My Favourite Directors (Ranked)

1. Robert Altman

Robert Altman was born on February 20th, 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri, to B.C. (an insurance salesman) and Helen Altman. He entered St. Peters Catholic school at the age six, and spent a short time at a Catholic high school. From there, he went to Rockhurst High School. It was then that he started...

1. Nashville - 10/10 2. McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 9/10 3. The Long Goodbye - 9/10 4. The Player - 9/10 5. Short Cuts - 8/10 6. California Split - 8/10 7. MASH - 8/10 8. 3 Women - 8/10 9. Secret Honor - 8/10

2. Michael Haneke

Writer | Caché

A true master of his craft, Michael Haneke is one of the greatest film artists working today and one who challenges his viewers each year and work goes by, with films that reflect real portions of life in realistic, disturbing and unforgettable ways. One of the most genuine filmmakers of the world ...

1. Caché - 9/10 2. The White Ribbon - 9/10 3. Happy End - 9/10 4. Code Unknown - 8/10 5. The Seventh Continent - 8/10 6. The Piano Teacher - 8/10 7. Funny Games (2007) - 8/10 8. Funny Games (1997) - 8/10 9. Amour - 8/10 10. Benny's Video - 7/10

3. Béla Tarr

Producer | Werckmeister harmóniák

Béla Tarr was born on July 21, 1955 in Pécs, Hungary. He is a producer and director, known for Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), The Turin Horse (2011) and Satantango (1994). He is married to Ágnes Hranitzky.

1. Satantango - 10/10 2. Werckmeister Harmonies - 9/10 3. The Turin Horse - 9/10 4. The Man from London - 8/10 5. Damnation - 8/10 6. Visions of Europe segment: 'Prologue' - 7/10

4. 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. Andrei Rublev - 9/10 2. The Sacrifice - 9/10 3. Stalker - 9/10 4. Nostalghia - 9/10 5. The Mirror - 9/10 6. Solaris - 9/10 7. Ivan's Childhood - 8/10

5. Robert Bresson

Writer | Au hasard Balthazar

Robert Bresson trained as a painter before moving into films as a screenwriter, making a short film (atypically a comedy), Public Affairs (1934) in 1934. After spending more than a year as a German POW during World War II, he made his debut with Angels of Sin (1943) in 1943. His next film, The ...

1. Au Hasard Balthazar - 10/10 2. Lancelot of the Lake - 9/10 3. L'Argent - 9/10 4. Four Nights of a Dreamer - 8/10 5. Mouchette - 8/10 6. Pickpocket - 8/10 7. The Trial of Joan of Arc - 8/10 8. A Gentle Woman - 8/10 9. Diary of a Country Priest - 7/10 10. The Devil, Probably - 7/10

6. 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 - 10/10 2. Dr. Strangelove - 10/10 3. Barry Lyndon - 10/10 4. Eyes Wide Shut - 9/10 5. The Shining - 9/10 6. A Clockwork Orange - 9/10 7. Lolita - 8/10 8. Paths of Glory - 8/10 9. Full Metal Jacket - 7/10 10. Killer's Kiss - 7/10 11. Day of the Fight - 6/10 12. Spartacus - 5/10

7. Ingmar Bergman

Writer | Smultronstället

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born July 14, 1918, the son of a priest. The film and T.V. series, The Best Intentions (1992) is biographical and shows the early marriage of his parents. The film Sunday's Children (1992) depicts a bicycle journey with his father. In the miniseries Private Confessions (...

1. Persona - 9/10 2. Wild Strawberries - 9/10 3. Fanny and Alexander - 9/10 4. Summer with Monika - 8/10 5. Cries and Whispers - 8/10 6. Autumn Sonata - 8/10 7. The Seventh Seal - 8/10 8. Through a Glass Darkly - 8/10 9. Winter Light - 8/10 10. The Virgin Spring - 8/10

8. John Cassavetes

Actor | Rosemary's Baby

John Cassavetes was a Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is considered a pioneer of American independent film, as he often financed his own films.

Cassavetes was born in New York City in 1929 to Nicholas John Cassavetes (1893-1979) and his wife, Katherine Demetre (1906-1983). ...

1. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie - 9/10 2. A Woman Under the Influence - 9/10 3. Shadows - 8/10 4. Faces - 8/10 5. Husbands - 7/10 6. Minnie and Moskowitz - 7/10

9. 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 - 10/10 2. Raging Bull - 8/10 3. Goodfellas - 8/10 4. The Departed - 8/10 5. The King of Comedy - 8/10 6. After Hours - 8/10 7. Mean Streets - 8/10 8. Hugo - 8/10 9. Casino - 8/10 10. The Big Shave - 8/10 11. The Last Waltz - 7/10 12. The Wolf of Wall Street - 7/10 13. Shutter Island - 6/10 14. Gangs of New York - 6/10 15. New York, New York - 5/10

10. Akira Kurosawa

Writer | Kakushi-toride no san-akunin

After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater...

1. Ran - 9/10 2. Kagemusha - 9/10 3. Seven Samurai - 9/10 4. The Bad Sleep Well - 8/10 5. Ikiru - 8/10 6. I Live in Fear - 7/10 7. Rashomon - 7/10 8. Throne of Blood - 7/10 9. Dreams - 6/10

11. 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 ...

(The Coen Brothers)

1. Fargo - 10/10 2. No Country for Old Men - 9/10 3. Miller's Crossing - 9/10 4. The Big Lebowski - 9/10 5. Inside Llewyn Davis - 9/10 6. Barton Fink - 8/10 7. The Man Who Wasn't There - 8/10 8. O Brother, Where Art Thou? - 8/10 9. Raising Arizona - 8/10 10. A Serious Man - 8/10 11. Burn After Reading - 7/10 12. Intolerable Cruelty - 7/10 13. True Grit - 6/10

12. Orson Welles

Actor | Citizen Kane

His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...

1. Citizen Kane - 10/10 2. The Trial - 8/10 3. Touch of Evil - 8/10 4. F for Fake - 8/10 5. Othello - 8/10 6. Macbeth - 7/10

13. Abbas Kiarostami

Writer | Copie conforme

Abbas Kiarostami was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940. He graduated from university with a degree in fine arts before starting work as a graphic designer. He then joined the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, where he started a film section, and this started his career ...

1. Close-up - 9/10 2. The Wind Will Carry Us - 8/10 3. Taste of Cherry - 8/10 4. Through the Olive Trees - 8/10 5. And Life Goes On - 8/10 6. Certified Copy - 8/10 7. Where Is the Friend's Home? - 8/10 8. The Bread and Alley - 7/10 9. Tickets - 6/10

14. 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 Tree of Life - 9/10 2. Badlands - 9/10 3. The Thin Red Line - 9/10 4. Days of Heaven - 8/10 5. To the Wonder - 7/10

15. Carl Theodor Dreyer

Writer | Gertrud

The illegitimate son of a Danish farmer and his Swedish housekeeper, Carl Theodor Dreyer was born in Copenhagen on the 3th of February, 1889. He spent his early years in various foster homes before being adopted by the Dreyers at the age of two. Contrary to popular belief (perhaps nourished by the ...

1. Ordet - 9/10 2. The Passion of Joan of Arc - 9/10 3. Gertrud - 8/10 4. Day of Wrath - 8/10 5. They Caught the Ferry - 7/10

16. Charles Chaplin

Writer | The Great Dictator

Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...

1. City Lights - 9/10 2. Modern Times - 8/10 3. Limelight - 8/10 4. The Kid - 8/10 5. The Great Dictator - 8/10 6. A King in New York - 8/10 7. Easy Street - 7/10

17. David Lynch

Writer | Twin Peaks

Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future ...

1. Twin Peaks - 9/10 2. Mulholland Drive - 9/10 3. Inland Empire - 8/10 4. Eraserhead - 8/10 5. Blue Velvet - 8/10 6. The Straight Story - 8/10 7. Lost Highway - 7/10 8. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - 7/10 9. Wild at Heart - 7/10 10. The Elephant Man - 7/10 11. Rabbits - 7/10 12. Idem Paris - 5/10 13. Six Men Getting Sick - 4/10

18. Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Director | Memoria

Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970, Bangkok) grew up in Khon Kaen, a city in the north east of Thailand. He has a degree in Architecture from Khon Kaen University and a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been making films and videos since the ...

