Top Directors... Top Movies

1. Quentin Tarantino

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...

Best movies:

1. Inglourious Basterds (2009) 2. Kill Bill I & II (2003, 2004) 3. Django Unchained (2012) 4. Pulp Fiction (1994) 5. Reservoir Dogs (1992) 6. Death Proof (2007)

2. David Cronenberg

Actor | The Fly

David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of Blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father, Milton Cronenberg, was a journalist and editor, and his mother, Esther (Sumberg), was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early...

Best movies:

1. The Fly (1986) 2. Eastern Promises (2007) 3. A History of Violence (2005) 4. eXistenZ (1999) 5. Dead Ringers (1988) 6. Videodrome (1983)

3. 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 ...

Best movies:

1. The Terminator I & II (1984, 1991) 2. Aliens (1986) 3. Avatar (2009) 4. The Abyss (1989) 5. Titanic (1997) 6. True Lies (1994)

4. 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 ...

Best movies:

1. A Clockwork Orange (1971) 2. Dr. Strangelove (1964) 3. Shining (1980) 4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 5. Full Metal Jacket (1987) 6. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

5. 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 ...

Best movies:

1. Edward Scissorhands (1990) 2. Sleepy Hollow (1999) 3. Batman I & II (1989, 1992) 4. Corpse Bride (2005) 5. Alice in Wonderland (2010) 6. Big Fish (2003)

6. 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 ...

Best movies:

1. The Dark Knight I & II (2008, 2012) 2. Inception (2010) 3. Interstellar (2015) 4. Memento (2000) 5. Batman Begins (2005) 6. The Prestige (2006)

7. 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, ...

Best movies:

1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 2. Jurassic Park (1993) 3. Catch Me If You Can (2002) 4. Saving Private Ryan (1998) 5. Schindler's List (1993) 6. Minority Report (2002)

8. 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...

Best Movies:

1. Fight Club (1999) 2. Se7en (1995) 3. The Game (1997) 4. Gone Girl (2014) 5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) 6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

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 ...

Best movies:

1. Blade Runner (1982) 2. Alien (1979) 3. The Martian (2015) 4. Gladiator (2000) 5. American Gangster (2007) 6. Black Hawk Down (2001)

10. Robert Rodriguez

Producer | El mariachi

Robert Anthony Rodriguez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, USA, to Rebecca (Villegas), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodríguez, a salesman. His family is of Mexican descent.

Of all the people to be amazed by the images of John Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi parable, Escape from New York (1981), none ...

Best movies:

1. Sin City (2005) 2. Desperado (1995) 3. From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) 4. Planet Terror (2007) 5. El Mariachi (1992) 6. The Faculty (1998)

11. 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 ...

Best movies:

1. Twelve Monkeys (1995) 2. Brazil (1985) 3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) 4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 5. The Meaning of Life (1983) 6. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

12. 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 ...

Best movies:

1. Requiem for a Dream (2000) 2. Black Swan (2010) 3. The Wrestler (2008) 4. The Fountain (2006) 5. Pi (1998)

13. 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 ...

Best movies:

1. Goodfellas (1990) 2. The Departed (2005) 3. Shutter Island (2010) 4. Gangs of New York (2002) 5. Hugo (2011) 6. Casino (1995)

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 ...

Best movies:

1. The Godfather trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990) 2. Rumble Fish (1983) 3. Apocalypse Now (1979) 4. The Rainmaker (2006) 5. Dracula (1992) 6. Youth Without Youth (2007)

15. Danny Boyle

Director | 127 Hours

Daniel Francis Boyle is a British filmmaker, producer and writer from Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. He is known for directing 28 Days Later, 127 Hours, Trainspotting, T2 Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, Millions, Shallow Grave, The Beach, Yesterday, and Steve Jobs. He won many awards for ...

