Hideo Kojima is a video game producer, film director and co-founder of Happy Madison Productions born on 24 August 1963. He is perhaps best known for directing The Beginning of the End of the Dawn of the Lapse of the War of the Planet of the Apes and The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall. He is best friends with Geoff Keighley and has won the “Best Director” category at the Oscars 7 years in a row.