Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma (born 1940) is an American filmmaker and a major figure of the New Hollywood generation whose career spans five decades of suspense, crime, and psychological thrillers. His early countercultural work — including Greetings, Hi, Mom!, and Sisters — gave way to a sustained engagement with Hitchcockian technique and split-screen virtuosity. He moved into the mainstream with Carrie (1976), the Stephen King adaptation that won Sissy Spacek an Oscar nomination, then directed the cocaine epic Scarface (1983) with Al Pacino from a Oliver Stone screenplay, and the Eliot Ness gangster film The Untouchables (1987) for which Sean Connery won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. His later work includes the war drama Casualties of War, Carlito's Way, the first Mission: Impossible (1996), and the formally adventurous Femme Fatale and Redacted. He continues to be a touchstone for younger filmmakers.