Directors I would like to see work with Jim Caviezel

1. Frank Darabont

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 ...

2. Charles Martin Smith

Director | Dolphin Tale

Charles Martin Smith is an American film actor, writer, and director. Born in Van Nuys, California, Smith was discovered by a talent agent while acting in a school play. After a few years of working in film, he landed the role of Terry "Toad" Fields in George Lucas' 1973 film, American Graffiti (...

3. Robert Rodriguez

Producer | El mariachi

Robert Anthony Rodriguez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, USA, to Rebecca (Villegas), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodríguez, a salesman. His family is of Mexican descent.

Of all the people to be amazed by the images of John Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi parable, Escape from New York (1981), none ...

4. Luis Llosa

Director | Anaconda

Luis Llosa was born in 1951 in Lima, Peru. He is a producer and director, known for Anaconda (1997), The Specialist (1994) and Crime Zone (1988). He is married to Roxana Valdivieso. They have two children. He was previously married to Patricia Pinilla Cisneros.

5. Kevin Hooks

Actor | Innerspace

Kevin Hooks was born on September 19, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Innerspace (1987), Last Resort (2012) and Passenger 57 (1992). He is married to Cheryl. They have two children. He was previously married to Regina Hooks.

6. Claudio Fäh

Director | Northmen: A Viking Saga

Fäh's latest work is the upcoming survival thriller "No Way Up" for Altitude Film Entertainment and Ingenious Media, starring Colm Meaney (Hell on Wheels, Star Trek) alongside BAFTA Award winner Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey), Sophie McIntosh (Brave New World) and Will Attenborough (Dunkirk). "No ...

7. 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 ...

8. Timur Bekmambetov

Director | Nochnoy dozor

Timur Bekmambetov is a Kazakh-Russian film director known for vampire franchise Night Watch (2004) and Day Watch (2006).

He was born Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov on June 25, 1961, in Guryev, Soviet Union (now Atyrau, Kazakhstan). His father, Nuruakhit Bekmambetov, is a manager at Guryev Energy ...

9. Emilio Estevez

Actor | The Way

Emilio Estevez was born on May 12, 1962, in New York City. He is the eldest son of actor Martin Sheen, who at the time was just breaking into the business. His mother, Janet Sheen (née Templeton), was a former New York art student who had met Emilio's father right after he had moved to Manhattan. ...

10. 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 ...

11. Jon Favreau

Producer | Chef

Initially an indie film favorite, actor Jon Favreau has progressed to strong mainstream visibility into the millennium and, after nearly two decades in the business, is still enjoying character stardom as well as earning notice as a writer/producer/director.

The amiable, husky-framed actor with the ...

12. Jay Russell

Director | My Dog Skip

Best known for Directing critically acclaimed audience pleasing fare, filmmaker Jay Russell has an impressive track record of telling compelling stories with emotional resonance.

Russell completed his postgraduate studies at Columbia University in New York City, where he studied under the tutelage ...

13. Stephen Hopkins

Producer | Lost in Space

Stephen Hopkins is a producer and director, known for Lost in Space (1998), A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989) and Predator 2 (1990).

14. Chuck Russell

Director | The Scorpion King

Graduating from the University of Illinois, Russell left Chicago to begin work in film production in Los Angeles. He worked his way up, assistant directing and production managing independent films while writing screenplays. Russell made his directorial debut in 1987 with A Nightmare on Elm Street ...

15. Renny Harlin

Producer | Driven

Born in 15 March 1959 as Renny Lauri Mauritz Harjola, he is the most successful Finnish film director in the history of Hollywood.

Harlin started his career in film business in the beginning of 1980s when he was directing commercials and company films for companies like Shell. Later he worked as a ...

16. William Malone

Director | House on Haunted Hill

Born and raised in Lansing, Michigan, William Malone was inspired by films during weekly trips to the Lucian Theater to see the latest releases of horror films. By age 14 he was making home movies with an 8mm camera and designing monster masks for himself and friends to wear for Halloween.

Malone ...

17. Steve Beck

Director | Ghost Ship

Steve Michael Beck is an award winning commercial Director.