1. Cemetery of Splendour - 9/10 2. Tropical Malady - 9/10 3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives - 8/10 4. Syndromes and a Century - 8/10 5. Blissfully Yours - 8/10 6. Cactus River - 5/10

19. Werner Herzog

Director | Fitzcarraldo

Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy. Herzog has...

1. Nosferatu - 9/10 2. Aguirre: The Wrath of God - 9/10 3. Stroszeck - 8/10 4. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser - 8/10 5. Fitzcarraldo - 8/10 6. Grizzly Man - 8/10 7. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - 8/10 8. Encounters at the End of the World - 8/10 9. Into the Abyss - 8/10 10. Cave of Forgotten Dreams - 7/10 11. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World - 7/10 12. Into the Inferno - 7/10

20. Michelangelo Antonioni

Writer | Blow-Up

Together with Fellini, Bergman and Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni is credited with defining the modern art film. And yet Antonioni's cinema is also recognized today for defying any easy categorization, with his films ultimately seeming to belong to their own distinctive genre. Indeed, the ...

1. L'Avventura - 9/10 2. Blow-Up - 8/10 3. La Notte - 8/10 4. L'Eclisse - 8/10 5. The Passenger - 8/10 6. People of the Po Valley - 7/10 7. N.U. - 6/10 8. Zabriskie Point - 6/10

21. Kar-Wai Wong

Director | Yi dai zong shi

Wong Kar-wai (born 17 July 1956) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised, emotionally resonant work, including Ah fei zing zyun (1990), Dung che sai duk (1994), Chung Hing sam lam (1994), Do lok tin si (1995), Chun gwong ...

1. In the Mood for Love - 9/10 2. Fallen Angels - 8/10 3. Chungking Express - 8/10 4. Happy Together - 8/10 5. Days of Being Wild - 7/10 6. 2046 - 7/10 7. Ashes of Time - 7/10 8. My Blueberry Nights - 4/10

22. Wim Wenders

Director | Der Himmel über Berlin

Wim Wenders is an Oscar-nominated German filmmaker who was born Ernst Wilhelm Wenders on August 14, 1945 in Düsseldorf, which then was located in the British Occupation Zone of what became the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany, known colloquially as West Germany until ...

1. Paris, Texas - 10/10 2. Wings of Desire - 9/10 3. Kings of the Road - 9/10 4. Alice in the Cities - 8/10 5. The American Friend - 7/10 6. Wrong Move - 7/10 7. Room 666 - 7/10

23. Ken Loach

Director | I, Daniel Blake

Unlike virtually all his contemporaries, Ken Loach has never succumbed to the siren call of Hollywood, and it's virtually impossible to imagine his particular brand of British socialist realism translating well to that context.

After studying law at St. Peter's College, Oxford, he branched out into ...

1. Kes - 9/10 2. Land and Freedom - 8/10 3. The Navigators - 8/10 4. Sweet Sixteen - 8/10 5. I, Daniel Blake - 8/10 6. The Wind That Shakes the Barley - 6/10 7. Tickets - 6/10

24. Luis Buñuel

Writer | Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie

The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the ...

1. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - 9/10 2. Los Olvidados - 8/10 3. Viridiana - 8/10 4. The Phantom of Liberty - 8/10 5. Un Chien Andalou - 8/10 6. Mexican Bus Ride - 7/10

25. 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. Crimes and Misdemeanors - 9/10 2. Hannah and Her Sisters - 9/10 3. Husbands and Wives - 9/10 4. Manhattan - 8/10 5. Love and Death - 8/10 6. The Purple Rose of Cairo - 8/10 7. Annie Hall - 8/10 8. Blue Jasmine - 8/10 9. Match Point - 8/10 10. Midnight in Paris - 7/10 11. Vicky Cristina Barcelona - 7/10 12. Irrational Man - 5/10 13. Magic in the Moonlight - 5/10

26. Sergei Eisenstein

Director | Ivan Groznyy

The son of an affluent architect, Eisenstein attended the Institute of Civil Engineering in Petrograd as a young man. With the fall of the tsar in 1917, he worked as an engineer for the Red Army. In the following years, Eisenstein joined up with the Moscow Proletkult Theater as a set designer and ...

