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| Flight of the Phoenix (1955), Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962), The Dirty Dozen (1967), Too Late the Hero (1970), Hustle (1975) |
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Robert Aldrich |
| Everything you always wanted to know about sex (but were afraid to ask) (1972), Sleeper (1973), Annie Hall (1977), Interiors (1978), Manhattan (1979), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Hannah and her Sisters (1986), Radio Days (1987), Crimes and Misdemeanours (1989), Alice (1990), Husbands and Wives (1992), Bullets over Broadway (1994), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Deconstructing Harry (1997), Match Point (2005) |
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Woody Allen |
| M*A*S*H, Brewster McCloud, The Player, Shortcuts, Pret–a–porter (1995) |
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Robert Altman |
| This Sporting Life (1963), If ... (1968), O Lucky Man! (1973) |
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Lindsay Anderson |
| Italian language "trilogy on modernity and its discontents": L'Avventura (The Adventure, 1960), La Notte (The Night, 1961), L'Eclisse (1962); Blow–Up (1966), Zabriskie Point (1970) |
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Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Black Swan (2010), Noah (2014) |
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Darren Aronofsky |
| Pygmalion (1938), French Without Tears (1940), Fanny By Gaslight (1944), The Winslow Boy (1948), The Browning Version (1951), The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), Carrington V. C. (1955), The Yellow Rolls–Royce (1964) |
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Anthony Asquith |
| Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Young Winston (1972), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Gandhi (1982), Cry Freedom (1987), Chaplin (1992), Shadowlands (1993) |
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Richard Attenborough |
| Rocky (1976), Rocky V (1990), The Karate Kid (1984, and its first two sequels: Part II 1986, Part III 1989) |
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John G. Avildsen |
| Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), Transformers live action series (2007–14) |
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Michael Bay |
| Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981), Dick Tracey (1990), Bulworth (1998) |
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Warren Beatty |
| Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1972), Scenes from a Marriage (1973), Fanny and Alexander (1982) |
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Ingmar Bergman |
| Last Tango in Paris (1972), The Last Emperor (1987) |
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Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Point Blank (1967), Deliverance (1972), Zardoz (1974), Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), Hope and Glory (1987), The Tailor of Panama (2001) |
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John Boorman |
| Shallow Grave (1994), Trainspotting (1996), A Life Less Ordinary (1997), The Beach (2000), Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
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Danny Boyle |
| Henry V (1989), Peter's Friends (1992), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Sleuth (2007), Thor (2011), Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Belfast (2021), Death on the Nile (2022) |
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Kenneth Branagh |
| The Producers (1968), Blazing Saddles (1970), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), Spaceballs (1987), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) |
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Mel Brooks |
| Un Chien Andalou (1928), L'Age d'Or (1930), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) – Spanish director |
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Luis Buñuel |
| Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Mars Attacks! (1996), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd (2007), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Frankenweenie (2012) |
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Tim Burton |
| Terminator (1984), Titanic (1997), Avatar (2009) (Titanic and Avatar are the two highest–grossing films of all time) |
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James Cameron |
| The Piano (1993) |
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Jane Campion |
| It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It with You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) |
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Frank Capra |
| Dark Star (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Christine (1983), Star Man (1984), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Prince of Darkness (1987), They Live (1988) |
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John Carpenter |
| La La Land (2016) |
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Damien Chazelle |
| The Deer Hunter (1978 – Best Director Oscar), Heaven's Gate (1980) |
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Michael Cimino |
| The Orphic trilogy: The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950), Testament of Orpheus (1960) |
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Jean Cocteau |
Raising Arizona (1987), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Man who
Wasn't There (2001), The Ladykillers (2004), No Country for Old Men (2007), True Grit (2010)
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The Coen brothers (Joel and Ethan) |
| The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now, The Cotton Club |
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Francis Ford Coppola |
| The Virgin Suicides (1999), Lost in Translation (2003), Marie Antoinette (2006), Somewhere (2010) |
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Sofia Coppola |
