Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007)

Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, one of the masters of cinema whose brooding & incisive studies of the human psyche won international acclaim, & three Oscars, died Monday at age 89.
Bergman died at his home in Faro, Sweden, his daughter Eva Bergman told Swedish media. A cause of death wasn't immediately available, but according to friends, he had never fully recovered from an October hip operation.
Bergman's "The Virgin Spring" (1960), "Through a Glass Darkly" (1961) and "Fanny and Alexander" (1982) won the foreign-language Academy Award. The director also won the Irving Thalberg Award as well as the Directors Guild of America's D.W. Griffith Award for lifetime contribution. In addition, he was nominated for Oscars multiple times in the writing and/or directing categories.

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