DIRECTORS
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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 MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934)
THE 39 STEPS (1935)
SECRET AGENT (1936)
REBECCA (1940)
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940)
SUSPICION (1941)
SABOTEUR (1942)
SPELLBOUND (1945)
NOTORIOUS (1946)
THE PARADINE CASE (1947)
ROPE (1948)
UNDER CAPRICORN (1949)
TO CATCH A THIEF (1955)
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951)
REAR WINDOW (1954)
DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)
THE WRONG MAN (1956)
VERTIGO (1958)
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
PSYCHO (1960)
THE BIRDS (1963)
MARNIE (1964)
56 ფილმი (34)
1976 Family Plot
1972 Frenzy
1969 Topaz
1966 Torn Curtain
1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much
1955 The Trouble with Harry
1953 I Confess
1950 Stage Fright
1944 Lifeboat
1943 Shadow of a Doubt
1941 Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1939 Jamaica Inn
1938 The Lady Vanishes
1937 Young and Innocent
1936 Sabotage
1934 Strauss' Great Waltz
1932 Number 17
1931 East of Shanghai
1931 Mary
1931 The Skin Game
1930 Murder!
1930 Juno and the Paycock
1930 Elstree Calling
1929 Blackmail
1929 The Manxman
1928 Champagne
1928 The Farmer's Wife
1927 The Ring
1927 Easy Virtue
1927 When Boys Leave Home
1927 The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1926 The Mountain Eagle
1925 The Pleasure Garden
1922 Number 13
5 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
REBECCA (1940)
LIFEBOAT (1944)
SPELLBOUND (1945)
REAR WINDOW (1954)
PSYCHO (1960)
1968 MEMORIAL AWARD
2. 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 ...
KILLER'S KISS (1955)
THE KILLING (1956)
PATHS OF GLORY (1957)
SPARTACUS (1960)
LOLITA (1962)
DR. STRANGELOVE OR: (1964)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
BARRY LYNDON (1975)
THE SHINING (1980)
FULL METAL JACKET (1987)
EYES WIDE SHUT (1999)
13 ფილმი (1)
1953 Fear and Desire
1 OSCAR 12 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
DR.STRANGELOVE OR (1964)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
BARRY LYNDON (1975)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
DR.STRANGELOVE OR (1964)
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
BARRY LYNDON (1975)
FULL METAL JACKET (1987)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
PICTURE:
DR.STRANGELOVE OR (1964)
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
BARRY LYNDON (1975)
EFECTS, SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) #
3. 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)
SABRINA (1954)
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH (1955)
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957)
LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (1957)
SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
THE APARTMENT (1960)
ONE, TWO, THREE (1961)
THE FRONT PAGE (1974)
26 ფილმი (15)
1981 Buddy Buddy
1978 Fedora
1972 Avanti!
1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1966 The Fortune Cookie
1964 Kiss Me, Stupid
1963 Irma la Douce
1957 The Spirit of St. Louis
1953 Stalag 17
1951 Ace in the Hole
1948 A Foreign Affair
1948 The Emperor Waltz
1943 Five Graves to Cairo
1942 The Major and the Minor
1934 Bad Seed
6 OSCAR 15 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
THE LOST WEEKEND (1945) #
SUNSET BLVD (1950)
STALAG 17 (1953)
SABRINA (1954)
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957)
SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
THE APARTMENT (1960) #
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
NINOTCHKA (1939)
HOLD BACK THE DAWN (1941)
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
THE LOST WEEKEND (1945) #
A FOREIGN AFFAIR (1948)
SABRINA (1954)
SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
BALL OF FIRE (1941)
SUNSET BLVD (1950) #
ACE IN THE HOLE (1951)
THE APARTMENT (1960) #
THE FURTUNE COOKIE (1966)
PICTURE:
THE APARTMENT (1960) #
1988 MEMORIAL AWARD
4. 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)
RIGING BULL (1980)
THE COLOR OF MONEY (1986)
GOODFELLAS (1990)
CAPE FEAR (1991)
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993)
CASINO (1995)
GANGS OF NEW YOUR (2002)
THE AVIATOR (2004)
THE DEPARTED (2006)
SHUTTER ISLAND (2010)
HUGO (2011)
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (2013)
SILENCE (2016)
THE IRISHMAN (2019)
27 ფილმი (11) მკვლელი მთვარე:)
2023 Killers of the Flower Moon
1999 Bringing Out the Dead
1997 Kundun
1989 New York Stories (segment "Life Lessons")
1988 The Last Temptation of Christ
1985 After Hours
1982 The King of Comedy
1977 New York, New York
1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1972 Boxcar Bertha
1967 Who's That Knocking at My Door
1 OSCAR 15 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
RAGING BULL (1980)
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988)
GOODGELLAS (1990)
GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002)
THE AVIATOR (2004)
THE DEPARTED (2006) #
HUGO (2011)
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (2013)
THE IRISHMAN (2019)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (2023)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
GOODGELLAS (1990)
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993)
PICTURE:
HUGO (2011)
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (2013)
THE IRISHMAN (2019)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (2023)5
5. 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, ...
DUEL (1971)
THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (1974)
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)
INDIAN JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989)
SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
JURASSIC PARK (1993)
THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK (1997)
AMISTAD (1997)
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998)
A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2001)
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (2002)
MINORITY REPORT (2002)
THE TERMINAL (2004)
MUNICH (2005)
WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005)
INDIAN JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (2008)
WAR HORSE (2011)
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (2011)
LINCOLN (2012)
BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015)
THE POST (2017)
READY PLAYER ONE (2018)
WEST SIDE STORY (2021)
THE FABELMANS (2022)
35 ფილმი (5) ფაბელმანები:)
2016 The BFG
1991 Hook
1989 Always
1979 1941
1964 Firelight
3 OSCAR 19 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)
SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993) #
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998) #
MUNICH (2005)
LINCOLN (2012)
WEST SIDE STORY (2021)
THE FABELMANS (2022)
PICTURE:
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)
THE COLOR PURPLE (1985)
SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993) #
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998)
MUNICH (2005)
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (2007)
WAR HORSE (2011)
LINCOLN (2012)
BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015)
THE POST (2017)
WEST SIDE STORY (2021)
THE FABELMANS (2022)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
THE FABELMANS (2022)
1987 MEMORIAL AWARD
6. 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...
