Top Directors
by aussiexTJ | created - 09 Jan 2017 | updated - 05 May 2019 | PublicIncluding some of their best films
1. David Fincher
Director | Se7en
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...
- Alien 3 - 1992 Se7en - 1995 The Game - 1997 Fight Club - 1999 Panic Room - 2002 Zodiac - 2007 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 2008 The Social Network - 2010 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 2011 Gone Girl - 2014 In Addition: House of Cards Pilot and 2nd episode In Addition: A litany of music videos for artists incuding Madonna, George Michael, Aerosmith, Justin Timberlake, Paula Abdul and Sting
2. Denis Villeneuve
Director | Dune
Denis Villeneuve is a French Canadian film director and writer. He was born in 1967, in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. He started his career as a filmmaker at the National Film Board of Canada. He is best known for his feature films Arrival (2016), Sicario (2015), Prisoners (2013), Enemy (2013), ...
3. Christopher Nolan
Writer | Tenet
Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...
4. Steven Spielberg
Producer | Schindler's List
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...
- Duel - 1971 Something Evil (TV Movie) - 1972 The Sugarland Express - 1974 Jaws - 1975 Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 1977 1941 - 1979 Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark - 1981 E.T the Extra-Terrestrial - 1982 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom -1984 The Color Purple - 1985 Empire of the Sun - 1987 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - 1989 Always - 1989 Hook - 1991 Jurassic Park - 1993 Schindler's List - 1993 The Lost World : Jurassic Park - 1997 Amistad - 1997 Saving Private Ryan - 1988 A.I Artificial Intelligence - 2001 Minority Report - 2002 Catch Me If You Can - 2002 The Terminal - 2004 War of the Worlds - 2005 Munich - 2005 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - 2008 The Adventures of Tintin - 2011 War Horse - 2011 Lincoln - 2012 Bridge of Spies - 2015 The BFG - 2016 In Addition: Executive Producer of many other movies and some TV series including: Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Tiny Toon Adventures, SeaQuest 2032, Band of Brothers, Into the West, The Pacific, Terra Nova, The River, Falling Skies and more.
5. Ridley Scott
Producer | The Martian
Described by film producer Michael Deeley as "the very best eye in the business", director Ridley Scott was born on November 30, 1937 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear. His father was an officer in the Royal Engineers and the family followed him as his career posted him throughout the United Kingdom ...
- The Duellists - 1977 Alien - 1979 Blade Runner - 1982 Legend - 1985 Someone to Watch Over Me - 1987 Black Rain - 1989 Thelma & Louise - 1991 1492: Conquest of Paradise - 1992 White Squall - 1996 G.I. Jane - 1997 Gladiator - 2000 Hannibal - 2001 Black Hawk Down - 2001 Matchstick Men - 2003 Kingdom of Heaven - 2005 A Good Year - 2006 American Gangster - 2007 Body of Lies - 2008 Robin Hood - 2008 Prometheus - 2010 The Counsellor - 2013 Exodus: Gods and Kings - 2014 The Martian - 2015 Alien: Covenant - 2017 In Addition: Executive Producer for TV series including: The Andromeda Strain, Numb3rs, The Pillars of the Earth, Mercy Street , The Good Wife, The Man in the High Castle, Taboo, BrainDead and others.
6. Francis Ford Coppola
Producer | Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but 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 (née Pennino), had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated ...
- Dementia 13 - 1963 The Rain People - 1969 The Godfather - 1969 The Conversation - 1974 The Godfather: Part II - 1974 Apocalypse Now - 1979 The Outsiders - 1983 Rumble Fish - 1983 The Cotton Club - 1984 Peggy Sue Got Married - 1986 Tucker: The Man and His Dream - 1988 The Godfather: Part III - 1990 Bram Stoker's Dracula - 1992 Jack - 1996 The Rainmaker - 1997 Tetro - 2009
7. Guillermo del Toro
Writer | El laberinto del fauno
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 (1973)) and worked on making his ...
- Cronos - 1993 Mimic - 1997 The Devil's Backbone - 2001 Blade II - 2002 Hellboy - 2004 Pan's Labyrinth - 2006 Hellboy II: The Golden Army - 2008 Pacific Rim - 2013 Crimson Peak - 2015 In Addition: Created the TV show The Strain, based on the novels he co-wrote
8. Martin Scorsese
Producer | Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later ...
- Mean Streets - 1973 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - 1974 Taxi Driver - 1976 Raging Bull - 1980 The King of Comedy - 1982 After Hours - 1985 The Color of Money - 1986 The Last Temptation of Christ - 1988 Goodfellas - 1990 Cape Fear - 1991 The Age of Innocence - 1993 Casino - 1995 Kundun - 1997 Bringing Out the Dead - 1999 Gangs of New York - 2002 The Aviator - 2004 The Departed - 2006 Shutter Island - 2010 Hugo - 2011 The Wolf of Wall Street - 2013 Silence - 2016 In Addition: Executive Producer of the TV series Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl
9. Stanley Kubrick
Director | 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia). Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would ...
- Fear and Desire - 1953 Killer's Kiss - 1955 The Killing - 1956 Paths of Glory - 1957 Spartacus - 1960 Lolita - 1962 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - 1964 2001: A Space Odyssey - 1968 A Clockwork Orange - 1971 Barry Lyndon - 1975 The Shining - 1980 Full Metal Jacket - 1987 Eyes Wide Shut - 1999
10. Peter Jackson
Producer | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Sir Peter Jackson made history with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, becoming the first person to direct three major feature films simultaneously. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King were nominated for and collected a slew of awards from around the globe, with The ...
- Meet the Feebles (1989) Bad Taste (1987) Dead Alive - 1992 Heavenly Creatures - 1994 The Frighteners - 1996 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - 2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - 2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - 2003 King Kong - 2005 The Lovely Bones - 2008 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - 2012 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - 2013 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - 2014
11. Mel Gibson
Actor | Braveheart
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York, USA, as the sixth of eleven children of Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly) Gibson (who died in December of 1990). His mother was Irish, from County Longford, while his American-born father is ...
12. Nicolas Winding Refn
Writer | The Neon Demon
Writer, director, and producer Nicolas Winding Refn was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1970, to Anders Refn, a film director and editor, and Vibeke Winding (née Tuxen), a cinematographer. Just before he turned 11, in 1981, he moved to New York with his parents, where he lived out his teen years. ...
13. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.
In January of...
14. Antoine Fuqua
Producer | The Magnificent Seven
Antoine Fuqua is an American film director, known for his work in the film Training Day as well as The Replacement Killers, Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter, Brooklyn's Finest, Olympus Has Fallen and The Equalizer.
He has directed music videos for such artists as Arrested Development, Prince, ...
15. Ben Affleck
Producer | Argo
Benjamin Géza "Ben" Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to mother Chris Anne (Boldt), a school teacher, and father Timothy Byers "Tim" Affleck, a social worker. Ben has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, who was born in 1975...
16. Paul Thomas Anderson
Director | Punch-Drunk Love
Anderson was born in 1970. He was one of the first of the "video store" generation of film-makers. His father was the first man on his block to own a V.C.R., and from a very early age Anderson had an infinite number of titles available to him. While film-makers like Spielberg cut their teeth making...
- Cigarettes & Coffee (Short) - 1993 Hard Eight - 1996 Boogie Nights - 1997 Magnolia - 1999 Punch-Drunk Love - 2002 There Will Be Blood - 2007 The Master - 2012 Inherent Vice - 2014 In Addition: Music videos for Fiona Apple and Radiohead
17. Gavin O'Connor
Producer | The Accountant
Gavin O'Connor was born on December 24, 1963 in Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for The Accountant (2016), Pride and Glory (2008) and Warrior (2011). He has been married to Brooke Burns since June 22, 2013. They have one child. He was previously married ...
18. Darren Aronofsky
Writer | Pi
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 ...
19. Edgar Wright
Director | Shaun of the Dead
Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his comedic Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy consisting of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), made with recurrent collaborators Simon Pegg...
20. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Director | Biutiful
Alejandro González Iñárritu (ih-nyar-ee-too), born August 15th, 1963, is a Mexican film director.
González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican-born ...
21. Tony Scott
Producer | Domino
Tony Scott was a British-born film director and producer. He was the youngest of three brothers, one of whom is fellow film director Ridley Scott. He was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England to parents Jean and Colonel Francis Percy Scott. As a result of his father's career in the British...
- The Hunger - 1983 Top Gun - 1986 Beverly Hills Cop II - 1987 Revenge - 1990 Days of Thunder - 1990 The Last Boy Scout - 1991 True Romance - 1993 Crimson Tide - 1995 The Fan - 1996 Enemy of the State - 1998 Spy Game - 2001 Man on Fire - 2004 Domino - 2005 Deja Vu - 2006 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 - 2009 Unstoppable - 2010 In Addition: Executive producer of the TV series The Good Wife, The Pillars of the Earth and Numb3rs
22. Akira Kurosawa
Writer | Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater...
- Drunken Angel - 1948 Stray Dog - 1949 The Quiet Duel - 1949 Roshomon - 1950 Scandal - 1950 Ikiru - 1952 Seven Samurai - 1954 Throne of Blood - 1957 The Lower Depths - 1957 The Hidden Fortress - 1958 The Bad Sleep Well - 1960 Yojimbo - 1961 Sanjuro - 1962 High and Low - 1963 Red Beard - 1965 Dodes'ka-den - 1970 Dersu Uzala - 1975 Kagemusha - 1980 Ran - 1985 Dreams - 1990 Rhapsody in August - 1991
23. James Cameron
Writer | Avatar: The Way of Water
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 before switching to English, and eventually dropping out. He then drove a truck to support his ...
24. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
- Play Misty for Me - 1971 Breezy - 1973 High Plains Drifter - 1973 The Outlaw Josey Wales - 1976 Pale Rider - 1985 Heartbreak Ridge - 1986 Bird - 1988 Unforgiven - 1992 A Perfect World - 1993 The Bridges of Madison County - 1995 True Crime - 1999 Space Cowboys - 2000 Mystic River - 2003 Million Dollar Baby - 2004 Flags of Our Fathers - 2006 Letters from Iwo Jima - 2006 Gran Torino - 2008 Changeling - 2008 Invictus - 2009 Hereafter - 2010 J. Edgar - 2011 American Sniper - 2014 Jersey Boys - 2014 Sully - 2016
25. Alfred Hitchcock
Director | Psycho
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and ...
- Blackmail - 1929 The 39 Steps - 1935 The Lady Vanishes - 1938 Foreign Correspondent - 1940 Rebecca - 1940 Suspicion - 1941 Shadow of a Doubt - 1943 Lifeboat - 1944 Spellbound - 1945 Notorious - 1946 Rope - 1948 Strangers on a Train - 1951 Rear Window - 1954 Dial M for Murder - 1954 To Catch a Thief - 1955 The Trouble with Harry - 1955 The Man Who Knew Too Much - 1956 The Wrong Man - 1956 Vertigo - 1958 North by Northwest - 1959 Psycho - 1960 The Birds - 1963 Frenzy - 1972
26. David Lynch
Writer | Twin Peaks
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 ...
27. Baz Luhrmann
Writer | Moulin Rouge!
Baz Luhrmann is an Australian writer, director and producer with projects spanning film, television, opera, theater, music and recording industries. He is regarded by many as a contemporary example of an auteur for his distinctly recognizable style and deep involvement in the writing, directing, ...
- Strictly Ballroom - 1992 Romeo + Juliet - 1996 Moulin Rouge! - 2001 Australia - 2008 The Great Gatsby - 2013 In Addition: Creator of the TV series The Get Down
28. Tim Burton
Producer | Edward Scissorhands
Timothy Walter Burton was born in Burbank, California, to Jean Rae (Erickson), who owned a cat-themed gift shop, and William Reed Burton, who worked for the Burbank Park and Recreation Department. He spent most of his childhood as a recluse, drawing cartoons, and watching old movies (he was ...
- Pee-wee's Big Adventure - 1985 Beetlejuice - 1988 Batman - 1989 Edward Scissorhands - 1990 Batman Returns - 1992 Ed Wood - 1994 Mars Attacks! - 1996 Sleepy Hollow - 1999 Planet of the Apes - 2001 Big Fish - 2003 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - 2005 Corpse Bride - 2005 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 2007 Alice in Wonderland - 2010 Dark Shadows - 2012 Frankenweenie - 2012 Big Eyes - 2014 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - 2016
29. 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 ...
