Directors
by Harriet1947 | created - 13 Nov 2019 | updated - 1 month ago | Public
1. Lina Wertmüller
Writer | Pasqualino Settebellezze
During the 1970s, Lina Wertmüller emblazoned her name into the pantheon of Italian cinema with a series of intensely polemical, deeply controversial and wonderfully entertaining films. Among the most politically outspoken and iconoclastic members of the second generation of postwar directors - the ...
2. 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 ...
3. Scott Frank
Writer | Logan
Scott Frank was born on March 10, 1960 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Logan (2017), Out of Sight (1998) and The Lookout (2007).
4. 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 ...
5. 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 ...
6. Juanita Wilson
Director | As If I Am Not There
Juanita Wilson is known for As If I Am Not There (2010), Tomato Red: Blood Money (2017) and The Door (2008). She was previously married to James Flynn.
7. Ivan Sen
Director | Mystery Road
Throughout the late 1990s Ivan Sen worked on numerous short films, before making his feature film debut with Beneath Clouds in 2002. It won Ivan global acclaim, screening at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and winning the Premiere First Movie Award at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival and the 2002 Best...
8. Marwan Hamed
Director | Omaret yakobean
Marwan Hamed is an Egyptian prominent filmmaker who possesses an extensively auspicious repertoire that extends over 20 years of experience in producing and directing films, in addition to directing over 300 commercials, TV drama series, and music videos. Marwan's debut feature The Yacoubian ...
9. Andrew Haigh
Director | All of Us Strangers
Andrew Haigh is a writer and director. His film work includes Weekend, which premiered at SXSW and won the audience award. 45 Years, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, won 2 Silver Bears, and received an Academy Award nomination for lead actress Charlotte Rampling. Lean on Pete premiered in ...
10. Ken Loach
Director | I, Daniel Blake
Unlike virtually all his contemporaries, Ken Loach has never succumbed to the siren call of Hollywood, and it's virtually impossible to imagine his particular brand of British socialist realism translating well to that context.
After studying law at St. Peter's College, Oxford, he branched out into ...
11. Niall MacCormick
Director | The Song of Lunch
Niall MacCormick was born in November 1966. He is a director and producer, known for The Song of Lunch (2010), Complicit (2013) and The Victim (2019).
12. Rian Johnson
Producer | Knives Out
Rian Johnson was born in Maryland and at a young age his family moved to San Clemente, California, where he was raised. After graduating from high school, he went on to attend the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. His first feature film, Brick (2005), was released in 2005 ...
13. 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), ...
14. Philippe Venault
Director | Une rébellion à Romans
Philippe Venault was born on April 7, 1947 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Une rébellion à Romans (1984), Blancs cassés (1989) and Nestor Burma (1991). He died on April 3, 2021 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
15. Patrice Martineau
Director | Une maman pour un coeur
Patrice Martineau is known for Heart to Heart (2008), Les Dames (2010) and Un village français (2009).
16. James Strong
Director | Mr Bates vs. The Post Office
James Strong is an International Emmy and multiple Bafta award winning director/producer best known for his work on Mr Bates vs The Post Office (2024) Fire Country (2022) The Suspect (2022) Vigil (2021) Crime (2021) Vanity Fair (2018) 11-22-63 (2016) Doctor Who (2012) Downton Abbey (2013) ...
17. 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 ...
18. Will Sharpe
Actor | Flowers
Will Sharpe was born on September 22, 1986 in Camden, London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Flowers (2016), Landscapers (2021) and The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021).
19. Samantha Morton
Actress | Minority Report
Samantha Morton has established herself as one of the finest actors of her generation, winning Oscar nominations for her turns in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and Jim Sheridan's In America (2002). She has the talent to become one of the major performers in the cinema of this young century.
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20. Taylor Sheridan
Writer | Hell or High Water
Taylor Sheridan is an American actor, screenwriter and director. He is best known for writing the screenplay for 'Sicario' (2015) and 'Hell or high water' (2016), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
He also starred in the FX television series 'Sons of ...
21. 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 ...
22. 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, ...
23. Frank Van Passel
Director | Manneken Pis
Frank Van Passel was born on June 23, 1964 in Vilvoorde, Bruxelles, Belgium. He is a producer and director, known for Manneken Pis (1995), The Emperor of Taste (2008) and Villa des roses (2002).
24. 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 ...
25. Hugo Blick
Producer | The Honourable Woman
Hugo Blick was born in 1965 in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK. He is a producer and writer, known for The Honorable Woman (2014), The Shadow Line (2011) and Sensitive Skin (2005). He is married to Elinor Morriston.
26. Saul Dibb
Director | The Duchess
Saul Dibb was born in 1968 in London, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for The Duchess (2008), Suite Française (2014) and Bullet Boy (2004).
27. Mike Barker
Director | The Handmaid's Tale
Mike Barker was born on November 29, 1965 in England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for The Handmaid's Tale (2017), Fargo (2014) and Broadchurch (2013).
28. George Miller
Producer | Mad Max: Fury Road
George Miller is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and former medical doctor. He is best known for his Mad Max franchise, with Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) being hailed as amongst the greatest action films of all time. Aside from the Mad Max ...
29. 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 ...
30. Jimmy Chin
Producer | The Rescue
Jimmy Chin was born on October 12, 1973 in Mankato, Minnesota, USA. He is a producer and director, known for The Rescue (2021), Nyad (2023) and Free Solo (2018).
31. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Producer | The Rescue
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi was born on December 30, 1978 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer and director, known for The Rescue (2021), Free Solo (2018) and Meru (2015). She has been married to Jimmy Chin since May 26, 2013. They have two children.
32. Michael Winterbottom
Director | A Mighty Heart
Michael took an English degree at Oxford then trained in film at Bristol and London breaking into television via the cutting room at Thames Television. He made his directorial debut with two documentaries on Ingmar Bergman His production of Love Lies Bleeding won the Silver Award at the 1993 New ...
33. Luc Besson
Writer | Le Cinquième Élément
Luc Besson spent the first years of his life following his parents, scuba diving instructors, around the world. His early life was entirely aquatic. He already showed amazing creativity as a youth, writing early drafts of The Big Blue (1988) and The Fifth Element (1997), as an adolescent bored in ...
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