Adam Driver's Film Directors
by ChristopherLeeFan | created - 01 Nov 2016 | updated - 5 months ago | Public
1. 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 ...
1 film 2010 – You Don't Know Jack (2010)
2. Alan Taylor
Director | Game of Thrones
Alan Taylor is an American film and television director from San Francisco known for directing episodes of HBO shows such as The Sopranos, Deadwood, Game of Thrones, and Sex in the City. He directed the feature films Thor: The Dark World, Palookaville, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Many Saints of ...
1 film 2010 – The Wonderful Maladys (2010)
3. 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 ...
1 film 2011 – J. Edgar (2011)
4. Jonathan Lisecki
Actor | Gayby
Jonathan Lisecki is known for Gayby (2012), Woman in Burka (2008) and Gayby (2010).
1 film 2012 – Gayby (2012)
5. Devyn Waitt
Director | Not Waving But Drowning
Devyn Waitt is known for Not Waving But Drowning (2012), The Most Girl Part of You (2011) and Bring Me the Albatross King (2008).
1 film 2012 – Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
6. Noah Baumbach
Writer | The Squid and the Whale
Born in Brooklyn in 1969 Noah Baumbach is the son of two film critics, Georgia Brown and Jonathan Baumbach (also a writer). His studies at Vassar College were the subject of his first film (made as he was 26 years old), Kicking and Screaming (1995). His second major picture, made ten years later, ...
5 films 2012 – Frances Ha (2012) 2014 – While We're Young (2014) 2017 – The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017) 2019 – Marriage Story (2019) 2022 – White Noise (2022)
7. 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, ...
1 film 2012 – Lincoln (2012)
8. Lance Edmands
Editor | Bluebird
Lance Edmands was born in Maine, USA. Lance is a director and editor, known for Bluebird (2013), Strays (2016) and Whiteout (2019).
1 film 2013 – Bluebird (2013)
9. Ethan Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The younger brother of Joel, Ethan Coen is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning writer, producer and director coming from small independent films to big profile Hollywood films. He was born on September 21, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In some films of the brothers- Ethan & Joel wrote, Joel...
1 film 2013 – Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
10. 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 ...
1 film 2013 – Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
11. John Curran
Director | Chappaquiddick
John Curran was born on September 11, 1960 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Chappaquiddick (2017).
1 film 2013 – Tracks (2013)
12. Michael Dowse
Director | It's All Gone Pete Tong
Michael Dowse was born on April 19, 1973 in London, Ontario, Canada. He is a director and writer, known for It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004), What If (2013) and Stuber (2019).
1 film 2013 – The F Word (2013)
13. Saverio Costanzo
Director | Hungry Hearts
Saverio Costanzo was born on September 28, 1975 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Hungry Hearts (2014), My Brilliant Friend (2018) and Private (2004).
1 film 2014 – Hungry Hearts (2014)
14. 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 ...
1 film 2014 – This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
15. 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)....
16. Jeff Nichols
Writer | Take Shelter
Jeff Nichols was born on December 7, 1978 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Take Shelter (2011), Mud (2012) and Midnight Special (2016).
1 film 2016 – Midnight Special (2016)
17. Jim Jarmusch
Director | Paterson
Moved to New York City at the age of seventeen from Akron, Ohio. Graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in English, class of '75. Without any prior film experience, he was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts, New York.
2 films 2016 – Paterson (2016) 2019 – The Dead Don't Die (2019)
18. 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 ...
1 film 2016 – Silence (2016)
19. 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 ...
1 film 2017 – Logan Lucky (2017)
20. Rian Johnson
Producer | Knives Out
Rian Johnson was born in Maryland and at a young age his family moved to San Clemente, California, where he was raised. After graduating from high school, he went on to attend the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. His first feature film, Brick (2005), was released in 2005 ...
1 film 2017 – Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
21. 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 ...
1 film 2018 – BlacKkKlansman (2018)
22. 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 ...
1 film 2018 – The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
23. Scott Z. Burns
Writer | The Report
Scott Z. Burns is known for The Report (2019), Side Effects (2013) and Contagion (2011).
1 film 2019 – The Report (2019)
24. Leos Carax
Director | Holy Motors
Leos Carax made several short films and also wrote film criticism, then at the age of 24 years made a very strong first feature Boy Meets Girl (1984). The film played at the 1984 Cannes film festival and was a critical triumph. It paved the way for Carax's second feature Bad Blood (1986) (Bad Blood...
1 film 2021 – Annette (2021)
25. 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 ...
2 films 2021 – The Last Duel (2021) 2021 – House of Gucci (2021)
26. Scott Beck
Writer | A Quiet Place
Scott Beck was born on October 22, 1984 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for A Quiet Place (2018), 65 (2023) and Haunt (2019).
1 film 2023 – 65 (2023)
27. Bryan Woods
Writer | A Quiet Place
Bryan Woods was born on September 14, 1984 in Davenport, Iowa, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for A Quiet Place (2018), 65 (2023) and Haunt (2019).
1 film 2023 – 65 (2023)
28. 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 ...
1 film 2023 – Ferrari (2023)
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