Filmmaker/artist Julian Schnabel is celebrating after his fiancee gave birth to their first child.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly director's partner May Andersen delivered a baby boy on 20 June (13), and the couple has named the tot Shooter Sandhed Julian Schnabel Jr.

According to Us Weekly, the new parents chose the name Sandhed, a Danish word meaning "truth", to honour Andersen's Scandinavian heritage.

Schnabel, 61, has five other children from his previous marriages to designer Jacqueline Beaurang and Spanish actress Olatz Lopez Garmendia.