Director Index

1. 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 ...

The 39 Steps (1935) The Lady Vanishes (1938) Rebecca (1940) ** Foreign Correspondent (1940) Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) Lifeboat (1944) Spellbound (1945) Notorious (1946) * Rope (1948) Strangers On A Train (1951) Dial M For Murder (1954) Rear Window (1954) ** To Catch A Thief (1955) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) The Wrong Man (1956) Vertigo (1958) ** North By Northwest (1959) ** Psycho (1960) ** The Birds (1963) Marnie (1964) Frenzy (1972)

2. 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, ...

Jaws (1975) ** Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) ** Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) ** E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) * Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (1984) The Color Purple (1985) Empire Of The Sun (1987) Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989) Jurassic Park (1993) * Schindler's List (1993) ** Amistad (1997) Saving Private Ryan (1998) ** A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) Minority Report (2002) Catch Me If You Can (2002) Munich (2005) Lincoln (2012) Bridge Of Spies (2015) The Fabelmans (2022)

3. Martin Scorsese

Producer | Killers of the Flower Moon

Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later ...

Mean Streets (1973) Taxi Driver (1976) ** The Last Waltz (1978) Raging Bull (1980) * The King Of Comedy (1982) The Last Temptation Of Christ (1988) GoodFellas (1990) ** The Age Of Innocence (1993) Casino (1995) Gangs Of New York (2002) The Aviator (2004) The Departed (2006) Shutter Island (2010) Hugo (2011) The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013) The Irishman (2019)

4. William Wyler

Director | The Best Years of Our Lives

William Wyler was an American filmmaker who, at the time of his death in 1981, was considered by his peers as second only to John Ford as a master craftsman of cinema. The winner of three Best Director Academy Awards, second again only to Ford's four, Wyler's reputation has unfairly suffered as the...

Dodsworth (1936) Jezebel (1938) Wuthering Heights (1939) The Letter (1940) The Little Foxes (1941) Mrs. Miniver (1942) The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946) ** The Heiress (1949) Roman Holiday (1953) The Big Country (1958) Ben-Hur (1959) ** The Children's Hour (1961) The Collector (1965) Funny Girl (1968)

5. John Ford

Director | The Quiet Man

John Ford came to Hollywood following one of his brothers, an actor. Asked what brought him to Hollywood, he replied "the train". He became one of the most respected directors in the business, in spite of being known for his westerns, which were not considered "serious" film. He won six Oscars, ...

Stagecoach (1939) ** Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) The Grapes Of Wrath (1940) ** How Green Was My Valley (1941) My Darling Clementine (1946) * Fort Apache (1948) She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949) Wagon Master (1950) The Quiet Man (1952) * Mister Roberts (1955) The Searchers (1956) ** Sergeant Rutledge (1960) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) *

6. 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 (...

Smiles Of A Summer Night (1955) The Seventh Seal (1957) * Wild Strawberries (1957) ** The Virgin Spring (1960) Through A Glass Darkly (1961) Winter Light (1963) The Silence (1963) Persona (1966) * Cries & Whispers (1972) Scenes From A Marriage (1974) Autumn Sonata (1978) Fanny And Alexander (1982) *

7. 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...

Rashomon (1950) * Ikiru (1952) * Seven Samurai (1954) ** Throne Of Blood (1957) The Hidden Fortress (1958) Yojimbo (1961) Sanjuro (1962) High And Low (1963) Red Beard (1965) Kagemusha (1980) Ran (1985) * Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)

8. George Cukor

Director | My Fair Lady

George Cukor was an American film director of Hungarian-Jewish descent, better known for directing comedies and literary adaptations. He once won the Academy Award for Best Director, and was nominated other four times for the same Award.

In 1899, George Dewey Cukor was born on the Lower East Side of...

Dinner At Eight (1933) Little Women (1933) David Copperfield (1935) Holiday (1938) The Women (1939) The Philadelphia Story (1940) ** Gaslight (1944) Adam's Rib (1949) Born Yesterday (1950) A Star Is Born (1954) My Fair Lady (1964) **

9. Howard Hawks

Director | Red River

What do the classic films Scarface (1932), Twentieth Century (1934), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Rio Bravo (1959) have in...