| Dances with Wolves (1990), The Postman (1997), Open Range (2003)
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Kevin Costner |
| Crash (1996) |
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David Cronenberg |
| Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Casablanca (1942) |
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Michael Curtiz |
| Billy Elliot (2000), The Reader (2008), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011) |
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Stephen Daldry |
| Gremlins (1984) |
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Joe Dante |
| The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999) |
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Frank Darabont |
| Little Miss Sunshine (2006): directorial debut of (husband and wife team) |
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Jonathan Dayton |
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Valerie Faris | |
| The Ten Commandments (1956), The King of Kings, Samson and Delilah, The Greatest Show on Earth, Sign of the Cross |
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Cecil B. de Mille |
| Silence of the Lambs |
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Jonathan Demme |
| Carrie (1976), Scarface (1983), The Untouchables (1987), Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Carlito's Way (1993), Mission: Impossible (1996) |
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Brian de Palma |
| Bicycle Thieves, Shoeshine, The Garden of the Fingi–Continis (Italian) |
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Vittorio de Sica |
| The Omen (1976), Superman: The Movie (1978, and 1980 sequel), Lethal Weapon (1987, and 3 sequels), Scrooged (1988) – died in 2021, aged 91 |
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Richard Donner |
| Renaldo and Clara (first shown publicly in 1978) |
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Bob Dylan |
| Play Misty for me (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Unforgiven (1992), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Flags of our Fathers (2006), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Invictus (2009) |
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Clint Eastwood |
| Pink Panther series |
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Blake Edwards |
| Battleship Potemkin (1925) |
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Sergei Eisenstein |
| Die Ehe der Maria Braun (The Marriage of Maria Braun – German language, 1979) – was the most successful film directed by |
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| La Strada (1954), La Dolce Vita (1960), Satyricon (1969), 8½ (1963), Casanova (1976) |
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Federico Fellini |
| Se7en (1995), Fight Club (1999), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) |
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David Fincher |
| The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind (both 1939 – see also King Vidor) |
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Victor Fleming |
| Whistle Down the Wind (1961), Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), King Rat (1965), The Stepford Wives (1975) |
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Bryan Forbes |
| Stagecoach (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green was my Valley (1941), Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Rio Grande (1950 – completing the 'Cavalry trilogy'), The Quiet Man (1952), The Searchers (1956), The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) |
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John Ford |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Amadeus (1984) |
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Milos Forman |
| Gregory's Girl, Local Hero |
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Bill Forsyth |
| Sweet Charity (1968), Cabaret (1972), All That Jazz (1979) |
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Bob Fosse |
| The Birdman of Alcatraz (1961) |
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John Frankenheimer |
| The French Connection (1971), The Exorcist (1973) |
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William Friedkin |
| Braveheart (1995), The Passion of the Christ (2004), Apocalypto (2006), Hacksaw Ridge (2016) |
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Mel Gibson |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Time Bandits (1981), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983), Brazil (1985), The Fisher King (1991), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) |
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Terry Gilliam |
| The Draughtsman's Contract, A Zed and Two Noughts, The Belly of an Architect, Drowning by Numbers, The Cook the Thief his Wife and her Lover, Prospero's Books |
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Peter Greenaway |
| Birth of a Nation, Intolerance (silent epics) |
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D. W. Griffith |
| That Thing You Do (1997): directorial debut of |
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Tom Hanks |
| The Desert Fox (1951), North to Alaska (1960), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), True Grit (1969) |
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Henry Hathaway |
| Bringing Up Baby (1938), Red River (1948), Rio Bravo (1961), El Dorado (1966) |
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Howard Hawks |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting (1973) |
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George Roy Hill |
| Blackmail (Britain's first talkie, 1929), Juno and the Paycock (1930), The Man who Knew Too Much (1934 and 1956), The 39 Steps (1935), The Lady Vanishes (1938), Strangers on a Train (1951), Jamaica Inn (1939), Rebecca (1940), Spellbound (1945), Rope (1948), Strangers on a Train (1951), Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Trouble with Harry (1955), Vertigo (1958), North by North West (1959), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964), Torn Curtain (1966), Topaz (1969), Frenzy (1972), Family Plot (1976 – his last film) |
