Director filmography ranking

1. 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 ...

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey 2. The Shining 3. Dr. Strangelove 4. Eyes Wide Shut 5. Spartacus 6. Full Metal Jacket 7. A Clockwork Orange 8. The Killing 9. Barry Lyndon 10. Paths of Glory 11. Lolita 12. Killer's Kiss 13. Fear and Desire

2. 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 ...

1. Taxi Driver 2. Goodfellas 3. Casino 4. Raging Bull 5. The Aviator 6. The Irishman 7. Silence 8. The Departed 9. Gangs of New York 10. Sutter Island 11. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 12. The Last Temptation of Christ 13. Mean Streets 14. The Wolf of Wall Street 15. The Color of Money 16. Cape Fear 17. Kundun 18. Bringing Out the Dead 19. Hugo 20. The King of Comedy 21. The Age of Innocence 22. After Hours 23. Who's That Knocking at My Door 24. New York, New York 25. Boxcar Bertha

3. 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, ...

1. Schindler's List 2. Minority Report 3. Raiders of the Lost Ark 4. Munich 5. Jaws 6. Saving Private Ryan 7. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 8. A.I. Artificial Intelligence 9. Jurassic Park 10. Catch Me if You Can 11. War of the Worlds 12. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 13. Empire of the Sun 14. Bridge of Spies 15. Lincoln 16. Amistad 17. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 18. The Post 19. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 20. The Terminal 21. The Color Purple 22. Hook 23. The BFG 24. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 25. The Sugarland Express 26. The Adventures of Tintin 27. The Lost World: Jurassic Park 28. Always 29. Ready Player One 30. War Horse 31. 1941

4. 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 ...

1. Memento 2. Inception 3. The Dark Knight 4. Batman Begins 5. The Prestige 6. The Dark Knight Rises 7. Dunkirk 8. Interstellar 9. Insomnia 10. Following

5. 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...

1. Se7en 2. Zodiac 3. Fight Club 4. The Social Network 5. Gone Girl 6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 7. Panic Room 8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 9. The Game 10. Alien 3

6. 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 ...

1. Gladiator 2. Blade Runner 3. Alien 4. Black Hawk Down 5. Matchstick Men 6. American Gangster 7. Kingdom of Heaven 8. The Martian 9. Thelma & Louise 10. Hannibal 11. Prometheus 12. The Counselor 13. All the Money in the World 14. Body of Lies 15. The Duellists 16. G.I. Jane 17. Alien: Covenant 18. Exodus: Gods and Kings 19. 1492: A Conquest of Paradise 20. Black Rain 21. Legend 22. Robin Hood 23. White Squall 24. A Good Year 25. Someone to Watch Over Me

7. 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 ...

1. Heat 2. The Insider 3. Collateral 4. The Last of the Mohicans 5. Public Enemies 6. Thief 7. Ali 8. Miami Vice 9. Manhunter 10. Blackhat 11. The Keep

8. 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 ...

1. Platoon 2. JFK 3. Born on the Fourth of July 4. Natural Born Killers 5. Nixon 6. World Trade Center 7. Talk Radio 8. Salvador 9. Snowden 10. W. 11. Heaven & Earth 12. The Doors 13. Any Given Sunday 14. Wall Street 15. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps 16. Alexander 17. Savages 18. The Hand 19. U-Turn

9. 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...

1. There Will Be Blood 2. Boogie Nights 3. Phantom Thread 4. Magnolia 5. The Master 6. Inherent Vice 7. Punch-Drunk Love 8. Hard Eight

10. 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...

1. Pulp Fiction 2. Jackie Brown 3. Inglourious Basterds 4. Reservoir Dogs 5. Django Unchained 6. The Hateful Eight 7. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 8. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood 8. Death Proof 9. Kill Bill: Vol. 1

11. 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 ...

1. Mystic River 2. Letters from Iwo Jima 3. Million Dollar Baby 4. Unforgiven 5. Changeling 6. Gran Torino 7. Richard Jewell 8. White Hunter, Black Heart 9. Invictus 10. Play Misty for Me 11. The Bridges of Madison County 12. A Perfect World 13. Flags of Our Fathers 14. American Sniper 15. Hereafter 16. Space Cowboys 17. Breezy 18. Absolute Power 19. True Crime 20. J. Edgar 21. The Outlaw Jose Wales 22. Blood Work 23. High Plains Drifter 24. Bird 25. The Mule 26. The Eiger Sanction 27. The Gauntlet 28. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 29. Jersey Boys 30. The Rookie 31. Firefox 32. Heartbreak Ridge 33. Pale Rider 34. Sully 35. Honkytonk Man 36. Sudden Impact 37. Bronco Billy

12. 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 ...

1. No Country for Old Men 2. Fargo 3. Blood Simple. 4. The Man Who Wasn't There 5. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 6. Inside Llewyn Davis 7. The Big Lebowski 8. True Grit 9. Hail, Caesar! 10. A Serious Man 11. The Hudsucker Proxy 12. Barton Fink 13. Miller's Crossing 14. Raising Arizona 15. Intolerable Cruelty 16. The Ladykillers 17. 0 Brother, Where Art Though? 18. Burn After Reading

13. 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 ...