Scarface (1932) Bringing Up Baby (1938) ** Only Angels Have Wings (1939) His Girl Friday (1940) Sergeant York (1941) Ball Of Fire (1941) To Have And Have Not (1944) The Big Sleep (1946) * Red River (1948) * Rio Bravo (1959) * El Dorado (1967)

10. 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 ...

The Killing (1956) Paths Of Glory (1957) ** Spartacus (1960) * Lolita (1962) Dr. Strangelove (1964) ** 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) ** A Clockwork Orange (1971) * Barry Lyndon (1975) ** The Shining (1980) ** Full Metal Jacket (1987) Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

11. 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 ...

Blood Simple (1984) Raising Arizona (1987) Miller's Crossing (1990) Barton Fink (1991) Fargo (1996) * The Big Lebowski (1998) * O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) No Country For Old Men (2007) * True Grit (2010)

12. Clint Eastwood

Actor | Million Dollar Baby

Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...

High Plains Drifter (1973) The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) Pale Rider (1980) Unforgiven (1992) * The Bridges Of Madison County (1995) Mystic River (2003) Million Dollar Baby (2004) Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) Changeling (2008) Gran Torino (2008)

13. 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 ...

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

14. George Stevens

Director | Giant

George Stevens, a filmmaker known as a meticulous craftsman with a brilliant eye for composition and a sensitive touch with actors, is one of the great American filmmakers, ranking with John Ford, William Wyler and Howard Hawks as a creator of classic Hollywood cinema, bringing to the screen ...

Swing Time (1936) Gunga Din (1939) Woman Of The Year (1942) The Talk Of The Town (1942) The More The Merrier (1943) I Remember Mama (1948) A Place In The Sun (1951) Shane (1953) ** Giant (1956) The Diary Of Anne Frank (1959)

15. 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 ...

Double Indemnity (1944) ** The Lost Weekend (1945) Sunset Boulevard (1950) ** Ace In The Hole (1951) Stalag 17 (1953) Sabrina (1954) Witness For The Prosecution (1957) Some Like It Hot (1959) ** The Apartment (1960) ** One, Two, Three (1961)

16. Michael Curtiz

Director | Casablanca

Curtiz began acting in and then directing films in his native Hungary in 1912. After WWI, he continued his filmmaking career in Austria and Germany and into the early 1920s when he directed films in other countries in Europe. Moving to the US in 1926, he started making films in Hollywood for Warner...

Captain Blood (1935) The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938) * Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) The Sea Hawk (1940) The Sea Wolf (1941) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Casablanca (1942) ** Mildred Pierce (1945) We're No Angels (1955)

17. 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...

Reservoir Dogs (1992) Pulp Fiction (1994) ** Jackie Brown (1997) Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) Inglourious Basterds (2009) Django Unchained (2012) The Hateful Eight (2015) Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)

18. 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 ...

Love And Death (1975) Annie Hall (1977) * Manhattan (1979) Zelig (1983) The Purple Rose Of Cairo (1985) Hannah And Her Sisters (1986) Crimes And Misdemeanors (1989) Midnight In Paris (2011)

19. Frank Capra

Director | It's a Wonderful Life

One of seven children, Frank Capra was born on May 18, 1897, in Bisacquino, Sicily. On May 10, 1903, his family left for America aboard the ship Germania, arriving in New York on May 23rd. "There's no ventilation, and it stinks like hell. They're all miserable. It's the most degrading place you ...

It Happened One Night (1934) ** Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936) Lost Horizon (1937) You Can't Take It With You (1938) Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) ** Meet John Doe (1941) Arsenic And Old Lace (1944) It's A Wonderful Life (1946) **

20. 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 ...

The Kid (1921) The Gold Rush (1925) The Circus (1928) City Lights (1931) ** Modern Times (1936) ** The Great Dictator (1940) * Monsieur Verdoux (1947) Limelight (1952)

21. 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...

