Edson Oda is a Japanese Brazilian writer-director based in Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of São Paulo with a bachelor’s degree in advertising and completed his Master of Fine Arts in film and production at the University of Southern California. Before making his feature debut, Nine Days, Oda wrote, directed, and supervised projects for Philips, Telefonica, Movistar, InBev, Whirlpool, Johnson & Johnson, Honda, and Nokia. He is a Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab alumnus and was nominated for a Latin GRAMMY Award for best music video in 2012.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
City Lights
Charles Chaplin
1931
87 min
2
Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa
1950
88 min
3
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
UnavailableStanley Kubrick
1964
95 min
4
The Seventh Seal
Ingmar Bergman
1957
96 min
5
Wings of Desire
Wim Wenders
1987
128 min
6
RoboCop
UnavailablePaul Verhoeven
1987
102 min
7
Being John Malkovich
UnavailableSpike Jonze
1999
113 min
8
Hunger
Steve McQueen
2008
96 min
9
Police Story 2
Jackie Chan
1988
105 min
10
The Virgin Suicides
UnavailableSofia Coppola
1999
97 min