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Alfred Hitchcock |
| Get Carter (1971) |
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Mike Hodges |
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Poltergeist (1982) |
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Tobe Hooper |
| The King's Speech (Best Film and Best Director Oscars, 2010); Les Misérables (2012 – the film version of the musical) |
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Tom Hooper |
| Cocoon (1985), Apollo 13 (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001 – Best Director Oscar), The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
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Ron Howard |
| Sliding Doors, Johnny English |
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Peter Howitt |
| National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Sixteen Candles (1984), Weird Science (1985), The Breakfast Club (1985), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Pretty In Pink (1986), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Uncle Buck (1989), Home Alone (1990 and 1992 sequel) |
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John Hughes |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Misfits (1961), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) |
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John Huston |
| The Madness of King George (1994), The History Boys (2006), The Lady in the Van (2015) (also directed more than sixty major theatre productions, including Miss Saigon and One Man, Two Guvnors at the National Theatre, London) |
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Nicholas Hytner |
| Bad Taste (1987 ) – a 'splatter' science fiction horror comedy – was the directorial debut of |
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Peter Jackson |
| Lord of the Rings (trilogy), The Hobbit (trilogy), King Kong (2005 version) | ||
| The Tempest (1979 – starring Toyah Willcox as Miranda); Blue (1993: 93 minutes of blue screen, with a soundtrack), Caravaggio (1986) |
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Derek Jarman |
| The Killing Fields |
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Roland Joffé |
| Monty Python's Life of Brian (also played Brian's mother, among other roles) |
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Terry Jones |
| The Company of Wolves (1984), Mona Lisa (1986), The Crying Game (1992) |
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Neil Jordan |
| A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Viva Zapata (1952), On the Waterfront (1954), East of Eden (1955) |
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Elia Kazan |
| The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), Rembrandt (1936), An Ideal Husband (1947), Lady Hamilton (1940) |
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Alexander Korda |
| Fear and Desire (1953) was the first feature film directed by
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Stanley Kubrick |
| Paths of Glory (1957), Spartacus (1960), Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey
(1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Eyes Wide Shut (1999); also gave Steven
Spielberg the idea for A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
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| The Seven Samurai (1954 – Japanese) |
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Akiro Kurosawa |
| Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), The Blues Brothers (1980), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Trading Places (1983); also Michael Jackson's Thriller video |
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John Landis |
| Metropolis |
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Fritz Lang |
| Brief Encounter (1945), Great Expectations (1946), Oliver Twist (1948), Hobson's Choice (1954), Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970), A Passage to India (1984) |
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David Lean |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Life of Pi (2012) |
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Ang Lee |
| 'Spaghetti Westerns': A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Once upon a Time in the West (1968) |
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Sergio Leone |
| A Hard Day's Night (1964), Help! (1965), The Three Musketeers (1973, and sequels), Superman III (1983); also controversially involved in the Christopher Reeve Superman franchise (1978–83) |
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Richard Lester |
| Kes (1969), The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), Looking for Eric (2009), I, Daniel Blake (2016) |
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Ken Loach |
| American graffiti (1973), Star Wars (1977) |
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George Lucas |
| Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Australia (2008), The Great Gatsby (2013), Elvis (2022) |
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Baz Luhrmann |
| 12 Angry Men (1957), The Hill (1965), Serpico (1973), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976), Equus (1977) |
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Sidney Lumet |
| Eraserhead (1978), The Elephant Man (1980), Dune (1984), Blue Velvet (1986), Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001); also the TV series Twin Peaks (1990–1) and the spin–off film Fire Walk with Me (1992) |
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David Lynch |
| The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), All About Eve (1950), Julius Caesar (1953), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Guys and Dolls (1955), The Quiet American (1958), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), Cleopatra (1963), Sleuth (1972) |
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Winchester '73 (1950), Bend of the River (1952), The Glenn Miller Story (1954), The Far Country (1955), The Man from Laramie (1955) |
