Samuel Maoz (Hebrew: שמואל מעוז; born c. 1962) is an Israeli film director.

[1] After the war, he trained as a cameraman at the Beit Zvi theater school, and did art direction in film and television productions.

[4] In 2007, Maoz began working on Lebanon, his first feature film.

The script, based on Maoz's personal experiences, describes the traumatic experiences of a four-man Israeli tank crew in a Lebanese village early in the war.

[5] At the end of July 2009, Maoz received an invitation to the competition of the 66th Venice Film Festival, where he won the Golden Lion after having had been rejected at the Berlin and the Cannes film festivals.