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Deepa Mehta

1950 - Today

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Deepa Mehta, ([diːpa ˈmeːɦta]; born 15 September 1950) is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005), the last being nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. Earth was submitted by India as its official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Water was Canada's official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making it only the third non-French-language Canadian film submitted in that category after Attila Bertalan's 1990 invented-language film A Bullet to the Head and Zacharias Kunuk's 2001 Inuktitut-language feature Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. She co-founded Hamilton-Mehta Productions, with her husband, producer David Hamilton in 1996. She was awarded a Genie Award in 2003 for the screenplay of Bollywood/Hollywood. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Deepa Mehta is the 1,495th most popular film director (up from 1,528th in 2019), the 892nd most popular biography from India (down from 870th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Indian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Deepa Mehta ranks 1,495 out of 2,041. Before her are Julius J. Epstein, Benny Chan, Patty Jenkins, Gillian Armstrong, Hiroyuki Imaishi, and Lisa Joy. After her are Matti Kassila, Neil Burger, Jerzy Stefan Stawiński, Neill Blomkamp, Susan Seidelman, and Zoltán Huszárik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Deepa Mehta ranks 594. Before her are John Patrick Shanley, Tom Vilsack, Volker Fischer, Gillian Armstrong, Markie Post, and Danny Kirwan. After her are Makio Akiyama, Stanisław Szozda, Pier Carlo Padoan, Svetla Otsetova, Libor Radimec, and Sultan Rakhmanov.

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In India

Among people born in India, Deepa Mehta ranks 892 out of 1,861. Before her are Ali Sardar Jafri (1913), Karisma Kapoor (1974), V. K. Krishna Menon (1896), Pritam (1971), Tabu (1971), and Anjali Devi (1927). After her are Adolf Lu Hitler Marak (1958), Chiranjeevi (1955), Pentala Harikrishna (1986), Amrita Singh (1958), Sunil Gavaskar (1949), and Ardeshir Irani (1886).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Deepa Mehta ranks 17. Before her are S. Shankar (1963), Guru Dutt (1925), Ismail Merchant (1936), Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941), Goutam Ghose (1950), and Tarsem Singh (1961). After her are Ardeshir Irani (1886), Deepak Tijori (1961), Tapan Sinha (1924), Tariq Anwar (1945), Aparna Sen (1945), and S. J. Suryah (1968).

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