My Favourite Film Directors
by jacobj541 | created - 01 Oct 2013 | updated - 8 months ago | PublicHere is a list of all the famous film directors that I know and admire.
1. 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 (TV Movie, 1971, 9/10) Jaws (1975, 10/10) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, 8/10) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, 10/10) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982, 10/10) Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom (1984, 9/10) The Color Purple (1985, 8/10) Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade (1989, 10/10) Hook (1991, 10/10) Jurassic Park (1993, 10/10) Schindler's List (1993, 10/10) Saving Private Ryan (1998, 10/10) War Horse (2011, 10/10) The Fablemans (2022, 8/10)
2. 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 ...
The Man Without a Face (1993, 9/10) Braveheart (1995, 10/10) The Passion of the Christ (2004, 10/10) Apocalypto (2006, 10/10) Hacksaw Ridge (2016, 10/10)
3. 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 ...
Play Misty for Me (1971, 8/10) High Plains Drifter (1973, 9/10) The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, 8/10) Pale Rider (1985, 9/10) Bird (1988, 8/10) Unforgiven (1992, 10/10) Space Cowboys (2000, 8/10) Mystic River (2003, 8/10) Million Dollar Baby (2004, 10/10) Letters from Iwo Jima (2006, 8/10) Changeling (2008, 8/10) Gran Torino (2008, 10/10) Sully (2016, 8/10) The Mule (2018, 8/10) Richard Jewell (2019, 8/10)
4. Richard Donner
Director | Superman
Richard Donner was born on April 24, 1930 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Superman (1978), Ladyhawke (1985) and Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980). He was married to Lauren Shuler Donner. He died on July 5, 2021 in Los Angeles, ...
The Omen (1976, 8/10) Superman (1978, 10/10) Lethal Weapon (1987, 10/10) The Goonies (1988, 9/10) Lethal Weapon 2 (1989, 9/10) Lethal Weapon 3 (1992, 8/10) Maverick (1994, 8/10) Lethal Weapon 4 (1998, 8/10) Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006, 8/10)
5. 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 ...
Spider-Man (2002, 10/10) Spider-Man 2 (2004, 10/10) Spider-Man 3 (2007, 8/10)
6. 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, ...
Rocky II (1979, 10/10) Rocky III (1982, 9/10) Rocky IV (1985, 9/10) Rocky Balboa (2006, 9/10) Rambo (2008, 8/10)
7. 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, 8/10) Star Wars (1977, 10/10) Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999, 7/10) Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002, 7/10) Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005, 9/10)
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, 10/10) The Conversation (1974, 8/10) The Godfather: Part II (1974, 10/10) Apocalypse Now (1979, 8/10) The Godfather: Part III (1990, 8/10) Bram Stroker's Dracula (1992, 8/10)
9. 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 ...
Dawn of the Dead (2004, 8/10) 300 (2006, 8/10) Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010, 8/10) Man of Steel (2013, 10/10) Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ultimate Cut, 2016, 9/10) Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021, 8/10) Army of the Dead (2021, 8/10)
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