The best Directors of the new generation.
by darkvlader | created - 08 Apr 2011 | updated - 27 Jan 2012 | PublicI think that this are the greatest directors of the new generation, a few of them aren't well known but their jobs are still great, there is a continuation for this list
1. Christopher Nolan
Writer | Tenet
Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed writer-director Christopher Nolan was born on July 30, 1970, in London, England. Over the course of 15 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the biggest blockbusters ever made.
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Top 3 Films:
1.- Memento
2.- Inception
3.- The Dark Knight
Honorable Mention: Insomnia
2. 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 ...
Top 3 Films:
1.- Fargo
2.- No Country for Old Men
3.- Miller's Crossing
Honorable Mention: All of them movies
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...
Top 3 Films:
1.- Seven
2.- The Fight Club
3.- Zodiac
Honorable Mention: The Social Network, The Game
4. Darren Aronofsky
Director | 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 ...
Top 3 Films:
1.- Requiem for a Dream
2.- The Wrestler
3.- Black Swan
Honorable Mention: The Fountain
5. 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...
Top 3 Films:
1.- There Will be Blood
2.- Boogie Nights
3.- Magnolia
Honorable Mention: Punch-Drunk Love (ha, all of his films are here)
6. 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...
Top 3 Films:
1.- Pulp Fiction
2.- Reservoir Dogs
3.- Inglourious Bastards
Honorable Mention: Jackie Brown (Mostly likely all of his films)
7. 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 ...
Top 3:
1.- 28 Days Later
2.- 127 Hours
3.- Transpotting
Honorable Mention: Sunshine
8. 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...
Top 3:
1.- Hot Fuzz
2.- Shaun of the Dead
3.- Scott Pilgrim vs The World
(All the films again)
9. 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 ...
Top 3:
1.- Beign John Malkovich
2.- Where the Wild Things Are
3.- Adaptation
(Again, all the films)
10. Guillermo del Toro
Writer | El laberinto del fauno
Guillermo del Toro was born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Raised by his Catholic grandmother, del Toro developed an interest in filmmaking in his early teens. Later, he learned about makeup and effects from the legendary Dick Smith (The Exorcist (1973)) and worked on making his ...
Top 3:
1.- Pan's Laberinth
2.- Hellboy
3.- Cronos
Honorable Mention: Devil's Backbone
11. 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 ...
Top 3:
1.- Sin City
2.- El Mariachi
3.- Roadracers
Honorable Mention: From Dusk Till Dawn, Planet Terror, Machete
12. Michel Gondry
Director | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
He grew up in Versailles with a family who was very influenced by pop music. When he was young, Gondry wanted to be a painter or an inventor. In the 80s he entered in an art school in Paris where he could develop his graphic skills and where he also met friends with whom he created a pop-rock band ...
Top 3 Films:
1.- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2.- The Science of Sleep
3.- Be Kind Rewind
Honorable Mention: Human Nature
13. Neill Blomkamp
Director | District 9
Neill Blomkamp is a South African-Canadian film director and screenwriter who is known for the science fiction films District 9, Elysium and Chappie. He also directed the supernatural horror film Demonic and the 2007 short film Halo: Landfall, based on the Microsoft science fiction video game ...
Top 3:
1.- District 9
2.- "
3.- "
(I hope an in a few years the list might grow)
14. Duncan Jones
Director | Moon
Duncan Jones was born on May 30, 1971 in Bromley, Kent, England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for Moon (2009), Source Code (2011) and Mute (2018). He has been married to Rodene Ronquillo since November 6, 2012. They have two children.
Top 3:
1.- Moon
2.- Source Code
3.- "
Honorable Mention: Whistle [short]
(same as above)
15. Shane Black
Actor | Predator
Considered one of the pioneer screenwriters of the action genre, Black made his mark with his Lethal Weapon (1987) screenplay. He also collaborated on the story of the sequel, Lethal Weapon 2 (1989). Each successive script he turned in had a higher price attached it, from The Last Boy Scout (1991) ...
Top 3:
1.- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2.- "
3.- "
(The same with Blomkamp, Death Note will difenetly his second best movie for me)
16. Joe Carnahan
Writer | Smokin' Aces
Joe Carnahan is an American film director and screenwriter. He was born in Michigan in 1969, and was raised in California. He attended Fairfield High School in Fairfield, California. He graduated in 1987, at the age of 18. He first attended the San Francisco State University, and later transferred ...
