Oscar Legends: The Complete Collection

by AlexHartsell | created - 22 May 2015 | updated - 1 month ago | Public

Rows 1-624: Directors Rows 625-795: Animation Creators Rows 796-1011: Script Writers Rows 1012-1174: Producers Rows 1175-1217: Film Crew/Directors Rows 1218-1328: Acting and Film Makers

Finally for what is not on the list are famous Best Picture or any Best Feature Film nominated film studios and their Academy Award films that they did work on, that are:

* American Zoetrope (The Godfather, American Graffiti, The Godfather Part II, The Conversation, Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope, Apocalypse Now, The Black Stallion, Kagemusha, Dragonslayer, One from the Heart, The Cotton Club, Graffiti, Peggy Sue Got Married, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, The Godfather Part III, Dracula, Don Juan DeMarco, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, My Family, Sleepy Hollow, Being John Malkovich, Lost in Translation, Kinsey, Syriana, The Good Shepherd and Marie Antoinette) * Regency Enterprises (Brazil, Legend, Pretty Woman, JFK, The Mambo Kings, Under Siege, Six Degrees of Separation, The Client, L.A. Confidential, Fight Club, Bridget Jones' Diary, Unfaithful, Fantastic Mr. Fox, 12 Years a Slave, Philomena, Gone Girl, Birdman, The Revenant, The Big Short, Bohemian Rhapsody, Marriage Story, The Lighthouse, Ad Astra, Little Women (2019) and The Creator) * Village Roadshow Pictures (The Matrix, Space Cowboys, Training Day, Mystic River, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Happy Feet, Sherlock Holmes, The Great Gatsby, The Lego Movie, The Judge, American Sniper, Mad Max: Fury Road, Sully, Passengers, Ready Player One, Joker and Elvis) * Alcon Entertainment (The Affair of the Necklace, The Blind Side, Prisoners, Arrival and Blade Runner 2049) * Plan B Entertainment (Troy, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Departed, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Tree of Life, Moneyball, 12 Years a Slave, Selma, The Big Short, Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, Vice, Ad Astra, Minari, Blonde and Women Talking) * Legendary Pictures (Batman Begins, Superman Returns, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Town, Interstellar, Unbroken, Steve Jobs, Straight Outta Compton, Carne y Arena, Kong: Skull Island, BlacKkKlansman and Dune: Part One) * Bold Films (Drive, Whiplash and Nightcrawler) * RatPac-Dune Entertainment/Access Entertainment (The Devil Wears Prada, Borat, Australia, Crazy Heart, Avatar, 127 Hours, Black Swan, Unstoppable, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Mirror Mirror, Prometheus, Life of Pi, Hitchcock, Lincoln, The Sessions, Gravity, The Lego Movie, The Judge, Inherent Vice, American Sniper, Birdman, Mad Max: Fury Road, Creed, The Revenant, Suicide Squad, Sully, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Kong: Skull Island, Dunkirk, The Disaster Artist, Ready Player One, Zack Snyder's Justice League and The Zone of Interest) * Caravan Pictures/Spyglass Entertainment (The Sixth Sense, The Insider, Seabiscuit, Memoirs of a Geisha, Wanted, Star Trek and Invictus) * TSG Entertainment (The Book Thief, Wild, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Gone Girl, Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Bridge of Spies, Joy, The Martian, Hidden Figures, Logan, War for the Planet of the Apes, The Post, The Shape of Water, The Greatest Showman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Ford v Ferrari, Ad Astra, Jojo Rabbit, Free Guy, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, West Side Story, Nightmare Alley, The Banshees of Inisherin, Empire of Light, Avatar: The Way of Water, Napoleon and Poor Things) * Imagine Entertainment (Willow, Parenthood, Backdraft, The Paper, Apollo 13, The Nutty Professor, Life, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Beautiful Mind, 8 Mile, Cinderella Man, American Gangster, Changeling, Frost/Nixon, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Hillbilly Elegy and tick, tick...BOOM!) * Working Title Films (My Beautiful Laundrette, Wild at Heart, Barton Fink, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Dead Man Walking, Fargo, Elizabeth, Billy Elliot, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Bridget Jones's Diary, The Man Who Wasn't There, About a Boy, Thirteen, Pride & Prejudice, United 93, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Atonement, Frost/Nixon, A Serious Man, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Anna Karenina, Les Misérables, The Theory of Everything, The Danish Girl, "Hail, Caesar!", Baby Driver, Victoria & Abdul, Darkest Hour, Mary Queen of Scots, Emma. and Cyrano) * Media Rights Capital (Babel, Ted, Foxcatcher, Baby Driver, Knives Out and American Fiction) * Phoenix Pictures (The People vs. Larry Flynt, The Mirror Has Two Faces, The Thin Red Line and Black Swan) * Cross Creek Pictures (Black Swan, The Ides of March, Hacksaw Ridge, Roman J. Israel, Esq. and The Trial of the Chicago 7) * New Republic Pictures (Rocketman, 1917, Coming 2 America and Top Gun: Maverick) * Lakeshore Entertainment (Million Dollar Baby) * Relativity Media (Monster House, The Pursuit of Happyness, 3:10 to Yuma, Atonement, American Gangster, Charlie Wilson's War, Wanted, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Frost/Nixon, A Serious Man, Nine, The Wolfman, Salt, The Social Network, The Fighter, Bridesmaids, Anonymous, Mirror Mirror, Les Misérables and Beyond the Lights) * Jersey Films (Hoffa, Pulp Fiction, Gattaca, Out of Sight and Erin Brockovich) * Castle Rock Entertainment (When Harry Met Sally..., Misery, City Slickers, A Few Good Men, Mr. Saturday Night, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, The American President, Ghosts of Mississippi, Lone Star, Hamlet (1996), Jackie Brown, The Green Mile, A Mighty Wind, Before Sunset, The Polar Express, Michael Clayton and Before Midnight) * Mandalay Pictures (Donnie Brasco, Sleepy Hollow and The Kids Are All Right) * Malpaso Productions (Paint Your Wagon, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer, Heartbreak Ridge, The Algonquin Round Table: The Ten Year Lunch, Bird, Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey, Unforgiven, The Bridges of Madison County, Space Cowboys, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Changeling, Invictus, Hereafter, American Sniper, Sully, A Star Is Born (2018) and Richard Jewell) * Brooksfilms (The Elephant Man, My Favorite Year, Frances, To Be or Not to Be, The Fly and Empire of Light) * Jolie Pas Productions (Maleficent, Unbroken, The Breadwinner, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and The One and Only Ivan) * Scott Rudin Productions (Flatliners, The Addams Family, Searching for Bobby Fischer, The Firm, Addams Family Values, Nobody's Fool, Sabrina, The First Wives Club, Marvin's Room, In & Out, The Truman Show, A Civil Action, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Angela's Ashes, Wonder Boys, The Hours, The Village, Closer, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Queen, Notes on a Scandal, Venus, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Doubt, Revolutionary Road, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Julie & Julia, The Social Network, The Way Back, True Grit, Moneyball, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Moonrise Kingdom, Captain Phillips, Inside Llewyn Davis, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Inherent Vice, Ex Machina, Steve Jobs, Fences, Lady Bird and Isle of Dogs) * Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (United 93, Lars and the Real Girl, The Kite Runner, Moneyball and Hell or High Water) * Bing Crosby Productions/Rysher Entertainment (Road to Rio, High Society, High Time, The Magic Pear Tree, Ben, The Great Santini and Primal Fear) * GK Films (Traffic, Ali, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Blood Diamond, The Young Victoria, The Town, Rango, Hugo, Argo, Allied and Bohemian Rhapsody) * Mirage Enterprises (Absence of Malice, Tootsie, Out of Africa, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Havana, The Firm, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Sense and Sensibility, Sabrina, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Iris, The Quiet American, Cold Mountain, Michael Clayton and The Reader) * Recorded Picture Company (The Last Emperor, Sexy Beast, Pina, Kon-Tiki, Pinocchio and EO) * Scott Free Productions (Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, American Gangster, Unstoppable, Prometheus, The Martian, All the Money in the World, Blade Runner 2049, House of Gucci and Napoleon) * HandMade Films (Images, Runaway Train, Mona Lisa, 127 Hours and Empire of Light) * Virgin Films (A Shocking Accident, Salvador, "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" and The Impossible) * Rhino Films (The Panama Deception and The Sessions) * MTV Films (Election, Tupac: Resurrection, Hustle & Flow, Murderball, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, St. Louis Superman, Hunger Ward, Love and