Oscar Legends (notable directors and other makers)
by AlexHartsell | created - 08 Oct 2012 | updated - 21 May 2015 | PublicRows 1-137 are Oscar winning directors, rows 138-286 are nominated directors, rows 287-402 are famous animated people, rows 403-491 are notable famous script writers. Also Mel Gibson, Spike Lee, Seth MacFarlane (the new) and Randall Wallace are my least favorites of them. Also I added James Cameron in low part of the winners. He and Mel Gibson are my least favorite Academy Award winners of direction, but I like some of there films (Aliens, the Termanitor series, Titanic and a little of Braveheart). The reason for James Cameron is due to his reputation and is declared a selfish and cruel director. The first five in each rows are who I think are the greatest Oscar legends of all them. Also, some of these directors had their films nominated or won Best Foreign Language Film and had some of their other films nominated for other Oscar categories. For those whose has their films won Best Foreign Language Film are being declared a film legend (or film legends) to that country while the Oscar they and the producer got for their country will be in the country's national museum. For those who's film were nominated for Best Foreign Language Film are still declared film legends in their country and also Oscar Legends like Best Foreign Language Film winners.
Update: Under some of them are thanks to Executive producer credits by them for other Academy Awards films
New Update: I now add their Academy Award nominated and winner films under some of them.
Newest Update: I add Stanley Donen under the rows of script writers due to he won an Honorary Award while making Academy Award films without being nominated.
Final Updated: The last row are other directors or producers that mostly won Academy Honorary Awards. So Rows 492-510 are other directors to producers who mostly get Honorary Awards from the Academy.
1. 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 ...
The Gold Rush The Circus The Great Dictator Monsieur Verdoux Limelight
2. Orson Welles
Actor | Citizen Kane
His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...
Citizen Kane The Magnificent Ambersons The Stranger The Third Man Prince of Foxes The Black Rose Is Paris Burning? A Man for All Seasons Casino Royale The Battle of Neretva Is It Always Right to Be Right? Voyage of the Damned The Muppet Movie
3. 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 ...
Spartacus Lolita Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 2001: A Space Odyssey A Clockwork Orange Barry Lyndon The Spy Who Loved Me Full Metal Jacket A.I. Artificial Intelligence
4. 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, ...
Lawrence of Arabia Jaws Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1941 Raiders of the Lost Ark E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Poltergeist Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Back to the Future Young Sherlock Holmes The Color Purple An American Tail Harry and the Hendersons Innerspace Empire of the Sun Who Framed Roger Rabbit Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Dad Back to the Future Part II Hook Cape Fear Jurassic Park Schindler's List Twister The Lost World: Jurassic Park Amistad Men in Black The Mask of Zorro Saving Private Ryan Titus Shrek A.I. Artificial Intelligence Vanilla Sky Minority Report Catch Me If You Can In America Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith War of the Worlds Memoirs of a Geisha Munich Monster House Flags of Our Fathers Letters from Iwo Jima Transformers Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen The Lovely Bones Hereafter True Grit Transformers: Dark of the Moon Margin Call Real Steel The Adventures of Tintin War Horse Lincoln Jurassic World Bridge of Spies The BFG
5. Francis Ford Coppola
Producer | Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola (née Pennino), had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated ...
Is Paris Burning? You're a Big Boy Now Finian's Rainbow Patton The Godfather Paper Moon American Graffiti The Great Gatsby The Conversation The Godfather: Part II Apocalypse Now The Black Stallion Kagemusha One from the Heart The Cotton Club Return to Oz Peggy Sue Got Married Tucker: The Man and His Dream The Godfather: Part III Dracula In the Name of the Father Don Juan DeMarco Frankenstein Sleepy Hollow Adaptation. Lost in Translation Kinsey Marie Antoinette The Good Shepherd
6. 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 ...
Lawrence of Arabia Woodstock Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Taxi Driver Raging Bull Round Midnight The Color of Money The Last Temptation of Christ Goodfellas The Grifters Cape Fear Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann The War Room The Age of Innocence Quiz Show Casino Kundun You Can Count on Me Gangs of New York The Aviator Shark Tale The Departed The Young Victoria Hugo The Wolf of Wall Street Silence
7. 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, ...
The Wedding Banquet Eat Drink Man Woman Sense and Sensibility Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Brokeback Mountain Life of Pi Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
8. Kathryn Bigelow
Director | The Hurt Locker
A very talented painter, Kathryn spent two years at the San Francisco Art Institute. At 20, she won a scholarship to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. She was given a studio in a former Offtrack Betting building, literally in an old bank vault, where she made art and waited to be ...
The Hurt Locker Zero Dark Thirty
9. 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.
12 Years a Slave
10. 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 ...
A Little Princess Amores Perros Y Tu Mamá También 21 Grams Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Babel Children of Men Pan's Labyrinth Biutful Gravity Ida Birdman
11. 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 ...
