My favorite film directors

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 ...

Watched works=

(1956) The Killing (1957) Paths of Glory (1962) Lolita (1964) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1971) A Clockwork Orange (1975) Barry Lyndon (1980) The Shining (1987) Full Metal Jacket (1999) Eyes Wide Shut

2. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1935) The 39 Steps (1938) The Lady Vanishes (1940) Rebecca (1943) Shadow of a Doubt (1944) Lifeboat (1945) Spellbound (1946) Notorious (1948) Rope (1951) Strangers on a Train (1954) Dial M for Muder (1954) Rear Window (1956) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1958) Vertigo (1959) Norht by Northwest (1960) Psycho (1963) The Birds (1972) Frenzy

3. Christopher Nolan

Writer | Tenet

Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...

Watched works=

(1998) Following (2000) Memento (2002) Insomnia (2005) Batman Begins (2006) The Prestige (2008) The Dark Knight (2010) Inception (2012) The Dark Knight Rises (2014) Interstellar (2017) Dunkirk (2020) Tenet (2023) Oppenheimer

Short: (1997) Doodlebug

4. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1972) The Godfather (1974) The Godfather Part II (1974) The Conversation (1979) Apocalypse Now (1983) The Outsiders (1992) Bram Stoker's Dracula

5. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1973) Mean Streets (1976) Taxi Driver (1980) Raging Bull (1982) The King of Comedy (1985) After Hours (1986) The Color of Money (1988) The Last Temptation of Christ (1990) Goodfellas (1991) Cape Fear (1993) Age of Innocence (1995) Casino (2002) Gangs of New York (2004) The Aviator (2006) The Departed (2010) Shutter Island (2011) Hugo (2013) The Wolf of Wall Street (2016) Silence (2019) The Irishman

6. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1979) The Castle of Cagliostro (1984) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1986) Castle in the Sky (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1989) Kiki's Delivery Service (1992) Porco Rosso (1997) Princess Mononoke (2001) Spirited Away (2004) Howl's Moving Castle (2008) Ponyo (2013) The Wind Rises (2023) The Boy and the Heron

7. 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...

Watched works=

(1992) Reservoir Dogs (1994) Pulp Fiction (1997) Jackie Brown (2003) Kill Bill: Vol 1 (2004) Kill Bill: Vol 2 (2007) Death Proof (2009) Inglorious Bastards (2012) Django Unchained (2015) The Hateful Eight (2019) Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

8. 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 ...

Watched works=

Feature films: (1914) Tillie's Punctured Romance (1921) The Kid (1923) A Woman of Paris - A Drama of Fate (1925) The Gold Rush (1928) The Circus (1931) City Lights (1936) Modern Times (1940) The Great Dictator (1947) Monsieur Verdoux (1952) Limelight

Shorts: -1914 Making a Living Kid Auto Races at Venice Mabel's Strange Predicament A Thief Catcher Between Showers A Film Johnnie Tango Tangles His Favourite Pastime Cruel, Cruel Love The Star Boarder Mabel at the Wheel Twenty Minutes of Love Caught in a Cabaret Caught in the Rain A Busy Day The Fatal Mallet Her Friend the Bandit The Knockout Mabel's Busy Day Mabel's Married Life Laughing Gas The Property Man The Face on the Bar Room Floor Recreation The Masquerader His New Profession The Rounders The New Janitor Those Love Pangs Dough and Dynamite Gentlemen of Nerve His Musical Career His Trysting Place Getting Acquainted His Prehistoric Past

-1915 His New Job A Night Out The Champion In the Park A Jitney Elopement The Tramp By the Sea Work A Woman The Bank Shanghaied A Night in the Show A Burlesque on Carmen

-1916 Police The Floorwalker The Fireman The Vagabond One A.M. The Count The Pawnshop Behind the Screen The Rink

-1917 Easy Street The Cure The Immigrant The Adventurer

-1918 Triple Trouble A Dog's Life The Bond Shoulder Arms

-1919 Sunnyside A Day's Pleasure

1921- The Idle Class 1922- Pay Day 1923- The Pilgrim

9. 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, ...

