Directors from whom I saw the most movies

1. Steven Spielberg

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, ...

Movies I saw:

1. Duel (1971)

2. Jaws (1975)

3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

4. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

5. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

6. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

8. The Color Purple (1985)

8. Empire of the Sun (1987)

9. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

10. Hook (1991)

11. Jurassic Park (1993)

12. Schindler's List (1993)

13. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

14. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

15. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

16. Minority Report (2002)

17. Catch Me If You Can (2002)

18. The Terminal (2004)

19. War of the Worlds (2005)

20. Munich (2005)

21. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

22. War Horse (2011)

23. Lincoln (2012)

24. Bridge of Spies (2015)

25. The BFG (2016)

26. The Post (2017)

27. Ready Player One (2018)

28. West Side Story (2021)

29. The Fabelmans (2022)

2. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Bananas (1971)

2. Sleeper (1973)

3. Annie Hall (1977)

4. Manhattan (1979)

5. Zelig (1983)

6. Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

7. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

8. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

9. Radio Days (1987)

10. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

11. Husbands and Wives (1992)

12. Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

13. Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

14. Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

15. Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

16. Deconstructing Harry (1997)

17. Match Point (2005)

18. Scoop (2006)

19. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

20. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

21. Midnight in Paris (2011)

22. Blue Jasmine (2013)

23. Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

24. Irrational Man (2015)

25. Café Society (2016)

26. Wonder Wheel (2017)

3. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Mean Streets (1973)

2. Taxi Driver (1976)

3. The Last Waltz (1978)

4. Raging Bull (1980)

5. The King of Comedy (1982)

6. After Hours (1985)

7. The Color of Money (1986)

8. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

9. Goodfellas (1990)

10. Cape Fear (1991)

11. The Age of Innocence (1993)

12. A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)

13. Casino (1995)

14. Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

15. Gangs of New York (2002)

16. The Aviator (2004)

17. The Departed (2006)

18. Shutter Island (2010)

19. Hugo (2011)

20. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

21. Silence (2016)

22. The Irishman (2019)

23. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

4. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

2. Sudden Impact (1983)

3. Pale Rider (1985)

4. Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

5. Unforgiven (1992)

6. A Perfect World (1993)

7. The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

8. Absolute Power (1997)

9. Blood Work (2002)

10. Mystic River (2003)

11. Million Dollar Baby (2004)

12. Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

13. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

14. Changeling (2008)

15. Gran Torino (2008)

16. Invictus (2009)

17. Hereafter (2010)

18. American Sniper (2014)

19. Sully (2016)

20. The Mule (2018)

21. Richard Jewell (2019)

22. Cry Macho (2021)

5. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Alien (1979)

2. Blade Runner (1982)

3. Thelma and Louise (1991)

4. G.I. Jane (1997)

5. Gladiator (2000)

6. Hannibal (2001)

7. Black Hawk Down (2001)

8. Matchstick Men (2003)

9. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

10. American Gangster (2007)

11. Body of Lies (2008)

12. Prometheus (2012)

13. The Counsellor (2013)

14. Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014

15. The Martian (2015)

16. Alien: Covenant (2017)

17. All the Money in the World (2017)

18. The Last Duel (2021)

19. House of Gucci (2021)

20. Napoleon (2023)

6. 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 ...

This also includes his directing partner Ethan Coen

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Blood Simple (1984)

2. Raising Arizona (1987)

3. Miller's Crossing (1990)

4. Barton Fink (1991)

5. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

6. Fargo (1996)

7. The Big Lebowski (1998)

8. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

9. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

10. Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

11. The Ladykillers (2004)

12. No Country For Old Men (2007)

13. Burn After Reading (2008)

14. A Serious Man (2009)

15. True Grit (2010)

16. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

17. Hail, Caesar! (2016)

18. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

19. The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

20. Drive-Away Dolls (2024)

7. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

2. Out of Sight (1998)

3. Erin Brockovich (2000)

4. Traffic (2000)

5. Ocean's Eleven (2001)

6. Ocean's Twelve (2004)

7. Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

8. Contagion (2011)

9. Magic Mike (2012)

10. Side Effects (2013)

11. Behind the Candelabra (2013)

12. Logan Lucky (2017)

13. Unsane (2018)

14. High Flying Bird (2019)

15. No Sudden Move (2021)

16. Kimi (2022)

8. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. The Paper (1994)

2. Apollo 13 (1995)

3. Ransom (1996)

4. Edtv (1999)

5. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

6. A Beautiful Mind (2001)

7. Cinderella Man (2001)

8. The Da Vinci Code (2006)

9. Frost/Nixon (2008)

10. Angels and Demons (2009)

11. Rush (2013)

12. In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

13. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

14. Inferno (2016)

15. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

16. Thirteen Lives (2022)

9. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Romancing the Stone (1984)

2. Back to the Future (1985)

3. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

4. Back to the Future Part Two (1989)

5. Back to the Future Part Three (1990)

6. Forrest Gump (1994)

7. Contact (1997)

8. Cast Away (2000)

9. The Polar Express (2004)

10. Flight (2012)

11. The Walk (2015)

12. Allied (2016)

13. Pinocchio (2022)

10. 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 ...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Fear and Desire (1953)

2. Killer's Kiss (1955)

3. The Killing (1956)

4. Paths of Glory (1957)

5. Spartacus (1960)

6. Lolita (1962)

7. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

9. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

10. Barry Lyndon (1975)

11. The Shining (1980)

12. Full Metal Jacket (1987)

13. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

11. Guy Ritchie

Director | Sherlock Holmes

Guy Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK on September 10, 1968. After watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as a child, Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make films. He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and ...

