My Favorite Directors (filmography ranking)
by bobarctor83 | created - 08 May 2011 | updated - 1 week ago | Public
1. 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 ...
1 - 2001 : a Space Odyssey 2 - Barry Lyndon 3 - The Shining 4 - Eyes Wide Shut 5 - Paths of Glory 6 - A Clockwork Orange 7 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 8 - Full Metal Jacket 9 - The Killing 10 - Lolita 11 - Spartacus 12 - Killer's Kiss
2. 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...
1 - Stalker 2 - Sacrifice 3 - Solaris 4 - The Mirror 5 - Ivan's Chilhood 6 - Nostalgia 7 - Andrei Rublev
3. 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 ...
1 - Blow Out 2 - Phantom of the Paradise 3 - Carrie 4 - Dressed to Kill 5 - Scarface 6 - Carlito's Way 7 - Mission : Impossible 8 - Body Double 9 - Snake Eyes 10 - The Untouchables 11 - Casualties of War 12 - Sisters 13 - Femme Fatale 14 - Raising Cain 15 - Mission to Mars 16 - Obsession 17 - The Fury 18 - Hi, Mom ! 19 - Redacted 20 - Greetings 21 - Passion 22 - Home Movies 23 - The Black Dahlia 24 - Domino 25 - The Bonfire of the Vanities 26 - Murder a la Mod 27 - Dionysus in 69' 28 - The Wedding Party 29 - Wise Guys
4. Werner Herzog
Director | Fitzcarraldo
Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy. Herzog has...
1 - Aguirre, the Wrath of God 2 - The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 3 - Fitzcarraldo 4 - Nosferatu the Vampyre 5 - Stroszek 6 - Woyzeck 7 - The Grizzly Man 8 - My Best Fiend 9 - The Bad Lieutenant : Port of Call New Orleans 10 - Signs of Life 11 - The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 12 - Heart of Glass 13 - La Soufrière 14 - Where the Green Ants Dream 15 - The Dark Glow of the Mountains 16 - Cobra Verde 17 - Rescue Dawn 18 - Little Dieter Needs to Fly 19 - Cave of Forgotten Dreams 20 - My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done 21 - Invincible 22 - Even Dwarfs Started Small 23 - The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft 24 - How much Wood would a Woodchuck chuck... 25 - Encounters at the End of the World 26 - Into the Inferno 27 - Happy People: A Year in the Taiga 28 - Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World 29 - Wheel of Time 30 - God's Angry Man 31 - Scream of Stone 32 - Salt and Fire 33 - No One Will Play with Me 34 - Herakles
5. 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 ...
1 - Mulholland Drive 2 - Lost Highway 3 - Blue Velvet 4 - Twin Peaks : Fire Walk with Me 5 - Twin Peaks: The Return 6 - The Straight Story 7 - Eraserhead 8 - Wild at Heart 9 - Elephant Man 10 - Dune 11 - Inland Empire
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 ...
1 - The Godfather, Part II 2 - The Godfather 3 - The Conversation 4 - Apocalypse Now 5 - Rumble Fish 6 - The Godfather, Part III 7 - Dracula 8 - Tetro 9 - Peggy Sue get Married 10 - The Outsiders 11 - Cotton Club 12 - One from the Heart 13 - Twixt 14 - Tucker: The Man and His Dream 15 - The Rain People 16 - The Rainmaker 17 - Youth Without Youth 18 - Dementia 13 19 - Gardens of Stone 20 - Jack
7. Ingmar Bergman
Writer | Smultronstället
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born July 14, 1918, the son of a priest. The film and T.V. series, The Best Intentions (1992) is biographical and shows the early marriage of his parents. The film Sunday's Children (1992) depicts a bicycle journey with his father. In the miniseries Private Confessions (...
1 - Persona 2 - The Virgin Spring 3 - Winter Light 4 - The Seventh Seal 5 - The Silence 6 - Scenes from a Marriage 7 - Wild Strawberries 8 - Fanny and Alexander 9 - Autumn Sonata 10 - Saraband 11 - The Serpent's Egg 12 - From the Life of the Marionettes 13 - Through a Glass Darkly 14 - Shame 15 - The Passion of Anna 16 - Hour of the Wolf 17 - Cries & Whispers 18 - Face to Face
8. Fritz Lang
Actor | Le mépris
Fritz Lang was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1890. His father managed a construction company. His mother, Pauline Schlesinger, was Jewish but converted to Catholicism when Lang was ten. After high school, he enrolled briefly at the Technische Hochschule Wien and then started to train as a painter. ...
1 - The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 2 - M 3 - Fury 4 - Metropolis 5 - Die Nibelungen: Siegfried 6 - Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge 7 - Ministry of Fear 8 - The Big Heat 9 - The Woman in the Window 10- While the City Sleeps 11 - Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 12 - Scarlett Street 13 - Hangmen Also Die! 14 - You Only Live Once 15 - House by the River 16 - Man Hunt 17 - Secret Beyond the Door... 18 - Rancho Notorious 19 - The Tiger of Eschnapur 20 - The Indian Tomb 21 - Moonfleet 22 - Clash by Night 23 - Cloak and Dagger 24 - Dr. Mabuse the Gambler 25 - Spies 26 - Woman in the Moon 27 - The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse 28 - Human Desire 29 - The Return of Frank James 30 - Liliom 31 - Destiny 32 - The Blue Gardenia 33 - You and Me 34 - American Guerrilla in the Philippines
9. 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 ...
1 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2 - Once Upon a Time in the West 3 - For a Few Dollars More 4 - Once Upon a Time in America 5 - A Fistful of Dollars 6 - A Fistful of Dynamite
10. David Cronenberg
Actor | The Fly
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, Milton Cronenberg, was a journalist and editor, and his mother, Esther (Sumberg), was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early...
1 - The Fly 2 - eXistenZ 3 - Parasite Murders 4 - A History of Violence 5 - The Brood 6 - Videodrome 7 - The Dead Zone 8 - Eastern Promises 9 - Scanners 10 - Dead Ringers 11 - Crash 12 - Crimes of the Future (2022) 13 - Spider 14 - Rabid 15 - Cosmopolis 16 - Naked Lunch 17 - A Dangerous Method 18 - Maps to the Stars 19 - M. Butterfly 20 - Crimes of the Future (1970) 21 - Stereo 22 - Fast Company
11. Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer | Le samouraï
The name "Melville" is not immediately associated with film. It conjures up images of white whales and crackbrained captains, of naysaying notaries and soup-spilling sailors. It is the countersign to a realm of men and their deeds, both heroic and villainous. It is the American novel, with its ...