Watched works=

(1975) Jaws (1977) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1981) Raiders of the Last Ark (1982) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1984) Indiana Jones and the Temple Doom (1985) The Color Purple (1987) Empire of the Sun (1989) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1991) Hook (1993) Jurassic Park (1993) Schindler's List (1997) The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Amistad (1998) Saving Private Ryan (2001) A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2002) Catch Me If You Can (2002) Minority Report (2004) The Terminal (2005) War of the Worlds (2005) Munich (2008) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2011) The Adventures of Tintin Secret of the Unicorn (2011) War Horse (2012) Lincoln (2015) Bridge of Spies (2016) The BFG (2017) The Post (2018) Ready Player One (2022) The Fabelmans

10. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1964) A Fistful of Dollars (1965) For a Few Dollars More (1966) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1968) Once Upon a Time in the West (1971) Duck, You Sucker! (1984) Once Upon a Time in America

11. 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...

Watched works=

(1992) Alien³ (1995) Se7en (1997) The Game (1999) Fight Club (2002) Panic Room (2007) Zodiac (2008) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2010) The Social Network (2011) The Girl with the Dragon Tatto (2014) Gone Girl (2020) Mank

12. 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...

Watched works=

(1950) Rashomon (1952) Ikiru (1954) Seven Samurais (1957) Throne of Blood (1958) Hidden Fortress (1961) Yojimbo (1963) High and Low (1962) Sanjuro (1965) Red Beard (1980) Kamegusha (1985) Ran

13. 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 ...

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Feature films: (1923) Three Ages (1923) Our Hospitality (1924) Sherlock, Jr. (1924) The Navigator (1925) Seven Chances (1925) Go West (1926) The General (1926) Battling Butler (1927) College (1928) Steamboat Bill, Jr (1928) The Cameraman (1929) Spite Marriage

Shorts: -1917 The Butcher Boy The Rough House

-1920 One Week Convict 13 The Scarecrow Neighbors

-1921 The Haunted House Hard Luck The 'High Sign' The Goat The Play House The Boat

-1922 The Paleface Cops My Wife's Relations The Blacksmith The Frozen North The Electric House Day Dreams

-1923 The Balloonatic The Love Nest

14. Sidney Lumet

Director | 12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet was a master of cinema, best known for his technical knowledge and his skill at getting first-rate performances from his actors -- and for shooting most of his films in his beloved New York. He made over 40 movies, often complex and emotional, but seldom overly sentimental. Although ...

Watched works=

(1957) 12 Angly Men (1973) Serpico (1975) Dog Day Afternoon (1976) Network

15. 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 ...

Watched works=

(2001) LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring (2002) LOTR: The Two Towers (2003) LOTR: The Return of the King (2005) King Kong (2012) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2013) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2014) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

16. Isao Takahata

Director | Hotaru no haka

Isao Takahata was born on October 29, 1935 in Ise, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Pom Poko (1994) and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013). He died on April 5, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.

Watched works=

(1988) Grave of the Fireflies (1991) Only Yesterday (1994) Pom Poko (1999) My Neighbors the Yamadas (2013) The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

17. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1994) The Shawshank Redeption (1999) The Green Mile (2007) The Mist

Shows: (2010) Days Gone Bye -The Walking Dead's episode-

18. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1985) Back to the Future (1988) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1989) Back to the Future Part II (1990) Back to the Future Part III (1994) Forrest Gump (1997) Contact (2000) Cast Away (2004) The Polar Express (2009) A Christmas Carol (2020) The Witches

19. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1995) Toy Story (1998) A Bug's Life (1999) Toy Story 2 (2006) Cars (2011) Cars 2

Shows: (2008-2010) Mater's Tail Tales

Shorts: (1986) Luxo Jr. (1987) Red's Dream (1988) Tin Toy (1989) Knick Knack (1991) Lux Jr. in 'Front and Back' (2006) Mater and the Ghoslight

20. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1984) The Terminator (1986) Aliens (1988) The Abyss (1992) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1994) True Lies (1997) Titanic (2009) Avatar

21. Milos Forman

Director | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Milos Forman was born Jan Tomas Forman in Caslav, Czechoslovakia, to Anna (Svabova), who ran a summer hotel, and Rudolf Forman, a professor. During World War II, his parents were taken away by the Nazis, after being accused of participating in the underground resistance. His father died in ...