2RESERVEROIR DOGS (1992)
PULP FICTION (1994)
FOUR ROOMS (1995) (segment director)
JACKIE BROWN (1997)
KILL BILL: VOL.1 (2003)
KILL BILL: VOL.2 (2004)
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (2009)
DJANGO UNCHAINED (2011)
THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2015)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019)
12 ფილმი (2)
2007 Death Proof
2005 Sin City (Guest director)
2 OSCAR 6 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
PULP FICTION (1994)
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (2009)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
PULP FICTION (1994) #
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (2009)
DJANGO UNCHAINED (2012) #
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019)
PICTURE:
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019)
7. 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)
G.I. JANE (1997)
GLADIATOR (2000)
HANNIBAL (2001)
BLACK HAWK DOWN (2001)
MATCHISTICK MEN (2003)
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (2005)
ALL THE INVISIBLE CHILDREN (2005)(segment)
A GOOD YEAR (2006)
AMERICAN GANGSTER (2007)
BODY OF LIES (2008)
ROBIN HOOD (2010)
PROMETHEUS (2012)
THE COUNSELOR (2013)
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS (2014)
THE MARTIAN (2015)
ALIEN:COVENANT (2017)
ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD (2017)
THE LAST DEUL (2021)
28 ფილმი (8) გუჩის სახლი:)
2021 House of Gucci
1996 White Squall
1992 1492: Conquest of Paradise
1991 Thelma & Louise
1989 Black Rain
1987 Someone to Watch Over Me
1985 Legend
1977 The Duellists
4 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THELMA & LOUISE (1991)
GLADIATOR (2000)
BLACK HAWK DOWN (2001)
PICTURE:
THE MARTIAN (2015)
8. 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)
DRACULA (1992)
JACK (1996)
25 ფილმი (18) ტვიქსტი
2011 Twixt
2009 Tetro
2007 Youth Without Youth
1997 The Rainmaker
1989 New York Stories (segment)
1988 Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1987 Gardens of Stone
1986 Peggy Sue Got Married
1984 The Cotton Club
1983 Rumble Fish
1983 The Outsiders
1981 One from the Heart
1969 The Rain People
1968 Finian's Rainbow
1966 You're a Big Boy Now
1963 Dementia 13
1962 Tonight for Sure
1962 The Bellboy and the Playgirls
5 OSCAR 10 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THE GODFATHER (1972)
THE GODFATHER II (1974) #
APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
THE GODFATHER III (1990)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
PATTON (1970) #
THE CONVERSTAION (1974)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
THE GODFATHER (1972) #
THE GODFATHER II (1974) #
APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
PICTURE:
THE GODFATHER (1972) #
AMERICAN GRAFFII (1973)
THE CONVERSTAION (1974)
THE GODFATHER II (1974) #
APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
THE GODFATHER III (1990)
2011 MEMORIAL AWARD
9. 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...
ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)
BEN-HUR (1959)
HOW TO STEAL A MILLION (1966)
FUNNY GIRL (1968)
44 ფილმი (40)
1970 The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1965 The Collector
1961 The Children's Hour
1958 The Big Country
1956 Friendly Persuasion
1955 The Desperate Hours
1952 Carrie
1951 Detective Story
1949 The Heiress
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives
1942 Mrs. Miniver
1941 The Little Foxes
1940 The Letter
1940 The Westerner
1939 Wuthering Heights
1938 Jezebel
1937 Dead End
1936 Come and Get It
1936 Dodsworth
1936 These Three
1935 The Gay Deception
1935 The Good Fairy
1934 Glamour
1933 Counsellor at Law
1933 Her First Mate
1932 Tom Brown of Culver
1931 A House Divided
1930 The Storm
1929 Hell's Heroes
1929 The Love Trap
1929 The Shakedown
1928 Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
1928 Thunder Riders
1927 Desert Dust
1927 The Border Cavalier
1927 Hard Fists
1927 Straight Shootin'
1927 Blazing Days
1926 The Stolen Ranch
1926 Lazy Lightning
3 OSCAR 12 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
DODSWORTH (1936)
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)
THE LETTER (1940)
THE LITTLE FOXES (1941)
MRS. MINIVER (1942) #
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946) #
THE HEIRESS (1949)
DETECTIVE STORY (1952)
ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)
FRIENDLY PERSUASION (1956)
BEN-HUR (1959) #
THE COLLECTOR (1965)
PICUTRE:
THE HEIRESS (1949)
ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)
FRIENDLY PERSUASION (1956)
1966 MEMORIAL AWARD
10. 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 ...
GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (1947)
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
THE LAST TYCOON (1976)
19 ფილმი (15)
1972 The Visitors
1969 The Arrangement
1963 America America
1961 Splendor in the Grass
1960 Wild River
1957 A Face in the Crowd
1956 Baby Doll
1955 East of Eden
1953 Man on a Tightrope
1952 Viva Zapata!
1950 Panic in the Streets
1949 Pinky
1947 Boomerang!
1947 The Sea of Grass
1945 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2 OSCAR 5 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (1947) #
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) #
EAST OF EDEN (1955)
AMERICA AMERICA (1963)
ORIGINAL SCRENPLAY:
AMERICA AMERICA (1963)
PICTURE:
AMERICA AMERICA (1963)
1999 HONORARY AWARD
11. 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 AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
PRIZZ'S HONOR (1985)
2 OSCAR 13 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THE TREASUR OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948) #
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)
THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
MOULIN ROUGE (1952)
PRIZZI'S HONOR (1985)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
DR. ELRICH'S MAGIC BULLET (1940)
SERGEANT YORK (1941)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
THE MALTESE FALON (1941)
THE TREASUR OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948) #
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)
THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON (1957)
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1975)
SUPPORTING:
THE CARDINAL (1963)
PICTURE:
MOULIN ROUGE (1952)
12. 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. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
3 OSCAR 3 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
LADY FOR A DAY (1933)
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) #
MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936)
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1938) #
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) #
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
13. 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)
THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
4 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THE INFORMER (1935) #
STAGECOACH (1939)
THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) #
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941) #
THE QUIET MAN (1952) #
PICTURE:
THE QUIET MAN (1952)
14. 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)
1 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
CITIZEN KANE (1941)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
CITIZEN KANE (1941) #
LEADING:
CITIZEN KANE (1941)
1971 HONORARW AWARD
15. John Sturges
Director | The Great Escape
John Sturges was an American film director, mostly remembered for his outstanding Western films. In 1992, Sturges was awarded a Golden Boot Award for his lifelong contribution to the Western genre.
Sturges was born in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, within the Chicago metropolitan area. By 1930, ...
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (1958)
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960)
THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963)
1 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
BAD DAY A BLACK ROCK (1955)
16. 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...
RIO BRAVO (1959)
1 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
SERGEANT YOUR (1941)
1975 HONORARY AWARD
17. 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 ...
GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
1 OSCAR
DIRECTOR:
GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) #
18. 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...
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
MY FAIR LADY (1964)
1 OSCAR 4 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
LITTLE WOMEN (1933)
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY( 1940)
A DOUBLE LIFE (1947)
BORN YESTERDAY (1950)
MY FARI LADY (1964) #
19. Otto Preminger
Actor | Stalag 17
Otto Ludwig Preminger was born in Wiznitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary. His father was a prosecutor, and Otto originally intended to follow his father into a law career; however, he fell in love with the theater in his 20's and became one of the most imaginative stage producers and directors. He was ...
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
3 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
LAURA (1944)
THE CARDINAL (1963)
PICTURE:
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
20. 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...
CASABLANCA (1942)
A BREATH OF SCANDAL (1960)
1 OSCAR 4 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
CAPTAIN BLOOD (1935)
FOUR DAUGHTERS (1938)
ANGELS WITH DIRY FACES (1938)
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)
CASABLANCA (1942) #
21. 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 ...
2 OSCAR 7 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THE MORE THE MERRIER (1943)
A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951) #
SHANE (1953)
GIANT (1956) #
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (1959)
PICTURE:
A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)
SHANE (1953)
GIANT (1956)
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (1959)
1954 MEMORIAL AWARD
22. 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...
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966)
THE DAY OF THE JACKAL (1973)
4 OSCAR 6 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THE SEARCH (1948)
HIGH MOON (1952)
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) #
THE NUN'S STORY (1959)
THE SUNDOWNERS (1960)
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966) #
JULIA (1977)
DOCUMENTARY:
BENJY (1951) #
PICTURE:
THE SUNDOWNERS (1960)
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966) #
23. Mike Nichols
Director | The Graduate
He, along with the other members of the "Compass Players" including Elaine May, Paul Sills, Byrne Piven, Joyce Hiller Piven and Edward Asner helped start the famed "Second City Improv" company. They used the games taught to them by fellow cast mate, Paul Sills 's mother, Viola Spolin. He later ...
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
THE GRADUATE (1967)
HEARTBURN (1986)
WOLF (1994)
CLOSER (2004)
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR (2007)
1 OSCAR 4 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
THE GRADUATE (1967) #
SILKWOOD (1983)
WORKING GIRL (1988)
PICTURE:
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (1993)
24. 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 MAN (1957)
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974)
DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975)
NETWORK (1976)
THE VERDICT (1982)
A STRANGER AMONG US (1992)
5 NOMINATIONS:
DIRECTOR:
12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975)
NETWORK (1976)
THE VERDICT (1982)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
PRICNE OF THE CITY (1981)
2005 HONORARY AWARD
25. 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. ...
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)
IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORDL (1963)
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
9 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THE DEFIANT ONES (1958)
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
PICTURE:
HIGN NOON (1952)
THE CAINE MUTINY (1954)
THE DEFIANT ONES (1958)
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)
SHIP OF FOOLS (1965)
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
1962 MEMORIAL AWARD
26. 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)
SUMMERTIME (1955)
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
2 OSCAR 9 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945)
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1946)
SUMMERTIME (1955)
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957) #
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) #
DOCTOR ZGIVAGO (1965)
A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984)
FILM EDITHING:
A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945)
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1946)
A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984)
27. 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 ...
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
THE STING (1973)
THE GREAT WALDO PEPPER (1975)
1 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
THE STING (1973) #
28. Cecil B. DeMille
Producer | The Ten Commandments
His parents Henry C. DeMille and Beatrice DeMille were playwrights. His father died when he was 12, and his mother supported the family by opening a school for girls and a theatrical company. Too young to enlist in the Spanish-American War, Cecil followed his brother William C. de Mille to the New ...
1 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952)
PICTURE:
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952) #
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956)
1953 MEMORIAL AWARD
1950 HONORARY AWARD
29. 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)
1 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951) #
GIGI (1958)
30. 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 ...
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)
SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (1954)
FUNNY FACE (1957)
CHARADE (1963)
1998 HONORARY AWARD
31. 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 ...