Movies I saw:

1. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

2. Snatch. (2000)

3. Revolver (2005)

4. RocknRolla (2008)

5. Sherlock Holmes (2009)

6. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

7. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

8. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

9. Aladdin (2019)

10. The Gentlemen (2019)

11. Wrath of Man (2021)

12. Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2023)

13. The Covenant (2023)

12. 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 ...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Following (1998)

2. Memento (2000)

3. Insomnia (2002)

4. Batman Begins (2005)

5. The Prestige (2006)

6. The Dark Knight (2008)

7. Inception (2010)

8. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

9. Interstellar (2014)

10. Dunkrik (2017)

11. Tenet (2020)

12. Oppenheimer (2023)

13. 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...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Alien³ (1992)

2. Se7en (1995)

3. The Game (1997)

4. Fight Club (1999)

5. Panic Room (2002)

6. Zodiac (2007)

7. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

8. The Social Network (2010)

9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

10. Gone Girl (2014)

11. Mank (2020)

12. The Killer (2023)

14. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Desperado (1995)

2. From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

3. Spy Kids (2001)

4. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)

5. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)

6. Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

7. Sin City (2005)

8. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D (2005)

9. Machete (2010)

10. Machete Kills (2013)

11. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

12. Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

15. Wes Anderson

Director | Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Bottle Rocket (1996)

2. Rushmore (1998)

3. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

4. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

5. The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

6. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

7. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

8. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

9. Isle of Dogs (2018)

10. The French Dispatch (2021)

11. Asteroid City (2023)

16. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Shallow Grave (1994)

2. Trainspotting (1996)

3. The Beach (2000)

4. 28 Days Later... (2002)

5. Sunshine (2007)

6. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

7. 127 Hours (2010)

8. Trance (2013)

9. Steve Jobs (2015)

10. T2 Trainspotting (2017)

11. Yesterday (2019)

17. Peter Farrelly

Producer | Green Book

Peter Farrelly was born on December 17, 1956 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Green Book (2018), There's Something About Mary (1998) and Dumb and Dumber (1994). He has been married to Melinda Farrelly since December 31, 1996. They have two children.

This also includes his directing partner Bobby Farrelly

Movies I saw:

1. Dumb and Dumber (1994)

2. Kingpin (1996)

3. There's Something About Mary (1998)

4. My, Myself and Irene (2000)

5. Shallow Hal (2001)

6. Stuck on You (2003)

7. Fever Pitch (2005)

8. Hall Pass (2011)

9. Dumb and Dumber To (2014)

10. Green Book (2018)

11. The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022)

18. 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...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Reservoir Dogs (1992)

2. Pulp Fiction (1994)

3. Jackie Brown (1997)

4. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

5. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

6. Death Proof (2007)

7. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

8. Django Unchained (2012)

9. The Hateful Eight (2015)

10. Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (2019)

19. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Platoon (1986)

2. Wall Street (1987)

3. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

4. The Doors (1991)

5. JFK (1991)

6. Natural Born Killers (1994)

7. Any Given Sunday (1999)

8. World Trade Center (2006)

9. Savages (2012)

10. Snowden (2016)

20. Tony Scott

Producer | Domino

Tony Scott was a British-born film director and producer. He was the youngest of three brothers, one of whom is fellow film director Ridley Scott. He was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England to parents Jean and Colonel Francis Percy Scott. As a result of his father's career in the British...

Movies I saw:

1. Top Gun (1986)

2. Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

3. The Last Boy Scout (1991)

4. True Romance (1993)

5. Crimson Tide (1995)

6. Enemy of the State (1998)

7. Spy Game (2001)

8. Man on Fire (2004)

9. Deja Vu (2006)

10. Unstoppable (2010)

21. Bryan Singer

Director | X-Men

Bryan Singer is an American film director and producer who got his start writing and co-directing the short film Lions Den with his classmates while he attended USC. He was hired by 20th Century Fox to direct X-Men, which helped kick-start the superhero renaissance. He later directed three sequels....

Movies I saw:

1. The Usual Suspects (1995)

2. Apt Pupil (1998)

3. X-Men (2000)

4. X-Men 2 (2003)

5. Superman Returns (2006)

6. Valkyrie (2008)

7. Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

8. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

9. X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

10. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

22. Antoine Fuqua

Producer | The Magnificent Seven

Antoine Fuqua is an American film director, known for his work in the film Training Day as well as The Replacement Killers, Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter, Brooklyn's Finest, Olympus Has Fallen and The Equalizer.

He has directed music videos for such artists as Arrested Development, Prince, ...