- The Shawshank Redemption - 1994 The Green Mile - 1999 The Majestic - 2001 The Mist - 2007
30. Luc Besson
Writer | Le Cinquième Élément
Luc Besson spent the first years of his life following his parents, scuba diving instructors, around the world. His early life was entirely aquatic. He already showed amazing creativity as a youth, writing early drafts of The Big Blue (1988) and The Fifth Element (1997), as an adolescent bored in ...
- Subway - 1985 The Big Blue - 1988 La Femme Nikita - 1990 Léon: The Professional - 1994 The Fifth Element - 1997 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc - 1999 Angel-A - 2005 Arthur and the Invisibles - 2006 The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec - 2010 The Lady - 2011 The Family - 2011 Lucy - 2014 Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets - 2017 In Addition: Music videos for Madonna In Addition: Wrote the Colombiana, Banlieue 13, Taxi, Taken, and Transporter series of movies
31. John Hughes
Writer | Planes, Trains & Automobiles
John Hughes was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He was credited for creating some of the most memorable comedy films of the 1980s and the 1990s, when he was at the height of his career. He had a talent for writing coming-of-age stories, and for depicting fairly realistic...
- Sixteen Candles - 1984 The Breakfast Club - 1985 Weird Science - 1985 Ferris Bueller's Day Off - 1986 Planes, Trains & Automobiles - 1987 She's Having a Baby - 1988 Uncle Buck - 1989 Curly Sue - 1991 In Addition: Wrote the 'Home Alone' movies and Pretty in Pink (1986) among others
32. Spike Jonze
Producer | Her
Spike Jonze made up one-third (along with Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman) of the triumvirate of genius minds behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine. These three uncommon characters were all editors for Grand Royal Magazine as well, under the ...
- Being John Malkovich - 1999 Adaptation - 2002 Where the Wild Things Are - 2009 Her - 2013 In Addition - Music videos for Beastie Boys, Daft Punk, R.E.M and more
33. Joel Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Joel Daniel Coen is an American filmmaker who regularly collaborates with his younger brother Ethan. They made Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail Caesar and other projects. Joel ...
- Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- The Coen Brothers -
34. James Wan
Writer | Saw
James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is an Australian film producer, screenwriter and film director of Malaysian Chinese descent. He is widely known for directing the horror film Saw (2004) and creating Billy the puppet. Wan has also directed Dead Silence (2007), Death Sentence (2007), Insidious (2010)...
- Saw - 2004 Dead Silence - 2007 Death Sentence - 2007 Insidious - 2010 The Conjuring - 2013 Insidious: Chapter 2 - 2013 Furious 7 - 2015 The Conjuring 2 - 2016 Aquaman - 2018 In Addition: Executive producer of the Saw series of horror movies and producer of Lights Out (2016)
35. Wes Craven
Writer | A Nightmare on Elm Street
Wes Craven has become synonymous with genre bending and innovative horror, challenging audiences with his bold vision.
Wesley Earl Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Caroline (Miller) and Paul Eugene Craven. He had a midwestern suburban upbringing. His first feature film was The Last House on ...
- The Last House on the Left - 1972 The Hills Have Eyes - 1977 Stranger in Our House - 1978 Deadly Blessing - 1981 Swamp Thing - 1982 A Nightmare on Elm Street - 1984 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) (5 episodes) - 1985-1986 Deadly Friend - 1986 The Serpent and the Rainbow - 1988 Shocker - 1989 The People Under the Stairs - 1991 Vampire in Brooklyn - 1995 Scream - 1996 Scream 2 - 1997 Music Of The Heart - 1999 Scream 3 - 2000 Red Eye - 2005 Cursed - 2005 My Soul to Take - 2010 Scream 4 - 2011 In Addition: Produced the Scream TV Series
36. Michael Bay
Producer | Armageddon
A graduate of Wesleyan University, Michael Bay spent his 20s working on advertisements and music videos. His first projects after film school were in the music video business. He created music videos for Tina Turner, Meat Loaf, Lionel Richie, Wilson Phillips, Donny Osmond and Divinyls. His work won...
- Bad Boys - 1995 The Rock - 1996 Armageddon - 1998 Pearl Harbor - 2001 Bad Boys II - 2003 The Island - 2005 Transformers - 2007 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - 2009 Transformers: Dark of the Moon - 2011 Pain & Gain - 2013 Transformers: Age of Extinction - 2014 13 Hours - 2016 Transformers: The Last Knight - 2017 In Addition: Executive Producer of the TV series: Black Sails and The Last Ship In Addition: Producer of the Purge series of movies, the recent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies and others.
37. John Carpenter
Writer | The Fog
John Howard Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, to mother Milton Jean (Carter) and father Howard Ralph Carpenter. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky ...
- Dark Star - 1974 Assault on Precinct 13 - 1976 Halloween - 1978 Someone's Watching Me! - 1978 Elvis - 1979 The Fog - 1980 Escape from New York - 1981 The Thing - 1982 Memoirs of an Invisible Man - 1992 Christine - 1983 Starman - 1984 Big Trouble in Little China - 1986 Prince of Darkness - 1987 They Live - 1988 In the Mouth of Madness - 1994 Village of the Damned - 1995 Escape from L.A. - 1996 Vampires - 1998 Ghosts of Mars - 2001 The Ward - 2010 In Addition: Carpenter was the composer for most of his films
38. Robert Zemeckis
Writer | Back to the Future
A whiz-kid 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 (1984), 1941 (1979)) and special effect ...
- I Wanna Hold Your Hand - 1978 Used Cars - 1980 Romancing the Stone - 1984 Back to the Future - 1985 Who Framed Roger Rabbit - 1988 Back to the Future Part II - 1989 Back to the Future Part III - 1990 Death Becomes Her - 1992 Forrest Gump - 1994 Contact - 1997 What Lies Beneath - 2000 Cast Away - 2000 The Polar Express - 2004 Beowulf - 2007 A Christmas Carol - 2009 Flight - 2012 The Walk - 2015 Allied - 2016
39. Park Chan-wook
Director | Oldeuboi
Park Chan-wook was born on August 23, 1963 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a producer and director, known for Oldboy (2003), The Handmaiden (2016) and Decision to Leave (2022). He is married to Eun-hee Kim. They have one child.