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
CLEOPATRA (1963)
4 OSCAR 6 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949) #
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) #
5 FINGERS (1952)
SLEUTH (1972)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
SKIPPY (1930)
A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949) #
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) #
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
NO WAY OUT (1950)
THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA (1954)
PICTURE:
THE PHILADEPHIA STORY (1940)
32. 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 ...
WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
4 OSCAR 3 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
I WANT TO LIVE! (1958)
WEST SIDE STORY (1961) #
THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) #
FILM EDITHING:
CITIZE KANE (1941)
PICTURE:
WEST SIDE STORY (1961) #
THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) #
THE SAND PEBBLES (1966)
1967 MEMORIAL AWARD
33. 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 FORTESS (1958)
YOJIMBO (1961)
SANJURO (1962)
RAN (1985)
1 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
RAN (1985)
1990 HONORARY AWARD
34. 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 (...
WILD STRAWBERRIES (1957)
THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957)
PERSONA (1966)
CRIES AND WHISPERS (1972)
9 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
CRIES AND WHISPERS (1974)
FACE TO FACE (1977)
FANNY AND ALEXANDER (1983)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
WILD STRAWBERRIES (1957)
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (1961)
CRIES AND WHISPERS (1974)
AUTUMN SONATA (1979)
FANNY AND ALEXANDER (1983)
PICTURE:
CRIES AND WHISPERS (1974)
1971 MEMORIAL AWARD
35. 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) ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984)
36. 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 ...
THE NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (1957)
8½ (1963)
12 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
LA DOLCE VITA (1960)
8½ (1962)
FELLINI SATYRICON (1969)
AMARCORD (1973)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
FELLINI'S CASANOVA (1975)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
ROME, OPEN CITY (1945)
PAISAN (1948)
LA STRADA (1955)
I VITELLONI (1956)
LA DOLCE VITA (1960)
8½ (1962)
AMARCORD (1973)
1993 HONORARY AWARD
37. 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) THE MIRROR (1975) STALKER (1979)
38. Andrey Zvyagintsev
Director | Nelyubov
Director and screenwriter Andrey Zvyagintsev is the winner of the Venice Film Festival (2003) and the Cannes Film Festival (2011, 2014, 2017). Two-time the Academy Awards and the BAFTA Awards nominee. Winner or the Golden Globe Awards (2015) for his film "Leviathan". In 2018, his latest work "...
39. 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 ...
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975)
AMADEUS (1984)
THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT (1996)
2 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975) #
AMADEUS (1984) #
THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT (1996)
40. 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 ...
ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)
CHINATOWN (1974)
FRANTIC (1988)
THE PIANIST (2002)
THE GHOST WRITER (2010)
1 OSCAR 4 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
CHINATOWN (1974)
TESS (1979)
THE PIANIST (2002) #
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)
PICTURE:
THE PIANIST (2002)
41. 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 (...
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (1991)
TROIS COULEURS: BLUE (1993)
TROIS COULEURS: BLANC (1994)
TROIS COULEURS: ROUGE (1994)
2 NOMINATIONS:
DIRECTOR:
TROIS COULEURS: ROUGE (1994)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
TROIS COULEURS: ROUGE (1994)
42. Costa-Gavras
Director | Z
Costa-Gavras was born on February 12, 1933 in Loutra-Iraias, Greece. He is a director and writer, known for Z (1969), Missing (1982) and Amen. (2002). He has been married to Michèle Ray-Gavras since 1968. They have two children.
MISSING (1982)
MAD CITY (1997)
1 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
Z (1969)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Z (1969)
MISSING (1982)
43. Pedro Almodóvar
Writer | Hable con ella
The most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel was born in a small town (Calzada de Calatrava) in the impoverished Spanish region of La Mancha. He arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survived by selling used items in the flea-market called El Rastro. Almodóvar couldn't study ...
PEPI, LUCI, BOM AND OTHER GIRLS LIKE MOM (1980)
WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS? (1984)
MATADOR (1986)
LAW OF DESIRE (1987)
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (1988)
TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! (1989)
HIGH HEELS (1991)
KIKA (1993)
THE FLOWER OF MY SECRET (1995)
LIVE FLESH (1997)
ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (1999)
TALK TO HER (2002)
BAD EDUCATION (2004)
VOLVER (2006)
BROKEN EMBRACES (2009)
THE SKIN I LIVE IN (2011)
JULIETA (2016)
PAIN AND GLORY (2019)
1 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
TALK TO HER (2002)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
TALK TO HER (2002) #
44. Wim Wenders
Director | Der Himmel über Berlin
Wim Wenders is an Oscar-nominated German filmmaker who was born Ernst Wilhelm Wenders on August 14, 1945 in Düsseldorf, which then was located in the British Occupation Zone of what became the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany, known colloquially as West Germany until ...
PARIS, TEXAS (1984)
DER HIMMEL UBER BERLIN (1987)
3 NOMINATIONS.
DOCUMENTARY:
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (1999)
PINA (2011)
THE SALT OF THE EARTH (2014)
45. 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)
THE LAST EMPEROR (1987)
STEALING BEAUTY (1996)
BESIEGED (1998)
THE DREAMERS (2003)
2 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972)
THE LAST EMPEROR (1987) #
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
THE CONFORMIST (1970)
THE LAST EMPEROR (1987) #
46. 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)
SIMON OF THE DESERT (1965)
BELLE DE JOUR (1967)
TRISTANA (1970)
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972)
2 NOMINATIONS
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (1977)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972)
47. 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)
THE LAST METRO (1980)
3 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
DAY FOR NIGHT (1973)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
THE 400 BLOWS (1959)
DAY FOR NIGHT (1973)
48. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer | Il Decameron
Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved fame and notoriety long before he entered the film industry. A published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954. His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel and its violent depiction of the life ...