Movies I saw:

1. Training Day (2001)

2. Tears of the Sun (2003)

3. Shooter (2007)

4. Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

5. The Equalizer (2014)

6. Southpaw (2015)

7. The Magnificent Seven (2016)

8. The Equalizer 2 (2018)

9. The Guilty (2021)

10. The Equalizer 3 (2023)

23. Shawn Levy

Producer | Free Guy

Shawn Levy was born on July 23, 1968 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is a producer and director, known for Stranger Things (2016), Real Steel (2011), and the Night at the Museum franchise. He is the founder and principal of 21 Laps Entertainment. He is married to Serena Levy and they have four ...

Movies I saw:

1. Big Fat Liar (2002)

2. Just Married (2003)

3. Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)

4. The Pink Panther (2006)

5. Night at the Museum (2006)

6. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

7. The Internship (2013)

8. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)

9. Free Guy (2021)

10. The Adam Project (2022)

24. Denis Villeneuve

Director | Dune

Denis Villeneuve is a French Canadian film director and writer. He was born in 1967, in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. He started his career as a filmmaker at the National Film Board of Canada. He is best known for his feature films Arrival (2016), Sicario (2015), Prisoners (2013), Enemy (2013), ...

Movies I saw:

1. Polytechnique (2009)

2. Incendies (2010)

3. Prisoners (2013)

4. Enemy (2013)

5. Sicario (2015)

6. Arrival (2016)

7. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

8. Dune (2021)

9. Dune: Part Two (2024)

25. 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...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Hard Eight (1996)

2. Boogie Nights (1997)

3. Magnolia (1999)

4. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

5. There Will Be Blood (2007)

6. The Master (2012)

7. Inherent Vice (2014)

8. Phantom Thread (2017)

9. Licorice Pizza (2021)

26. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. The Terminator (1984)

2. Aliens (1986)

3. The Abyss (1989)

4. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

5. True Lies (1994)

6. Titanic (1997)

7. Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)

8. Avatar (2009)

9. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

27. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Notorious (1946)

2. Rope (1948)

3. Dial M for Murder (1954)

4. Rear Window (1954)

5. Vertigo (1958)

6. North by Northwest (1959)

7. Psycho (1960)

8. The Birds (1963)

9. Frenzy (1972)

28. Chris Columbus

Producer | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Born in Pennsylvania and raised in Ohio, Chris Columbus was first inspired to make movies after seeing "The Godfather" at age 15. After enrolling at NYU film school, he sold his first screenplay (never produced) while a sophomore there. After graduation Columbus tried to sell his fourth script, "...

Movies I saw:

1. Home Alone (1990)

2. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)

3. Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

4. Stepmom (1998)

5. Bicentennial Man (1999)

6. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

7. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

8. Pixels (2015)

9. The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020)

29. 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-...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. American Beauty (1999)

2. Road to Perdition (2002)

3. Jarhead (2005)

4. Revolutionary Road (2008)

5. Away We Go (2009)

6. Skyfall (2012)

7. Spectre (2015)

8. 1917 (2019)

9. Empire of Light (2022)

30. Michael Mann

Producer | The Insider

As a director, screenwriter, and producer, four-time Academy Award nominee Michael Mann has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema. After writing and directing the Primetime Emmy Award-winning television movie The Jericho Mile (1979), Mann ...

Movies I saw:

1. Thief (1981)

2. Manhunter (1986)

3. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

4. Heat (1995)

5. The Insider (1999)

6. Ali (2001)

7. Collateral (2004)

8. Public Enemies (2009)

9. Ferrari (2023)

31. 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...

Movies I saw:

1. Cop Land (1997)

2. Girl, Interrupted (1999)

3. Identity (2003)

4. Walk the Line (2005)

5. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)

6. The Wolverine (2013)

7. Logan (2017)

8. Ford v Ferrari (2019)

9. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

32. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Beetlejuice (1988)

2. Batman (1989)

3. Edward Scissorhands (1990)

4. Batman Returns (1992)

5. Ed Wood (1994)

6. Mars Attacks! (1996)

7. Big Fish (2003)

8. Big Eyes (2014)

9. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

33. Spike Lee

Director | Do the Right Thing

Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from artistic, education-grounded background; his father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a schoolteacher. He attended ...

Movies I saw:

1. Do the Right Thing (1989)

2. He Got Game (1998)

3. 25th Hour (2002)

4. Inside Man (2006)

5. Kobe Doin' Work (2009)

6. Chi-Raq (2015)

7. Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016)

8. BlacKkKlansman (2018)

9. Da 5 Bloods (2020)

34. M. Night Shyamalan

Producer | Lady in the Water

Born in Puducherry, India, and raised in the posh suburban Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. Night Shyamalan is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots.

He is the son of Jayalakshmi, a Tamil ...

Movies I saw:

1. The Sixth Sense (1999)

2. Unbreakable (2000)

3. Signs (2002)

4. The Village (2004)

5. The Visit (2015)

6. Split (2016)

7. Glass (2019)

8. Old (2021)

9. Knock at the Cabin (2023)

35. Michael Bay

Producer | Armageddon

A graduate of Wesleyan University, Michael Bay spent his 20s working on advertisements and music videos. His first projects after film school were in the music video business. He created music videos for Tina Turner, Meat Loaf, Lionel Richie, Wilson Phillips, Donny Osmond and Divinyls. His work won...