Amores Perros Y Tu Mamá También 21 Grams Brokeback Mountain Babel Pan's Labyrinth Biutiful Gravity Birdman The Revenant
12. Bernardo Bertolucci
Writer | Il conformista
Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director whose films were known for their colorful visual style, was born in Parma, Italy. He attended Rome University and became famous as a poet. He served as assistant director for Pier Paolo Pasolini in the film Accattone (1961) and directed The Grim Reaper (...
The Conformist Last Tango in Paris The Last Emperor
13. 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 ...
Dead Man Walking The Thin Red Line Sweet and Lowdown Being John Malkovich I Am Sam Mystic River 21 Grams Babel Into the Wild Persepolis Milk The Tree of Life
14. Yôjirô Takita
Director | Okuribito
Born in Takaoka, Toyama, Yojiro Takita came to international audiences' attention with the release of Okuribito ('Departures'), which won the Best foreign Language film awards at the Oscars in 2009. He had begun his directorial career in the 1980s with the 'chikan' ('molester') series depicting ...
Departures
15. Tim Robbins
Actor | Mystic River
Born in West Covina, California, but raised in New York City, Tim Robbins is the son of former The Highwaymen singer Gil Robbins and actress Mary Robbins (née Bledsoe). Robbins studied drama at UCLA, where he graduated with honors in 1981. That same year, he formed the Actors' Gang theater group, ...
Top Gun Bull Durham The Player Short Cuts The Shawshank Redemption Dead Man Walking Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Mystic River War of the Worlds Away from Her
16. 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...
Field of Dreams Good Will Hunting Armageddon Shakespeare in Love Pearl Harbor Gone Baby Gone The Messenger The Town Argo Gone Girl Virunga
17. Robert Benton
Writer | Kramer vs. Kramer
Robert Douglas Benton is an American screenwriter and filmmaker from Waxahachie, Texas who is known for screenwriting Bonnie & Clyde, Kramer vs. Kramer and Superman. He won two Academy Awards for writing and directing Kramer vs. Kramer. He directed other feature films including Twilight, Bad ...
Bonnie and Clyde The Late Show Kramer vs. Kramer Superman Places in the Heart Nobody's Fool
18. James L. Brooks
Writer | Broadcast News
James L. Brooks was born on May 9, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Broadcast News (1987), As Good as It Gets (1997) and Terms of Endearment (1983). He was previously married to Holly Holmberg Brooks and Marianne Catherine Morrissey.
Starting Over Terms of Endearment Broadcast News Big Jerry Maguire As Good as It Gets The Royal Tenenbaums Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan The Simpsons: The Longest Daycare
19. Giuseppe Tornatore
Director | La migliore offerta
Giuseppe Tornatore was born on May 27, 1956 in Bagheria, Sicily, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for The Best Offer (2013), Cinema Paradiso (1988) and The Legend of 1900 (1998). He is married to Roberta Pacetti.
Cinema Paradiso The Star Maker Malèna
20. 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.
Allen ...
What's New Pussycat Casino Royale The Front Annie Hall Interiors Manhattan Zelig Broadway Danny Rose The Purple Rose of Cairo Hannah and Her Sisters Radio Days Crimes and Misdemeanors Alice Husbands and Wives Bullets Over Broadway Mighty Aphrodite Deconstructing Harry Sweet and Lowdown Match Point Vicky Cristina Barcelona Midnight in Paris Blue Jasmine
21. 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...
Pulp Fiction Jackie Brown Hero Inglorious Basterds Django Unchained The Hateful Eight
22. 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).
Six Shooter In Bruges
23. 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 ...
Paint Your Wagon Thunderbolt and Lightfoot The Outlaw Josey Wales Heartbreak Ridge Bird Back to the Future Part II Unforgiven In the Line of Fire The Bridge of Madison County Space Cowboys Mystic River Million Dollar Baby Flags of Our Fathers Letters from Iwo Jima In the Valley of Elah Changeling Invictus Hearafter American Sniper
24. Paul Haggis
Writer | Crash
Paul Haggis established himself over twenty years with an extensive career in television, before his big break into features arrived when he became the first screenwriter to garner two Best Film Academy Awards back-to-back for his scripts: "Million Dollar Baby" (2004) directed by Clint Eastwood, ...
Million Dollar Baby Crash Flags of Our Fathers Letters from Iwo Jima In the Valley of Elah
25. Oliver Stone
Director | JFK
Oliver Stone has become known as a master of controversial subjects and a legendary film maker. His films are filled with a variety of film angles and styles, he pushes his actors to give Oscar-worthy performances, and despite his failures, has always returned to success.
William Oliver Stone was ...
Midnight Express Salvador Platoon Wall Street Born on the Fourth of July Reversal of Fortune JFK Malcolm X Dave Nixon Evita The People vs. Larry Flynt
26. 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 ...
1941 Romancing the Stone Back to the Future Who Framed Roger Rabbit Back to the Future Part II Death Becomes Her Forest Gump Contact Cast Away The Polar Express Monster House Real Steel Flight The Walk
27. Peter Jackson
Producer | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Sir Peter Jackson made history with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, becoming the first person to direct three major feature films simultaneously. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King were nominated for and collected a slew of awards from around the globe, with The ...