Monsters, Ascension, The ABCs of Book Banning and The Eternal Memory) * CBS Films (The Reivers, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Little Big Man, Scrooge, Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?, The Little Ark, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hell or High Water, At Eternity's Gate and The Holdovers) * Senator Film Produktion (Heavenly Creatures, The Motorcycle Diaries, Joyeux Noel and Loveless) * Constantin Film Produktion (Dancer in the Dark, Nowhere in Africa, Downfall, The Baader Meinhof Complex and Paris 36) * Bioskop Film (The Tin Drum) * Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (Hundertwassers Regentag, A Simple Story, The Boat Is Full, The Revolt of Job, Angry Harvest, Colonel Redl, Hanussen, The Nasty Girl, Breaking the Waves, One Day in September, Bowling for Columbine, The Man Without a Past, The Counterfeiters, The Gruffalo, Pina, The Act of Killing, Room on the Broom, The Look of Silence, Mustang, Land of Mine, Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, The Square (2017), A Fantastic Woman, Quo vadis, Aida?, The Man Who Sold His Skin, When We Were Bullies, Triangle of Sadness, Four Daughters and The Teachers' Lounge) * Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) (The Sorrow and the Pity, Downfall, The Baader Meinhof Complex and Citizenfour) * Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) (Das Boot, Schtonk, The Dutch Master, Dancer in the Dark, Winged Migration, Downfall, Darwin's Nightmare, Amour, Toni Erdmann and Loveless) * Hessischer Rundfunk (Mephisto and Bagdad Cafe) * Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) (The Glass Cell, Marlene, 38, Bagdad Cafe, Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Algonquin Round Table: The Ten Year Lunch, Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey, Europa Europa, Beyond Silence, The Story of the Weeping Camel, Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, The Lives of Others, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The White Ribbon, Amour, Citizenfour and Never Look Away) * Studio Babelsberg (Jacob the Liar, A Chef in Love, Kleingeld, The Pianist, The Constant Gardener, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Counterfeiters, The Reader, Inglourious Basterds, In Darkness, Anonymous, The Book Thief, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Bridge of Spies, Never Look Away and Isle of Dogs) * Pathé (Children of Paradise, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Ballon vole, La Dolce Vita, "Over There, 1914-18", The Leopard, Automania 2000, That's Me, Le poulet, Woman in the Dunes, Time Piece, The War Game, Clay or The Origin of Species, Mural on Our Street, Help! My Snowman's Burning Down, Hypothese Beta, The Anderson Platoon, My Night at Maud's, Queen Margot, Angela's Ashes, The Taste of Others, Lost in Translation, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Chorus, The Queen, Mrs. Henderson Presents, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Slumdog Millionaire, The Duchess, Tropic Thunder, Paris 36, Bright Star, 127 Hours, The Illusionist, The Iron Lady, The Great Beauty, Philomena, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Selma, Youth, Judy, Minari, Parallel Mothers, The Lost Daughter, CODA, Fire of Love, Babylon, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio and Io capitano) * Canal+ (Hamlet (1990), Terminator 2, JFK, Indochinhe, The Mambo Kings, Under Siege, Basic Instinct, Damage, Chaplin, Cliffhanger, The Scent of Green Papaya, Queen Margot, Three Colors: Red, Farinelli, Burnt by the Sun, Il Postino, A Chef in Love, Ridicule, The Thief, Secrets of the Heart, Central Station, East/West, The Straight Story, Himalaya, Humdrum, U-571, Everybody's Famous!, The Taste of Others, Vatel, Dancer in the Dark, Amélie, No Man's Land, Mulholland Dr., Winged Migration, The Pianist, The Man Without a Past, The Barbarian Invasions, The Triplets of Belleville, The Chorus, The Sea Inside, A Very Long Engagement, Joyeux Noel, March of the Penguins, Days of Glory, The Mozart of Pickpockets, The Queen, La Vie en Rose, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Class, Paris 36, Coco Before Chanel, Logorama, The Secret of Kells, The White Ribbon, A Prophet, The Illusionist, Outside the Law, The Artist, Albert Nobbs, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Amour, The Invisible War, The Great Beauty, Just Before Losing Everything, Philomena, Ida, Timbuktu, Mr. Turner, "Two Days, One Night", Wild Tales, The Lobster, Mustang, Youth, My Life as a Zucchini, The Red Turtle, Elle, Dunkirk, Loveless, The Insult, Faces Places, Cold War, Pain and Glory, Les Misérables (2019), The Father, Wolfwalkers, Pinocchio, No Time to Die, Close, Triangle of Sadness, Io capitano, Anatomy of a Fall and Robot Dreams) * France 3 (Black and White in Color, A Simple Story, Ridicule, East/West, Amélie, Dancer in the Dark, Winged Migration, The Triplets of Belleville, Days of Glory, The Queen, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Persepolis, Paris 36, The White Ribbon, The Illusionist, Outside the Law, A Cat in Paris, The Artist, Amour, Mr. Turner, My Life as a Zucchini, Genius Loci and No Time to Die) * France 2 (Birdnesters of Thailand, Queen Margot, Farinelli, All About My Mother, Himalaya, The Taste of Others, Murder on a Sunday Morning, Winged Migration, The Chorus, Days of Glory, Paris 36, The Class, The Secret of Kells, Coco Before Chanel, A Prophet, Outside the Law, The Great Beauty, "Two Days, One Night", Youth, Elle, Nefta Football Club and Anatomy of a Fall) * TF1 (The Last Metro, My American Uncle, Three Men and a Cradle, Cinema Paradiso, Vatel, A Very Long Engagement, Joyeux Noel, La Vie en Rose and Fire of Love) * Gaumont (A Cage of Nightingales, Mon Oncle, Il Generale Della Rovere, Cousin Cousine, To Forget Venice, My American Uncle, Three Brothers, Dangerous Moves, Betty Blue, Camille Claudel, The Fifth Element, Vatel, Atonement, Hugo, Babylon and Fire of Love) * RAI (The Family, Dark Eyes, Au Revoir les Enfants, Cinema Paradiso, Open Doors, The Star Maker, No Man's Land, Downfall, Don't Tell, I Am Love, Fire at Sea, Never Look Away, Pinocchio and Io Capitano) * Mediaset (Umberto D., Farinelli, The Great Beauty, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Youth and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) * Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica (La Strada, War and Peace, The Nights of Cabiria, The Great War, The Agony and the Ecstasy, The Bible: In the Beginning..., Romeo and Juliet, Serpico, Three Days of the Condor, King Kong, The Shootist, The Brink's Job, Ragtime, Dune, Pirates, Blue Velvet, Crimes of the Heart, Buster, Backdraft, DragonHeart, Daylight and U-571) * Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica (Sunset, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Mediterraneo, Il Postino, Se7en, The Star Maker, Life Is Beautiful and Silence) * Medusa Film (Seven Beauties, Trainspotting, Fight Club, Malena, Gosford Park, The Great Beauty and Youth) * Cineplex-Odeon Films (The Decline of the American Empire, Bagdad Cafe, Street Smart, Dark Eyes, The Last Temptation of Christ, Jesus of Montreal, My Left Foot, The Grifters and Mr. & Mrs. Bridge) * BRON Studios (Fences, Roman J. Israel, Esq., Joker, Bombshell, Pieces of a Woman, Greyhound, Judas and the Black Messiah, House of Gucci, Cyrano, Licorice Pizza and Babylon) * RT Features (Call Me by Your Name, Ad Astra and The Lighthouse) * VideoFilmes (Central Station and City of God) * Patagonik Film Group (Evita and Son of the Bride) * Bitters End (Drive My Car and Perfect Days) * CJ Entertainment (August Rush, Parasite and Past Lives) * Anonymous Content (21 Grams, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Babel, Winter's Bone, Spotlight, The Revenant, The Wife, The Midnight Sky, Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths and The Boy and the Heron) * Tollin/Robbins Productions (Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream and Norbit) * Davis Entertainment (Predator, The Firm, Waterworld, Daylight, "I, Robot", Norbit, Joy and Ferdinand) * Palomar Pictures/Edgar J. Scherick Associates (For Love of Ivy, "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?", Murmur of the Heart, Sleuth, The Heartbreak Kid, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' and Rambling Rose) * Home Box Office (HBO) (A Passage to India, Soldiers in Hiding, Down and Out in America, Ironweed, The Appointments of Dennis Jennings, You Don't Have to Die, Crack USA: County Under Siege, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, Chimps: So Like Us, I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School, Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride, 4 Little Girls, Amistad, The Canterbury Tales, Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth, Legacy, Murder on a Sunday Morning, LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Bowling for Columbine, Chernobyl Heart, Capturing the Friedmans, American Splendor, Maria Full of Grace, Yesterday, Twist of