49. Franco Zeffirelli
Director | Romeo and Juliet
Franco Zeffirelli is an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television. He was also a senator from 1994 until 2001 for the Italian center-right Forza Italia party. Some of his operatic designs and productions have become worldwide classics.
He was known for several of the movies he ...
ROMEO AND JULIET (1968)
2 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
ROMEO AND JULIET (1968)
ART DIRECTION:
LA TRAVIATA (1982)
50. Vittorio De Sica
Director | Ladri di biciclette
Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee ...
BICYCLE THIEVES (1948)
1 NOMINATIONS
SUPPORTING:
A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1957)
51. Jean-Luc Godard
Director | Bande à part
Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris on December 3, 1930, the second of four children in a bourgeois Franco-Swiss family. His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from a preeminent family of Swiss bankers. During World War II Godard became a naturalized citizen of ...
BREATHLESS (1960)
VIVRE SA VIE (1962)
CONTEMPT (1963)
UNE FEMME MARIÉE (1964)
ALPHAVILLE (1965)
PIERROT LE FOU (1965)
2011 HONORARY AWARD
52. 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 ...
THE PASSENGER (1975)
2 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
BLOWUP (1966)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
BLOWUP (1966)
1995 HONORARY AWARD
53. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Writer | Le salaire de la peur
Beginning his film career as a screenwriter, Henri-Georges Clouzot switched over to directing and in 1943 had the distinction of having his film The Raven (1943) banned by both the German forces occupying France and the Free French forces fighting them, but for different reasons. He shot to ...
THE WAGES OF FEAR (1953)
54. 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 ...
1 NOMINATIONS
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
PAISAN (1946)
55. Éric Rohmer
Director | Ma nuit chez Maud
Admirers have always had difficulty explaining Éric Rohmer's "Je ne sais quoi." Part of the challenge stems from the fact that, despite his place in French Nouvelle Vague (i.e., New Wave), his work is unlike that of his colleagues. While this may be due to the auteur's unwillingness to conform, ...
1 NOMINATIONS
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
MY NIGHT AT MAUD'S (1969)
56. Robert Bresson
Writer | Au hasard Balthazar
Robert Bresson trained as a painter before moving into films as a screenwriter, making a short film (atypically a comedy), Public Affairs (1934) in 1934. After spending more than a year as a German POW during World War II, he made his debut with Angels of Sin (1943) in 1943. His next film, The ...
57. Luchino Visconti
Writer | Il gattopardo
Born in his ancestral palazzo, situated in the same Milanese square as both the opera house La Scala and the Milan Cathedral, Luchino Visconti (1906 - 1976) was raised under the auspices of aristocratic privilege, theater and Catholicism. This triangulation of monuments would create an equally ...
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (1960)
1 NOMINATIONS:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
THE DAMNED (1969)
58. 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)
INSOMNIA (2002)
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)
2 OSCAR 6 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
DUNKIRK (2017)
OPPENHEIMER (2023) #
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
MEMENTO (2000)
INCEPTION (2010)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
OPPENHEIMER (2023)
PICTURE:
INCEPTION (2010)
DUNKIRK (2017)
OPPENHEIMER (2023) #
59. 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 ...
HEARTBREAK RIDGE (1986)
UNFORGIVEN (1992)
A PERFECT WORLD (1993)
THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY(1995)
MYSTIC RIVER (2003)
MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004)
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS (2006)
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (2006)
CHANGELING (2008)
GRAN TORINO (2008)
INVICTUS (2009)
HEREAFTER (2010)
J.EDGAR (2011)
AMERICAN SNIPER (2014)
SULLY (2016)
THE MULE (2018)
4 OSCAR 7 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
UNFORGIVEN (1992) #
MYSTIC RIVER (2003)
MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004) #
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (2006)
PICTURE:
UNFORGIVEN (1992) #
MYSTIC RIVER (2003)
MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004) #
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (2006)
AMERICAN SNIPER (2014)
LEADING:
UNFORGIVEN (1992)
MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004)
1995 MEMORIAL AWARD
60. 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 ...
PLATOON (1986)
WALL STREET (1987)
BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (1989)
NIXON (1995)
ALEXANDER (2004)
WORLD TRADE CENTER (2006)
W. (2008)
WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (2010)
SAVAGES (2012)
SNOWDEN (2016)
3 OSCAR 8 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
PLATOON (1986) #
BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (1989) #
JFK (1991)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (1978) #
BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (1989)
JFK (1991)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
PLATOON (1986)
SALVADOR (1986)
NIXON (1995)
PICTURE:
BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (1989)
JFK (1991)
61. Tony Scott
Producer | Domino
Tony Scott was a British-born film director and producer. He was the youngest of three brothers, one of whom is fellow film director Ridley Scott. He was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England to parents Jean and Colonel Francis Percy Scott. As a result of his father's career in the British...
TOP GUN (1986) DEVENGE (1990) DAYS OF THUNDER (1990) TRUE ROMANCE (1993) CRIMSON TIDE (1995) THE FAN (1996) ENEMY OF THE STATE (1998) SPY GAME (2001) MAN ON FIRE (2004) DOMINO (2005) DEJA VU (2006) THE TAKING OF PELGAM 123 (2009) UNSTOPPABLE (2010)
62. 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...
TOOTSIE (1982)
OUT OF AFRICA (1985)
SABRINA (1995)
RANDOM HEARTS (1999)
THE INTERPRETER (2005)
2 OSCAR 5 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THE SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? (1969)
TOOTSIE (1982)
OUT OF AFRICA (1985) #
PICTURE:
TOOTSIE (1982)
OUT OF AFRICA (1985) #
MICHAEL CLAYTON (2007)
THE READER (2008)
63. 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...
