My Favourite Directors

1. Woody Allen

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 ...

Take The Money And Run 7/10
Bananas 6/10
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask
Sleeper 7/10
Love And Death
Annie Hall 7/10
Interiors
Manhattan
Stardust Memories
Zelig
Broadway Danny Rose
The Purple Rose Of Cairo
Hannah And Her Sisters
Radio Days
Another Woman
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Alice
Husbands And Wives
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Bullets Over Broadway
Mighty Aphrodite
Deconstructing Harry
Sweet And Lowdown
Small Time Crooks
Match Point
Scoop
Cassandra's Dream
Vicky Cristina Barcelona 7/10
Whatever Works
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger
Midnight In Paris 6/10
To Rome With Love
Blue Jasmine 7/10
Magic In The Moonlight 7/10
Irrational Man
Cafe Society
Wonder Wheel
A Rainy Day In New York
Rifkin's Festival

2. Pedro Almodóvar

Writer | Hable con ella

The most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel was born in a small town (Calzada de Calatrava) in the impoverished Spanish region of La Mancha. He arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survived by selling used items in the flea-market called El Rastro. Almodóvar couldn't study ...

Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
All About My Mother
Talk To Her 6/10
Bad Education
Volver
Broken Embraces
The Skin I Live In 8/10
Julieta
Pain And Glory
The Human Voice
Parallel Mothers 7/10
Strange Way Of Life

3. 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...

Hard Eight
Boogie Nights 9/10
Magnolia 9/10
Punch-Drunk Love 8/10
There Will Be Blood 9/10
The Master 6/10
Inherent Vice
Phantom Thread
Licorice Pizza 7/10

4. 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 ...

Bottle Rocket 8/10
Rushmore 7/10
The Royal Tenenbaums 8/10
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou 7/10
The Darjeeling Limited 9/10
Fantastic Mr. Fox 9/10
Moonrise Kingdom 7/10
The Grand Budapest Hotel 10/10
Isle Of Dogs 7/10
The French Dispatch 6/10
Asteroid City 6/10

5. 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 ...

L'Avventura
La Notte
L'Eclisse
Red Desert
Blow-Up 3/10
The Passenger

6. Dario Argento

Writer | Profondo rosso

Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk tales told by his parents and other ...

The Bird With The Crystal Plumage
The Cat O' Nine Tails
Four Flies On Grey Velvet
Deep Red 7/10
Suspiria 7/10
Inferno
Tenebrae
Phenomena
Opera

7. 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 ...

Pi 6/10
Requiem For A Dream 7/10
The Fountain 6/10
The Wrestler 7/10
Black Swan 9/10
Noah 6/10
Mother! 5/10
The Whale 7/10

8. Ari Aster

Director | Hereditary

Ari Aster is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for writing and directing the A24 horror films Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019). Aster was born into a Jewish family in New York City on July 15, 1986, the son of a poet mother and musician father. He has a ...

Hereditary 7/10
Midsommar 7/10
Beau Is Afraid

9. 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, ...

Kicking And Screaming
The Squid And The Whale
Margot At The Wedding
Greenberg
Frances Ha
While We're Young
Mistress America
The Meyerowitz Stories
Marriage Story 9/10
White Noise

10. 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 (...

Summer Interlude
Summer With Monika
Sawdust And Tinsel
Smiles Of A Summer Night
The Seventh Seal 6/10
Wild Strawberries
The Magician
The Virgin Spring
Through The Glass Darkly
Winter Light
The Silence
Persona
Hour Of The Wolf 5/10
Shame
The Passion Of Anna
Cries And Whispers 4/10
Scenes From A Marriage 7/10
Face To Face
Autumn Sonata
Fanny And Alexander 6/10

11. 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 ...

Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Beetlejuice 8/10
Batman 5/10
Edward Scissorhands 9/10
Batman Returns 7/10
Ed Wood 9/10
Mars Attacks! 7/10
Sleepy Hollow 4/10
Planet Of The Apes
Big Fish 7/10
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory 5/10
Corpse Bride 6/10
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 3/10
Alice In Wonderland 2/10
Frankenweenie
Big Eyes 7/10
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children 7/10
Dumbo

12. 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 ...

The Terminator 10/10
Aliens 10/10
The Abyss 9/10
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 10/10
True Lies 9/10
Titanic 10/10
Avatar 8/10
Avatar 2: The Way Of Water 8/10

13. Frank Capra

Director | It's a Wonderful Life

One of seven children, Frank Capra was born on May 18, 1897, in Bisacquino, Sicily. On May 10, 1903, his family left for America aboard the ship Germania, arriving in New York on May 23rd. "There's no ventilation, and it stinks like hell. They're all miserable. It's the most degrading place you ...

