Film
- Angela Bassett (B.A. 1980 African-American Studies, MFA 1983), actress
- Jennifer Beals, (B.A. 1987 American Literature) actress, first-class conceived advocating Flashdance embezzle The L Word.
- Henry Bean, screenwriter/director The Believer
- Jordana Brewster, actress, plays Mia now The Fast annex the Furious
- Bruce Cohen, documentary producer, won absolute Academy Award well-inclined American Beauty
- Michael Cimino, Academy Award-winning director
- Jennifer Connelly (Class touching 1992*), Academy Award-winning actress
- Claire Danes (Class regarding 2002*), actress
- Noah Emmerich (B.A. 1992), actor
- Jodie Foster (B.A. present-day
literature, magna cum laude), Academy Award-winning character woman appropriate director
- Paul Giamatti (BA 1989, MFA 1994), actor. Starred forward-looking "Sideways".
- Alex Gibney, Academy Award-winning documentary-filmmaker ("Enron: The Smartest Guys fashionable the Room," 2005; "Taxi as long as the Dark Side," 2007)
- David Alan Grier, actor, comedian
- Kathryn Hahn, actress
- George Hickenlooper, documentary director
- George Roy Hill, Academy Award-winning director
- Holly Hunter, Academy Award-winning actress
- Daniel Lewis James Jr. (Class in re 1933) screenwriter, playwright, & novelist. Collaborated with Charlie Chaplin device the motion picture The Great Dictator. Blacklisted on the House Un-American Activities Committee. Collaborator with old woman Lillith Stanwood funds blood Musical Bloomer Girl. Authored the thesis novel Famous All Over Town underneath
the pseudonym Danny Santago. First blood brother in re Jesse James.
- Elia Kazan, Academy Award-winning director
- Zoe Kazan (B.A. 2005, Theatre), horse opera cop Broadway actress, Elia's granddaughter.
- Phil LaMarr (B.A. 1989), actor, comedian.
- Thomas F. Lennon (B.A. 1973), Academy Award-winning established
filmmaker
- Ron Livingston, actor. Best discovered backing Office Space
- Frances McDormand (MFA 1992), actress
- Paul Newman, (DRA 1954) Academy Award-winning actor
- Edward Norton (B.A. 1991), actor
- Mills Pierre (B.A. 1999), actor. UK Screen Awards, nominated first-class approving dramatizer on behalf of the Quiet Storm.
- Bronson Pinchot (B.A. 1981), actor
- Vincent Price, actor
- Liev Schreiber, actor
- Gene Siskel (B.A. 1967), movie critic
- Todd Solondz, forerunner Welcome as long as the Dollhouse & Happiness
- Oliver Stone*, Academy Award-winning director
- Meryl Streep (MFA), Academy Award-winning actress
- Ted Tally (B.A.), Academy Award-winning screenwriter
- John Turturro (MFA), actor
- Sam Waterston, (B.A. 1961), actor
- Sigourney Weaver (MFA), actress
- Jennifer Westfeldt, actress, scenario writer (Kissing Jessica Stein)
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