He directed commercials for First union, GMC and Chevrolet, McDonalds and Gatorade.

He has spend several years working for ILM as an Visual effects art Director on Films like "Indiana Jones and the last Crusade", "The Abyss" and "The Hunt ...

18. Nimród Antal

Director | Kontroll

Antal was born in Los Angeles, California of Hungarian ancestry. He moved to Hungary in 1991 to study at the Hungarian Film Academy. After graduating, he went on to work in the film and television industry. In 2005, he moved back to his hometown of Los Angeles to pursue success in Hollywood.

He is ...

19. John Moore

Director | Max Payne

John Moore was born in Dundalk, Ireland in 1970, a small town situated about 60 miles from the country's capital Dublin. Moore attended a technical college in Dublin where he studied filmmaking and after completing the school he went on to direct and write a series of short films all produced in ...

20. Jon Gunn

Producer | The Week

Jon Gunn was born on June 30, 1973 in the USA. He is a producer and writer, known for The Week (2015), Like Dandelion Dust (2009) and My Date with Drew (2004).

21. Andrew Erwin

Producer | American Underdog

Andrew Erwin, is a director/ producer who began his career working as a duo with his brother Jon, known as the Erwin Brothers. After many years of directing award winning music videos for artists like Skillet, Switchfoot, Michael W. Smith, and Amy Grant, they went on to produced the award winning 9...

22. Jon Erwin

Producer | I Can Only Imagine

Jon & Andrew Erwin are a directing team that focus on developing and producing unique stories of redemption, faith, and triumph of the human spirit. The duo began their career as teenagers in their hometown of Birmingham, AL, working as camera operators for ESPN. Local games at the university of ...

23. Alex Kendrick

Actor | Courageous

Born in Athens, Georgia as the middle of Rhonwyn and Larry Kendrick's three sons. He grew up in Smyrna, Georgia and graduated from Kennesaw State University with a Bachelor's degree in Communications. He worked as a Christian DJ for two radio stations before attending New Orleans Baptist ...

24. Harold Cronk

Director | God's Not Dead

Harold Cronk is known for God's Not Dead (2014), The Adventures of Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Treasure (2012) and War Prayer (2006).

25. Gabriel Sabloff

Editor | Revelation Road

Gabriel Sabloff is a director, writer & editor based in Los Angeles, specializing in the genres of action, horror, sci-fi and thriller.

Sabloff is currently the director/showrunner of Revelation Road: The Series (2023), an original, apocalyptic, action-adventure series produced for the streaming ...

26. Kevan Otto

Producer | A Question of Faith

Kevan Otto is known for A Question of Faith (2017), Pardoned by Grace (2022) and My Brother's Keeper (2020).

27. Rob Schmidt

Director | Wrong Turn

Rob Schmidt (born September 25, 1965) is an American film director and writer. His film credits include Wrong Turn, Alphabet Killer and Crime and Punishment in Suburbia, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. He created a pilot called American Town for Twentieth Century Fox and ...

28. Mick Jackson

Director | Volcano

Mick Jackson was born on October 4, 1943 in Aveley, Essex, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for Volcano (1997), The Bodyguard (1992) and Temple Grandin (2010).

29. Bruce Beresford

Director | Driving Miss Daisy

Bruce Beresford was born in Australia and graduated from Sydney University in 1962. He served as Film Officer for the British Film Institute Production Board from 1966-1971 and as a Film Advisor to the Arts Council of Great Britain. Beresford has also directed several operas including Girl Of The ...

30. John Lee Hancock

Writer | The Blind Side

John Lee Hancock was born on December 15, 1956 in Longview, Texas, USA. He is a writer and director, known for The Blind Side (2009), Saving Mr. Banks (2013) and The Highwaymen (2019).

31. Gabriele Muccino

Director | Seven Pounds

Gabriele Muccino was born on May 20, 1967 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Seven Pounds (2008), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) and The Last Kiss (2001). He has been married to Angelica Russo since December 22, 2012. They have one child. He was previously married to ...