Best movies:

1. Trainspotting (1996) 2. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 3. 28 Days Later (2002) 4. The Beach (2000) 5. 127 Hours (2010) 6. Steve Jobs (2015)

16. Luc Besson

Writer | Le Cinquième Élément

Luc Besson spent the first years of his life following his parents, scuba diving instructors, around the world. His early life was entirely aquatic. He already showed amazing creativity as a youth, writing early drafts of The Big Blue (1988) and The Fifth Element (1997), as an adolescent bored in ...

Best movies:

1. Léon (1994) 2. Nikita (2001) 3. The Fifth Element (1997) 4. Angel-A (2005) 5. Malavita (2013) 6. Joan of Arc (1999)

17. Paul Verhoeven

Director | RoboCop

Paul Verhoeven graduated from the University of Leiden, with a degree in math and physics. He entered the Royal Netherlands Navy, where he began his film career by making documentaries for the Navy and later for TV. In 1969, he directed the popular Dutch TV series, Floris (1969), about a medieval ...

Best movies:

1. Total Recall (1990) 2. Robocop (1987) 3. Starship Troopers (1997) 4. Black Book (2006) 5. Basic Instinct (1992) 6. Turkish Delight (1973)

18. 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/...

Best movies:

1. Delicatessen (1991) 2. Amélie (2001) 3. The City of Lost Children (1995) 4. Alien: Resurrection (1997) 5. Micmacs (2009) 6. A Very Long Engagement (2004)

19. 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 ...

Best movies:

1. Blue Velvet (1986) 2. Mulholland Drive (2001) 3. Lost Highway (1997) 4. The Elephant Man (1980) 5. Eraserhead (1977) 6. Twin Peaks (1990-1991)

20. 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 ...

Best movies:

1. Dogville (2003) 2. Nymphomaniac vol.I & II (2013) 3. Melancholia (2011) 4. Dancer in the Dark (2000) 5. Breaking the Waves (1996) 6. Antichrist (2009)

21. 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 ...

Best movies:

1. They Live (1988) 2. Escape from New York (1981) 3. The Thing (1982) 4. In the Mouth of Madness (1994) 5. Halloween (1978) 6. Vampires (1998)

22. Pedro Almodóvar

Writer | Hable con ella

The most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel was born in a small town (Calzada de Calatrava) in the impoverished Spanish region of La Mancha. He arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survived by selling used items in the flea-market called El Rastro. Almodóvar couldn't study ...

Best movies:

1. The Skin I Live In (2011) 2. Volver (2006) 3. Talk to Her (2002) 4. All About my Mother (1999) 5. Bad Education (2004) 6. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

23. Giuseppe Tornatore

Director | La migliore offerta

Giuseppe Tornatore was born on May 27, 1956 in Bagheria, Sicily, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for The Best Offer (2013), Cinema Paradiso (1988) and The Legend of 1900 (1998). He is married to Roberta Pacetti.

Best movies:

1. Cinema Paradiso (1998) 2. The Legend of 1900 (1998) 3. The Best Offer (2013) 4. Malèna (2000) 5. A Pure Formality (1994) 6. The Unknown Woman (2006)

24. 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 ...

... and Ethan Coen

Best movies:

1. No Country for Old Men (2007) 2. Miller's Crossing (1990) 3. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) 4. True Grit (2010) 5. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) 6. Fargo (1996)

25. Steven Soderbergh

Director | Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Steven Andrew Soderbergh was born on January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the second of six children of Mary Ann (Bernard) and Peter Soderbergh. His father was of Swedish and Irish descent, and his mother was of Italian ancestry. While he was still at a very young age, his family moved to ...

Best movies:

1. Ocean's trilogy (2001, 2004, 2007) 2. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) 3. Traffic (2000) 4. Side Effects (2013) 5. Erin Brockovich (2000) 6. Out of Sight (1998)

26. Zack Snyder

Director | 300

Zachary Edward "Zack" Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter, best known for action and science fiction films. Snyder made his feature film debut with the 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead and has gone on to be known for his comic book movies and ...

