David Fincher
Fact File
Date of birth: August 28th, 1962
Academy award for best director, 2 nominations: The curious case of Benjamin button (2008), The social Network (2010)
Achievements: He has won the golden globe award for best director and also the BAFTA award for best direction.
Music: Two Grammy awards for best music video 'Love is strong' and 'suit & Tie'
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About Fincher's music career...
Finch is one of many other directors/producers with him and Spike Jonze another director sharing common passionate about the same are alongside each other being two of the most awarded directors for this category . Firstly David started out doing editing and commercials for a range of companies such as Coca-Cola, Sony, Levi's, Converse, Revlon, Chanel and others.
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He has worked with many artists on their videos including Big artists like,
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Madonna whom he worked closely with on her 4 singles "Oh father", "Express yourself", "Vogue" and "Bad girl".
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Rolling stones with their "Love is strong" music video winning 2 Grammy awards for best music video as well as
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Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z "suit and tie" winning an overall 3 MTV awards,
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Also, Micheal Jackson, George Micheal, Billy Idol, Aerosmith, Paul Abdul, The Motels, Steve Winwood and more...
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Because Finch's music video directing days were mostly the beginning of his career he is now more involved with directing and producing in the film industry, nevertheless between the years 1984 to 1990 he directed 50 different music videos belonging to approximately 28 diferent artists.
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Aside from his music career...
David Fincher is a well known american director and producer. Not only does he direct music videos but he has also produced movies that have hit off to a very good success which i have stated in the shape above but besides from them he has also worked on; his more recent film 'Gone girl'(2014) , Panic room'(2002), 'Seven' and 'Fight Club' that are thrillers back from the 1990's and many more. In 2006, Fincher directed 'Jaws' which got rated 4th in the the greatest movies 0f all time that year and Benjamin button overall receiced 13 nominations at 81st academy awards, and won 3 academy award for best art direction, best make up and best visual effects.