32. Nathan Frankowski

Director | To Write Love on Her Arms

Canadian born Nathan Frankowski is an award-winning film director who got his start in documentaries where he traveled to over thirty countries. Frankowski's directing credits for narrative features include Sony Pictures' To Write Love on Her Arms (Kat Dennings, Rupert Friend, Chad Michael Murray)....

33. Mike Newell

Director | Four Weddings and a Funeral

Mike Newell was born on March 28, 1942 in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Donnie Brasco (1997). He is married to Bernice Stegers. They have three children.

34. 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 ...

35. John Woo

Director | Ying hung boon sik

Born in southern China, John Woo grew up in Hong Kong, where he began his film career as an assistant director in 1969, working for Shaw Brothers Studios. He directed his first feature in 1973 and has been a prolific director ever since, working in a wide variety of genres before A Better Tomorrow ...

36. James Wan

Writer | Saw

James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is an Australian film producer, screenwriter and film director of Malaysian Chinese descent. He is widely known for directing the horror film Saw (2004) and creating Billy the puppet. Wan has also directed Dead Silence (2007), Death Sentence (2007), Insidious (2010)...

37. Rob Cohen

Director | DragonHeart

Rob Cohen is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. One of the 1970's "baby moguls", he built a thriving career as a producer, before concentrating full time on directing from the 1990's, with high adrenaline action blockbusters such as xXx (2002) and Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (...

38. Sylvester Stallone

Actor | Rocky

Sylvester Stallone is an athletically built, dark-haired American actor/screenwriter/director/producer, the movie fans worldwide have been flocking to see Stallone's films for over 40 years, making "Sly" one of Hollywood's biggest-ever box office draws.

Sylvester Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, ...

39. Darren Lynn Bousman

Director | Repo! The Genetic Opera

Darren Lynn Bousman was born on January 11, 1979 in Overland Park, Kansas, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008), Saw II (2005) and Abattoir (2016). He has been married to Laura Bousman since January 2, 2010. They have two children.

40. Bruce Macdonald

Producer | Samson

Bruce is a Director / Producer who travels between Cape Town, Dubai, and Portugal. His knowledge of shooting in these regions plays a big role for producers looking to shoot in these regions.

Bruce co owns a production company Boomtown Films which services long form projects, TV series and ...

41. David Hackl

Director | Saw V

David Hackl is known for Saw V (2008), Into the Grizzly Maze (2015) and Life on the Line (2015).

42. Alexandre Aja

Director | Haute tension

Alexandre Aja was born on August 7, 1978 in Paris, France. He is a producer and director, known for High Tension (2003), The Hills Have Eyes (2006) and Piranha 3D (2010). He is married to Laïla Marrakchi.

43. Steven Quale

Director | Final Destination 5

Steven Quale is known for Final Destination 5 (2011), Into the Storm (2014) and Avatar (2009).

44. Rich Christiano

Producer | The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry

Rich Christiano was born October 2, 1956, raised in Waterloo NY, and graduated from St. John Fisher College in Rochester NY in 1978. He became a born-again Christian in 1980 at the age of 23 while living in North Hollywood, CA. Rich began his film career along with his twin brother Dave in 1985 ...

45. Jim Hanon

Director | Beyond the Gates of Splendor

Jim Hanon is an award-winning narrative and documentary filmmaker who has filmed on every continent but Antarctica. With an extensive background in illustration, art directing, and advertising, Jim was a Vice President of Leo Burnett in Chicago before transitioning to a more community-driven street...

46. Boaz Yakin

Writer | Fresh

Boaz Yakin was born on June 15, 1965. He is a writer and producer, known for Fresh (1994), Remember the Titans (2000) and Aviva (2020).

47. 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....

48. Zack Snyder

Director | 300

Zachary Edward "Zack" Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter, best known for action and science fiction films. Snyder made his feature film debut with the 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead and has gone on to be known for his comic book movies and ...

49. 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, ...

Again. They worked together in My Own Private Idaho

50. Jay Oliva

Art_department | Wonder Woman

Jay Oliva is an American Director, Producer, show-runner and senior illustrator. He resides in Los Angles, California where he began his career in animation working on Fox's animated series "Spider-Man" in 1996.