ALIEN3 (1992)
SE7EN (1995)
THE GAME (1997)
FIGHT CLUB (1999)
PANIC ROOM (2002)
ZODIAC (2007)
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (2008)
THE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010)
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTO (2011)
GONE GIRL (2014)
MINDHUNTER ( 2017-2019)
MANK (2020)
THE KILLER (2023)
3 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (2008)
THE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010)
MANK (2020)
64. 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 ...
ANNIE HALL (1977)
MATCH POINT (2005)
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (2008)
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (2011)
MAGI IN THE MOONGLIGHT (2014)
IRATIONAL MAN (2015)
4 OSCAR 20 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
ANNIE HALL (1977) #
INTERIORS (1978)
BROADWAY DANNY ROSE (1984)
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1986)
CRIMS AND MISDEMEANORS (1989)
BULLETS OVER BROADWAY (1994)
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (2011)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
ANNIE HALL (1977) #
INTERIORS (1978)
MANHATTAN (1979)
BROADWAY DANNY ROSE (1984)
THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985)
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1986) #
RADIO DAYS (1987)
CRIMS AND MISDEMEANORS (1989)
ALICE (1990)
HUSMAND AND WIVES (1992)
BULLETS OVER BROADWAY (1994)
MIGHTY APHRODITE (1995)
DECONSTRUCTING HARRY (1997)
MATCH POINT (2005)
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (2011) #
BLUE JASMINE (2013)
LEADING:
ANNIE HALL (1977)
65. 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 ...
ROMANCING THE STONE (1984)
BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II (1989)
BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II (1990)
DEATH BECOMES HER (1992)
FORREST GUMP (1994)
CONTACT (1997)
WHAT LIES BENEATH (2000)
CAST AWAY (2000)
THE POLAR EXPRESS (2004)
BEOWULF (2007)
FLIGHT (2012)
THE WALK (2015)
ALLIED (2016)
1 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
FORREST GUMP (1994) #
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
66. 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)
WILD AT HEART (1990)
LOST HIGHWAY (1997)
THE STRAIGHT STORY (1999)
MULHOLLAND DR. (2001)
4 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980)
BLUE VELVET (1986)
MULHOLLAND DR. (2001)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
THE ELEPHAN MAN (1980)
67. Jim Jarmusch
Director | Paterson
Moved to New York City at the age of seventeen from Akron, Ohio. Graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in English, class of '75. Without any prior film experience, he was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts, New York.
GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI (1999) BROKEN FLOWERS (2005)
68. 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...
MAGNOLIA (1999)
THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007)
THE MASTER (2012)
PHANTOM THREAD (2017)
11 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007)
PHANTOM THREAD (2017)
LICORICE PIZZA (2021)
PICTURE:
THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007)
PHANTOM THREAD (2017)
LICORICE PIZZA (2021)
ADAPDTED SCREENPLAY:
THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007)
INHERENT VICE (2014)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997)
MAGNOLIA (1999)
LICORICE PIZZA (2021)
69. 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)
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)
TRUE LIES (1994)
TITANIC (1997)
AVATAR (2009)
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (2022)
3 OSCAR 4 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
TITANIC (1997) #
AVATAR (2009)
FILM EDITHING:
TITANIC (1997) #
AVATAR (2009)
PICTURE:
TITANIC (1997) #
AVATAR (2009)
AVATAR - THE WAY OF WATER (2022)
70. 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 ...
SCARFACE (1983) THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987) CARLITO'S WAY (1993) MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1996) THE BLACK DAHILDA (2006)
71. 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 ...
AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
STAR WARS (1977)
STAR WARS EPISODE I (1999)
STAR WARS EPISODE II (2002)
STAR WARS EPISDOE III (2005)
4 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
STAR WARS (1977)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
STAR WARS (1977)
1992 MEMORIAL AWARD
72. 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 FELLOWHIP OF THE RING (2001)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003)
KING KONG (2005)
THE LOVELY BONES (2009)
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (2012)
THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (2013)
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (2014)
3 OSCAR 6 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWHIP OF THE RING (2001)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003) #
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWHIP OF THE RING (2001)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003) #
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
HEAVENLY CREATURES (1994)
PICTURE:
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWHIP OF THE RING (2001)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003) #
DISCRICT 9 (2009)
73. 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 ...
BACKDRAFT (1991)
FAR AND AWAY (1992)
APOLLO 13 (1995)
RANSOM (1996)
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (2000)
A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001)
CINDERELLA MAN (2005)
THE DA VINCI CODE (2006)
FROST/NIXON (2008)
ANGELS & DEMONS (2009)
RUSH (2013)
IN THE HEART OG THE SEA (2015)
INFERNO (2016)
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (2018)
2 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001) #
FROST/NIXON (2008)
PICTURE:
A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001) #
FROST/NIXON (2008)
74. 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 ...
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994)
THE GREEN MILE (1999)
THE MIST (2007)
3 NOMINATIONS
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994)
THE GREEN MILE (1999)
PICTURE:
THE GREEN MILE (1999)
75. 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.
WITNESS (1985)
THE MOSQUITO COAST (1986)
DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989)
FERLESS (1993)
THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998)
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (2003)
THE WAY BACK (2010)
6 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
WITNES (1985)
DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989)
THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998)
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (2003)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
GREEN CARD (1990)
PICTURE:
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (2003)
2023 HONORARY AWARD
76. 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 ...
THE NATURAL (1984)
GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM (1987)
RAIN MAN (1988)
BUGSY (1991)
SLEEPERS (1996)
SPHERE (1998)
BANDITS (2001)
THE SURVIVOR (2021)
1 OSCAR 5 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
RAIN MAN (1988) #
BUGSY (1991)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. (1979)
DINER (1982)
AVALON (1990)
PICTURE:
BUGSY (1991)
77. Gus Van Sant
Director | Elephant
Gus Green Van Sant Jr. is an American filmmaker, painter, screenwriter, photographer and musician from Louisville, Kentucky who is known for directing films such as Good Will Hunting, the 1998 remake of Psycho, Gerry, Elephant, My Own Private Idaho, To Die For, Milk, Last Days, Finding Forrester, ...