1. Ivan the Terrible, Part II - 9/10 2. Ivan the Terrible, Part I - 9/10 3. Battleship Potemkin - 9/10 4. Dnevnik Glumova - 6/10

27. Jean-Luc Godard

Director | Bande à part

Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris on December 3, 1930, the second of four children in a bourgeois Franco-Swiss family. His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from a preeminent family of Swiss bankers. During World War II Godard became a naturalized citizen of ...

1. Contempt - 8/10 2. Breathless - 8/10 3. La Chinoise - 8/10 4. Two or Three Things I Know About Her - 8/10 5. Hail Mary - 8/10 6. Une Femme Coquette - 5/10

28. Hayao Miyazaki

Writer | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's greatest animation directors. The entertaining plots, compelling characters, and breathtaking visuals in his films have earned him international renown from critics as well as public recognition within Japan.

Miyazaki started his career in 1963 as an animator at the ...

1. The Wind Rises - 9/10 2. Spirited Away - 9/10 3. Princess Mononoke - 8/10 4. My Neighbour Totoro - 8/10 5. Howl's Moving Castle - 8/10 6. Yuki no Taiyou - 6/10

29. Lars von Trier

Writer | Dancer in the Dark

Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and attracted international attention with his very first feature, The Element of Crime (1984). A highly ...

1. Dogville - 8/10 2. Breaking the Waves - 8/10 3. Europa - 8/10 4. Dancer In the Dark - 8/10 5. Antichrist - 7/10 6. The Five Obstructions - 7/10 7. Melancholia - 7/10 8. The Idiots - 6/10

30. 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 - 8/10 2. The Master - 8/10 3. Inherent Vice - 8/10 4. Phantom Thread - 8/10 5. Magnolia - 8/10 6. Punch-Drunk Love - 8/10 7. Boogie Nights - 7/10

31. Federico Fellini

Writer | Le notti di Cabiria

The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII - inspired the dreams that Fellini started recording in notebooks in the 1960s. Life and dreams were raw material for his films. His native Rimini and characters like Saraghina (the ...

1. 8½ - 9/10 2. La Dolce Vita - 9/10 3. Amarcord - 8/10 4. The Nights of Cabiria - 8/10

32. David Cronenberg

Actor | The Fly

David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of Blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father, Milton Cronenberg, was a journalist and editor, and his mother, Esther (Sumberg), was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early...

1. Videodrome - 8/10 2. Eastern Promises - 8/10 3. Crash - 8/10 4. A History of Violence - 8/10 5. Maps to the Stars - 7/10 6. The Fly - 7/10 7. Dead Ringers - 6/10 8. Cosmopolis - 6/10

33. Jim Jarmusch

Director | Paterson

Moved to New York City at the age of seventeen from Akron, Ohio. Graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in English, class of '75. Without any prior film experience, he was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts, New York.

1. Paterson - 8/10 2. Only Lovers Left Alive - 8/10 3. Broken Flowers - 8/10 4. Mystery Train - 8/10 5. Stranger Than Paradise - 8/10 6. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai - 7/10 7. Coffee and Cigarettes III - 6/10 8. Coffee and Cigarettes II - 5/10 9. Coffee and Cigarettes I - 5/10

34. Howard Hawks

Director | Red River

What do the classic films Scarface (1932), Twentieth Century (1934), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Rio Bravo (1959) have in...

1. Bringing Up Baby - 8/10 2. The Big Sleep - 8/10 3. His Girl Friday - 7/10 4. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - 7/10

35. Lynne Ramsay

Director | You Were Never Really Here

Lynne Ramsay was born on December 5, 1969 in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. She is a director and writer, known for You Were Never Really Here (2017), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) and Ratcatcher (1999). She was previously married to Rory Stewart Kinnear.

1. You Were Never Really Here - 8/10 2. Morvern Callar - 8/10 3. Ratcatcher - 8/10 4. We Need to Talk About Kevin - 7/10

36. Aki Kaurismäki

Producer | Le Havre

Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa (in homage to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)) with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki, also a film-maker. Both Aki and Mika are prolific ...

1. The Other Side of Hope - 8/10 2. Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana - 8/10 3. Le Havre - 8/10 4. The Match Factory Girl - 7/10 5. Ariel - 7/10 6. Crime and Punishment - 6/10

37. 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 ...

