Jonathan Glazer

Glazer first established himself in the early ’90s, directing some of music’s most iconic videos for artists such as Radiohead, Massive Attack, UNKLE, Nick Cave, Blur, and Jamiroquai.

As well as Art installations and short films, he created groundbreaking campaigns for Guinness, Levi’s, Nike, Stella Artois, Volkswagen, Sony, Channel 4, Alexander McQueen, and many more. His double Black Pencil winning Guinness "Surfer" ad remains the pinnacle of what advertising can achieve and still tops polls as the greatest commercial ever made. 

Glazer’s feature film career began in 2000 with the British gangster film, Sexy Beast. Notably, the film cast Sir Ben Kingsley as Don Logan, a role that earned him an Oscar nomination.

Glazer’s second feature, Birth, starred Nicole Kidman as a widow who, just as she gets engaged, is confronted by a young boy claiming to be her reincarnated husband. Divisive upon release, Birth has since been re-evaluated by critics and audiences as a masterpiece.

In Under the Skin, Glazer’s loose adaptation of Michel Faber’s novel, Scarlett Johansson plays an otherworldly predator who preys on men in Scotland. The film has been hailed as “an uncategorizable masterwork” and is considered one of the 21st century’s most significant films.

A deeply disturbing tour de force, The Zone of Interest is Glazer’s fourth and most recent film. It follows the seemingly ordinary lives of the Höss family, whose patriarch, Rudolf Höss, oversees the daily operations of Auschwitz. Zone won two Academy Awards (Best International Feature Film and Best Sound), as well as the Grand Prix at Cannes and three BAFTAs — uniquely including both Best British Film and Best Film Not in the English Language.