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Anthony Mann |
| American Beauty (Best Director Oscar, 1999), Road to Perdition (2002), Revolutionary Road (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), 1917 (2019) |
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Sam Mendes |
| Mad Max (series), The Road Warrior (Australian) |
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George Miller |
| The English Patient (1995), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Cold Mountain (2003) |
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Anthony Minghella |
| Documentary film maker, best known for Bowling for Columbine (2002) and Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
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Michael Moore |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Donnie Brasco (1997), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
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Mike Newell |
| Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Three Men and a Baby (1987) |
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Leonard Nimoy |
| Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017) |
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Christopher Nolan |
| Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1948), Richard III (1955), The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), Three Sisters (1970) – also starred in all of these, and produced all except the last |
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Laurence Olivier |
| Creature Comforts (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1990), A Grand Day Out (1993), A Close Shave (1995) |
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Nick Park |
| Bugsy Malone (1976), Midnight Express (1978), Fame (1980), Shoot the Moon (1982), Birdy (1984), Mississippi Burning (1988), The Commitments (1991), Evita (1996) |
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Alan Parker |
| Major Dundee (1965), The Wild Bunch (1969), Straw Dogs (1971), The Getaway (1972), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), Cross of Iron (1977), Convoy (1978) |
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Sam Peckinpah |
| Repulsion (1965), Cul–de–Sac (1966), Dance of the Vampires (1967), Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971), Chinatown (1974), Tess (1979), The Pianist (2002) |
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Roman Polanski |
| They Shoot Horses Don't They (1969), The Way we Were (1973), Tootsie (1982), Out of Africa (1985) |
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Sydney Pollack |
| Margin for Error (1942), Laura (1944), The Moon is Blue (1953), Carmen Jones (1954), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), Saint Joan (1957), Bonjour Tristesse (1958), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Skidoo! (1968), Rosebud (1974) |
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Otto Preminger |
| Ordinary People (1980), Quiz Show (1985), A River Runs Through It (1992) |
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Robert Redford |
| The Third Man (1949), Oliver! (1968) |
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Carol Reed |
| This Is Spinal Tap (1984), When Harry Met Sally (1989), Misery (1990), A Few Good Men (1992) |
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Rob Reiner |
| La Grande Illusion (1937), The Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu – 1939) |
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Jean Renoir |
| Sharky's Machine (also starred) |
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Burt Reynolds |
| Look Back in Anger (1958, starring Richard Burton as Jimmy Porter; also directed the original London stage production), The Entertainer (1960), A Taste of Honey (1961), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Tom Jones (1963), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Ned Kelly (1970, starring Mick Jagger), The Phantom of the Opera (1990) |
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Tony Richardson |
| Triumph of the Will (1935 – about the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg), Olympia (1938 – about the 1936 Berlin Olympics) |
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Leni Riefenstahl |
| Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Sherlock Holmes: a Game of Shadows (2011), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) |
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Guy Ritchie |
| Withnail and I (1987) |
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Bruce Robinson |
| Performance (1970 – with Donald Cammell), Walkabout (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), The Man who Fell to Earth (1976), Castaway (1986) |
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Nicholas Roeg |
| Women in Love (1969), The Music Lovers (1970), The Devils (1971), The Boy Friend (1971), Tommy (1975), Lisztomania (1975), Valentino (1977), Crimes of Passion (1984) |
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Ken Russell |
| Planet of the Apes (1968), Patton (1970), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Papillon (1973), The Boys from Brazil (1978) |
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Franklin J. Schaffner |
| A Kind of Loving (1962), Billy Liar (1963), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1969), Marathon Man (1976), Yanks (1979) |
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John Schlesinger |
| Mean Streets (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), The Last Waltz (The Band's final concert of 1976, released 1978), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1983), The Color of Money (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991 remake), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2007), Hugo (2011), The Irishman (2019). Also the video to Michael Jackson's Bad single (1987), and George Harrison: Living in the Material World (a biographical documentary, 2011) |