Se7en (1995) * The Game (1997) Fight Club (1999) * Zodiac (2007) The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (2008) The Social Network (2010) The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) Gone Girl (2014)

22. 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 ...

Brief Encounter (1945) * Great Expectations (1946) Oliver Twist (1948) Hobson's Choice (1954) The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) ** Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) ** Doctor Zhivago (1965) ** A Passage To India (1984)

23. 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 ...

12 Angry Men (1957) ** Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) The Pawnbroker (1964) Fail-Safe (1964) Serpico (1973) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) * Network (1976) * The Verdict (1982)

24. 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 ...

Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind (1984) Castle In The Sky (1986) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) Princess Mononoke (1997) Spirited Away (2001) * Howl's Moving Castle (2004) Ponyo (2008)

25. 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 ...

Citizen Kane (1941) ** The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) * The Lady From Shanghai (1947) Macbeth (1948) Othello (1951) Touch Of Evil (1958) * The Trial (1962) Chimes At Midnight (1965)

26. 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 ...

The Terminator (1984) Aliens (1986) The Abyss (1989) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) * True Lies (1994) Titanic (1997) Avatar (2009)

27. 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,...

The Maltese Falcon (1941) ** The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948) ** Key Largo (1948) The Asphalt Jungle (1950) * The African Queen (1951) ** The Misfits (1961) The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

28. 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. ...

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) Metropolis (1927) ** M (1931) * The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse (1933) The Woman In The Window (1944) Scarlet Street (1945) The Big Heat (1953)

29. Mervyn LeRoy

Director | Gypsy

The great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 was a tragedy for Mervyn LeRoy. While he and his father managed to survive, they lost everything they had. To make money, LeRoy sold newspapers and entered talent contests as a singer. When he entered vaudeville, his act was "LeRoy and Cooper--Two...

Little Caesar (1931) I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932) Waterloo Bridge (1940) Random Harvest (1942) Mister Roberts (1955) The Bad Seed (1956) No Time For Sergeants (1958)

30. 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 ...

Repulsion (1965) Rosemary's Baby (1968) * Macbeth (1971) Chinatown (1974) ** The Tenant (1976) Tess (1979) The Pianist (2002) *

31. Satyajit Ray

Writer | Pather Panchali

Satyajit Ray was born in Calcutta on May 2, 1921. His father, Late Sukumar Ray was an eminent poet and writer in the history of Bengali literature. In 1940, after receiving his degree in science and economics from Calcutta University, he attended Tagore's Viswa-Bharati University. His first movie ...

Pather Panchali (1955) Aparajito (1956) The Music Room (1958) The World Of Apu (1959) * Devi (1960) The Big City (1963) Charulata (1964)

32. Rob Reiner

Actor | All in the Family

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

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

This Is Spinal Tap (1984) Stand by Me (1986) The Princess Bride (1987) When Harry Met Sally (1989) Misery (1990) A Few Good Men (1992) Flipped (2010)

33. 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 ...

Alien (1979) ** Blade Runner (1982) ** Thelma & Louise (1991) Gladiator (2000) ** Black Hawk Down (2001) American Gangster (2007) The Martian (2015)

34. Preston Sturges

Writer | Sullivan's Travels

Preston Sturges' own life is as unlikely as some of the plots of his best work. He was born into a wealthy family. As a boy he helped out on stage productions for his mother's friend, Isadora Duncan (the scarf that strangled her was made by his mother's company, Maison Desti). He served in the U.S....

Christmas In July (1940) The Lady Eve (1941) Sullivan's Travels (1941) * The Palm Beach Story (1942) The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek (1943) Hail The Conquering Hero (1944) Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

35. 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...

M*A*S*H (1970) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) The Long Goodbye (1973) Nashville (1975) * The Player (1992) Short Cuts (1993)

36. 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 ...

Viridiana (1961) * The Exterminating Angel (1962) Belle de Jour (1967) The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (1972) * The Phantom Of Liberty (1974) That Obscure Object Of Desire (1977)

37. 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 ...