1. The Thin Red Line 2. The New World 3. The Tree of Life 4. Days of Heaven 5. A Hidden Life 6. Knight of Cups 7. Badlands 8. Song to Song 9. To the Wonder

14. 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 ...

1. Mother! 2. Requiem for a Dream 3. Black Swan 4. The Fountain 5. The Wrestler 6. Noah 7. Pi

15. 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 ...

1. Deconstructing Harry 2. Crimes and Misdemeanors 3. Sleeper 4. Interiors 5. Match Point 6. Annie Hall 7. Another Woman 8. Blue Jasmine 9. Manhattan 10. Husbands and Wives 11. Bullets Over Broadway 12. September 13. Irrational Man 14. Manhattan Murder Mystery 15. Broadway Danny Rose 16. Cafe Society 17. The Purple Rose of Cairo 18. Sweet and Lowdown 19. Cassandra's Dream 20. Wonder Wheel 21. Scoop 22. Small Time Crooks 23. Bananas 24. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion 25. Hannah and Her Sisters 26. Mighty Aphrodite 27. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger 28. Stardust Memories 29. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask 30. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy 31. Zelig 32. Midnight in Paris 33. Take the Money and Run 34. Love and Death 35. Radio Days 36. Alice 37. Anything Else 38. Vicky Cristina Barcelona 39. Shadows and Fog 40. Whatever Works 41. Magic in the Moonlight 42. Hollywood Ending 43. Celebrity 44. Everyone Says I Love You 45. Melinda and Melinda 46. To Rome with Love

16. 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 ...

1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day 2. Titanic 3. The Terminator 4. True Lies 5. Avatar 6. The Abyss 7. Aliens 8. Piranha Part Two: The Spawning

17. 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 ...

1. Chinatown 2. Rosemary's Baby 3. The Pianist 4. Tess 5. The Ghost Writer 6. Death and the Maiden 7. Venus in Fur 8. Macbeth 9. Bitter Moon 10. The Tenant 11. Knife in the Water 12. Repulsion 13. Carnage 14. The Ninth Gate 15. Cul-De-Sac 16. Oliver Twist 17. Frantic 18. Pirates 19. The Fearless Vampire Killers

18. 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...

1. Stalker 2. Solaris 3. The Sacrifice 4. Nostalgia 5. Ivan's Childhood 6. Andrei Rublev 7. The Mirror

19. Sam Mendes

Producer | 1917

Samuel Alexander Mendes was born on August 1, 1965 in Reading, England, UK to parents James Peter Mendes, a retired university lecturer, and Valerie Helene Mendes, an author who writes children's books. Their marriage didn't last long, James divorced Sam's mother in 1970 when Sam was just 5-...

1. American Beauty 2. Road to Perdition 3. Revolutionary Road 4. 1917 5. Skyfall 6. Jarhead 7. Spectre 8. Away We Go

20. Cameron Crowe

Writer | Almost Famous

Certainly idiosyncratic as a writer, Cameron Crowe has created a series of scripts that, while liked by the critics, were considered offbeat and difficult to market.

Cameron Bruce Crowe was born in Palm Springs, California, to Alice Marie Crowe (née George), a teacher and activist, and James A. ...

1. Jerry Maguire 2. Vanilla Sky 3. Almost Famous 4. Say Anything 5. Elizabethtown 6. Singles 7. We Bought a Zoo 8. Aloha

21. 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 ...

1. Braveheart 2. The Passion of the Christ 3. Apocalypto 4. Hacksaw Ridge 5. The Man without a Face

22. 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 ...

1. A Beautiful Mind 2. Frost\Nixon 3. Apollo 13 4. Backdraft 5. Cinderella Man 6. Ransom 7. Rush 8. Parenthood 9. The Paper 10. The Da Vinci Code 11. How the Grinch Stole Christmas 12. Willow 13. Inferno 14. Cocoon 15. The Missing 16. Splash 17. Ed TV 18. Gung Ho 19. Angels & Demons 20. The Dilemma 21. In the Heart of the Sea 22. Far & Away 23. Night Shift 24. Grand Theft Auto 25. Solo: A Star Wars Story

23. William Friedkin

Director | To Live and Die in L.A.

Friedkin's mother was an operating room nurse. His father was a merchant seaman, semi-pro softball player and ultimately sold clothes in a men's discount chain. Ultimately, his father never earned more than $50/week in his whole life and died indigent. Eventually young Will became infatuated with ...

1. The French Connection 2. The Exorcist 3. The Boys in the Band 4. Bug 5. Sorcerer 6. Blue Chips 7. Killer Joe 8. The Hunted 9. The Birthday Party 10. Rules of Engagement 11. Rampage 12. The Night They Raided Minsky's 13. To Live and Die in L.A. 14. Cruising 15. The Brink's Job 16. Deal of the Century 17. Jade 18. The Guardian 19. Good Times

24. 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 ...