Faith, A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin, The Blood of Yingzhou District, The Departed, Borat, Smile Pinki, Tropic Thunder, The Conscience of Nhem En, The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant, Which Way Home, China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, GasLand, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, Mondays at Racine, Saving Face, God Is the Bigger Elvis, Dirty Wars, Blue Jasmine, Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall, Iron Man 3, Citizenfour, A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, Creed, O.J.: Made in America, Jim: The James Foley Story, Traffic Stop, RBG, Collective, Judas and the Black Messiah, Zack Snyder's Justice League, Malignant, The Suicide Squad, When We Were Bullies, King Richard, Please Hold, Dune: Part One, How Do You Measure a Year?, All That Breathes, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Navalny and The Creator) * Showtime Network (Gods and Monsters, Tupac: Resurrection, Animal Kingdom and Attica) * Comedy Central (South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Bowling for Columbine, The Big Short and Don't Look Up) * British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (The War Game, Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Algonquin Round Table: The Ten Year Lunch, Henry V, Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey, The Wrong Trousers, Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life, A Close Shave, Anne Frank Remembered, Twelve Monkeys, Independence Day, Jerry Maguire, The Old Lady and the Pigeons, The Canterbury Tales, Primary Colors, Gods and Monsters, A Simple Plan, Hilary and Jackie, One Day in September, Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann, Wonder Boys, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, Billy Elliot, Shadow of the Vampire, Prisoner of Paradise, Bowling for Columbine, Dirty Pretty Things, The Triplets of Belleville, Match Point, Mrs. Henderson Presents, Notes on a Scandal, The Good Shepherd, Marie Antoinette, Venus, Eastern Promises, American Gangster, Across the Universe, Charlie Wilson's War, Waltz with Bashir, This Way Up, Man on Wire, The Duchess, Revolutionary Road, Milk, An Education, The Cove, Invictus, In the Loop, Bright Star, The Gruffalo, 127 Hours, Jane Eyre, My Week with Marilyn, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Skyfall, The Invisible Woman, Room on the Broom, Philomena, Saving Mr. Banks, Brooklyn, Amy, Florence Foster Jenkins, Victoria & Abdul, Bohemian Rhapsody, Ad Astra, Judy, The Power of the Dog, Belfast, Aftersun, Fire of Love, Avatar: The Way of Water, Triangle of Sadness, Empire of Light, "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" and The Creator) * Sky Cinema (Il supplente, Il Divo, Iron Man 3, The Imitation Game and The United States vs. Billie Holiday) * American Broadcasting Company (ABC)/Disney–ABC Domestic Television (Man in Space, Charly, For Love of Ivy, Krakatoa: East of Java, "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?", Lovers and Other Strangers, A Christmas Carol, Straw Dogs, Kotch, Cabaret, Nashville, Silkwood, Prizzi's Honor, Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn, Marvin's Room, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Invictus, The Messenger, Iron Man 3, Nebraska, 20 Feet from Stardom, Ford v Ferrari, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Licorice Pizza and My Year of Dicks) * National Broadcasting Company (NBC)/NBCUniversal Television Distribution (Say Goodbye, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Splash, Little Shop of Horrors, Scrooged, Avalon, Forrest Gump, Crimson Tide, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, Vanilla Sky, American Splendor, Twin Towers, Lost in Translation, A Mighty Wind, Julie & Julia, Bridesmaids and RBG) * Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, My Fair Lady, Cabaret, Back to the Future, Little Shop of Horrors, Crimson Tide, Jerry Maguire, I Am Sam, Vanilla Sky, Catch Me If You Can, An Inconvenient Truth, Salt, Argo, American Hustle, The Wolf of Wall Street, Beyond the Lights, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Straight Outta Compton, The Martian, Vice, Ready Player One, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Being the Ricardos, Belfast, Elvis, The Whale and The Fabelmans) * Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) (Front Line, Generation on the Wind, Just Another Missing Kid, The Day After Trinity, Brooklyn Bridge, El Norte, Testament, Children of Darkness, Unfinished Business, The Statue of Liberty, Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Algonquin Round Table: The Ten Year Lunch, Bridge to Freedom: 1965, Stand and Deliver, Longtime Companion, Days of Waiting, Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey, When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories, Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II, D-Day Remembered, Hoop Dreams, My Family, The Battle Over Citizen Kane, Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, Sound and Fury, Prisoner of Paradise, Last Days in Vietnam, Interstellar, Abacus: Small Enough for Jail, RBG, For Sama and 20 Days in Mariupol) * WGBH (Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World, The Bostonians, Radio Bikini, D-Day Remembered, Special Effects: Anything Can Happen, The Battle Over Citizen Kane, Mrs. Brown, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Encounters at the End of the World, "Food, Inc.", Julie & Julia, Abacus: Small Enough for Jail and For Sama) * Discovery Communications/Warner Bros. Discovery (Crimson Tide, Face/Off, On the Ropes, Talk to Her, Taxi to the Dark Side, Man on Wire, Encounters at the End of the World, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Nebraska, Lone Survivor, Racing Extinction, Hillbilly Elegy and The Whale) * National Geographic (Instinct for Survival, Journey to the Outer Limits, Ape and Super-Ape, The Incredible Machine, Jaws, The Deep, For All Mankind, Birdnesters of Thailand, Blues Highway, L.A. Confidential, Bowling for Columbine, The Story of the Weeping Camel, March of the Penguins, Restrepo, The Way Back, Chasing Ice, Free Solo, Ad Astra, The Cave, Fire of Love and Bobi Wine: The People’s President) * The Ladd Company (Outland, Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner, The Right Stuff, Braveheart and Gone Baby Gone) * Annapurna Pictures (The Master, Zero Dark Thirty, The Grandmaster, Her, American Hustle, Foxcatcher, Joy, 20th Century Women, Phantom Thread, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Vice, Missing Link, Bombshell, House of Gucci and Nimona) * Revolution Studios (Enemies: A Love Story, Young Guns II, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The Last of the Mohicans, Black Hawk Down, Click, The Good Shepherd, Across the Universe, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Up in the Air, The Young Victoria, Black Swan, Hugo, The Ides of March, Hitchcock, Straight Outta Compton and All the Money in the World) * DC Comics/Entertainment (Superman, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Catch Me If You Can, Batman Begins, Superman Returns, The Dark Knight, Suicide Squad, Joker, Zack Snyder's Justice League, The Suicide Squad and The Batman) * Dark Horse Comics (The Mask, American Splendor and Hellboy II: The Golden Army) * Scholastic (Doctor DeSoto, The Golden Compass and Boyhood) * Dick Clark Productions (Taxi Driver, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Peggy Sue Got Married, When Harry Met Sally..., Sleepless in Seattle, Forrest Gump, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Beyond the Lights and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) * The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Two Arabian Knights, The Racket, Prelude to War, The Bad and the Beautiful, Susan Slept Here, A Star Is Born (1954), Rear Window, Vertigo, Spartacus, My Fair Lady, The Oscar, California Suite, Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Algonquin Round Table: The Ten Year Lunch, Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey, Chaplin, The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, Trumbo and Mank) * Interscope Communications/Radar Pictures (Burning Down Tomorrow, Roommates, Mr. Holland's Opus, What Dreams May Come, The Pianist and The Last Samurai) * Hammer Films (When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, The Shawshank Redemption, Frankenweenie and Belfast) * Empire Pictures (The Twilight Samurai) * Mission Films (Lady Bird and When We Were Bullies) * 3 Arts Entertainment ("Girl, Interrupted", The Matrix, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, The Blind Side, Unbroken, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi and American Fiction) * Brillstein Entertainment Partners (Ghostbusters, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt and Guardians of the Galaxy) * Carolco Pictures (Tribute, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Pathfinder, Music Box, Total Recall, Hamlet (1990), Terminator 