Heavenly Creatures Contact The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King King Kong District 9 The Lovely Bones The Adventures of Tintin War Horse The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
28. Akira Kurosawa
Writer | Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater...
Rashmon Seven Samurai The Magnificent Seven Yojimbo Tora! Tora! Tora! Does'ka-den Dersu Uzala Kagemusha Ran Runaway Train
29. Teinosuke Kinugasa
Director | Jigokumon
Former female impersonator who entered films in 1917 as an actor, turned to directing in 1922 and made some of the most formally brilliant Japanese films of the following decades. The few of Kinugasa's early works to have reached the West betray a highly mature, sophisticated talent. His best-known...
Gate of Hell
30. Hiroshi Inagaki
Director | Wasurerareta kora
Inagaki's career in film began as an actor--a child actor, in fact, appearing in numerous silent films beginning at the very dawn of Japanese cinema. This is probably why he was promoted to director at the unusually (for Japan) young age of 22. Along with producer Mansaku Itami (later the father of...
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
31. Sydney Pollack
Director | Tootsie
Sydney Pollack was an Academy Award-winning director, producer, actor, writer and public figure, who directed and produced over 40 films.
Sydney Irwin Pollack was born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA, to Rebecca (Miller), a homemaker, and David Pollack, a professional boxer turned pharmacist...
The Slender Thread They Shoot Horses, Don't They? The Way We Were Three Days of the Condor The Electric Horseman Honeysuckle Rose Absence of Malice Tootsie Songwriter Out of Africa The Fabulous Baker Boys Havana The Player Death Becomes Her The Firm Husbands and Wives Searching for Bobby Fischer Sense and Sensibility Sabrina A Civil Action The Talented Mr. Ripley Iris The Quiet American Cold Mountain Michael Clayton The Reader The Messenger Silver Linings Playbook
32. Anthony Minghella
Writer | The Talented Mr. Ripley
Anthony Minghella was the son of immigrants from Italy, who own an ice-cream factory on the Isle of Wight, where Anthony was born on January 6, 1954. He and his two siblings, Edana Minghella and Dominic Minghella, grew up there, a popular British holiday spot. After graduating from the University of...
The English Patient The Talented Mr. Ripley Malèna Iris The Quiet American Cold Mountain Michael Clayton Atonement The Reader Nine Silver Linings Playbook
33. George Roy Hill
Director | The Sting
George Roy Hill was never able to 'hit it off' with the critics despite the fact that 2 of his films - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), and The Sting (1973) - had remained among the top 10 box office hits by 1976. His work was frequently derided as 'impersonal' or lacking in stylistic ...
Period of Adjustment Toys in the Attic Hawaii Through Modern Millie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Sting A Little Romance The World According to Garp
34. 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 ...
Knife in the Water Rosemary's Baby Chinatown Tess Pirates The Pianist The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
35. Bob Fosse
Director | Cabaret
Bob Fosse was born on June 23, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Cabaret (1972), All That Jazz (1979) and Lenny (1974). He was married to Gwen Verdon, Joan McCracken and Mary Ann Niles. He died on September 23, 1987 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Kiss Me Kate White Christmas Damn Yankees! Sweet Charity Cabaret Lenny The Little Prince All That Jazz Chicago
36. Paul Newman
Actor | The Hustler
Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). His elder brother was Arthur S. Newman Jr., named for ...
The Silver Chalice Somebody Up There Likes Me Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Exodus The Hustler Paris Blues Hud A New Kind of Love What a Way to Go! Cool Hand Luke Rachel, Rachel Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis Sometimes a Great Notion The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean The Sting The Towering Inferno When Time Ran Out... Absence of Malice The Verdict The Color of Money Blaze Mr. & Mrs. Bridge Nobody's Fool Road to Perdition Cars
37. Robert Redford
Actor | The Natural
Born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, and Martha Redford, Charles Robert Redford, Jr. was a scrappy kid who stole hubcaps in high school and lost his college baseball scholarship at the University of Colorado because of ...
Inside Daisy Clover Barefoot in the Park Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Hot Rock The Way We Were The Candidate The Sting The Great Gatsby Three Days of the Condor All the President's Men The Electric Horseman Brubaker Ordinary People The Natural Out of Africa The Milagro Beanfield War Havana A River Runs Through It Up Close & Personal Quiz Show Central Station A Civil Action The Horse Whisper Requiem for a Dream Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids The Motorcycle Diaries An Inconvenient Truth The Cove GasLand All Is Lost Captain America: The Winter Soldier
38. 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 ...
The Music Man American Graffiti The Shootist Splash Cocoon Willow Parenthood Backdraft The Paper Apollo 13 How the Grinch Stole Christmas A Beautiful Mind Cinderella Man Changeling Frost/Nixon
39. 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 ...
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown All About My Mother Talk to Her Volver
40. Richard Attenborough
Actor | Jurassic Park
Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond-upon-Thames, was born in Cambridge, England, the son of Mary (née Clegg), a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College and wrote a ...