1. The Green Mile 2. The Shawshank Redemption 3. The Mist 4. The Majestic

25. Andrew Dominik

Director | Chopper

Andrew Dominik was born on October 7, 1967 in Wellington, New Zealand. He is a director and writer, known for Chopper (2000), Blonde (2022) and Killing Them Softly (2012).

1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2. Killing Them Softly 3. Chopper

26. Steve McQueen

Director | 12 Years a Slave

Steve McQueen was born on October 9, 1969 in London, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for 12 Years a Slave (2013), Shame (2011) and Hunger (2008). He is married to Bianca Stigter. They have two children.

1. Shame 2. 12 Years a Slave 3. Hunger 4. Widows

27. 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 ...

1. Forrest Gump 2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 3. Back to the Future 4. Cast Away 5. Allied 6. Contact 7. The Walk 8. Used Cars 9. The Polar Express 10. Back to the Future: Part II 11. Death Becomes Her 12. Romancing the Stone 13. Back to the Future: Part III 14. What Lies Beneath 15. Beowulf 16. Flight 17. A Christmas Carol 18. I Wanna Hold Your Hand

28. Ang Lee

Director | Xi yan

Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of today's greatest contemporary filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then came to the U.S. to receive a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre/Theater Direction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ...

1. Brokeback Mountain 2. Life of Pi 3. The Ice Storm 4. Lust, Caution 5. Pushing Hands 6. The Wedding Banquet 7. Hulk 8. Taking Woodstock 9. Eat Drink Man Woman 10. Crouching Tider, Hidden Dragon 11. Sense & Sensibility 12. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk 13. Ride with the Devil

29. Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Director | Biutiful

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

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

1. The Revenant 2. Babel 3. Birdman 4. 21 Grams 5. Buitiful 6. Amores Perros

30. 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...

1. True Romance 2. Crimson Tide 3. Enemy of the State 4. Top Gun 5. The Last Boy Scout 6. Spy Game 7. Man on Fire 8. Days of Thunder 9. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 10. The Fan 11. Deja Vu 12. The Hunger 13. Beverly Hills Cop II 14. Domino 15. Revenge 16. Unstoppable

31. Sean Penn

Actor | Mystic River

Sean Penn is a powerhouse film performer capable of intensely moving work, who has gone from strength to strength during a colourful film career, and who has drawn much media attention for his stormy private life and political viewpoints.

Sean Justin Penn was born in Los Angeles, California, the ...

1. Into the Wild 2. The Pledge 3. The Indian Runner 4. The Crossing Guard

32. Spike Jonze

Producer | Her

Spike Jonze made up one-third (along with Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman) of the triumvirate of genius minds behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine. These three uncommon characters were all editors for Grand Royal Magazine as well, under the ...

1. Adaptation. 2. Where the Wild Things Are 3. Her 4. Being John Malkovich

33. Alexander Payne

Director | Nebraska

Director, producer and screenwriter Alexander Payne was born in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents, Peggy (Constantine) and George Payne, ran a Greek restaurant. His father is of Greek and German ancestry, and his mother is of Greek descent; the family name was originally Papadopoulos. He is the youngest...

1. The Descendants 2. About Schmidt 3. Sideways 4. Nebraska 5. Downsizing 7. Citizen Ruth 8. Election

34. 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 ...

1. Beetlejuice 2. Batman 3. Edward Scissorhands 4. Ed Wood 5. Batman Returns 6. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 7. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 8. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 9. Planet of the Apes 10. Sleepy Hollow 11. Big Eyes 12. Frankenweenie 13. Pee-wee's Big Adventure 14. Corpse Bride 15. Mars Attacks! 16. Big Fish 17. Dark Shadows 18. Alice in Wonderland

35. 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 ...

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 4. Heavenly Creatures 5. King Kong 6. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 7. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 8. The Lovely Bones 9. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 10. The Frighteners 11. Bad Taste 12. Meet the Feebles 13. Dead Alive

36. 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....

1. X2 2. X-Men 3. X-Men: Days of Future Past 4. Valkyrie 5. The Usual Suspects 6. X-Men: Apocalypse 7. Apt Pupil 8. Superman Returns 9. Bohemian Rhapsody 10. Jack the Giant Slayer 11. Public Access

37. Danny Boyle

Director | 127 Hours

Daniel Francis Boyle is a British filmmaker, producer and writer from Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. He is known for directing 28 Days Later, 127 Hours, Trainspotting, T2 Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, Millions, Shallow Grave, The Beach, Yesterday, and Steve Jobs. He won many awards for ...

1. 127 Hours 2. Slumdog Millionaire 3. Steve Jobs 4. T2: Trainspotting 5. Yesterday 6. Trainspotting 7. Sunshine 8. The Beach 9. A Life Less Ordinary 10. 28 Days Later... 11. Shallow Grave 12. Trance 13. Millions

38. John McTiernan

Director | Die Hard

John McTiernan was born on January 8, 1951 in Albany, New York, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Die Hard (1988), Rollerball (2002) and Last Action Hero (1993). He has been married to Gail Sistrunk since 2012. He was previously married to Kate Harrington, Donna Dubrow and Carol Land.