2, Rambling Rose, Basic Instinct, A River Runs Through It, Chaplin and Cliffhanger) * Propaganda Films (Wild at Heart, Alien³, The Portrait of a Lady, Sleepers, Being John Malkovich and Adaptation.) * Walden Media (Ray, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Unbroken and Wonder) * Kickstarter (The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement, Incident in New Baghdad, Sun Come Up, Inocente, Buzkashi Boys, Kings Point, Anomalisa and Hair Love) * Google (The Final Inch, Blue Valentine, Skyfall, Pearl and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) * The Coca-Cola Company (The Great Muppet Caper, The Decline of the American Empire, Malcolm X, Leaving Las Vegas, The Fifth Element, Central Station, Life, Bridget Jones's Diary, Monster's Ball, Pieces of April, Shark Tale and Frost/Nixon) * The New York Times (The Killing Fields, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story, Tupac: Resurrection, Half Nelson, Rabbit Hole, 4.1 Miles, First Man, Walk Run Cha-Cha, Bombshell, Time, A Concerto Is a Conversation, The Queen of Basketball and Island in Between) * General Motors Corporation (Brooklyn Bridge, Ballet Robotique, The Statue of Liberty, Cars, Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Rabbit Hole and Transformers: Dark of the Moon) * United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport and The Reader) * Turner Entertainment (The Jazz Singer, White Shadows in the South Seas, The Divine Lady, The Big House, The Divorcee, The Champ, A Free Soul, The Public Enemy, Emma, Grand Hotel, Gold Diggers of 1933, Morning Glory, Flirtation Walk, Manhattan Melodrama, Viva Villa!, Alice Adams, Captain Blood, Dangerous, David Copperfield, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Naughty Marietta, Born to Dance, Cain and Mabel, Captains Courageous, Conquest, The Good Earth, The Life of Emile Zola, Night Must Fall, The Prisoner of Zenda, Mannequin, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Angels with Dirty Faces, Boys Town, Jezebel, Dark Victory, Babes in Arms, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Juarez, Ninotchka, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Comrade X, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, Edison the Man, Northwest Passage, The Philadelphia Story, Strike Up the Band, Puss Gets the Boot, A Wild Hare, Billy the Kid, Citizen Kane, The Chocolate Soldier, The Maltese Falcon, Sergeant York, "Tom, Dick and Harry", Casablanca, Desperate Journey, For Me and My Gal, Mrs. Miniver, Now, Voyager, Once Upon a Honeymoon, Woman of the Year, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Cabin in the Sky, A Guy Named Joe, Lassie Come Home, Madame Curie, Mission to Moscow, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Adventures of Mark Twain, Gaslight, Mr. Skeffington, National Velvet, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Anchors Aweigh, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Pride of the Marines, Rhapsody in Blue, Saratoga Trunk, The Harvey Girls, The Yearling, Adventures of Don Juan, B.F.'s Daughter, I Remember Mama, The Search, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Adam's Rib, Little Women (1949), That Forsyte Woman, White Heat, The Window, Annie Get Your Gun, Father of the Bride, King Solomon's Mines, The Magnificent Yankee, An American in Paris, The Great Caruso, Quo Vadis, The Bad and the Beautiful, Ivanhoe, The Narrow Margin, Singin' in the Rain, All the Brothers Were Valiant, Julius Caesar, The Story of Three Loves, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Bad Day at Black Rock, Blackboard Jungle, The Man with the Golden Arm, I'll Cry Tomorrow, Forbidden Planet, Meet Me in Las Vegas, Lust for Life, Designing Woman, Les Girls, Raintree County, Gigi, Some Came Running, Tom Thumb, Ben-Hur, The Hanging Tree, North by Northwest, The Time Machine (1960), Bachelor in Paradise, How the West Was Won, Lolita, Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), Billy Rose's Jumbo, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, The Americanization of Emily, The Night of the Iguana, Doctor Zhivago, A Patch of Blue, Blow-Up, The Dirty Dozen, Far from the Madding Crowd, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Shaft, The Sunshine Boys, Network, The Goodbye Girl, Fame, Diner, My Favorite Year, Poltergeist, "Yes, Giorgio", Victor/Victoria, The Year of Living Dangerously, 2010, Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Algonquin Round Table: The Ten Year Lunch, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Crimes and Misdemeanors, When Harry Met Sally..., Home Alone, Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, The Mask, The American President, Twelve Monkeys, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, The English Patient, One Fine Day, The Green Mile, The Cider House Rules, Angela's Ashes, Sweet and Lowdown, Magnolia, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Wonder Boys, Billy Elliot, Frida, Catch Me If You Can, The Time Machine (2002), Tupac: Resurrection, The Aviator, The Departed, The Savages, Australia, Bolt, Hugo and The Lego Movie) * Amazon Studios (The Salesman, Manchester by the Sea, I Am Not Your Negro, The Big Sick, Cold War, Les Misérables (2019), Sound of Metal, Time, One Night in Miami, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Being the Ricardos, Cinderella, Coming 2 America, "Argentina, 1985" and American Fiction) * Netflix (The Square, Virunga, What Happened Miss Simone?, Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, Extremis, The White Helmets, 13th, Heroin(e), Icarus, Strong Island, On Body and Soul, Mudbound, End Game, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Period. End of Sentence., Roma, American Factory, The Irishman, The Edge of Democracy, The Two Popes, Life Overtakes Me, Marriage Story, Klaus, I Lost My Body, A Love Song for Latasha, Da 5 Bloods, Crip Camp, My Octopus Teacher, The White Tiger, Mank, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Pieces of a Woman, Hillbilly Elegy, The Midnight Sky, The Life Ahead, Two Distant Strangers, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, If Anything Happens I Love You, Over the Moon, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Audible, The Hand of God, Lead Me Home, The Lost Daughter, Robin Robin, The Power of the Dog, Army of the Dead, Three Songs for Benazir, Don't Look Up, tick, tick...BOOM!, All Quiet on the Western Front, Blonde, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, The Elephant Whisperers, The Sea Beast, The Martha Mitchell Effect, Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Society of the Snow, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, El Conde, American Symphony, Rustin, The After, Maestro, May December and Nyad) * Hulu (Minding the Gap, Nomadland, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), My Year of Dicks and Flamin' Hot) * Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (Front Line, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Steve Jobs) * The Australian Film Commission (Front Line, Breaker Morant, The Year of Living Dangerously, Chile: Hasta Cuando?, The Piano, Shine, Oscar and Lucinda, Harvie Krumpet and The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello) * Australian Film Finance Corporation/Screen Australia (Green Card, The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Shine, Oscar and Lucinda, Bright Star, Miracle Fish, Animal Kingdom, Saving Mr. Banks, Tanna, Hacksaw Ridge, Lion and Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio) * United Nations (Seeds of Destiny, Journey for Survival, The Constant Gardener and Transformers: Dark of the Moon) * Golden Harvest Company (The Tempest and Flee) * Shaw Brothers (Meteor and Blade Runner) * Huayi Brothers (Molly's Game) * China Film Co-Production Corporation (The Last Emperor, Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern, Farewell My Concubine, The Red Violin, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Hero, House of Flying Daggers, The Kite Runner, Iron Man 3, Her and Mulan (2020)) * Sil-Metropole Organisation (Hero and The Grandmaster) * Alibaba Pictures (Star Trek Beyond, Free Solo, Green Book and 1917) * Bona Film Group (Joyeux Noel, The Grandmaster, The Greatest Showman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Ad Astra and A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon) * Tencent (Kong: Skull Island, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and Top Gun: Maverick) * Media Asia Films (Shine and The Departed) * Starlight Culture Entertainment Group (Marshall and Malignant) * The Shanghai Film Group Corporation (Hamlet, Shanghai Triad and The Red Violin) * Perfect World Pictures (Nocturnal Animals, Victoria & Abdul, Darkest Hour, Phantom Thread, BlacKkKlansman, First Man, Mary Queen of Scots, Harriet, News of the World and Emma.) * Mosfilm (War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov, Ballad of a Soldier, Sunflower, Tchaikovsky, Dersu Uzala, Tess and Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears)