1 - L'Armée des Ombres 2 - Le Cercle Rouge 3 - Le Samouraï 4 - Le Deuxième Souffle 5 - Le Doulos 6 - Bob le Flambeur 7 - Les Enfants Terribles 8 - Un Flic 9 - L'aîné des Ferchaux 10 - Léon Morin, prêtre 11 - Le Silence de la Mer 12 - Two Men in Manhattan
12. 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 ...
1 - Psycho 2 - Vertigo 3 - The Birds 4 - Rope 5 - Rear Window 6 - Strangers on a Train 7 - The Lady Vanishes 8 - Notorious 9 - North by Northwest 10 - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) 11 - The Wrong Man 12 - Rebecca 13 - Marnie 14 - The Thirty Nine Steps 15 - Frenzy 16 - Shadow of a Doubt 17 - Dial M for Murder 18 - Suspicion 19 - I Confess 20 - Spellbound 21 - Foreign Correspondant 22 - The Paradine Case 23 - Torn Curtain 24 - Stage Fright 25 - Secret Agent 26 - Under Capricorn 27 - Jamaica Inn 28 - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) 29 - Lifeboat 30 - Young and Innocent 31 - Sabotage 32 - Topaz 33 - Saboteur 34 - Family Plot 35 - The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 36 - Blackmail 37 - The Trouble With Harry 38 - To Catch a Thief
13. 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...
1 - High and Low 2 - Seven Samuraï 3 - Throne of Blood 4 - Rashomon 5 - The Bad Sleep Well 6 - Dersou Ouzala 7 - Stray Dog 8 - Ran 9 - The Hidden Fortress 10 - Red Beard 11 - Kagemusha 12 - Yojimbo 13 - Sanjuro 14 - Rhapsody in August 15 - Dreams 16 - The Idiot 17 - To Live 18 - Madadayo 19 - Dodeskaden 20 - Drunken Angel 21 - The Lower Depths 22 - No regrets for my Youth 23 - Scandal 24 - The Quiet Duel 25 - The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail 26 - Judo Saga 27 - I Live in Fear
14. 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...
1 - Pulp Fiction 2 - Inglorious Basterds 3 - Jackie Brown 4 - Reservoir Dogs 5 - Death Proof 6 - Kill Bill : Vol.I 7 - The Hateful Eight 8 - Django Unchained 9 - Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 10 - Kill Bill : Vol.II
15. Dario Argento
Writer | Profondo rosso
Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk tales told by his parents and other ...
1 - Deep Red 2 - Tenebre 3 - Suspiria 4 - Inferno 5 - Phenomena 6 - The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 7 - The Stendhal Syndrome 8 - The Cat o' Nine Tails 9 - Opera 10 - Four Flies on Grey Velvet 11 - Two Evil Eyes 12 - Trauma 13 - Sleepless 14 - Masters of Horror : Jenifer 15 - Masters of Horrors : Pelts 16 - The Card Player 17 - Do You Like Hitchcock? 18 - The Phantom of the Opera 19 - Mother of Tears 20 - Giallo 21 - Dracula 3D 22 - Dark Glasses
16. Jim Jarmusch
Director | Paterson
Moved to New York City at the age of seventeen from Akron, Ohio. Graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in English, class of '75. Without any prior film experience, he was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts, New York.
1 - Dead Man 2 - Down By Law 3 - Ghost Dog, the Way of the Samurai 4 - Stranger than Paradise 5 - Broken Flowers 6 - Paterson 7 - Only Lovers left Alive 8 - Coffee and Cigarettes 9 - Night on Earth 10 - The Dead Don't Die 11 - Mystery Train 12 - The Limits of Control 13 - Permanent Vacation
17. 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 ...
1 - The Thing 2 - Halloween 3 - New York 1997 4 - Assault on Preccinct 13 5 - They Live! 6 - The Fog 7 - In the Mouth of Madness 8 - Dark Star 9 - Christine 10 - Prince of Darkness 11 - Masters of Horror : John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns 12 - Escape from L.A. 13 - Big Trouble in Little China 14 - Starman 15 - Someone's Watching Me! 16 - Vampires 17 - Memoirs of an Invisible Man 18 - Elvis 19 - Body Bags 20 - The Ward 21 - Village of the Damned 22 - Ghosts of Mars
18. 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. ...
1 - Valhalla Rising 2 - Drive 3 - Bronson 4 - The Neon Demon 5 - Too Old to Die Young 6 - Pusher II 7 - Pusher III 8 - Pusher 9 - Copenhagen Cowboy 10 - Bleeder 11 - Only God Forgives 12 - Fear X
19. Yasujirô Ozu
Writer | Tôkyô monogatari
Tokyo-born Yasujiro Ozu was a movie buff from childhood, often playing hooky from school in order to see Hollywood movies in his local theatre. In 1923 he landed a job as a camera assistant at Shochiku Studios in Tokyo. Three years later, he was made an assistant director and directed his first ...
1 - Tokyo Story 2 - An Autumn Afternoon 3 - Equinox Flower 4 - Early Summer 5 - Late Autumn 6 - Late Spring 7 - The End of Summer 8 - Good Morning 9 - The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice 10 - Early Spring 11 - The Only Son 12 - Tokyo Twilight 13 - Floating Weeds
20. 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 ...
1 - Chinatown 2 - Rosemary's Baby 3 - The Tenant 4 - Fearless Vampire Killers 5 - The Pianist 6 - The Tragedy of MacBeth 7 - The Ghost Writer 8 - Tess 9 - Repulsion 10 - An Officer and a Spy 11 - The Ninth Gate 12 - Frantic 13 - Knife in the Water 14 - Cul-de-sac 15 - Death and the Maiden 16 - Carnage 17 - Bitter Moon 18 - La Vénus à la Fourrure 19 - Oliver Twist 20 - Che ? 21 - D'après une histoire vraie 22 - Pirates
21. 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 ...
1 - Taxi Driver 2 - Raging Bull 3 - Casino 4 - Goodfellas 5 - The Last Temptation of Christ 6 - The Wolf of Wall Street 7 - Mean Streets 8 - Silence 9 - The Departed 10 - After Hours 11 - King of Comedy 12 - The Irishman 13 - Killers of the Flower Moon 14 - Shutter Island 15 - Bringing Out the Dead 16 - Cape Fear 17 - Kundun 18 - The Age of Innocence 19 - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 20 - Gangs of New York 21 - New York, New York 22 - Aviator 23 - Hugo Cabret 24 - Who's That Knocking at My Door 25 - The Color of Money 26 - Boxcar Bertha
22. 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 ...