He became a Director on the CGI series "Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles"in ...

51. Sam Liu

Director | Batman: The Killing Joke

Sam Liu is known for Batman: The Killing Joke (2016), The Batman (2004) and Beware the Batman (2013).

52. Lauren Montgomery

Producer | Voltron: Legendary Defender

Lauren Montgomery was born on May 4, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a producer and director, known for Voltron: Legendary Defender (2016), Young Justice (2010) and Santiago of the Seas (2020).

53. Dave Bullock

Assistant_director | Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Dave Bullock is known for Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), Justice League: The New Frontier (2008) and Kim Possible (2002).

54. Brandon Vietti

Art_department | Batman: Under the Red Hood

Brandon Vietti was born in Fresno, California, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Young Justice (2010) and Batman: Death in the Family (2020).

55. Mark Pellington

Director | Arlington Road

Mark Pellington was born on March 17, 1962 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Arlington Road (1999), The Mothman Prophecies (2002) and Jerry Maguire (1996). He was previously married to Jennifer Barrett Pellington.

56. M. Night Shyamalan

Producer | Lady in the Water

Born in Puducherry, India, and raised in the posh suburban Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. Night Shyamalan is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots.

He is the son of Jayalakshmi, a Tamil ...

57. Clark Johnson

Actor | S.W.A.T.

Clark Johnson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and director, known for S.W.A.T. (2003), The Sentinel (2006) and Homicide: Life on the Street (1993). He was previously married to Heather Salmon.

58. Mark Steven Johnson

Director | Finding Steve McQueen

Mark Steven Johnson is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for writing and directing the hit Marvel films "Daredevil" and "Ghost Rider" as well as writing "Grumpy Old Men" and its successful sequel "Grumpier Old Men." Johnson recently wrote, directed and produced "Love...

59. Steve Miner

Director | House

Steve Miner has had a very popular career in making films and remains one of Hollywood's most prolific directors and has worked with a variety of stars that includes Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen, C. Thomas Howell, Tom Arnold, Amy Steel Rick Moranis, and Bill Pullman.

Before becoming a director, ...

60. Stephen Herek

Director | Critters

Stephen Herek was born on November 10, 1958 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Critters (1986), Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) and Mr. Holland's Opus (1995).

61. Carlo Carlei

Director | La corsa dell'innocente

Carlo Carlei was born on April 16, 1960 in Lamezia Terme, Calabria, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Flight of the Innocent (1992), The Last Legion (2007) and Padre Pio (2000).

62. Alain Desrochers

Director | La bouteille

Alain Desrochers studied at St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu College in the early 1980s and then at Concordia University earning himself a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the end of the decade. He began his filmmaking career with more than one-hundred music videos and television commercials, with numerous ...

63. Ariel Vromen

Director | The Iceman

Ariel has been the creative force behind a number of projects including feature films and documentaries, and has directed, written and produced projects from major production entities such as Netflix, Lionsgate/Summit, Millennium Films and Warner Bros. He is best known for the award-winning feature...

64. Jean-François Richet

Director | L'instinct de mort

Jean-François Richet was born on July 2, 1966 in Paris, France. He is a director and writer, known for Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008), Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (2008) and État des lieux (1995).

65. Florent-Emilio Siri

Director | Hostage

Florent-Emilio Siri was born on March 2, 1965. He is a director and writer, known for Hostage (2005), A Minute of Silence (1998) and Intimate Enemies (2007).

66. Roger Young

Director | Lou Grant

Roger Young grew up on his Grandfather's farm, and in the town of Mahomet, Illinois. Population 850. At age thirteen he moved to the big town of Bloomington, Illinois, where he learned to play pool, compete on the swim team, and circle the Steak-n-Shake in his buddy's '57 Chevy. After high school ...

67. Andrew Davis

Director | The Fugitive

Director/Producer/Writer) Andrew Davis is a filmmaker with a reputation for directing intelligent thrillers, most notably the Academy Award-nominated box-office hit The Fugitive (1993), starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. The film received seven Academy Award nominations including Best ...

