode was also honored with a SyFy Portal Genre Award for Best Episode/Television; another of Drew's "Buffy" episodes, "Lies My Parents Told Me" (co-written with David Fury), was nominated for the same award.Miglior serie tv: Marvel's Daredevil- Producer
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George Vincent Gilligan Jr. (born February 10, 1967) is an American writer, producer, and director. He is known for his television work, specifically as creator, head writer, executive producer, and director of Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul. He was a writer and producer for The X-Files and was the co-creator of its spin-off The Lone Gunmen.
Both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul have received widespread critical acclaim, with Gilligan winning two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Writers Guild of America Awards, two Critics' Choice Television Awards and Producers Guild of America Awards, one Directors Guild of America Award and a BAFTA. Outside of television, he co-wrote the screenplay for the 2008 film Hancock.
Gilligan was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Gail, a grade school teacher, and George Vincent Gilligan Sr., an insurance claims adjuster. His parents divorced in 1974 and he and his younger brother, Patrick, were raised in Farmville and Chesterfield County, and attended the laboratory school run by Longwood College. Growing up, Gilligan became best friends with future film editor and film title designer Angus Wall. His interest in film began when Wall's mother, Jackie, who also taught alongside Gilligan's mother, would lend her Super 8 film cameras to him. He used the camera to make science fiction films with Patrick. One of his first films was entitled Space Wreck, starring his brother in the lead role. One year later, he won first prize for his age group in a film competition at the University of Virginia.
Jackie would take Wall and Gilligan to Richmond and drop them off at Cloverleaf Mall to see films, and encourage both of them to pursue a career in the arts. "I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for Jackie. She was a wonderful lady and a real inspiration," he recalls. Gilligan was recognized for his talents and creativity at an early age. George Sr. described him as a "kind of a studious-type young man, and he liked to read, and he had a vivid imagination". He introduced Gilligan to film noir classics, as well as John Wayne and Clint Eastwood Westerns on late-night television. Gilligan won a scholarship to attend the prestigious Interlochen Center for the Arts. After eighth grade, he moved back to Chesterfield to attend high school.
After graduating from Lloyd C. Bird High School in 1985, Gilligan went on to attend NYU's Tisch School of the Arts on a scholarship, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film production. While at NYU, he wrote the screenplay for Home Fries; Gilligan received the Virginia Governor's Screenwriting Award in 1989 for the screenplay, which was later turned into a film. One of the judges of the competition was Mark Johnson, a film producer. He was impressed by Gilligan, saying he "was the most imaginative writer I'd ever read".Miglior serie tv: Breaking Bad- Writer
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Charlton "Charlie" Brooker (born 3 March 1971) is an English humourist, critic, author, screenwriter, producer, and television presenter. He is the creator and co-showrunner of the anthology series Black Mirror and has written for programmes such as Brass Eye, The 11 O'Clock Show, and Nathan Barley. He has presented a number of television shows, including Screenwipe, Gameswipe, Newswipe, Weekly Wipe, and 10 O'Clock Live. He also wrote the five-part horror drama Dead Set. He has written comment pieces for The Guardian and is one of four creative directors of the production company Zeppotron.
Charlton Brooker was born on 3 March 1971 in Reading, Berkshire. He grew up in a relaxed Quaker household in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Oxfordshire. He first worked as a writer and cartoonist for Oink!, a comic produced in the late 1980s. After attending Wallingford School, he attended the Polytechnic of Central London (which became the University of Westminster during his time there), studying for a BA in Media Studies. He claims that he did not graduate because his dissertation was written on video games, which was not an acceptable topic. Brooker listed his comedic influences as Monty Python, The Young Ones, Blackadder, Chris Morris, and Vic Reeves.
From 1999 to 2000, Brooker played hooded expert 'the Pundit' in the short-lived show Games Republic, hosted by Trevor and Simon on BSkyB.
In 2000, Brooker was one of the writers of the Channel 4 show The 11 O'Clock Show and a co-host (with Gia Milinovich) on BBC Knowledge's The Kit, a low-budget programme dedicated to gadgets and technology (1999-2000). In 2001, he was one of several writers on Channel 4's Brass Eye special on the subject of paedophilia.