Watched works=

(1975) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1984) Amadeus

22. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1965) Repulsion (1968) Rosemary's Baby (1974) Chinatown (1976) The Tenant (2002) The Pianist

23. 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...

Watched works=

(1997) Boogie Nights (1999) Magnolia (2002) Punch-Drunk Love (2007) There Will Be Blood (2012) The Master (2014) Inherent Vice (2017) Phantom Thread

24. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1977) Eraserhead (1980) The Elephant Man (1984) Dune (1986) Blue Velvet (1990) Wild at Heart (1992) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1997) Lost Highway (1999) The Straight Story (2001) Mulholland Drive (2006) Inland Empire

Shows: (1990-1991) Twin Peaks (2017) Twin Peaks

Shorts: (2002) Rabbits

25. George Roy Hill

Director | The Sting

George Roy Hill was never able to 'hit it off' with the critics despite the fact that 2 of his films - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), and The Sting (1973) - had remained among the top 10 box office hits by 1976. His work was frequently derided as 'impersonal' or lacking in stylistic ...

Watched works=

(1969) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1973) The Sting

26. 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 ...

Watched works=

(2003) Memories of Murder (2006) The Host (2009) Mother (2013) Snowpiercer (2015) Okja (2019) Parasite

27. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1945) Brief Encounter (1957) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1962) Lawrence of Arabia (1965) Doctor Zhivago

28. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1941) Citizen Kane (1942) The Magnificent Ambersons (1946) The Stranger (1947) The Lady from Shanghai (1958) Touch of Evil

29. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1976) Carrie (1983) Scarface (1987) The Untouchables (1993) Carlito's Way (1996) Mission: impossible

30. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1979) Alien (1982) Blade Runner (1992) Thelma & Louise (2000) Gladiator (2001) Hannibal (2001) Black Hawk Down (2007) American Gangster (2012) Prometheus (2015) The Martian (2017) Alien Covenant (2023) Napoleon

31. Andrew Stanton

Writer | WALL·E

Andrew Stanton has been a major creative force at Pixar Animation Studios since 1990, when he became the second animator and ninth employee to join the company's elite group of computer animation pioneers. As Vice President, Creative he currently oversees all shorts and feature projects at the ...

Watched works=

(1998) A Bug's Life (2003) Finding Nemo (2008) WALL-E (2016) Finding Dory

Shows: (2017) Dig Dug and The Spy -Stranger Thing's episodes) (2018) Piñata -Better Call Saul's episode-

32. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1995) Braveheart (2004) The Passion of the Christ (2006) Apocalypto (2016) Hacksaw Ridge

33. Lee Unkrich

Editor | Coco

Lee Unkrich is an Academy Award-winning director at Pixar Animation Studios. He most recently directed Disney.Pixar's critically-acclaimed "Coco", which received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Song.

As the director of Disney.Pixar's "Toy Story 3," Lee was also awarded an ...

Watched works=

(1999) Toy Story 2 (2001) Monsters, Inc. (2003) Finding Nemo (2010) Toy Story 3 (2017) Coco

34. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1984) Blood Simple (1990) Miller's Crossing (1991) Barton Fink (1996) Fargo (1998) The Big Lebowski (2000) O Brother Where Art Thou (2007) No Country for Old Men (2010) True Grit

35. 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), ...