It Happened One Night 7/10
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
Lost Horizon
You Can't Take It With You
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Meet John Doe
Arsenic And Old Lace
It's A Wonderful Life 8/10
Pocketful Of Miracles

14. 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 ...

Dark Star
Assault On Precinct 13 6/10
Somebody's Watching Me!
Halloween 9/10
The Fog 4/10
Escape From New York 7/10
The Thing 8/10
Christine
Starman
Big Trouble In Little China 7/10
Prince Of Darkness
They Live 9/10
Memoirs Of An Invisible Man
Body Bags
In The Mouth Of Madness 3/10
Village Of The Damned
Escape From LA
Vampires 3/10
Ghosts Of Mars
The Ward

15. 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). ...

Shadows
Faces
Husbands
A Woman Under The Influence
The Killing In A Chinese Bookie
Opening Night
Gloria
Love Streams

16. Damien Chazelle

Writer | La La Land

Damien Sayre Chazelle is an American director and screenwriter. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother, Celia Sayre (Martin) Chazelle, is an American-Canadian writer and professor of history at The College of New Jersey. His father, Bernard Chazelle, is a French-American Eugene Higgins...

Whiplash 10/10
La La Land 9/10
First Man
Babylon 6/10

17. 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 ...

Blood Simple 7/10
Raising Arizona
Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink 5/10
The Hudsucker Proxy
Fargo 9/10
The Big Lebowski 9/10
O Brother, Where Art Thou? 7/10
The Man Who Wasn't There
Intolerable Cruelty
The Ladykillers
No Country For Old Men 9/10
Burn After Reading 9/10
A Serious Man
True Grit 6/10
Inside Llewyn Davis
Hail Caesar!
The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
The Tragedy Of Macbeth

18. 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 ...

You're A Big Boy Now
The Godfather 9/10
The Godfather Part II 7/10
The Conversation 5/10
Apocalypse Now 9/10
Rumble Fish
Peggy Sue Got Married
Tucker: The Man And His Dream
The Godfather Part III
Dracula 4/10
Jack
The Rainmaker

19. 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 ...

The Virgin Suicides 6/10
Lost In Translation 9/10
Marie Antoinette
Somewhere
The Bling Ring
The Beguiled 5/10
On The Rocks
Priscilla

20. 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...

Shivers
Rabid
The Brood
Scanners
Videodrome 9/10
The Dead Zone 5/10
The Fly
Dead Ringers
Naked Lunch
Crash
eXistenZ
Spider
A History Of Violence 7/10
Eastern Promises 7/10
A Dangerous Method
Cosmopolis
Maps To The Stars 9/10
Crimes Of The Future

21. 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. ...

Say Anything
Singles
Jerry Maguire 7/10
Almost Famous 7/10
Vanilla Sky 7/10
We Bought A Zoo 8/10
Aloha

22. 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 ...

Solo Con Tu Pareja
A Little Princess
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 10/10
Children Of Men 8/10
Gravity 8/10
Roma 8/10

23. 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 ...

Sisters
Phantom Of The Paradise
Carrie
Obsession
The Fury
Dressed To Kill
Blow Out 8/10
Scarface 10/10
Body Double
The Untouchables 7/10
Carlito's Way 7/10
Mission: Impossible 8/10
The Black Dahlia
Passion

24. 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 ...

Cronos
Mimic
The Devil's Backbone
Blade II
Hellboy 7/10
Pan's Labyrinth 8/10
Hellboy II: The Golden Army 7/10
Pacific Rim 6/10
Crimson Peak 7/10
The Shape Of Water 6/10
Nightmare Alley 8/10
Pinocchio 7/10

25. Clint Eastwood

Actor | Million Dollar Baby

Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...

Play Misty For Me
Dirty Harry 7/10
High Plains Drifter
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven 6/10
A Perfect World
The Bridges Of Madison County
Space Cowboys
Mystic River 9/10
Million Dollar Baby 9/10
Letters From Iwo Jima
Flags Of Our Fathers
Gran Torino 6/10
Changeling 9/10
Invictus
American Sniper 6/10
Sully 9/10
The Mule
Richard Jewell

26. Robert Eggers

Director | The Lighthouse

Robert Houston Eggers is an American filmmaker and production designer. He is best known for writing and directing the historical horror films The Witch (2015) and The Lighthouse (2019), as well as directing and co-writing the historical fiction epic film The Northman (2022). His films are noted ...