40. John McTiernan
Director | Die Hard
John McTiernan was born on January 8, 1951 in Albany, New York, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Die Hard (1988), Rollerball (2002) and Last Action Hero (1993). He has been married to Gail Sistrunk since 2012. He was previously married to Kate Harrington, Donna Dubrow and Carol Land.
- Nomads - 1986 Predator - 1987 Die Hard - 1988 The Hunt for Red October - 1990 Medicine Man - 1992 Last Action Hero - 1993 Die Hard with a Vengeance - 1995 The 13th Warrior - 1999 The Thomas Crown Affair - 1999 Rollerball - 2002 Basic - 2003
41. Edward Zwick
Producer | Thirtysomething
Zwick moves deftly between the roles of writer, director and producer. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his direction of the 1989 critically acclaimed Civil War drama, Glory. He received his second Golden Globe nomination as a director for Legends of the Fall. Zwick received an Academy Award...
- Special Bulletin - 1983 About Last Night... - 1986 Thirtysomething (TV Series) (3 episodes) - 1987-1990 [Executive Producer] Glory - 1989 Leaving Normal - 1992 Legends of the Fall - 1994 Courage Under Fire - 1996 The Siege - 1998 Once and Again (TV Series) (4 episodes) - 1999-2002 [Executive Producer] The Last Samurai - 2003 Blood Diamond - 2006 Defiance - 2008 Love & Other Drugs - 2010 Pawn Sacrifice - 2014 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back - 2016 In Addition: Executive producer of the TV series Nashville and My So-Called Life In Addition: Produced the movies I Am Sam (2001), Traffic (2000), and Shakespeare in Love (1998)
42. Kevin Reynolds
Director | Waterworld
Raised as an Air Force brat, Kevin Reynolds' love for cinema inspired him to forsake his law school degree and move to Los Angeles to enroll in the University of Southern California's legendary film school. Reynolds' graduate thesis film "Proof" became the basis for "Fandango" starring Kevin ...
- Fandango - 1985 The Beast of War - 1988 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves - 1991 Rapa Nui - 1994 Waterworld - 1995 One Eight Seven - 1997 The Count of Monte Cristo - 2002 Tristan + Isolde - 2006 Hatfields & McCoys (TV Mini-Series) - 2012 Risen - 2016 In Addition - Wrote Red Dawn (1984)
43. Zack Snyder
Director | 300
Zachary Edward "Zack" Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter, best known for action and science fiction films. Snyder made his feature film debut with the 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead and has gone on to be known for his comic book movies and ...
44. Ron Howard
Producer | Arrested Development
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard is one of this generation's most popular directors. From the critically acclaimed dramas A Beautiful Mind (2001) and Apollo 13 (1995) to the hit comedies Parenthood (1989) and Splash (1983), he has created some of Hollywood's most memorable films.
Howard ...
- Night Shift - 1982 Splash - 1984 Cocoon - 1985 Gung Ho - 1986 Willow - 1988 Parenthood - 1989 Backdraft - 1991 Far and Away - 1992 The Paper - 1994 Apollo 13 - 1995 Ransom - 1996 Edtv - 1999 How the Grinch Stole Christmas - 2000 A Beautiful Mind - 2001 The Missing - 2003 Cinderella Man - 2005 The Da Vinci Code - 2006 Frost/Nixon - 2008 Angels & Demons - 2009 The Dilemma - 2011 Rush - 2013 In the Heart of the Sea - 2015 Inferno - 2016
45. Alfonso Cuarón
Producer | Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then ...
46. Guy Ritchie
Director | Sherlock Holmes
Guy Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK on September 10, 1968. After watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as a child, Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make films. He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and ...
47. Michael Mann
Producer | The Insider
As a director, screenwriter, and producer, four-time Academy Award nominee Michael Mann has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema. After writing and directing the Primetime Emmy Award-winning television movie The Jericho Mile (1979), Mann ...
- Thief - 1981 The Last of the Mohicans - 1992 Heat - 1995 The Insider - 1999 Ali - 2001 Collateral - 2004 Miami Vice - 2006 Public Enemies - 2009 Blackhat - 2015
48. Kathryn Bigelow
Director | The Hurt Locker
A very talented painter, Kathryn spent two years at the San Francisco Art Institute. At 20, she won a scholarship to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. She was given a studio in a former Offtrack Betting building, literally in an old bank vault, where she made art and waited to be ...
- Point Break - 1991 The Weight of Water - 2000 K-19: The Widowmaker - 2002 The Hurt Locker - 2008 Zero Dark Thirty - 2012
49. James Gunn
Writer | Guardians of the Galaxy
James Gunn was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, to Leota and James Francis Gunn. He is from a large Catholic family, with Irish and Czech ancestry. His father and his uncles were all lawyers. He has been writing and performing as long as he can remember. He began making 8mm films at the age ...
- Slither - 2006 Super - 2010 Guardians of the Galaxy - 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2- 2017
50. Brian De Palma
Director | Body Double
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 September 11, 1940, De Palma was born in Newark, New Jersey in an Italian-American ...
- Phantom of the Paradise 1974 Carrie - 1976 Blow Out - 1981 Scarface - 1983 The Untouchables - 1987 Casualties of War - 1989 Carlito's Way - 1993 Mission: Impossible - 1996 Snake Eyes - 1998 Mission to Mars - 2000 Femme Fatale - 2002
51. James Mangold
Producer | Logan
James Mangold is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer. Films he has directed include Girl, Interrupted (1999), Walk the Line (2005), which he also co-wrote, the 2007 remake 3:10 to Yuma (2007), The Wolverine (2013), and Logan (2017).
Mangold also wrote and directed Cop...
- Heavy - 1995 Cop Land - 1997 Girl, Interrupted - 1999 Kate & Leopold - 2001 Identity - 2003 Walk the Line - 2005 3:10 to Yuma - 2007 Knight and Day - 2010 The Wolverine - 2013 Logan - 2017
52. David Ayer
Producer | End of Watch
David Ayer is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. David Ayer was born in Champaign, Illinois and grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota, and Bethesda, Maryland, where he was kicked out of his house by his parents as a teenager. Ayer then lived with his cousin in Los Angeles, ...