Watched works=

(2009) Polytechnique (2010) Incendies (2013) Enemy (2013) Prisoners (2015) Sicario (2016) Arrival (2017) Blade Runner 2049 (2021) Dune: Part One (2023) Dune: Part Two

36. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1992) Unforgiven (2003) Mystic River (2004) Million Dollar Baby (2006) Letters from Iwo Jima (2008) Gran Torino (2014) American Sniper

37. Bryan Singer

Director | X-Men

Bryan Singer is an American film director and producer who got his start writing and co-directing the short film Lions Den with his classmates while he attended USC. He was hired by 20th Century Fox to direct X-Men, which helped kick-start the superhero renaissance. He later directed three sequels....

Watched works=

(1995) The Usual Suspects (2000) X-Men (2002) X2 (2006) Superman Returns (2014) X-Men: Days of Future Past (2016) X-Men: Apocalypse (2018) Bohemian Rhapsody

38. Todd Phillips

Producer | Joker

Todd Phillips is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

Growing up on Long Island, New York, Todd Phillips fell in love with feature film teen comedies made in the 1980s, and claims they were his biggest influence in becoming a filmmaker. While studying film at New York University, ...

Watched works=

(2009) The Hangover (2011) The Hangover Part II (2013) The Hangover Part III (2019) Joker

39. Pete Docter

Writer | Up

Pete Docter is the Oscar®-winning director of "Monsters, Inc.," "Up," and "Inside Out," and Chief Creative Officer at Pixar Animation Studios. He is currently directing Pixar's feature film "Soul" with producer Dana Murray, which is set to release June 19, 2020.

Starting at Pixar in 1990 as the ...

Watched works=

(2001) Monsters, Inc. (2009) Up (2015) Inside Out (2020) Soul

Shorts: Mike's New Car

40. 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-...

Watched works=

(1999) American Beauty (2002) Road to Perdition (2019) 1917

41. Jonathan Demme

Director | The Silence of the Lambs

Jonathan Demme was born on February 22, 1944 in Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Rachel Getting Married (2008) and Philadelphia (1993). He was married to Joanne Howard and Evelyn Purcell. He died on April 26, 2017 in ...

Watched works=

(1991) The Silence of the Lambs (1993) Philadelphia

42. Darren Aronofsky

Writer | Pi

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

Watched works=

(2000) Requiem for a Dream (2008) The Wrestler (2010) Black Swan (2022) The Whale

43. Danny Boyle

Director | 127 Hours

Daniel Francis Boyle is a British filmmaker, producer and writer from Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. He is known for directing 28 Days Later, 127 Hours, Trainspotting, T2 Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, Millions, Shallow Grave, The Beach, Yesterday, and Steve Jobs. He won many awards for ...

Watched works=

(1995) Trainspotting (2002) 28 Days Later... (2008) Slumdog Millionarie (2010) 127 Hours (2015) Steve Jobs (2017) Trainspotting T2

44. Guy Ritchie

Director | Sherlock Holmes

Guy Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK on September 10, 1968. After watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as a child, Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make films. He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and ...

Watched works=

(1998) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (2000) Snatch (2009) Sherlock Holmes (2011) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2019) The Gentlemen

45. 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.

Watched works=

(2002) Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (2003) Oldboy (2005) Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (2009) Thrist (2016) The Handmaiden

46. Lana Wachowski

Writer | The Matrix

Lana Wachowski and her sister Lilly Wachowski, also known as the Wachowskis, are the duo behind such ground-breaking movies as The Matrix (1999) and Cloud Atlas (2012). Born to mother Lynne, a nurse, and father Ron, a businessman of Polish descent, Wachowski grew up in Chicago and formed a tight ...