1. Rear Window - 8/10 2. Psycho - 8/10 3. North by Northwest - 8/10 4. Dial M for Murder - 8/10 5. Strangers on a Train - 8/10 6. The Trouble with Harry - 7/10 7. The 39 Steps - 7/10 8. Vertigo - 7/10 9. Rope - 7/10 10. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) - 6/10

38. 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. Sideways - 9/10 2. Nebraska - 9/10 3. The Descendants - 8/10 4. About Schmidt - 8/10 5. Election - 8/10

39. 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 ...

1. Apocalypse Now - 10/10 2. The Godfather - 9/10 3. The Godfather: Part II - 9/10 4. The Conversation - 9/10 5. The Godfather: Part III - 8/10

40. Satyajit Ray

Writer | Pather Panchali

Satyajit Ray was born in Calcutta on May 2, 1921. His father, Late Sukumar Ray was an eminent poet and writer in the history of Bengali literature. In 1940, after receiving his degree in science and economics from Calcutta University, he attended Tagore's Viswa-Bharati University. His first movie ...

1. Apur Sansar - 9/10 2. Pather Panchali - 9/10 3. Aparajito - 8/10 4. Two - 7/10

41. Richard Linklater

Director | Waking Life

Self-taught writer-director Richard Stuart Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, to Diane Margaret (Krieger), who taught at a university, and Charles W. Linklater III. Richard was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s. ...

1. Boyhood - 8/10 2. Bernie - 8/10 3. Dazed and Confused - 8/10 4. Everybody Wants Some!! - 7/10 5. Waking Life - 7/10 6. Slacker - 7/10 7. School of Rock - 7/10 8. Woodshock - 4/10

42. Wes Anderson

Director | Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...

1. The Royal Tenenbaums - 9/10 2. The Darjeeling Limited - 9/10 3. The Grand Budapest Hotel - 8/10 4. The Life Aquatic - 8/10 5. Moonrise Kingdom - 8/10 6. Fantastic Mr. Fox - 8/10 7. Rushmore - 8/10 8. Bottle Rocket - 8/10 9. Hotel Chevalier - 7/10

43. Mike Leigh

Director | Secrets & Lies

Mike Leigh is an English film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and further at the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and the London School of Film Technique. He began his career as a theatre ...

1. Secrets and Lies - 9/10 2. Naked - 8/10 3. Abigail's Party - 7/10

44. 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 ...

1. For a Few Dollars More - 9/10 2. Once Upon a Time in America - 9/10 3. Once Upon a Time in the West - 9/10 4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - 8/10 5. A Fistful of Dollars - 8/10 6. Duck, You Sucker - 8/10

45. Noah Baumbach

Writer | The Squid and the Whale

Born in Brooklyn in 1969 Noah Baumbach is the son of two film critics, Georgia Brown and Jonathan Baumbach (also a writer). His studies at Vassar College were the subject of his first film (made as he was 26 years old), Kicking and Screaming (1995). His second major picture, made ten years later, ...

1. The Squid and the Whale - 9/10 2. Frances Ha - 8/10 3. The Meyerowitz Stories - 8/10 4. While We're Young - 8/10 5. Greenberg - 8/10 6. Mistress America - 7/10

46. Nicolas Winding Refn

Writer | The Neon Demon

Writer, director, and producer Nicolas Winding Refn was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1970, to Anders Refn, a film director and editor, and Vibeke Winding (née Tuxen), a cinematographer. Just before he turned 11, in 1981, he moved to New York with his parents, where he lived out his teen years. ...

1. Drive - 9/10 2. Only God Forgives - 8/10 3. The Neon Demon - 8/10 4. Bronson - 7/10 5. Valhalla Rising - 6/10

47. 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 - 8/10 2. The Thing - 8/10 3. Assault on Precinct 13 - 8/10 4. They Live - 8/10 5. Christine - 6/10

48. 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 ...

1. Blow Out - 8/10 2. Carrie - 7/10 3. Dressed to Kill - 7/10 4. Mission: Impossible - 6/10 5. Scarface - 5/10

49. Yorgos Lanthimos

Director | The Lobster

Yorgos Lanthimos was born in Athens, Greece. He studied directing for Film and Television at the Stavrakos Film School in Athens. He has directed a number of dance videos in collaboration with Greek choreographers, in addition to TV commercials, music videos, short films and theater plays. Kinetta,...