53. Michel Gondry
Director | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
He grew up in Versailles with a family who was very influenced by pop music. When he was young, Gondry wanted to be a painter or an inventor. In the 80s he entered in an art school in Paris where he could develop his graphic skills and where he also met friends with whom he created a pop-rock band ...
- Human Nature - 2001 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 2004 The Science of Sleep - 2006 Be Kind Rewind - 2008 The Green Hornet - 2011 The We and the I - 2012 Mood Indigo - 2013 Microbe & Gasoline - 2015 In Addition - Music videos for Björk, Daft Punk, Massive Attack, The Chemical Brothers, The Vines and more.
54. Danny Boyle
Director | 127 Hours
Daniel Francis Boyle is a British filmmaker, producer and writer from Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. He is known for directing 28 Days Later, 127 Hours, Trainspotting, T2 Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, Millions, Shallow Grave, The Beach, Yesterday, and Steve Jobs. He won many awards for ...
55. Alexandre Aja
Director | Haute tension
Alexandre Aja was born on August 7, 1978 in Paris, France. He is a producer and director, known for High Tension (2003), The Hills Have Eyes (2006) and Piranha 3D (2010). He is married to Laïla Marrakchi.
- The Hills Have Eyes - 2006 Piranha 3D - 2010 Horns - 2013 The 9th Life of Louis Drax - 2016
56. Steven Soderbergh
Director | Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Steven Andrew Soderbergh was born on January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the second of six children of Mary Ann (Bernard) and Peter Soderbergh. His father was of Swedish and Irish descent, and his mother was of Italian ancestry. While he was still at a very young age, his family moved to ...
- Sex, Lies, and Videotape - 1989 Kafka - 1991 King of the Hill - 1993 The Underneath - 1995 Out of Sight - 1998 The Limey - 1999 Erin Brockovich - 2000 Traffic - 2000 Ocean's Eleven - 2001 Solaris - 2002 Ocean's Twelve - 2004 The Good German - 2006 Ocean's Thirteen - 2007 Che: Part One & Part Two - 2008 The Girlfriend Experience - 2009 The Informant! - 2009 Contagion - 2011 Haywire - 2011 Magic Mike - 2012 Side Effects - 2013 Behind the Candelabra (TV Movie) - 2013 The Knick (TV Series) (20 episodes) - 2014-2015 Logan Lucky - 2017 Mosaic (TV Movie) - 2017 In Addition: Executive producer for the TV series: Red Oaks, The Knick, Godless and The Girlfriend Experience.
57. Richard Linklater
Director | Waking Life
Self-taught writer-director Richard Stuart Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, to Diane Margaret (Krieger), who taught at a university, and Charles W. Linklater III. Richard was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s. ...
- Slacker - 1991 Dazed and Confused - 1993 Before Sunrise - 1995 SubUrbia - 1996 The Newton Boys - 1998 Waking Life - 2001 School of Rock - 2003 Before Sunset - 2004 A Scanner Darkly - 2006 Before Midnight - 2013 Boyhood - 2014 Everybody Wants Some!! - 2016
58. Terry Gilliam
Writer | Brazil
Terry Gilliam was born near Medicine Lake, Minnesota. When he was 12 his family moved to Los Angeles where he became a fan of MAD magazine. In his early twenties he was often stopped by the police who suspected him of being a drug addict and Gilliam had to explain that he worked in advertising. In ...
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail - 1975 Time Bandits - 1981 Brazil - 1985 The Fisher King - 1991 Twelve Monkeys - 1995 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - 1998 The Brothers Grimm - 2005 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - 2009
59. Jane Campion
Writer | Bright Star
Jane Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and now lives in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Having graduated with a BA in Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1975, and a BA, with a painting major, at Sydney College of the Arts in 1979, she began filmmaking in the early...
- Sweetie - 1989 An Angel at My Table - 1990 The Piano - 1993 The Portrait of a Lady - 1996 Holy Smoke - 1999 In the Cut - 2003 Bright Star - 2009 Top of the Lake (TV Series) - 2013, 2017
- Creator of series
- Directed all of S01 and S02E01
60. Sam Raimi
Director | Spider-Man
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 (1981). From his childhood, Raimi was a fan of the cinema and, before he was ten-years-old, he was out making ...
- The Evil Dead - 1981 Crimewave - 1985 Evil Dead II - 1987 Darkman - 1990 Army of Darkness - 1992 The Quick and the Dead - 1995 A Simple Plan - 1998 For Love of the Game - 1999 The Gift - 2000 Spider-Man - 2002 Spider-Man 2 - 2004 Spider-Man 3 - 2007 Drag Me to Hell - 2009 Oz the Great and Powerful - 2013 In Addition: Developed and/or is Executive Producer for the TV series: Ash vs Evil Dead, Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Legend of the Seeker, Cleopatra 2525, Spartacus: War of the Damned and others.
61. Orson Welles
Actor | Citizen Kane
His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...
62. Sergio Leone
Writer | Once Upon a Time in America
Sergio Leone was virtually born into the cinema - he was the son of Roberto Roberti (A.K.A. Vincenzo Leone), one of Italy's cinema pioneers, and actress Bice Valerian. Leone entered films in his late teens, working as an assistant director to both Italian directors and U.S. directors working in ...
- The Colossus of Rhodes - 1961 A Fistful of Dollars - 1964 For a Few Dollars More - 1965 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - 1966 Once Upon a Time in the West - 1968 Duck, You Sucker - 1971 Once Upon a Time in America - 1984
63. David O. Russell
Director | American Hustle
David Owen Russell is an American film writer, director, and producer, known for a cinema of intense, tragi-comedic characters whose love of life can surpass dark circumstances faced in very specific worlds. His films address such themes as mental illness as stigma or hope; invention of self and ...
64. John Singleton
Writer | Boyz n the Hood
Son of Danny Singleton, a mortgage broker, and Sheila Ward, a pharmaceutical company sales executive, and raised in separate households by his unmarried parents, John Singleton attended the Film Writing Program at USC, after graduating from high school in 1986. While studying there, he won three ...
- Boyz n the Hood - 1991 Poetic Justice - 1993 Higher Learning - 1995 Rosewood - 1997 Shaft - 2000 Baby Boy - 2001 2 Fast 2 Furious - 2003 Four Brothers - 2005 Abduction - 2011 In Addition: music videos for Michael Jackson
65. Wes Anderson
Director | Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...