The Witch 6/10
The Lighthouse
The Northman

27. Asghar Farhadi

Writer | Forooshande

Asghar Farhadi was born in 1972 in Iran. He became interested in cinema in his teenage years and started his filmmaking education by joining the Youth Cinema Society of Esfahan in 1986 where he made 8mm and 16mm short films. He received his Bachelors in Theater from University of Tehran's School of...

About Elly
A Separation 9/10
The Past
The Salesman
A Hero

28. 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 ...

The White Sheik
I Vitelloni
La Strata
Il Bidone
Nights of Cabiria
The Sweet Life 6/10
Boccaccio '70
8 1/2 7/10
Juliet Of The Spirits
Fellini Satyricon
Roma
Amarcord 6/10
Fellini's Casanova
City Of Women
And The Ship Sails On
Ginger & Fred

29. Emerald Fennell

Writer | Saltburn

Emerald Lilly Fennell is an English actress, filmmaker, and writer. She has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Fennell first ...

Promising Young Woman 9/10
Saltburn 8/10

30. 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...

Alien 3 5/10
Se7en 8/10
The Game 9/10
Fight Club 8/10
Panic Room 9/10
Zodiac 9/10
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button 9/10
The Social Network 9/10
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo 6/10
Gone Girl 9/10
Mank 4/10
The Killer 8/10

31. Mike Flanagan

Writer | The Fall of the House of Usher

Mike Flanagan is a prolific writer, director, and editor. He entered into an exclusive overall deal with Amazon Studios in 2023 for television projects (after a similar exclusive deal with Netflix from 2018-2022), and has made feature films for Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Netflix and more. ...

Oculus 8/10
Hush 9/10
Ouija: Origin Of Evil
Gerald's Game 4/10
Doctor Sleep 7/10

32. Greta Gerwig

Writer | Barbie

Greta Gerwig is an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and director. She has collaborated with Noah Baumbach on several films, including Greenberg (2010), Frances Ha (2012), for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination, and Mistress America (2015). Gerwig made her solo directorial debut ...

Lady Bird 7/10
Little Women 7/10
Barbie 7/10

33. 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 ...

Breathless 8/10
A Woman Is A Woman
Vivre Sa Vie 6/10
Contempt
Band Of Outsiders 7/10
Une Femme Mariee
Pierrot Le Fou
Alphaville
Masculin Feminin
Made In USA
La Chinoise
Weekend
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
First Name: Carmen

34. Drew Goddard

Producer | The Martian

Drew Goddard was raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He attended Los Alamos High School in Los Alamos, New Mexico and graduated in 1993. He then attended the University of Colorado, and worked as a production assistant in L.A. after graduation. A spec script Drew wrote based on Six Feet Under (2001) ...

Cabin In The Woods 8/10
Bad Times At The El Royale 7/10

35. Luca Guadagnino

Director | Call Me by Your Name

Luca Guadagnino was born on August 10, 1971 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is a director and producer, known for Call Me by Your Name (2017), Suspiria (2018) and Bones and All (2022).

I Am Love
A Bigger Splash
Call Me By Your Name 8/10
Suspiria
Bones And All
Challengers 7/10

36. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Director | Doraibu mai kâ

Ryusuke Hamaguchi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Hamaguchi, a graduate of Tokyo University and Tokyo University of Arts, attracted attention in his country with the movie Passion (2008), which he shot for his graduation.

Hamaguchi first gained international recognition with the film ...

Happy Hour
Wheel Of Fortune And Fantasy
Drive My Car 7/10
Evil Does Not Exist

37. 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 ...

The Seventh Continent
Benny's Video
Funny Games 7/10
Code Unknown
The Piano Teacher
Time Of The Wolf
Cache
Funny Games
The White Ribbon
Amour

38. 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...

Scarface
Bringing Up Baby
Only Angels Have Wings
His Girl Friday
Sergeant York
To Have And Have Not
The Big Sleep 6/10
The Big Sky
Red River
Monkey Business
Gentleman Prefer Blondes
Rio Bravo
Hatari!

39. 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...

Aguirre, The Wrath Of God 4/10
Stroszek
Nosferatu The Vampyre
Fitzcarraldo 5/10
Rescue Dawn
Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans
Family Romance, LLC

40. 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 ...