1. Dogtooth - 8/10 2. The Lobster - 8/10 3. The Killing of a Sacred Deer - 7/10 4. Alps - 7/10

50. 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. Reservoir Dogs - 8/10 2. Pulp Fiction - 8/10 3. Inglourious Basterds - 8/10 4. Jackie Brown - 7/10 5. The Hateful Eight - 5/10 6. Django Unchained - 5/10 7. Kill Bill: Vol 1 - 5/10 8. Kill Bill: Vol 2 - 5/10

51. 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), ...

1. Sicario - 8/10 2. Blade Runner 2049 - 8/10 3. Enemy - 8/10

52. 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. Slumdog Millionaire - 8/10 2. 127 Hours - 8/10 3. Trainspotting - 8/10 4. 28 Days Later - 8/10 5. The Beach - 8/10 6. Steve Jobs - 6/10

53. Terry Zwigoff

Director | Ghost World

Born in Appleton, Wisconsin, Zwigoff held several jobs before making his breakthrough feature: the documentary Crumb (1994) in 1994. His previous jobs included musician, shipping clerk, printer and welfare office worker. In fact, Zwigoff traces his film career back to discovering a rare blues ...

1. Crumb - 9/10 2. Ghost World - 8/10 3. Louie Bluie - 8/10 4. Bad Santa - 7/10

54. Steven Soderbergh

Director | Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Steven Andrew Soderbergh was born on January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the second of six children of Mary Ann (Bernard) and Peter Soderbergh. His father was of Swedish and Irish descent, and his mother was of Italian ancestry. While he was still at a very young age, his family moved to ...

1. Sex, Lies, and Videotape - 8/10 2. Side Effects - 8/10 3. The Informant! - 8/10 4. Contagion - 7/10 5. Ocean's Eleven - 7/10

55. 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. Jaws - 8/10 2. A.I. Artificial Intelligence - 8/10 3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - 8/10 4. Ready Player One - 7/10 5. Jurassic Park - 7/10 6. Bridge of Spies - 7/10 7. Raiders of the Lost Arc - 7/10 8. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - 7/10 9. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - 7/10 10. The Terminal - 7/10 11. Catch Me If You Can - 7/10 12. Schindler's List - 6/10 13. Saving Private Ryan - 6/10 14. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - 6/10 15. Minority Report - 6/10 16. War of the Worlds - 4/10 17. Hook - 4/10

56. Shôhei Imamura

Director | Kuroi ame

Shohei Imamura's films dig beneath the surface of Japanese society to reveal a wellspring of sensual, often irrational, energy that lies beneath. Along with his colleagues Nagisa Ôshima and Masahiro Shinoda, Imamura began his serious directorial career as a member of the New Wave movement in Japan....

1. The Eel - 8/10 2. Black Rain - 8/10 3. The Ballad of Narayama - 7/10

57. Hal Ashby

Editor | In the Heat of the Night

Hal Ashby was born the fourth and youngest child in a Mormon household, in Ogden, Utah, to Eileen Ireta (Hetzler) and James Thomas Ashby, on September 2, 1929. His father was a dairy farmer. After a rough childhood that included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide, his dropping out of ...

1. Harold and Maude - 10/10 2. Being There - 8/10 3. The Last Detail - 8/10

58. Lenny Abrahamson

Director | Room

Lenny Abrahamson was born in Dublin in 1966. He studied physics and philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. While at university he directed short videos with the Trinity Video Society, which he co-founded with Ed Guiney. He graduated in 1991 with first class honours (gold medal). His first short film...

1. Room - 8/10 2. Frank - 8/10 3. Adam & Paul - 7/10 4. Garage - 7/10

59. 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. The Social Network - 9/10 2. Zodiac - 8/10 3. Fight Club - 7/10 4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 5/10

60. 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, ...

1. Elephant - 8/10 2. Last Days - 7/10 3. My Own Private Idaho - 7/10 4. Good Will Hunting - 7/10

61. Spike Lee

Director | Do the Right Thing

Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from artistic, education-grounded background; his father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a schoolteacher. He attended ...