68. Peter Berg

Actor | Chicago Hope

Peter Berg is an American actor, director, writer, and producer. His first role was in the Adam Rifkin road movie Never on Tuesday (1988). He went on to star in the World War 2 film A Midnight Clear (1992). Roles in Fire in the Sky (1993) and Cop Land (1997) followed, and the Tom Cruise films ...

69. Kevin Bray

Director | Walking Tall

Kevin Bray is a director and producer known for his work on Succession, Insecure, Run, The Americans, Snowfall, and the pilot of Suits. Bray began his film career directing the classic urban action comedy, All About the Benjamins, as well as the 2004 remake of Walking Tall, starring Dwayne "The ...

70. Doug Liman

Producer | Edge of Tomorrow

Douglas Eric Liman is a Jewish-American filmmaker and producer who directed Swingers, The Bourne Identity, Chaos Walking, Jumper, Go, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Fair Game, Locked Down, Edge of Tomorrow, The Wall and American Made. He executive produced the Bourne sequels except The Bourne Legacy, The ...

71. Paul Greengrass

Director | United 93

Paul Greengrass started his filmmaking career with a super 8 camera he found in his art room in secondary school. Those short movies were animation horror films he made using old dolls, artist dummies, and the general art room clutter.

After studying in Cambridge University he got into Granada ...

72. Sam Raimi

Director | Spider-Man

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

73. Paul W.S. Anderson

Writer | Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Paul W.S. Anderson gained a fair bit of notoriety in his native England when he directed the ultra-violent Shopping (1994) (which he also wrote), starring Jude Law and Sean Pertwee in a story about thieves who steal by ramming a car into storefronts. The film was banned in some cinemas in England, ...

74. 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 ...

Again. They worked together in The Thin Red Line.

75. Gregory Hoblit

Producer | Hill Street Blues

Gregory Hoblit was born in Texas but moved to Northern California at a young age because of his father's job in law enforcement, a hint at what might have attracted the mystery/courtroom plots of his movie/TV credits. After graduating from UCLA, he worked as a TV co-producer with Steven Bochco ...

Again. They worked together in Frequency

76. Kevin Reynolds

Director | Waterworld

Raised as an Air Force brat, Kevin Reynolds' love for cinema inspired him to forsake his law school degree and move to Los Angeles to enroll in the University of Southern California's legendary film school. Reynolds' graduate thesis film "Proof" became the basis for "Fandango" starring Kevin ...

Again. They worked together in The Count of Monte Cristo

77. 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...

78. Tim McCanlies

Writer | The Iron Giant

Tim McCanlies was born in 1953. He is a writer and director, known for The Iron Giant (1999), Secondhand Lions (2003) and Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998).

79. 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 ...

Again. They worked together in The Passion of the Christ.

80. Michael Bay

Producer | Armageddon

A graduate of Wesleyan University, Michael Bay spent his 20s working on advertisements and music videos. His first projects after film school were in the music video business. He created music videos for Tina Turner, Meat Loaf, Lionel Richie, Wilson Phillips, Donny Osmond and Divinyls. His work won...

Again. They worked together in The Rock

81. Wil Shriner

Writer | Hoot

He is as a award-winning television director with numerous episodes of Frasier (1993), Becker (1998), Everybody Loves Raymond (1996), and Gilmore Girls (2000) under his belt.

He is a nationally known comedian with over 50 appearances with Jay Leno, David Letterman, Johnny Carson and more.

His ...

82. Bob Dolman

Writer | Willow

Bob Dolman was born on October 28, 1949 in Canada. He is a writer and producer, known for Willow (1988), Far and Away (1992) and SCTV Network (1981).

83. Brad Peyton

Producer | Daybreak

Brad Peyton was born on May 27, 1978 in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He is a producer and writer, known for Daybreak (2019), Rampage (2018) and San Andreas (2015).

84. Gore Verbinski

Director | Rango

Gore Verbinski, one of American cinema's most inventive directors who was a punk-rock guitarist as a teenager and had to sell his guitar to buy his first camera, is now the director of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) which made the industry record for highest opening weekend of ...