Movies I saw:

1. Bad Boys (1995)

2. The Rock (1996)

3. Armageddon (1998)

4. Bad Boys II (2003)

5. The Island (2005)

6. Transformers (2007)

7. Pain and Gain (2013)

8. 13 Hours (2016)

9. Ambulance (2022)

36. 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...

Movies I saw:

1. Rashomon (1950)

2. Ikiru (1952)

3. Seven Samurai (1954)

4. Throne of Blood (1957)

5. The Hidden Fortress (1958)

6. Yojimbo (1961)

7. Sanjuro (1962)

8. High and Low (1963)

9. Ran (1985)

37. 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.

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Hunger (2008)

2. Shame (2011)

3. 12 Years a Slave (2013)

4. Widows (2018)

5. Mangrove (2020)

6. Lovers Rock (2020)

7. Red, White and Blue (2020)

8. Alex Wheatle (2020)

9. Education (2020)

38. Zack Snyder

Director | 300

Zachary Edward "Zack" Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter, best known for action and science fiction films. Snyder made his feature film debut with the 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead and has gone on to be known for his comic book movies and ...

Movies I saw:

1. 300 (2006)

2. Watchmen (2009)

3. Man of Steel (2013)

4. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

5. Justice League (2017)

6. Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)

7. Army of the Dead (2021)

8. Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire (2023)

9. Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)

39. Jeff Tremaine

Writer | Bad Grandpa

Jeff Tremaine was born a military brat and hustled from state to state until finally settling in Rockville, Maryland. There, he quickly gravitated towards the alternative world of skateboarding, BMX, reggae music, and art... pursuits that would shape a career to come.

After attending Washington ...

Movies I saw:

1. Jackass: The Movie (2002)

2. Jackass Number Two (2006)

3. Jackass 2.5 (2007)

4. Jackass 3D (2010)

5. Jackass 3.5 (2011)

6. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)

7. The Dirt (2019)

8. Jackass Forever (2022 )

9. Jackass 4.5 (2022)

40. 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 ...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Layer Cake (2004)

2. Stardust (2007)

3. Kick-Ass (2010)

4. X-Men: First Class (2011)

5. Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)

6. Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

7. The King's Man (2021)

8. Argylle (2024)

41. Adam McKay

Producer | Don't Look Up

Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American screenwriter, director, comedian, and actor. McKay has a comedy partnership with Will Ferrell, with whom he co-wrote the films Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys. Ferrell and McKay also founded their comedy website Funny or Die through ...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

2. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

3. Step Brothers (2008)

4. The Other Guys (2010)

5. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

6. The Big Short (2015)

7. Vice (2018)

8. Don't Look Up (2021)

42. 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. ...

Movies I saw:

1. Dazed and Confused (1993)

2. Before Sunrise (1995)

3. The School of Rock (2003)

4. Before Sunset (2004)

5. Before Midnight (2013)

6. Boyhood (2014)

7. Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

8. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)

43. 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 ...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Pi (1998)

2. Requiem for a Dream (2000)

3. The Fountain (2006)

4. Wrestler (2008)

5. Black Swan (2010)

6. Noah (2014)

7. Mother! (2017)

8. The Whale (2022)

44. 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...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Citizen Ruth (1996)

2. Election (1999)

3. About Schmidt (2002)

4. Sideways (2004)

5. The Descendants (2011)

6. Nebraska (2013)

7. Downsizing (2017)

8. The Holdovers (2023)

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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

2. Stand by Me (1986)

3. The Princess Bride (1987)

4. When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

5. Misery (1990)

6. A Few God Men (1992)

7. The American President (1995)

8. The Bucket List (2007)

46. Jay Roach

Director | Trumbo

Jay Roach was born on June 14, 1957 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Trumbo (2015), Bombshell (2019) and Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997). He has been married to Susanna Hoffs since April 17, 1993. They have two children.

Movies I saw:

1. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

2. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

3. Meet the Parents (2000)

4. Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

5. Meet the Fockers (2004)

6. Trumbo (2015)

7. All the Way (2016)

8. Bombshell (2019)

47. Sam Raimi

Director | Spider-Man

Highly inventive U.S. film director/producer/writer/actor Sam Raimi first came to the attention of film fans with the savage, yet darkly humorous, low-budget horror film, The Evil Dead (1981). From his childhood, Raimi was a fan of the cinema and, before he was ten-years-old, he was out making ...

Movies I saw:

1. The Evil Dead (1981)

2. Evil Dead II (1987)

3. Army of Darkness (1992)

4. Spider-Man (2002)

5. Spider-Man 2 (2004)

6. Spider-Man 3 (2007)

7. Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

8. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

48. David Yates

Director | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

David Yates was born on October 8, 1963 in St. Helens, Merseyside, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), The Legend of Tarzan (2016) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011).