1. Die Hard 2. Die Hard with a Vengeance 3. Predator 4. The Hunt for Red October 5. Last Action Hero 6. The Thomas Crown Affair 7. Basic 8. Medicine Man 9. Nomads 10. The 13th Warrior 11. Rollerball

39. 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 ...

1. Spider-Man 2 2. Spider-Man 3. Evil Dead II 4. Army of Darkness 5. A Simple Plan 6. The Evil Dead 7. Darkman 8. Spider-Man 3 9. The Gift 10. Oz: The Great and Powerful 11. The Quick and the Dead 12. Drag Me to Hell 13. For Love of the Game 14. Crimewave

40. James Mangold

Producer | Logan

James Mangold is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer. Films he has directed include Girl, Interrupted (1999), Walk the Line (2005), which he also co-wrote, the 2007 remake 3:10 to Yuma (2007), The Wolverine (2013), and Logan (2017).

Mangold also wrote and directed Cop...

1. Identity 2. Cop Land 3. 3:10 to Yuma 4. Logan 5. Ford v Ferrari 6. Walk the Line 7. Heavy 8. Girl, Interrupted 9. Kate & Leopold 10. The Wolverine 11. Knight and Day

41. Jim Sheridan

Producer | In America

Following a distinguished career in the theatre between the 1960s and the 1980s, Jim Sheridan wrote and directed his first critically acclaimed feature My Left Foot in 1989. The film was nominated for two European Film Awards. He followed this in 1990 with The Field which he also wrote and directed...

1. In the Name of the Father 2. My Left Foot 3. In America 4. The Field 5. Brothers 6. The Boxer 7. Get Rich or Die Tryin' 8. Dream House

42. John Carpenter

Writer | The Fog

John Howard Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, to mother Milton Jean (Carter) and father Howard Ralph Carpenter. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky ...

1. Halloween 2. The Thing 3. Christine 4. In the Mouth of Madness 5. Escape from L.A. 6. Assault on Precinct 13 7. Big Trouble in Little China 8. Starman 9. Vampires 10. Prince of Darkness 11. Escape from New York 12. They Live 13. The Fog 14. Memoirs of an Invisible Man 15. Dark Star 16. Ghosts of Mars 17. Village of the Damned 18. The Ward

43. 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 ...

1. United 93 2. Captain Phillips 3. Bloody Sunday 4. 22 July 5. The Bourne Supremacy 6. The Bourne Ultimatum 7. Green Zone 8. Jason Bourne

44. J.C. Chandor

Producer | A Most Violent Year

J.C. Chandor is known for A Most Violent Year (2014), Margin Call (2011) and All Is Lost (2013). He has been married to Mary Cameron Goodyear since 2004. They have two children.

1. All is Lost 2. Margin Call 3. A Most Violent Year 4. Triple Frontier

45. Cary Joji Fukunaga

Producer | Beasts of No Nation

Cary Joji Fukunaga is a Japanese-American film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and producer from Oakland, California who is known for directing the James Bond film No Time to Die, Kofi, Beasts of No Nation, Jane Eyre and Sin Nombre. He co-wrote the 2017 film adaptation of the Stephen King ...

1. Beasts of No Nation 2. Sin Nombre 3. Jane Eyre

46. Ben Affleck

Producer | Argo

Benjamin Géza "Ben" Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to mother Chris Anne (Boldt), a school teacher, and father Timothy Byers "Tim" Affleck, a social worker. Ben has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, who was born in 1975...

1. Gone Baby Gone 2. Argo 3. The Town 4. Live by Night

47. 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 ...

1. The Sixth Sense 2. Split 3. Unbreakable 4. Signs 5. Glass 6. The Village 7. Lady in the Water 8. The Visit 9. The Happening 10. Wide Awake 11. After Earth 12. The Last Airbender

48. 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 ...

1. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 3. The Weather Man 4. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 5. Rango 6. The Ring 7. The Mexican 8. Mousehunt 9. The Lone Ranger 10. A Cure for Wellness

49. James Gray

Director | The Immigrant

Writer/director James Gray made his first film Little Odessa (1994) at the age of twenty-five. The film, which starred Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell, received critical acclaim and was the winner of the Venice Film Festival's prestigious Silver Lion Award in 1994.

...

1. The Lost City of Z 2. Ad Astra 3. Two Lovers 4. The Yards 5. Little Odessa 6. We Own the Night 7. The Immigrant

50. Sofia Coppola

Actress | The Godfather Part III

Sofia Coppola was born on May 14, 1971 in New York City, New York, USA as Sofia Carmina Coppola. She is a director, known for Somewhere (2010), Lost in Translation (2003), and Marie Antoinette (2006). She has been married to Thomas Mars since August 27, 2011. They have two daughters, Romy and ...