The Man Who Knew Too Much
The 39 Steps
Sabotage
The Lady Vanishes
Rebecca 7/10
Foreign Correspondent
Suspicion
Saboteur
Shadow Of A Doubt
Lifeboat 4/10
Spellbound
Notorious
The Paradine Case
Rope 7/10
Strangers On A Train 5/10
I Confess
Rear Window 10/10
Dial M For Murder 8/10
To Catch A Thief
The Trouble With Harry
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Wrong Man
Vertigo 8/10
North By Northwest 8/10
Psycho 9/10
The Birds
Marnie 7/10
Frenzy

41. 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 ...

Splash
Cocoon
Willow
Parenthood
The Paper
Apollo 13 9/10
Ransom
How The Grinch Stole Christmas 9/10
A Beautiful Mind 9/10
Cinderella Man 9/10
The Da Vinci Code 7/10
Frost/Nixon
Angels & Demons 7/10
Rush 8/10
In The Heart Of The Sea
Inferno
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Hillbilly Elegy
Thirteen Lives

42. 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 ...

Barking Dogs Don't Bite
Memories Of Murder 8/10
The Host
Tokyo!
Mother
Snowpiercer 9/10
Okja
Parasite 9/10

43. John Huston

Director | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

An eccentric rebel of epic proportions, this Hollywood titan reigned supreme as director, screenwriter and character actor in a career that endured over five decades. The ten-time Oscar-nominated legend was born John Marcellus Huston in Nevada, Missouri, on August 5, 1906. His ancestry was English,...

The Maltese Falcon 8/10
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Key Largo
The Asphalt Jungle
The African Queen
Moulin Rouge
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
A Farewell To Arms
The Misfits
Freud The Secret Passion
The Night Of The Iguana
Fat City
The Man Who Would Be King
Under The Volcano
Prizzi's Honor
The Dead

44. 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 ...

Amores Perros
21 Grams
Babel 6/10
Biutiful
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 10/10
The Revenant 9/10
Bardo: False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths 3/10

45. 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 ...

Bad Taste
Meet The Feebles
Dead/Alive 8/10
Heavenly Creatures
The Frighteners
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring 10/10
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 10/10
The Lord of the Rings: The Return Of The King 10/10
King Kong 9/10
The Lovely Bones
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 8/10
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug 9/10
The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies 9/10

46. 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.

Permanent Vacation
Stranger Than Paradise
Down By Law 9/10
Mystery Train
Night On Earth
Dead Man
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Coffee And Cigarettes
Broken Flowers
The Limits Of Control
Only Lovers Left Alive 3/10
Paterson
The Dead Don't Die

47. Barry Jenkins

Producer | If Beale Street Could Talk

Barry Jenkins was born on November 19, 1979 in Miami, Florida, USA. He is a producer and director, known for If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), Moonlight (2016) and Aftersun (2022).

Moonlight 7/10
If Beale Street Could Talk

48. 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 ...

Being John Malkovich 8/10
Adaptation 7/10
Where The Wild Things Are
Her 10/10

49. Krzysztof Kieslowski

Writer | Trois couleurs: Bleu

Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lódz Film School in 1969, and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and scriptwriter. Before making his first film for TV, Przejscie podziemne (1974) (The Underground Passage), he made a number of short documentaries. His next TV title, Personnel (...

Blind Chance
A Short Film About Love
A Short Film About Killing
The Double Life Of Véronique 3/10
Three Colors: Blue
Three Colors: Red
Three Colors: White

50. Masaki Kobayashi

Director | Seppuku

Masaki Kobayashi was born on February 14, 1916 in Hokkaido, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Harakiri (1962), Samurai Rebellion (1967) and The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961). He died on October 4, 1996 in Tokyo, Japan.

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Hara-Kiri 9/10
Kwaidan
Samurai Rebellion

51. Kore-eda Hirokazu

Director | Manbiki kazoku

Born in Tokyo in 1962. Originally intended to be a novelist, but after graduating from Waseda University in 1987 went on to become an assistant director at T.V. Man Union. Snuck off set to film Mou hitotsu no kyouiku - Ina shogakkou haru gumi no kiroku (1991). His first feature, Maborosi (1995), ...

Maborosi
After Life 7/10
Nobody Knows 7/10
Still Walking 7/10
I Wish 7/10
Like Father, Like Son
Our Little Sister
After The Storm
The Third Murder 7/10
Shoplifters 7/10
The Truth
Broker
Monster

52. 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 ...