The Angry Silence The Great Escape Seance of a Wet Affternoon The Sand Pebbles The Flight of the Phoenix Doctor Dolittle Young Winston Gandhi A Chorus Line Cry Freedom Chaplin Jurassic Park Shadowlands Hamlet The Lost World: Jurassic Park Elizabeth Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
41. Franklin J. Schaffner
Director | Planet of the Apes
Franklin J. Schaffner was one of the most innovative creative minds in the early days of American network television, utilizing a moving camera in the days when most television directors kept the camera static. His eye for visuals was developed in the dozens of live television programs he directed ...
The Strpper The Best Man Planet of the Apes Patton Nicholas and Alexandra Papillon Island in the Stream The Boys from Brazil Yes, Giorgio
42. 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 ...
Sex, Lies, and Videotape Out of Sight Pleasintvile Erin Brockovich Traffic Far from Heaven Good Night, and Good Luck. Syriana The Good German Michael Clayton I'm Not There. Her Citzenfour
43. Mel Brooks
Actor | Spaceballs
Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. He served in WWII, and afterwards got a job playing the drums at nightclubs in the Catskills. Brooks eventually started a comedy act and also worked in radio and as Master Entertainer at Grossinger's Resort before going to ...
The Critic The Producers Blazing Saddles Young Frankenstein The Muppet Movie The Elephant Man My Favorite Year Frances To Be or Not to Be The Prince of Egypt
44. Barry Levinson
Director | Rain Man
Barry Lee Levinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Violet (Krichinsky) and Irvin Levinson, who worked in furniture and appliance. He is of Russian Jewish descent. Levinson graduated from high school in 1960, attended college at American University in Washington, DC. He did well, but decided he ...
...And Justice for All Inside Moves Diner Tootsie Best Friends The Natural Young Sherlock Holmes Good Morning, Vietnam Rain Man Avalon Bugsy Toys Quiz Show A Little Princess Sleepers Donnie Brasco Wag the Dog The Perfect Storm
45. René Clément
Director | Plein soleil
René Clément was one of the leading French directors of the post-World War II era. He directed what are regarded as some of the greatest films of the time, such as The Battle of the Rails (1946), Forbidden Games (1952) and The Day and the Hour (1963). He was later almost forgotten as a director. He...
The Walls of Malapaga Forbidden Games Gervaise Is Paris Burning?
46. 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 ...
The White Ribbon Amour
47. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Director | Der Name der Rose
Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for directing Quest for Fire (1981), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Lover (1992), Seven Years in Tibet (1997) and Wolf Totem (2015). Annaud has received numerous awards for his work, including four César Awards, ...
Black and White in Color Quest for Fire The Bear The Lover
48. Michel Hazanavicius
Writer | The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius was born and raised in Paris, France. His grandparents were originally from Lithuania, but relocated to France in the 1920s. Hazanavicius attended art school, and moved on to work as a director for commercials and television projects. In 1999, he wrote and directed his first ...
The Artist
49. Neil Jordan
Writer | The Crying Game
Neil Jordan was born on February 25, 1950 in Sligo, Ireland. He is a writer and producer, known for The Crying Game (1992), Greta (2018) and Breakfast on Pluto (2005). He has been married to Brenda Rawn since June 30, 2004. They have two children. He was previously married to Vivienne Shields.
Excalibur Mona Lisa The Crying Game Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles Michael Collins The End of the Affair
50. 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-...
Little Voice American Beauty Road to Perdition The Kite Runner Revolutionary Road Skyfall Spectre
51. Bill Condon
Director | Dreamgirls
Bill Condon was born on October 22, 1955 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Dreamgirls (2006), Gods and Monsters (1998) and Kinsey (2004).
Gods and Monsters Chicago Kinsey Dreamgirls The 81st Academy Awards
52. Kevin Macdonald
Director | The Last King of Scotland
Kevin Macdonald was born on October 28, 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is a director and producer, known for The Last King of Scotland (2006), The Mauritanian (2021) and How I Live Now (2013). He has been married to Tatiana Macdonald since July 2, 1999. They have three children.
One Day in September The Last King of Scotland
53. Davis Guggenheim
Producer | Training Day
Davis Guggenheim was born on November 3, 1963 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Training Day (2001), Waiting for Superman (2010) and An Inconvenient Truth (2006). He has been married to Elisabeth Shue since August 1994. They have three children.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape Training Day An Inconvenient Truth
54. John Korty
Director | Who Are the DeBolts? and Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
John Korty was born on June 22, 1936 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Who Are the DeBolts? and Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977), The Music School (1974) and Farewell to Manzanar (1976). He was married to Jane Silvia, Beulah Chang Korty and Carol E Tweedie....
Breaking the Habit The Candidate Who Are the DeBolts? [And Where Did They Get 19 Kids?]
55. Michael Moore
Director | Bowling for Columbine
Michael Francis Moore was born in Flint, Michigan on April 23, 1954, and was raised in its Davison suburb. He is the son of Helen Veronica (Wall), a secretary, and Francis Richard Moore, who worked on an auto assembly line. He has Irish, as well as English and Scottish, ancestry.
Moore studied ...
