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Sam MendesJuly 8, 2002
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Kimberly PeirceJune 9, 2002
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Willem DafoeJanuary 6, 2001
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Terence DaviesDecember 15, 2000
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Budd BoetticherOctober 1, 2000
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George A. RomeroJanuary 11, 2000
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Patricia RozemaNovember 8, 1999
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Paul SchraderJanuary 10, 1999
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Todd HaynesNovember 15, 1998
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John WatersOctober 25, 1998
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Richard LinklaterMarch 15, 1998
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Jim JarmuschOctober 5, 1997
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David LynchFebruary 16, 1997
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James TobackJune 23, 1996
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Buck HenryJune 22, 1996
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Terry GilliamJanuary 6, 1996
Terry Gilliam January 6, 1996
Former Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam is one of cinema's premier fantasists, a creator of films notable for their stunning visual style and their iconoclastic sensibility. With Brazil, Gilliam created the ultimate film of bureaucratic hell, and then experienced his own version of the narrative when Universal tried to bury the film's release. Ironically, the same studio later financed and released Gilliam's 12 Monkeys, which was the number-one film in the country when Gilliam spoke at the Museum. He greeted full-house audiences twice that weekend—with 12 Monkeys and Brazil—the latter on the day of the blizzard of '96.