1 - Benny's Video 2 - Caché 3 - Funny Games 4 - The White Ribbon 5 - Amour 6 - 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance 7 - Funny Games U.S. 8 - Happy End 9 - The Seventh Continent 10 - Code Inconnu : Récit incomplet de divers voyages 11 - La Pianiste 12 - The Castle 13 - Le Temps du Loup
23. Robert Bresson
Writer | Au hasard Balthazar
Robert Bresson trained as a painter before moving into films as a screenwriter, making a short film (atypically a comedy), Public Affairs (1934) in 1934. After spending more than a year as a German POW during World War II, he made his debut with Angels of Sin (1943) in 1943. His next film, The ...
1 - Mouchette 2 - Un condamné à mort s'est échappé 3 - Journal d'un curé de campagne 4 - L'argent 5 - Procès de Jeanne d'Arc 6 - Au hasard Balthazar 7 - Les dames du Bois de Boulogne 8 - Le diable probablement 9 - Pickpocket 10 - Une femme douce 11 - Les anges du péché 12 - Quatre nuits d’un rêveur 13 - Lancelot du Lac
24. Éric Rohmer
Director | Ma nuit chez Maud
Admirers have always had difficulty explaining Éric Rohmer's "Je ne sais quoi." Part of the challenge stems from the fact that, despite his place in French Nouvelle Vague (i.e., New Wave), his work is unlike that of his colleagues. While this may be due to the auteur's unwillingness to conform, ...
1 - Conte d'été 2 - Ma nuit chez Maud 3 - Pauline à la plage 4 - Le rayon vert 5 - Le genou de Claire 6 - Conte d'hiver 7 - L'amour l'après-midi 8 - Conte d'automne 9 - L'ami de mon amie 10 - 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle 11 - Les nuits de la pleine lune 12 - La collectionneuse 13 - La femme de l'aviateur 14 - La marquise d'O... 15 - L'arbre, le maire et la médiathèque 16 - Conte de printemps 17 - Les rendez-vous de Paris 18 - Le beau mariage 19 - Le signe du lion 20 - Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon
25. Béla Tarr
Producer | Werckmeister harmóniák
Béla Tarr was born on July 21, 1955 in Pécs, Hungary. He is a producer and director, known for Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), The Turin Horse (2011) and Satantango (1994). He is married to Ágnes Hranitzky.
1 - The Man from London 2 - The Turin Horse 3 - Satantango 4 - Damnation 5 - Werckmeister Harmonies 6 - Almanac of Fall
26. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer | Gertrud
The illegitimate son of a Danish farmer and his Swedish housekeeper, Carl Theodor Dreyer was born in Copenhagen on the 3th of February, 1889. He spent his early years in various foster homes before being adopted by the Dreyers at the age of two. Contrary to popular belief (perhaps nourished by the ...
1 - The Passion of Joan of Arc 2 - Ordet 3 - Dies Irae 4 - Vampyr 5 - Gertrud
27. Sam Peckinpah
Writer | The Wild Bunch
"If they move", commands stern-eyed William Holden, "kill 'em". So begins The Wild Bunch (1969), Sam Peckinpah's bloody, high-body-count eulogy to the mythologized Old West. "Pouring new wine into the bottle of the Western, Peckinpah explodes the bottle", observed critic Pauline Kael. That ...
1 - Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 2 - Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 3 - Straw Dogs 4 - The Wild Bunch 5 - The Getaway 6 - The Ballad of Cable Hogue 7 - Ride the High Country 8 - Cross of Iron 9 - Major Dundee 10 - The Osterman Weekend 11 - Junior Bonner 12 - Convoy 13 - The Killer Elite
28. François Truffaut
Writer | La nuit américaine
French director François Truffaut began to assiduously go to the movies at age seven. He was also a great reader but not a good pupil. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who became his protector. Bazin helped the ...
1 - Tirez sur le pianiste 2 - La mariée était en noir 3 - Les quatre cents coups 4 - La nuit américaine 5 - Jules et Jim 6 - L'enfant sauvage 7 - L'histoire d'Adèle H. 8 - Fahrenheit 451 9 - Les deux Anglaises et le continent 10 - La peau douce 11 - L'argent de poche 12 - La femme d'à côté 13 - Le dernier métro 14 - La sirène du Mississipi 15 - Une belle fille comme moi 16 - L'homme qui aimait les femmes 17 - La chambre verte 18 - Vivement dimanche!
29. James Gray
Director | The Immigrant
Writer/director James Gray made his first film Little Odessa (1994) at the age of twenty-five. The film, which starred Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell, received critical acclaim and was the winner of the Venice Film Festival's prestigious Silver Lion Award in 1994.
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1 - The Yards 2 - We Own the Night 3 - Two Lovers 4 - Ad Astra 5 - Little Odessa 6 - Armageddon Time 7 - The Lost City of Z 8 - The Immigrant
30. Lars von Trier
Writer | Dancer in the Dark
Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and attracted international attention with his very first feature, The Element of Crime (1984). A highly ...
1 - Melancholia 2 - Antichrist 3 - The House That Jack Built 4 - Nymphomaniac : Vol.I 5 - Nymphomaniac : Vol.II 6 - Dogville 7 - Dancer in the Dark 8 - Breaking the Waves 9 - Europa 10 - Manderlay 11 - Element of Crime
31. 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 ...
1 - Interstellar 2 - The Prestige 3 - The Dark Knight 4 - Inception 5 - Dunkirk 6 - Oppenheimer 7 - The Dark Knight Rises 8 - Batman Begins 9 - Following 10 - Memento 11 - Insomnia 12 - Tenet
32. 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 ...
1 - Heat 2 - Thief 3 - The Insider 4 - Miami Vice 5 - Collateral 6 - Manhunter 7 - Ali 8 - The Last of the Mohicans 9 - Public Enemies 10 - Ferrari 11 - The Keep 12 - Blackhat 13 - The Jericho Mile 14 - L.A. Takedown
33. 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...
1 - There Will Be Blood 2 - Magnolia 3 - Licorice Pizza 4 - Phantom Thread 5 - Boogie Nights 6 - Inherent Vice 7 - The Master 8 - Punch-Drunk Love 9 - Hard Eight
34. 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. ...