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

5. The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

6. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

7. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

8. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

49. George Miller

Producer | Mad Max: Fury Road

George Miller is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and former medical doctor. He is best known for his Mad Max franchise, with Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) being hailed as amongst the greatest action films of all time. Aside from the Mad Max ...

Movies I saw:

1. Mad Max (1979)

2. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

3. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

4. The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

5. Lorenzo's Oil (1992)

6. Happy Feet (2006)

7. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

8. Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

50. Jaume Collet-Serra

Producer | The Shallows

Jaume Collet-Serra was born on March 23, 1974 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. At the age of 18, he moved to Los Angeles and attended Columbia College Hollywood, working as an editor on the side. Upon graduation, he began shooting music videos and caught the eye of several production ...

Movies I saw:

1. Goal II: Living the Dream (2007)

2. Unknown (2011)

3. Non-Stop (2014)

4. Run All Night (2015)

5. The Shallows (2016)

6. The Commuter (2018)

7. Jungle Cruise (2021)

8. Black Adam (2022)

51. Luc Besson

Writer | Le Cinquième Élément

Luc Besson spent the first years of his life following his parents, scuba diving instructors, around the world. His early life was entirely aquatic. He already showed amazing creativity as a youth, writing early drafts of The Big Blue (1988) and The Fifth Element (1997), as an adolescent bored in ...

Movies I saw:

1. The Big Blue (1988)

2. La Femme Nikita (1990)

3. Léon: The Professional (1994)

4. The Fifth Element (1997)

5. Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)

6. The Family (2013)

7. Lucy (2014)

8. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

52. Trey Parker

Music_department | South Park

Trey was born in Conifer, Colorado, on October 19, 1969 to Randy Parker, a geologist, and Sharon Parker, an insurance broker. He has an older sister, Shelley Parker. He met Matt Stone (co-creator of South Park (1997)) while attending the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he had a double ...

Movies I saw:

1. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)

2. Team America: World Police (2004)

3. South Park: Post COVID (2021)

4. South Park: Post Covid - The Return of Covid (2021)

5. South Park: The Streaming Wars (2022)

6. South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2 (2022)

7. South Park: Joining the Panderverse2 (2023)

8. South Park (Not Suitable for Children) (2023)

53. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

2. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

4. King Kong (2005)

5. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

6. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

7. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

54. Sidney Lumet

Director | 12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet was a master of cinema, best known for his technical knowledge and his skill at getting first-rate performances from his actors -- and for shooting most of his films in his beloved New York. He made over 40 movies, often complex and emotional, but seldom overly sentimental. Although ...

Movies I saw:

1. 12 Angry Men (1957)

2. Serpico (1973)

3. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

4. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

5. Network (1976)

6. The Verdict (1982)

7. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

55. 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...

Movies I saw:

1. Glory (1989)

2. Legends of the Fall (1994)

3. Courage Under Fire (1996)

4. The Last Samurai (2003)

5. Blood Diamond (2006)

6. Defiance (2008)

7. Pawn Sacrifice (2014)

56. Todd Phillips

Producer | Joker

Todd Phillips is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

Growing up on Long Island, New York, Todd Phillips fell in love with feature film teen comedies made in the 1980s, and claims they were his biggest influence in becoming a filmmaker. While studying film at New York University, ...

Movies I saw:

1. Road Trip (2000)

2. Old School (2003)

3. The Hangover (2009)

4. The Hangover Part II (2011)

5. The Hangover Part III (2013)

6. War Dogs (2016)

7. Joker (2019)

57. John McTiernan

Director | Die Hard

John McTiernan was born on January 8, 1951 in Albany, New York, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Die Hard (1988), Rollerball (2002) and Last Action Hero (1993). He has been married to Gail Sistrunk since 2012. He was previously married to Kate Harrington, Donna Dubrow and Carol Land.

Movies I saw:

1. Predator (1987)

2. Die Hard (1988)

3. The Hunt for Red October (1990)

4. Last Action Hero (1993)

5. Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)

6. The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

7. Basic (2003)

58. Jon Favreau

Producer | Chef

Initially an indie film favorite, actor Jon Favreau has progressed to strong mainstream visibility into the millennium and, after nearly two decades in the business, is still enjoying character stardom as well as earning notice as a writer/producer/director.

The amiable, husky-framed actor with the ...

Movies I saw:

1. Elf (2003)

2. Iron Man (2008)

3. Iron Man 2 (2010)

4. Cowboys and Aliens (2011)

5. Chef (2014)

6. The Jungle Book (2016)

7. The Lion King (2019)

59. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Double Indemnity (1944)

2. The Lost Weekend (1945)

3. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

4. The Seven Year Itch (1955)

5. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

6. Some Like It Hot (1959)

7. The Apartment (1960)

60. 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 ...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Amores Perros (2000)

2. 21 Grams (2003)

3. Babel (2006)

4. Biutiful (2010)

5. Birdman (2014)

6. The Revenant (2015)

7. Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)

61. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Hellboy (2004)

2. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

3. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

4. Pacific Rim (2013)

5. The Shape of Water (2017)

6. Nightmare Alley (2021)

7. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)

62. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

2. All About My Mother (1999)

3. Talk to Her (2002)

4. Bad Education (2004)

5. Volver (2006)

6. The Skin I Live In (2011)

7. Pain and Glory (2019)

63. 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,...

