IMDb: [MovieAttack] Great Modern Day Directors

by DillonBonfanti created 3 months ago | last updated - 3 months ago

Note: Not all of the Directors' works are listed.

David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of Blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father was a journalist, and his mother was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early age (he wrote and published eerie short stories, thus following his father's path) and for music (playing classical guitar until he was 12)...

“ Eastern Promises
A History of Violence
eXistenZ
Naked Lunch
The Fly
Videodrome
Scanners
The Brood ” - DillonBonfanti

Stanley Kubrick

Director, A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick was born in New York, and was considered intelligent despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would produce better academic performance, Kubrick's father Jack (a physician) sent him in 1940 to Pasadena, California, to stay with his uncle Martin Perveler. Returning to the Bronx in 1941 for his last year of grammar school...

“ Eyes Wide Shut
Full Metal Jacket
The Shining
Barry Lyndon
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove
Lolita
Spartacus
The Killing ” - DillonBonfanti

David Lynch

Writer, Mulholland Dr.

Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future director Jennifer Chambers Lynch shortly after he turned 21...

“ Inland Empire
Mulholland Dr.
Lost Highway
Twin Peaks
Wild at Heart
Blue Velvet
Dune
The Elephant Man
Easerhead ” - DillonBonfanti

Quentin Tarantino

Actor, Pulp Fiction

In January of 1992, Reservoir Dogs appeared at the Sundance Film Festival, by first-time writer-director Quentin Tarantino. The film garnered critical acclaim and the director became a legend immediately. Two years later, he followed up Dogs success with Pulp Fiction which premiered at the Cannes film festival...

“ Inglourious Basterds
Death Proof
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Jackie Brown
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs ” - DillonBonfanti

Martin Scorsese

Director, Goodfellas

After serious deliberations about entering the priesthood - he entered a seminary in 1956 - Martin Scorsese opted to channel his passions into film. He graduated from NYU as a film major in 1964. Catching the eye of producer Roger Corman with his 1960s student films (including co-editing Woodstock)...

“ Shutter Island
The Departed
The Aviator
Gangs of New York
Casino
Cape Fear
Goodfellas
The Last Temptation of Christ
The King of Comedy
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
Boxcar Bertha ” - DillonBonfanti

Francis Ford Coppola

Producer, The Godfather: Part II

He was born in 1939 in Detroit, USA, but he grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola, had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated with a degree in drama from Hofstra University...

“ Dracula
The Godfather Part III
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather ” - DillonBonfanti

George A. Romero

Writer, Night of the Living Dead

George A. Romero never set out to become a Hollywood figure; however, by all indications, he was very successful. The director of the groundbreaking "Dead" pentalogy was born February 4, 1940, in New York City. He grew up there until attending the renowned Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...

“ Survival of the Dead
Diary of the Dead
Land of the Dead
Bruiser
Monkey Shines
Day of the Dead
Creepshow
Knightriders
Dawn of the Dead
Martin
The Crazies
Hungry Wives
There's Always Vanilla
Night of the Living Dead ” - DillonBonfanti

Nicolas Winding Refn

Director, Drive

Writer, Director, Producer. Nicolas Winding Refn was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1970. Aged 8 he moved to New York with his parents where he lived out his teenage years. New York quickly became his city and soon began to shape Nicolas's future. At 17, Nicolas moved back to his native Copenhagen to complete his Gymnasium (High School) Education...

“ Drive
Valhalla Rising
Bronson
Pusher 1, 2, & 3 ” - DillonBonfanti

Darren Aronofsky

Director, Requiem for a Dream

Darren Aronofsky was born February 12, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up, Darren was always artistic: he loved classic movies and, as a teenager, he even spent time doing graffiti art. After high school, Darren went to Harvard University to study film (both live-action and animation). He won several film awards after completing his senior thesis film...

“ Black Swan
The Fountain
Requiem for a Dream
Pi ” - DillonBonfanti

10.