Watched works=

(1999) The Matrix (2003) The Matrix Reload (2003) The Matrix Revolutions (2021) The Matrix Resurrections

47. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1998) Rushmore (2001) The Royal Tenenbaums (2004) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2007) The Darjeeling Limited (2009) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2012) Moonrise Kingdom (2014) The Grand Budapest Hotel (2018) Isle of Dogs (2021) The French Dispatch

48. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1975) Death and Love (1977) Annie Hall (1979) Manhattan (1983) Zelig (1985) The Purple Rose of Cairo (1986) Hannah and Her Sisters (1989) Crimes and Misdemeanors (1993) Manhattan Mystery Murder (2011) Midnight in Paris

49. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1988) Beetle Juice (1989) Batman (1990) Edward Scissorhands (1992) Batman Return (1993) The Nightmare Before Christmas (1994) Ed Wood (1996) Mars Attacks (1999) Sleepy Hollow (2001) Planet of the Apes (2003) Big Fish (2005) Charlie and & Chocolate Factory (2005) Corpse Bride (2007) Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2012) Frankenweenie

Shorts: (1982) Vincent (1984) Frankenweenie

50. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1977) Star Wars -Episode IV: A New Hope- (1999) Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (2002) Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2005) Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

51. Jim Sheridan

Producer | In America

Following a distinguished career in the theatre between the 1960s and the 1980s, Jim Sheridan wrote and directed his first critically acclaimed feature My Left Foot in 1989. The film was nominated for two European Film Awards. He followed this in 1990 with The Field which he also wrote and directed...

Watched works=

(1989) My Left Foot (1993) In the Name of the Fahter

52. 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...

Watched works=

(2013) Whiplash -Short- (2014) Whiplash (2016) La La Land (2018) First Man

53. Victor Fleming

Director | Gone with the Wind

Victor Fleming entered the film business as a stuntman in 1910, mainly doing stunt driving - which came easy to him, as he had been a mechanic and professional race-car driver. He became interested in working on the other side of the camera, and eventually got a job as a cameraman on many of the ...

Watched works=

(1939) The Wizard of Oz (1939) Gone with the Wind

54. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1928) La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1955) Ordet

55. Satoshi Kon

Writer | Tôkyô goddofâzâzu

Satoshi Kon was born in 1963. He studied at the Musashino College of the Arts. He began his career as a Manga artist. He then moved to animation and worked as a background artist on many films (including Roujin Z (1991) by 'Katsuhiro Otomo'). Then, in 1995, he wrote an episode of the anthology film ...

Watched works=

(1997) Perfect Blue (2001) Millenium Actress (2003) Todyo Godfathers (2006) Paprika

56. 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,...

Watched works =

(1948) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1941) The Maltese Falcon

57. Rob Reiner

Actor | All in the Family

Robert Reiner was born in New York City, to Estelle Reiner (née Lebost) and Emmy-winning actor, comedian, writer, and producer Carl Reiner.

As a child, his father was his role model, as Carl Reiner created and starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Estelle was also an inspiration for him to become a ...

Watched works=

(1986) Stand by Me (1987) The Princess Bride (1990) Misery (1992) A Few Good Man

58. 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 (...

Watched works=

(1993) Trois couleurs: Bleu (1994) Trois couleurs: Blanc (1994) Trois couleurs: Rouge

Shows: (1989) Dekalog

59. Thomas Vinterberg

Director | Jagten

With Sidste omgang (1993) (Last Round), his graduation short from The National Film School of Denmark, Thomas Vinterberg got an early taste of critical success. He received the Jury's and Producers' Awards at the International Student Film Fest in Munich and won the 1st Prize at the Tel Aviv Film ...

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(2012) Jagten (2020) Druk

60. 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 ...

Watched works=

(2000) Amores Perros (2003) 21 Grams (2014) Birdman (2015) The Revenant

61. Makoto Shinkai

Writer | Suzume no Tojimari

Makoto Shinkai is a Japanese director, writer, producer, animator, editor, cinematographer, voice actor, manga artist and former graphic designer. Shinkai studied Japanese literature at Chuo University where he was a member of juvenile literature club where he drew picture books. In 1999, Shinkai ...

Watched works=

(2004) The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2007) 5 Centimeters per Second (2011) Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2013) The Garden of Words (2016) Your Name (2019) Weathering with You

62. 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.