Movies I saw:

1. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

2. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

3. The African Queen (1951)

4. Casino Royale (1967)

5. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

6. Escape to Victory (1981)

7. Annie (1982)

64. Francis Lawrence

Director | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Francis Lawrence is an American filmmaker. He started directing over sixty music videos before he directed the cult classic Keanu Reeves film Constantine, I Am Legend and Water for Elephants. He also directed The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2, and Red ...

Movies I saw:

1. Constantine (2005)

2. I Am Legend (2007)

3. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

4. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

5. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

6. Red Sparrow (2018)

7. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)

65. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Eraserhead (1977)

2. The Elephant Man (1980)

3. Dune (1984)

4. Blue Velvet (1986)

5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

6. Mulholland Drive (2001)

7. Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014)

66. Brett Ratner

Director | Red Dragon

Brett Ratner is one of Hollywood's most successful filmmakers. His diverse films resonate with audiences worldwide and, as director, his films have grossed over $2 billion at the global box office. Brett began his career directing music videos before making his feature directorial debut at 26 years...

Movies I saw:

1. Rush Hour (1998)

2. Rush Hour 2 (2001)

3. Red Dragon (2002)

4. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

5. Rush Hour 3 (2007)

6. Tower Heist (2011)

7. Hercules (2014)

67. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. The Godfather (1972)

2. The Conversation (1974)

3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)

4. Apocalypse Now (1979)

5. The Godfather: Part III (1990)

6. Jack (1996)

68. David Zucker

Writer | Airplane!

Born on October 16, 1947 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, director/writer/producer David Zucker, along with brother Jerry (Ghost, 1990) Zucker and longtime friend, Jim (Hot Shots, 1991) Abrahams, has established himself among Hollywood's (or at least Wisconsin's) most successful filmmakers.

Starting ...

Movies I saw:

1. Airplane! (1980)

2. Top Secret (1984) 3. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

4. The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)

5. BASEketball (1998)

6. Scary Movie 3 (2003)

69. George Lucas

Writer | Star Wars

George Walton Lucas, Jr. was raised on a walnut ranch in Modesto, California. His father was a stationery store owner and he had three siblings. During his late teen years, he went to Thomas Downey High School and was very much interested in drag racing. He planned to become a professional racecar ...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. THX 1138 (1971)

2. American Graffiti (1973)

3. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

4. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

5. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

6. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

70. 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...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Shaun of the Dead (2004)

2. Hot Fuzz (2007)

3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

4. The World's End (2013)

5. Baby Driver (2017)

6. Last Night in Soho (2021)

71. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Three Kings (1999)

2. The Fighter (2010)

3. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

4. American Hustle (2013)

5. Joy (2015)

6. Amsterdam (2022)

72. Harold Ramis

Writer | Ghostbusters

Born on November 21, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, Harold Allen Ramis got his start in comedy as Playboy magazine's joke editor and reviewer. In 1969, he joined Chicago's Second City's Improvisational Theatre Troupe before moving to New York to help write and perform in "The National Lampoon Show" ...

Movies I saw:

1. Caddyshack (1980)

2. National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)

3. Groundhog Day (1993)

4. Analyze This (1999)

5. Analyze That (2002)

6. Year One (2009)

73. 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...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. The Iron Giant (1999)

2. The Incredibles (2004)

3. Ratatouille (2007)

4. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

5. Tomorrowland (2015)

6. Incredibles 2 (2018)

74. Anthony Russo

Producer | Everything Everywhere All at Once

Anthony J. Russo is an American filmmaker and producer who works alongside his brother Joseph Russo. They have directed You, Me and Dupree, Cherry and the Marvel films Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Endgame is one of ...

This also includes his directing partner Joe Russo

Movies I saw:

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

2. Captain America: Civil War (2016)

3. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

4. Avengers: Endgame (2019)

5. Cherry (2021)

6. The Gray Man (2022)

75. Taika Waititi

Producer | What We Do in the Shadows

Taika Waititi, also known as Taika Cohen, hails from the Raukokore region of the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, and is the son of Robin (Cohen), a teacher, and Taika Waititi, an artist and farmer. His father is Maori (Te-Whanau-a-Apanui), and his mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish...

Movies I saw:

1. What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

2. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

3. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

4. Jojo Rabbit (2019)

5. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

6. Next Goal Wins (2022)

76. J.J. Abrams

Producer | Lost

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, the son of TV producer parents. At 15, he wrote the music for Don Dohler's Nightbeast (1982). In his senior year of college, he and Jill Mazursky teamed up to write a feature film, which became Taking Care of Business (1990)....

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Mission: Impossible III (2006)

2. Star Trek (2009)

3. Super 8 (2011)

4. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

6. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

77. John Landis

Director | The Blues Brothers

John Landis began his career in the mail room of 20th Century-Fox. A high-school dropout, 18-year-old Landis made his way to Yugoslavia to work as a production assistant on Kelly's Heroes (1970). Remaining in Europe, Landis found work as an actor, extra and stuntman in many of the Spanish/Italian "...