Robert Rodriguez

Director, Sin City

Robert Rodriguez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, USA. At a very young age he showed an interest in cartooning and filmmaking and devoted all of his time towards developing this fascination. Finally, it paid off, resulting in him in making real movies; and just the first of them - El mariachi - made him the legend of independent...

“ Machete
Planet Terror
Sin City
Once upon A Time In Mexico
The Faculty
From Dusk Till Dawn
Desperado
El Mariachi ” - DillonBonfanti

11.

Larry Clark

Director, Kids

Was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (1943). Son of Frances Clark (baby photographer) and Lewis Clark. Graduated from Central High school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Attended Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Studied under Walter Sheffer and Gerard Bakker. Film debut was the movie Kids. He was already well known for his revolutionary photographic body of work...

“ Wassup Rockers
Ken Park
Teenage Caveman
Bully
Another Day in Paradise
Kids ” - DillonBonfanti

12.

Danny Boyle

Director, Slumdog Millionaire

“ 127 Hours
Slumdog Millionaire
28 Days Later...
The Beach
Trainspotting
Shallow Grave ” - DillonBonfanti

13.

Oliver Stone

Director, Platoon

Oliver Stone has become known as a master of controversial subjects and a legendary film maker. His films are filled with a variety of film angles and styles, he pushes his actors to give Oscar-worthy performances, and despite his failures, has always returned to success. After dropping out of Yale University...

“ Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
W.
World Trade Center
Alexander
Any Given Sunday
U Turn
Nixon
Natural Born Killers
Heaven & Earth
JFK
The Doors
Born on the Fourth of July
Talk Radio
Wall Street
Platoon
Salvador
The Hand
Seizure ” - DillonBonfanti

14.

Peter Jackson

Producer, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Peter Jackson was born as an only child in a small coast-side town in New Zealand in 1961. When a friend of his parents bought him a super 8mm movie camera (because she saw how much he enjoyed taking photos), the then eight-year-old Peter instantly grabbed the thing to start recording his own movies...

“ The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
The Frighteners
Dead Alive
Bad Taste ” - DillonBonfanti

15.

Quentin Dupieux

Director, Rubber

“ Wrong
Rubber ” - DillonBonfanti

16.

Kevin Smith

Writer, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Born and raised in New Jersey and very proud of it; this fact can be seen in all of his movies. His first movie, Clerks., was filmed in the convenience store in which Smith worked. He was only allowed to shoot at night after the store closed. This movie won the highest award at the Sundance film festival and was brought to theaters by Miramax...

“ Red State
Cop Out
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Clerks II
Jersey Girl
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Dogma
Chasing Amy
Mallrats
Clerks. ” - DillonBonfanti

17.

Ridley Scott

Producer, American Gangster

“ Robin Hood
Body of Lies
American Gangster
A Good Year
Kingdom of Heaven
Matchstick Men
Black Hawk Down
Hannibal
Gladiator
G.I. Jane
Thelma & Louise
Blade Runner
Alien ” - DillonBonfanti

18.

Ethan Coen

Writer, No Country for Old Men

“ True Grit
A Serious Man
Burn After Reading
No Country For Old Men
The Ladykillers
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
Barton Fink
Raising Arizona ” - DillonBonfanti

19.

Joel Coen

Writer, No Country for Old Men

“ True Grit
A Serious Man
Burn After Reading
No Country For Old Men
The Ladykillers
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
Barton Fink
Raising Arizona ” - DillonBonfanti

20.

Joel Schumacher

Director, The Phantom of the Opera

“ Trespass
Twelve
Blood Creek
The Number 23
The Phantom of the Opera
Veronica Guerin
Phone Booth
Bad Company
Tigerland
Flawless
8MM
Batman & Robin
A Time to Kill
Batman Forever
The Client
Falling Down
Dying Young
Flatliners
Cousins
The Lost Boys
St. Elmo's Fire
D.C. Cab
The Incredible Shrinking Woman ” - DillonBonfanti

21.