1. Lost in Translation 2. The Beguiled 3. The Virgin Suicides 4. Mary Antoinette 5. Somewhere 6. The Bling Ring

51. Lilly Wachowski

Writer | The Matrix

Director, writer, and producer Lilly Wachowski was born in 1967 in Chicago, the daughter of Lynne, a nurse and painter, and Ron, a businessman. Lilly was educated at Kellogg Elementary School in Chicago, before moving on to Whitney M. Young High School. After graduating from high school, she ...

1. The Matrix 2. Cloud Atlas 3. Bound 4. The Matrix Reloaded 5. Speed Racer 6. Jupiter Ascending 7. The Matrix Revolutions

52. Kevin Smith

Producer | Clerks

Kevin Patrick Smith was born in Red Bank but grew up in Highlands, New Jersey, the son of Grace (Schultz) and Donald E. Smith, a postal worker. He is very proud of his native state; this fact can be seen in all of his movies. Kevin is of mostly German, with some Irish and English, ancestry.

His ...

1. Chasing Amy 2. Dogma 3. Clerks 4. Tusk 5. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 6. Clerks II 7. Mallrats 9. Jersey Girl 10. Cop Out 11. Red State 12. Zack and Miri Make a Porno 13. Yoga Hosers 14. Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

53. 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 ...

1. American Graffiti 2. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope 3. THX 1138 4. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 5. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 6. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

54. Judd Apatow

Producer | Girls

Judd Apatow is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and comedian. He directed The 40-Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, This is 40, Funny People, Trainwreck and The King of Staten Island. He also developed the television shows Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Girls, Love and Crashing. He is ...

1. The 40 Year Old Virgin 2. Knocked Up 3. Funny people 4. Trainwreck 5. This is 40

55. 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...

1. The Rock 2. Bad Boys 3. Transformers 4. Armageddon 5. Bad Boys II 6. Pain and Gain 7. The Island 8. Pearl Harbor 9. Transformers: Age of Extinction 10. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 11. Transformers: Dark of the Moon 12. Transformers: The Last Knight 13. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 14. 6 Underground

56. David Gordon Green

Producer | Halloween Kills

David Gordon Green was born on April 9, 1975 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Halloween Kills (2021), Prince Avalanche (2013) and Halloween (2018).

1. Undertow 2. Stronger 3. Pineapple Express 4. Joe 5. Prince Avalanche 6. Manglehorn 7. Halloween 8. Snow Angels 9. All the Real Girls 10. Your Highness 11. Our Brand is Crisis 12. George Washington 13. The Sitter

57. 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...

1. The Last Samurai 2. Glory 3. Legends of the Fall 4. Blood Diamond 5. Love & Other Drugs 6. Pawn Sacrifice 7. Courage Under Fire 8. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back 9. The Siege 10. About Last Night 11. Defiance

58. Guillermo del Toro

Writer | El laberinto del fauno

Guillermo del Toro was born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Raised by his Catholic grandmother, del Toro developed an interest in filmmaking in his early teens. Later, he learned about makeup and effects from the legendary Dick Smith (The Exorcist (1973)) and worked on making his ...

1. Pan's Labyrinth 2. The Shape of Water 3. Hellboy II: The Golden Army 4. The Devil's Backbone 5. Hellboy 6. Crimson Peak 7. Pacific Rim 8. Cronos 9. Blade II 10. Mimic

59. Matthew Vaughn

Producer | Kick-Ass

Matthew Vaughn is an English film producer and director. He is known for producing such films as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000) and for directing the crime thriller, Layer Cake (2004), the fantasy epic, Stardust (2007), the superhero comedy, Kick-Ass (2010), and the ...

1. Kick-Ass 2. X-Men: First Class 3. Kingsman: The Secret Service 4. Stardust 5. Layer Cake 6. Kingsman: The Golden Circle

60. Jeff Nichols

Writer | Take Shelter

Jeff Nichols was born on December 7, 1978 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Take Shelter (2011), Mud (2012) and Midnight Special (2016).

1. Take Shelter 2. Midnight Special 3. Mud 4. Shotgun Stories 5. Loving

61. Scott Cooper

Director | Crazy Heart

Scott Cooper was born on April 20, 1970 in Abingdon, Virginia, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Crazy Heart (2009), Hostiles (2017) and Out of the Furnace (2013).

1. Crazy Heart 2. Out of the Furnace 3. Black Mass

62. Jason Reitman

Producer | Up in the Air

Jason Reitman is a Canadian filmmaker and producer who notably directed Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Juno, Thank You for Smoking, Up in the Air, Young Adult and Tully. He produced Chloe and Jennifer's Body, two films that advanced Amanda Seyfried's career for adult oriented roles. He is the son of Ivan...

1. Juno 2. Tully 3. The Front Runner 4. Young Adult 5. Up in the Air 6. Thank You For Smoking 7. Men, Women & Children 8. Labor Day

63. Antoine Fuqua

Producer | The Magnificent Seven

Antoine Fuqua is an American film director, known for his work in the film Training Day as well as The Replacement Killers, Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter, Brooklyn's Finest, Olympus Has Fallen and The Equalizer.