Movies I saw:

1. National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

2. The Blues Brothers (1980)

3. An American Werewolf in London (1981)

4. Trading Places (1983)

5. Coming to America (1988)

6. Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

78. Brian De Palma

Director | Body Double

Brian De Palma is one of the well-known directors who spear-headed the new movement in Hollywood during the 1970s. He is known for his many films that go from violent pictures, to Hitchcock-like thrillers. Born on September 11, 1940, De Palma was born in Newark, New Jersey in an Italian-American ...

Movies I saw:

1. Carrie (1976)

2. Blow Out (1981)

3. Scarface (1983)

4. The Untouchables (1987)

5. Carlito's Way (1993)

6. Mission: Impossible (1996)

79. 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.

Movies I saw:

1. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)

2. Oldboy (2003)

3. Lady Vengeance (2005)

4. Stoker (2013)

5. The Handmaiden (2016)

6. Decision to Leave (2022)

80. F. Gary Gray

Director | Set It Off

Felix Gary Gray is an African-American music video director, film producer and film director from New York City known for directing films such as Friday, Men in Black: International, Be Cool, The Fate of the Furious, Set It Off, The Negotiator, Straight Outta Compton and The Italian Job. He ...

Movies I saw:

1. Friday (1995)

2. The Negotiator (1998)

3. The Italian Job (2003)

4. Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

5. Straight Outta Compton (2015)

6. The Fate of the Furious (2016)

81. Doug Liman

Producer | Edge of Tomorrow

Douglas Eric Liman is a Jewish-American filmmaker and producer who directed Swingers, The Bourne Identity, Chaos Walking, Jumper, Go, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Fair Game, Locked Down, Edge of Tomorrow, The Wall and American Made. He executive produced the Bourne sequels except The Bourne Legacy, The ...

Movies I saw:

1. Swingers (1996)

2. The Bourne Identity (2002)

3. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)

4. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

5. American Made (2017)

6. Road House (2024)

82. Craig Gillespie

Producer | I, Tonya

Craig Gillespie is an Australian film director, best known for his films Lars and the Real Girl (2007), I, Tonya (2017) and Cruella (2021). Born and raised in Sydney, Gillespie moved to New York City at the age of nineteen to study illustration, graphic design and advertising at Manhattan's School ...

Movies I saw:

1. Lars and the Real Girl (2007)

2. Million Dollar Arm (2014)

3. The Finest Hours (2016)

4. I, Tonya (2017)

5. Cruella (2021)

6. Dumb Money (2023)

83. Justin Lin

Producer | Better Luck Tomorrow

Justin Lin is a Taiwanese-American film director whose films have grossed $2 billion worldwide. He is best known for his work on Better Luck Tomorrow, The Fast and the Furious 3-6 and Star Trek Beyond. He is also known for his work on television shows like Community and the second season of True ...

Movies I saw:

1. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

2. Fast and Furious (2009)

3. Fast Five (2011)

4. Fast and Furious 6 (2013)

5. Star Trek Beyond (2016)

6. F9: The Fast Saga (2021)

84. Terry Gilliam

Writer | Brazil

Terry Gilliam was born near Medicine Lake, Minnesota. When he was 12 his family moved to Los Angeles where he became a fan of MAD magazine. In his early twenties he was often stopped by the police who suspected him of being a drug addict and Gilliam had to explain that he worked in advertising. In ...

Movies I saw:

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

2. The Meaning of Life (1983)

3. Brazil (1985)

4. The Fisher King (1991)

5. Twelve Monkeys (1995)

6. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

85. Robert Altman

Director | Gosford Park

Robert Altman was born on February 20th, 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri, to B.C. (an insurance salesman) and Helen Altman. He entered St. Peters Catholic school at the age six, and spent a short time at a Catholic high school. From there, he went to Rockhurst High School. It was then that he started...

Movies I saw:

1. M*A*S*H (1970)

2. The Long Goodbye (1973)

3. Nashville (1975)

4. The Player (1992)

5. Short Cuts (1993)

6. Gosford Park (2001)

86. Kenneth Branagh

Actor | Henry V

Kenneth Charles Branagh was born on December 10, 1960, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to parents William Branagh, a plumber and carpenter, and Frances (Harper), both born in 1930. He has two siblings, William Branagh, Jr. (born 1955) and Joyce Branagh (born 1970). When he was nine, his family ...

Movies I saw:

1. Thor (2011)

2. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

3. Murder on the Orient Express (2014)

4. Belfast (2021)

5. Death on the Nile (2022)

6. A Haunting in Venice (2023)

87. David Ayer

Producer | End of Watch

David Ayer is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. David Ayer was born in Champaign, Illinois and grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota, and Bethesda, Maryland, where he was kicked out of his house by his parents as a teenager. Ayer then lived with his cousin in Los Angeles, ...