85. Mathieu Kassovitz

Actor | Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

Mathieu Kassovitz was born on August 3, 1967 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for Amélie (2001), La haine (1995) and The Fifth Element (1997).

86. John Stockwell

Actor | Top Gun

John Stockwell is an American actor, director, producer and writer who is probably best known - as an actor - for his roles in the Tom Cruise vehicles Losin' It (1982) and Top Gun (1986), and the Stephen King - John Carpenter film Christine (1983).

John has since moved from acting into the ...

87. Mikael Håfström

Writer | Ondskan

Mikael Håfström was born on July 1, 1960 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden. He is a writer and director, known for Evil (2003), 1408 (2007) and The Rite (2011).

Again. They worked together in Escape Plan

88. Andrew Hyatt

Writer | Paul, Apostle of Christ

Andrew Hyatt is the award-winning writer/director of the historical dramas "Paul, Apostle of Christ" and "Full of Grace" and the award winning thrillers, "The Last Light", and "The Frozen." Hyatt's "All Those Small Things" premiered at the 2021 Seattle International Film Festival, and the ...

Again. They worked together in Paul, Apostle of Christ

89. Tom Holland

Writer | Fright Night

Tom Holland is an American director and screenwriter of horror and thriller films. His early writing projects include Class of 1984 (1982) and the Robert Bloch- inspired Psycho II (1983), the latter starring Anthony Perkins as the menacing psychopath, Norman Bates.

Tom gained more notoriety, however...

90. Todd Holland

Director | Malcolm in the Middle

Todd Holland's life was changed forever when, at the age of five, he saw an episode of Jonny Quest that scared the bejesus out of him - and from that moment he wanted life to always be that exciting. Story-telling became his gateway drug of choice. Since that fateful viewing, Todd has directed more...

91. Wych Kaosayananda

Producer | One Night in Bangkok

Wych Kaosayananda was born in 1974 in Thailand. He is known for One Night in Bangkok (2020), Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) and The Driver (2019).

92. Jee-woon Kim

Director | Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom

Kim Ji-woon was born in Seoul, South Korea. He began his career as an actor before becoming a stage director with productions such as "Hot Sea" in 1994 and "Movie, Movie" in 1995. He then began scripting for films, his first work, 97's "Wonderful Seasons" won Best Screenplay award at Korea's ...

93. Howard McCain

Director | Outlander

Howard McCain is known for Outlander (2008), A Boy's Life (2014) and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009).

Again. They worked together in Outlander

94. Luis Mandoki

Director | Voces inocentes

Luis Mandoki was born on August 17, 1954 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a director and producer, known for Innocent Voices (2004), Angel Eyes (2001) and Trapped (2002).

Again. They worked together in Angel Eyes

95. 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...

96. Mimi Leder

Producer | The Morning Show

Mimi Leder was born on January 26, 1952 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer and director, known for The Morning Show (2019), On the Basis of Sex (2018) and Deep Impact (1998). She has been married to Gary Werntz since January 26, 1986. They have one child. She was previously married ...

Again. They worked together in Pay It Forward.

97. Kerry Conran

Director | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Born in 1964 and raised in Flint, Michigan, Kerry Conran came from a family of aspiring artists: his older brother Kevin Conran was an illustrator and his younger sister Kirsten Conran an art director at an ad agency. Growing up watching classic sci-fi films such as Metropolis (1927), King Kong (...

98. Ric Roman Waugh

Director | Shot Caller

Ric Roman Waugh was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. Ric Roman is a producer and director, known for Shot Caller (2017), Angel Has Fallen (2019) and Greenland (2020). Ric Roman has been married to Tanya Ballinger since September 24, 2005. They have two children.

99. Scott Waugh

Director | Act of Valor

Scott Waugh was born on August 22, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Act of Valor (2012), Expend4bles (2023) and Hidden Strike (2023).

100. Joe Johnston

Director | Captain America: The First Avenger

Joseph Eggleston Johnston II is an American film director from Texas who is known for directing the cult classic film The Rocketeer, Jumanji, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Wolfman, October Sky, The Pagemaster, Jurassic Park III and Captain America: The First Avenger. He was an art director for ...