My Most Watched Directors (According to Letterboxd)
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1. 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 ...
#20
Films Seen:
1. Piranha II: The Spawning (1982)
2. The Terminator (1984)
3. Aliens (1986)
4. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
5. Titanic (1997)
6. Avatar (2009)
7. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
2. David Wain
Writer | Wet Hot American Summer
David Wain was born and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
He met the other members of the comedy troupe The State while a film student at NYU, where he graduated from in 1991.
As part of The State, he co-created and co-starred on their self-titled MTV sketch comedy show in the mid 90's. He then ...
#19
Films Seen:
1. Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
2. Role Models (2008)
3. Wanderlust (2012)
4. They Came Together (2014)
5. Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015)
6. Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (2017)
7. A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)
3. 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 ...
#18
Films Seen:
1. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
2. Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
3. Spirited Away (2001)
4. Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
5. Ponyo (2008)
6. The Wind Rises (2013)
7. The Boy and the Heron (2023)
4. 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 ...
#17
Films Seen:
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
4. King Kong (2005)
5. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
6. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
7. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
8. They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
5. Adam McKay
Producer | The Other Guys
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 ...
#16
Films Seen:
1. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
2. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
3. Step Brothers (2008)
4. The Other Guys (2010)
5. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
6. The Big Short (2015)
7. Vice (2018)
8. Don't Look Up (2021)
6. Taika Waititi
Producer | What We Do in the Shadows
Taika Waititi, also known as Taika Cohen, hails from the Raukokore region of the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, and is the son of Robin (Cohen), a teacher, and Taika Waititi, an artist and farmer. His father is Maori (Te-Whanau-a-Apanui), and his mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish...
#15
Films Seen:
1. What We Do in the Shadows: Interviews with Some Vampires (2005)
2. Eagle vs. Shark (2007)
3. Boy (2010)
4. What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
5. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
6. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
7. Jojo Rabbit (2019)
8. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
7. 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)...
#14
Films Seen:
1. Saw (2004)
2. Doggie Heaven (Woof!) (2008)
3. Insidious (2010)
4. The Conjuring (2013)
5. Furious 7 (2015)
6. The Conjuring 2 (2016)
7. Aquaman (2018)
8. Malignant (2021)
8. 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 ...
#13
Films Seen:
1. The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
2. Knocked Up (2007)
3. Funny People (2009)
4. Trainwreck (2015)
5. The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (2018)
6. The King of Staten Island (2020)
7. The Bubble (2022)
8. George Carlin's American Utopia (2022)
9. 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 ...
#12
Films Seen:
1. Batman Begins (2005)
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
3. Inception (2010)
4. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
5. Interstellar (2014)
6. Dunkirk (2017)
7. Tenet (2020)
8. Oppenheimer (2023)
10. Clyde Geronimi
Director | Cinderella
Clyde Geronimi was born on June 12, 1901 in Chiavenna, Lombardy, Italy. He was a director, known for Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). He died on April 24, 1989 in Newport Beach, California, USA.
#11
Films Seen:
1. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)
3. Cinderella (1950)
4. Alice in Wonderland (1951)
5. Peter Pan (1953)
6. Lady and the Tramp (1955)
7. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
8. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
11. 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 ...
#10
Films Seen:
1. Mean Streets (1973)
2. Taxi Driver (1976)
3. Goodfellas (1990)
4. Shutter Island (2010)
5. Hugo (2011)
6. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
7. The Irishman (2019)
8. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
12. Jeff Tremaine
Writer | Bad Grandpa
Jeff Tremaine was born a military brat and hustled from state to state until finally settling in Rockville, Maryland. There, he quickly gravitated towards the alternative world of skateboarding, BMX, reggae music, and art... pursuits that would shape a career to come.
After attending Washington ...