Best movies:

1. 300 (2006) 2. Watchmen (2009) 3. Dawn of the Dead (2004) 4. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) 5. Man of Steel (2013) 6. Sucker Punch (2011)

27. 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 ...

Best movies: 1. Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001, 2002, 2003) 2. Braindead (1992) 3. Heavenly Creatures (1994) 4. The Hobbit (2012, 2013) 5. King Kong (2005) 6. The Frighteners (1998)

28. Guillermo del Toro

Writer | El laberinto del fauno

Guillermo del Toro was born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Raised by his Catholic grandmother, del Toro developed an interest in filmmaking in his early teens. Later, he learned about makeup and effects from the legendary Dick Smith (The Exorcist (1973)) and worked on making his ...

Best movies:

1. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) 2. Hellboy I & II (2004, 2008) 3. The Devil's Backbone (2001) 4. Cronos (1993) 5. Pacific Rim (2013) 6. Blade II (2002)

29. Tony Scott

Producer | Domino

Tony Scott was a British-born film director and producer. He was the youngest of three brothers, one of whom is fellow film director Ridley Scott. He was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England to parents Jean and Colonel Francis Percy Scott. As a result of his father's career in the British...

Best movies:

1. True Romance (1993) 2. Déjà Vu (2006) 3. Man on Fire (2004) 4. Top Gun (1986) 5. Enemy of the State (1998) 6. Days of Thunder (1990)

30. 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 ...

Best movies:

1. Million Dollar Baby (2004) 2. Gran Torino (2008) 3. Unforgiven (1992) 4. Changeling (2008) 5. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) 6. Invictus (2009)

31. 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 ...

Best movies:

1. City of God (2002) 2. Blindness (2008) 3. The Constant Gardner (2005) 4. City of Men (2002-2005) 5. Maids (2001)

32. Lilly Wachowski

Writer | The Matrix

Director, writer, and producer Lilly Wachowski was born in 1967 in Chicago, the daughter of Lynne, a nurse and painter, and Ron, a businessman. Lilly was educated at Kellogg Elementary School in Chicago, before moving on to Whitney M. Young High School. After graduating from high school, she ...

... and Larry Wachowski

Best movies:

1. The Matrix Trilogy (1999, 2003) 2. Cloud Atlas (2012) 3. Bound (1996) 4. Speed Racer (2008)

33. 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 ...

1. Back to the Future Trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990) 2. Forrest Gump (1994) 3. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) 4. Cast Away (2000) 5. Contact (1997)

34. 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...

Best movies:

1. The Island (2005) 2. The Rock (1996) 3. Transformers Anthology (2007, 2009, 2011, 2014) 4. Armaggedon (1998) 5. Bad Boys I & II (1995, 2003)

35. Emir Kusturica

Director | Underground

A Serbian film director. Born in 1954 in Sarajevo. Graduated in film directing at the prestigious Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague in 1978. During his studies, he was awarded several times for his short movies including Guernica (1978), which took first prize at the Student's Film ...

Best movies:

1. Black Cat, White Cat (1998) 2. Underground (1995) 3. Time of the Gypsies (1988) 4. Life is a Miracle (2004) 5. Arizona Dream (1992)

36. Frank Darabont

Writer | The Shawshank Redemption

Three-time Oscar nominee Frank Darabont was born in a refugee camp in 1959 in Montbeliard, France, the son of Hungarian parents who had fled Budapest during the failed 1956 Hungarian revolution. Brought to America as an infant, he settled with his family in Los Angeles and attended Hollywood High ...

Best movies:

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 2. The Walking Dead (2010-2015) 3. Green Mile (1999) 4. The Mist (2007) 5. The Majestic (2001)

37. 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 ...