Bowling for Columbine Sicko Dirty Wars Finding Vivian Maier
56. 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 ...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
57. 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 ...
Trainspotting Slumdog Millionaire 127 Hours Steve Jobs
58. Gavin Hood
Director | Tsotsi
Gavin Hood was born on May 12, 1963 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is an actor and director, known for Tsotsi (2005), Official Secrets (2019) and Eye in the Sky (2015). He was previously married to Janine Eser.
Tsotsi
59. Vittorio De Sica
Director | Ladri di biciclette
Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee ...
Shoeshine Bicycle Thieves Umberto D. Indiscretion of an American Wife A Farewell to Arms General Della Rovere It Stared in Naples Two Women Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Marriage, Italian Style The Shoes of the Fisherman Sunflower The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
60. Marleen Gorris
Director | Antonia
Marleen Gorris was born on December 9, 1948 in Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands. She is a director and writer, known for Antonia's Line (1995), A Question of Silence (1982) and Broken Mirrors (1984).
Antonia's Line
61. Sofia Coppola
Actress | The Godfather Part III
Sofia Coppola was born on May 14, 1971 in New York City, New York, USA as Sofia Carmina Coppola. She is a director, known for Somewhere (2010), Lost in Translation (2003), and Marie Antoinette (2006). She has been married to Thomas Mars since August 27, 2011. They have two daughters, Romy and ...
The Godfather The Godfather: Part II The Cotton Club Peggy Sue Got Married Anna The Godfather: Part III Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Adaptation. Lost in Translation The Squid and the Whale Marie Antoinette
62. Susanne Bier
Director | Hævnen
Though Academy Award®, Golden Globe Award and Emmy Award winning writer and director Susanne Bier's work often plays out against a wide-reaching global backdrop, its focus is intimate, carefully exploring the explosive emotions and complexities of familial bonds. This unique combination is part of ...
After the Wedding In a Better World
63. David Lean
Director | Lawrence of Arabia
An important British filmmaker, David Lean was born in Croydon on March 25, 1908 and brought up in a strict Quaker family (ironically, as a child he wasn't allowed to go to the movies). During the 1920s, he briefly considered the possibility of becoming an accountant like his father before finding ...
In Which We Serve Blithe Spirit Brief Encounter Great Expectations Breaking the Sound Barrier Summertime The Bridge of the River Kwai Lawrence of Arabia Doctor Zhivago Ryan's Daughter A Passage to India
64. Jonathan Demme
Director | The Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme was born on February 22, 1944 in Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Rachel Getting Married (2008) and Philadelphia (1993). He was married to Joanne Howard and Evelyn Purcell. He died on April 26, 2017 in ...
Melvin and Howard Swing Shift Married to the Mob The Silence of the Lambs Philadelphia That Thing You Do! Ulee's Gold Beloved Adaptation. Rachel Getting Married Ricki and the Flash
65. Barbra Streisand
Actress | Yentl
Barbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, director and producer and one of the most successful personalities in show business. She is the only person ever to receive all of the following: Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe, Cable Ace, National Endowment for the Arts, and Peabody awards,...
Funny Girl Hello, Dolly! The Way We Were A Star Is Born Yentl The Prince of Tides The Mirror Has Two Faces
66. Tom Hooper
Director | Cats
Tom Hooper was educated at one of England's most prestigious schools, Westminster. His first film, Runaway Dog, was made when he was 13 years old and shot on a Clockwork 16mm Bolex camera, using 100 feet of film. At age 18, he wrote, directed and produced the short film Painted Faces (1992), which ...
The King's Speech Les Miserables The Danish Girl
67. Laurence Olivier
Actor | Sleuth
Laurence Olivier could speak William Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were "actually thinking them", said English playwright Charles Bennett, who met Olivier in 1927. Laurence Kerr Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, England, to Agnes Louise (Crookenden) and Gerard Kerr Olivier, a High ...
Wuthering Heights Rebecca Pride and Prejudice 49th Parallel Henry V Hamlet Carrie Richard III The Entertainer Spartacus Khartoum Othello Romeo and Juliet The Shoes of the Fisherman Nicholas and Alexandra Sleuth Marathon Man The Seven-Per-Cent Solution The Boys from Brazil A Little Romance
68. John Schlesinger
Director | Midnight Cowboy
Oscar-winning director John Schlesinger, who was born in London, on February 16, 1926, was the eldest child in a solidly middle-class Jewish family. Berbard Schlesinger, his father, was a pediatrician, and his mother, Winifred, was a musician. He served in the Army in the Far East during World War ...
Darling Far from the Madding Crowd Midnight Cowboy Sunday Bloody Sunday The Day of the Locust Marathon Man
69. Elia Kazan
Director | On the Waterfront
Known for his creative stage direction, Elia Kazan was born Elias Kazantzoglou on September 7, 1909 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey). Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his actors, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins. He ...
Blues in the Night Boomerang! Gentleman's Agreement Pinky Panic in the Streets A Streetcar Named Desire Viva Zapata! On the Waterfront East of Eden Baby Doll Splendor in the Grass America, America The Last Tycoon
70. Alexander Payne
Director | Nebraska
Director, producer and screenwriter Alexander Payne was born in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents, Peggy (Constantine) and George Payne, ran a Greek restaurant. His father is of Greek and German ancestry, and his mother is of Greek descent; the family name was originally Papadopoulos. He is the youngest...
