Fantasy Producers League
by dan_dassow | created - 13 Jan 2016 | updated - 12 Apr 2016 | PublicThe Fantasy Producers League is like a fantasy sports league. The producer selects a genre, director, screenwriter, leading actor and leading actress. A director, screenwriter, leading actor and leading actress may only be selected once on a first-come basis. Genres may be selected multiple times.
Which of these production teams interest you the most?
After voting, discuss and/or suggest additional teams here.
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 ...
Genre: Science Fiction, Director: Stanley Kubrick, Screenwriter: J. Michael Straczynski, Lead Actor: James Stewart, Lead Actress: Katharine Hepburn
2. 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, ...
Genre: Adventure, Director: Steven Spielberg, Screenwriter: Andrew Kevin Walker, Lead Actor: Gary Oldman, Lead Actress: Cate Blanchett
3. John Ford
Director | The Quiet Man
John Ford came to Hollywood following one of his brothers, an actor. Asked what brought him to Hollywood, he replied "the train". He became one of the most respected directors in the business, in spite of being known for his westerns, which were not considered "serious" film. He won six Oscars, ...
Genre: Western, Director: John Ford, Screenwriter: Howard Hawks, Lead Actor: John Wayne, Lead Actress: Maureen O'Hara
4. 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...
Genre: Crime, Action, Director: Quentin Tarantino, Screenwriter: Christopher McQuarrie, Lead Actor: Tom Hardy, Lead Actress: Emily Blunt
5. 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 ...
Genre: Crime Drama, Director: Bong Joon Ho, Screenwriter: John Woo, Lead Actor: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Lead Actress: Carina Lau
6. 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 ...
Genre: Biography, Music, Director: Ron Howard, Screenwriter: Satyajit Ray, Lead Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lead Actress: Viola Davis
7. 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 ...
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Director: Wes Anderson, Screenwriter: Simon Pegg, Lead Actor: Heath Ledger, Lead Actress: Lizzy Caplan
8. 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 ...
Genre: Crime, Drama, Director: Martin Scorsese, Screenwriter: Nicholas Pileggi, Lead Actor: Al Pacino. Lead Actress: Monica Bellucci
9. 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 ...
Genre: Romantic Comedy, Director: Billy Wilder, Screenwriter: Nora Ephron, Lead Actor: Tom Hanks, Lead Actress: Audrey Hepburn
10. 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...
Genre: Historical fiction, Director: Akira Kurosawa, Screenwriter: John Huston, Lead Actor: Humphrey Bogart, Lead Actress: Lauren Bacall
11. Satoshi Kon
Writer | Tôkyô goddofâzâzu
Satoshi Kon was born in 1963. He studied at the Musashino College of the Arts. He began his career as a Manga artist. He then moved to animation and worked as a background artist on many films (including Roujin Z (1991) by 'Katsuhiro Otomo'). Then, in 1995, he wrote an episode of the anthology film ...
Genre: science fiction, Director: Satoshi Kon, Screenwriter: Margaret Atwood, Lead Actor: Christian Bale, Lead Actress: Jennifer Lawrence
12. Yimou Zhang
Director | Ying xiong
Yimou Zhang was born on November 14, 1951 in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. He is a director and writer, known for Hero (2002), House of Flying Daggers (2004) and Curse of the Golden Flower (2006). He has been married to Ting Chen since December 2011. They have three children. He was previously married to ...
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Director: Yimou Zhang, Screenwriter: Richard Linklater, Lead Actor: Miles Teller, Lead Actress: Alicia Vikander
13. 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 ...
Genre: Biopic, Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Screenwriters: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Lead Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, Lead Actress: Cate Blanchett
14. 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 ...
Genre: Crime, Drama, Director: Francis Ford Coppola, Screenwriter: Charlie Kaufman, Lead Actor: Robert De Niro, Lead Actress: Scarlett Johansson
15. 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 ...
Genre: Thriller/Suspense, Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Screenwriter: Rod Serling, Lead Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lead Actress: Grace Kelly
16. 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 ...
Genre: a Star Wars films set at least 500 years before or after the official 7 Star Wars films, Director: John Carpenter, Screenwriter: Martin McDonagh, Lead Actor: Ralph Fiennes, Lead Actress: Linda Hamilton
17. Lars von Trier
Writer | Dancer in the Dark
Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and attracted international attention with his very first feature, The Element of Crime (1984). A highly ...
Genre: Horror, Director: Lars von Trier, Screenwriter: Stephen King, Lead Actor: Mads Mikkelsen, Lead Actress: Penélope Cruz
18. Jared Hess
Director | Napoleon Dynamite
Jared Lawrence Hess and Jerusha Elizabeth Hess (née Demke; born May 12, 1980) are husband-and-wife American filmmakers best known for their work on Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Nacho Libre (2006) and Gentlemen Broncos (2009), all of which they co-wrote and which were directed by Jared (Nacho Libre was...
Genre: Comedy, Director: Jared Hess, Screenwriter: John Hughes, Lead Actor: John Candy, Lead Actress: Zooey Deschanel
19. 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 ...
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Director: Tim Burton, Screenwriter: Sam Raimi, Lead Actor: Bruce Campbell, Lead Actress: Carey Mulligan
20. 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 ...
Genre: Action, Director: Christopher Nolan, Screenwriter: Jonathan Nolan, Lead Actor: Tom Cruise, Lead Actress: Angelina Jolie
21. 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...
Genre: Action, Crime, Director: Michael Bay, Screenwriter: David Ayer, Lead Actor: Iko Uwais, Lead Actress: Rachel McAdams
22. 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 ...
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Director: Peter Jackson, Screenwriter: Ted Elliott, Lead Actor: Johnny Depp, Lead Actress: Emma Watson
23. 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...
Date Added: 29-Mar-2016, Genre: Action, Thriller, Director: David Fincher, Screenwriter: Paul Thomas Anderson, Lead Actor: Michael Fassbender, Lead Actress: Margot Robbie
24. 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 (...
Date Added: 12-Apr-2016 Genre: Drama, Director: Ingmar Bergman, Screenwriter: Sidney Lumet, Lead Actor: Benedict Cumberbatch, Lead Actress: Marion Cotillard
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