Ante Babaja (6 October 1927 – 14 January 2010) was a notable Croatian film director and screenwriter.
He started working in filmmaking in 1949, and his first job was as assistant director to Krešimir Golik on the making of Golik's 1950 feature film Blue 9 (Plavi 9).
[1] Babaja's directorial debut was the 1955 documentary short Jedan dan u Rijeci.
Nevertheless, films such as Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh (Mirisi, zlato i tamjan, 1971) and Lost Homeland (Izgubljeni zavičaj, 1980) were also met with considerable critical acclaim.
[2] He was also a longtime professor at the Zagreb Academy of Drama Arts and in 1988 he was awarded the Vladimir Nazor Award for Life Achievement.