Frank Darabont

Writer, The Shawshank Redemption

Three-time Oscar nominee Frank Darabont was born in a refugee camp in 1959 in Montbeliard, France, the son of Hungarian parents who had fled Budapest during the failed 1956 Hungarian revolution. Brought to America as an infant, he settled with his family in Los Angeles and attended Hollywood High School...

“ The Mist
The Green Mile
The Shawshank Redemption ” - DillonBonfanti

22.

Brian De Palma

Director, Scarface

Brian De Palma is one of the well-known directors who spear-headed the new movement in Hollywood during the 1970s. He is known for his many films that go from violent pictures, to Hitchcock-like thrillers. Born on the 11th of September in 1940, De Palma was born in New Jersey in an American-Italian family...

“ The Black Dahlia
Mission to Mars
Mission Impossible
Carlito's Way
The Untouchables
Scarface ” - DillonBonfanti

23.

Christopher Nolan

Writer, The Dark Knight

Born in London in 1970, Christopher Nolan began making films at the age of seven using his father's super 8mm camera and an assortment of male-action figures. He graduated to making films involving real people, and his super 8mm surreal short 'tarantella' was shown on PBS' 'image union' in 1989. Chris...

“ Inception
The Dark Knight
Batman Begins
Insomnia
Memento
Following ” - DillonBonfanti

24.

Takashi Miike

Director, 13 Assassins

Takashi Miike was born in the small town of Yao on the outskirts of Osaka, Japan. His main interest growing up was motorbikes, and for a while he harbored ambitions to race professionally. At the age of 18 he went to study at the film school in Yokohama founded by renowned director Shôhei Imamura, primarily because there were no entrance exams...

“ Ace Attorney
Ninja Kids!!!
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
13 Assassins
Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City
Crows Zero II
Yatterman
God's Puzzle
Crows Zero
Tantei monogatari
Sukiyaki Western Django
Like a Dragon
Sun Scarred
Waru
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
The Great Yokai War
Izo
Zebraman
One Missed Call
Gozu
The Man in White
The Man in White Part 2: Requiem for the Lion
Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
Shangri-La
Shin jingi no hakaba
Onna kunishuu ikki
Dead or Alive: Final
Katakuri-ke no *beep*
Araburu tamashii-tachi
Ichi the Killer
Family
Zuiketsu gensô - Tonkararin yume densetsu
Kikuchi-jô monogatari - sakimori-tachi no uta
Dead or Alive 2: Tôbôsha
The Guys from Paradise
The City of Lost Souls
Sarariiman Kintarô
Dead or Alive
Audition
Nihon kuroshakai
Kishiwada shônen gurentai: Bôkyô
Blues Harp
Andromedia
The Bird People in China
Gokudô kuroshakai
Kishiwada shônen gurentai: Chikemuri junjô-hen
Fudoh: The New Generation ” - DillonBonfanti

25.

Norman Jewison

Producer, The Hurricane

Jewison got his BA at Victoria College, University of Toronto, and after moving to London, where he wrote scripts and acted for the BBC, he returned to Toronto and directed TV shows for the CBC (1952-1958), then musicals and variety in New York, before embarking on a film career. In 1986 he established the Canadian Centre for Advanced Film Studies in Toronto.

“ The Statement
The Hurricane
Bogus
Only You
Other People's Money
In Country
Moonstruck
Agnes of God
A Soldier's Story
Best Friends
...And Justice for All.
F.I.S.T
Rollerball
Jesus Christ Superstar
Fiddler on the Roof
Gaily, Gaily
The Thomas Crown Affair
In the Heat of the Night
The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming
The Cincinnati Kid
The Art of Love
Send Me No Flowers
The Thrill of It All
40 Pounds of Trouble ” - DillonBonfanti

26.