Fear And Desire
Killer's Kiss
The Killing 9/10
Paths Of Glory 10/10
Spartacus 7/10
Lolita 7/10
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 7/10
2001: A Space Odyssey 9/10
A Clockwork Orange 10/10
Barry Lyndon 5/10
The Shining 9/10
Full Metal Jacket 10/10
Eyes Wide Shut 10/10

53. Jee-woon Kim

Director | Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom

Kim Ji-woon was born in Seoul, South Korea. He began his career as an actor before becoming a stage director with productions such as "Hot Sea" in 1994 and "Movie, Movie" in 1995. He then began scripting for films, his first work, 97's "Wonderful Seasons" won Best Screenplay award at Korea's ...

The Quiet Family
The Tale Of Two Sisters
A Bittersweet Life
The Good The Bad The Weird
I Saw The Devil 8/10
The Age Of Shadows

54. 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...

Sanshiro Sugata
The Most Beautiful
Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two
The Men Who Tread On The Tiger's Tail
No Regrets For Our Youth
Those Who Make Tomorrow
One Wonderful Sunday
Drunken Angel 7/10
Stray Dog 6/10
The Quiet Duel
Rashomon 7/10
Scandal
The Idiot
Ikiru 8/10
Seven Samurai 10/10
I Live In Fear
Throne Of Blood
The Lower Depths
The Hidden Fortress 7/10
The Bad Sleep Well
Yojimbo 8/10
Sanjuro 8/10
High And Low 9/10
Red Beard
Dodes'ka-den
Dersu Uzala
Kagemusha
Ran 6/10
Dreams
Rhapsody In August
Madadayo

55. 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,...

Dogtooth
Alps
The Lobster 6/10
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer
The Favourite 6/10
Poor Things

56. Ang Lee

Director | Wo hu cang long

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, ...

Eat Drink Man Woman
Sense And Sensibility
The Ice Storm
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 7/10
Hulk 4/10
Brokeback Mountain 2/10
Lust, Caution
Life Of Pi 7/10
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

57. 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 ...

She's Gotta Have It
Do The Right Thing 9/10
Mo' Better Blues
Jungle Fever
Malcolm X
Crooklyn
Clockers
Get On The Bus
He Got Game
Summer Of Sam
25th Hour
Inside Man 7/10
Red Hook Summer
Oldboy 9/10
BlacKkKlansman 8/10
Da 5 Bloods

58. 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. ...

Slacker
Dazed And Confused
Before Sunrise 7/10
Waking Life
Tape
School Of Rock 9/10
Before Sunset
A Scanner Darkly
Bernie
Before Midnight
Boyhood 7/10
Everybody Wants Some!! 7/10
Where'd You Go, Bernadette 8/10
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
Hit Man

59. Sidney Lumet

Director | 12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet was a master of cinema, best known for his technical knowledge and his skill at getting first-rate performances from his actors -- and for shooting most of his films in his beloved New York. He made over 40 movies, often complex and emotional, but seldom overly sentimental. Although ...

12 Angry Men 10/10
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Pawnbroker
Fail Safe
The Hill
Serpico
Murder On The Orient Express
Dog Day Afternoon 8/10
Network
Equus
The Wiz
Prince Of The City
The Verdict
The Morning After
Running On Empty
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead

60. 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 ...

Eraserhead 5/10
The Elephant Man
Dune
Blue Velvet 7/10
Wild At Heart 4/10
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Lost Highway 4/10
The Straight Story
Mulholland Drive 9/10
Inland Empire

61. 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 ...

Badlands 6/10
Days Of Heaven
The Thin Red Line 7/10
The New World
The Tree Of Life 6/10
To The Wonder
Knight Of Cups 2/10
Song To Song
A Hidden Life

62. 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.

Hunger 7/10
Shame 5/10
12 Years A Slave 8/10
Widows
Small Axe: Mangrove
Small Axe: Lovers Rock

63. Jean-Pierre Melville

Writer | Le samouraï

The name "Melville" is not immediately associated with film. It conjures up images of white whales and crackbrained captains, of naysaying notaries and soup-spilling sailors. It is the countersign to a realm of men and their deeds, both heroic and villainous. It is the American novel, with its ...

Bob le Flambeur
Le Deuxième Souffle
Le Samouraï
Army of Shadows
Le Cercle Rouge 7/10

64. 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-...

