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Timothy Spanos (born 12 June 1978 in Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria) is an Australian film director.

Spanos has made four feature films in Australia that have become cult movie hits in the USA and Europe. His first film, Prisoner Queen, was about an actress who is diagnosed with leukemia and her son who believes he is living in the television series Prisoner. It starred Jude Kuring, Tim Burns, Matt Thomas, Polly Stanton, Michael Burkett, and Margo McLennan.

Spanos' next film, Nancy Nancy, a black musical comedy about Stockholm Syndrome, was released in 2006 and won Best Comedy Feature in the USA. The film was shot in Coronet Bay and starred Tim Burns as Nancy Nancy. Spanos followed that up with Moonlight & Magic, about two punk bandits who commence a crime spree in rural Victoria . It starred Tim Burns, Maxine Klibingaitis and Elspeth Ballantyne.[1]

The films Spanos directs are sought after by movie collectors. He works with an ensemble of Australian actors, including Tim Burns, Maxine Klibingaitis, Michael Burkett, Matt Thomas(lead singer of The Mavis's), Polly Stanton, Tania Wert, Alessandra Prisco, Elspeth Ballantyne, Cameron Nugent, Reylene Pearce, Jude Kuring and Desiree Smith.

His fourth film Boronia Boys, about two trash and treasure salesmen from the suburbs was released in Australia in 2011 through the Metro Cinemas and within two weeks became the highest grossing Australian independent film to screen there. Boronia Boys was listed in the Top 5 films screening in Melbourne for two weeks and Spanos was proclaimed by the age newspaper as "the unsung hero of Australian Independent cinema".