David Fincher

Director, Fight Club

David Fincher was born in 1962 in Denver, Colorado, and was raised in Marin County, California. When he was 18 years old he went to work for John Korty at Korty Films in Mill Valley. He subsequently worked at ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) from 1981-1983. Fincher left ILM to direct TV commercials and music videos after signing with N...

“ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Social Network
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Zodiac
Panic Room
Fight Club
The Game
Se7en
Alien³ ” - DillonBonfanti

27.

Steven Spielberg

Producer, Saving Private Ryan

Undoubtedly one of the most influential film personalities in the history of film, Steven Spielberg is perhaps Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. Spielberg has countless big-grossing, critically acclaimed credits to his name, as producer, director and writer...

“ War Horse
The Adventures of Tintin
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Munich
War of the Worlds
The Terminal
Catch Me If You Can
Minority Report
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Saving Private Ryan
Amistad
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Schindler's List
Jurassic Park
Hook
Always
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Empire of the Sun
The Color Purple
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Twilight Zone: The Movie (segment 2)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1941
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jaws
The Sugarland Express
Firelight ” - DillonBonfanti

28.

Robert Zemeckis

Writer, Back to the Future

A "whizkid" with special effects, Robert is from the Spielberg camp of film-making (Steven Spielberg produced many of his films). Usually working with writing partner Bob Gale, Robert's earlier films show he has a talent for zany comedy (Romancing the Stone, 1941) and special effect vehicles (Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Back to the Future)...

“ A Christmas Carol
Beowulf
The Polar Express
Cast Away
What Lies Beneath
Contact
Forrest Gump
Death Becomes Her
Back to the Future Part III
Back to the Future Part II
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Back to the Future
Romancing the Stone
Used Cars
I Wanna Hold Your Hand ” - DillonBonfanti

29.

Tim Burton

Producer, Edward Scissorhands

His early film career was fueled by almost unbelievable good luck, but it's his talent and originality that have kept him at the top of the Hollywood tree. Tim Burton began drawing at an early age, going on to attend the California Institute of the Arts, studying animation after being awarded a fellowship from Disney...

“ Alice In Wonderland
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Corpse Bride
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
Big Fish
Planet of the Apes
Sleepy Hollow
Mars Attacks!
Ed Wood
Batman Returns
Edward Scissorhands
Batman
Beetlejuice
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Luau ” - DillonBonfanti

30.

James Cameron

Writer, Aliens

James Francis Cameron was born on August 16, 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada. He moved to the United States in 1971. The son of an engineer, he majored in physics at California State University but, after graduating, drove a truck to support his screenwriting ambition. He landed his first professional film job as art director...

“ Avatar
Titanic
True Lies
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Abyss
Aliens
The Terminator
Piranha Part Two: The Spawning ” - DillonBonfanti

31.

Paul Verhoeven

Director, Total Recall

Paul Verhoeven graduated from the University of Leiden with a degree in math and physics. He entered the Royal Netherlands Navy, where he began his film career by making documentaries for the Navy and later for TV. In 1969 he directed the popular Dutch TV series Floris, about a medieval knight...

“ Black Book
Hollow Man
Starship Troopers
Basic Instinct
Total Recall
RoboCop
Flesh+Blood
The Fourth Man
Spetters
Soldier of Orange
Keetje Tippel
Turkish Delight
Diary of a Hooker ” - DillonBonfanti

32.

Ron Howard

Actor, American Graffiti

Ron was born in Oklahoma, into an acting family - his father had realized a boyhood dream of acting by attending the University of Oklahoma and majoring in drama, and his mother went through acting school in New York. He was in his first movie at 18 months, Frontier Woman, although his first real part was at the age of 4...

“ The Dilemma
Angels & Demons
Frost/Nixon
The Da Vinci Code
Cinderella Man
The Missing
A Beautiful Mind
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Edtv
Ransom
Apollo 13
The Paper
Far and Away
Backdraft
Parenthood
Willow
Gung Ho
Cocoon
Splash
Night Shift
Grand Theft Auto ” - DillonBonfanti

33.