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Martin Scorsese |
| Blade Runner (1982), Thelma & Louise (1991), 1492 Conquest of Paradise (1992), Alien (series), Gladiator (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), Hannibal (2001), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), American Ganster (2007), Robin Hood (2010), Prometheus (2012) |
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Ridley Scott |
| The Usual Suspects (1995); X–Men (2000, and sequels X-2 2003, First Class 2011, Days of Future Past 2014, Apocalypse 2016); Superman Returns (2006) |
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Bryan Singer |
| Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989), Erin Brokovich (2000), Traffic (2000), Ocean's trilogy (2001–7) |
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Steven Soderbergh |
| Duel (1971 – his first film), Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), ET (1982), The Color Purple (1985), Empire of the Sun (1987), Jurassic Park (1993), Schindler's List (1993), Amistad (1997), Saving Private Ryan (1998), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Munich (2005), War of the Worlds (2005), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015) |
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Steven Spielberg |
| Documentary film maker, best known for Super Size Me (2004) |
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Morgan Spurlock |
| Paradise Alley (1978 – directorial debut, also wrote and starred), Staying Alive (1983 – also co–wrote); also directed Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, and Rocky Balboa |
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Sylvester Stallone |
| The Blue Angel, Shanghai Express (Austrian) |
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Joseph von Sternberg |
| JFK (1991), The Doors (1991), Natural Born Killers (1994); Vietnam trilogy: Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (Best Director Oscar 1989), Heaven & Earth (1993) |
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Oliver Stone |
| Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Kill Bill (2003/4), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Django Unchained (2012) |
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Quentin Tarantino |
| Nowhere Boy (John Lennon biopic, 2009), Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) |
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Sam Taylor–Wood |
| Carry On (series) |
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Gerald Thomas |
| Ice Cold in Alex (1958), North West Frontier (1959), Tiger Bay (1959), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Cape Fear (1962 original), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), Death Wish 4: the Crackdown (1987) |
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J. Lee Thompson |
| Fahrenheit 451 (original 1966 version) |
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Francois Truffaut |
| And God Created Woman (1956), Barbarella (1968), Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) |
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Roger Vadim |
| Robocop (1987), Total Recall (1990), Basic Instinct (1992), Showgirls (1995), Starship Troopers (1998) |
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Paul Verhoeven |
| The Big Parade (1925), Northwest Passage (1940), Comrade X (1940), An American Romance (1944), Duel in
the Sun (1946); also the sepia (tinted) cyclone scene in The Wizard of Oz (1939) – including Judy Garland singing Over the Rainbow
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King Vidor |
| Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Gallipoli (1981), The Year of Living Dangerously (1983) |
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Peter Weir |
| Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Macbeth (1948), Othello (1952) |
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Orson Welles |
| The State of Things (1982), Paris, Texas (1984), Wings of Desire (1987), Buena Vista Social Club (1999 documentary) |
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Wim Wenders |
| Frankenstein (1931), The Invisible Man (1933), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) |
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James Whale |
| The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Some Like it Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960) |
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Billy Wilder |
| The Woman in Red (1984) – also starred |
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Gene Wilder |
| Death Wish (series, first three of five) |
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Michael Winner |
| The Sound of Music (1965) |
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Robert Wise |
| Jezebel (1938), Wuthering Heights (1939), Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), The Heiress (1949), Roman Holiday (1953), Ben–Hur (1959), Funny Girl (1968) |
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William Wyler |
| Bullitt (1968), The Deep (1977), Breaking Away (1979), The Dresser (1983), Krull (1983) |
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Peter Yates |
| The Taming of the Shrew (1967), Romeo and Juliet (1968), Hamlet (1990) |
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Franco Zeffirelli |
| High Noon (1952), From Here to Eternity (1953), Julia (1977), A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Nun's Story (1959), Day of the Jackal (1973) |
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Fred Zinneman |
| Romancing the Stone (1984), Back to the Future series (1985, 1989, 1990), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1998), Forrest Gump (1994), Beowulf (2007) |
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Robert Zemeckis |
| The two films that John Wayne directed (he also starred in both) | 1960 |
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The Alamo |
| 1968 |
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The Green Berets |
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