#9
Films Seen:
1. Jackass: The Movie (2002)
2. Jackass Number Two (2006)
3. Jackass 2.5 (2007)
4. Jackass 3D (2010)
5. Jackass 3.5 (2011)
6. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)
7. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 (2014)
8. Jackass Forever (2022)
9. Jackass 4.5 (2022)
13. John Lasseter
Writer | Toy Story 2
Although born in Hollywood, John and his twin sister Johanna were raised in Whittier near Los Angeles. His parents were Jewell Mae (Risley), an art teacher, and Paul Eual Lasseter, a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership. His mother's profession contributed to his interest in animation and ...
#8
Films Seen:
1. Luxo Jr. (1986)
2. Tin Toy (1988)
3. Knick Knack (1989)
4. Toy Story (1995)
5. A Bug's Life (1998)
6. Toy Story 2 (1999)
7. Cars (2006)
8. Mater the Greater (2008)
9. Cars 2 (2011)
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...
#7
Films Seen:
1. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
2. Pulp Fiction (1994)
3. Jackie Brown (1997)
4. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
5. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
6. Death Proof (2007)
7. Inglorious Bastards (2009)
8. Django Unchained (2012)
9. Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019)
15. 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...
#6
Films Seen:
1. Alien 3 (1992)
2. Se7en (1995)
3. Fight Club (1999)
4. Zodiac (2007)
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
6. The Social Network (2010)
7. Gone Girl (2014)
8. Mank (2020)
9. The Killer (2023)
16. 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 ...
#5
Films Seen:
1. Back to the Future (1985)
2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
3. Back to the Future: Part II (1989)
4. Back to the Future: Part III (1990)
5. Death Becomes Her (1992)
6. Forrest Gump (1994)
7. Cast Away (2000)
8. The Polar Express (2004)
9. A Christmas Carol (2009)
10. Welcome to Marwen (2018)
17. Trey Parker
Music_department | South Park
Trey was born in Conifer, Colorado, on October 19, 1969 to Randy Parker, a geologist, and Sharon Parker, an insurance broker. He has an older sister, Shelley Parker. He met Matt Stone (co-creator of South Park (1997)) while attending the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he had a double ...
#4
Films Seen:
1. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
2. Team America: World Police (2004)
3. South Park: Imaginationland (2008)
4. South Park: The Pandemic Special (2020)
5. South ParQ Vaccination Special (2021)
6. South Park: Post Covid (2021)
7. South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid (2021)
8. South Park the Streaming Wars (2022)
9. South Park the Streaming Wars: Part 2 (2022)
10. South Park: Joining the Panderverse (2023)
11. South Park (Not Suitable for Children) (2023)
18. 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 ...
#3
Films Seen:
1. Bottle Rocket (1996)
2. Rushmore (1998)
3. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
4. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
5. Hotel Chevalier (2007)
6. The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
7. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
8. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
9. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
10. Isle of Dogs (2018)
11. The French Dispatch (2021)
12. Asteroid City (2023)
13. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
14. The Swan (2023)
15. The Rat Catcher (2023)
16. Poison (2023)
19. 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 ...
#2
Films Seen:
1. Vincent (1982)
2. Frankenweenie (1984)
3. Beetlejuice (1988)
4. Batman (1989)
5. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
6. Ed Wood (1994)
7. Mars Attacks! (1996)
8. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
9. Big Fish (2003)
10.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
11. Corpse Bride (2005)
12. Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
13. Alice in Wonderland (2010)
14. Dark Shadows (2012)
15. Frankenweenie (2012)
16. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
17. Dumbo (2019)
20. 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
Films Seen:
1. Jaws (1975)
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
5. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
6. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
7. Jurassic Park (1993)
8. A.I. the Artificial Intelligence (2001)
9. Catch Me if You Can (2002)
10.The Terminal (2004)
11. War of the Worlds (2005)
12. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
13. The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
14. War Horse (2011)
15. The BFG (2016)
16. Ready Player One (2018)
17. West Side Story (2021)
18. The Fablemans (2022)
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