My 10 Favorite Filmmakers
by grayson-lazarus | created - 23 Aug 2014 | updated - 15 Aug 2018 | Public*Movies that they directed that I have seen ranked*
1. 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 ...
A Clockwork Orange Barry Lyndon 2001: A Space Odyssey The Shining (1980) Eyes Wide Shut Dr. Strangelove Lolita (1962) Paths of Glory Full Metal Jacket The Killing Killer's Kiss Spartacus Fear and Desire
2. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.
In January of...
Pulp Fiction The Hateful Eight Kill Bill Vol. 1 Inglorious Bastards True Romance Kill Bill Vol. 2 Reservoir Dogs Django Unchained Jackie Brown Death Proof From Dusk Till Dawn Natural Born Killers
3. 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...
Hot Fuzz Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Shaun of the Dead Baby Driver The World's End
4. Gore Verbinski
Director | Rango
Gore Verbinski, one of American cinema's most inventive directors who was a punk-rock guitarist as a teenager and had to sell his guitar to buy his first camera, is now the director of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) which made the industry record for highest opening weekend of ...
The Curse of the Black Pearl Dead Man's Chest At World's End The Ring Rango The Lone Ranger The Weather Man A Cure for Wellness
5. 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 ...
The Big Lebowski Burn After Reading Inside Llewen Davis Fargo Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Barton Fink Raising Arizona No Country for Old Men True Grit (2010) A Serious Man Bridge of Spies Hail, Caesar!
6. 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, ...
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Jaws Jurassic Park Catch Me If You Can Schindler's List Raiders of the Lost Ark Temple of Doom War of the Worlds Saving Private Ryan The Last Crusade Close Encounters of the Third Kind Poltergeist Lincoln Bridge of Spies The Post Munich Kingdom of the Crystal Skull The Lost World: Jurassic Park
7. 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...
The Master Phantom Thread Punch-Drunk Love There Will Be Blood Magnolia Boogie Nights Inherent Vice Hard Eight
8. Charlie Kaufman
Writer | I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Avid reader Charlie Kaufman wrote plays and made short films as a young student. He moved from Massapequa, New York to West Hartford, Connecticut in 1972 where he attended high school. As a comedic actor, he performed in school plays and, after graduation, he enrolled at Boston University but soon ...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Anomalisa Adaptation Being John Malkovich
9. John Carpenter
Writer | The Fog
John Howard Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, to mother Milton Jean (Carter) and father Howard Ralph Carpenter. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky ...
The Thing (1982) Escape From New York Big Trouble in Little China Prince of Darkness Christine Vampires The Fog (1980) Halloween (1978) Memoirs of an Invisible Man The Eyes of Laura Mars Halloween II (1981) Escape From L.A. Dark Star The Ward Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) Someone's Watching Me They Live Starman In the Mouth of Madness Village of the Damned (1995) Elvis Black Moon Rising
10. 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 ...
Eraserhead Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Blue Velvet Mulholland Drive Wild at Heart Inland Empire
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