Beetlejuice (1988) Batman (1989) Edward Scissorhands (1990) Ed Wood (1994) Big Fish (2003) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (2007)

38. 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 ...

The Godfather (1972) ** The Conversation (1974) * The Godfather Part II (1974) ** Apocalypse Now (1979) ** The Godfather Part III (1990) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

39. 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 ...

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) ** On The Waterfront (1954) ** East Of Eden (1955) A Face In The Crowd (1957) Splendor In The Grass (1961)

40. Masaki Kobayashi

Director | Seppuku

Masaki Kobayashi was born on February 14, 1916 in Hokkaido, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Harakiri (1962), Samurai Rebellion (1967) and The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961). He died on October 4, 1996 in Tokyo, Japan.

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) The Human Condition II: Road To Eternity (1959) The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961) Harakiri (1962) Kwaidan (1964) Samurai Rebellion (1967)

41. 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 ...

A Fistful Of Dollars (1964) For A Few Dollars More (1965) The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (1966) ** Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) * Duck, You Sucker (1971) Once Upon A Time In America (1984) **

42. 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 ...

Eraserhead (1977) The Elephant Man (1980) Blue Velvet (1986) * Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) Lost Highway (1997) Mulholland Drive (2001) **

43. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writer | All About Eve

Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1909, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz first worked for the movies as a translator of intertitles, employed by Paramount in Berlin, the UFA's American distributor at the time (1928). He became a dialoguist, then a screenwriter on numerous Paramount ...

The Ghost And Mrs. Muir (1947) A Letter To Three Wives (1949) All About Eve (1950) ** 5 Fingers (1952) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) Sleuth (1972)

44. Vincente Minnelli

Director | An American in Paris

Born Lester Anthony Minnelli in Chicago on February 28 1903, his father Vincent was a musical conductor of the Minnelli Brothers' Tent Theater. Wanting to pursue an artistic career, Minelli worked in the costume department of the Chicago Theater, then on Broadway during the depression as a set ...

Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) An American In Paris (1951) The Bad And The Beautiful (1952) The Band Wagon (1953) Gigi (1958) Some Came Running (1958)

45. Roberto Rossellini

Writer | Roma città aperta

The master filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, as one of the creators of neo-realism, is one of the most influential directors of all time. His neo-realist films influenced France's nouvelle vague movement in the 1950s and '60s that changed the face of international cinema. He also influenced American ...

Rome, Open City (1945) Paisan (1946) Germany Year Zero (1948) Stromboli (1950) Europe '51 (1952) Journey To Italy (1954)

46. Robert Wise

Director | West Side Story

Robert Earl Wise was born on September 10, 1914 in Winchester, Indiana, the youngest of three sons of Olive R. (Longenecker) and Earl Waldo Wise, a meat packer. His parents were both of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent. At age nineteen, the avid moviegoer came into the film business through an ...

The Set-Up (1949) The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) West Side Story (1961) ** The Haunting (1963) The Sound Of Music (1965) ** The Sand Pebbles (1966)

47. Sam Wood

Director | A Night at the Opera

Following a two-year apprenticeship under Cecil B. DeMille as assistant director, Samuel Grosvenor Wood had the good fortune to have assigned to him two of the biggest stars at Paramount during their heyday: Wallace Reid (between 1919 and 1920) and Gloria Swanson (from 1921 to 1923). By the time ...

A Night At The Opera (1935) ** A Day At The Races (1937) Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) The Devil And Miss Jones (1941) Kings Row (1942) The Pride Of The Yankees (1942)

48. Fred Zinnemann

Director | A Man for All Seasons

Initially grew up wanting to be a violinist, but while at the University of Vienna decided to study law. While doing so, he became increasingly interested in American film and decided that was what he wanted to do. He became involved in European filmaking for a short time before going to America to...

The Search (1948) High Noon (1952) ** From Here To Eternity (1953) The Nun's Story (1959) A Man For All Seasons (1966) The Day Of The Jackal (1973)

49. Robert Aldrich

Director | Emperor of the North Pole

Robert Aldrich entered the film industry in 1941 when he got a job as a production clerk at RKO Radio Pictures. He soon worked his way up to script clerk, then became an assistant director, a production manager and an associate producer. He began writing and directing for TV series in the early ...

