Artimidor's Complete Film Ratings by Director

101. Adam Elliot

Grew up on a shrimp farm in southern Australia together with two brothers, one sister and two parrots. He discerned his artistic abilities at an early age and spent five years studying photography, painting, pottery etc. In 1996 he began his studies at the Victorian College of the Arts where Uncle ...

Evaluated films: 8.8 - Mary and Max (2009) 8.1 - Harvie Krumpet (2003) 7.0 - Ernie Buscuit (2015)

102. 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,...

Evaluated films: 8.8 - The Lobster (2015) 8.0 - The Favourite (2018) 7.7 - Poor Things (2023) 7.6 - Dogtooth (2009)

103. Mike Nichols

Director | The Graduate

He, along with the other members of the "Compass Players" including Elaine May, Paul Sills, Byrne Piven, Joyce Hiller Piven and Edward Asner helped start the famed "Second City Improv" company. They used the games taught to them by fellow cast mate, Paul Sills 's mother, Viola Spolin. He later ...

Evaluated films: 8.8 - The Graduate (1967) 7.7 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

104. Cristian Mungiu

Producer | 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile

Cristian Mungiu was born on April 27, 1968 in Iasi, Romania. He is a producer and writer, known for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Graduation (2016) and Beyond the Hills (2012).

Evaluated films: 8.8 - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) 7.6 - Beyond the Hills (2012) 7.1 - Graduation (2016)

105. Victor Sjöström

Actor | Smultronstället

Victor Sjöström was born on September 20, 1879, and is the undisputed father of Swedish film, ranking as one of the masters of world cinema. His influence lives on in the work of Ingmar Bergman and all those directors, both Swedish and international, influenced by his work and the works of ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - The Phantom Carriage (1921) 8.7 - The Wind (1928) 7.9 - He Who Gets Slapped (1924)

106. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - Kings of the Road (1976) 8.6 - Paris, Texas (1984) 8.5 - Alice in the Cities (1974) 8.3 - Wings of Desire (1987) 8.3 - Pina (2011) 8.3 - The Salt of the Earth (2014) 7.0 - Faraway, So Close! (1993) 7.0 - Tokyo-Ga (1985) 6.9 - The American Friend (1977) 6.8 - Beyond the Clouds (1995) 6.0 - Room 666 (1982) 5.5 - Until the End of the World (1991)

107. Michael Powell

Director | Peeping Tom

The son of Thomas William Powell and Mabel (nee Corbett). Michael Powell was always a self-confessed movie addict. He was brought up partly in Canterbury ("The Garden of England") and partly in the south of France (where his parents ran a hotel). Educated at Kings School, Canterbury and Dulwich ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - Stairway to Heaven (1946) 8.6 - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) 8.3 - The Red Shoes (1948) 8.2 - 49th Parallel (1941) 8.1 - The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) 8.0 - I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) 7.8 - Peeping Tom (1960) 7.7 - The Edge of the World (1937) 7.7 - The Thief of Bagdad (1940) 7.6 - The Battle at the River Plate (1956) 7.6 - Black Narcissus (1947) 7.2 - Ill Met By Moonlight (1957) 7.1 - One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) 6.9 - Gone to Earth (1950) 6.5 - A Canterbury Tale (1944)

108. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - Do the Right Thing (1989) 8.6 - When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) 8.0 - 4 Little Girls (1997) 7.3 - Inside Man (2006) 7.2 - Malcom X (1992) 7.1 - BlacKkKlansman (2018) 6.9 - 25th Hour (2002)

109. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - Battleship Potemkin (1925) 8.5 - Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1958) 8.4 - Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944) 8.1 - Strike (1925) 7.5 - Alexander Nevsky (1938) 7.4 - October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927) 6.5 - Que Viva Mexico (1932)

110. Jean Renoir

Writer | La règle du jeu

Son of the famous Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste, he had a happy childhood. Pierre Renoir was his brother, and Claude Renoir was his nephew. After the end of World War I, where he won the Croix de Guerre, he moved from scriptwriting to filmmaking. He married Catherine Hessling, for whom he ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - La Grande Illusion (1937) 8.5 - The River (1951) 8.3 - The Rules of the Game (1939) 8.3 - A Day in the Country (1936) 8.2 - La Bête Humaine (1938) 7.7 - Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) 7.5 - French Cancan (1955) 7.4 - Toni (1935) 7.4 - This Land is Mine (1943) 7.3 - La Chienne (1931) 7.2 - The Golden Coach (1952) 6.8 - The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) 6.6 - Night at the Crossroads (1932)

111. Ernst Lubitsch

Director | To Be or Not to Be

From Ernst Lubitsch's experiences in Sophien Gymnasium (high school) theater, he decided to leave school at the age of 16 and pursue a career on the stage. He had to compromise with his father and keep the account books for the family tailor business while he acted in cabarets and music halls at ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - To Be or Not to Be (1942) 8.5 - The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 8.3 - Trouble in Paradise (1932) 7.9 - Design for Living (1933) 7.8 - Heaven Can Wait (1943) 7.7 - Ninotchka (1939) 7.2 - Angel (1937)