Best movies:

1. Unbreakable (2000) 2. The Sixth Sense (1999) 3. The Village (2004) 4. Signs (2002) 5. The Happening (2008)

38. Alex Proyas

Director | Dark City

Alex Proyas has moved effortlessly between helming TV commercials and music videos to feature films. Born to Greek parents in Egypt, Proyas relocated to Australia with his family when he was three years old. He began making films at age ten and went on to attend the Australian Film Television and ...

Best movies: 1. Dark City (1998) 2. I, Robot (2004) 3. The Crow (1994) 4. Knowing (2009)

39. Vincenzo Natali

Director | Cube

Vincenzo Natali was born on January 6, 1969 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Cube (1997), In the Tall Grass (2019) and Cypher (2002).

Best movies:

1. Cube (1997) 2. Cypher (2002) 3. Nothing (2003) 4. Splice (2009)

40. Ang Lee

Director | Wo hu cang long

Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of today's greatest contemporary filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then came to the U.S. to receive a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre/Theater Direction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ...

Best movies:

1. Life of Pi (2012) 2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) 3. Brokeback Mountain (2005) 4. Lust, Caution (2007) 5. The Ice Storm (1997)

41. Oliver Stone

Director | JFK

Oliver Stone has become known as a master of controversial subjects and a legendary film maker. His films are filled with a variety of film angles and styles, he pushes his actors to give Oscar-worthy performances, and despite his failures, has always returned to success.

William Oliver Stone was ...

Best movies:

1. Natural Born Killers (1994) 2. The Doors (1991) 3. Platoon (1986) 4. Savages (2012) 5. Wall Street (1987)

42. 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...

Best movies:

1. There Will Be Blood (2007) 2. Boogie Nights (1997) 3. Magnolia (1999) 4. Hard Eight (1996) 5. Inherent Vice (2014)

43. 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 ...

Best movies:

1. Match Point (2005) 2. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) 3. Midnight in Paris (2011) 4. Annie Hall (1977) 5. Sleeper (1973) 6. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

44. Alfonso Cuarón

Producer | Gravity

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then ...

Best movies:

1. Children of Men (2006) 2. Gravity (2013) 3. And Your Mother Too (2001) 4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) 5. A Little Princess (1995)

45. Guy Ritchie

Director | Sherlock Holmes

Guy Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK on September 10, 1968. After watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as a child, Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make films. He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and ...

Best Movies:

1. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 2. Snatch (2000) 3. Sherlock Holmes I & II (2009, 2011) 4. RocknRolla (2008) 5. Revolver (2005)

46. 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 ...

Best movies:

1. Rango (2011) 2. The Ring (2002) 3. Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy (2003, 2006, 2007) 4. The Lone Ranger (2013) 5. The Mexican (2001)

47. Brett Ratner

Director | Red Dragon

Brett Ratner is one of Hollywood's most successful filmmakers. His diverse films resonate with audiences worldwide and, as director, his films have grossed over $2 billion at the global box office. Brett began his career directing music videos before making his feature directorial debut at 26 years...

Best movies:

1. Red Dragon (2002) 2. Rush Hour Trilogy (1998, 2001, 2007) 3. After the Sunset (2004) 4. Tower Heist (2011) 5. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

48. 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. ...

Best Movies:

1. Before Trilogy (Sunrise, Sunset, Midnight) (1995, 2004, 2013) 2. Dazed and Confused (1993) 3. A Scanner Darkly (2006) 4. Waking Life (2001) 5. Boyhood (2014)

49. 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 ...

Best movies:

1. The Pianist (2002) 2. Chinatown (1974) 3. Rosemary's Baby (1968) 4. The Ninth Gate (1999) 5. Carnage (2011)

50. David Ayer

Producer | End of Watch

David Ayer is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. David Ayer was born in Champaign, Illinois and grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota, and Bethesda, Maryland, where he was kicked out of his house by his parents as a teenager. Ayer then lived with his cousin in Los Angeles, ...

Best movies:

1. End of Watch (2012) 2. Fury (2014) 3. Training Day (2001) 4. Suicide Squad (2016) 5. Street Kings (2008)