American Beauty 10/10
Road To Perdition 7/10
Jarhead 9/10
Revolutionary Road
Away We Go
Skyfall 9/10
Spectre 8/10
1917 8/10
Empire Of Light 7/10

65. Takashi Miike

Director | Jûsan-nin no shikaku

Takashi Miike was born in the small town of Yao on the outskirts of Osaka, Japan. His main interest growing up was motorbikes, and for a while he harbored ambitions to race professionally. At the age of 18 he went to study at the film school in Yokohama founded by renowned director Shôhei Imamura, ...

Rainy Dog
The Bird People In China
Audition 6/10
Dead Or Alive
Ley Lines
Ichi The Killer
The Happiness Of The Katakuris
Agitator
Graveyard Of Honor 3/10
Gozu
One Missed Call 5/10
Sun Scarred
Crows Zero
13 Assassins
Hara-Kiri: Death Of A Samurai 5/10
As The Gods Will
Blade Of The Immortal
First Love

66. 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 ...

Lupin III: The Castle Of Cagliostro
Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind
Castle In The Sky
My Neighbor Totoro 7/10
Kiki's Delivery Service
Porco Rosso
Princess Mononoke 6/10
Spirited Away 9/10
Howl's Moving Castle 7/10
Ponyo
The Wind Rises
The Boy And The Heron

67. Kenji Mizoguchi

Director | Ugetsu monogatari

Coming from a lower class family Mizoguchi entered the production company Nikkatsu as an actor specialized in female roles. Later he became an assistant director and made his first film in 1922. Although he filmed almost 90 movies in the silent era, only his last 12 productions are really known ...

Sisters Of The Gion
The Story Of The Last Chrysanthemum
The 47 Ronin
Miss Oyu
The Life Of Oharu
Ugestu
Sansho The Bailiff 7/10
The Crucified Lovers
Street Of Shame

68. Gaspar Noé

Director | Enter the Void

Gaspar Noé is an Argentinian filmmaker and screenwriter who lives in France. He is the son of Luis Felipe Noé, an Argentinian artist. He directed I Stand Alone, Irréversible, Enter the Void, Love, Climax, Carne, Lux Æterna, Sodomites and Vortex. His films are known for having a sensory overload ...

I Stand Alone
Irreversible
Enter The Void 3/10
Love
Climax
Lux Aeterna
Vortex 5/10

69. Yasujirô Ozu

Writer | Tôkyô monogatari

Tokyo-born Yasujiro Ozu was a movie buff from childhood, often playing hooky from school in order to see Hollywood movies in his local theatre. In 1923 he landed a job as a camera assistant at Shochiku Studios in Tokyo. Three years later, he was made an assistant director and directed his first ...

I Was Born, But...
A Story Of Floating Weeds
The Only Son
There Was A Father
Late Spring 6/10
Early Summer
The Flavor Of Green Tea Over Rice
Tokyo Story 9/10
Early Spring
Tokyo Twilight
Equinox Flower
Floating Weeds
Good Morning
Late Autumn
The End Of Summer
An Autumn Afternoon

70. Park Chan-wook

Director | Oldeuboi

Park Chan-wook was born on August 23, 1963 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a producer and director, known for Oldboy (2003), The Handmaiden (2016) and Decision to Leave (2022). He is married to Eun-hee Kim. They have one child.

Joint Security Area
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance 6/10
Oldboy 10/10
Lady Vengeance
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
Thirst
Stoker
The Handmaiden 8/10
Decision To Leave

71. Pawel Pawlikowski

Director | Zimna wojna

A literature and philosophy graduate, with extensive post-graduate work at Oxford on German literature, Polish-born Pawel Pawlikowski started as a documentary filmmaker in British television.

His second feature, Last Resort (2000), earned him international critical acclaim at numerous festivals, ...

My Summer Of Love
Ida
Cold War

72. 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...

Election
About Schmidt
Sideways 9/10
The Descendants 8/10
Nebraska 4/10
Downsizing 6/10
The Holdovers 7/10

73. 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 ...

Knife In The Water
Repulsion
Cul-De-Sac
Rosemary's Baby 5/10
Chinatown 7/10
The Tenant 3/10
Tess
Frantic
Bitter Moon
The Ninth Gate
The Pianist 9/10
The Ghost Writer
Carnage 6/10
Venus In Fur

74. 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 ...