1. Do the Right Thing - 9/10 2. 25th Hour - 8/10 3. She's Gotta Have It (TV) - 6/10 4. Inside Man - 6/10

62. Taika Waititi

Producer | What We Do in the Shadows

Taika Waititi, also known as Taika Cohen, hails from the Raukokore region of the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, and is the son of Robin (Cohen), a teacher, and Taika Waititi, an artist and farmer. His father is Maori (Te-Whanau-a-Apanui), and his mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish...

1. What We Do In the Shadows - 8/10 2. Hunt for the Wilderpeople - 8/10 3. Thor: Ragnorak - 6/10

63. 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. Alien - 8/10 2. Blade Runner - 7/10 3. Thelma & Louise - 7/10 4. American Gangster - 6/10 5. Black Hawk Down - 6/10 6. Prometheus - 6/10 7. Gladiator - 5/10

64. Rob Reiner

Actor | All in the Family

Robert Reiner was born in New York City, to Estelle Reiner (née Lebost) and Emmy-winning actor, comedian, writer, and producer Carl Reiner.

As a child, his father was his role model, as Carl Reiner created and starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Estelle was also an inspiration for him to become a ...

1. This Is Spinal Tap - 9/11 2. Stand By Me - 9/10 3. Misery - 7/10 4. When Harry Met Sally - 6/10 5. The Bucket List - 5/10

65. Alfonso Cuarón

Producer | Gravity

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then ...

1. Y Tu Mamá También - 8/10 2. Children of Men - 8/10 3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 8/10

66. Michael Winterbottom

Director | A Mighty Heart

Michael took an English degree at Oxford then trained in film at Bristol and London breaking into television via the cutting room at Thames Television. He made his directorial debut with two documentaries on Ingmar Bergman His production of Love Lies Bleeding won the Silver Award at the 1993 New ...

1. 24 Hour Party People - 8/10 2. A Cock and Bull Story - 8/10 3. The Trip to Italy - 8/10 4. The Trip - 7/10

67. 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: Judgement Day - 8/10 2. The Terminator - 8/10 3. Aliens - 8/10 4. Avatar - 6/10 5. Titanic - 5/10

68. John Lasseter

Writer | Toy Story 2

Although born in Hollywood, John and his twin sister Johanna were raised in Whittier near Los Angeles. His parents were Jewell Mae (Risley), an art teacher, and Paul Eual Lasseter, a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership. His mother's profession contributed to his interest in animation and ...

1. Toy Story - 9/10 2. Toy Story 2 - 9/10 3. A Bug's Life - 7/10 4. Cars - 7/10

69. 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. Black Swan - 8/10 2. The Wrestler - 8/10 3. Requiem for a Dream - 8/10 4. Mother! - 7/10

70. 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. The Dark Knight - 8/10 2. Batman Begins - 8/10 3. The Dark Knight Rises - 7/10 4. Inception - 5/10 5. Interstellar - 4/10

71. David O. Russell

Director | American Hustle

David Owen Russell is an American film writer, director, and producer, known for a cinema of intense, tragi-comedic characters whose love of life can surpass dark circumstances faced in very specific worlds. His films address such themes as mental illness as stigma or hope; invention of self and ...

1. Silver Linings Playbook - 9/10 2. American Hustle - 8/10 3. The Fighter - 7/10

72. 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 - 8/10 2. Unforgiven - 8/10 3. Gran Torino - 7/10 4. Space Cowboys - 6/10

73. Michael Moore

Director | Bowling for Columbine

Michael Francis Moore was born in Flint, Michigan on April 23, 1954, and was raised in its Davison suburb. He is the son of Helen Veronica (Wall), a secretary, and Francis Richard Moore, who worked on an auto assembly line. He has Irish, as well as English and Scottish, ancestry.

Moore studied ...

1. Fahrenheit 9/11 - 8/10 2. Bowling for Columbine - 8/10 3. Sicko - 7/10

74. Harmony Korine

Director | Gummo

Harmony Korine was born in 1973 in Bolinas, California. His family moved to the east coast of the United States when he was five, and he spent his early years in Nashville, Tennessee, and New York. At the age of nineteen, he wrote the critically acclaimed screenplay Kids (1995) for director Larry ...

