Best Directors
by tripolis29 | created - 30 Nov 2010 | updated - 1 month ago | Public
1. 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 ...
Films/episodes watched:
Boy and Bicycle
Alien
Blade Runner
Legend
1492: Conquest of Paradise
G. I. Jane
Gladiator*
Hannibal*
Black Hawk Down
Matchstick Men
Kingdom of Heaven*
A Good Year
American Gangster
Body of Lies
Robin Hood
Prometheus*
The Counselor
Exodus: Gods and Kings*
The Martian*
Alien: Covenant
All the Money in the World*
The Last Duel
House of Gucci
2. 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...
Films/episodes watched:
Alien³
Se7en
The Game
Fight Club*
Zodiac
Panic Room*
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button*
The Social Network
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Gone Girl*
“Mindhunter” (Episode #1.1, Episode #1.2, Episode #1.9, Episode #1.10, Episode #2.1, Episode #2.2, Episode #2.3)
Mank
“Love, Death & Robots” (Bad Travelling)
The Killer
3. 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.
Films/episodes watched:
Nomads
Predator
Die Hard
The Hunt for Red October
Last Action Hero
Medicine Man
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
The 13th Warrior
The Thomas Crown Affair*
Rollerball
Basic
4. Stephen Hopkins
Producer | Lost in Space
Stephen Hopkins is a producer and director, known for Lost in Space (1998), A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989) and Predator 2 (1990).
Films/episodes watched:
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
Predator 2
Judgment Night
Blown Away
The Ghost and the Darkness
Lost in Space
Tube Tales (Segment ‘Horny’)
Under Suspicion
The Reaping*
Race
5. 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 (1998), 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 ...
Films/episodes watched:
GoldenEye
The Mask of Zorro
Vertical Limit*
Beyond Borders
The Legend of Zorro
Casino Royale*
Edge of Darkness
Green Lantern
6. 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 ...
Films/episodes watched with him as Director:
Mel Gibson’s Unauthorized Video Diary
Mel Gibson’s Video Diary 2: Lethal Weapon 3
Braveheart*
The Passion of the Christ*
Apocalypto*
Hacksaw Ridge*
7. 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 ...
Films/episodes watched:
Praying with Anger
Wide Awake
The Sixth Sense*
Unbreakable*
Signs*
The Village*
Lady in the Water
The Happening*
The Last Airbender
After Earth*
"Wayward Pines" (Where Paradise is Home)
The Visit
Split
Glass*
Old
Knock at the Cabin
“Servant” (Reborn, Jericho, 2:00, Donkey, Awake)
8. 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 ...
Films/episodes watched:
The Jericho Mile
Manhunter
“Crime Story” (Top of the World)
L.A. Takedown
The Last of the Mohicans
Heat
The Insider
Collateral*
Miami Vice
Public Enemies
Blackhat
9. J.J. Abrams
Producer | Lost
Jeffrey Jacob Abrams was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, the son of TV producer parents. At 15, he wrote the music for Don Dohler's Nightbeast (1982). In his senior year of college, he and Jill Mazursky teamed up to write a feature film, which became Taking Care of Business (1990)....
Films/episodes watched:
"Lost" (Pilot: Part 1, Pilot: Part 2)
Mission: Impossible III*
Star Trek*
Super 8*
Star Trek: Into Darkness*
Star Wars: Episode VII-The Force Awakens*
Star Wars: Episode IX-The Rise of Skywalker*
10. 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 ...
Films/episodes watched:
A Field of Honor
Romancing the Stone
Back to the Future
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Back to the Future Part II
Back to the Future Part III
Death Becomes Her
Forrest Gump
Contact
What Lies Beneath*
Cast Away*
The Polar Express*
Beowulf*
A Christmas Carol
Flight
The Walk
Allied
Welcome to Marwen
Pinocchio
11. 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 ...
