Editing List of Russian people (section)

====Film directors and animators====
[[File:Sergei Eisenstein 03.jpg|90px|thumb|[[Sergei Eisenstein]]]]
[[File:Eldar Ryazanov.jpg|90px|thumb|[[Eldar Ryazanov]]]]
[[File:Starevich 1.jpg|90px|thumb|[[Ladislas Starevich]]]]
*[[Lev Atamanov]], animation director of [[Soyuzmultfilm]], best known for [[The Snow Queen (1957 film)|The Snow Queen]]
*[[Fyodor Bondarchuk]], director of the acclaimed film ''[[The 9th Company]]'', son of [[Sergei Bondarchuk]]
*[[Grigori Chukhrai]], Academy Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay for the film ''[[Ballad of a Soldier]]''
*[[Pavel Chukhrai]], Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film for ''[[The Thief (1997 film)|The Thief]]''
*[[Alexander Dovzhenko]], often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers
*[[Sergei Eisenstein]], his work profoundly influenced early filmmakers owing to his innovative use of and writings about [[montage (filmmaking)|montage]]
*[[Vasily Goncharov]], directed the first Russian feature film ''[[Defence of Sevastopol]]''
*[[Leonid Gaidai]], his movies broke theatre attendance records and are still some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia
*[[Roman Abelevich Kachanov|Roman Kachanov]], one of the founders and leaders of Russian [[stop-motion]] [[animation]]
*[[Andrei Konchalovsky]], director of popular movies including ''[[Runaway Train (film)|Runaway Train]]'' and ''[[Tango & Cash]]''
*[[Fjodor Khitruk]], one of the most influential Russian animators and animation directors
*[[Elem Klimov]], best known for his film ''[[Come and See]]''
*[[Grigori Kozintsev]], known for his silent films and adaptations of Shakespeare
*[[Lev Kuleshov]], taught at and helped establish the world's first film school (the Moscow Film School)
*[[Aleksandr Petrov (animator)|Aleksandr Petrov]], won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film for ''[[The Old Man and the Sea (1999 film)|The Old Man and the Sea]]''
*[[Yakov Protazanov]], one of the founding fathers of [[Cinema of Russia|Russian cinema]]
*[[Aleksandr Ptushko]], referred to as "the Soviet Walt Disney", due to his prominent early role in animation in the Soviet Union
*[[Mikhail Romm]], director and teacher, known for his film ''[[Nine Days in One Year]]''
*[[Eldar Ryazanov]], Soviet/Russian director famous for his comedies
*[[Karen Shakhnazarov]], chairman of [[Mosfilm]], one of the largest and oldest film studios in Russia
*[[Vasily Shukshin]], actor, writer, screenwriter and movie director who specialized in rural themes
*[[Alexander Sokurov]], critically acclaimed director, a regular at the Cannes Film Festival
*[[Ladislas Starevich]], Russian and French stop-motion animator who used insects and animals as his protagonists
*[[Genndy Tartakovsky]], Russian-American animator best known for ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'', ''[[Samurai Jack]]'', and ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003 TV series)|Star Wars: Clone Wars]]''
*[[Andrei Tarkovsky]], internationally renowned director and [[film theory|film theorist]]
*[[Dziga Vertov]], pioneering documentary film director and writer