112. Josef von Sternberg

Director | The Devil Is a Woman

Josef von Sternberg split his childhood between Vienna and New York City. His father, a former soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army, could not support his family in either city; Sternberg remembered him only as "an enormously strong man who often used his strength on me." Forced by poverty to drop ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - The Docks of New York (1928) 8.5 - The Scarlet Empress (1934) 8.3 - Underworld (1927) 7.7 - The Blue Angel (1930) 7.4 - Morocco (1930) 7.3 - The Devil is a Woman (1935) 7.3 - Shanghai Express (1932) 5.8 - Anatahan (1953)

113. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - In the Mood for Love (2000) 8.5 - Chungking Express (1994) 8.2 - 2046 (2004) 7.8 - Days of Being Wild (1990) 7.6 - Happy Together (1997) 6.4 - Fallen Angels (1995)

114. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - Secret & Lies (1996) 8.4 - Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) 8.3 - All or Nothing (2002) 8.2 - Meantime (1983) 8.1 - Vera Drake (2005) 7.8 - Another Year (2010) 7.4 - Life is Sweet (1990) 7.0 - Naked (1993) 7.0 - High Hopes (1988) 6.8 - Career Girls (1997) 6.5 - Topsy-Turvy (1999)

115. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - Paisan (1946) 8.3 - Europe '51 (1951) 8.3 - Rome, Open City (1945) 8.1 - Journey to Italy (1954) 8.0 - Germany Year Zero (1948) 7.7 - Stromboli (1950) 7.1 - The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966) 6.2 - The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)

116. Lewis Milestone

Director | All Quiet on the Western Front

Lewis Milestone, a clothing manufacturer's son, was born in Bessarabia (now Moldova), raised in Odessa (Ukraine) and educated in Belgium and Berlin (where he studied engineering). He was fluent in both German and Russian and an avid reader. Milestone had an affinity for the theatre from an early ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) 8.3 - Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) 8.2 - All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 7.8 - Of Mice and Men (1939) 7.6 - The Kid Brother (1927) 7.1 - Kangaroo (1952)

117. Kim Ki-duk

Writer | Bin-jip

He studied fine arts in Paris in 1990-1992. In 1993 he won the award for Best Screenplay from the Educational Institute of Screenwriting with "A Painter and A Criminal Condemned to Death". After two more screenplay awards, he made his directorial debut with Crocodile (1996) ("Crocodile"). Then he ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) 8.3 - 3-Iron (2004) 7.4 - Pieta (2012)

118. Joshua Oppenheimer

Director | The Act of Killing

Joshua Oppenheimer was born on September 23, 1974 in Texas, USA. He is a director and producer, known for The Act of Killing (2012), The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998) and The Look of Silence (2014).

Evaluated films: 8.7 - The Look of Silence (2014) 8.3 - The Act of Killing (2012)

119. Joe Berlinger

Producer | Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

Academy Award, eight-time Emmy nominated, and Peabody, DGA, and Sundance winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger has been a pioneering force in nonfiction filmmaking for over three decades. In a recent Bloomberg profile, Berlinger was described as a "true crime hit factory" for Netflix, whose work has "...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - Paradise Lost III: Purgatory (2011) 8.2 - Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) 8.2 - Wrong Man (TV series, 2018) 8.2 - Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (TV series, 2019) 8.0 - Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy (TV series, 2022) 7.8 - Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio (TV series, 2017) 7.8 - Paradise Lost II: Revelations (2000) 7.5 - Brother's Keeper (1992) 7.5 - Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders (TV series, 2017) 6.4 - Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014) 4.0 - Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)

120. Leo McCarey

Director | An Affair to Remember

Leo McCarey was born on October 3, 1896 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for An Affair to Remember (1957), Going My Way (1944) and Love Affair (1939). He was married to Virginia Stella Martin. He died on July 5, 1969 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

Evaluated films: 8.7 - Make Way For Tomorrow (1937) 8.2 - An Affair to Remember (1957) 7.9 - Duck Soup (1933) 7.3 - Ruggles at Red Gap (1935) 7.1 - The Awful Truth (1937)

121. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 8.2 - Rushmore (1998) 7.8 - Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) 7.3 - The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) 7.3 - Moonrise Kingdom (2012) 5.8 - Bottle Rocket (1996)

122. Theodoros Angelopoulos

Director | Mia aioniotita kai mia mera

Theo Angelopoulos began to study law in Athens but broke up his studies to go to the Sorbonne in Paris in order to study literature. When he had finished his studies, he wanted to attend the School of Cinema at Paris but decided instead to go back to Greece. There he worked as a journalist and ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - Landscape in the Mist (1988) 8.1 - Eternity and a Day (1981) 7.8 - Ulysses' Gaze (1995) 7.6 - Reconstruction (1970) 7.3 - The Travelling Players (1973)

123. Ermanno Olmi

Director | L'albero degli zoccoli

Ermanno Olmi was born on July 24, 1931 in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978), The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) and Il posto (1961). He was married to Loredana Detto. He died on May 5, 2018 in Asiago, Veneto, Italy.