He has directed music videos for such artists as Arrested Development, Prince, ...

1. Training Day 2. The Equalizer 3. Southpaw 4. The Equalizer 2 5. Bait 6. The Magnificent Seven 7. Olympus Has Fallen 8. King Arthur 9. Brooklyn's Finest 10. Tears of the Sun 11. The Replacement Killers 12. Shooter

64. Brett Ratner

Director | Red Dragon

Brett Ratner is one of Hollywood's most successful filmmakers. His diverse films resonate with audiences worldwide and, as director, his films have grossed over $2 billion at the global box office. Brett began his career directing music videos before making his feature directorial debut at 26 years...

1. Red Dragon 2. The Family Man 3. X-Men: The Last Stand 4. Rush Hour 5. Tower Heist 6. Rush Hour 2 7. After the Sunset 8. Money Talks 9. Hercules 10. Rush Hour 3

65. George Clooney

Actor | The Ides of March

George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (née Warren), a former beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and television host (who was also the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry. Clooney ...

1. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 2. The Ides of March 3. Good Night and Good Luck 4. The Monuments Men 5. Leatherheads

66. Simon West

Director | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Simon West is a British born and Hollywood based film director and producer. His films include CON AIR starring Nicholas Cage, "THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER" starring John Travolta and "LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER" starring Angelina Jolie. West is the only live action director ever whose first three 3 films ...

1. Con Air 2. The General's Daughter 3. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 4. The Expendables 2 5. The Mechanic 6. Wild Card 7. Stolen

67. Dominic Sena

Director | Kalifornia

Dominic Sena was born on April 26, 1949 in Niles, Ohio, USA. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Kalifornia (1993), Whiteout (2009) and Swordfish (2001).

1. Kalifornia 2. Gone in 60 Seconds 3. Swordfish 4. Whiteout 5. Season of the Witch

68. Pete Docter

Writer | Up

Pete Docter is the Oscar®-winning director of "Monsters, Inc.," "Up," and "Inside Out," and Chief Creative Officer at Pixar Animation Studios. He is currently directing Pixar's feature film "Soul" with producer Dana Murray, which is set to release June 19, 2020.

Starting at Pixar in 1990 as the ...

1. Inside Out 2. Monsters, Inc. 3. Up

69. Tom McCarthy

Writer | The Station Agent

Tom McCarthy is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for direct and write The Station Agent (2003), The Visitor (2007), Win Win (2011), and Spotlight (2015), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and was nominated for Best Director.

McCarthy...

1. Spotlight 2. The Station Agent 3. The Visitor 4. Win Win 5. The Cobbler

70. James Ponsoldt

Director | The Spectacular Now

James Ponsoldt was born on September 5, 1978 in Athens, Georgia, USA. He is a producer and director, known for The Spectacular Now (2013), The Circle (2017) and The End of the Tour (2015). He has been married to Megan Holloway since September 25, 2010.

1. Smashed 2. The End of the Tour 3. The Spectacular Now 4. Off the Black

71. Warren Beatty

Actor | Heaven Can Wait

Since starring in his first film, Splendor in the Grass (1961), Warren Beatty has been said to have demonstrated a greater longevity in movies than any actor of his generation. Few people have taken so many responsibilities for all phases of the production of films as producer, director, writer, ...

1. Reds 2. Bulworth 3. Rules Don't Apply 4. Dick Tracy 5. Heaven Can Wait

72. Jay Roach

Director | Trumbo

Jay Roach was born on June 14, 1957 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Trumbo (2015), Bombshell (2019) and Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997). He has been married to Susanna Hoffs since April 17, 1993. They have two children.

1. Trumbo 2. Meet the Parents 3. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 4. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 5. Mystery, Alaska 6. Dinner for Schmucks 7. Austin Powers in Goldmember 8. Meet the Fockers 9. The Campaign

73. Peter Farrelly

Producer | Green Book

Peter Farrelly was born on December 17, 1956 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Green Book (2018), There's Something About Mary (1998) and Dumb and Dumber (1994). He has been married to Melinda Farrelly since December 31, 1996. They have two children.

1. Green Book 2. Dumb and Dumber 3. Kingpin 4. There's Something About Mary 5. Shallow Hall 6. Me, Myself & Irene 7. Stuck on You 8. Fever Pitch 9. Hall Pass 10. Osmosis Jones 11. The Heartbreak Kid 12. Dumb and Dumber To 13. The Three Stooges

74. John Dahl

Director | The Last Seduction

John Dahl was born on June 15, 1956 in Billings, Montana, USA. He is a director and writer, known for The Last Seduction (1994), Kill Me Again (1989) and Rounders (1998). He is married to Beth Jana Friedberg. They have four children.

1. Rounders 2. Red Rock West 3. The Last Seduction 4. Joy Ride 5. You Kill Me 6. Kill Me Again 7. Unforgettable 8. The Great Raid

75. John Hughes

Writer | Planes, Trains & Automobiles

John Hughes was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He was credited for creating some of the most memorable comedy films of the 1980s and the 1990s, when he was at the height of his career. He had a talent for writing coming-of-age stories, and for depicting fairly realistic...