Kiss Me Deadly (1955) What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962) Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) The Flight Of The Phoenix (1965) The Dirty Dozen (1967)

50. 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 ...

Rushmore (1998) The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Moonrise Kingdom (2012) The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

51. 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 ...

L'Avventura (1960) * La Notte (1961) L'Eclisse (1962) Blow-Up (1966) The Passenger (1975)

52. 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 ...

A Little Princess (1995) Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (2004) Children Of Men (2006) Gravity (2013)

53. 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 ...

Carrie (1976) Blow Out (1981) Scarface (1983) The Untouchables (1987) Carlito's Way (1993)

54. John Frankenheimer

Director | The Manchurian Candidate

Born in New York and raised in Queens, John Frankenheimer wanted to become a professional tennis player. He loved movies and his favorite actor was Robert Mitchum. He decided he wanted to be an actor but then he applied for and was accepted in the Motion Picture Squadron of the Air Force where he ...

Birdman Of Alcatraz (1962) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) ** Seven Days In May (1964) The Train (1964) Seconds (1966)

55. 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 ...

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001) ** The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002) The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (2003) * The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug (2013)

56. 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 (...

Dekalog (1989) The Double Life Of Veronique (1991) Three Colors: Blue (1993) Three Colors: White (1994) Three Colors: Red (1994) *

57. Stanley Kramer

Producer | Judgment at Nuremberg

Stanley Kramer was born on September 29, 1913 in Hell's Kitchen [now Clinton], Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and Inherit the Wind (1960). He was married to Karen Sharpe, Anne P. ...

The Defiant Ones (1957) Inherit The Wind (1960) Judgment At Nuremberg (1961) It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)

58. Barry Levinson

Director | Rain Man

Barry Lee Levinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Violet (Krichinsky) and Irvin Levinson, who worked in furniture and appliance. He is of Russian Jewish descent. Levinson graduated from high school in 1960, attended college at American University in Washington, DC. He did well, but decided he ...

Diner (1982) The Natural (1984) Good Morning Vietnam (1987) Rain Man (1988) Sleepers (1996)

59. Leo McCarey

Director | An Affair to Remember

Leo McCarey was born on October 3, 1896 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for An Affair to Remember (1957), Going My Way (1944) and Love Affair (1939). He was married to Virginia Stella Martin. He died on July 5, 1969 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

Duck Soup (1933) ** Make Way For Tomorrow (1937) The Awful Truth (1937) Going My Way (1944) An Affair To Remember (1957)

60. 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 ...

The Story Of The Last Chrysanthemum (1939) The Life Of Oharu (1952) Ugetsu (1953) * Sansho The Bailiff (1954) A Story From Chikamatsu (1954)

61. Sydney Pollack

Director | Tootsie

Sydney Pollack was an Academy Award-winning director, producer, actor, writer and public figure, who directed and produced over 40 films.

Sydney Irwin Pollack was born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA, to Rebecca (Miller), a homemaker, and David Pollack, a professional boxer turned pharmacist...

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) Jeremiah Johnson (1972) Three Days Of The Condor (1975) Tootsie (1982) Out Of Africa (1985)

62. 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 ...

The Thief Of Bagdad (1940) The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp (1943) * A Matter Of Life And Death (1946) * Black Narcissus (1947) The Red Shoes (1948) **

63. 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....

The Usual Suspects (1995) * X-Men (2000) X2 (2003) X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014) Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

64. 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), ...

Prisoners (2013) Sicario (2015) Arrival (2016) Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Dune (2021)

65. 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.

Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975) Witness (1985) Dead Poets Society (1989) The Truman Show (1998) Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World (2003)

66. William A. Wellman

Director | A Star Is Born

William Wellman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter-director of the original A Star Is Born (1937), was called "Wild Bill" during his World War I service as an aviator, a nickname that persisted in Hollywood due to his larger-than-life personality and lifestyle.