Top 3:
1.- Narc
2.- Smokin' Aces
3.- The A-Team
(If he makes White Jazz and Killing Pablo those might take the last spots)
17. 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 ...
Top 3:
1.- Kick-ass
2.- Layer Cake
3.- X-Men: First Class
Honorable Mention: Stardust
18. Abel Ferrara
Director | Bad Lieutenant
Born in the Bronx, Ferrara started making amateur films on Super 8 in his teens before making his debut with violent exploitation films such as 'Driller Killer' and 'Ms.45'. Good reviews for the latter helped create his cult reputation, leading to larger budgets, studio funding and 'name' actors (...
Top 3:
1.- The Bad Lieutenant
2.- Mary
3.- King of New York
Honorable Mention: check all his filmography
19. 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 ...
Top 3:
1.- The Element of Crime
2.- Dogville
3.- Europa
Honorable Mention: Antichrist, Heart of Gold trilogy
20. 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 ...
Top 3:
1.- Three Kings
2.- The Fighter
3.- I Heart Huckabees
Honorable Mentions: Spanking the Monkey, Flirting with Disaster.
(Several of the recent projects which have been linked to him sound interesting, I hope that he can make them)
21. 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).
Top 3:
1.- In Bruges
2.- "
3.- "
Honorable Mention: Six Shooter [short]
(He is finally making Seven Psychopats)
22. Christopher McQuarrie
Writer | The Usual Suspects
Christopher McQuarrie is an acclaimed producer, director and an Academy Award® winning writer. McQuarrie grew up in Princeton Junction, New Jersey and in lieu of college, he spent the first five years out of school traveling and working at a detective agency. He later moved to Los Angeles to pursue...
Top:
1.- The Way of the Gun
2.-
3.-
(Apparently he is making One Shot, hope and i will be ready for the end of 2012.)
23. Matt Dillon
Actor | There's Something About Mary
Matt Dillon's successful film career has spanned over three decades and has showcased his wide range of dramatic and comedic talents. Dillon displayed his versatility with an arresting performance co-starring as a racist cop in the critically acclaimed Paul Haggis film Crash. This role earned him ...
Top:
1.- City of Ghosts
2.-
3.-
(Just like McQuarrie, is still unknown if he will ever direct again, but his only film so far is good.)
24. Sean Penn
Actor | Mystic River
Sean Penn is a powerhouse film performer capable of intensely moving work, who has gone from strength to strength during a colourful film career, and who has drawn much media attention for his stormy private life and political viewpoints.
Sean Justin Penn was born in Los Angeles, California, the ...
Top 3:
1.- The Pledge
2.- Into the Wild
3.- The Crossing Guard
Honorable Mention: The Indian Runner
(Does anyone knowns wich will be his next directorial job?)
25. 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).
Top 3:
1.- The Lookout
2.-
3.-
(Damn you Hollywood by not letting that great directors like him, McQuiarre and Dillon prospere.)
26. James Gray
Director | The Immigrant
Writer/director James Gray made his first film Little Odessa (1994) at the age of twenty-five. The film, which starred Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell, received critical acclaim and was the winner of the Venice Film Festival's prestigious Silver Lion Award in 1994.
...
Top 3:
1.- Little Odessa
2.- The Yards
3.- We Own the Night
Honorable Mention: Two Lovers
(I hope and he'll make his next project soon.)
27. 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. ...
Top 3:
1.- Fear X
2.- Pusher Trilogy
3.- Bronson
Honorable Mention; all of his filmography.
28. John Dahl
Director | Kill Me Again
John Dahl was born in 1956 in Billings, Montana, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Kill Me Again (1989), The Last Seduction (1994) and Rounders (1998). He is married to Beth Jana Friedberg. They have four children.
Top 3:
1.- The Last Seduction
2.- Red Rock West
3.- Kill me Again
Honorable Mention; Rounders, Joy Ride, You Kill me.
29. Charlie Kaufman
Writer | I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Avid reader Charlie Kaufman wrote plays and made short films as a young student. He moved from Massapequa, New York to West Hartford, Connecticut in 1972 where he attended high school. As a comedic actor, he performed in school plays and, after graduation, he enrolled at Boston University but soon ...
Top 3:
1.- Synedoche, New York.
2.-
3.-
Notes: it's great that he is making Frank or Francis
30. Ang Lee
Director | Xi yan
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, ...
Top 3:
1.- Brokeback Mountain
2.- Lust, Caution
3.- Ride With the Devil
Honorable Mentions: All of His Films.
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