Also to get to know about this list, check my other Oscar Legends lists that are on IMDb. Finally this list is also to be a resume list of Academy Award films these directors to producers have made.

Final Update: For this list and it's spin-offs I will now add runner up and honorable mention films that were during special moments at Academy Award ceremonies. Although they were not nominees, it would be still nice and a honor to add these runner ups for almost making it to nominations.

101. Pawel Pawlikowski

Director | Zimna wojna

A literature and philosophy graduate, with extensive post-graduate work at Oxford on German literature, Polish-born Pawel Pawlikowski started as a documentary filmmaker in British television.

His second feature, Last Resort (2000), earned him international critical acclaim at numerous festivals, ...

Ida Cold War

102. Michael Cimino

Director | The Deer Hunter

Michael Cimino studied architecture and dramatic arts; later he filmed advertisements and documentaries and also wrote scripts until the actor, producer and director Clint Eastwood gave him the opportunity to direct the thriller Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974). But his biggest success was The Deer...

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot The Deer Hunter The Rose Heaven's Gate

103. David Frankel

Director | The Devil Wears Prada

David Frankel was born on April 2, 1959 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and producer, known for The Devil Wears Prada (2006), One Chance (2013) and Band of Brothers (2001).

Dear Diary The Devil Wears Prada

104. Emile Ardolino

Director | Dirty Dancing

Emile Ardolino was born on May 9, 1943 in Maspeth, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Dirty Dancing (1987), Great Performances: Dance in America (1976) and He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983). He died on November 20, 1993 in Bel Air, California, USA.

He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' Dirty Dancing Chances Are

105. Robert Houston

Actor | The Hills Have Eyes

Director/writer Bobby Houston is a California-based filmmaker whose most recent documentary, Mighty Times: The Children's March (2004), won the Academy Award in March 2005. His previous film, Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks (2002), was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 and won an Emmy. ...

Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks Mighty Times: The Children's March

106. Ruby Yang

Editor | Zheng qi

Ruby Yang won an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006). She is also known for directing The Warriors of Qiugang (2010) and My Voice, My Life (2014).

With filmmaker Thomas Lennon, Yang mounted a vast multi-year AIDS prevention campaign seen over 900 ...

The Blood of Yingzhou District The Warriors of Qiugang

107. Laura Poitras

Producer | Citizenfour

Laura Poitras was born on February 2, 1964 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is a producer and director, known for Citizenfour (2014), The Oath (2010) and My Country, My Country (2006).

My Country, My Country Citizenfour All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

108. Bille August

Director | The House of the Spirits

Bille August was born on November 9, 1948 in Brede, Denmark. He is a director and writer, known for The House of the Spirits (1993), Pelle the Conqueror (1987) and Les Misérables (1998). He is married to Sara-Marie Maltha. He was previously married to Pernilla August, Masja Dessau and Annie ...

Pelle the Conqueror

109. Alejandro Amenábar

Writer | The Others

Is the son of a Spanish mother and a Chilean father. His family moved back to Spain when he was 1 year old, and he grew up and studied in Madrid. He wrote, produced and directed his first short film La cabeza at the age of 19, and he was 23 when he directed his feature debut Thesis (1996). His film ...

The Sea Inside

110. Asghar Farhadi

Writer | Forooshande

Asghar Farhadi was born in 1972 in Iran. He became interested in cinema in his teenage years and started his filmmaking education by joining the Youth Cinema Society of Esfahan in 1986 where he made 8mm and 16mm short films. He received his Bachelors in Theater from University of Tehran's School of...

A Separation The Salesman

111. 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.

Sweet Charity Cabaret Lenny All That Jazz Chicago

112. 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...

Barton Fink Fargo O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Man Who Wasn't There No Country for Old Men A Serious Man True Grit (2010 film) Inside Llewyn Davis Unbroken Bridge of Spies Hail, Caesar! The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

113. 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 ...

Barton Fink Fargo O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Man Who Wasn't There No Country for Old Men A Serious Man True Grit (2010 film) Inside Llewyn Davis Unbroken Bridge of Spies Hail, Caesar! The Ballad of Buster Scruggs The Tragedy of Macbeth

114. Jane Campion

Writer | Bright Star

Jane Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and now lives in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Having graduated with a BA in Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1975, and a BA, with a painting major, at Sydney College of the Arts in 1979, she began filmmaking in the early...

The Piano The Portrait of a Lady Bright Star The Power of the Dog

115. Mike Nichols

Director | The Graduate

He, along with the other members of the "Compass Players" including Elaine May, Paul Sills, Byrne Piven, Joyce Hiller Piven and Edward Asner helped start the famed "Second City Improv" company. They used the games taught to them by fellow cast mate, Paul Sills 's mother, Viola Spolin. He later ...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? The Graduate Carnal Knowledge The Day of the Dolphin Silkwood Working Girl Postcards from the Edge The Remains of the Day The Birdcage Primary Colors Closer Charlie Wilson's War

116. Costa-Gavras

Director | Z

Costa-Gavras was born on February 12, 1933 in Loutra-Iraias, Greece. He is a director and writer, known for Z (1969), Missing (1982) and Amen. (2002). He has been married to Michèle Ray-Gavras since 1968. They have two children.

Z Missing Music Box

117. William Friedkin

Director | To Live and Die in L.A.

Friedkin's mother was an operating room nurse. His father was a merchant seaman, semi-pro softball player and ultimately sold clothes in a men's discount chain. Ultimately, his father never earned more than $50/week in his whole life and died indigent. Eventually young Will became infatuated with ...

The French Connection The Exorcist Sorcerer The Brink's Job

118. Spike Jonze

Producer | Her

Spike Jonze made up one-third (along with Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman) of the triumvirate of genius minds behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine. These three uncommon characters were all editors for Grand Royal Magazine as well, under the ...

Being John Malkovich Adaptation. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa Her

119. Ingmar Bergman

Writer | Smultronstället

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

Wild Strawberries The Virgin Spring Through a Glass Darkly Cries & Whispers The Magic Flute Face to Face Autumn Sonata Fanny and Alexander

120. Milos Forman

Director | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Milos Forman was born Jan Tomas Forman in Caslav, Czechoslovakia, to Anna (Svabova), who ran a summer hotel, and Rudolf Forman, a professor. During World War II, his parents were taken away by the Nazis, after being accused of participating in the underground resistance. His father died in ...

The Loves of a Blonde The Firemen's Ball One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ragtime Amadeus Valmont The People vs. Larry Flynt

121. Warren Beatty

Actor | Heaven Can Wait

Since starring in his first film, Splendor in the Grass (1961), Warren Beatty has been said to have demonstrated a greater longevity in movies than any actor of his generation. Few people have taken so many responsibilities for all phases of the production of films as producer, director, writer, ...

Bonnie and Clyde Shampoo Heaven Can Wait Reds Dick Tracy Bugsy Bulworth

122. 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 ...

Rambo: First Blood Part II Aliens The Abyss Terminator 2: Judgment Day True Lies Titanic (1997 film) Avatar Avatar: The Way of Water

123. Kevin Costner

Actor | The Postman

Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, California, the third child of Bill Costner, a ditch digger and ultimately an electric line servicer for Southern California Edison, and Sharon Costner (née Tedrick), a welfare worker. His older brother, Dan, was born in 1950. A middle ...

Dances with Wolves Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves The Bodyguard Wyatt Earp Waterworld

124. 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 ...

Rebecca Foreign Correspondent Suspicion Shadow of a Doubt Lifeboat Spellbound Notorious The Paradine Case Strangers on a Train Rear Window To Catch a Thief The Man Who Knew Too Much Vertigo North by Northwest Psycho The Birds

125. Lina Wertmüller

Writer | Pasqualino Settebellezze

During the 1970s, Lina Wertmüller emblazoned her name into the pantheon of Italian cinema with a series of intensely polemical, deeply controversial and wonderfully entertaining films. Among the most politically outspoken and iconoclastic members of the second generation of postwar directors - the ...

Brother Sun, Sister Moon Seven Beauties

126. 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...

Boogie Nights Magnolia There Will Be Blood The Master Inherent Vice Phantom Thread Licorice Pizza

127. 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 ...

12 Angry Men Long Day's Journey Into Night The Pawnbroker King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis Serpico Murder on the Orient Express Dog Day Afternoon Network Equus The Wiz Prince of the City The Verdict The Morning After Running on Empty

128. 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...

MASH McCabe & Mrs. Miller Images Nashville The Late Show The Player Short Cuts Afterglow Gosford Park

129. 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 ...

The Elephant Man Dune Blue Velvet Wild at Heart The Straight Story Mulholland Dr.

130. 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 ...

American Graffiti Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back Raiders of the Lost Ark Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Willow Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

131. 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 ...

Alien Blade Runner Legend Black Rain Thelma & Louise Gladiator Black Hawk Down The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford American Gangster Prometheus The Martian All the Money in the World House of Gucci Napoleon

132. 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...

Alien³ Se7en Fight Club The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Social Network The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Gone Girl Mank

133. 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 ...

The Fighter Silver Linings Playbook American Hustle Joy

134. 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. ...

Before Sunset Before Midnight Boyhood

135. Philip Kaufman

Writer | The Right Stuff

Director and screenwriter Philip Kaufman was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Chicago and later Harvard Law School. He won the Prix de la Nouvelle Critique at Cannes in 1965 for his film Goldstein (1964). He was the screenwriter for The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and was to ...

The Outlaw Josey Wales Raiders of the Lost Ark The Right Stuff The Unbearable Lightness of Being Henry & June Quills

136. Peter Weir

Director | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Peter Weir was born on August 21, 1944 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is a director and writer, known for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), The Way Back (2010) and Witness (1985). He has been married to Wendy Stites since 1966. They have two children.

The Year of Living Dangerously Witness Dead Poets Society Green Card Fearless The Truman Show Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World The Way Back

137. Stephen Daldry

Director | The Reader

In 1989, Stephen Daldry worked as a freelance reader of unsolicited manuscripts for Literary Manager Nicholas Wright in the Scripts Department at the Royal National Theatre. In July of that year, he directed a Dadaist/expressionist production of "Judgement Day," a play by Odon von Horvath, at the ...

Billy Elliot The Hours The Reader Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

138. Jim Sheridan

Producer | In America

Following a distinguished career in the theatre between the 1960s and the 1980s, Jim Sheridan wrote and directed his first critically acclaimed feature My Left Foot in 1989. The film was nominated for two European Film Awards. He followed this in 1990 with The Field which he also wrote and directed...

My Left Foot The Field In the Name of the Father In America

139. Henry Koster

Director | Harvey

Henry Koster was born Herman Kosterlitz in Berlin, Germany, on May 1, 1905. His maternal grandfather was a famous operatic tenor Julius Salomon (who died of tuberculosis in the 1880s). His father was a salesman of ladies unmentionables who left the family while Henry was at a young age, leaving him...

Three Smart Girls One Hundred Men and a Girl First Love Spring Parade It Started with Eve Music for Millions The Bishop's Wife The Luck of the Irish Come to the Stable Wabash Avenue Harvey My Cousin Rachel The Robe Désirée A Man Called Peter The Virgin Queen The Power and the Prize Flower Drum Song The Singing Nun

140. Rob Marshall

Director | Mary Poppins Returns

Rob Marshall was born on October 17, 1960 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Mary Poppins Returns (2018), Chicago (2002) and Into the Woods (2014).

Chicago Memoirs of a Geisha Nine Into the Woods Marry Poppins Returns

141. Terrence Malick

Writer | Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick was born in Ottawa, Illinois. His family subsequently lived in Oklahoma and he went to school in Austin, Texas. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy in 1965.

A member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, he attended Magdalen ...

Days of Heaven The Thin Red Line The New World The Tree of Life

142. Louis Malle

Director | Au revoir les enfants

Louis Malle, the descendant of a French nobleman who made a fortune in beet sugar during the Napoleonic Wars, created films that explored life and its meaning. Malle's family discouraged his early interest in film but, in 1950, allowed him to enter the Institute of Advanced Cinematographic Studies ...