1 - A Scanner Darkly 2 - Before Sunset 3 - Before Sunrise 4 - Boyhood 5 - Waking Life 6 - Before Midnight 7 - School of Rock 8 - Dazed and Confused 9 - Tape 10 - Last Flag Flying 11 - Slacker 12 - Everybody Wants Some !! 13 - Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure 14 - Bernie 15 - Fast Food Nation 16 - Where'd You Go, Bernadette
35. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer | Trois couleurs: Bleu
Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lódz Film School in 1969, and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and scriptwriter. Before making his first film for TV, Przejscie podziemne (1974) (The Underground Passage), he made a number of short documentaries. His next TV title, Personnel (...
1 - The Double Life of Véronique 2 - Dekalog 3 - Trois Couleurs : Rouge 4 - Trois Couleurs : Bleu 5 - Trois couleurs : Blanc 6 - A Short Film About Love
36. Abbas Kiarostami
Writer | Copie conforme
Abbas Kiarostami was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940. He graduated from university with a degree in fine arts before starting work as a graphic designer. He then joined the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, where he started a film section, and this started his career ...
1 - Taste of Cherry 2 - Where Is the Friend's House? 3 - And Life Goes on... 4 - The Wind Will Carry Us 5 - Through the Olive Trees 6 - Close-Up 7 - The Traveler 8 - Certified Copy 9 - Like Someone in Love 10 - Ten 11 - A Suit for Wedding
37. 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 ...
1 - Fargo 2 - The Big Lebowski 3 - No Country for Old Men 4 - Millers' Crossing 5 - Barton Fink 6 - Blood Simple 7 - Inside Llewelyn Davis 8 - O'Brother 9 - The Barber : The Man Who Wasn't There 10 - Raising Arizona 11 - The Tragedy of Macbeth 12 - True Grit 13 - Burn After Reading 14 - A Serious Man 15 - Hail, Caesar ! 16 - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 17 - The Hudsucker Proxy 18 - The Ladykillers 19 - Intolerable Cruelty
38. 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 ...
1 - The Trial 2 - Citizen Kane 3 - Touch of Evil 4 - Mr. Arkadin 5 - MacBeth 6 - The Lady from Shangaï 7 - The Magnificent Ambersons 8 - Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight) 9 - F for Fake 10 - The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice 11 - Histoire immortelle 12 - The Stranger
39. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
1 - The Great Dictator 2 - Modern Times 3 - City Lights 4 - The Gold Rush 5 - Limelight 6 - Monsieur Verdoux 7 - The Circus 8 - The Kid 9 - A King in New York 10 - A Countess from Hong Kong
40. Jacques Tati
Writer | Playtime
The comic genius Jacques Tati was born Taticheff, descended from a noble Russian family. His grandfather, Count Dimitri, had been a general in the Imperial Army and had served as military attaché to the Russian Embassy in Paris. His father, Emmanuel Taticheff, was a well-to-do picture framer who ...
1 - Mon oncle 2 - Playtime 3 - Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot 4 - Jour de fête 5 - Trafic 6 - Parade
41. 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 ...
1 - Memories of Murder 2 - The Host 3 - Madeo 4 - Parasite 5 - Snowpiercer 6 - Okja 7 - Barking Dogs Never Bite
42. 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...
1 - Zodiac 2 - Fight Club 3 - The Social Network 4 - Seven 5 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 6 - Gone Girl 7 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 8 - The Killer 9 - The Game 10 - Mank 11 - Panic Room 12 - Alien 3
43. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clinton Eastwood Jr. 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 Margaret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took ...
1 - Unforgiven 2 - Honkytonk Man 3 - The Bridges of the Madison County 4 - Mystic River 5 - Million Dollar Baby 6 - Gran Torino 7 - High Plains Drifter 8 - Pale Rider 9 - A Perfect World 10 - The Outlaw Josey Wales 11 - White Hunter Black Heart 12 - The Gauntlet 13 - The Eiger Sanction 14 - Bronco Billy 15 - Heartbreak Ridge 16 - Breezy 17 - Play Misty for Me 18 - American Sniper 19 - Changeling 20 - Flag of Our Fathers 21 - Letters From Iwo Jima 22 - True Crime 23 - Bird 24 - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 25 - The Mule 26 - Richard Jewell 27 - Sully 28 - Sudden Impact 29 - Space Cowboys 30 - Blood Work 31 - The Jersey Boys 32 - J. Edgar 33 - Invictus 34 - Firefox 35 - Hereafter 36 - The Rookie 37 - Cry Macho 38 - The 15:17 to Paris
44. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Writer | Le salaire de la peur
Beginning his film career as a screenwriter, Henri-Georges Clouzot switched over to directing and in 1943 had the distinction of having his film The Raven (1943) banned by both the German forces occupying France and the Free French forces fighting them, but for different reasons. He shot to ...
1 - Les diaboliques 2 - Le salaire de la peur 3 - Quai des Orfèvres 4 - Le corbeau 5 - La prisonnière 6 - L'assassin habite au 21 7 - La vérité 8 - Manon 9 - Les espions
45. Gus Van Sant
Director | Elephant
Gus Green Van Sant Jr. is an American filmmaker, painter, screenwriter, photographer and musician from Louisville, Kentucky who is known for directing films such as Good Will Hunting, the 1998 remake of Psycho, Gerry, Elephant, My Own Private Idaho, To Die For, Milk, Last Days, Finding Forrester, ...
1 - Elephant 2 - Gerry 3 - Good Will Hunting 4 - My Own Private Idaho 5 - Drugstore Cowboy 6 - Paranoid Park 7 - Psycho 8 - A Promised Land 9 - Last Days 10 - Restless 11 - Milk 12 - Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot 13 - To Die For 14 - Finding Forrester 15 - The Sea of Trees
46. Asghar Farhadi
Writer | Forooshande
Asghar Farhadi was born in 1972 in Iran. He became interested in cinema in his teenage years and started his filmmaking education by joining the Youth Cinema Society of Esfahan in 1986 where he made 8mm and 16mm short films. He received his Bachelors in Theater from University of Tehran's School of...
1 - The Salesman 2 - A Separation 3 - The Past 4 - A Hero 5 - Everybody Knows 6 - About Elly 7 - Fireworks Wednesday
47. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Producer | Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da
Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in Istanbul on January 26th, 1959. In 1976, he began studying chemical engineering at Istanbul Technical University, in a context of strong student unrest, boycotts and political polarization. In 1978, he switched courses to Electrical Engineering at Bogazici University. ...