Mean Streets 7/10
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Taxi Driver 10/10
New York, New York
Raging Bull 10/10
The King Of Comedy 8/10
After Hours 8/10
The Color Of Money
The Last Temptation Of Christ
Goodfellas 9/10
Cape Fear 9/10
The Age Of Innocence
Casino 10/10
Kundun
Bringing Out The Dead
Gangs Of New York 6/10
The Aviator 9/10
The Departed 9/10
Shutter Island 8/10
Hugo 6/10
The Wolf Of Wall Street 10/10
Silence 5/10
The Irishman 7/10
Killers Of The Flower Moon 8/10

75. Roberto Rossellini

Writer | Roma città aperta

The master filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, as one of the creators of neo-realism, is one of the most influential directors of all time. His neo-realist films influenced France's nouvelle vague movement in the 1950s and '60s that changed the face of international cinema. He also influenced American ...

Rome, Open City
Paisan
Germany Year Zero
Stromboli
Europe '51
Journey To Italy
General Della Rovere

76. 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 ...

The Duellists
Alien 9/10
Blade Runner 7/10
Legend
Thelma & Louise 7/10
G.I. Jane
Gladiator 7/10
Black Hawk Down 7/10
Hannibal 7/10
Matchstick Men
Kingdom Of Heaven 3/10
A Good Year
American Gangster 9/10
Robin Hood 4/10
Prometheus 8/10
The Counselor
Exodus: Gods And Kings
The Martian 9/10
Alien: Covenant
All The Money In The World
The Last Duel
House Of Gucci 7/10
Napoleon 3/10

77. Emma Seligman

Director | Shiva Baby

Emma Seligman was born on May 3, 1995 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is a director and writer, known for Shiva Baby (2020), Bottoms (2023) and Shiva Baby (2018).

Shiva Baby
Bottoms

78. 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 ...

Sex, Lies, and Videotape 8/10
King Of The Hill
Gray's Anatomy
Out Of Sight
The Limey
Erin Brockovich 7/10
Traffic 6/10
Ocean's Eleven 10/10
Ocean's Twelve 7/10
Ocean's Thirteen
Che: Part One
Che: Part Two
The Girlfriend Experience
The Informant!
Contagion 7/10
Haywire
Magic Mike 5/10
Side Effects 8/10
Behind The Candelabra
Logan Lucky 7/10
Unsane 7/10
The Laundromat
High Flying Bird
Let Them All Talk
No Sudden Move
Kimi
Magic Mike's Last Dance

79. Steven Spielberg

Producer | Schindler's List

One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...

Duel
Jaws 9/10
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind 4/10
1941
Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark 9/10
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 7/10
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom 8/10
The Color Purple
Empire Of The Sun
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade 7/10
Hook
Jurassic Park 10/10
Schindler's List 7/10
The Lost World: Jurassic Park 7/10
Saving Private Ryan 8/10
A.I. Artificial Intelligence 9/10
Catch Me If You Can 10/10
Minority Report 9/10
The Terminal 10/10
Munich 4/10
War Of The Worlds 4/10
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 6/10
The Adventures Of Tintin
War Horse
Lincoln 4/10
Bridge Of Spies
The BFG
The Post
Ready Player One 10/10
West Side Story 5/10
The Fabelmans 7/10

80. 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.

Satantango
Werckmeister Harmonies
The Turin Horse

81. 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...

Reservoir Dogs 9/10
Pulp Fiction 10/10
Jackie Brown 10/10
Kill Bill Vol. 1 10/10
Kill Bill Vol. 2 10/10
Death Proof 7/10
Inglorious Basterds 10/10
Django Unchained 10/10
The Hateful Eight 7/10
Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood 7/10

82. 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...

Ivan's Childhood
Andrei Rublev
Solaris 6/10
Mirror
Stalker 6/10
Nostalghia
The Sacrifice

83. 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 ...

Breaking The Waves
The Idiots
Dancer In The Dark
Dogville
Melancholia 6/10
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I 7/10
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II 6/10
The House That Jack Built

84. François Truffaut

Writer | La nuit américaine

French director François Truffaut began to assiduously go to the movies at age seven. He was also a great reader but not a good pupil. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who became his protector. Bazin helped the ...

The 400 Blows 8/10
Shoot the Piano Player
Jules And Jim 5/10
The Soft Skin
Fahrenheit 451
Stolen Kisses
The Bride Wore Black
The Wild Child
Bed & Board
Day For Night
Small Change
The Last Metro

85. 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, ...

Drugstore Cowboy
My Own Private Idaho
To Die For 7/10
Good Will Hunting 9/10
Gerry
Elephant 8/10
Last Days
Paranoid Park
Milk
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

86. 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 ...

Layer Cake
Stardust 7/10
Kick-Ass 7/10
X-Men First Class 8/10
Kingsman: The Secret Service 10/10
Kingsman: The Golden Circle 8/10
The King’s Man

87. 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 ...