1. The Breakfast Club 2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off 3. Sixteen Candles 4. Planes, Trains & Automobiles 5. Weird Science 6. She's Having a Baby 7. Uncle Buck 8. Curly Sue

76. Frank Oz

Actor | The Muppet Show

Frank Richard Oznowicz was born in Hereford, England to puppeteers Frances and Isidore Oznowicz. His family moved to Montana in 1951, eventually settling in Oakland, California. As a teenager, he worked as an apprentice puppeteer at Children's Fairyland amusement park. He is one of the primary ...

1. The Score 2. Muppets Take Manhattan 3. Bowfinger 4. Housesitter 5. In & Out 6. Little Shop of Horrors 7. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 8. Death at a Funeral 9. The Dark Crystal 10. The Stepford Wives 11. What About Bob?

77. F. Gary Gray

Director | Set It Off

Felix Gary Gray is an African-American music video director, film producer and film director from New York City known for directing films such as Friday, Men in Black: International, Be Cool, The Fate of the Furious, Set It Off, The Negotiator, Straight Outta Compton and The Italian Job. He ...

1. The Negotiator 2. Straight Outta Compton 3. Friday 4. Be Cool 5. The Italian Job 6. Set it Off 7. The Fate of the Furious 8. Law Abiding Citizen 9. A Man Apart

78. Neill Blomkamp

Director | District 9

Neill Blomkamp is a South African-Canadian film director and screenwriter who is known for the science fiction films District 9, Elysium and Chappie. He also directed the supernatural horror film Demonic and the 2007 short film Halo: Landfall, based on the Microsoft science fiction video game ...

1. District 9 2. Elysium 3. Chappie

79. 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 ...

1. Iron Man 2. Chef 3. Iron Man 2 4. Made 5. Elf 6. The Jungle Book 7. Cowboys & Aliens 8. Zathura: A Space Adventure

80. Joss Whedon

Producer | Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Joss Whedon is the middle of five brothers - his younger brothers are Jed Whedon and Zack Whedon. Both his father, Tom Whedon and his grandfather, John Whedon were successful television writers. Joss' mother, Lee Stearns, was a history teacher and she also wrote novels as Lee Whedon. Whedon was ...

1. The Avengers 2. Much Ado About Nothing 3. Avengers: Age of Ultron 4. Serenity

81. J.J. Abrams

Producer | Lost

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, the son of TV producer parents. At 15, he wrote the music for Don Dohler's Nightbeast (1982). In his senior year of college, he and Jill Mazursky teamed up to write a feature film, which became Taking Care of Business (1990)....

1. Star Trek 2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3. Super 8 4. Mission: Impossible III 5. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 6. Star Trek: Into Darkness

82. David Ayer

Producer | End of Watch

David Ayer is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. David Ayer was born in Champaign, Illinois and grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota, and Bethesda, Maryland, where he was kicked out of his house by his parents as a teenager. Ayer then lived with his cousin in Los Angeles, ...

1. Harsh Times 2. End of Watch 3. Fury 4. Street Kings 5. Sabotage 6. Bright 7. Suicide Squad

83. Mike Judge

Writer | Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

Mike Judge is an American actor, animator, film director, screenwriter, and television producer.

In 1962, Judge was born in Guayaquil, the largest city of Ecuador and the country's main port. His parents were expatriate Americans. His father was archaeologist William James Judge and his mother was ...

1. Office Space 2. Beavis & Butthead do America 3. Idiocracy 4. Extract

84. Kevin Macdonald

Director | The Last King of Scotland

Kevin Macdonald was born on October 28, 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is a director and producer, known for The Last King of Scotland (2006), The Mauritanian (2021) and How I Live Now (2013). He has been married to Tatiana Macdonald since July 2, 1999. They have three children.

1. The Last King of Scotland 2. State of Play 3. The Eagle 4. How I Live Now 5. The Black Sea

85. Adam McKay

Producer | Don't Look Up

Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American screenwriter, director, comedian, and actor. McKay has a comedy partnership with Will Ferrell, with whom he co-wrote the films Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys. Ferrell and McKay also founded their comedy website Funny or Die through ...

1. The Big Short 2. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 3. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 4. Vice 5. The Other Guys 6. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues 7. Step Brothers

86. Todd Phillips

Producer | Joker

Todd Phillips is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

Growing up on Long Island, New York, Todd Phillips fell in love with feature film teen comedies made in the 1980s, and claims they were his biggest influence in becoming a filmmaker. While studying film at New York University, ...

1. Joker 2. Old School 3. Starsky & Hutch 4. Due Date 5. The Hangover 6. War Dogs 7. Road Trip 8. The Hangover: Part III 9. The Hangover: Part II 10. School for Scoundrels

87. David Koepp

Writer | Jurassic Park

David Koepp is an American film director and screenwriter. He is known for writing Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Spider-Man directed by Sam Raimi and Panic Room directed by David ...