A leap-year baby born in 1896 on the 29th...

The Public Enemy (1931) Beau Geste (1939) The Ox-Bow Incident (1942) Yellow Sky (1948) Battleground (1949)

67. 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 ...

Back To The Future (1985) * Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Forrest Gump (1994) ** Contact (1997) Cast Away (2000)

68. 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 (...

The Conformist (1970) * Last Tango In Paris (1972) 1900 (1976) The Last Emperor (1987)

69. 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...

The Iron Giant (1995) The Incredibles (2004) Ratatouille (2007) Incredibles 2 (2018)

70. Richard Brooks

Writer | In Cold Blood

Richard Brooks was an Academy Award-winning film writer who also earned six Oscar nominations and achieved success as a film director and producer.

He was born Reuben Sax on May 18, 1912, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants. He graduated from West Philadelphia ...

Blackboard Jungle (1955) Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958) Elmer Gantry (1960) In Cold Blood (1967)

71. 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...

Videodrome (1983) The Fly (1986) A History Of Violence (2005) Eastern Promises (2007)

72. Jules Dassin

Director | Du rififi chez les hommes

Jules Dassin was an Academy Award-nominated director, screenwriter and actor best known for his films Rififi (1955), Never on Sunday (1960), and Topkapi (1964).

He was born Julius Samuel Dassin on 18 December 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He was one of eight children of Russian-Jewish ...

Brute Force (1947) The Naked City (1948) Night And The City (1950) Rififi (1955)

73. Stanley Donen

Director | Charade

Inspired by Fred Astaire's dancing in Flying Down to Rio (1933), Stanley Donen (pronounced 'Dawn-en') attended dance classes from the age of ten. He later recalled that the only thing he wanted to be was a tap dancer.

He was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Helen Pauline (Cohen) and Mordecai ...

On The Town (1949) Singin' In The Rain (1952) ** Funny Face (1957) Charade (1963)

74. 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...

The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant (1972) The Marriage Of Maria Braun (1979) Lola (1981) Veronika Voss (1982)

75. 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 ...

La Strada (1954) ** La Dolce Vita (1960) * 8 1/2 (1963) * Amarcord (1973)

76. 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.

Alice In Wonderland (1951) Peter Pan (1953) Lady And The Tramp (1955) One Hundred And One Dalmatians (1961)

77. Terry Gilliam

Writer | Brazil

Terry Gilliam was born near Medicine Lake, Minnesota. When he was 12 his family moved to Los Angeles where he became a fan of MAD magazine. In his early twenties he was often stopped by the police who suspected him of being a drug addict and Gilliam had to explain that he worked in advertising. In ...

Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975) * Brazil (1985) The Fisher King (1991) 12 Monkeys (1995)

78. Edmund Goulding

Director | Grand Hotel

London-born Edmund Goulding was an actor/playwright/director on the London stage, and entered the British army when WWI broke out. Mustered out of the service because of wounds suffered in battle, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1921. He obtained assignments as a screenwriter in Hollywood, wrote a ...

Grand Hotel (1932) Dark Victory (1939) The Old Maid (1939) Nightmare Alley (1947)

79. 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 ...

Apollo 13 (1995) A Beautiful Mind (2001) Cinderella Man (2005) Frost/Nixon (2008)

80. Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Director | Biutiful

Alejandro González Iñárritu (ih-nyar-ee-too), born August 15th, 1963, is a Mexican film director.

González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican-born ...

21 Grams (2003) Babel (2006) Birdman (2014) The Revenant (2015)

81. John Landis

Director | The Blues Brothers

John Landis began his career in the mail room of 20th Century-Fox. A high-school dropout, 18-year-old Landis made his way to Yugoslavia to work as a production assistant on Kelly's Heroes (1970). Remaining in Europe, Landis found work as an actor, extra and stuntman in many of the Spanish/Italian "...

National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) The Blues Brothers (1980) An American Werewolf In London (1981) Trading Places (1983)

82. 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, ...