Election About Schmidt Sideways The Savages The Visitor The Descendants Nebraska The Judge's Will
71. Jan Sverák
Director | Akumulátor 1
Jan Sverak spent his studies at FAMU Documentary Department and graduated in 1988. Sverak's talent first attracted attention through his short films Space Odyssey II. and Oil Gobblers above all - documentary fiction dealing with "newly discovered species" received the American Academy's Student ...
Kolya
72. Taylor Hackford
Producer | Ray
In addition to helming the iconic feature hits An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Against All Odds (1984), Ray (2004), and the cult thriller The Devil's Advocate (1997), Taylor Hackford has directed the films Dolores Claiborne (1995), Everybody's All-American (1988), and Proof of Life (2000). ...
Teenage Father An Officer and a Gentleman Against All Odds White Nights Ray
73. John Huston
Director | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
An eccentric rebel of epic proportions, this Hollywood titan reigned supreme as director, screenwriter and character actor in a career that endured over five decades. The ten-time Oscar-nominated legend was born John Marcellus Huston in Nevada, Missouri, on August 5, 1906. His ancestry was English,...
Jezebel Wuthering Heights Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet The Maltese Falcon Sergeant York The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Key Largo The Asphalt Jungle The African Queen Moulin Rouge Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison Freud The Cardinal The Night of The Iguana The Bible: In the Beginning... Casino Royal Fat City The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean Chinatown The Wind and the Lion The Man Who Would Be King Annie Under the Volcano Prizzi's Honor The Dead
74. Frank Pierson
Writer | Dog Day Afternoon
Frank Pierson was born on May 12, 1925 in Chappaqua, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Presumed Innocent (1990) and Cool Hand Luke (1967). He was married to Helene Szamet, Dori Pierson and Polly Stokes. He died on July 22, 2012 in Los Angeles, ...
Cat Ballou Cool Hand Luke The 42nd Academy Awards Dog Day Afternoon A Star is Born Requiem for a Dream
75. Carol Reed
Director | The Third Man
Carol Reed was the second son of stage actor, dramatics teacher and impresario founder of the Royal School of Dramatic Art Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Reed was one of Tree's six illegitimate children with Beatrice Mae Pinney, who Tree established in a second household apart from his married life. ...
Night Train to Munich Odd Man Out The Fallen Idol The Third Man Mutiny on the Bounty The Agony and the Ecstasy Oliver!
76. Hal Ashby
Editor | In the Heat of the Night
Hal Ashby was born the fourth and youngest child in a Mormon household, in Ogden, Utah, to Eileen Ireta (Hetzler) and James Thomas Ashby, on September 2, 1929. His father was a dairy farmer. After a rough childhood that included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide, his dropping out of ...
Friendly Persuasion The Big Country The Diary of Anne Frank The Children's Hour The Best Man The Greatest Story Ever Told The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming In the Heat of the Night The Thomas Crown Affair Gaily, Gaily The Landlord The Last Detail Shampoo Bound for Glory Coming Home Being There
77. Tony Bill
Director | Flyboys
He graduated in 1962 from the University of Notre Dame with majors in English and Art. Tony began his career in the film industry as an actor. His acting years were distinguished by the quality of the directors who chose him for their films, including Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola. Tony...
Come Blow Your Horn You're a Big Boy Now Ice Station Zebra The Sting Shampoo
78. Edward Zwick
Producer | Thirtysomething
Zwick moves deftly between the roles of writer, director and producer. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his direction of the 1989 critically acclaimed Civil War drama, Glory. He received his second Golden Globe nomination as a director for Legends of the Fall. Zwick received an Academy Award...
Glory Legends of the Fall Good Will Hunting Shakespeare in Love Traffic I Am Sam The Last Samurai Blood Diamond Defiance
79. William A. Wellman
Director | A Star Is Born
William Wellman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter-director of the original A Star Is Born (1937), was called "Wild Bill" during his World War I service as an aviator, a nickname that persisted in Hollywood due to his larger-than-life personality and lifestyle.
A leap-year baby born in 1896 on the 29th...
The Public Enemy The Star Witness A Star is Born Beau Geste Lady of Burlesque The Ox-Bow Incident Story of G.I. Joe Battleground The High and the Mighty
80. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer | All About Eve
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1909, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz first worked for the movies as a translator of intertitles, employed by Paramount in Berlin, the UFA's American distributor at the time (1928). He became a dialoguist, then a screenwriter on numerous Paramount ...
Skippy Fury The Philadelphia Story The Keys of the Kingdom The Ghost and Mrs. Muir A Letter to Three Wives No Way Out All About Eve 5 Fingers Julius Caesar The Barefoot Contessa Guys and Dolls Suddenly, Last Summer Cleopatra King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis Sleuth
81. Norman Taurog
Director | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A successful child actor (on stage from 1907) and rather less successful romantic lead, baby-faced Norman Taurog found being behind the camera a more rewarding experience. Before becoming a director, he paid his dues as a prop man and editor. By 1919, he was put in charge of two-reel comedies, ...
Skippy The Big Broadcast of 1936 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mad About Music Boys Town The Toast of New Orleans Rich, Young and Pretty The Caddy Visit to a Small Planet
82. Cameron Crowe
Writer | Almost Famous
Certainly idiosyncratic as a writer, Cameron Crowe has created a series of scripts that, while liked by the critics, were considered offbeat and difficult to market.
Cameron Bruce Crowe was born in Palm Springs, California, to Alice Marie Crowe (née George), a teacher and activist, and James A. ...
Jerry Maguire Almost Famous Vanilla Sky Minority Report Fantastic Mr. Fox The Fighter
83. Robert Wise
Director | West Side Story
Robert Earl Wise was born on September 10, 1914 in Winchester, Indiana, the youngest of three sons of Olive R. (Longenecker) and Earl Waldo Wise, a meat packer. His parents were both of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent. At age nineteen, the avid moviegoer came into the film business through an ...
Bachelor Mother The Hunchback of Notre Dame My Favorite Wife Citizen Kane The Devil and Daniel Webster The Magnificent Ambersons Bombardier The Fallen Sparrow The House of Telegraph Hill The Desert Rats Executive Suite Somebody Up There Like Me I Want to Live! West Side Story Two for the Seesaw The Sound of Music The Sand Pebbles Star! The Andromeda Strain The Hindenburg Star Trek: The Motion Picture
84. Guy Green
Cinematographer | Great Expectations
Guy Green is well known to film audiences. Formerly a cinematographer, he was the first British D.P. to receive an Academy Award for his black-and-white photography on David Lean's Great Expectations (1946). He founded the British Society of Cinematographers together with Freddie Young and Jack ...
Great Expectations The Angry Silence The Mark A Patch of Blue Once Is Not Enough
85. George Cukor
Director | My Fair Lady
George Cukor was an American film director of Hungarian-Jewish descent, better known for directing comedies and literary adaptations. He once won the Academy Award for Best Director, and was nominated other four times for the same Award.
In 1899, George Dewey Cukor was born on the Lower East Side of...
The Royal Family of Broadway What Price Hollywood? Little Woman David Copperfield Romeo and Juliet Camile Holiday The Philadelphia Story Gaslight A Double Life Edward, My Son Adam's Rib Born Yesterday The Model and the Marriage Broker Pat and Mike The Actress It Should Happen to You A Star Is Born Lust for Life Les Girls Wild is the Wind My Fair Lady
86. William Wyler
Director | The Best Years of Our Lives
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...
The Gay Deception Barbary Coast These Three Dodsworth Come and Get It Dead End Jezebel The Cowboy and the Lady Wuthering Heights The Westerner The Letter The Little Foxes Mrs. Miniver The Best Years of Our Lives The Heiress Detective Story Carrie Roman Holiday Friendly Persuasion The Big Country Ben-Hur The Children's Hour The Collector Funny Girl
87. 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 ...
Ninotchka Rhythm on the River Arise, My Love Hold Back the Dawn Ball of Fire Five Graves to Cairo Double Indemnity The Lost Weekend The Bishop's Wife The Emperor Waltz A Foreign Affair Sunset Blvd. Ace in the Hole Stalag 17 Sabrina The Spirit of St. Louis Witness for the Prosecution Some Like it Hot The Apartment One, Two, Three Irma la Douce The Fortune Cookie Casino Royale Sabrina (1995 film)
88. John G. Avildsen
Director | Rocky
John G. Avildsen was born on December 21, 1935 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. He was a director and editor, known for Rocky (1976), The Karate Kid Part III (1989) and Rocky V (1990). He was married to Tracy Brooks Swope and Marie Olga Maturevich. He died on June 16, 2017 in Los Angeles, California, ...
Joe Save the Tiger Rocky The Formula Traveling Hopefully The Karate Kid The Karate Kid, Part II Happy New Year
89. Cecil B. DeMille
Producer | The Ten Commandments
His parents Henry C. DeMille and Beatrice DeMille were playwrights. His father died when he was 12, and his mother supported the family by opening a school for girls and a theatrical company. Too young to enlist in the Spanish-American War, Cecil followed his brother William C. de Mille to the New ...
The Sign of the Cross Cleopatra The Crusades The Buccaneer Union Pacific North West Mounted Police Reap the Wild Wind Star Spangled Rhythm The Story of Dr. Wassell Unconquered Samson and Delilah Sunset Blvd. When Worlds Collide The Greatest Show on Earth The War of the Worlds The Ten Commandments The Buccaneer (1958 film)
90. Victor Fleming
Director | Gone with the Wind
Victor Fleming entered the film business as a stuntman in 1910, mainly doing stunt driving - which came easy to him, as he had been a mechanic and professional race-car driver. He became interested in working on the other side of the camera, and eventually got a job as a cameraman on many of the ...