Watched works=

(1985) Witness (1989) Dead Poets Society (1998) The Truman Show

63. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1986) Manhunter (1992) The Last of the Mohicans (1995) Heat (1999) The Insider

64. Tomm Moore

Producer | WolfWalkers

Tomm Moore was born on January 7, 1977 in Newry, Northern Ireland, UK. He is a producer and writer, known for Wolfwalkers (2020), Song of the Sea (2014) and The Secret of Kells (2009). He is married to Liselott Olofsson. They have one child.

Watched works=

(2009) The Secrets of Kells (2014) Song of the Sea (2020) WolfWalkers

65. Ron Howard

Producer | Arrested Development

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard is one of this generation's most popular directors. From the critically acclaimed dramas A Beautiful Mind (2001) and Apollo 13 (1995) to the hit comedies Parenthood (1989) and Splash (1983), he has created some of Hollywood's most memorable films.

Howard ...

Watched works=

(1995) Apollo 13 (2000) How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2001) A Beautiful Mind (2005) Cinderella Man (2013) Rush (2018) Solo: A Star Wars Story

66. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1979) Mad Max (1981) Mad Max 2 (1985) Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1998) Babe: Pig in the City (2006) Happy Feet (2011) Happy Feet Two (2015) Mad Max: Fury Road

67. Carol Reed

Director | The Third Man

Carol Reed was the second son of stage actor, dramatics teacher and impresario founder of the Royal School of Dramatic Art Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Reed was one of Tree's six illegitimate children with Beatrice Mae Pinney, who Tree established in a second household apart from his married life. ...

Watched works=

(1949) The Third Man (1968) Oliver!

68. 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...

Watched works=

(1998) The Iron Giant (2004) The Incredibles (2007) Ratatouille (2018) The Incredibles 2

Shows: Krusty Gets Busted and Like Father, Like Clown -The Simpsons's epidodes-

Shorts: (2005) Jack-Jack Attack

69. 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 ...

Watched works=

(2004) Dawn of the Dead (2006) 300 (2009) Watchmen (2010) Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2013) Man of Steel (2016) Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2021) Justice League Zack Snyder's Cut

70. Giuseppe Tornatore

Director | La migliore offerta

Giuseppe Tornatore was born on May 27, 1956 in Bagheria, Sicily, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for The Best Offer (2013), Cinema Paradiso (1988) and The Legend of 1900 (1998). He is married to Roberta Pacetti.

Watched works =

(1988) Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1998) La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano

71. 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...

Watched works=

(2003) Identity (2005) Walk the Line (2007) 3:10 to Yuma (2013) The Wolverine (2017) Logan (2019) Ford v Ferrari (2023) Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

72. Mamoru Oshii

Director | Kôkaku kidôtai

Mamoru Oshii is a Japanese filmmaker, television director and screenwriter. Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of popular anime, including Urusei Yatsura (1981-1984), Angel's Egg (1985), Patlabor: The Movie (1989), Ghost in the Shell (1995), and Ghost in ...

Watched works=

(1985) Angel's Egg (1995) Ghost in the Shell (2004) Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

73. Wolfgang Petersen

Director | Das Boot

A controversial film maker, Wolfgang Petersen has at once been lauded for his professionalism and attention to detail and decried for turning out a string of standard commercial Hollywood blockbusters. The son of a naval officer, Petersen held a lifelong fascination with the sea and naval subjects....

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(1981) Das Boat -The Boat- (1984) Die unendliche Geschichte -The Neverending Story- (2000) The Perfect Storm (2004) Troy

74. Ron Clements

Writer | Hercules

Ron Clements is an American animated film director who collaborates with John Musker. They directed various Disney animated films including The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog and Moana. The Little Mermaid and Aladdin are ...

And John Musker

Watched works=

(1986) The Great Mouse Detective (1989) The Little Mermaid (1992) Aladdin (1997) Hercules (2002) Treasure Planet (2009) The Princes and the Frog (2016) Moana

75. Ang Lee

Director | Wo hu cang long

Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of today's greatest contemporary filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then came to the U.S. to receive a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre/Theater Direction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ...

Watched works=

(2003) Hulk (2005) Brokeback Mountain (2012) Life of Pi

76. Alfonso Cuarón

Producer | Gravity

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then ...