Sam Raimi

Writer, Spider-Man 3

Highly inventive U.S. film director/producer/writer/actor Sam Raimi first came to the attention of film fans with the savage, yet darkly humorous, low-budget horror film, The Evil Dead. From his childhood, Raimi was a fan of the cinema and, before he was ten-years-old, he was out making movies with an 8mm camera...

“ Drag Me to Hell
Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man
The Gift
For Love of the Game
A Simple Plan
The Quick and the Dead
Army of Darkness
Darkman
Evil Dead II
Crimewave
The Evil Dead ” - DillonBonfanti

34.

John Carpenter

Writer, Halloween

John Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father was the head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky University and then USC film school in Los Angeles, not the University of South Carolina. While there...

“ The Ward
Ghosts of Mars
Escape From L.A.
Village of the Damned
In The Mouth of Madness
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
They Live
Prince of Darkness
Big Trouble In Little China
Starman
Christine
The Thing
Escape From New York
The Fog
Halloween
Assault on Precinct 13
Dark Star ” - DillonBonfanti

35.

Wes Craven

Writer, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Rising out of the mid-western suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, Wes Craven has become synonymous with genre bending and innovative horror, challenging audiences with his bold visions since the release of his first feature film, The Last House of the Left, which he wrote, directed, and edited in 1972. Craven reinvented the youth horror genre again in 1984 with the classic A Nightmare on Elm Street...

“ Scream 4
My Soul to Take
Red Eye
Cursed
Scream 3
Music of the Heart
Scream 2
Scream
Vampire in Brooklyn
New Nightmare
The People Under the Stairs
Shocker
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Deadly Friend
The Hills Have Eyes Part II
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Swamp Thing
Deadly Blessing
The Hills Have Eyes
The Fireworks Woman
The Last House on the Left ” - DillonBonfanti

36.

Milos Forman

Director, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Because his parents died in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz, Jan Tomás became an orphan very early on. Later, he studied direction at the Prague Film Academy (FAMU). In his Czechoslovakian films, Black Peter, Loves of a Blonde, and The Firemen's Ball, he created his own style of comedy. During...

“ Man On The Moon
The People Vs. Larry Flint
Amadeus
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest ” - DillonBonfanti

37.

Rob Zombie

Soundtrack, The Matrix

“ Halloween 2
Halloween
The Devil's Rejects
House of 1000 Corpses ” - DillonBonfanti

38.

M. Night Shyamalan

Writer, The Sixth Sense

Born in India but raised in the posh suburban Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. Night Shyamalan is the son of two doctors. His passion for filmmaking began when he was given a Super-8 camera at age eight, and even at that young age began to model his career on that of his idol, Steven Spielberg...

“ The Happening
Lady In The Water
The Village
Signs
The Sixth Sense ” - DillonBonfanti

39.

Guillermo del Toro

Producer, Pan's Labyrinth

Guillermo del Toro was born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico. Raised by his Catholic grandmother, del Toro developed an interest in filmmaking in his early teens. Later, he learned about makeup and effects from the legendary Dick Smith (The Exorcist) and worked on making his own short films...

“ Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Pan's Labyrinth
Hellboy
Blade II
The Devil's Backbone
Mimic
Cronos ” - DillonBonfanti

40.

Alfonso Cuarón

Director, Children of Men

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born in 28 November in Mexico City, Mexico. He has always wanted to be a director, and also an astronaut. He didn't want to enter to the army so he forgot that possibility. When he was little instead of playing he wanted to make a film, but unfortunately he didn't have a camera...

“ Children of Men
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Y Tu Mamá También
Great Expectations
A Little Princess
Sólo con tu pareja ” - DillonBonfanti

41.

Jee-woon Kim

Director, A Tale of Two Sisters

“ I Saw the Devil
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
A Bittersweet Life
A Tale of Two Sisters
The Foul King
The Quiet Family ” - DillonBonfanti

42.