Evaluated films: 8.7 - Il Posto (1961) 8.1 - The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

124. Nicholas Ray

Director | Rebel Without a Cause

Nicholas Ray was born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle in 1911, in small-town Galesville, Wisconsin, to Lena (Toppen) and Raymond Joseph Kienzle, a contractor and builder. He was of German and Norwegian descent. Ray's early experience with film came with some radio broadcasting in high school. He left the ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - In a Lonely Place (1950) 8.0 - They Live By Night (1948) 7.8 - The Lusty Men (1952) 7.7 - Johnny Guitar (1954) 7.5 - Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 7.4 - Party Girl (1958) 7.3 - Bitter Victory (1957) 7.2 - Bigger Than Life (1956) 6.6 - On Dangerous Ground (1951)

125. 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.

Evaluated films: 8.7 - The Handmaiden (2016) 7.9 - Oldboy (2003)

126. Tod Browning

Director | Dracula

Belonging to a well-situated family, Charles Browning fell in love at the age of 16 with a dancer of a circus. Following her began his itinerary of being clown, jockey and director of a variety theater which ended when he met D.W. Griffith and became an actor. He made his debut in Intolerance (1916)...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - Freaks (1932) 7.6 - The Unknown (1927) 7.6 - Dracula (1931) 5.8 - Mark of the Vampire (1935)

127. 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, ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - Brokeback Mountain (2006) 7.6 - Life of Pi (2012) 5.9 - The Ice Storm (1997) 5.5 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

128. Mervyn LeRoy

Director | Gypsy

The great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 was a tragedy for Mervyn LeRoy. While he and his father managed to survive, they lost everything they had. To make money, LeRoy sold newspapers and entered talent contests as a singer. When he entered vaudeville, his act was "LeRoy and Cooper--Two...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) 7.4 - Little Cesar (1931) 7.1 - Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

129. Jacques Audiard

Writer | De rouille et d'os

Born in Paris, France, in 1952. Jacques Audiard's family has always been involved in movie business. His father, Michel, was a popular screenwriter and director and his uncle a producer. But in his teens he refused that world and wanted to be a teacher. He studied literature and philosophy at the ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - A Prophet (2009) 7.4 - The Beat My Heart Skipped (2005)

130. King Vidor

Director | War and Peace

King Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter of Hungarian descent. He was born in Galveston, Texas to lumberman Charles Shelton Vidor and his wife Kate Wallis. King's paternal grandfather Károly (Charles) Vidor had fled Hungary as a refugee following the failed ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - The Crowd (1928) 7.3 - The Big Parade (1925) 7.1 - Stella Dallas (1937) 6.8 - Duel in the Sun (1946) 6.5 - The Fountainhead (1949)

131. Fred C. Newmeyer

Director | Safety Last!

Fred C. Newmeyer was a professional baseball player from 1909-13 before beginning his career as an extra at Universal Pictures. He worked his way up the ladder to become a prop man, then assistant director and, finally, director. Notable among his films are Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925) with ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - Safety Last! (1923) 7.2 - The Freshman (1925)

132. Samira Makhmalbaf

Director | Panj é asr

Samira Makhmalbaf Filmmaker

Born on February 15,1980 in Tehran. At the age of eight, she played in "The Cyclist" directed by her father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf the celebrated Iranian filmmaker.

At the age of 17, she directed her first feature titled "The Apple" and She went on to become the youngest ...

Evaluated films: 8.7 - The Apple (1998) 6.9 - Blackboards (2000) 6.7 - At Five in the Afternoon (2003)

133. 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. ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - Before Sunset (2004) 8.5 - Before Sunrise (1995) 8.5 - Before Midnight (2013) 8.4 - Waking Life (2001) 8.3 - Boyhood (2014) 7.3 - Dazed and Confused (1993) 6.4 - A Scanner Darkly (2006)

134. Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Producer | Deux jours, une nuit

After studying drama in the arts institute, Jean Pierre Dardenne and his brother Luc made some videos about the rough life in blue-collar small towns in the Wallonie. After their meeting with filmmaker Armad Gatti and cinematographer Ned Burgess, they decided to enter in the movie business.

In 1978 ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - Rosetta (1999) 8.5 - The Son (2002) 8.5 - The Silence of Lorna (2008) 8.3 - La Promesse (1996) 7.7 - The Child (2005) 7.7 - The Kid with a Bike (2011) 7.6 - Two Days, One Night (2014) 6.9 - The Unknown Girl (2016) 6.5 - Young Ahmed (2019)

135. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - Drifting Clouds (1996) 8.5 - Shadows in Paradise (1986) 8.4 - The Man Without a Past (2002) 8.3 - Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) 8.2 - Match Factory Girl (1990) 8.0 - Ariel (1988) 8.0 - Total Balalaika Show (1994) 7.3 - Le Havre (2011) 6.3 - I Hired a Contract Killer (1990) 6.2 - Crime and Punishment (1983) 6.0 - Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994)

136. James Whale

Director | Bride of Frankenstein

James Whale was an English film director, theatre director and actor. He is best remembered for his four classic horror films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). He also directed films in other genres, including what is ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 8.5 - Frankenstein (1931) 8.4 - The Invisible Man (1933) 8.3 - The Old Dark House (1932) 4.2 - Sinners in Paradise (1938)

137. 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,...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - The Maltese Falcon (1941) 8.5 - The Dead (1987) 8.4 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 8.2 - The Misfits (1961) 8.2 - Moby Dick (1956) 8.0 - The Asphalt Jungle (1950) 7.9 - Key Largo (1948) 7.8 - The Man Who Would Be King (1975) 7.4 - Fat City (1972) 7.3 - The African Queen (1951) 6.2 - Beat the Devil (1953) 6.0 - San Pietro (1945)

138. 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...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - A Separation (2011) 8.5 - The Past (2013) 8.3 - About Elly (2009) 8.2 - The Salesman (2014)

139. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - Blow-Up (1966) 8.5 - The Passenger (1975) 8.3 - The Cry (1957) 8.0 - L'Eclisse (1962) 7.5 - Zabriskie Point (1970) 7.4 - L'Avventura (1960) 7.4 - La Notte (1961) 7.0 - Red Desert (1964) 6.8 - Beyond the Clouds (1995)

140. 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...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - Ben-Hur (1950) 8.5 - Roman Holiday (1953) 8.3 - The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 7.5 - Detective Story (1951) 7.3 - Dodsworth (1936) 7.3 - Mrs. Miniver (1942) 7.2 - The Collector (1965)

141. Luchino Visconti

Writer | Il gattopardo

Born in his ancestral palazzo, situated in the same Milanese square as both the opera house La Scala and the Milan Cathedral, Luchino Visconti (1906 - 1976) was raised under the auspices of aristocratic privilege, theater and Catholicism. This triangulation of monuments would create an equally ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - La Terra Trema (1948) 8.5 - Ossessione (1943) 8.0 - Rocco and His Brothers (1960) 7.7 - Senso (1954) 7.7 - Bellissima (1952) 7.3 - The Leopard (1963) 7.0 - The Damned (1969) 6.8 - Ludwig (1972) 6.5 - Death in Venice (1971)

142. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - Aliens (1986) 8.5 - Terminator II: Judgement Day (1991) 7.9 - The Terminator (1984) 7.8 - The Abyss (1989) 6.8 - Titanic (1997) 6.3 - Avatar (2009)

143. Frank Darabont

Writer | The Shawshank Redemption

Three-time Oscar nominee Frank Darabont was born in a refugee camp in 1959 in Montbeliard, France, the son of Hungarian parents who had fled Budapest during the failed 1956 Hungarian revolution. Brought to America as an infant, he settled with his family in Los Angeles and attended Hollywood High ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - The Green Mile (1999) 8.5 - The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 7.0 - The Mist (2007)

144. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - Fargo (1996) 8.4 - The Big Lebowski (1998) 8.3 - Blood Simple. (1984) 8.1 - Raising Arizona (1987) 8.1 - Miller's Crossing (1990) 8.1 - No Country for Old Men (2007) 8.0 - Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 8.0 - Barton Fink (1998) 7.7 - O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) 7.2 - A Serious Man (2009) 6.7 - Burn After Reading (2008) 6.5 - True Grit (2010)

145. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - The Lord of the Rings I: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 8.4 - The Lord of the Rings II: The Two Towers (2002) 8.2 - Heavenly Creatures (1994) 8.2 - The Lord of the Rings III: The Return of the King (2003) 7.5 - The Frighteners (1996) 7.3 - Forgotten Silver (1995) 7.3 - King Kong (2005) 7.0 - The Hobbit I: An Unexpected Journey (2012) 5.2 - Bad Taste (1987)

146. Carol Reed

Director | The Third Man

Carol Reed was the second son of stage actor, dramatics teacher and impresario founder of the Royal School of Dramatic Art Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Reed was one of Tree's six illegitimate children with Beatrice Mae Pinney, who Tree established in a second household apart from his married life. ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - The Third Man (1949) 8.3 - The Fallen Idol (1948) 7.7 - Odd Man Out (1947) 6.8 - Night Train to Munich (1940)

147. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - This is Spinal Tap (1984) 8.3 - When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 8.0 - Misery (1990) 7.9 - The Princess Bride (1987) 7.2 - Stand By Me (1986) 6.8 - Albert Brooks: Defending My Life (2023)

148. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - Babel (2006) 8.2 - Birdman (2014) 8.1 - Amores Perros (2000) 7.0 - The Revenant (2015)

149. Jacques Tourneur

Director | Cat People

Born in Paris in 1904, Tourneur went to Hollywood with his father, director Maurice Tourneur around 1913. He started out as a script clerk and editor for his father, then graduated to such jobs as directing shorts (often with the pseudonym Jack Turner), both in France and America. He was hired to ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - Out of the Past (1947) 8.2 - Night of the Demon (1957) 8.0 - The Leopard Man (1943) 7.6 - Cat People (1942) 7.3 - I Walked With a Zombie (1943) 6.8 - The Comedy of Terrors (1963) 6.8 - Nightfall (1956)

150. Jules Dassin

Director | Du rififi chez les hommes

Jules Dassin was an Academy Award-nominated director, screenwriter and actor best known for his films Rififi (1955), Never on Sunday (1960), and Topkapi (1964).

He was born Julius Samuel Dassin on 18 December 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He was one of eight children of Russian-Jewish ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - Rififi (1955) 8.2 - Night and the City (1950) 7.7 - The Naked City (1948) 7.6 - Thieves' Highway (1946)

151. Amy Berg

Producer | Deliver Us from Evil

Amy Berg was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is known for Deliver Us from Evil (2006), West of Memphis (2012) and Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015).

Evaluated films: 8.6 - West of Memphis (2012) 8.1 - Deliver Us from Evil (2006) 7.1 - Prophet's Prey (2015) 6.9 - The Case Against Adnan Syed (TV series, 2019)

152. Matteo Garrone

Director | Dogman

Matteo Garrone was born in Rome in 1968. He is the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone, and a photographer. In 1996 he won the Sacher d'Oro, an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film Silhouette (1996), that became one of the three episodes of his first feature film Land in Between ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - Pinocchio (2019) 8.1 - Gomorrah (2008)

153. Richard Brooks

Writer | In Cold Blood

Richard Brooks was an Academy Award-winning film writer who also earned six Oscar nominations and achieved success as a film director and producer.

He was born Reuben Sax on May 18, 1912, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants. He graduated from West Philadelphia ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - In Cold Blood (1967) 7.8 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) 7.5 - The Professionals (1966)

154. 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...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - The Fly (1986) 7.6 - The Dead Zone (1983) 7.2 - Videodrome (1983) 3.5 - A History of Violence (2005) 3.5 - Crash (1996)

155. Otto Preminger

Actor | Stalag 17

Otto Ludwig Preminger was born in Wiznitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary. His father was a prosecutor, and Otto originally intended to follow his father into a law career; however, he fell in love with the theater in his 20's and became one of the most imaginative stage producers and directors. He was ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - Laura (1944) 7.5 - Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

156. Dariush Mehrjui

Director | Gaav

Dariush Mehrjui was born to a middle-class family in Tehran. He showed interest in painting miniatures, music, and playing santoor and piano. He spent a lot of time going to the movies, particularly American films which were un-dubbed and inter-spliced with explanatory title cards that explained ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - The Cow (1969) 7.0 - Hamoun (1990)

157. D.W. Griffith

Director | The Birth of a Nation

David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and Civil War veteran. Young Griffith grew up with his father's romantic war stories and melodramatic nineteenth-century literature that were to eventually shape his movies. In 1897 ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - Broken Blossoms (1919) 6.5 - Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) 6.0 - Birth of a Nation (1915)

158. John G. Avildsen

Director | Rocky

John G. Avildsen was born on December 21, 1935 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. He was a director and editor, known for Rocky (1976), The Karate Kid Part III (1989) and Rocky V (1990). He was married to Tracy Brooks Swope and Marie Olga Maturevich. He died on June 16, 2017 in Los Angeles, California, ...

Evaluated films: 8.6 - Rocky (1976) 4.0 - Rocky V (1990)

159. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - Raise the Red Lantern (1991) 8.5 - Ju Dou (1990) 8.3 - To Live (1994) 8.1 - Hero (2002) 8.1 - Shadow (2018) 7.7 - Red Sorghum (1987)

160. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - Back to the Future (1985) 8.5 - Forrest Gump (1994) 7.8 - Back to the Future III (1990) 7.8 - Cast Away (2000) 7.7 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) 7.5 - Back to the Future II (1989) 7.4 - Contact (1997)

161. Edgar G. Ulmer

Director | The Naked Dawn

Edgar G. Ulmer was born on September 17, 1904 in Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]. He was a director and writer, known for The Naked Dawn (1955), The Black Cat (1934) and Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943). He was married to Shirley Ulmer and Joan Warner. He died on ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - Detour (1945) 8.3 - People on Sunday (1930) 8.3 - The Black Cat (1931) 8.0 - The Strange Woman (1946) 7.4 - Bluebird (1944) 6.2 - The Man From Planet X (1951) 6.2 - Strange Illusion (1945)

162. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - Big Fish (2003) 8.3 - Edward Scissorhands (1990) 8.3 - Sleepy Hollow (1999) 7.5 - Ed Wood (1994) 5.6 - Planet of the Apes (2001) 3.2 - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

163. Jean-Xavier de Lestrade

Director | Jeux d'influence

After studying journalism and law in Paris, de Lestrade created his own TV news agency, Tribulations, in 1987. He directed and produced, within Tribulations, during five years, and reported for European television.

In 1992, he became a freelance director to be able to specialise in making ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - The Staircase (TV series, 2004) 8.3 - Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001) 8.0 - The Staircase II: The Last Chance (2013)

164. Alejandro Amenábar

Writer | The Others

Is the son of a Spanish mother and a Chilean father. His family moved back to Spain when he was 1 year old, and he grew up and studied in Madrid. He wrote, produced and directed his first short film La cabeza at the age of 19, and he was 23 when he directed his feature debut Thesis (1996). His film ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - The Sea Inside (2004) 8.3 - The Others (2001)

165. Andrey Zvyagintsev

Director | Nelyubov

Director and screenwriter Andrey Zvyagintsev is the winner of the Venice Film Festival (2003) and the Cannes Film Festival (2011, 2014, 2017). Two-time the Academy Awards and the BAFTA Awards nominee. Winner or the Golden Globe Awards (2015) for his film "Leviathan". In 2018, his latest work "...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - Loveless (2017) 8.2 - The Return (2003) 8.1 - Elena (2011) 8.0 - Leviathan (2014) 7.4 - The Banishment (2007)

166. Éric Rohmer

Director | Ma nuit chez Maud

Admirers have always had difficulty explaining Éric Rohmer's "Je ne sais quoi." Part of the challenge stems from the fact that, despite his place in French Nouvelle Vague (i.e., New Wave), his work is unlike that of his colleagues. While this may be due to the auteur's unwillingness to conform, ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - My Night with Maud (1969) 8.2 - Full Moon in Paris (1984) 8.0 - The Green Ray (1986) 7.9 - Pauline at the Beach (1983) 7.9 - The Collector (1967) 7.8 - Chloe in the Afternoon (1972) 7.8 - The Aviator's Wife (1981) 7.7 - Claire's Knee (1970) 7.6 - Autumn Tale (1998) 7.6 - Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987) 7.2 - The Marquise of O (1976) 7.2 - Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987) 7.0 - A Good Marriage (1982) 6.5 - A Tale of Springtime (1990) 6.1 - A Tale of Winter (1992)

167. Preston Sturges

Writer | Sullivan's Travels

Preston Sturges' own life is as unlikely as some of the plots of his best work. He was born into a wealthy family. As a boy he helped out on stage productions for his mother's friend, Isadora Duncan (the scarf that strangled her was made by his mother's company, Maison Desti). He served in the U.S....

Evaluated films: 8.5 - The Lady Eve (1941) 8.3 - Sullivan's Travels (1941) 7.8 - The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) 7.8 - Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) 7.6 - Christmas in July (1940) 7.4 - The Palm Beach Story (1942)

168. 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...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - La La Land (2016) 8.2 - Whiplash (2014)

169. Leni Riefenstahl

Producer | Das blaue Licht - Eine Berglegende aus den Dolomiten

Leni Riefenstahl's show-biz experience began with an experiment: she wanted to know what it felt like to dance on the stage. Success as a dancer gave way to film acting when she attracted the attention of film director Arnold Fanck, subsequently starring in some of his mountaineering pictures. With...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - Triumph of the Will (1935) 8.1 - Olympia Part Two: Festival of the Beauty (1938) 8.0 - Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)

Documentaries on Leni Riefenstahl: 7.6 - The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (Müller, 1993)

170. John Sturges

Director | The Great Escape

John Sturges was an American film director, mostly remembered for his outstanding Western films. In 1992, Sturges was awarded a Golden Boot Award for his lifelong contribution to the Western genre.

Sturges was born in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, within the Chicago metropolitan area. By 1930, ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - The Great Escape (1963) 8.1 - The Magnificent Seven (1960) 7.5 - The Capture (1950) 7.1 - Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) 7.0 - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

171. Raoul Walsh

Editor | The Birth of a Nation

Raoul Walsh's 52-year directorial career made him a Hollywood legend. Walsh was also an actor: He appeared in the first version of W. Somerset Maugham's "Rain" renamed Sadie Thompson (1928) opposite Gloria Swanson in the title role. He would have played the Cisco Kid in his own film In Old Arizona ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - White Heat (1949) 8.1 - High Sierra (1941) 7.8 - They Drive by Night (1940) 7.7 - They Died with Their Boots On (1941) 7.0 - Colorado Territory (1949) 6.4 - Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)

172. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - Memento (2000) 8.0 - Following (1998) 7.0 - Batman Begins (2005) 6.0 - The Prestige (2006) 5.8 - Interstellar (2014) 5.5 - Inception (2010) 5.2 - The Dark Knight (2008) 4.8 - Dunkirk (2017)

173. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - Adaptation (2002) 8.0 - Being John Malkovich (1998) 7.4 - Her (2013)

174. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - Bowling for Columbine (2002) 7.9 - Roger & Me (1989) 7.8 - Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) 6.9 - Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)

175. John Boorman

Producer | Hope and Glory

John Boorman attended Catholic school (Salesian Order) although his family was not, in fact, Roman Catholic. His first job was for a dry-cleaner. Later, he worked as a critic for a women's journal and for a radio station until he entered the television business, working for the BBC in Bristol. ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - Deliverance (1972) 7.9 - Point Blank (1967) 7.7 - Excalibur (1967)

176. Bryan Forbes

Actor | The Guns of Navarone

Bryan Forbes was born on July 22, 1926 in Stratford, London, England as John Theobald Clarke. He was an actor, writer, and director, known for The Guns of Navarone (1961), The Whisperers (1967) and Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964). He was married to Nanette Newman and Constance Smith. He died on ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - Whistle Down the Wind (1961) 7.9 - Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1965) 7.3 - The Whisperers (1967)

177. Jane Campion

Writer | Bright Star

Jane Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and now lives in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Having graduated with a BA in Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1975, and a BA, with a painting major, at Sydney College of the Arts in 1979, she began filmmaking in the early...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - An Angel at My Table (1990) 7.9 - The Piano (1993) 7.2 - The Power of the Dog (2021)

178. Sylvain Chomet

Director | Les triplettes de Belleville

Sylvain Chomet was born on November 10, 1963 in Maisons-Laffitte, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines, Île-de-France], France. He is a director and writer, known for The Triplets of Belleville (2003), The Illusionist (2010) and Paris, I Love You (2006).

Evaluated films: 8.5 - The Illusionist (2010) 7.8 - The Triplets of Belleville (2003)

179. René Clair

Writer | Le silence est d'or

René Clair was born on November 11, 1898 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for Man About Town (1947), Beauties of the Night (1952) and The Grand Maneuver (1955). He was married to Bronia Clair. He died on March 15, 1981 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

Evaluated films: 8.5 - Le Million (1931) 7.7 - À Nous la Liberté (1931) 7.5 - And Then There Were None (1945) 6.5 - Entr'acte (1924)

180. Ernest B. Schoedsack

Director | Dr. Cyclops

Ernest B. Schoedsack was born on June 8, 1893 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Dr. Cyclops (1940), The Most Dangerous Game (1932) and Rango (1931). He was married to Ruth Rose. He died on December 23, 1979 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

Evaluated films: 8.5 - King Kong (1933) 7.7 - The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

181. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Writer | El Topo

Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in Tocopilla, Chile on February 17, 1929. In 1939 he moved to Santiago where he attended university, was a circus clown and a puppeteer. In 1953 he went to Paris and studied mime with Marcel Marceau. He worked with Maurice Chevalier there and made a short film, La ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - The Holy Mountain (1973) 7.4 - El Topo (1970)

182. Erich von Stroheim

Actor | Sunset Blvd.

Erich von Stroheim was born Erich Oswald Stroheim in 1885, in Vienna, Austria, to Johanna (Bondy), from Prague, and Benno Stroheim, a hatter from Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland). His family was Jewish.

After spending some time working in his father's hat factory, he emigrated to America ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - Greed (1924) 6.1 - Foolish Wives (1922)

183. Jean Vigo

Writer | Zéro de conduite : Jeunes diables au collège

Jean Vigo had bad health since he was a child. Son of anarchist militant Miguel Almareyda, he also never really recovered from his father's mysterious death in jail when he was 12. Abandoned by his mother, he passed from boarding school to boarding school. Aged 23, through meetings with people ...

Evaluated films: 8.5 - L'Atalante (1934) 6.5 - Zéro de Conduite (1933)

184. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.4 - Breaking the Waves (1996) 8.2 - Dancer in the Dark (2000) 7.7 - The Idiots (1998) 7.5 - Dogville (2003) 6.7 - The Five Obstructions (2003) 3.3 - Melancholia (2011)

185. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.4 - Halloween (1978) 8.2 - The Fog (1980) 7.5 - The Thing (1982) 7.0 - Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) 6.8 - Christine (1983) 6.7 - Escape from New York (1981) 6.7 - Prince of Darkness (1987) 6.5 - Dark Star (1974) 5.6 - They Live (1988)

186. Roger Corman

Actor | The Silence of the Lambs

Roger William Corman was born April 5, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan. Initially following in his father's footsteps, Corman studied engineering at Stanford University but while in school, he began to lose interest in the profession and developed a growing passion for film. Upon graduation, he worked a...

Evaluated films: 8.4 - The Intruder (1962) 8.1 - The Premature Burial (1962) 8.1 - The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) 8.0 - A Bucket of Blood (1959) 7.9 - House of Usher (1960) 7.7 - Tales of Terror (1962) 7.4 - The Raven (1974) 7.4 - The Haunted Palace (1963) 7.3 - The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) 6.6 - The Terror (1963) 6.5 - The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) 5.4 - Last Woman on Earth (1960) 3.6 - The Wasp Woman (1960) 3.4 - Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961) 2.4 - She Gods of Shark Reef (1958)

Documentaries on Roger Corman: 7.4 - Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (Stapleton, 2011)

187. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writer | All About Eve

Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1909, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz first worked for the movies as a translator of intertitles, employed by Paramount in Berlin, the UFA's American distributor at the time (1928). He became a dialoguist, then a screenwriter on numerous Paramount ...

Evaluated films: 8.4 - Sleuth (1972) 8.1 - All About Eve (1950) 8.1 - A Letter to Three Wives (1949) 7.8 - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

188. Hany Abu-Assad

Director | Omar

Hany Abu-Assad a Palestinian/Dutch movie director and writer. From the famous movies Abu-Assad has directed so far are : Rana's Wedding (2002), Paradise Now (2005) and Omar (2013), The mountains between us (2017). He has been nominated twice for Academy Awards for his movies 'Paradise Now' in 2006 ...

Evaluated films: 8.4 - Omar (2013) 8.1 - Paradise Now (2005)

189. Bernardo Bertolucci

Writer | Il conformista

Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director whose films were known for their colorful visual style, was born in Parma, Italy. He attended Rome University and became famous as a poet. He served as assistant director for Pier Paolo Pasolini in the film Accattone (1961) and directed The Grim Reaper (...

Evaluated films: 8.4 - The Last Emperor (1987) 8.0 - 1900 (1976) 7.6 - The Conformist (1970) 7.0 - Last Tango in Paris (1972) 6.9 - The Spider's Stratagem (1970)

190. Pete Docter

Writer | Up

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

Starting at Pixar in 1990 as the ...

Evaluated films: 8.4 - Inside Out (2015) 7.9 - Monster Inc. (2001) 7.7 - Up (2009)

191. Charles Crichton

Director | A Fish Called Wanda

Director Charles Crichton's film career began as an editor in 1935 with Alexander Korda's London Films, and in that capacity he worked on such productions as Sanders of the River (1935), Things to Come (1936) and Elephant Boy (1937) (which introduced Sabu to movie audiences). He soon left London ...

Evaluated films: 8.4 - A Fish Called Wanda (1988) 7.9 - The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

192. 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, ...

Evaluated films: 8.4 - Ida (2013) 7.6 - Cold War (2018)

193. 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 ...

Evaluated films: 8.4 - Tropical Malady (2004) 7.5 - Syndromes and a Century (2006) 7.0 - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) 6.8 - Blissfully Yours (2002)

194. Norman Jewison

Director | Jesus Christ Superstar

Norman Jewison was an award-winning, internationally acclaimed filmmaker who produced and directed some of the world's most memorable, entertaining and socially important films, exploring controversial and complicated subjects and giving them a universal accessibility. Some of his most well-known ...

Evaluated films: 8.4 - In the Heat of the Night (1967) 7.3 - Moonstruck (1987) 6.8 - The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

195. Cristi Puiu

Director | Aurora

Cristi Puiu was born on April 3, 1967 in Bucharest, Romania. He is a director and writer, known for Aurora (2010), Sieranevada (2016) and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005). He has been married to Anca Puiu since April 21, 1998. They have three children.

Evaluated films: 8.4 - The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) 6.4 - Aurora (2010)

196. Clint Eastwood

Actor | Million Dollar Baby

Clinton Eastwood Jr. 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 Margaret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took ...

Evaluated films: 8.3 - Million Dollar Baby (2004) 8.3 - Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) 7.9 - High Plains Drifter (1973) 7.6 - Unforgiven (1992) 7.6 - Flags of Our Fathers (2006) 7.5 - The Outlaw Josey Wales (1975) 7.4 - Gran Torino (2008) 7.1 - The Bridges of Madison County (1995) 7.0 - Changeling (2008) 6.5 - Mystic River (2003)

Documentaries on Clint Eastwood: 7.8 - Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (Ricker, 2000)

197. Andrzej Wajda

Director | Katyn

Andrzej Wajda is an Academy Award-winning director. He is the most prominent filmmaker in Poland known for The Promised Land (1975), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyn (2007).

He was Born on March 6, 1926, in Suwalki, Poland. His mother, Aniela Wajda, was a teacher at a Ukrainian school. His father, ...

Evaluated films: 8.3 - Ashes and Diamonds (1958) 8.3 - Kanal (1957) 7.4 - Man of Marble (1977) 7.4 - Love at Twenty [segment] (1962) 7.0 - Katyn (2007)

198. Alexander Mackendrick

Writer | The Man in the White Suit

One of the most distinguished (if frequently overlooked) directors ever to emerge from the British film industry, Alexander Mackendrick, was in fact born in the US (to Scottish parents), but grew up in his native Scotland, where he studied at the Glasgow School of Art. He started out as a ...

Evaluated films: 8.3 - Sweet Smell of Success (1957) 8.3 - The Ladykillers (1955) 7.6 - The Man in the White Suit 7.3 - Whisky Galore! (1951) 7.2 - Crash of Silence (1952)

199. 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...

Evaluated films: 8.3 - The Big Sleep (1946) 8.2 - Only Angels Have Wings (1946) 8.2 - Bringing Up Baby (1938) 8.0 - Hatari! (1962) 7.7 - Red River (1948) 7.2 - His Girl Friday (1940) 7.2 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 7.2 - El Dorado (1967) 7.0 - To Have and Have Not (1944) 6.9 - Rio Bravo (1959) 6.5 - Sergeant York (1941) 6.3 - Scarface (1932) 5.8 - The Thing From Another World (1951)

200. Max Ophüls

Director | La ronde

Director Max Ophüls was born Max Oppenheimer in Saarbrücken, Germany. He began his career as a stage actor and director in the golden twenties. He worked in cities such as Stuttgart, Dortmund, Wuppertal, Vienna, Frankfurt, Breslau and Berlin. In 1929 his son Marcel Ophüls was born in Frankfurt, ...

Evaluated films: 8.3 - Liebelei (1933) 8.2 - The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) 8.2 - Lola Montès (1955) 8.0 - Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) 7.3 - The Reckless Moment (1949) 6.8 - Le Plaisir (1952)