Top Directors Today (ultimate list)

1. Martin Scorsese

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 ...

Noticeable projects:

The Wolf of Wall Street The Departed Goodfellas Taxi Driver Raging Bull After Hours The King of Comedy Shutter Island Gangs of New York The Last Temptation of Christ The Aviator Cape Fear Hugo Casino Silence The Irishman

2. 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 ...

Interesting projects:

Inception Interstellar Dunkirk Insomnia Batman Begins The Dark Knight The Dark Knight Rises The Prestige Memento Following

3. 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...

Interesting projects:

Fightclub Se7en Zodiac Gone Girl The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Social Network The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Panic Room The Game Mindhunter (TV serie, 4 episodes)

4. 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...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 6 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Cannes FF: 1 win 1 nom

Interesting projects:

Phantom Thread There Will Be Blood The Master Magnolia Punch-Drunk Love Boogie Nights Sydney

5. 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...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 2 GG Nominations: 6 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 6 Cannes FF Palm d'or: 1

Interesting projects:

Pulp Fiction Django Unchained Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood Reservoir Dogs Inglourious Bastards Kill Bill Vol 1&2 Jackie Brown Deathproof The Hateful Eight

6. 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, ...

Interesting projects:

Saving Private Ryan Shindler's List Catch Me If You Can Close Encounters of The Third Kind Bridge of Spies Lincoln The Color Purple War Horse Jurassic Park E.T. Indiana Jones Munich The Adventures of Tintin The BFG Minority Report Hook Artificial Intelligence Jaws Duel Band of Brothers (mini-serie) The Post Ready Player One

7. Joel Coen

Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Joel Daniel Coen is an American filmmaker who regularly collaborates with his younger brother Ethan. They made Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail Caesar and other projects. Joel ...

The Coen brothers:

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 4 Oscar Nominations: 13 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 5 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 14 Cannes FF: 5 Interesting projects:

Fargo No Country for Old Men Burn After Reading True Grit The Big Lebowski Inside Llewyn Davis O Brother, Where Art Thou Millers Crossing A Serious Man Barton Fink Raising Arizona Blood Simple

8. 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), ...

Awards & Nominations:

BAFTA Nominations: 1 Cannes FF: 1

Good movies:

Sicario Incendies Polytechnique Prisoners Enemy Arrival Maelström Blade Runner 2049

9. 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 ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 4 Oscar Nominations: 7

Interesting projects:

Amores Perros 21 Grams Birdman Babel Biutiful The Revenant

10. 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 ...

Interesting projects:

Funny Games Caché Amour La Pianiste Das Weise Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte Le temps du loup Benny's video

11. 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 ...

Interesting movies:

Secrets and Lies Naked Vera Drake Life Is Sweet Another Year Topsy-Turvy

12. 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 ...

Good movies:

Scarface Carrie The Untouchables Carlito's Way Dressed to Kill Blow Out Body Double Mission Impossible

13. Terry Gilliam

Writer | Brazil

Terry Gilliam was born near Medicine Lake, Minnesota. When he was 12 his family moved to Los Angeles where he became a fan of MAD magazine. In his early twenties he was often stopped by the police who suspected him of being a drug addict and Gilliam had to explain that he worked in advertising. In ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 1 GG Nominations: 1 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 3

Interesting projects:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Twelve Monkeys Monty Python and the Holy Grail Brazil The Meaning of Life The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Time Bandits

14. 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 ...

Oscar Nominations: 4

Interesting projects:

The Duellists Blade Runner Gladiator Thelma & Louise American Gangster Hannibal Black Hawk Down Alien Black Rain The Martian

15. 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. ...

Good movies:

Before Sunrise Before Sunset Before Midnight Dazed and Confused Slacker School of Rock Boyhood Fast Food Nation Everybody Wants Some!!

16. Danny Boyle

Director | 127 Hours

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

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 2 BAFTA Awards: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 8

Good movies:

Steve Jobs Slumdog Millionaire Sunshine Trainspotting T2 Trainspotting 127 Hours Trance Shallow Grave 28 Days Later The Beach

17. 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 ...