1. Stir of Echoes 2. Premium Rush 3. Secret Window 4. The Trigger Effect 5. Ghost Town 6. Mortdecai

88. Brian Helgeland

Writer | Finestkind

Brian Helgeland was born in Providence, Rhode Island and raised in New Bedford Massachusetts. A born worker, Helgeland has endeavored to achieve in the following fields: snow shoveler, scrap newspaper collector, dishwasher, nursing home janitor, drug store clerk and unreliable nightshift gas ...

1. Payback 2. 42 3. Legend 4. A Knight's Tale 5. The Order

89. 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 ...

1. Deepwater Horizon 2. Patriots Day 3. Lone Survivor 4. Very Bad Things 5. The Rundown 6. The Kingdom 7. Friday Night Lights 8. Hancock 9. Battleship

90. Brad Silberling

Director | City of Angels

Brad Silberling was born on September 8, 1963 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is a producer and director, known for City of Angels (1998), A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) and Moonlight Mile (2002). He has been married to Amy Brenneman since September 30, 1995. They have two ...

1. Moonlight Mile 2. A Series of Unfortunate Events 3. City of Angels 4. Casper 5. 10 Items of Less 6. Land of the Lost

91. Joe Carnahan

Writer | Smokin' Aces

Joe Carnahan is an American film director and screenwriter. He was born in Michigan in 1969, and was raised in California. He attended Fairfield High School in Fairfield, California. He graduated in 1987, at the age of 18. He first attended the San Francisco State University, and later transferred ...

1. Narc 2. Smokin' Aces 3. The A-Team 4. The Grey 5. Stretch

92. James Gunn

Writer | Guardians of the Galaxy

James Gunn was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, to Leota and James Francis Gunn. He is from a large Catholic family, with Irish and Czech ancestry. His father and his uncles were all lawyers. He has been writing and performing as long as he can remember. He began making 8mm films at the age ...

1. Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 3. Super 4. Slither

93. Ben Stiller

Producer | Tropic Thunder

Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller was born on November 30, 1965, in New York City, New York, to legendary comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. His father was of Austrian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent, and his mother was of Irish Catholic descent (she converted to Judaism).

His parents made no real...

1. Tropic Thunder 2. The Cable Guy 3. Zoolander 4. Reality Bites 5. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 6. Zoolander 2

94. Lee Daniels

Producer | Precious

Lee Daniels gave his parents an early Christmas present when he entered the world on December 24, 1959; unfortunately, the Philadelphia native was to have a difficult relationship with his police officer father who later reacted violently to his son's sexuality. Despite the brutality of his ...

1. Precious 2. Lee Daniels' The Butler 3. The Paperboy 4. Shadowboxer

95. Francis Lawrence

Director | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Francis Lawrence is an American filmmaker. He started directing over sixty music videos before he directed the cult classic Keanu Reeves film Constantine, I Am Legend and Water for Elephants. He also directed The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2, and Red ...

1. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 2. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 3. Constantine 4. Water for Elephants 5. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 6. I Am Legend

96. Stuart Baird

Editor | Skyfall

Stuart Baird was born on January 14, 1947 in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, UK. He is an editor and director, known for Skyfall (2012), Superman (1978) and Casino Royale (2006).

1. Executive Decision 2. U.S. Marshalls 3. Star Trek: Nemesis

97. Scott Derrickson

Producer | The Black Phone

Scott Derrickson is an American filmmaker who is known for directing horror films such as Deliver Us from Evil, Hellraiser: Inferno, Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. He also directed the superhero film Doctor Strange starring Benedict Cumberbatch. He decided not to direct Doctor Strange in ...

1. Sinister 2. Doctor Strange 3. The Day the Earth Stood Still 4. The Exorcism of Emily Rose 5. Deliver Us from Evil 6. Hellraiser: Inferno

98. Ruben Fleischer

Director | Zombieland

Ruben Fleischer was born on October 31, 1974 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Zombieland (2009), Gangster Squad (2013) and Venom (2018). He has been married to Holly Shakoor Fleischer since November 10, 2012.

1. Zombieland 2. 30 Minutes or Less 3. Gangster Squad

99. Craig Gillespie

Producer | I, Tonya

Craig Gillespie is an Australian film director, best known for his films Lars and the Real Girl (2007), I, Tonya (2017) and Cruella (2021). Born and raised in Sydney, Gillespie moved to New York City at the age of nineteen to study illustration, graphic design and advertising at Manhattan's School ...

1. I, Tonya 2. Lars and the Real Girl 3. Fright Night 4. Mr. Woodcock 5. The Finest Hours 6. Million Dollar Arm

100. Phil Lord

Writer | The Lego Movie

Philip A. Lord is an American filmmaker, producer and writer who collaborates with Christopher Miller. They both worked on Clone High, a cult classic animated sci-fi teen comedy show, The Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Into the Spider-Verse is ...

1. The Lego Movie 2. 21 Jump Street 3. 22 Jump Street 4. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs