My Favorite Directors

1. William Wyler

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...

His best movie (in my opinion): Ben-Hur.

His other movies I watched (chronological): These Three Jezebel The Letter The Heiress Carrie Roman Holiday The Big Country The Children's Hour How to Steal a Million.

2. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Sleepy Hollow.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Beetlejuice Batman Batman Returns Edward Scissorhands Ed Wood Mars Attacks! Planet of the Apes Big Fish Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Dark Shadows Frankenweenie Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Dumbo.

3. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): House of Flying Daggers.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Ju Dou Raise the Red Lantern Shanghai Triad The Road Home Hero Curse of the Golden Flower.

4. Billy Wilder

Writer | The Apartment

Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Double Indemnity.

His other movies I watched (chronological): The Lost Weekend Sunset Boulevard Stalag 17 Witness for the Prosecution Some Like It Hot The Apartment The Front Page Fedora.

5. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): A Tale of Two Sisters.

His other movies I watched (chronological): 3 Extremes II (segment: Memories) A Bittersweet Life The Good, the Bad, the Weird I Saw the Devil Doomsday Book (segment: The Heavenly Creature) Illang: The Wolf Brigade.

6. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): The Green Mile.

His other movies I watched (chronological): The Shawshank Redemption The Mist.

7. 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).

His best movies (in my opinion): In Bruges & Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. (I really cannot decide which one of them is better and why!)

His other movies I watched (chronological): Six Shooter The Banshees of Inisherin.

8. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): 2001: A Space Odyssey.

His other movies I watched (chronological): The Killing Paths of Glory Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb A Clockwork Orange Barry Lyndon The Shining Full Metal Jacket Eyes Wide Shut.

9. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Mulholland Drive.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Eraserhead The Elephant Man Dune Blue Velvet Wild at Heart Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Lost Highway Inland Empire.

10. Clint Eastwood

Actor | Million Dollar Baby

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

His best movie (in my opinion): Million Dollar Baby.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Play Misty for Me Dirty Harry (uncredited) Unforgiven The Bridges of Madison County Absolute Power Mystic River Flags of Our Fathers Letters from Iwo Jima Changeling Gran Torino J. Edgar Richard Jewell.

11. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Aliens.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Terminator The Abyss Terminator 2: Judgment Day True Lies Titanic Avatar.

12. Jae-young Kwak

Writer | Yeopgijeogin geunyeo

Jae-young Kwak was born on May 22, 1959 in South Korea. He is a writer and director, known for My Sassy Girl (2001), Cyborg She (2008) and Mu-rim-yeo-dae-saeng (2008).

His best movie (in my opinion): The Classic.

His other movies I watched (chronological): My Sassy Girl Windstruck My Mighty Princess Time Renegades.

13. 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.

His best movie (in my opinion): Oldboy.

His other movies I watched (chronological): JSA: Joint Security Area Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance If You Were Me (segment: Never Ending Peace and Love) Three... Extremes (segment: Cut) Lady Vengeance I'm a Cyborg Thirst The Handmaiden Decision to Leave.

14. 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 ...

His best movies (in my opinion): Requiem for a Dream & Black Swan. (I really cannot decide which one of them is better and why!).

His other movies I watched (chronological): Pi The Fountain Mother!.

15. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Memories of Murder.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Barking Dogs Never Bite The Host Mother Snowpiercer Okja Parasite.

16. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Gladiator.

His other movies I watched (chronological): The Duellists Alien Blade Runner White Squall Hannibal Black Hawk Down A Good Year American Gangster Body of Lies Prometheus The Martian Alien: Covenant.

17. Satoshi Kon

Writer | Tôkyô goddofâzâzu

Satoshi Kon was born in 1963. He studied at the Musashino College of the Arts. He began his career as a Manga artist. He then moved to animation and worked as a background artist on many films (including Roujin Z (1991) by 'Katsuhiro Otomo'). Then, in 1995, he wrote an episode of the anthology film ...

His best movies (in my opinion): Perfect Blue & Millennium Actress (I really cannot decide which one of them is better and why!).

His other movies I watched (chronological): Tokyo Godfathers Paprika.

18. Sion Sono

Director | Ai no mukidashi

Shion Sono is a Japanese director, writer and poet. Born in Aichi Perfecture in 1961 he started his career working as a poet before taking his first steps in film directing. As a student he shot a series of short films in Super 8 and managed to make his first feature films in the late 80s and early...

His best movie (in my opinion): Love Exposure.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Suicide Club Noriko's Dinner Table Strange Circus Exte: Hair Extensions Be Sure to Share Themis.

19. Alfred Hitchcock

Director | Psycho

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Psycho.

His other movies I watched (chronological): The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) The 39 Steps The Lady Vanishes Rebecca Suspicion Lifeboat Spellbound The Paradine Case Rope Dial M for Murder Rear Window To Catch a Thief The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Vertigo North by Northwest The Birds Marnie Frenzy.

20. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Amores Perros.

His other movies I watched (chronological): 21 Grams Babel Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) The Revenant.

21. 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 ...

His best movies (in my opinion): Funny Games U.S. & The White Ribbon (I really cannot decide which one of them is better and why!).

His other movies I watched (chronological): The Castle Funny Games Time of the Wolf Hidden (Caché) Amour.

22. Dario Argento

Writer | Profondo rosso

Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk tales told by his parents and other ...

His best movies (in my opinion): The Bird with the Crystal Plumage & Deep Red (I really cannot decide which one of them is better and why!).

His other movies I watched (chronological): Cat o' Nine Tails Four Flies on Grey Velvet Suspiria Tenebrae Phenomena Opera Two Evil Eyes (segment: The Black Cat) The Stendhal Syndrome Sleepless The Card Player.

23. Henri-Georges Clouzot

Writer | Le salaire de la peur

Beginning his film career as a screenwriter, Henri-Georges Clouzot switched over to directing and in 1943 had the distinction of having his film The Raven (1943) banned by both the German forces occupying France and the Free French forces fighting them, but for different reasons. He shot to ...

His best movie (in my opinion): The Wages of Fear.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Le Corbeau: The Raven Quai des Orfèvres Les Diaboliques.

24. Howard Hawks

Director | Rio Bravo

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...

His best movie (in my opinion): Bringing Up Baby.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Scarface His Girl Friday The Big Sleep Rio Bravo El Dorado Rio Lobo.

25. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Address Unknown Bad Guy The Coast Guard Samaritan Girl 3-Iron Time Breath Dream Pieta.

26. Ingmar Bergman

Writer | Smultronstället

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born July 14, 1918, the son of a priest. The film and T.V. series, The Best Intentions (1992) is biographical and shows the early marriage of his parents. The film Sunday's Children (1992) depicts a bicycle journey with his father. In the miniseries Private Confessions (...

His best movie (in my opinion): Persona.

His other movies I watched (chronological): The Seventh Seal Wild Strawberries The Magician The Virgin Spring Hour of the Wolf Face to Face The Serpent's Egg Fanny and Alexander.

27. Charles Chaplin

Writer | The Great Dictator

Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Modern Times.

His other movies I watched (chronological): The Kid The Gold Rush City Lights.

28. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Oppenheimer.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Following Memento Insomnia Batman Begins The Prestige The Dark Knight Inception The Dark Knight Rises Interstellar Dunkirk Tenet.

29. Makoto Shinkai

Writer | Suzume no Tojimari

Makoto Shinkai is a Japanese director, writer, producer, animator, editor, cinematographer, voice actor, manga artist and former graphic designer. Shinkai studied Japanese literature at Chuo University where he was a member of juvenile literature club where he drew picture books. In 1999, Shinkai ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Your Name.

His other movies I watched (chronological): 5 Centimeters per Second Children Who Chase Lost Voices The Garden of Words Weathering with You.

30. Christopher Smith

Director | Triangle

Christopher Smith was born in 1970 in Bristol, England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for Triangle (2009), Severance (2006) and Black Death (2010).

His best movie (in my opinion): Triangle.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Creep Black Death Detour Consecration.

31. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Braveheart.

His other movies I watched (chronological): The Passion of the Christ Apocalypto Hacksaw Ridge.

32. Mamoru Hosoda

Director | Samâ uôzu

Mamoru Hosoda is a Japanese film director and animator. Formerly employed at Toei Animation, he went to work at Madhouse from 2005 to 2011. Hosoda left Madhouse in 2011 to establish his own animation studio, Studio Chizu. He first came to public attention in the early 2000s with the first two films...

His best movie (in my opinion): Wolf Children.

His other movies I watched (chronological): The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Summer Wars.

33. 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, ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Schindler's List.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Duel (TV Movie) Jaws Close Encounters of the Third Kind E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Twilight Zone: The Movie (segment 2) The Color Purple Hook Jurassic Park Saving Private Ryan A.I. Artificial Intelligence Minority Report Catch Me If You Can War of the Worlds Ready Player One.

34. Gregory Hoblit

Producer | Hill Street Blues

Gregory Hoblit was born in Texas but moved to Northern California at a young age because of his father's job in law enforcement, a hint at what might have attracted the mystery/courtroom plots of his movie/TV credits. After graduating from UCLA, he worked as a TV co-producer with Steven Bochco ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Primal Fear.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Fallen Frequency Hart's War Fracture Untraceable.

35. Nick Cassavetes

Actor | Face/Off

Nick Cassavetes was born in New York City, the son of actress Gena Rowlands and Greek-American actor and film director John Cassavetes. As a child, he appeared in two of his father's films: Husbands (1970) and A Woman Under the Influence (1974). After spending so much of his youth surrounded by the...