Sense And Sensibility (1995) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Life Of Pi (2012)

83. 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. ...

Before Sunrise (1995) Before Sunset (2004) Before Midnight (2013) Boyhood (2014)

84. Ernst Lubitsch

Director | To Be or Not to Be

From Ernst Lubitsch's experiences in Sophien Gymnasium (high school) theater, he decided to leave school at the age of 16 and pursue a career on the stage. He had to compromise with his father and keep the account books for the family tailor business while he acted in cabarets and music halls at ...

Trouble In Paradise (1932) Ninotchka (1939) The Shop Around The Corner (1940) To Be Or Not To Be (1942) **

85. 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 ...

Badlands (1973) Days Of Heaven (1978) * The Thin Red Line (1998) The Tree Of Life (2011)

86. Rouben Mamoulian

Director | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Rouben Mamoulian was born on October 8, 1897 in Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. He was a director and writer, known for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), Applause (1929) and Becky Sharp (1935). He was married to Catharine Azadia Newman. He died on December 4, 1987 in ...

Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1931) Love Me Tonight (1932) Queen Christina (1933) The Mark Of Zorro (1940)

87. 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...

Walk The Line (2005) 3:10 To Yuma (2007) Logan (2017) Ford v Ferrari (2019)

88. 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.

Predator (1987) Die Hard (1988) The Hunt For Red October (1990) Die Hard With A Vengeance (1995)

89. 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-...

American Beauty (1999) ** Road To Perdition (2002) Skyfall (2012) 1917 (2019)

90. 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 ...

Late Spring (1949) Early Summer (1951) Tokyo Story (1953) ** An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

91. 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 ...

Ride The High Country (1962) The Wild Bunch (1969) ** Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid (1973) Cross Of Iron (1977)

92. Nicholas Ray

Director | Rebel Without a Cause

Nicholas Ray was born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle in 1911, in small-town Galesville, Wisconsin, to Lena (Toppen) and Raymond Joseph Kienzle, a contractor and builder. He was of German and Norwegian descent. Ray's early experience with film came with some radio broadcasting in high school. He left the ...

They Live By Night (1948) In A Lonely Place (1950) Johnny Guitar (1954) Rebel Without A Cause (1955) *

93. Jean Renoir

Writer | La règle du jeu

Son of the famous Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste, he had a happy childhood. Pierre Renoir was his brother, and Claude Renoir was his nephew. After the end of World War I, where he won the Croix de Guerre, he moved from scriptwriting to filmmaking. He married Catherine Hessling, for whom he ...

La Grande Illusion (1937) * The Rules Of The Game (1939) This Land Is Mine (1943) The River (1951)

94. 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 ...

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) Snatch (2000) Sherlock Holmes (2009) The Gentlemen (2019)

95. Anthony Russo

Producer | Everything Everywhere All at Once

Anthony J. Russo is an American filmmaker and producer who works alongside his brother Joseph 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 of ...

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) Captain America: Civil War (2016) Avengers: Infinity War (2018) Avengers: Endgame (2019)

96. Don Siegel

Director | Escape from Alcatraz

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 ...

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) Dirty Harry (1971) The Shootist (1976) Escape From Alcatraz (1979)

97. 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...

Andrei Rublev (1966) * Solaris (1972) Mirror (1975) Stalker (1979)

98. Jacques Tourneur

Director | Cat People

Born in Paris in 1904, Tourneur went to Hollywood with his father, director Maurice Tourneur around 1913. He started out as a script clerk and editor for his father, then graduated to such jobs as directing shorts (often with the pseudonym Jack Turner), both in France and America. He was hired to ...

Cat People (1942) I Walked With A Zombie (1943) Out Of The Past (1947) * Curse Of The Demon (1957)

99. 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 ...

The 400 Blows (1959) * Shoot The Piano Player (1960) Jules And Jim (1962) Day For Night (1973)

100. David Yates

Director | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

David Yates was born on October 8, 1963 in St. Helens, Merseyside, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), The Legend of Tarzan (2016) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011).

Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (2007) Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (2009) Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)