The Silent World Murmur of the Heart Lacombe, Lucien Pretty Baby Atlantic City Au Revoir Les Enfants Damage

143. Hugh Hudson

Director | Chariots of Fire

The old Etonian, after National Service in the British Army, wanted to get into films but found the doors were closed to him, so he worked on commercials for about 20 years. David Putnam gave him a chance to direct Chariots of Fire which was a hit, and he never looked back.

He met his second wife, ...

Chariots of Fire Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

144. James Ivory

Writer | Call Me by Your Name

The main part of his few movies were filmed in the quarter of a century in which he worked closely together with the Indian producer Ismail Merchant and the German writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. His first films are all set in India and are very much influenced by the style of Satyajit Ray and Jean ...

The Europeans The Bostonians A Room with a View Maurice Mr. & Mrs. Bridge Howard's End The Remains of the Day Call Me By Your Name

145. Alan Parker

Director | Evita

The son of Elsie Ellen, a dressmaker, and William Leslie Parker, a house painter, Alan Parker was a London advertising copywriter in the 1960s and early 1970s with Collett Dickenson Pearce (CDP), an ad agency. He formed a partnership with David Puttnam as his producer (Puttnam had been a ...

Bugsy Malone Midnight Express Fame Mississippi Burning The Commitments Evita Angela's Ashes

146. 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 ...

Brazil The Adventures of Baron Munchausen The Fisher King Twelve Monkeys The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

147. Joss Whedon

Producer | Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Joss Whedon is the middle of five brothers - his younger brothers are Jed Whedon and Zack Whedon. Both his father, Tom Whedon and his grandfather, John Whedon were successful television writers. Joss' mother, Lee Stearns, was a history teacher and she also wrote novels as Lee Whedon. Whedon was ...

Toy Story The Avengers

148. 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 ...

Memento Batman Begins The Prestige The Dark Knight Inception Interstellar Dunkirk Tenet Oppenheimer

149. 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 ...

Requiem for a Dream The Wrestler Black Swan Jackie The Whale

150. Fernando Meirelles

Director | The Constant Gardener

Fernando Meirelles was born in a middle class family in São Paulo City, Brazil.

He studied architecture at the university of São Paulo. At the same time he developed an interest in filmmaking. With a group of friends he started producing experimental videos and video art. They won a huge number of ...

City of God The Constant Gardner The Two Popes

151. Walter Salles

Director | Central do Brasil

Walter Salles was born on April 12, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a director and producer, known for Central Station (1998), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) and Terra Estrangeira (1995). He is married to Maria Klabin. They have one child.

Central Station The Motorcycle Diaries

152. Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Director | Un long dimanche de fiançailles

Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a self-taught director who was very quickly interested by cinema, with a predilection for a fantastic cinema where form is as important as the subject. Thus he started directing TV commercials and video clips (such as Julien Clerc in 1984). At the same time he met designer/...

Amélie A Very Long Engagement

153. Jan Troell

Director | Här har du ditt liv

Jan Troell was born on July 23, 1931 in Limhamn, Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Here Is Your Life (1966), The Emigrants (1971) and Il capitano (1991). He is married to Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell. They have one child.

The Emigrants The New Land

154. Lasse Hallström

Director | What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Lasse Hallström inherited his enthusiasm for film from his father, who was an amateur filmmaker. In high school he made his first short film, which was released on Swedish television. Hallström then began working as a director, cameraman and editor for Swedish television. He also made music videos ...

My Life as a Dog What's Eating Gilbert Grape The Cider House Rules Chocolat

155. Jim Henson

Soundtrack | The Muppet Show

Jim Henson never thought that he would make a name of himself in puppetry; it was merely a way of getting himself on television. The vehicle that achieved it was Sam and Friends (1955), a late-night puppet show that was on after the 11:00 news in Washington DC. It proved to be very popular and ...

Time Piece The Muppet Movie The Great Muppet Caper

156. Paul Greengrass

Director | United 93

Paul Greengrass started his filmmaking career with a super 8 camera he found in his art room in secondary school. Those short movies were animation horror films he made using old dolls, artist dummies, and the general art room clutter.

After studying in Cambridge University he got into Granada ...

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157. Tony Gilroy

Writer | Michael Clayton

Tony Gilroy was born in Manhattan, New York, New York, USA; and raised in upstate New York. His father, Frank D. Gilroy, was a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, director, and screenwriter. Tony has penned many films, including The Devil's Advocate (1997) and The Cutting Edge (1992).

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158. John Sturges

Director | The Great Escape

John Sturges was an American film director, mostly remembered for his outstanding Western films. In 1992, Sturges was awarded a Golden Boot Award for his lifelong contribution to the Western genre.

Sturges was born in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, within the Chicago metropolitan area. By 1930, ...

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159. 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 ...

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160. Martin Ritt

Director | Hud

Martin Ritt, one of the best and most sensitive American filmmakers of all time, was a director, actor and playwright who worked in both film and theater. He was born in New York City. His films reflect, like almost none other, a profound and intimate humane vision of his characters.

He originally ...

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161. Julie Taymor

Director | Frida

Julie Taymor is an Academy Award-nominated director, known for such films as Frida (2002) and Across the Universe (2007).

She was born on December 15, 1952, in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. Her father, Melvin Lester Taymor, was a gynecologist. Her mother, Elizabeth Bernstein, was a ...

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162. Todd Haynes

Director | Far from Heaven

Todd Haynes was always interested in art, and made amateur movies and painted while he was still a child. He attended Brown university and majored in art and semiotics. After he graduated he moved to New York City and made the controversial short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987). ...

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163. 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 ...

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164. 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, "...

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165. Jason Reitman

Producer | Up in the Air

Jason Reitman is a Canadian filmmaker and producer who notably directed Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Juno, Thank You for Smoking, Up in the Air, Young Adult and Tully. He produced Chloe and Jennifer's Body, two films that advanced Amanda Seyfried's career for adult oriented roles. He is the son of Ivan...

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166. 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 ...

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167. Agnieszka Holland

Director | Pokot

Having graduated from FAMU in Prague film (1971), Agnieszka Holland returned to Poland and began her film career working with Krzysztof Zanussi as assistant director, and Andrzej Wajda as her mentor. Her first feature film was PROVINCIAL ACTORS (1978), one of the flagship pictures of the "cinema of...

Angry Harvest Anna Europa Europa In Darkness

168. Chris Weitz

Writer | About a Boy

Christopher John Weitz is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter who is known for Antz, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, American Pie, About a Boy, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps and The Golden Compass. He is married to Mercedes Martinez since 2006 and has three ...

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169. Paul Weitz

Writer | About a Boy

Paul Weitz was born on November 19, 1965 in New York City, New York, USA as Paul J. Weitz. He is a director, writer and producer, known for Grandma (2015), About a Boy (2002), and Mozart in the Jungle (2014), for which he won a Golden Globe. He has been married to Patricia Brown since December 15, ...

About a Boy

170. Stephen Frears

Director | Dangerous Liaisons

Stephen started off in a career in the legal profession before switching to work as an assistant stage manager at London's Royal Court which led to work as an assistant director on films by Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson He directed his first short in 1967 and his feature debut, Gumshoe, in 1971....

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171. Baz Luhrmann

Writer | Moulin Rouge!

Baz Luhrmann is an Australian writer, director and producer with projects spanning film, television, opera, theater, music and recording industries. He is regarded by many as a contemporary example of an auteur for his distinctly recognizable style and deep involvement in the writing, directing, ...

