Directors
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1. 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...
Pulp Fiction 10/10 Reservoir Dogs 10/10 Django Unchained 9.5/10 Inglourious Basterds 9.2/10 Kill Bill: Vol 1 9.1/10 Once Upon time in Hollywood 9/10 Kill Bill: Vol 2 8.5/10 Jackie Brown 8.5/10 True Romance 8/10 The Hateful Eight 8/10 Death Proof 8/10
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 ...
Goodfellas 10/10 Taxi Driver 10/10 The Departed Casino Raging Bull 9.2/10 The Wolf of Wall Street Shutter Island 9.1 The Gangs of New York After hours 8.3/10 The King of comedy 8/10 The Irishman Cape Fear Mean Streets
3. 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 10/10 Godfather 2 10/10 Apocalyse now 10/10 Godfather 3 8.5/10 The rainmaiker 8.0/10 The Conversation 7.8/10 The outsiders Rumble jungle 7.0
4. 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 ...
Once Upon a time in America 10/10
Once Upon a time in West 10/10
The good bad and the ugly 10/10
For a few dollars more 8.3/10
A fistfull of dollars 8.1/10
5. 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 ...
The Dark Knight 10/10 Memento 9.5/10 Batman Begins 9/10 The Dark Knight Rises 9/10 Insomnia 9/10 Inception The Prestige Dunkirk 8.6 Insterstellar (.) Following 7.1
6. Vince Gilligan
Producer | The X Files
George Vincent Gilligan Jr. (born February 10, 1967) is an American writer, producer, and director. He is known for his television work, specifically as creator, head writer, executive producer, and director of Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul. He was a writer and producer for The ...
Breaking bad 10/10 Better call saul 10/10
7. 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...
Sev7en 10/10
Fight Club 9.5/10
Gone Girl 9.1/10
The game 8.2/10
The girl with the dragon tatto 8.2
Zodiac 8/10
Panic room 7.4/10
8. 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 10/10 Carlito's way 9/10 Dressed to be Killed 8.3/10 Blow Out 8.3/10 Carrie 8/10 The Untouchables 8/10 casualties of war 8/10
9. 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 ...
Forrest Gump
Back to the future 9.9/10
Back to the future 8.8/10
Back to the future 8.3/10
10. 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...
Man on fire 8.9/10
True romance 8.9/10
Enemy of state 8.5
crimson tide 8.2
Dejavu 8
11. Denis Villeneuve
Director | Dune
Denis Villeneuve is a French Canadian film director and writer. He was born in 1967, in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. He started his career as a filmmaker at the National Film Board of Canada. He is best known for his feature films Arrival (2016), Sicario (2015), Prisoners (2013), Enemy (2013), ...
Prisoners: 9.2 Blade Runner 2049: 9 Sicario. 9 Incendies: 8.8 Arrival:8.4 Enemy: 8.0 Dune
12. 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 ...
Psycho 10/10 Vertigo 9/10 Rear Window 9/10 North by northwest 9/10 Dial m for murder 8.8/10 Rope 8.6/10
13. Guy Ritchie
Director | Sherlock Holmes
Guy Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK on September 10, 1968. After watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as a child, Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make films. He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and ...
Snatch 9/10 Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels 9/10 Rocknrolla 8/10 The Gentleman 8/10 The man from U.N.C.L.E 8/10
14. 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 ...
No country for old men 9/10 Fargo 9/10 Millers crossing True grit 8/10
15. Bong Joon Ho
Writer | Snowpiercer
Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean filmmaker. The recipient of three Academy Awards, his filmography is characterized by emphasis on social themes, genre-mixing, black humor, and sudden tone shifts. He first became known to audiences and achieved a cult following with his directorial debut film, the ...
Parasite 10/10 Memories of murder 9/10 Mother 8/10
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