66. Rob Reiner
Actor | All in the Family
Robert Reiner was born in New York City, to Estelle Reiner (née Lebost) and Emmy-winning actor, comedian, writer, and producer Carl Reiner.
As a child, his father was his role model, as Carl Reiner created and starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Estelle was also an inspiration for him to become a ...
- This Is Spinal Tap - 1984 The Sure Thing - 1985 Stand by Me - 1986 The Princess Bride - 1987 When Harry Met Sally... - 1989 Misery - 1990 A Few Good Men - 1992 North - 1994 The American President - 1995 Ghosts of Mississippi - 1996 Rumor Has It... - 2005 The Bucket List - 2007 Flipped - 2010 Being Charlie - 2015
67. Gareth Edwards
Visual_effects | Monsters
Gareth James Edwards was born on June 1, 1975 in the English town of Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Growing up, he admired movies such as the 1977 classic "Star Wars", and went on to pursue a film career. He even cites George Lucas and Steven Spielberg as his biggest influences. Edwards studied BA (Hons) ...
68. Peter Berg
Actor | Chicago Hope
Peter Berg is an American actor, director, writer, and producer. His first role was in the Adam Rifkin road movie Never on Tuesday (1988). He went on to star in the World War 2 film A Midnight Clear (1992). Roles in Fire in the Sky (1993) and Cop Land (1997) followed, and the Tom Cruise films ...
- The Rundown - 2003 Friday Night Lights - 2004 The Kingdom - 2007 Hancock - 2008 Battleship - 2012 Lone Survivor - 2013 Deepwater Horizon - 2016 Patriots Day - 2016
69. Stephen Sommers
Producer | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Stephen Sommers was born on March 20, 1962 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Raised in St. Cloud, Minnesota, he attended St. John's University and the University of Seville in Spain. Afterward, Sommers spent the next four years performing as an actor in theater groups and managing rock bands throughout ...
70. Duncan Jones
Director | Moon
Duncan Jones was born on May 30, 1971 in Bromley, Kent, England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for Moon (2009), Source Code (2011) and Mute (2018). He has been married to Rodene Ronquillo since November 6, 2012. They have two children.
71. Jee-woon Kim
Director | Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom
Kim Ji-woon was born in Seoul, South Korea. He began his career as an actor before becoming a stage director with productions such as "Hot Sea" in 1994 and "Movie, Movie" in 1995. He then began scripting for films, his first work, 97's "Wonderful Seasons" won Best Screenplay award at Korea's ...
72. Matthew Vaughn
Producer | Kick-Ass
Matthew Vaughn is an English film producer and director. He is known for producing such films as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000) and for directing the crime thriller, Layer Cake (2004), the fantasy epic, Stardust (2007), the superhero comedy, Kick-Ass (2010), and the ...
- Layer Cake - 2004 Stardust - 2007 Kick-Ass - 2010 X-Men: First Class - 2011 Kingsman: The Secret Service - 2014 Kingsman: The Golden Circle - 2017 In Addition: Producer of such films as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000)
73. Joss Whedon
Producer | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Joss Whedon is the middle of five brothers - his younger brothers are Jed Whedon and Zack Whedon. Both his father, Tom Whedon and his grandfather, John Whedon were successful television writers. Joss' mother, Lee Stearns, was a history teacher and she also wrote novels as Lee Whedon. Whedon was ...
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series) (22 episodes) - 1996-2003 Angel (TV Series) (7 episodes) - 1999-2004 Firefly (TV Series) (3 episodes) - 2002 Serenity - 2005 The Office (TV Series) (2 episodes) - 2007 Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes) - 2008 Dollhouse (TV Series) (3 episodes) - 2009 Glee (TV Series) (1 episode) - 2010 The Avengers - 2012 Much Ado About Nothing - 2012 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV Series) (1 episode) - 2013 Avengers: Age of Ultron - 2015 In Addition: Created the TV series: Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
74. Bong Joon Ho
Writer | Snowpiercer
Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean filmmaker. The recipient of three Academy Awards, his filmography is characterized by emphasis on social themes, genre-mixing, black humor, and sudden tone shifts. He first became known to audiences and achieved a cult following with his directorial debut film, the ...
75. Woody Allen
Writer | Annie Hall
Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.
Allen ...
- What's Up, Tiger Lily? - 1966 Take the Money and Run - 1969 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask - 1972 Love and Death - 1975 Annie Hall - 1977 Manhattan - 1979 Hannah and Her Sisters - 1986 Crimes and Misdemeanors - 1989 Husbands and Wives - 1992 Manhattan Murder Mystery -1993 Bullets Over Broadway - 1994 Mighty Aphrodite - 1995 Everyone Says I Love You - 1996 Deconstructing Harry - 1997 Small Time Crooks - 2000 The Curse of the Jade Scorpion - 2001 Hollywood Ending - 2002 Anything Else - 2003 Melinda and Melinda - 2004 Match Point - 2005 Scoop - 2006 Cassandra's Dream - 2007 Vicky Cristina Barcelona - 2008 Whatever Works - 2009 Midnight in Paris - 2011 To Rome with Love - 2012 Blue Jasmine - 2013 Magic in the Moonlight - 2014 Irrational Man - 2015 Café Society - 2016 Crisis in Six Scenes (TV Series) (6 episodes) - 2016 Wonder Wheel - 2017
76. Na Hong-jin
Writer | Chugyeokja
Na Hong-jin born in 1974 is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. His debut film The Chaser (2008) won Best Director at the 45th Grand Bell Awards in 2008. The film also won the award for Best Film. His follow up film, The Yellow Sea, was released in South Korea on December 15, 2010. It is...
77. Emir Kusturica
Director | Underground
A Serbian film director. Born in 1954 in Sarajevo. Graduated in film directing at the prestigious Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague in 1978. During his studies, he was awarded several times for his short movies including Guernica (1978), which took first prize at the Student's Film ...
78. Roman Polanski
Director | Chinatown
Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933.
His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years ...
