Directores

by dni626 | created - 08 Nov 2012 | updated - 06 Aug 2013 | Public

1. 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 ...

(7) Películas vistas:

  • Memento [9,0]
  • El truco final [5,0]
  • Batman Begins [8,0]
  • El Caballero Oscuro [8,0]
  • Doodlebug [6,0]
  • Origen [9,0]
  • El caballero oscuro: La leyenda renace [8,0]

2. 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 ...

(6) Películas vistas:

  • Los otros [9,0]
  • Tesis [9,0]
  • Abre los ojos [7,5]
  • Mar Adentro [8,0]
  • Ágora [7,0]
  • Luna [6,5]

3. John Lasseter

Writer | Toy Story 2

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

(6) Películas vistas:

  • Toy Story [8]
  • Bichos [7,5]
  • Luxo Jr. [7,5]
  • Toy Story 2 [7]
  • Knick Knack [7]
  • Cars [6]

4. Clint Eastwood

Actor | Million Dollar Baby

Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...

(6) Películas vistas:

  • Gran Torino [7,0]
  • El intercambio [6,0]
  • Invictus [7,0]
  • Mystic River [7,0]
  • Los Puentes de Madison [8,0]
  • Más allá de la vida [8,0]

5. 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, "...

(6) Películas vistas:

  • Señora Doubtfire [6,0]
  • Solo en casa [6,5]
  • El hombre Bicentenario [6,0]
  • Harry Potter 1 [8,0]
  • Harry Potter 2 [8,0]
  • Quédate a mi lado [6,5]

6. Roman Polanski

Director | Chinatown

Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933.

His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years ...

(5) Películas vistas:

  • Oliver Twist [7,0]
  • El Pianista [8,5]
  • Un dios salvaje [7,5]
  • Chinatown [7,0]
  • Rosemary's Baby [8,0]

7. 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 ...

(5) Películas vistas:

  • Vértigo [7,5]
  • Psicosis [7,5]
  • Recuerda [7,0]
  • Con la muerte en los talones [8,0]
  • La ventana indiscreta [8,5]

8. Woody Allen

Writer | Annie Hall

Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.

Allen ...

(5) Películas vistas:

  • Misterioso asesinato en Manhattan [8,5]
  • Manhattan [7,0]
  • Match Point [8,0]
  • Desmontando a Harry [7,0]
  • Midnight in París [7,5]

9. 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 ...

(5) Películas vistas:

  • Robin Hood [6]
  • Hannibal [7]
  • Gladiator [8]
  • Blade Runner [8]
  • Alien, el octavo pasajero [8]

10. Robert Zemeckis

Writer | Back to the Future

A whiz-kid with special effects, Robert is from the Spielberg camp of film-making (Steven Spielberg produced many of his films). Usually working with writing partner Bob Gale, Robert's earlier films show he has a talent for zany comedy (Romancing the Stone (1984), 1941 (1979)) and special effect ...

(5) Películas vistas:

  • ¿Quién engañó a Roger Rabbit? [6,5]
  • La muerte os sienta tan bien [6,5]
  • Náufrago [8,0]
  • Forrest Gump [5,5]
  • Contact [7,5]

11. Wolfgang Reitherman

Director | The AristoCats

Wolfgang Reitherman was a German-born American animator who was one of Disney's Nine Old Men.

He began working for Disney in 1933, along with future Disney legends Ward Kimball and Milt Kahl. The three worked together on a number of classic Disney shorts.

Reitherman directed several Disney animated ...

(5) Películas vistas:

  • 101 dálmatas [7,5]
  • Robin Hood [7]
  • Merlín el encantador [7]
  • El libro de la selva [7]
  • Lo mejor de Winnie the Pooh [5,5]

12. 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 ...

(5) Películas vistas:

  • Mars Attacks! [6]
  • Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate [6]
  • Big Fish [8]
  • Eduardo Manos Tijeras [6]
  • Vicent [6]

13. 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 ...

(4) Películas vistas:

  • Billy Elliot [7]
  • The Reader [9]
  • Las Horas [9]
  • Tan fuerte, tan cerca [7]

14. Don Bluth

Director | Anastasia

Don Bluth was one of the chief animators at Disney to come to the mantle after the great one's death. He eventually became the animation director for such films as The Rescuers (1977) and Pete's Dragon (1977). Unfortunately, the quality of animation that Disney was producing at this point was not ...

(4) Películas vistas:

  • En busca del valle encantado [7]
  • Pulgarcita [8]
  • Anastasia [8]
  • Bartok, el magnífico [7]

15. Lee Unkrich

Editor | Coco

Lee Unkrich is an Academy Award-winning director at Pixar Animation Studios. He most recently directed Disney.Pixar's critically-acclaimed "Coco", which received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Song.

As the director of Disney.Pixar's "Toy Story 3," Lee was also awarded an ...

(4) Películas vistas:

  • Toy Story 2 [7]
  • Monstruos S.A. [7,5]
  • Buscando a Nemo [8,5]
  • Toy Story 3 [9]

16. 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, ...

(4) Películas vistas:

  • El color púrpura [7]
  • Las aventuras de Tintín y el secreto del unicornio [7]
  • La lista de Schindler [9]
  • Amistad [7,5]

17. Andrew Adamson

Director | Shrek 2

Andrew Adamson was born on December 1, 1966 in Auckland, New Zealand. He is a producer and director, known for Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek (2001) and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). He has been married to Michelle Jonas since 2018. He was previously married to ...

(4) Películas vistas:

  • Shrek [7,5]
  • Shrek 2 [8,5]
  • Las Crónicas de Narnia 1 [7,5]
  • Las Crónicas de Narnia 2 [6,5]

18. 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. ...

(4) Películas vistas:

  • Escuela de Rock [7]
  • Antes del amanecer [8]
  • Antes del atardecer [8]
  • Waking Life [3]

19. Carlos Saldanha

Writer | Rio

Carlos Saldanha is a Brazilian director of animated films. He was the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) and Rio (2011), and the co-director of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005).

Saldanha was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He left his hometown in 1991 to ...

(4) Películas vistas:

  • Ice Age [7,5]
  • Robots [5]
  • Ice Age 2 [7]
  • Ice Age 3 [6,5]

20. David Yates

Director | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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

(4) Películas vistas:

  • Harry Potter 5 [6,5]
  • Harry Potter 6 [6,5]
  • Harry Potter 7 [6]
  • Harry Potter 8 [8]

21. Rob Minkoff

Director | The Lion King

Rob Minkoff was born on August 11, 1962 in Palo Alto, California, USA. He is a producer and director, known for The Lion King (1994), Stuart Little 2 (2002) and The Forbidden Kingdom (2008). He has been married to Crystal Kung Minkoff since September 29, 2007. They have two children.

(4) Películas vistas:

  • El rey león [10]
  • Stuart Little [6]
  • Stuart Little 2 [5]
  • La mansión encantada [5]

22. Sam Raimi

Director | Spider-Man

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

(4) Películas vistas:

  • Spiderman 1 [7,5]
  • Spiderman 2 [6,5]
  • Spiderman 3 [4]
  • Arrástrame al infierno [7]


Nota Media: 6,2

23. Dennis Dugan

Actor | Happy Gilmore

Dennis Barton Dugan is an American film director, actor, comedian and screenwriter from Wheaton, Illinois who directed several films featuring Adam Sandler including Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, Jack & Jill, Grown Ups, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry and You Don't Mess With the Zohan. He also ...

(4) Películas vistas:

  • Este chico es un demonio [3,5]
  • Un papá genial [6,5]
  • Niños grandes [5]
  • Os declaro marido y marido [6]



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