In 2003, Brooker wrote an episode entitled "How to Watch Television" for Channel 4's The Art Show. The episode was presented in the style of a public information film and was partly animated.
Together with Brass Eye's Chris Morris, Brooker co-wrote the sitcom Nathan Barley, based on a character from one of TVGoHome's fictional programmes. The show was broadcast in 2005 and focused on the lives of a group of London media 'trendies'. The same year, he was also on the writing team of the Channel 4 sketch show Spoons, produced by Zeppotron.
In 2006, Brooker began writing and presenting the television series Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe on BBC Four, a TV review programme in a similar style to his Screen Burn columns in The Guardian. After an initial pilot series of three editions in April, the programme returned later in the year for a second run of four episodes plus Christmas and Review of the Year specials in December 2006. A third series followed in February 2007 with a fourth broadcast in September 2007, followed by a Review of the Year in December 2007. The fifth series started in November 2008 and was followed by another Review of the Year special. This series was also the first to be given a primetime repeat on terrestrial television (BBC Two), in January 2009.
In December 2011, three episodes of Brooker's Black Mirror, a science fiction anthology series, aired on Channel 4 to largely positive reviews. As well as creating the show, Brooker wrote the first episode and co-wrote the second with his wife Konnie Huq. He also wrote all three episodes of series two. In September 2015, Netflix commissioned a third season of 12 episodes, with Channel 4 losing the rights to the programme A trailer for the third season was released in October 2016. This was later split into two series of six episodes. The third season was released on Netflix worldwide on 21 October 2016. Brooker has solely written four of the episodes in series three, and has co-written the remaining two.
Beginning on 11 May 2010, Brooker presented a 5-part BBC Radio 4 series celebrating failure titled So Wrong It's Right, in which guests compete to pitch the worst possible ideas for new franchises and give the 'most wrong' answer to a question. Also featured are guests' recollections about their own personal life failures and their complaints about life in general in a round called 'This Putrid Modern Hell'. Guests have included David Mitchell, Lee Mack, Josie Long, Frank Skinner, Helen Zaltzman, Holly Walsh, Graham Linehan and Richard Herring. The second series began on 10 March 2011, and a third was broadcast in May 2012. In common with Screenwipe's use of a Grandaddy track (A.M. 180) from the album Under the Western Freeway as its theme tune, So Wrong It's Right uses another track from the same album, Summer Here Kids.Miglior serie tv: Black Mirror- Writer
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Shin'ichirô Watanabe was born on 24 May 1965 in Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan. He is a writer and director, known for The Animatrix (2003), Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) and Cowboy Bebop (1998).Miglior serie tv: Cowboy Bebop- Writer
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Attended Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, graduating in 1994.
Graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 1999. Majored in English.
Shortly after graduating from Georgetown University, Jonathan Nolan served as a production assistant on Memento (2000).
Wrote the short story, "Memento Mori", on which the film Memento (2000) is based.
Was co-writer, with his brother Christopher Nolan, on The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Also co-wrote the Terminator Salvation (2009).Miglior serie tv: Person of Interest- Writer
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Matt Duffer of The Duffer Brothers, born in Durham, February 15, 1984, is a writer, producer, and director for film and television. He is most known as the creator and showrunner of the hit Netflix Sci-Fi TV series Stranger Things. Other works include the thriller film Hidden and he has written episodes for the TV series Wayward Pines.Miglior serie tv: Stranger Things- Writer
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Ross Duffer is known for Stranger Things (2016), We All Fall Down (2005) and Wayward Pines (2015). He has been married to Leigh Janiak since 22 December 2015.Miglior serie tv: Stranger Things- Writer
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Satoshi Kon was born in 1963. He studied at the Musashino College of the Arts. He began his career as a Manga artist. He then moved to animation and worked as a background artist on many films (including Roujin Z (1991) by 'Katsuhiro Otomo'). Then, in 1995, he wrote an episode of the anthology film Memories (1995) (this Episode was "Magnetic Rose"). In 1997, he directed his first feature film: the excellent Perfect Blue (1997). In 2001, he finished work on his second feature film, Millennium Actress (2001) (aka Millennium Actress).Miglior serie tv: Paranoia Agent- Producer
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Raphael Bob-Waksberg was born on 17 August 1984 in San Mateo, California, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for BoJack Horseman (2014), Undone (2019) and Tuca & Bertie (2019).Miglior serie tv: Bojack Horseman- Writer
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Iginio Straffi is an Italian artist and TV producer. He is the founder of the Rainbow animation studio, which he co-owns alongside Viacom (the American company that owns Nickelodeon).