His best movie (in my opinion): Alpha Dog.

His other movies I watched (chronological): John Q The Notebook My Sister's Keeper.

36. Ben Affleck

Producer | Argo

Benjamin Géza "Ben" Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to mother Chris Anne (Boldt), a school teacher, and father Timothy Byers "Tim" Affleck, a social worker. Ben has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, who was born in 1975...

His best movie (in my opinion): Gone Baby Gone.

His other movies I watched (chronological): The Town Argo.

37. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): The Others.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Tesis Open Your Eyes The Sea Inside.

38. Yasujirô Ozu

Writer | Tôkyô monogatari

Tokyo-born Yasujiro Ozu was a movie buff from childhood, often playing hooky from school in order to see Hollywood movies in his local theatre. In 1923 he landed a job as a camera assistant at Shochiku Studios in Tokyo. Three years later, he was made an assistant director and directed his first ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Tokyo Story.

His other movies I watched (chronological): I Was Born, But... Late Spring Early Summer.

39. Andrei Tarkovsky

Writer | Offret

The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school VGIK. He shot to international attention with his first feature, Ivan's Childhood (1962), which won the...

His best movie (in my opinion): Solyaris.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Ivan's Childhood Mirror Stalker Nostalghia.

40. 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. ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Before Sunrise.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Waking Life Before Sunset A Scanner Darkly Before Midnight Boyhood.

41. Woody Allen

Writer | Annie Hall

Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.

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His best movie (in my opinion): Match Point.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Annie Hall Manhattan Hannah and Her Sisters Vicky Cristina Barcelona Midnight in Paris.

42. Brad Bird

Writer | The Incredibles

Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird is an American director, screenwriter, animator, producer and occasional voice actor, known for both animated and live-action films. Bird was born in Kalispell, Montana, the youngest of four children of Marjorie A. (née Cross) and Philip Cullen Bird. His father worked in...

His best movie (in my opinion): Ratatouille.

His other movies I watched (chronological): The Iron Giant The Incredibles.

43. Jaume Balagueró

Director | [Rec]

Jaume Balagueró was born on November 2, 1968 in Lleida, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. He is a director and writer, known for REC (2007), Sleep Tight (2011) and The Nameless (1999).

His best movies (in my opinion): [Rec] & Sleep Tight (I really cannot decide which one of them is better and why!).

His other movies I watched (chronological): The Nameless Darkness Fragile [Rec] 2.

44. Luis Buñuel

Writer | Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie

The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the ...

His best movie (in my opinion): The Exterminating Angel.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Un Chien Andalou Robinson Crusoe Viridiana Belle de Jour The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.

45. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Flipped.

His other movies I watched (chronological): The Sure Thing Stand by Me The Princess Bride Misery A Few Good Men The Story of Us The Magic of Belle Isle.

46. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Halloween.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Assault on Precinct 13 Someone's Watching Me! (TV Movie) The Fog The Thing Prince of Darkness They Live Body Bags (TV Movie) In the Mouth of Madness Village of the Damned Ghosts of Mars The Ward .

47. Kore-eda Hirokazu

Director | Manbiki kazoku

Born in Tokyo in 1962. Originally intended to be a novelist, but after graduating from Waseda University in 1987 went on to become an assistant director at T.V. Man Union. Snuck off set to film Mou hitotsu no kyouiku - Ina shogakkou haru gumi no kiroku (1991). His first feature, Maborosi (1995), ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Nobody Knows.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Maborosi After Life Still Walking Air Doll Our Little Sister After the Storm The Third Murder Shoplifters Monster

48. Álex de la Iglesia

Director | El bar

Álex de la Iglesia is one of the most popular and respected European filmmakers of his generation. Considered a genre of his own, based on his skill and originality in a range of cinematographic art styles, he has currently finished shooting the second season of "30 Coins", the successful HBO Max ...

His best movie (in my opinion): The Last Circus.

His other movies I watched (chronological): The Day of the Beast Dance with the Devil Films to Keep You Awake: The Baby's Room Witching and Bitching The Bar.

49. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): Shutter Island.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Taxi Driver Raging Bull Goodfellas Cape Fear Casino Gangs of New York The Departed Hugo The Wolf of Wall Street The Irishman Killers of the Flower Moon.

50. James Mangold

Producer | Logan

James Mangold is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer. Films he has directed include Girl, Interrupted (1999), Walk the Line (2005), which he also co-wrote, the 2007 remake 3:10 to Yuma (2007), The Wolverine (2013), and Logan (2017).

Mangold also wrote and directed Cop...

His best movie (in my opinion): Identity. His other movies I watched (chronological): Cop Land Girl, Interrupted Kate & Leopold 3:10 to Yuma.

51. 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 ...

His best movie (in my opinion): The Holy Mountain.

His other movies I watched (chronological): Fando and Lis El Topo Santa Sangre.