Watched works=

(2001) Y Tu Mamá También (2004) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2006) Children of Men (2013) Gravity (2018) Roma

77. 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. ...

Watched works=

(1995) Before Sunrise (2003) School of Rock (2004) Before Sunset (2013) Before Midnight (2014) Boyhood

78. 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 ...

Watched works =

(2014) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2017) War for the Planet of the Apes (2022) The Batman

Shorts: (2022) The Batman: Deleted Arkham Scene

79. Bernardo Bertolucci

Writer | Il conformista

Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director whose films were known for their colorful visual style, was born in Parma, Italy. He attended Rome University and became famous as a poet. He served as assistant director for Pier Paolo Pasolini in the film Accattone (1961) and directed The Grim Reaper (...

Watched works=

(1970) Il conformista (1976) Novecento (1987) The Last Emperor

80. Joe Russo

Director | Avengers: Endgame

Joseph Vincent Russo is an American filmmaker and producer who works alongside his brother Anthony Russo. They have directed You, Me and Dupree, Cherry and the Marvel films Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Endgame is one ...

Watched works=

(2006) You, Me and Dupree (2014) Captain America: Winter Soldier (2016) Captain America: Civil War (2018) Avengers: Infinity War (2019) Avengers: Endgame

Shows. Bridge and Tunnel -Agnet Carter's episode-

81. 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.

Watched works=

(1982) Die Hard (1987) Predator (1995) Die Hard: With a Vengeance

82. 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 ...

Watched works=

(2002) Blade II (2004) Hellboy (2006) El Laberinto del Fauno (2008) Hellboy: The Golden Army (2017) The Shape of Water

Shows: Treehouse of Horror XXIV -The Simpons's episode-

83. Nora Twomey

Producer | WolfWalkers

Partner & Creative Director with Cartoon Saloon. ACADEMY AWARD® & GOLDEN GLOBE Nominated Director.

Nora's passion for visual storytelling began at an early age and has led her to explore the medium of animation with her collaborators in Cartoon Saloon in Kilkenny, Ireland. From the studio's early ...

Watched works=

(2009) The Secrets of Kells (2017) The Breadwinner

84. Dean DeBlois

Writer | Lilo & Stitch

Dean DeBlois is a Canadian writer, director, and producer known best for having co-written and co-directed Disney's Lilo & Stitch (2002) and Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon (2010), both Oscar nominated. While working as an assistant animator and layout artist for Hinton Animation Studios ...

Watched works=

(2010) How to Train Your Dragon (2014) How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2019) How to Train Your Dragon 3

85. Mamoru Hosoda

Director | Samâ uôzu

Mamoru Hosoda is a Japanese film director and animator. Formerly employed at Toei Animation, he went to work at Madhouse from 2005 to 2011. Hosoda left Madhouse in 2011 to establish his own animation studio, Studio Chizu. He first came to public attention in the early 2000s with the first two films...

Watched works=

(2000) Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! (2000) Digimon: The Movie (2006) The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2009) Summer Wars (2012) Wolf Children (2015) The Boy and the Beast (2018) Mirai

86. Richard Donner

Director | Superman

Richard Donner was born on April 24, 1930 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Superman (1978), Ladyhawke (1985) and Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980). He was married to Lauren Shuler Donner. He died on July 5, 2021 in Los Angeles, ...

Watched works=

(1976) The Omen (1978) Superman (1980) Superman II (1985) The Goonies

87. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1978) Halloween (1982) The Thing

88. Sam Raimi

Director | Spider-Man

Highly inventive U.S. film director/producer/writer/actor Sam Raimi first came to the attention of film fans with the savage, yet darkly humorous, low-budget horror film, The Evil Dead (1981). From his childhood, Raimi was a fan of the cinema and, before he was ten-years-old, he was out making ...

