Which director made the 1996 music video for “The Beautiful People” by Marilyn Manson?

Floria Sigismondi directed Marilyn Manson’s 1996 music video for “The Beautiful People.”

The video uses distorted bodies, unusual close-ups, industrial locations, and unsettling performance imagery to create a deliberately grotesque visual style. Those elements became closely associated with Sigismondi’s early music-video work and with Marilyn Manson’s theatrical public image.

“The Beautiful People” was released as the lead single from Manson’s second studio album, “Antichrist Superstar,” in 1996. The song’s video emphasizes confrontation and spectacle rather than presenting a conventional narrative.

Sigismondi later directed videos for artists including David Bowie, Christina Aguilera, and Rihanna. A common mix-up is attributing Manson’s videos to Chris Cunningham, another director strongly associated with experimental and industrial-looking music imagery. Cunningham did not direct “The Beautiful People.”