My Favorite Directors

by moviebuzz13 | created - 16 Aug 2013 | updated - 29 Aug 2013 | Public

This list contains a list of directors who I watch out for. "Why?", you ask. The answer is provided in the description of the Person concerned. More often than not it will be the genre in which I believe he/she specializes in.

1. 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...

I think he specializes in drama. But whatever it is, his way of storytelling is just awesome. Genre: Drama

2. 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 ...

Someone quoted that he creates new worlds from scratch and couldn't agree with them more. ( I think the person who said this was Morgan Freeman) Genre: Sci-fi

3. Sean Ellis

Director | Metro Manila

Sean Ellis was born in 1970 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for Metro Manila (2013) and Anthropoid (2016).

Takes you to some sort-of of a dream state Genre: Drama

4. 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)...

He has a way with horror movies and rarely does he miss the mark as far as horror movies are concerned Genre: Horror

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, ...

If he is directing a movie then you can bet that it will be something. And he is probably one of the first few directors you'll hear about when you're in the look out for good directors



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