Watched works=

(1981) The Evil Dead (1987) Evil Dead II (1992) Army of Darkness (2002) Spider-Man (2004) Spider-Man 2 (2007) Spider-Man 3

89. Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Director | Omoide no Marnie

Hiromasa Yonebayashi was born on July 10, 1973 in Nonoichi, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for When Marnie Was There (2014), The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) and Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017).

Watched works=

(2010) The Secret World of Arrietty (2014) When Marnie was There (2017) Mary and the Witch's Flower

90. Rian Johnson

Producer | Knives Out

Rian Johnson was born in Maryland and at a young age his family moved to San Clemente, California, where he was raised. After graduating from high school, he went on to attend the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. His first feature film, Brick (2005), was released in 2005 ...

Watched works=

(2017) Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last the Jedi (2019) Knives Out (2022) Glass Onion A Knives Out Mystery

Shows: Fly, Fifty-One and Ozymandias -Breaking Bad's episodes-

91. Tom Hooper

Director | Cats

Tom Hooper was educated at one of England's most prestigious schools, Westminster. His first film, Runaway Dog, was made when he was 13 years old and shot on a Clockwork 16mm Bolex camera, using 100 feet of film. At age 18, he wrote, directed and produced the short film Painted Faces (1992), which ...

Watched works=

(2010) The King's Speech (2012) Le Miserables (2019) Cats

92. 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 ...

Watched works=

(2015) The Big Short (2018) Vice

93. Chris Columbus

Producer | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Born in Pennsylvania and raised in Ohio, Chris Columbus was first inspired to make movies after seeing "The Godfather" at age 15. After enrolling at NYU film school, he sold his first screenplay (never produced) while a sophomore there. After graduation Columbus tried to sell his fourth script, "...

Watched works=

(1990) Home Alone (1992) Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1999) Bicentennial Man (2001) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2002) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

94. Edward Zwick

Producer | The Last Samurai

Zwick moves deftly between the roles of writer, director and producer. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his direction of the 1989 critically acclaimed Civil War drama, Glory. He received his second Golden Globe nomination as a director for Legends of the Fall. Zwick received an Academy Award...

Watched works=

(1989) Glory (2003) The Last Samurai (2006) Blood Diamond

95. David O. Russell

Director | American Hustle

David Owen Russell is an American film writer, director, and producer, known for a cinema of intense, tragi-comedic characters whose love of life can surpass dark circumstances faced in very specific worlds. His films address such themes as mental illness as stigma or hope; invention of self and ...

Watched works=

(2010) The Fighter (2011) Silver Linings Playbook (2013) American Hustler

96. Matthew Vaughn

Producer | Kick-Ass

Matthew Vaughn is an English film producer and director. He is known for producing such films as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000) and for directing the crime thriller, Layer Cake (2004), the fantasy epic, Stardust (2007), the superhero comedy, Kick-Ass (2010), and the ...

Watched works=

(2010) Kick-Ass (2011) X: First Class (2014) Kingsman: The Secret Service (2017) Kingsman: The Golden Circle

97. James Gunn

Writer | Guardians of the Galaxy

James Gunn was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, to Leota and James Francis Gunn. He is from a large Catholic family, with Irish and Czech ancestry. His father and his uncles were all lawyers. He has been writing and performing as long as he can remember. He began making 8mm films at the age ...

Watched works=

(2014) Guardians of the Galaxy (2017) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2021) The Suicide Squad (2023) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

98. 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 ...

Watched works=

(1986) Platoon (1991) The Doors (1991) JFK

99. Edgar Wright

Director | Shaun of the Dead

Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his comedic Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy consisting of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), made with recurrent collaborators Simon Pegg...

Watched works=

(2010) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2017) Baby Driver (2021) Last Night in Soho

100. Yorgos Lanthimos

Director | The Lobster

Yorgos Lanthimos was born in Athens, Greece. He studied directing for Film and Television at the Stavrakos Film School in Athens. He has directed a number of dance videos in collaboration with Greek choreographers, in addition to TV commercials, music videos, short films and theater plays. Kinetta,...

Watched works=

(2012) The Lobster (2017) The Killing of the Sacred Deer (2018) The Favourite