존 카펜터

소개

존 하워드 카펜터(John Howard Carpenter, 1948년 1월 6일 ~ )는 미국의 영화 감독, 영화 각본가, 작곡가이다.

John Howard Carpenter is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is generally recognized as a master of the horror genre. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild gave him the Golden Coach Award and lauded him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions". On April 3, 2025, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.