Wilson Yip

Director, Ip Man

“ Happy Magic
Sien nui yau wan
Ip Man 2
Ip Man
Flash Point
Dragon Tiger Gate
Kill Zone
The White Dragon
Dai sing siu si
Ng goh haak gwai dik siu nin
Dry Wood Fierce Fire
2002
Skyline Cruisers
Juliet in Love
Bullets Over Summer
Sun faa sau si
Ng yun ji dai
Hui zhuan shou shi
Wong Gok fung wan
Mi jian fan
Ye ban yi dian zhong ” - DillonBonfanti

43.

Bruce McDonald

Director, Pontypool

“ Hard Core Logo 2
Trigger
This Movie Is Broken
Pontypool
The Tracey Fragments
Picture Claire
Hard Core Logo
Dance Me Outside
Highway 61
Roadkill
Knock! Knock! ” - DillonBonfanti

44.

Cary Fukunaga

Director, Sin Nombre

“ Jane Eyre
Sin Nombre
Chinatown Film Project ” - DillonBonfanti

45.

Roland Emmerich

Producer, Independence Day

Emmerich began his career in his native Germany. In his youth, he pursued painting and sculpting. While enrolled in the director's program at film school in Munich, his student film Das Arche Noah Prinzip went on to open the 1984 Berlin Film Festival. The feature became a huge success and was sold to more than 20 countries.

“ Anonymous
2012
10,000 BC
The Day After Tomorrow
The Patriot
Godzilla
Independence Day
Stargate
Universal Soldier
Moon 44
Ghost Chase
Joey
Das Arche Noah Prinzip
Franzmann ” - DillonBonfanti

46.

Lars von Trier

Writer, Melancholia

Lars von Trier (the "von" was adopted during his stay at the Danish Film School) was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in April 1956. He graduated from the Danish Film School in 1983 with his short film "Images of a relief" ("Befrielsesbilleder") which won the Best Film award at the Munich Film Festival the following year...

“ Melancholia
Antichrist
The Boss of It All
Manderlay
Dogville
Dancer in the Dark
The Idiots
Breaking the Waves
Europa
Medea
Epidemic
The Element of Crime
Befrielsesbilleder ” - DillonBonfanti

47.

James Merendino

Director, SLC Punk!

Born in Rome, Italy, James Antonioni Merendino moved to the United States when he was six years old, where he lived first in New York City and then Salt Lake City. His father, a Doctor, his mother coming from an Italian film family, James was encouraged to pursue the trade of his mother's family. At 16 he returned to Rome to study Theology and Philosophy...

“ The Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch
Death Club
Trespassing
SLC Punk!
The Real Thing
Terrified ” - DillonBonfanti

48.

Sean S. Cunningham

Producer, Friday the 13th

Like William Girdler, Oliver Hellman or even Ed Wood, Sean S. Cunningham had a successful career of starting films cheap and fast. Originally from New York, Cunningham had a vast knowledge of directing films and came to Hollywood. He started about the same time Wes Craven did. Cunningham meet Craven and decided to make a comedy-romance film called Together...

“ XCU: Extreme Close Up
DeepStar Six
The New Kids
Spring Break
A Stranger Is Watching
Friday the 13th
Here Come the Tigers
Manny's Orphans
Case of the Full Moon Murders
Together ” - DillonBonfanti

49.

Spike Lee

Director, Malcolm X

Spike Lee was born Shelton Lee in 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from a proud and intelligent background. His father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a school teacher. His mother dubbed him Spike, due to his tough nature...

“ Red Hook Summer
Inside Man
She Hate Me
25th Hour
Bamboozled
Summer of Sam
He Got Game
Get on the Bus
Girl 6
Clockers
Crooklyn
Malcolm X
Jungle Fever
Mo' Better Blues
Do the Right Thing
School Daze
She's Gotta Have It
Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
Sarah ” - DillonBonfanti

50.

Tim Blake Nelson

Actor, O Brother, Where Art Thou?