1 - The Wild Pear Tree 2 - Once Upon A Time in Anatolia 3 - About Dry Glasses 4 - Winter Sleep 5 - Three Monkeys 6 - Distant 7 - Climates 8 - The Small Town 9 - Clouds of May
48. Andrey Zvyagintsev
Director | Nelyubov
Director and screenwriter Andrey Zvyagintsev is the winner of the Venice Film Festival (2003) and the Cannes Film Festival (2011, 2014, 2017). Two-time the Academy Awards and the BAFTA Awards nominee. Winner or the Golden Globe Awards (2015) for his film "Leviathan". In 2018, his latest work "...
1 - Loveless 2 - The Return 3 - Leviathan 4 - Elena 5 - The Banishment
49. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Director | Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970, Bangkok) grew up in Khon Kaen, a city in the north east of Thailand. He has a degree in Architecture from Khon Kaen University and a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been making films and videos since the ...
1 - Tropical Malady 2 - Syndromes and a Century 3 - Cemetery of Splendor 4 - Memoria 5 - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 6 - Blissfully Yours
50. Roy Andersson
Director | En kärlekshistoria
Roy Arne Lennart Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his distinctive style of absurdist humor and melancholic depictions of human life. His personal style is characterized by long takes, and stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and grotesque. Over his career Andersson earned ...
1 - A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence 2 - You, the Living 3 - Songs from the Second Floor 4 - About Endlessness 5 - A Swedish Love Story
51. 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, ...
1 - Minority Report 2 - Schindler's List 3 - Encounters of the Third Kind 4 - Raiders of the Lost Ark 5 - Jaws 6 - Jurassic Park 7 - Munich 8 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 9 - Saving Private Ryan 10 - The Fabelmans 11 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 12 - A.I. 13 - Bridge of Spies 14 - War of the Worlds 15 - Duel 16 - War Horse 17 - Catch Me if You Can 18 - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 19 - The Post 20 - The Adventures of Tintin 21 - Lincoln 22 - The BFG 23 - Ready Player One 24 - West Side Story 25 - The Lost World : Jurassic Park 26 - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 27 - Empire of the Sun 28 - The Terminal 29 - The Sugarland Express 30 - The Color Purple 31 - Amistad 32 - 1941 33 - Always 34 - Hook
52. Federico Fellini
Writer | Le notti di Cabiria
The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII - inspired the dreams that Fellini started recording in notebooks in the 1960s. Life and dreams were raw material for his films. His native Rimini and characters like Saraghina (the ...
1 - 8 1/² 2 - La Dolce Vita 3 - La Strada 4 - Amarcord 5 - I Vitelloni 6 - Nights of Cabiria 7 - The Ship Sails On
53. Francesco Rosi
Writer | Cadaveri eccellenti
His father was a shipowner. After school, Rosi initially began studying law, which he soon dropped out to work as a broadcast journalist and book illustrator in Naples. From 1944 to 1945 he worked for "Radio Napoli". In the immediate post-war years, Rosi moved to Rome, where he came into contact ...
1 - Three Brothers 2 - Christ Stopped at Eboli 3 - Men Against... 4 - Salvatore Giulano 5 - Illustrious Corpses 6 - Lucky Luciano 7 - The Mattei Affair 8 - Hands Over the City 9 - Chronicle of a Death Foretold 10 - The Palermo Connection
54. Samuel Fuller
Writer | Shock Corridor
At age 17, Samuel Fuller was the youngest reporter ever to be in charge of the events section of the New York Journal. After having participated in the European battle theater in World War II, he directed some minor action productions for which he mostly wrote the scripts himself and which he also ...
1 - Shock Corridor 2 - The Big Red One 3 - Pickup on South Street 4 - Forty Guns 5 - White Dog 6 - The Naked Kiss 7 - Forbidden! 8 - House of Bamboo 9 - Underworld U.S.A. 10 - The Crimson Kimono
55. Alain Resnais
Director | Hiroshima mon amour
Alain Resnais was born on June 3, 1922 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. He was a director and editor, known for Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Same Old Song (1997) and My American Uncle (1980). He was married to Sabine Azéma and Florence Malraux. He died on March 1, 2014 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, ...
1 - Hiroshima Mon Amour 2 - L'Année dernière à Marienbad 3 - Providence 4 - Mon Oncle d'Amérique 5 - On connaît la chanson 6 - Mélo 7 - Je t'aime, je t'aime 8 - L'amour à mort 9 - Muriel ou le temps d'un retour 10 - Cœurs 11 - Stavisky
56. Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer | Blow-Up
Together with Fellini, Bergman and Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni is credited with defining the modern art film. And yet Antonioni's cinema is also recognized today for defying any easy categorization, with his films ultimately seeming to belong to their own distinctive genre. Indeed, the ...
1 - Blow Up 2 - L'Eclisse 3 - L'Avventura 4 - Zabriskie Point 5 - The Passenger 6 - Red Desert
57. 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 ...
1 - Blade Runner 2 - Alien 3 - The Duellists 4 - The Martian 5 - Prometheus 6 - Black Hawk Down 7 - The Last Duel 8 - Thelma & Louise 9 - Alien : Covenant 10 - Hannibal 11 - Gladiator 12 - Kingdom of Heaven 13 - American Gangster 14 - House of Gucci 15 - Napoleon 16 - Matchstick Men 17 - Robin Hood 18 - All the Money in the World 19 - Body of Lies 20 - 1492: Conquest of Paradise 21 - Black Rain 22 - Someone to Watch Over Me 23 - White Squall 24 - Exodus: Gods and Kings 25 - The Counselor 26 - A Good Year 27 - Legend
58. Paolo Sorrentino
Writer | È stata la mano di Dio
Director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino was born in Naples in 1970, and and became an orphan when he lost both of his parents at the age of 16. At the age of 25, after studying for a few years at the Faculty of Economics and Business in University of Naples Federico II, he decided to work in the...
1 - The Great Beauty 2 - Il Divo 3 - Youth 4 - The Young Pope 5 - The New Pope 6 - The Hand of God 7 - The Consequences of Love 8 - Loro 9 - This Must Be the Place 10 - One Man Up
59. 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 ...
1 - 21 Grams 2 - Amores Perros 3 - The Revenant 4 - Babel 5 - Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths 6 - Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 7 - Biutiful
60. 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), ...
1 - Enemy 2 - Incendies 3 - Prisoners 4 - Arrival 5 - Sicario 6 - Dune: Part Two 7 - Blade Runner 2049 8 - Dune 9 - Polytechnique
61. Buster Keaton
Actor | The General
Joseph Frank Keaton was born on October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, to Joe Keaton and Myra Keaton. Joe and Myra were Vaudevillian comedians with a popular, ever-changing variety act, giving Keaton an eclectic and interesting upbringing. In the earliest days on stage, they traveled with a medicine ...