Good movies:

Volver The skin I live in Broken embraces Bad education All about my mother Julieta

18. Steven Soderbergh

Director | Sex, Lies, and Videotape

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

1 oscar (3nom)

Interesting projects

Ocean's Eleven Ocean's Thirteen Traffic Erin Brockovich Out of Sight Side Effects Magic Mike Contagion Che: Part One & Part Two The Limey Out of Sight King of the Hill Sex, Lies and Videotape The Knick (serie)

19. 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 ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 1 GG Nominations: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 1

Interesting projects:

Requiem for a Dream Pi Black Swan The Wrestler The Fountain Mother!

20. Michael Mann

Producer | The Insider

As a director, screenwriter, and producer, four-time Academy Award nominee Michael Mann has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema. After writing and directing the Primetime Emmy Award-winning television movie The Jericho Mile (1979), Mann ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 4 GG Nominations: 2 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Cannes FF : 1 Palme D'or

Interesting projects:

The Insider Heat Public Enemies Miami Vice Collateral Manhunter Ali The Last of the Mohicans Thief

21. 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.

Interesting projects:

Joint Security Area Oldboy Mr. Vengeance Lady Vengeance Thirst Three... Extremes The Handmaiden

22. 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 ...

Good movies:

The Grand Budapest Hotel The Royal Tenenbaums Fantastic Mr. Fox Moonrise Kingdom Rushmore Bottle Rocket The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

23. 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 ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 3 BAFTA Awards: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Cannes FF: 1 Palme D'or

Interesting projects:

Chinatown The Pianist Rosemary's Baby Dance of the Vampires Repulsion Tess Frantic The Ghost Writer Oliver Twist Carnage

24. 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,...

Interesting projects:

Dogtooth The Lobster The Killing of a Sacred Deer The Favourite

25. 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 ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 6 Golden Globes: 2 GG Nominations: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 6 Good movies:

Titanic Avatar True Lies Terminator Terminator 2: Judgement Day Aliens The Abyss

26. 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...

Good movies:

Whiplash La La Land First Man

27. 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 ...

Good movies:

Gravity Children of men Y tu mama también Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Roma

28. Robert Rodriguez

Producer | El mariachi

Robert Anthony Rodriguez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, USA, to Rebecca (Villegas), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodríguez, a salesman. His family is of Mexican descent.

Of all the people to be amazed by the images of John Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi parable, Escape from New York (1981), none ...

Cannes FF: 1 Good movies:

Sin City 1&2 Planet Terror Once Upon a Time in Mexico Machete From Dusk Till Dawn Desperado El Mariachi

29. Nicolas Winding Refn

Writer | The Neon Demon

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

Good movies:

The Neon Demon Drive Pusher Pusher II Pusher III Bronson

30. Pablo Larraín

Producer | No

Pablo Larraín was born in Santiago, Chile. He is a director, writer and producer, known for Spencer (2021), Jackie (2016), El Club (2015), NO (2012), among others. Together with his brother Juan de Dios Larraín, they founded Fabula in 2004, one of the most prolific production companies in Latin ...

Interesting projects:

El Club No Jackie Neruda

31. David O. Russell

Director | American Hustle

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

Good movies:

American Hustle The Fighter Silver Linings playbook Joy

32. 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 ...

Good movies:

A tale of two sisters A bittersweet life I saw the devil The age of shadows The good, the bad and the weird The Last Stand

33. Martin McDonagh

Writer | In Bruges

Martin McDonagh was born on March 26, 1970 in Camberwell, London, England, UK. He is a writer and director, known for In Bruges (2008), Seven Psychopaths (2012) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).

Interesting movies:

In Bruges Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Seven Psychopaths

34. 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 ...

Good movies:

Her Being John Malkovich Adaptation. Where the wild things are

35. Lynne Ramsay

Director | You Were Never Really Here

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

Interesting projects:

We Need to Talk About Kevin You Were Never Really Here Morvern Callar Ratcatcher

36. 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.