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172. Franco Zeffirelli

Director | Romeo and Juliet

Franco Zeffirelli is an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television. He was also a senator from 1994 until 2001 for the Italian center-right Forza Italia party. Some of his operatic designs and productions have become worldwide classics.

He was known for several of the movies he ...

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173. Anatole Litvak

Director | The Snake Pit

The distinguished film director Anatole Litvak was born in the Ukrainian city of Kiev, the son of Jewish parents. His very first job was as a stage hand. In 1915, he became an actor, performing at a little-known experimental theater in St. Petersburg, Russia. As a teenager, he witnessed the 1917 ...

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174. Robert Stevenson

Director | Mary Poppins

Robert Stevenson was born on March 31, 1905 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for Mary Poppins (1964), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) and Nine Days a Queen (1936). He was married to Ursula Henderson, Frances Holyoke Howard, Anna Lee and Cecilie L Leslie. He ...

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175. Noboru Nakamura

Director | Koto

Noboru Nakamura was born on August 4, 1913 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963), Sekishun (1967) and Nami (1952). He died on May 20, 1981 in Japan.

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176. Kon Ichikawa

Director | Inugami-ke no ichizoku

Kon Ichikawa has been influenced by artists as diverse as Walt Disney and Jean Renoir, and his films cover a wide spectrum of moods, from the comic to the overwhelmingly ironic and even the perverse. Ichikawa began his career as a cartoonist, and this influence is apparent in his skillful use of ...

The Burmese Harp

177. Keisuke Kinoshita

Writer | Nijûshi no hitomi

Keisuke Kinoshita was born on December 5, 1912 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Twenty-Four Eyes (1954), The Ballad of Narayama (1958) and The Garden of Women (1954). He died on December 30, 1998 in Tokyo, Japan.

Immortal Love

178. Hiroshi Teshigahara

Director | Suna no onna

Hiroshi Teshigahara was born the son of Sofu Teshigahara who was the founder of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana (flower arrangement). In 1950, he graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in oil painting. In 1958, he became the director of Sogetsu Art Centre and took a ...

The Woman in the Dunes

179. Masaki Kobayashi

Director | Seppuku

Masaki Kobayashi was born on February 14, 1916 in Hokkaido, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Harakiri (1962), Samurai Rebellion (1967) and The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961). He died on October 4, 1996 in Tokyo, Japan.

Kwaidan

180. Kei Kumai

Writer | Umi to dokuyaku

Kei Kumai was born on June 1, 1929 in Nagano, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for The Sea and Poison (1986), The Long Darkness (1972) and Sandakan No. 8 (1974). He died on May 23, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan.

Sandakan 8

181. Kôhei Oguri

Director | Doro no kawa

Kôhei Oguri was born on October 29, 1945 in Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Muddy River (1981), The Sting of Death (1990) and Sleeping Man (1996).

Muddy River

182. Yôji Yamada

Writer | Tasogare Seibei

Yamada Yoji graduated Tokyo University in 1954, the year he joined Shochiku as an assistant director. In 1969, he launched the popular "Tora-san" series, the world's longest theatrical film series. "The Twilight Samurai" (The Twilight Samurai (2002)) marks his 77th film as well as his 41th year as ...

The Twilight Samurai

183. Kore-eda Hirokazu

Director | Manbiki kazoku

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

Shoplifters

184. Peter Yates

Director | Krull

Having seen Robbery (1967) and Bullitt (1968), it comes as no surprise that Peter Yates started out as a professional racing car driver and team manager - albeit briefly - before turning his attention to film. The son of a military man, he was educated at Charterhouse School and trained at RADA, ...

Bulitt The Hot Rock The Deep Breaking Away The Dresser Roommates

185. Bennett Miller

Director | Foxcatcher

Bennett Miller is an American film director, best known for Capote (2005), Moneyball (2011), and Foxcatcher (2014). He began his film career directing the 1998 documentary The Cruise.

In 2006 Miller directed the Bob Dylan music video "When the Deal Goes Down" starring Scarlett Johansson.

Miller has ...

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186. Morten Tyldum

Director | Hodejegerne

Morten Tyldum was born on May 19, 1967 in Bergen, Norway. He is a director and producer, known for Headhunters (2011), The Imitation Game (2014) and Passengers (2016).

The Imitation Game Passengers

187. John Singleton

Writer | Boyz n the Hood

Son of Danny Singleton, a mortgage broker, and Sheila Ward, a pharmaceutical company sales executive, and raised in separate households by his unmarried parents, John Singleton attended the Film Writing Program at USC, after graduating from high school in 1986. While studying there, he won three ...

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188. Lee Daniels

Producer | Precious

Lee Daniels gave his parents an early Christmas present when he entered the world on December 24, 1959; unfortunately, the Philadelphia native was to have a difficult relationship with his police officer father who later reacted violently to his son's sexuality. Despite the brutality of his ...

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189. Reginald Hudlin

Producer | Marshall

Reginald Hudlin was born on December 15, 1961 in Centerville, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Marshall (2017), House Party (1990) and Django Unchained (2012). He has been married to Chrisette Suter since November 30, 2002. They have two children.

Django Unchained Marshall

190. Dee Rees

Director | Mudbound

Writer/Director Dee Rees is an alumna of New York University's graduate film program and a Sundance Screenwriting & Directing Lab Fellow.

In 2018, Dee became the first Black woman nominated for an Oscar in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for her highly-acclaimed film Mudbound (2017). The film, ...

Mudbound

191. 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 ...

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192. Jean-Marc Vallée

Director | C.R.A.Z.Y.

Jean-Marc Vallée was a Canadian filmmaker, editor and screenwriter from Montreal. He directed Black List, C.R.A.Z.Y., The Young Victoria, Wild, Dallas Buyers Club, Los Locos, Loser Love and Café de Flore. He also created the HBO shows Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects. He was married to Chantal ...

The Young Victoria Dallas Buyers Club Wild

193. Joshua Logan

Writer | Fanny

Joshua Logan started directing plays while he was still at Princeton and among the first actors he directed were Henry Fonda and James Stewart. His graduation from Princeton was delayed to accompany a classmate to Russia to study with Konstantin Stanislavski, inventor of "method acting". ...

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194. 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), ...

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195. J.C. Chandor

Producer | A Most Violent Year

J.C. Chandor is known for A Most Violent Year (2014), Margin Call (2011) and All Is Lost (2013). He has been married to Mary Cameron Goodyear since 2004. They have two children.

Margin Call All is Lost

196. Darrell Roodt

Director | Yesterday

Darrell Roodt was born on April 28, 1962 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a director and writer, known for Yesterday (2004), Treurgrond (2015) and Dangerous Ground (1997). He is married to Ashley Hayden.

Yesterday

197. 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 ...

The Last of the Mohicans The Insider Ali Collateral The Aviator

198. Francisco Rovira Beleta

Director | Los Tarantos

Francisco Rovira Beleta was born on September 25, 1912 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for Los Tarantos (1963), Los atracadores (1962) and Bewitched Love (1967). He died on June 23, 1999 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Los tarantos Bewitched Love

199. Albert Lewin

Writer | The Picture of Dorian Gray

Albert Lewin was born on September 23, 1894 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) and The Living Idol (1957). He was married to Mildred Mindlin Jacobs. He died on May 9, 1968 in New York City, ...

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200. Robert Z. Leonard

Director | The Great Ziegfeld

Chicago-born Robert Z. Leonard studied law at the University of Colorado, but the legal profession proved not to be his forte and he dropped out in favor of a career in the theatre. When his family moved to Hollywood in 1907 Leonard sought work in the fledgling film industry, starting as an actor ...

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