1 - The General 2 - The Cameraman 3 - The Navigator 4 - Steamboat Bill Jr. 5 - Sherlock Jr. 6 - Our Hospitality 7 - Seven Chances 8 - Three Ages
62. Luis Buñuel
Writer | Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the ...
1 - El 2 - Los Olvidados 3 - Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie 4 - Belle de Jour 5 - Le fantôme de la liberté 6 - Le journal d'une femme de chambre 7 - Viridiana 8 - Cet obscur objet du désir 9 - Tristana 10 - Nazarin 11 - The Exterminating Angel 12 - Un Chien Andalou 13 - The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz 14 - La Voie lactée
63. Jacques Audiard
Writer | De rouille et d'os
Born in Paris, France, in 1952. Jacques Audiard's family has always been involved in movie business. His father, Michel, was a popular screenwriter and director and his uncle a producer. But in his teens he refused that world and wanted to be a teacher. He studied literature and philosophy at the ...
1 - Un prophète 2 - De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté 3 - Sur mes lèvres 4 - De rouille et d'os 5 - Dheepan 6 - Les Olympiades 7 - The Sisters Brothers 8 - Un héros très discret 9 - Regarde les hommes tomber
64. Elia Kazan
Director | On the Waterfront
Known for his creative stage direction, Elia Kazan was born Elias Kazantzoglou on September 7, 1909 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey). Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his actors, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins. He ...
1 - On The Waterfront 2 - East of Eden 3 - A Streetcar named Desire 4 - Baby Doll 5 - Wild River 6 - Splendor in the Grass 7 - The Last Tycoon 8 - The Arrangement 9 - The Visitors
65. Hiroshi Teshigahara
Director | Suna no onna
Hiroshi Teshigahara was born the son of Sofu Teshigahara who was the founder of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana (flower arrangement). In 1950, he graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in oil painting. In 1958, he became the director of Sogetsu Art Centre and took a ...
1 - Woman in the Dunes 2 - Pitfall 3 - The Face of Another
66. Michael Cimino
Director | The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino studied architecture and dramatic arts; later he filmed advertisements and documentaries and also wrote scripts until the actor, producer and director Clint Eastwood gave him the opportunity to direct the thriller Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974). But his biggest success was The Deer...
1 - The Deer Hunter 2 - Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 3 - Heaven's Gate 4 - Year of the Dragon 5 - The Sunchaser 6 - The Sicilian 7 - Desperate Hours
67. Joseph Losey
Director | The Servant
Belonging to an important family clan in Wisconsin, Joseph Losey studied philosophy but was always interested in theater and thus worked together with Bertolt Brecht. After directing some shorts for MGM, he made his first important film, The Boy with Green Hair (1948), for RKO. While he was filming ...
1 - Mr Klein 2 - The Servant 3 - The Go-Between 4 - The Prowler 5 - Accident 6 - M 7 - King and Country 8 - The Damned 9 - The Assassination of Trotsky 10 - The Criminal 11 - Secret Ceremony
68. Robert Altman
Director | Gosford Park
Robert Altman was born on February 20th, 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri, to B.C. (an insurance salesman) and Helen Altman. He entered St. Peters Catholic school at the age six, and spent a short time at a Catholic high school. From there, he went to Rockhurst High School. It was then that he started...
1 - McCabe and Mrs Miller 2 - The Long Goodbye 3 - MASH 4 - Short Cuts 5 - That Cold Day in the Park 6 - Cookie's Fortune 7 - Nashville 8 - The Player 9 - 3 Women 10 - Images 11 - Thieves Like Us 12 - Gosford Park 13 - Countdown 14 - Dr. T and the Women 15 - The Gingerbread Man 16 - Prêt-à-Porter
69. Terrence Malick
Writer | Days of Heaven
Terrence Malick was born in Ottawa, Illinois. His family subsequently lived in Oklahoma and he went to school in Austin, Texas. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy in 1965.
A member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, he attended Magdalen ...
1 - The New World 2 - The Thin Red Line 3 - Badlands 4 - Days of Heaven 5 - Tree of Life 6 - A Hidden Life 7 - Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
70. F.W. Murnau
Director | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
F.W. Murnau was a German film director. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt. During World War I he served as a company commander at the eastern front and was in the German air ...
1 - Nosferatu 2 - Sunrise 3 - Faust 4 - Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
71. Billy Wilder
Writer | The Apartment
Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many ...
1 - Sunset Boulevard 2 - Double Indemnity 3 - The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 4 - Witness for the Prosecution 5 - The Apartment 6 - Some Like It Hot 7 - Avanti! 8 - The Fortune Cookie 9 - The Seven Year Itch 10 - Ace in the Hole
72. Peter Weir
Director | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Peter Weir was born on August 21, 1944 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is a director and writer, known for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), The Way Back (2010) and Witness (1985). He has been married to Wendy Stites since 1966. They have two children.
1 - The Last Wave 2 - Picnic at Hanging Rock 3 - The Truman Show 4 - The Cars that ate Paris 5 - Dead Poets Society 6 - Gallipoli 7 - Fearless 8 - Witness 9 - The Year of Living Dangerously 10 - The Mosquito Coast 11 - The Plumber 12 - Master and Commander : The Far Side of the World 13 - The Way Back 14 - Green Card
73. 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.
1 - Sympathy for Mister Vengeance 2 - Old Boy 3 - Lady Vengeance 4 - The Handmaiden 5 - Joint Security Area 6 - The Little Drummer Girl 7 - Stoker 8 - Decision to Leave 9 - Thirst
74. Ruben Östlund
Director | Triangle of Sadness
Ruben Östlund was born on April 13, 1974 in Styrsö, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. He is a director and editor, known for Triangle of Sadness (2022), Force Majeure (2014) and The Square (2017). He was previously married to Andrea Östlund.
1 - Force Majeure 2 - The Square 3 - Triangle of Sadness 4 - Involuntary 5 - Play
75. Mario Bava
Cinematographer | Ecologia del delitto
Italian director Mario Bava was born on July 31, 1914 in the coastal northern Italian town of Sanremo. His father, Eugenio Bava (1886-1966), was a cinematographer in the early days of the Italian film industry. Bava was trained as a painter, and when he eventually followed his father into film ...