GOOD WILL HUNTING (1997)
FINDING FORRESTER (2000)
MILK (2008)
PROMISED LAND (2012)
2 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
GOOD WILL HUNTING (1997)
MILK (2008)
78. Edward Zwick
Producer | Thirtysomething
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...
GLORY (1989)
LEGENDS OF THE FALL (1994)
COURAGE UNDER FIRE (1996)
THE SIEGE (1998)
THE LAST SAMURAI (2003)
BLOOD DIAMOND (2006)
DEFIANCE (2008)
LOVE & OTHER DRUGS (2010)
1 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
PICTURE:
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998) #
TRAFFIC (2000)
79. Spike Lee
Director | Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from artistic, education-grounded background; his father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a schoolteacher. He attended ...
JUNGLE FEVER (1991)
MACLOLM X (1992)
HE GOT GAME (1998)
25TH HOUR (2002)
ALL THE INVISIBLE CHILDREN (2005)
INSIDE MAN (2006)
BLACKKKLANSMAN (2018)
5 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
BLAKKKLANSMAN (2018)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
BLAKKKLANSMAN (2018) #
DOCUMENTARY:
4 LITTLE GIRLS (1997)
PICTURE:
BLAKKKLANSMAN (2018)
2016 HONORARY AWARD
80. 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 ...
STAND BY ME (1986)
THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989)
A FEW GOOD MAN (1992)
GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI (1996)
THE STORY OF US (1999)
RUMOR HAS IT (2005)
THE BUCKET LIST (2007)
FLIPPED (2010)
AND SO IT GOES (2014)
1 NOMINATIONS
PICTURE:
A FEW GOOD MEN (1992)
81. Robert Benton
Writer | Kramer vs. Kramer
Robert Douglas Benton is an American screenwriter and filmmaker from Waxahachie, Texas who is known for screenwriting Bonnie & Clyde, Kramer vs. Kramer and Superman. He won two Academy Awards for writing and directing Kramer vs. Kramer. He directed other feature films including Twilight, Bad ...
KRAMER VS. KRAMER (1979)
NOBODY'S FOOL (1994)
TWILIGHT (1998)
THE HUMAN STAIN (2003)
FEAST OF LOVE (2007)
3 OSCAR 4 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
KRAMER VS. KRAMER (1979) #
PLACES IN THE HEART (1984)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
KRAMER VS. KRAMER (1979) #
NOBODY'S FOOL (1994)
ORIGNAL SCREENPLAY:
BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
THE LATE SHOW (1977)
PLACES IN THE HEART (1984) #
82. 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 ...
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1992)
HEAT (1995)
THE INSIDER (1999)
COLLATERAL (2004)
PUBLIC ENEMIS (2009)
4 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THE INSIDER (1999)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
THE INSIDER (1999)
PICTURE:
THE INSIDER (1999)
THE AVIATOR (2004)
83. 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 ...
MILLER'S CROSSING (1990)
THE HUDSUCKER PROXY (1994)
FARGO (1996)
THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998)
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000)
INTORLERABLE CRUELTY (2003)
THE LADYKILLERS (2004)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007)
BURN AFTER READING (2008)
A SERIOUS MAN (2009)
TRUE GRIT (2010)
THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (2018)
4 OSCAR 11 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
FARGO (1996)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) #
TRUE FRIT (2010)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
FARGO (1996) #
A SERIOUS MAN (2009)
BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) #
TRUE FRIT (2010)
THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (2018)
FILM EDITHING:
FARGO (1996)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007)
PICTURE:
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) #
A SERIOUS MAN (2009)
TRUE FRIT (2010)
84. Ethan Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The younger brother of Joel, Ethan Coen is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning writer, producer and director coming from small independent films to big profile Hollywood films. He was born on September 21, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In some films of the brothers- Ethan & Joel wrote, Joel...
MILLER'S CROSSING (1990)
THE HUDSUCKER PROXY (1994)
FARGO (1996)
THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998)
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000)
INTORLERABLE CRUELTY (2003)
THE LADYKILLERS (2004)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007)
BURN AFTER READING (2008)
A SERIOUS MAN (2009)
TRUE GRIT (2010)
THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (2018)
4 OSCAR 11 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) #
TRUE FRIT (2010)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
FARGO (1996) #
A SERIOUS MAN (2009)
BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) #
TRUE FRIT (2010)
THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (2018)
FILM EDITHING:
FARGO (1996)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007)
PICTURE:
FARGO (1996)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) #
A SERIOUS MAN (2009)
TRUE FRIT (2010)
85. Lasse Hallström
Director | What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Lasse Hallström inherited his enthusiasm for film from his father, who was an amateur filmmaker. In high school he made his first short film, which was released on Swedish television. Hallström then began working as a director, cameraman and editor for Swedish television. He also made music videos ...
WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE (1993)
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES (1999)
CHOCOLAT (2000)
THE SHIPPING NEWS (2001)
AN UNFINISHED LIFE (2005)
CASANOVA (2005)
HACHI: A DOG'S TALE (2009)
DEAR JOHN (2010)
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN (2011)
THE HYPNOTIST (2012)
A DOG'S PURPOSE (2017)
3 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
MITT LIV SOM HUND (1985)
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES (1999)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
MITT LIV SOM HUND (1985)
86. Nick Cassavetes
Actor | Face/Off
Nick Cassavetes was born in New York City, the son of actress Gena Rowlands and Greek-American actor and film director John Cassavetes. As a child, he appeared in two of his father's films: Husbands (1970) and A Woman Under the Influence (1974). After spending so much of his youth surrounded by the...
