The 10 Greatest Directors Of All Time
by bobdylan0114 | created - 26 Nov 2013 | updated - 26 Nov 2013 | Public
1. 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 ...
The Master of Suspense created techniques that virtually every single director has used after him. His view upon cinema as a way to virtually express yourself left him to be on of the most respected individuals in the business. The Man Who Knew Too Much, Dial M For Murder, Rear Window, Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Frenzy, are all chart topping films that are constantly being upheld as some of the greatest films in history. It could be concluded that without Hitchcock, films wouldn't be the way they are today.
2. 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 ...
The reclusive genius behind it all. His view of film as being an art form directly resembles in his films. Day of the Fight, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut are all considered to be cinema classics. Absolutely breathtaking director.
3. 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 ...
The man who created the Greatest movies of all time, The Godfather Trilogy has found unprecedented success with other films such as Brom Stokers Dracula and the Outsiders. But the only to merely even rival The Godather would be Apocalypse Now, an excellent portrayal of the Vietnam War. Excellent, excellent director.
4. 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 ...
Commonly a mob movie director, Scorsese has pondered into other genres as well. Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, his musical documentary The Last Waltz, Goodfellas, Casino, The Departed, and his newest one Hugo, are all great movies.
5. 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...
There's violence, extra violence, ultraviolence, and Quentin Tarantino violence. Tarantino has dominated the screen with his blockbuster hits, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, The Kill Bill Series, Grindhouse series, Inglourious Basterds, and his newest one Django Unchained. Really a true genius.
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, ...
The man that is almost behind every bid Hollywood production, Spielberg is one of the most famous names in the business. Jaws, E.T., Jurassic Park, the Indiana Jones Franchise, Saving Private Ryan, he is definitely a prominent figure in cinema.
7. Federico Fellini
Writer | Le notti di Cabiria
The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII - inspired the dreams that Fellini started recording in notebooks in the 1960s. Life and dreams were raw material for his films. His native Rimini and characters like Saraghina (the ...
One of the great foreign directors of film, Fellini found international success with his film The Clowns. Fellini directly collaborated with composer Nino Rota who would later collaborate with Francis Ford Coppola on composing the whole musical score for the Godfather.
8. 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...
The Godfather of violence, Kurosawa used many great techniques in his movies which engraved his name on the pantheon of Directors. Great foreign director.
9. 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 ...
Richer than hell for making the top 2 highest grossing films in history, Titanic and Avatar, he is also famous for filming Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Pretty good director.
10. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
The innovator and creator of cinema himself. No one was as influential as Charlie Chaplin. Out of the hundreds of movies he made, the most remarkable would be The Kid, The Tramp, and The Great Dictator. All hail Chaplin!
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