- Knife in the Water - 1962 Repulsion - 1965 The Fearless Vampire Killers - 1967 Rosemary's Baby - 1968 Macbeth - 1971 What? - 1972 Chinatown - 1974 The Tenant - 1976 Tess - 1979 Pirates - 1986 Frantic - 1988 Bitter Moon - 1992 Death and the Maiden - 1994 The Ninth Gate - 1999 The Pianist - 2002 Oliver Twist - 2005 The Ghost Writer - 2010 Carnage - 2011 Venus in Fur - 2013 Based on a True Story - 2017
79. M. Night Shyamalan
Producer | Lady in the Water
Born in Puducherry, India, and raised in the posh suburban Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. Night Shyamalan is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots.
He is the son of Jayalakshmi, a Tamil ...
80. Jeff Nichols
Writer | Take Shelter
Jeff Nichols was born on December 7, 1978 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Take Shelter (2011), Mud (2012) and Midnight Special (2016).
- Shotgun Stories - 2007 Take Shelter - 2011 Mud - 2012 Midnight Special - 2016 Loving - 2016
81. Ryan Coogler
Director | Black Panther
Ryan Kyle Coogler is an African-American filmmaker and producer who is from Oakland, California. He is known for directing the Black Panther film series, Creed, a Rocky spin-off and Fruitvale Station. He frequently casts Michael B. Jordan in his works. He produced the Creed sequels, Judas and the ...
82. Lasse Hallström
Director | What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Lasse Hallström inherited his enthusiasm for film from his father, who was an amateur filmmaker. In high school he made his first short film, which was released on Swedish television. Hallström then began working as a director, cameraman and editor for Swedish television. He also made music videos ...
- My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund) - 1985 Once Around 1991 What's Eating Gilbert Grape - 1993 Something to Talk About - 1995 The Cider House Rules - 1999 Chocolat - 2000 The Shipping News - 2001 An Unfinished Life - 2005 Casanova - 2005 The Hoax - 2006 Hachi: A Dog's Tale - 2009 Dear John - 2010 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - 2011 The Hypnotist - 2012 Safe Haven - 2013 The Hundred-Foot Journey - 2014 A Dog's Purpose - 2017 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms - 2018 In Addition: Lots of music videos for ABBA
83. Ron Clements
Writer | Hercules
Ron Clements is an American animated film director who collaborates with John Musker. They directed various Disney animated films including The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog and Moana. The Little Mermaid and Aladdin are ...
- Directing Partner of John Musker
84. Michael Haneke
Writer | Caché
A true master of his craft, Michael Haneke is one of the greatest film artists working today and one who challenges his viewers each year and work goes by, with films that reflect real portions of life in realistic, disturbing and unforgettable ways. One of the most genuine filmmakers of the world ...
85. Gaspar Noé
Director | Enter the Void
Gaspar Noé is an Argentinian filmmaker and screenwriter who lives in France. He is the son of Luis Felipe Noé, an Argentinian artist. He directed I Stand Alone, Irréversible, Enter the Void, Love, Climax, Carne, Lux Æterna, Sodomites and Vortex. His films are known for having a sensory overload ...
- I Stand Alone - 1998 Irreversible - 2002 Enter the Void - 2009 Love - 2015 In Addition: Music videos for Placebo, SebastiAn, Arielle Burgelin and Bone Fiction
86. Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer | Offret
The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school VGIK. He shot to international attention with his first feature, Ivan's Childhood (1962), which won the...
87. Marc Forster
Producer | World War Z
Marc Forster is a German-born filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the films Monster's Ball (2001), Finding Neverland (2004), Stay (2005), Stranger than Fiction (2006), The Kite Runner (2007), Quantum of Solace (2008), and World War Z (2013).
His breakthrough film was Monster's...
- Monster's Ball - 2001 Everything Put Together - 2000 Finding Neverland - 2004 Stay - 2005 Stranger Than Fiction - 2006 The Kite Runner - 2007 Quantum of Solace - 2008 Machine Gun Preacher - 2011 World War Z - 2013 Hand of God (TV Series) (2 episodes) [Executive Producer] - 2014-2015 All I See Is You - 2016
88. Doug Liman
Producer | Edge of Tomorrow
Douglas Eric Liman is a Jewish-American filmmaker and producer who directed Swingers, The Bourne Identity, Chaos Walking, Jumper, Go, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Fair Game, Locked Down, Edge of Tomorrow, The Wall and American Made. He executive produced the Bourne sequels except The Bourne Legacy, The ...
89. D.J. Caruso
Director | I Am Number Four
Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, Caruso came west to play tennis and study Television Production at Pepperdine University. Interned at Disney Studios in the Product Placement department and later hooked up with Director John Badham, who mentored him into a second-unit director, after Badham lost his ...
- Meow (2001)Dark Angel (TV Series) (1 episode) - 2001 Shimmer (2002)Smallville (TV Series) (1 episode) - 2002 The Salton Sea - 2002 The Shield (TV Series) (4 episodes) - 2002-2006 Taking Lives - 2004 Two for the Money - 2005 Disturbia - 2007 Eagle Eye - 2008 I Am Number Four - 2011 Standing Up - 2013 The Disappointments Room - 2016 xXx: Return of Xander Cage - 2017
90. David Gordon Green
Producer | Halloween Kills
David Gordon Green was born on April 9, 1975 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Halloween Kills (2021), Prince Avalanche (2013) and Halloween (2018).
- George Washington - 2000 All the Real Girls - 2003 Undertow - 2004 Snow Angels - 2007 Pineapple Express - 2008 Eastbound & Down (TV Series) (12 episodes) - 2009-2013 [Consulting Producer] Your Highness - 2011 The Sitter - 2011 Prince Avalanche - 2013 Joe - 2013 Manglehorn - 2014 Our Brand Is Crisis - 2015 Red Oaks (TV Series) (4 episodes) - 2014-2016 [Executive Producer] Vice Principals (TV Series) (1 episode) - 2017 [Executive Producer] Unit Zero (TV Movie) - 2017 Stronger - 2017 Halloween - 2018
91. Paul McGuigan
Director | Lucky Number Slevin
Paul is a Bafta and Emmy nominated director known for Sherlock, Lucky Number Slevin, Inside Man and Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool. Born in Bellshill, Scotland he started his professional life as a photographer and then documentary filmmaker. His first film was Acid House in 1998 which is an ...
