Hip hip hooray, three cheers for May! And with another month comes a slew of new director birthdays! Celebrate with us!

5/1      Wes Anderson - Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Grand Budapest Hotel

5/2      Tamara Jenkins - Slums of Beverly Hills, The Savages

5/6      Orson Welles - Citizen Kane, F for Fake

5/6      George Clooney - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Ides of March

5/6      Max Ophüls - The Earrings of Madame de…, Lola Montes

5/7      Amy Heckerling - Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Johnny Dangerously, Clueless

5/8      Michel Gondry - Human Nature, Be Kind Rewind

5/11      Mark Neveldine - Crank, Crank: High Voltage, Gamer

5/13     JOE JOHNSTON - The Rocketeer, Captain America: The First Avenger

5/13     Lena Dunham - Tiny Furniture

5/14     George Lucas - American Graffiti, Star Wars

5/14     David Byrne - True Stories

5/14     Robert Zemeckis - Back to the Future, Contact

5/14     Sofia Coppola - The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette

5/18     Frank Capra - It Happened One Night, Lost Horizon, Arsenic and Old Lace

5/18     Terry Zwigoff - Crumb, Ghost World, Bad Santa

5/20     Anton Corbijn - Control, The American

5/23     Tom Tykwer - Run Lola Run, Princess and the Warrior, Perfume, The International

5/24     Seijun Suzuki - Youth of the Beast, Tokyo Drifter, Branded to Kill

5/25     George Hickenlooper - Factory Girl

5/25     Frank Oz - Little Shop of Horrors, Bowfinger

5/26     Bobcat Goldthwait - Sleeping Dogs Lie, World’s Greatest Dad, God Bless America

5/29     Josef von Sternberg - The Blue Angel, Blonde Venus

5/30     Howard Hawks - Scarface, Red River

5/30     Agnès Varda - Cleo from 5 to 7, Vagabond, Beaches of Agnes

5/31     Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Fox and His Friends, Merchant of Four Seasons

5/31     Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven, A Perfect World