“ Leaves of Grass
The Grey Zone
O
Eye of God ” - DillonBonfanti

51.

Larry Charles

Director, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Larry Charles (born February 20, 1956) is an American writer, director, and producer. He is best known as a staff writer for the American sitcom Seinfeld for its first 5 seasons, contributing some of the show's darkest and most absurd story-lines. He has also directed the films Borat, Religulous and Brüno.

“ Brüno
Religulous
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Masked and Anonymous ” - DillonBonfanti

52.

Harmony Korine

Director, Gummo

Harmony Korine was born in Bolinas, California, in 1973. His family moved to the east coast of the United States when he was five, and he spent his early years in Nashville, Tennessee, and New York. At the age of 19, he wrote the critically acclaimed screenplay Kids for director Larry Clark...

“ Trash Humpers
Minster Lonely
Gummo ” - DillonBonfanti

53.

Daniel Myrick

Writer, The Blair Witch Project

“ The Objective
Solstice
Believers
The Strand
Curse of the Blair Witch (TV documentary short)
The Blair Witch Project ” - DillonBonfanti

54.

Mel Gibson

Actor, Braveheart

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born on January 3, 1956, in Peekskill, New York, USA as the sixth of eleven children to parents Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Ann Gibson, who was born in Australia and died in December of 1990. Though born in the US, Mel and his family moved to New South Wales...

“ Apocalypto
The Passion of The Christ
Braveheart
The Man Without A Face ” - DillonBonfanti

55.

Zack Snyder

Director, 300

“ SuckerPunch
Watchmen
300
Dawn of the Dead ” - DillonBonfanti

56.

Greg Mottola

Director, Superbad

“ Paul
Adventureland
Superbad
The Daytrippers ” - DillonBonfanti

57.

John McNaughton

Director, Wild Things

“ Speaking of Sex
Wild Things
Normal Life
Mad Dog and Glory
The Borrower
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer ” - DillonBonfanti

58.

Ted Demme

Director, Blow

“ Blow
Life
Monument Ave.
Beautiful Girls
The Ref ” - DillonBonfanti

59.

David Koepp

Writer, Mission: Impossible

“ Ghost Town
Secret Window
Stir of Echoes
The Trigger Effect ” - DillonBonfanti

60.

Rob Reiner

Actor, This Is Spinal Tap

Robert Reiner was born to Emmy-Winning actor, comedian, writer, and producer Carl Reiner, and mother, Estelle Reiner. Robert as a child often looked up to his father as his inspiration and role-model. Carl Reiner was on The Dick Van Dike Show which Carl Reiner created and also starred in. Estelle Reiner was the inspiration for Rob Reiner to become a director...

“ Flipped
The Bucket List
Rumor Has It...
Alex & Emma
The Story of Us
Ghosts of Mississippi
The American President
North
A Few Good Men
Misery
When Harry Met Sally...
The Princess Bride
Stand by Me
The Sure Thing
This Is Spinal Tap ” - DillonBonfanti

61.

Richard Linklater

Director, Before Sunset

Self-taught writer-director Richard Linklater was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s. Typically setting each of his movies during one 24-hour period, Linklater's work explored what he dubbed "the youth rebellion continuum,"...

“ Bernie
Me and Orson Welles
A Scanner Darkly
Fast Food Nation
Bad News Bears
Before Sunset
The School of Rock
Tape
Waking Life
The Newton Boys
SubUrbia
Before Sunrise
Dazed and Confused
Slacker
It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books ” - DillonBonfanti

62.

Mike Judge

Actor, Office Space

“ Extract
Idiocracy
Office Space
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America ” - DillonBonfanti

63.

Adam McKay

Writer, Step Brothers

“ The Other Guys
Step Brothers
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy ” - DillonBonfanti

64.

Sofia Coppola

Producer, Somewhere

“ Somewhere
Marie Antoinette
Lost in Translation
The Virgin Suicides ” - DillonBonfanti

65.