Movies I saw:

1. End of Watch (2012)

2. Sabotage (2014)

3. Fury (2014)

4. Suicide Squad (2016)

5. Bright (2017)

6. The Beekeeper (2024)

88. James Wan

Writer | Saw

James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is an Australian film producer, screenwriter and film director of Malaysian Chinese descent. He is widely known for directing the horror film Saw (2004) and creating Billy the puppet. Wan has also directed Dead Silence (2007), Death Sentence (2007), Insidious (2010)...

Movies I saw:

1. Saw (2004)

2. The Conjuring (2013)

3. Furious 7 (2015)

4. Aquaman (2018)

5. Malignant (2021)

6. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)

89. Clyde Geronimi

Director | Cinderella

Clyde Geronimi was born on June 12, 1901 in Chiavenna, Lombardy, Italy. He was a director, known for Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). He died on April 24, 1989 in Newport Beach, California, USA.

This also includes his directing partners Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske

Movies I saw:

1. Cinderella (1950)

2. Alice in Wonderland (1951)

3. Peter Pan (1953)

4. Lady and the Tramp (1955)

5. Sleeping Beauty (1959)

6. 101 Dalmatians (1961)

90. Ivan Reitman

Producer | Up in the Air

Canadian producer and director Ivan Reitman created many of American cinema's most successful and best loved feature film comedies and worked with Hollywood's acting elite. Reitman produced such hits as the ground-breaking sensation National Lampoon's National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), which ...

Movies I saw:

1. Ghostbusters (1984)

2. Twins (1988)

3. Kindergarten Cop (1990)

4. Junior (1994)

5. Father's Day (1997)

6. Draft Day (2014)

91. Peter Segal

Director | Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult

Peter Segal was born in 1962. He is a director and producer, known for Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994), Get Smart (2008) and Second Act (2018). He is married to Linda Segal. They have three children.

Movies I saw:

1. Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)

2. Tommy Boy (1995)

3. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)

4. 50 First Dates (2004)

5. Get Smart (2008)

6. Grudge Match (2013)

92. Raja Gosnell

Director | Big Momma's House

Raja Gosnell started his film career as an assistant editor in the late 1970s. His first credit as a film's main editor was the romantic comedy "The Lonely Guy" (1984), for director Arthur Hiller. During the 1980s, Gosnell served as editor in films directed by Tom Laughlin, David Worth, Bob Dahlin,...

Movies I saw:

1. Home Alone 3 (1997)

2. Never Been Kissed (1999)

3. Big Momma's House (2000)

4. Scooby-Doo (2002)

5. Yours, Mine and Ours (2005)

6. The Smurfs (2011)

93. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Memories of Murder (2003)

2. The Host (2006)

3. Mother (2009)

4. Snowpiercer (2013)

5. Parasite (2019)

94. John Lasseter

Writer | Toy Story 2

Although born in Hollywood, John and his twin sister Johanna were raised in Whittier near Los Angeles. His parents were Jewell Mae (Risley), an art teacher, and Paul Eual Lasseter, a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership. His mother's profession contributed to his interest in animation and ...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Toy Story (1995)

2. A Bug's Life (1998)

3. Toy Story 2 (1999)

4. Cars (2006)

5. Cars 2 (2011)

95. 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...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. Gone Baby Gone (2007)

2. The Town (2010)

3. Argo (2012)

4. Live by Night (2016)

5. Air (2023)

96. 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 ...

Movies I saw:

1. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

2. Rain Man (1988)

3. Sleepers (1996)

4. Wag the Dog (1997)

5. The Wizard of Lies (2017)

97. 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 ...

Movies I saw - ALL MOVIES

1. The Man Without a Face (1993)

2. Braveheart (1995)

3. The Passion of the Christ (2004)

4. Apocalypto (2006)

5. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

98. Paul Feig

Producer | Freaks and Geeks

Paul Feig is an American film director and writer who is known for creating Freaks and Geeks and directing Bridesmaids, The Heat, Spy and A Simple Favor. He is known for directing films starring frequent collaborator Melissa McCarthy. He also directed the highly controversial 2016 reboot of ...

Movies I saw:

1. Bridesmaids (2011)

2. The Heat (2013)

3. Spy (2015)

4. Ghostbusters (2016)

5. A Simple Favor (2018)

99. Sergio Leone

Writer | Once Upon a Time in America

Sergio Leone was virtually born into the cinema - he was the son of Roberto Roberti (A.K.A. Vincenzo Leone), one of Italy's cinema pioneers, and actress Bice Valerian. Leone entered films in his late teens, working as an assistant director to both Italian directors and U.S. directors working in ...

Movies I saw:

1. A Fisful of Dollars (1964)

2. For a Few Dollars More (1965)

3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

4. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

5. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

100. Sylvester Stallone

Actor | Rocky

Sylvester Stallone is an athletically built, dark-haired American actor/screenwriter/director/producer, the movie fans worldwide have been flocking to see Stallone's films for over 40 years, making "Sly" one of Hollywood's biggest-ever box office draws.

Sylvester Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, ...

Movies I saw:

1. Rocky II (1979)

2. Rocky III (1982)

3. Rocky IV (1985)

4. Rocky Balboa (2006)

5. The Expendables (2010)