Interesting projects:

Shame 12 Years a Slave Hunger

37. Xavier Dolan

Actor | J'ai tué ma mère

Xavier Dolan was born on March 20, 1989 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for I Killed My Mother (2009), Tom at the Farm (2013) and Heartbeats (2010).

Good movies:

J'ai tué ma mère Mommy Tom à la ferme Les amours imaginaires Laurence anyways Juste la fin du monde

38. Jonathan Glazer

Director | Under the Skin

Jonathan first found fame for his revolutionary work on Radiohead's 'Street Spirit' and Jamiroquai's multi-MTV award winning 'Virtual Insanity' video.

In 1999 he directed the ground-breaking Guinness 'Surfer', which picked up 2 D&AD Black Pencils and the top spot at most of the other awards ...

Good movies:

Under the Skin Sexy Beast

39. 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 ...

Interesting movies:

The Host Mother Memories of a murder Snowpiercer Okja

40. 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 ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 1 GG Nominations: 1 Cannes FF: 14 Nom 6 Won (1x Palme D'or)

Good movies:

Dancer in the Dark Melancholia Dogville Breaking the Waves Nymphomaniac Vol 1&2 Europa

41. Adam McKay

Producer | Don't Look Up

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

Good movies:

The Big Short Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Step Brothers The Other Guys Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Vice

42. Paul Greengrass

Director | United 93

Paul Greengrass started his filmmaking career with a super 8 camera he found in his art room in secondary school. Those short movies were animation horror films he made using old dolls, artist dummies, and the general art room clutter.

After studying in Cambridge University he got into Granada ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 1 GG Nominations: 1 BAFTA Awards: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 10 Good movies:

United 93 The Bourne Supremacy The Bourne Ultimatum Captain Phillips Bloody Sunday Green zone

43. 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...

Good movies:

Shaun of the dead The World's end Hot Fuzz Scott Pilgrim vs. the world Baby Driver

44. 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 ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Good movies:

Forrest Gump The Walk Flight Cast Away Back to the Future Part 1,2&3 What Lies Beneath

45. Peter Weir

Director | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Peter Weir was born on August 21, 1944 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is a director and writer, known for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), The Way Back (2010) and Witness (1985). He has been married to Wendy Stites since 1966. They have two children.

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 6 GG Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 7 Cannes FF : 1 nom

Good movies:

The Truman Show Dead Poets Society Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World The Way Back Witness Gallipoli

46. 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 ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 4 GG Nominations: 4 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Cannes FF : 2 (1x Palme D'or)

Good movies:

Mulholland Dr. Elephant Man Blue Velvet Twin Peaks (series) The Straight Story Eraserhead

47. 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-...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 2 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 3

Good movies:

American Beauty Skyfall Road to Perdition Jarhead

48. 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 ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 5 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Good movies:

Frost/Nixon A Beautiful Mind Rush Cinderella Man Apollo 13 Ransom Willow

49. Trey Edward Shults

Director | Waves

Trey Edward Shults was born on October 6, 1988 in Montgomery, Texas, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Waves (2019), It Comes at Night (2017) and Krisha (2015).

Good movies:

Krisha It Comes at Night

50. 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 ...

Good movies:

Kick-Ass Kingsman: The Secret Service X: First Class Stardust Layer Cake

51. Jeff Nichols

Writer | Take Shelter

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

Good movies:

Mud Take Shelter Shotgun Stories Midnight Special Loving

52. Mel Gibson

Actor | Braveheart

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York, USA, as the sixth of eleven children of Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly) Gibson (who died in December of 1990). His mother was Irish, from County Longford, while his American-born father is ...

Awards & Nominations:

As a director

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Good movies:

Apocalypto Braveheart The Passion of the Christ Hacksaw Ridge

53. Andrea Arnold

Director | American Honey

Andrea Arnold was born on April 5, 1961 in Dartford, Kent, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for American Honey (2016), Fish Tank (2009) and Red Road (2006).

Good movies:

Fishtank American Honey

54. 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