1 - Blood and Black Lace 2 - The Black Sabbath 3 - The Girl Who Knew Too Much 4 - A Bay of Blood 5 - Black Sunday 6 - Hatchet for the Honeymoon 7 - Planet of the Vampires 8 - Kill, Baby... Kill! 9 - Diabolik 10 - The Whip and the Body 11 - Schock 12 - Baron Blood 13 - Five Dolls for an August Moon 14 - Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
76. Michael Powell
Director | Peeping Tom
The son of Thomas William Powell and Mabel (nee Corbett). Michael Powell was always a self-confessed movie addict. He was brought up partly in Canterbury ("The Garden of England") and partly in the south of France (where his parents ran a hotel). Educated at Kings School, Canterbury and Dulwich ...
1 - The Red Shoes 2 - Peeping Tom 3 - A Matter of Life and Death 4 - Black Narcissus 5 - 49th Parallel 6 - The Tales of Hoffmann
77. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer | Faustrecht der Freiheit
Above all, Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a rebel whose life and art was marked by gross contradiction. Openly homosexual, he married twice; one of his wives acted in his films and the other served as his editor. Accused variously by detractors of being anticommunist, male chauvinist, antiSemitic and...
1 - World on a Wire 2 - Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 3 - The Marriage of Maria Braun 4 - Lili Marleen 5 - Veronika Voss 6 - The Third Generation 7 - The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
78. William Friedkin
Director | To Live and Die in L.A.
Friedkin's mother was an operating room nurse. His father was a merchant seaman, semi-pro softball player and ultimately sold clothes in a men's discount chain. Ultimately, his father never earned more than $50/week in his whole life and died indigent. Eventually young Will became infatuated with ...
1 - Sorcerer 2 - The Exorcist 3 - To Live and Die in L.A. 4 - Cruising 5 - French Connection 6 - Killer Joe 7 - Bug 8 - The Brink’s Job 9 - The Hunted 10 - Jade 11 - Rules of Engagement
79. Takeshi Kitano
Actor | Zatôichi
Takeshi Kitano originally studied to become an engineer, but was thrown out of school for rebellious behavior. He learned comedy, singing and dancing from famed comedian Senzaburô Fukami. Working as a lift boy on a nightclub with such features as comic sketches and striptease dancing, Kitano saw ...
1 - Hana-Bi 2 - Violent Cop 3 - Sonatine 4 - A Scene at the Sea 5 - Kids Return 6 - Jugatsu 7 - Dolls 8 - Brother 9 - Kikujiro 10 - Zatoichi 11 - Achilles and the Tortoise 12 - Getting Any 13 - Outrage 14 - Outrage Beyond 15 - Takeshi's 16 - Outrage Coda
80. 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 ...
1 - The Grand Budapest Hotel 2 - Fantastic Mr Fox 3 - Moonrise Kingdom 4 - Rushmore 5 - The Royal Tenenbaums 6 - The French Dispatch 7 - The Aquatic Life of Steeve Zissou 8 - Isle of Dogs 9 - The Darjeeling Limited 10 - Asteroid City 11 - Bottle Rocket
81. George A. Romero
Writer | Land of the Dead
George A. Romero never set out to become a Hollywood figure; by all indications, though, he was very successful. The director of the groundbreaking "Living Dead" films was born February 4, 1940 ,in New York City to Ann (Dvorsky) and Jorge Romero. His father was born in Spain and raised in Cuba, and...
1 - Dawn of the Dead 2 - The Night of the Living Dead 3 - Martin 4 - The Day of the Dead 5 - Creepshow 6 - Land of the Dead 7 - Monkey Shines 8 - The Crazies 9 - The Dark Half 10 - Season of the Witch 11 - Bruiser 12 - Two Evil Eyes 13 - Diary of the Dead 14 - Survival of the Dead 15 - The Amusement Park 16 - Knightriders
82. Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Producer | Deux jours, une nuit
After studying drama in the arts institute, Jean Pierre Dardenne and his brother Luc made some videos about the rough life in blue-collar small towns in the Wallonie. After their meeting with filmmaker Armad Gatti and cinematographer Ned Burgess, they decided to enter in the movie business.
In 1978 ...
1 - Le fils 2 - L'enfant 3 - Le gamin au vélo 4 - Deux jours, une nuit 5 - Tori et Lokita 6 - Le silence de Lorna 7 - Rosetta 8 - La promesse 9 - La fille inconnue 10 - Le jeune Ahmed
83. Claude Sautet
Writer | Un coeur en hiver
Claude Sautet was born on February 23, 1924 in Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. He was a writer and director, known for A Heart in Winter (1992), Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995) and The Things of Life (1970). He was married to Graziella Sautet. He died on July 22, 2000 in Paris, ...
1 - Max et les ferrailleurs 2 - Classe tous risques 3 - Un cœur en hiver 4 - Vincent, François, Paul... et les autres 5 - César et Rosalie 6 - Les choses de la vie 7 - Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud 8 - Mado 9 - Un mauvais fils 10 - Une histoire simple 11 - L'arme à gauche
84. John Cassavetes
Actor | Rosemary's Baby
John Cassavetes was a Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is considered a pioneer of American independent film, as he often financed his own films.
Cassavetes was born in New York City in 1929 to Nicholas John Cassavetes (1893-1979) and his wife, Katherine Demetre (1906-1983). ...
1 - The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 2 - A Woman Under the Influence 3 - Gloria 4 - Love Streams 5 - Opening Night 6 - Faces
85. 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 ...
1 - Match Point 2 - Annie Hall 3 - Manhattan Murder Mystery 4 - Vicky Cristina Barcelona 5 - Manhattan 6 - Coup de chance 7 - Cassandra's Dream 8 - Bullets over Broadway 9 - Hannah and Her Sisters 10 - The Purple Rose of Cairo 11 - Sweet and Lowdown 12 - Midnight in Paris 13 - Crimes and Misdemeanors 14 - Sleeper 15 - Hollywood Ending 16 - The Curse of the Jade Scorpion 17 - Shadows and Fog 18 - Blue Jasmine 19 - Mighty Aphrodite 20 - Deconstructing Harry
86. Aki Kaurismäki
Producer | Le Havre
Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa (in homage to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)) with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki, also a film-maker. Both Aki and Mika are prolific ...
1 - The Man Without a Past 2 - I Hired a Contract Killer 3 - Drifting Clouds 4 - Lights in the Dusk 5 - The Match Factory Girl 6 - Ariel 7 - The Bohemian Life 8 - Shadows in Paradise 9 - Fallen Leaves 10 - Le Havre 11 - The Other Side of Hope 12 - Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana 13 - Juha
87. Alan Clarke
Director | Screen Two
Liverpool native Alan Clarke got his start in the film business in Canada, where he studied acting and directing. Upon returning to England he got a job at ITV, then moved over to the BBC in 1969. He worked mostly in television, but he made a couple of feature films that got attention for their ...