91. Richard Fleischer
Director | Soylent Green
Richard firmly established his credentials with such epics as The Vikings (1958) , 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and Barabbas (1961) and also proved to be a master of intimate drama with Compulsion (1959) , which won Cannes Festival awards for the male stars. He won an Academy Award for one ...
Design for Death The Narrow Margin 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Between Heaven and Hell Fantastic Voyage Doctor Dolittle Tora! Tora! Tora! The Incredible Sarah Who Framed Roger Rabbit
92. Frank Lloyd
Director | Mutiny on the Bounty
Frank Lloyd was an unpretentious, technically skilled director, who crafted several enduring Hollywood classics during the 1930's. He started out as a stage actor and singer in early 1900's London and was well-known as an imitator of Harry Lauder. After several years in music hall and with touring ...
Drag Weary River The Divine Lady East Lynne Cavalcade Berkeley Square Mutiny on the Bounty Wells Fargo If I Were King The Howards of Virginia This Woman Is Mine Blood on the Sun
93. Richard Brooks
Writer | In Cold Blood
Richard Brooks was an Academy Award-winning film writer who also earned six Oscar nominations and achieved success as a film director and producer.
He was born Reuben Sax on May 18, 1912, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants. He graduated from West Philadelphia ...
Blackboard Jungle The Brothers Karamazov Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Elmer Gantry Sweet Bird of Youth The Professionals In Cold Blood The Happy Ending Bite the Bullet Looking for Mr. Goodbar
94. John Ford
Director | The Quiet Man
John Ford came to Hollywood following one of his brothers, an actor. Asked what brought him to Hollywood, he replied "the train". He became one of the most respected directors in the business, in spite of being known for his westerns, which were not considered "serious" film. He won six Oscars, ...
Arrowsmith The Informer Wee Wee Winkie The Hurricane Stagecoach Young Mr. Lincoln Drums Along the Mohawk The Grapes of Wrath The Long Voyage Home How Green Was My Valley December 7th They Were Expendable She Wore a Yellow Ribbon When Willie Comes Marching Home The Quiet Man Mogambo Mister Roberts The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance How the West Was Won Cheyenne Autum
95. Frank Capra
Director | It's a Wonderful Life
One of seven children, Frank Capra was born on May 18, 1897, in Bisacquino, Sicily. On May 10, 1903, his family left for America aboard the ship Germania, arriving in New York on May 23rd. "There's no ventilation, and it stinks like hell. They're all miserable. It's the most degrading place you ...
Lady for a Day It Happened One Night Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Lost Horizon You Can't Take It with You Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Meet John Doe Prelude to War It's a Wonderful Life Here Comes the Groom A Hole in the Head Pocketful of Miracles
96. Michael Curtiz
Director | Casablanca
Curtiz began acting in and then directing films in his native Hungary in 1912. After WWI, he continued his filmmaking career in Austria and Germany and into the early 1920s when he directed films in other countries in Europe. Moving to the US in 1926, he started making films in Hollywood for Warner...
Black Fury Captain Blood Anthony Adverse The Charge of the Light Brigade Black Legion The Adventures of Robin Hood Four Daugthers Angels with Dirty Faces Essex and Elizabeth The Sea Hawk The Sea Wolf Dive Bomber Captains of the Clouds Yankee Doodle Dandy Casablanca Mission to Moscow This is the Army Jaine Mildred Pierce Night and Day Life with Father Romance on the High Seas The Jazz Singer The Egyptian White Christmas The Best Things in Life Are Free
97. István Szabó
Director | Sunshine
István Szabó was the first director to bring home to Hungary the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The movie receiving the award was his 1981 film Mephisto. In January 2006, it became public that he had been an agent of the III/III department, a former communist agency of interior intelligence....
Mephisto Colonel Red Hanussen Being Julia Albert Nobbs
98. Leo McCarey
Director | An Affair to Remember
Leo McCarey was born on October 3, 1896 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for An Affair to Remember (1957), Going My Way (1944) and Love Affair (1939). He was married to Virginia Stella Martin. He died on July 5, 1969 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
99. Vincente Minnelli
Director | An American in Paris
Born Lester Anthony Minnelli in Chicago on February 28 1903, his father Vincent was a musical conductor of the Minnelli Brothers' Tent Theater. Wanting to pursue an artistic career, Minelli worked in the costume department of the Chicago Theater, then on Broadway during the depression as a set ...
Cabin in the Sky Meet Me in St. Louis The Pirate Madame Bovary Father of the Bride An American in Paris The Bad and the Beautiful The Story of Three Lovers The Band Wagon Brigadoon Lust for Life Designing Woman Gigi Some Came Running Bells Are Ringing The Sandpiper
100. Curtis Hanson
Director | L.A. Confidential
After small films like The Bedroom Window (1987) and Sweet Kill (1972), Curtis Hanson went on to direct major features including The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), The River Wild (1994) and the Academy Award-winning L.A. Confidential (1997). Setting his sights on another city, Hanson was ...
Never Cry Wolf L.A. Confidential Wonder Boys 8 Mile Adaptation.
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