- The Acid House - 1998 Gangster No. 1 - 2000 The Reckoning - 2002 Wicker Park - 2004 Lucky Number Slevin - 2006 Push - 2006 Sherlock (TV Series) (4 episodes) - The Hounds of Baskerville (2012) - A Scandal in Belgravia (2012) - The Great Game (2010) - A Study in Pink (2010) Victor Frankenstein - 2015 Luke Cage (TV Series) (2 episodes) - Code of the Streets (2016) - Moment of Truth (2016)
92. Miguel Sapochnik
Director | Game of Thrones
Miguel Sapochnik was born in July 1974 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for Game of Thrones (2011), Repo Men (2010) and Finch (2021). He has been married to Alexis Raben since 2006.
- Repo Men - 2010 House (TV Series) (6 episodes) - 2011-2012 Fringe (TV Series) (2 episodes) - 2011-2012 Awake (TV Series) (1 episode) - 2012 Falling Skies (TV Series) (1 episode) - 2012 Banshee (TV Series) (2 episodes) - A Mixture of Madness (2013) - Always the Cowboy (2013) Extant (TV Series) (1 episode) - 2014 Mind Games (TV Series) (2 episodes) - 2014 Masters of Sex (TV Series) (1 episode) - 2015 True Detective (TV Series) (1 episode) - 2015 Game of Thrones (TV Series) (4 episodes) - The Winds of Winter (2016) - Battle of the Bastards (2016) - Hardhome (2015) - The Gift (2015) Iron Fist (TV Series) (1 episode) - 2017
93. John Hillcoat
Director | The Proposition
John Hillcoat was born on August 14, 1961 in Queensland, Australia. He is a director and producer, known for The Proposition (2005), The Road (2009) and Lawless (2012).
- Ghosts... of the Civil Dead - 1988 The Proposition - 2005 The Road - 2009 Lawless - 2012 Triple 9 - 2016 In Addition: Music videos for INXS, Placebo, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave and more
94. Paul W.S. Anderson
Writer | Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Paul W.S. Anderson gained a fair bit of notoriety in his native England when he directed the ultra-violent Shopping (1994) (which he also wrote), starring Jude Law and Sean Pertwee in a story about thieves who steal by ramming a car into storefronts. The film was banned in some cinemas in England, ...
- Mortal Kombat - 1995 Event Horizon - 1997 Resident Evil - 2002 AVP: Alien vs. Predator - 2004 Death Race - 2008 Resident Evil: Afterlife - 2010 The Three Musketeers - 2011 Resident Evil: Retribution - 2012 Pompeii - 2014 Resident Evil: The Final Chapter - 2016
95. Judd Apatow
Producer | Girls
Judd Apatow is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and comedian. He directed The 40-Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, This is 40, Funny People, Trainwreck and The King of Staten Island. He also developed the television shows Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Girls, Love and Crashing. He is ...
- Crashing (TV Series) (2 episodes) - 2017 30 for 30 (TV Series documentary) (1 episode) - Doc & Darryl (2016) Trainwreck - 2015 This Is 40 - 2012 Funny People - 2009 Knocked Up - 2007 The 40-Year-Old Virgin - 2005 Undeclared (TV Series) (2 episodes) - 2001-2002 Freaks and Geeks (TV Series) (3 episodes) - 1999-2000 The Larry Sanders Show (TV Series) (1 episode) - 1998 In Addition: Executive Producer for the TV series: Love, Crashing, Girls, Undeclared, Freaks and Geeks, The Larry Sanders Show, The Critic and The Ben Stiller Show. In Addition: Produced the movies: The Cable Guy (1996), Celtic Pride (1996) and Heavy Weights (1995), Pineapple Express - 2008, Step Brothers - 2008, Forgetting Sarah Marshall - 2008, Superbad - 2007, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby - 2006, The Five-Year Engagement - 2012, Bridesmaids - 2011 and more.
96. Joe Johnston
Director | Captain America: The First Avenger
Joseph Eggleston Johnston II is an American film director from Texas who is known for directing the cult classic film The Rocketeer, Jumanji, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Wolfman, October Sky, The Pagemaster, Jurassic Park III and Captain America: The First Avenger. He was an art director for ...
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids - 1989 The Rocketeer - 1991 The Pagemaster - 1994 Jumanji - 1995 October Sky - 1999 Jurassic Park III - 2001 Hidalgo - 2004 The Wolfman - 2010 Captain America: The First Avenger - 2011 Not Safe for Work - 2014 In Addition: Worked on the visual effects team for the origianl Star Wars trilogy and Raiders of the Lost Ark
97. Doug Campbell
Director | My Daughter's Ransom
Doug Campbell is known for his work in thrillers and dramas. Doug has directed over 50 feature films, mostly for television, many of which are still airing on a rotating basis. He is also a screenwriter, with over 35 scripts produced for the screen. "The Tomorrow Man," a film he financed, wrote and...
- Lifetime Movie Director - including: Accused at 17 - 2009 Betrayed at 17 - 2011 Home Invasion - 2012 Stalked at 17 - 2012 The Surrogate - 2013 Dirty Teacher - 2013 The Cheating Pact - 2013 Death Clique - 2014 Sugar Daddies - 2014 Stalked by My Doctor - 2015
98. Curtis Crawford
Director | Corrupt
Curtis Crawford is known for Trust No One (2016), Dead on Campus (2014) and Cyberstalker (2012).
- Lifetime Movie Director - including: The Boy She Met Online - 2010 The Perfect Roommate - 2011 A Nanny's Revenge - 2012 The Perfect Boss - 2013 The Husband She Met Online - 2013 The Girl He Met Online - 2014 Killing Daddy - 2014 Dead on Campus - 2014 The Perfect Girlfriend - 2015 Pregnant at 17 - 2016 Mommy's Little Girl - 2016
99. Adam McKay
Producer | Don't Look Up
Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American screenwriter, director, comedian, and actor. McKay has a comedy partnership with Will Ferrell, with whom he co-wrote the films Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys. Ferrell and McKay also founded their comedy website Funny or Die through ...
100. Hayao Miyazaki
Writer | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's greatest animation directors. The entertaining plots, compelling characters, and breathtaking visuals in his films have earned him international renown from critics as well as public recognition within Japan.
Miyazaki started his career in 1963 as an animator at the ...
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