1 - Scum (1979) 2 - Scum (1977) 3 - Elephant 4 - The Firm 5 - Rita, Sue and Bob Too 6 - Made in Britain
88. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Director | Tokyo Sonata
Kiyoshi Kurosawa was born on July 19, 1955 in Kobe, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Tokyo Sonata (2008), Pulse (2001) and Cure (1997).
1 - Pulse 2 - Tokyo Sonata 3 - Cure 4 - Seance 5 - Shokuzai 6 - Creepy 7 - Retribution 8 - Journey to the Shore 9 - Doppelganger
89. Jacques Demy
Soundtrack | Les parapluies de Cherbourg
Jacques Demy was born on June 5, 1931 in Pontchâteau, Loire-Atlantique, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) and A Room in Town (1982). He was married to Agnès Varda. He died on October 27, 1990 in Paris, France.
1 - Les parapluies de Cherbourg 2 - Lola 3 - Les demoiselles de Rochefort 4 - Peau d'âne
90. Louis Malle
Director | Au revoir les enfants
Louis Malle, the descendant of a French nobleman who made a fortune in beet sugar during the Napoleonic Wars, created films that explored life and its meaning. Malle's family discouraged his early interest in film but, in 1950, allowed him to enter the Institute of Advanced Cinematographic Studies ...
1 - Ascenseur pour l'échafaud 2 - Au revoir les enfants 3 - Lacombe Lucien 4 - Le souffle au cœur 5 - Le feu follet 6 - Atlantic City, USA 7 - Black Moon
91. Jean-Luc Godard
Director | Bande à part
Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris on December 3, 1930, the second of four children in a bourgeois Franco-Swiss family. His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from a preeminent family of Swiss bankers. During World War II Godard became a naturalized citizen of ...
1 - Le mépris 2 - Pierrot le fou 3 - Week-end 4 - Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution 5 - Bande à part 6 - A bout de souffle 7 - Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux
92. David Lean
Director | Lawrence of Arabia
An important British filmmaker, David Lean was born in Croydon on March 25, 1908 and brought up in a strict Quaker family (ironically, as a child he wasn't allowed to go to the movies). During the 1920s, he briefly considered the possibility of becoming an accountant like his father before finding ...
1 - The Bridge on the River Kwai 2 - Lawrence of Arabia 3 - Doctor Zhivago 4 - Ryan's Daughter 5 - Brief Encounter
93. Don Siegel
Director | Dirty Harry
Don Siegel was educated at Cambridge University, England. In Hollywood from the mid-'30s, he began his career as an editor and second unit director. In 1945 he directed two shorts (Hitler Lives (1945) and Star in the Night (1945)) which both won Academy Awards. His first feature as a director was ...
1 - Dirty Harry 2 - The Killers 3 - The Beguiled 4 - Escape from Alcatraz 5 - The Shootist 6 - Charley Varrick 7 - Sierra Torride 8 - Coogan's Bluff 9 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers 10 - Madigan 11 - The Black Windmill
94. 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 ...
1 - The Last House on the Left 2 - The Hills Have Eyes 3 - Scream 4 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - Scream 2 6 - Wes Craven's New Nightmare 7 - Scream 4 8 - Red Eye 9 - Scream 3 10 - Deadly Friend 11 - The People Under the Stairs 12 - The Serpent and the Rainbow 13 - Deadly Blessing 14 - Shocker 15 - Cursed 16 - The Hills Have Eyes Part II 17 - My Soul to Take 18 - Swamp Thing
95. Monte Hellman
Director | Iguana
Monte Hellman was born on July 12, 1929, in New York City, where his parents were visiting, but he grew up in Los Angeles. He studied drama at Stanford University--on an NBC scholarship--and film at UCLA. After a few years directing in summer theater, Hellman hooked up with legendary "B" movie ...
1 - Two-Lane Blacktop 2 - The Shooting 3 - Ride in the Whirlwind 4 - Cockfighter
96. Kar-Wai Wong
Director | Yi dai zong shi
Wong Kar-wai (born 17 July 1956) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised, emotionally resonant work, including Ah fei zing zyun (1990), Dung che sai duk (1994), Chung Hing sam lam (1994), Do lok tin si (1995), Chun gwong ...
1 - In the Mood for Love 2 - Days of Being Wild 3 - 2046 4 - The Grandmaster 5 - Fallen Angels 6 - Chungking Express
97. John Huston
Director | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
An eccentric rebel of epic proportions, this Hollywood titan reigned supreme as director, screenwriter and character actor in a career that endured over five decades. The ten-time Oscar-nominated legend was born John Marcellus Huston in Nevada, Missouri, on August 5, 1906. His ancestry was English,...
1 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 2 - The Asphalt Jungle 3 - The Maltese falcon 4 - The Man Who Would Be King 5 - Key Largo 6 - The Night of the Iguana 7 - Reflections in a Golden Eye 8 - Under the Volcano 9 - The African Queen 10 - Moby Dick 11 - Fat City 12 - The Dead 13 - The Kremlin Letter 14 - The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean 15 - The Misfits 16 - Victory
98. Nicolas Roeg
Director | Don't Look Now
When he made his directorial debut in 1970, Nicolas Roeg was already a 23-year veteran of the British film industry, starting out in 1947 as an editing apprentice and working his way up to cinematographer twelve years later. He first came to attention as part of the second unit on David Lean's ...
1 - Don't Look Now 2 - Walkabout 3 - Bad Timing 4 - The Man Who Fell to Earth 5 - Eureka
99. George Lucas
Writer | Star Wars
George Walton Lucas, Jr. was raised on a walnut ranch in Modesto, California. His father was a stationery store owner and he had three siblings. During his late teen years, he went to Thomas Downey High School and was very much interested in drag racing. He planned to become a professional racecar ...
1 - Star Wars 2 - THX 1138 3 - Star Wars : Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 4 - American Graffiti 5 - Star Wars : Episode II - Attack of the Clones 6 - Star Wars : Episode I - The Phantom Menace
100. Kenji Mizoguchi
Director | Ugetsu monogatari
Coming from a lower class family Mizoguchi entered the production company Nikkatsu as an actor specialized in female roles. Later he became an assistant director and made his first film in 1922. Although he filmed almost 90 movies in the silent era, only his last 12 productions are really known ...
1 - Ugetsu 2 - Sansho the Bailiff 3 - The Crucified Lovers
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