JONH Q (2002) THE NOTEBOOK (2004) ALPHA DOG (2006) MY SISTER'S KEEPER (2009) THE OTHER WOMAN (2014)
87. 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.
CINEMA PARADISO (1988) THE LEGEND OF 1900 (1998) MALENA (2000) THE BEST OFFER (2013)
88. 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 ...
BRAVEHEART (1995)
APOCALYPTO (2006)
HACKSAW RIDGE (2016)
2 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
BRAVEHEART (1995) #
HACKSAW RIDGE (2016)
PICTURE:
BRAVEHEART (1995) #
89. Kathryn Bigelow
Director | The Hurt Locker
A very talented painter, Kathryn spent two years at the San Francisco Art Institute. At 20, she won a scholarship to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. She was given a studio in a former Offtrack Betting building, literally in an old bank vault, where she made art and waited to be ...
POINT BREAK (1991)
K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER (2002)
THE HURT LOCKER (2008)
ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012)
2 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THE HURT LOCKER (2008) #
PICTURE:
THE HURT LOCKER (2008)
ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012)
90. 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 ...
THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001)
THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (2004)
THE DARJEELING LIMITED (2007)
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014)
7 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001)
MOONRISE KINGDOM (2012)
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014)
ANIMATED PICTURE:
FANTASTIC MR.FOX (2009)
ISE OF DOGS (2018)
PICTURE:
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014)
91. 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 ...
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000)
THE FOUNTAIN (2006)
BLACK SWAN (2010)
NOAH (2014)
MOTHER! (2017)
THE WHALE (2022)
1 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
BLACK SWAN (2010)
92. 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)
THE THIN RED LINE (1998)
THE NEW WORLD (2005)
THE TREE OF LIFE (2011)
3 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THE THIN RED LINE (1998)
THE TREE OF LIFE (2011)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
THE THIN RED LINE (1998)
93. 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 ...
TREE KINGS (1999)
THE FIGHTER (2010)
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (2012)
AMERICAN HUSTLE (2013)
AMSTERDAM (2022)
5 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
THE FIGHTER (2010)
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (2012)
AMERICAN HUSTLE (2013)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (2012)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
AMERICAN HUSTLE (2013)
94. 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 ...
BATMAN (1989)
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990)
BATMAN RETURNS (1992)
BIG FISH (2003)
CHARLIE AND CHOCOLATE FACTORY (2005)
2 NOMINATIONS
ANIME PICTURE:
CORPSE BRIDE (2005)
FRANKENWEENIE (2012)
95. Steven Soderbergh
Director | Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Steven Andrew Soderbergh was born on January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the second of six children of Mary Ann (Bernard) and Peter Soderbergh. His father was of Swedish and Irish descent, and his mother was of Italian ancestry. While he was still at a very young age, his family moved to ...
KAFKA (1991)
OUT OF SIGHT (1998)
ERIN BROKOVICH (2000)
TRAFFIC (2000)
OCEAN'S ELEVEN (2001)
OCEAN'S TWELVE (2004)
THE GOOD GERMAN (2006)
OCEAN'S THIRTEEN (2007)
CHE: PART ONE (2008)
CHE: PART TWO (2008)
CONTAGION (2011)
LOGAN LUCKY (2017)
KIMI (2022)
1 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
ERIN BROCKOVICH (2000) #
TRAFFIC (2000)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
SEX, LIES AND VIDETAPE (1989)
96. Robert Redford
Actor | The Natural
Born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, and Martha Redford, Charles Robert Redford, Jr. was a scrappy kid who stole hubcaps in high school and lost his college baseball scholarship at the University of Colorado because of ...
ORDINARY PEOPLE (1980)
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT (1992)
QUIZ SHOW (1994)
THE HORSE WHISPERER (1998)
THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE (2000)
LIONS FOR LAMBS (2007)
THE CONSPIRATOR (2010)
THE COMPANY YOU KEEP (2012)
9 ფილმი (1)
1988 The Milagro Beanfield War
1 OSCAR 3 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
ORDINARY PEOPLE (1980) #
QUIZ SHOW (1994)
LEADING:
THE STING (1973)
PICTURE:
QUIZ SHOW (1994)
2002 HONORARY AWARD
97. Alan Parker
Director | Evita
The son of Elsie Ellen, a dressmaker, and William Leslie Parker, a house painter, Alan Parker was a London advertising copywriter in the 1960s and early 1970s with Collett Dickenson Pearce (CDP), an ad agency. He formed a partnership with David Puttnam as his producer (Puttnam had been a ...
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (1978)
BIRDY (1984)
MISSISSIPPI BURNING (1988)
THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE (2003)
2 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (1978)
MISSISSIPPI BURNING (1988)
98. 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...
GOSFORD PARK (2001)
7 NOMINATIONS
DIRECTOR:
MASH (1970)
NASHVILLE (1975)
THE PLAYER (1992)
SHORT CUTS (1993)
GOSFORD PARK (2001)
PICTURE:
NASHVILLE (1975)
GOSFORD PARK (2001)
2006 HONORARY AWARD
99. 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)
CITY LIGHTS (1931)
MODERN TIMES (1936)
THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)
1 OSCAR 3 NOMINATIONS
ORIGINAL SCORE:
LIMELIGHT (1952) # WIN 45AWARD
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)
MONSEUR VERDOUX (1947)
SPECIAL AWARDS ACTING WRITING DIRECTING PRODUCING:
THE CICUS (1928)
LEADING:
THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)
1972 HONORARY AWARD
100. 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 ...
SHERLOCK JR. (1924)
1960 HONORARY AWARD
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