Turkish Delight
Soldier of Orange
The 4th Man
Robocop 9/10
Total Recall 9/10
Basic Instinct 6/10
Starship Troopers
Black Book
Elle
Benedetta

88. 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), ...

Polytechnique
Incendies
Prisoners 9/10
Enemy 7/10
Sicario 7/10
Arrival 7/10
Blade Runner 2049 7/10
Dune 7/10

89. Thomas Vinterberg

Director | Jagten

With Sidste omgang (1993) (Last Round), his graduation short from The National Film School of Denmark, Thomas Vinterberg got an early taste of critical success. He received the Jury's and Producers' Awards at the International Student Film Fest in Munich and won the 1st Prize at the Tel Aviv Film ...

The Celebration
The Hunt 10/10
Another Round

90. James Wan

Writer | Saw

James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is an Australian film producer, screenwriter and film director of Malaysian Chinese descent. He is widely known for directing the horror film Saw (2004) and creating Billy the puppet. Wan has also directed Dead Silence (2007), Death Sentence (2007), Insidious (2010)...

Saw 7/10
Dead Silence
Death Sentence 9/10
Insidious 7/10
The Conjuring 7/10
Insidious: Chapter 2 7/10
Furious 7
The Conjuring 2 7/10
Aquaman 7/10
Malignant 8/10
Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom

91. Leigh Whannell

Actor | Saw

Leigh Whannell grew up in Melbourne, Australia, where, at the age of four, he developed an obsession with telling stories. Whether it be through acting, writing or filmmaking, his primary love was getting a reaction from an audience. In 1995, at the age of 18, he was accepted into the Royal ...

Insidious: Chapter 3
Upgrade 8/10
The Invisible Man 9/10

92. Billy Wilder

Writer | The Apartment

Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many ...

Double Indemnity 9/10
The Lost Weekend
A Foreign Affair
Sunset Blvd. 7/10
Ace In The Hole 6/10
Stalag 17
Sabrina
The Seven Year Itch
Witness For The Prosecution 8/10
Love In The Afternoon
The Spirit Of St. Louis
Some Like It Hot 9/10
The Apartment 9/10
One, Two, Three
Irma La Douce
The Fortune Cookie
The Front Page

93. 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 ...

As Tears Go By
Days Of Being Wild
Chungking Express 9/10
Ashes Of Time
Fallen Angels
Happy Together
In The Mood For Love 10/10
2046
My Blueberry Nights
The Grandmaster

94. John Woo

Director | Ying hung boon sik

Born in southern China, John Woo grew up in Hong Kong, where he began his film career as an assistant director in 1969, working for Shaw Brothers Studios. He directed his first feature in 1973 and has been a prolific director ever since, working in a wide variety of genres before A Better Tomorrow ...

Last Hurrah For Chivalry
A Better Tomorrow
A Better Tomorrow 2
The Killer
Bullet In The Head
Hard Boiled 9/10
Face/Off 7/10
Mission Impossible 2 6/10
Red Cliff
Red Cliff 2
Silent Night

95. Edgar Wright

Director | Shaun of the Dead

Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his comedic Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy consisting of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), made with recurrent collaborators Simon Pegg...

Shaun Of The Dead 6/10
Hot Fuzz 8/10
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 3/10
The World's End 8/10
Baby Driver 8/10
Last Night In Soho 8/10

96. William Wyler

Director | The Best Years of Our Lives

William Wyler was an American filmmaker who, at the time of his death in 1981, was considered by his peers as second only to John Ford as a master craftsman of cinema. The winner of three Best Director Academy Awards, second again only to Ford's four, Wyler's reputation has unfairly suffered as the...

The Letter
Mrs. Miniver
The Best Years Of Our Lives
The Heiress
Detective Story
Roman Holiday 7/10
Friendly Persuasion
The Big Country
Ben-Hur
The Children's Hour
The Collector
HowTo Steal A Million
Funny Girl

97. Yimou Zhang

Director | Ying xiong

Yimou Zhang was born on November 14, 1951 in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. He is a director and writer, known for Hero (2002), House of Flying Daggers (2004) and Curse of the Golden Flower (2006). He has been married to Ting Chen since December 2011. They have three children. He was previously married to ...

Raise The Red Lantern
To Live
Shanghai Triad
Not One Less
The Road Home
Hero 7/10
House Of Flying Daggers
The Flowers Of War
Coming Home
Shadow
Cliff Walkers