Films/episodes watched:
Luau
Vincent
Hansel & Gretel
Frankenweenie
"Fairy Tale Theatre" (Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp)
Beetlejuice
Batman
Edward Scissorhands
Batman Returns*
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow*
Planet of the Apes*
“The World of Stainboy” (Stare Girl, Toxic Boy, Bowling Ball Head, Robot Boy, Match Girl, The Origin of Stainboy)
Big Fish*
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory*
Corpse Bride
Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Alice in Wonderland*
Frankenweenie
Big Eyes*
Dumbo*
12. 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...
Films/episodes watched:
Bad Boys
The Rock
Armageddon*
Pearl Harbor*
Bad Boys II
The Island*
Transformers*
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen*
Transformers: Dark of the Moon*
Pain & Gain
Transformers: Age of Extinction*
13 Hours
Transformers: The Last Knight
6 Underground
Ambulance
13. 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...
Films/episodes watched:
Top Gun
Beverly Hills Cop II
Days of Thunder
The Last Boy Scout
Crimson Tide
Spy Game
Beat the Devil
Enemy of the State
Man on Fire
Agent Orange
Deja Vu
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3*
Unstoppable*
14. 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 ...
Films/episodes watched:
Forgotten Silver
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
King Kong*
The Lovely Bones
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey*
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug*
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
They Shall Not Grow Old
15. 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 ...
Films/episodes watched:
The Woman in the Room
The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
The Majestic
The Mist*
“The Walking Dead” (Days Gone Bye)
16. 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, ...
Films/episodes watched:
Mortal Kombat: Behind the Scenes
Event Horizon
Soldier
Resident Evil
AvP: Alien Vs. Predator*
Death Race
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Resident Evil: Retribution
Pompeii
“Origin” (The Road Not Taken, Lost on Both Sides)
17. 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 ...
Films/episodes watched:
It’s Not Just You, Murray!
Italianamerican
Taxi Driver
American Boy: A Profile of - Steven Prince
Bad
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Last Temptation of Christ: On Location in Morocco
Goodfellas
Made in Milan
Cape Fear
Casino
Gangs of New York*
The Departed
The Key to Reserva
Shutter Island*
The Audition
Hugo
The Wolf of Wall Street
18. Oliver Stone
Director | JFK
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.
William Oliver Stone was ...
Films/episodes watched:
Last Year in Viet Nam
Platoon
Born on the Fourth of July
Wall Street
JFK
Natural Born Killers
Any Given Sunday*
Alexander*
World Trade Center
W.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps*
Savages
“The Untold History of the United States” (Chapter 1: World War Two, Chapter 2: Roosevelt, Truman and Wallace, Chapter 3: The Bomb, Chapter 4: The Cold War: 1945-1950, Chapter 5: The 50s-Eisenhower, the Bomb & the Third World, Chapter 6: JFK-To The Brink, Chapter 7: Johnson, Nixon & Vietnam: Reversal of Fortune, Chapter 8: Reagan, Gorbachev & Third World-Rise of the Right, Chapter 9: Bush & Clinton-Squandered Peace & New World Order, Chapter 10: Bush & Obama-Age of Terror, Prologue: Chapter A - World War I, Russian Revolution & Woodrow Wilson, Prologue: Chapter B - 1920-1940-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin)
Snowden
"The Putin Interviews" (Episode #1.1, Episode #1.2, Episode #1.3, Episode #1.4)
19. 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 ...
Films/episodes watched:
Playground
Dawn of the Dead
300*
Watchmen
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga' Hoole
Sucker Punch
Man of Steel*
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice*
Justice League*
20. David F. Sandberg
Director | Shazam!
David F. Sandberg is a Swedish film director from Jönköping who is known for directing the superhero comedy film Shazam and the horror films Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation. He lives on the autism spectrum. He also provided the voice of Mister Mind at the end of Shazam and made several short ...