Antoine Fuqua

Director, Training Day

He has directed music videos for such artists as Arrested Development, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Toni Braxton, Pras and Usher Raymond. He was nominated for MTV's Best Rap Video for Heavy D & the Boyz. He also won two Music Video Production Awards: The Young Generators Award, for his...

“ Brooklyn's Finest
Shooter
King Arthur
Tears of the Sun
Training Day
Bait
The Replacement Killers ” - DillonBonfanti

66.

Alexandre Aja

Writer, The Hills Have Eyes

“ Piranha 3D
Mirrors
The Hills Have Eyes
High Tension
Furia ” - DillonBonfanti

67.

Eli Roth

Producer, Grindhouse

Eli Roth began shooting Super 8 films at the age of eight, after watching Ridley Scott's Alien and vomiting, and deciding he wanted to be a producer/director. With his brothers and friends, ketchup for blood and his father's power tools, he made over fifty short films before attending film school at N.Y.U....

“ Hostel: Part II
Hostel
Cabin Fever ” - DillonBonfanti

68.

Tim Sullivan

Writer, Hood of Horror

Writer/Director/Producer known for a wide variety of modern horror films, most significantly cult favorite 2001 Maniacs and its popular follow-up, 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams. Beginning his career as a New Jersey teenager pumping fake blood for 80's splatter classic The Deadly Spawn, Sullivan moved to Los Angeles where he worked in development at New Line Cinema, co-producing Detroit Rock City...

“ 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
Driftwood
2001 Maniacs ” - DillonBonfanti

69.

Jeff Tremaine

Producer, Jackass: The Movie

Jeff Tremaine was born a military brat and hustled from state to state until finally settling in Rockville, Maryland. There, he quickly gravitated towards the alternative world of skateboarding, BMX, reggae music, and art... pursuits that would shape a career to come. After attending Washington University...

“ Jackass 3.5
Jackass 3D
Jackass 2.5
Jackass Number Two
Jackass: The Movie
Boob ” - DillonBonfanti

70.

James Mangold

Director, Walk the Line

“ Knight and Day
3:10 to Yuma
Walk the Line
Identity
Kate & Leopold
Girl, Interrupted
Cop Land
Heavy ” - DillonBonfanti

71.

Henry Selick

Director, Coraline

“ Coraline
Monkeybone
James and the Giant Peach
The Nightmare Before Christmas ” - DillonBonfanti

72.

Edgar Wright

Director, Shaun of the Dead

“ Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Hot Fuzz
Shaun of the Dead
A Fistful of Fingers ” - DillonBonfanti

73.

Nicholas Stoller

Writer, Fun with Dick and Jane

“ Get Him To The Greek
Forgetting Sarah Marshall ” - DillonBonfanti

74.

Michael Spierig

Director, Daybreakers

“ Daybreakers
Undead ” - DillonBonfanti

75.

Peter Spierig

Director, Daybreakers

“ Daybreakers
Undead ” - DillonBonfanti

76.

F. Gary Gray

Director, The Italian Job

“ Law Abiding Citizen
Be Cool
The Italian Job
A Man Apart
Set It Off
Friday ” - DillonBonfanti

77.

Jake Kasdan

Producer, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

“ Bad Teacher
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
The TV Set
Orange County
Zero Effect ” - DillonBonfanti

78.

Martin Campbell

Director, Casino Royale

Martin Campbell knows how to entertain an audience when he steps behind the camera. When he directed The Mask of Zorro, the movie earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations and launched the international careers of Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Next, when he helmed Vertical Limit, the film was well received by the critics and earned over $200 million in worldwide box-office sales...

“ Green Lantern
Edge of Darkness
Casino Royale
The Legend of Zorro
Beyond Borders
Vertical Limit
The Mask of Zorro
GoldenEye
No Escape
Defenseless
Criminal Law
Three for All
Eskimo Nell
The Sex Thief ” - DillonBonfanti