1. Spring Breakers - 8/10 2. Gummo - 8/10 3. Trash Humpers - 6/10

75. 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. Batman - 8/10 2. Batman Returns - 7/10 3. Edward Scissorhands - 7/10 4. Beetlejuice - 7/10 5. Mars Attacks! - 7/10 6. Corpse Bride - 7/10 7. Alice in Wonderland - 7/10 8. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - 6/10 9. Dark Shadows - 6/10 10. Planet of the Apes - 3/10

76. George Miller

Producer | Mad Max: Fury Road

George Miller is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and former medical doctor. He is best known for his Mad Max franchise, with Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) being hailed as amongst the greatest action films of all time. Aside from the Mad Max ...

1. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - 8/10 2. Mad Max: Fury Road - 8/10 3. Mad Max - 7/10 4. Happy Feet - 7/10 5. Babe: Pig In the City - 5/10

77. 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. Born on the Fourth of July - 9/10 2. Platoon - 8/10 3. Natural Born Killers - 7/10 4. Wall street - 7/10 5. W. - 7/10 6. World Trade Center - 5/10 7. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - 5/10

78. 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. Back to the Future - 8/10 2. Cast Away - 8/10 3. Who Framed Roger Rabbit - 7/10 4. Flight - 5/10 5. Forrest Gump - 5/10 6. Beowulf - 5/10 7. Polar Express - 5/10

79. 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 - 8/10 2. Skyfall - 8/10 3. Jarhead - 7/10

80. 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 - 8/10 2. Almost Famous - 8/10 3. Vanilla Sky - 7/10

81. 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. Being John Malkovich - 8/10 2. Adaptation - 8/10 3. Her - 4/10

82. 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 - 8/10 2. Super 8 - 7/10 3. Star Trek Into Darkness - 7/10

83. 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...

1. Ratatouille - 8/10 2. The Iron Giant - 8/10 3. The Incredibles - 7/10

84. Greg Mottola

Director | Adventureland

Greg Mottola was born on July 11, 1964 in Dix Hills, Long Island, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Adventureland (2009), The Daytrippers (1996) and Superbad (2007). He is married to Sarah Allentuch. They have three children.

1. Superbad - 8/10 2. Paul - 7/10 3. Adventureland - 6/10

85. 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. Funny People - 8/10 2. Knocked Up - 7/10 3. The 40-Year-Old Virgin - 7/10 4. Trainwreck - 6/10

86. 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. The Bourne Ultimatum - 8/10 2. The Bourne Supremacy - 7/10 3. United 93 - 7/10 4. Green Zone - 5/10

87. Wes Craven

Writer | A Nightmare on Elm Street

Wes Craven has become synonymous with genre bending and innovative horror, challenging audiences with his bold vision.

Wesley Earl Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Caroline (Miller) and Paul Eugene Craven. He had a midwestern suburban upbringing. His first feature film was The Last House on ...

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street - 8/10 2. Scream - 7/10 3. The Hills have Eyes - 6/10 4. Scream 2 - 5/10 5. Scream 3 - 5/10

88. Paul Verhoeven

Director | RoboCop

Paul Verhoeven graduated from the University of Leiden, with a degree in math and physics. He entered the Royal Netherlands Navy, where he began his film career by making documentaries for the Navy and later for TV. In 1969, he directed the popular Dutch TV series, Floris (1969), about a medieval ...

1. Elle - 8/10 2. Starship Troopers - 5/10 3. Showgirls - 4/10

89. Harold Ramis

Writer | Ghostbusters

Born on November 21, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, Harold Allen Ramis got his start in comedy as Playboy magazine's joke editor and reviewer. In 1969, he joined Chicago's Second City's Improvisational Theatre Troupe before moving to New York to help write and perform in "The National Lampoon Show" ...

1. Groundhog Day - 8/10 2. Ghostbusters - 7/10 3. National Lampoon's Vacation - 6/10 4. Analyse This - 6/10 5. Analyse That - 4/10 6. Year One - 3/10 7. Bedazzled - 3/10

90. 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 ...

1. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - 8/10 2. Snatch - 7/10 3. Sherlock Holmes - 6/10

91. 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. Apocalypto - 8/10 2. The Passion of the Christ - 6/10 3. Braveheart - 5/10

92. 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. The Hangover - 8/10 2. Old School - 6/10 3. Due Date - 5/10 4. Road Trip - 5/10 5. The Hangover Part II - 5/10 6. Starsky & Hutch - 5/10