Films/episodes watched:
Lights Out
Annabelle: Creation*
Shazam!*
I Flip You Off for Four Hours
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
20. Joseph Kosinski
Director | Top Gun: Maverick
Joseph Kosinski is a director whose uncompromising style has quickly made a mark in the filmmaking zeitgeist. His four theatrical releases have grossed $2.2 billion worldwide and been nominated for 7 Academy Awards and 2 Grammys.
His film debut, "Tron: Legacy" for Walt Disney Studios, grossed $400 ...
Films/episodes watched:
Tron: Legacy
Oblivion*
The Dig
Only the Brave
Top Gun: Maverick*
21. 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 ...
Films/episodes watched:
Doodlebug
Following
Memento
Insomnia
Batman Begins*
The Prestige
The Dark Knight*
Inception*
The Dark Knight Rises*
Interstellar*
Dunkirk*
Tenet*
Oppenheimer*
22. 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 ...
Films/episodes watched:
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
The Rocketeer
“The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” (Princeton, February 1916)
Jumanji
October Sky
Jurassic Park III*
Hidalgo
The Wolfman
Captain America: The First Avenger*
23. Damien Chazelle
Writer | La La Land
Damien Sayre Chazelle is an American director and screenwriter. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother, Celia Sayre (Martin) Chazelle, is an American-Canadian writer and professor of history at The College of New Jersey. His father, Bernard Chazelle, is a French-American Eugene Higgins...
Films/episodes watched:
Whiplash
Whiplash*
La La Land
First Man
“The Eddy” (Elliot, Julie)
24. Neill Blomkamp
Director | District 9
Neill Blomkamp is a South African-Canadian film director and screenwriter who is known for the science fiction films District 9, Elysium and Chappie. He also directed the supernatural horror film Demonic and the 2007 short film Halo: Landfall, based on the Microsoft science fiction video game ...
Films/episodes watched:
Alive in Joburg
Tempbot
District 9*
The Escape
“Oats Studios”
Rakka
Firebase
Zygote
ADAM: Episode 3
25. Colin Trevorrow
Producer | Safety Not Guaranteed
Born in San Francisco and raised in Oakland, Colin Trevorrow started making short films when he was 12 years old. He studied film and dramatic writing at New York University. After graduation, he wrote and directed "Home Base" a digital short that became one of the early viral successes on the ...
Films/episodes watched:
Home Base
Safety Not Guaranteed
Jurassic World*
The Book of Henry
Battle at Big Rock
Jurassic World: Dominion*
26. Brad Bird
Writer | The Incredibles
Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird is an American director, screenwriter, animator, producer and occasional voice actor, known for both animated and live-action films. Bird was born in Kalispell, Montana, the youngest of four children of Marjorie A. (née Cross) and Philip Cullen Bird. His father worked in...
Films/episodes watched:
“Amazing Stories” (Family Dog)
“The Simpsons" (Krusty Gets Busted, Like Father Like Clown)
The Iron Giant
The Incredibles*
Ratatouille*
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol*
Tomorrowland
Incredibles 2
27. 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 ...
Films/episodes watched:
Woton’s Wake
The Responsive Eye
Murder à la Mod
Greetings
Scarface
The Untouchables
Mission: Impossible
Snake Eyes
Mission to Mars*
Femme Fatale
28. Sam Mendes
Producer | 1917
Samuel Alexander Mendes was born on August 1, 1965 in Reading, England, UK to parents James Peter Mendes, a retired university lecturer, and Valerie Helene Mendes, an author who writes children's books. Their marriage didn't last long, James divorced Sam's mother in 1970 when Sam was just 5-...
Films/episodes watched:
Cabaret
American Beauty
Road to Perdition
Revolutionary Road
Skyfall*
Spectre*
1917*
29. Christopher McQuarrie
Writer | The Usual Suspects
Christopher McQuarrie is an acclaimed producer, director and an Academy Award® winning writer. McQuarrie grew up in Princeton Junction, New Jersey and in lieu of college, he spent the first five years out of school traveling and working at a detective agency. He later moved to Los Angeles to pursue...