In 1965, Straffi was born in the municipality of Gualdo, in the Province of Macerata. Gualdo is located about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the city of Macerata. In 1973 his family moved to Macerata.
Straffi became interested in comic book illustration as a child, and started creating his own comics stories at the age of 7. As a teenager he participated in art competitions. He received his college education at the University of Macerata, where he studied literature and modern languages. He dated a foreign-born girl named Antonella, who was raised in Italy by foster parents. Antonella expressed a desire to someday meet her biological parents, and Straffi later used her story as an inspiration for the backstory of Bloom, Winx Club's lead character.
Straffi started his professional career as a comics artist in 1985, when his first story was published in "Tilt". His subsequent stories were published in the weekly magazines "Lanciostory" and "Skorpio",the monthly magazine "Comic Art", and the science fiction anthology magazine "Métal hurlant" (whose stories were republished in the United States under the title "Heavy Metal") .
In 1989, Straffi was recruited by veteran comics writer Claudio Nizzi (1938-) to work as an artist for the then-new detective series "Nick Raider" (1988-2005). The series was published by "Sergio Bonelli Editore", one of Italy's leading comic book publishers. From 1990 to 1992, Straffi served as the lead creative artist for Nick Raider.
Straffi was interested in joining the animation industry, and in 1992 accepted a job offer to work as a storyboard artist for the French animation studio "Telcima". He moved to France for his new job. He worked on a failed pilot for a television adaptation of the long-running science fiction series "Valérian and Laureline" (1967-2010). He also worked on a film adaptation of the medieval tales "Reynard the Fox", which ended in development hell.
By 1995, Straffi had become experienced with the many stages of work used in animation productions. He returned to Italy and secured financing to start his own animation studio, Rainbow S.p.A. He purchased computers and software for digital design.Rainbow at first offered its services to larger companies, producing commissioned work. The company first produced its own television series with the superhero tale Tommy and Oscar (2000-2002).
In 2004, Straffi created his most ambitious television series project, Winx Club. The series debuted on the Italian public television channel "Rai 2", and soon became one of the network's highest-rated programs. Winx Club became an international success, attracting the interest of the American company "Viacom", which owns the popular "Nickelodeon" brand. By the fourth season of Winx Club, Viacom began discussions with Straffi to become a co-owner of Rainbow.
In 2011, Viacom purchased a 30% share of Rainbow at the price of 83 million dollars. Viacom agreed to finance new seasons of Winx Club and other television projects by Rainbow, and to broadcast them on its Nickelodeon channels worldwide. Straffi retains the remaining 70% of Rainbow.
While Straffi has produced 3 animated films based on Winx Club, his first animated feature film based on an original story was the historical comedy "Gladiators of Rome" (2012). It cost about 80 million dollars to produce, becoming one of the most expensive Italian film productions. It performed poorly at the box office, grossing 10 million dollars in worldwide release.
Straffi served as a producer on the live-action television series Club 57 (2019-), which was a co-production with Viacom's Nickelodeon. He has stated that he plans to shift his focus from animated projects to live-action works. By 2020, he had signed off on a live-action adaptation of Winx Club, called "Fate: The Winx Saga".Miglior serie tv: Huntik- Writer
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Cris Morena was born on 23 August 1956 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a writer and producer, known for Casi ángeles (2007), Floricienta (2004) and Quereme (1994). She was previously married to Gustavo Yankelevich.Miglior serie tv: Rebelde Way