Films/episodes watched:
The Way of the Gun
Jack Reacher*
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation*
Mission: Impossible - Fallout*
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One*
30. 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, ...
Films/episodes watched:
Slipstream
Amblin’
Duel
Something Evil
Savage
The Sugarland Express
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1941
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial
(Poltergeist)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
“Amazing Stories”(The Mission, The Train)
Empire of the Sun
The Color Purple
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Always
Hook
Jurassic Park*
Schindler’s List
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Amistad
Saving Private Ryan*
(The Haunting)*
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence*
The Unfinished Journey
Minority Report*
Catch Me If You Can*
The Terminal*
War of the Worlds*
Munich
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull*
The Adventures of Tintin (Secret of the Unicorn)*
War Horse
Lincoln
Bridge of Spies*
The BFG
The Post
Ready Player One*
West Side Story*
The Fabelmans
31. 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 ...
Films/episodes watched:
Xenogenesis
Piranha Part Two: The Spawning
The Terminator
Aliens
The Abyss
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
True Lies
Titanic*
Expedition: Bismarck
Ghosts of the Abyss
Aliens of the Deep
Avatar*
Toruk: The First Flight
Avatar: The Way of Water*
32. Joel Schumacher
Director | The Phantom of the Opera
Joel Schumacher was an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and fashion designer from New York City. He rose to fame in the 1980s for directing the coming-of-age drama "St. Elmo's Fire" (1985), and the vampire-themed horror film "The Lost Boys" (1987). In the 1990s, he worked on two ...
Films/episodes watched:
Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Flatliners
Falling Down
Batman Forever*
Batman & Robin
8MM
Tigerland
Bad Company
Phone Booth*
Veronica Guerin*
The Phantom of the Opera*
The Number 23*
Trespass
33. George Miller
Producer | Mad Max: Fury Road
George Miller is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and former medical doctor. He is best known for his Mad Max franchise, with Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) being hailed as amongst the greatest action films of all time. Aside from the Mad Max ...
Films/episodes watched:
Mad Max
Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior)
“The Dismissal” (Part 1)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
The Witches of Eastwick
Happy Feet
Mad Max: Fury Road*
Three Thousand Years of Longing
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)...
Films/episodes watched:
Saw
Saw*
Dead Silence
Death Sentence
Doggie Heaven
Insidious
The Conjuring
Insidious: Chapter 2
Furious 7*
The Conjuring 2
“MacGyver” (The Rising)
Aquaman*
Malignant
35. Nimród Antal
Director | Kontroll
Antal was born in Los Angeles, California of Hungarian ancestry. He moved to Hungary in 1991 to study at the Hungarian Film Academy. After graduating, he went on to work in the film and television industry. In 2005, he moved back to his hometown of Los Angeles to pursue success in Hollywood.
He is ...
Films/episodes watched:
Biztosítás
Kontroll
Vacancy
Predators*
Metallica: Through the Never
“Wayward Pines” (A Reckoning)
A Viszkis
“Servant” (Bear, Cricket, Marino, Goose, Tunnels)
Retribution
36. Matt Reeves
Producer | The Batman
Matthew George "Matt" Reeves was born April 27, 1966 in Rockville Center, New York, USA and is a writer, director and producer. Reeves began making movies at age eight, directing friends and using a wind-up camera. He befriended filmmaker J.J. Abrams when both were 13 years old and a public-access ...
Films/episodes watched:
Mr. Petrified Forrest
Cloverfield*
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes*
War for the Planet of the Apes
The Batman*
37. 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...
Films/episodes watched:
Heavy
Cop Land
Kate & Leopold
Identity
Walk the Line
3:10 to Yuma*
Knight and Day*
The Wolverine*
Logan*
Ford v Ferrari*
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny*
38. Cary Joji Fukunaga
Producer | Beasts of No Nation
Cary Joji Fukunaga is a Japanese-American film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and producer from Oakland, California who is known for directing the James Bond film No Time to Die, Kofi, Beasts of No Nation, Jane Eyre and Sin Nombre. He co-wrote the 2017 film adaptation of the Stephen King ...
Films/episodes watched:
Victoria para chino
Sleepwalking in the Rift
“True Detective” (The Long Bright Dark, Seeing Things, The Locked Room, Who Goes There, The Secret Fate of All Life, Haunted Houses, After You’ve Gone, Form and Void)
No Time To Die*
39. Dan Trachtenberg
Director | Prey
Dan Trachtenberg is an American filmmaker and podcast host. He directed the 2016 horror-thriller film 10 Cloverfield Lane which earned him a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Outstanding Directing - First-Time Feature Film. Trachtenberg was one of three hosts of The Totally Rad Show ...
Films/episodes watched:
“BlackBoxTV” (More Than You Can Chew)
Portal: No Escape
10 Cloverfield Lane
“Black Mirror” (Playtest)
“The Boys” (The Name of the Game)
Prey
40. 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 ...
Films/episodes watched:
Doña Lupe
Geometria
“Hora Marcada” (Con Todo Para Llevar)
Hellboy
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pacific Rim
“The Simpsons” (Treehouse of Horror XXIV)
Crimson Peak
The Shape of Water
“Trollhunters” (Becoming: Part 1, Becoming: Part 2, The Eternal Knight Part 1, The Eternal Knight Part 2)
“3Below: Tales of Arcadia” (Terra Incognita Part One, Terra Incognita Part Two)
Nightmare Alley
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
41. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Director | Un long dimanche de fiançailles
Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a self-taught director who was very quickly interested by cinema, with a predilection for a fantastic cinema where form is as important as the subject. Thus he started directing TV commercials and video clips (such as Julien Clerc in 1984). At the same time he met designer/...
Films/episodes watched:
Le manège
Le bunker de la dernière rafale
Alien: Resurrection
Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain
42. Colin Strause
Visual_effects | Skyline
Since moving to Hollywood as teens in the mid-90s, Colin and his brother, Greg have charted a meteoric rise from self-taught artists working on local cable commercials in the suburbs of Chicago, to renowned visual effects gurus. Their careers began on the original run of The X-Files television show...
Films/episodes watched:
AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem
Skyline
43. Greg Strause
Visual_effects | The Day After Tomorrow
Greg Strause grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. Greg and his brother Colin Strause began experimenting with visual effects in their early teens. In 1995, Greg moved to Los Angeles and started working on the special effects for The X-Files (1993). From there he moved on to big-budget hits such as ...
Films/episodes watched:
AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem
Skyline
44. Fede Alvarez
Writer | Don't Breathe
Fede Alvarez was born on February 9, 1978 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He is a writer and producer, known for Don't Breathe (2016), Evil Dead (2013) and The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018).
Films/episodes watched:
45. J.A. Bayona
Director | La sociedad de la nieve
Juan Antonio García Bayona is a Spanish film director. He directed the 2007 horror film The Orphanage, the 2012 drama film The Impossible, and the 2016 fantasy drama film A Monster Calls. Bayona's latest film is the 2018 science fiction adventure film Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the fifth ...
Films/episodes watched:
Mis vacaciones
El hombre esponja
The Impossible
A Monster Calls
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom*
“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” (A Shadow of the Past, Adrift)
46. 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) ...
Films/episodes watched:
End Day
“Perfect Disaster” (Super Tornado, Solar Storm)
“Heroes and Villains” (Attila the Hun)
Monsters
Godzilla*
Rogue One
The Creator
47. Shane Black
Actor | Predator
Considered one of the pioneer screenwriters of the action genre, Black made his mark with his Lethal Weapon (1987) screenplay. He also collaborated on the story of the sequel, Lethal Weapon 2 (1989). Each successive script he turned in had a higher price attached it, from The Last Boy Scout (1991) ...
Films/Episodes watched:
Iron Man Three*
The Predator*
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