directors & writers

1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. Lana Wachowski

Writer | The Matrix

Lana Wachowski and her sister Lilly Wachowski, also known as the Wachowskis, are the duo behind such ground-breaking movies as The Matrix (1999) and Cloud Atlas (2012). Born to mother Lynne, a nurse, and father Ron, a businessman of Polish descent, Wachowski grew up in Chicago and formed a tight ...

4. Andy Wasowski

Self | Gimme Green

5. 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, ...

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 ...

7. Xavier Gens

Director | Frontière(s)

Xavier Gens was born on April 27, 1975 in Dunkerque, Nord, France. He is a director and assistant director, known for Frontier(s) (2007), The Divide (2011) and Cell (2016). He has been married to Mounia Meddour since 2005.

8. Wes Craven

Writer | A Nightmare on Elm Street

Wes Craven has become synonymous with genre bending and innovative horror, challenging audiences with his bold vision.

Wesley Earl Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Caroline (Miller) and Paul Eugene Craven. He had a midwestern suburban upbringing. His first feature film was The Last House on ...

9. Richard Donner

Director | Superman

Richard Donner was born on April 24, 1930 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Superman (1978), Ladyhawke (1985) and Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980). He was married to Lauren Shuler Donner. He died on July 5, 2021 in Los Angeles, ...

10. 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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. Corey May

Writer | Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Corey May is known for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2010), Assassin's Creed III (2012) and Batman: Arkham Origins (2013).

13. Jeffrey Yohalem

Writer | Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Jeffrey Yohalem is known for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2010), Assassin's Creed III (2012) and Far Cry 3 (2012).

14. J.K. Rowling

Writer | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2

Joanne Rowling was born in Yate, near Bristol, a few miles south of a town called Dursley ("Harry Potter"'s Muggle-family). Her father Peter Rowling was an engineer for Rolls Royce in Bristol at this time. Her mother, Anne, was half-French and half-Scottish. They met on a train as it left King's ...

15. Stephen King

Writer | Maximum Overdrive

Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital in Portland. His parents were Nellie Ruth (Pillsbury), who worked as a caregiver at a mental institute, and Donald Edwin King, a merchant seaman. His father was born under the surname "Pollock," but used the last name ...

16. Charles Dickens

Writer | Great Expectations

Charles Dickens' father was a clerk at the Naval Pay Office, and because of this the family had to move from place to place: Plymouth, London, Chatham. It was a large family and despite hard work, his father couldn't earn enough money. In 1823 he was arrested for debt and Charles had to start ...

17. George Orwell

Writer | Nineteen Eighty-Four

Born the son of an Opium Agent in Bengal, Eric Blair was educated in England (Eton 1921). The joined the British Imperial Police in Burma, serving until 1927. He then travelled around England and Europe, doing various odd jobs to support his writing. By 1935 he had adopted the 'pen-name' of 'George...

18. Lev Tolstoy

Writer | Anna Karenina

Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in his ancestral estate Yasnaya Polyana, South of Moscow, Russia. He was the fourth of five children in a wealthy family of Russian landed Gentry. His parents died when he was a child, and he was brought up by his elder brothers and ...

19. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Writer | The Double

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born on November 11, 1821, in Moscow, Russia. He was the second of seven children of Mikhail Andreevich and Maria Dostoevsky. His father, a doctor, was a member of the Russian nobility, owned serfs and had a considerable estate near Moscow where he lived with his ...

20. J.R.R. Tolkien

Writer | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

English writer, scholar and philologist, Tolkien's father was a bank manager in South Africa. Shortly before his father died (1896) his mother took him and his younger brother to his father's native village of Sarehole, near Birmingham, England. The landscapes and Nordic mythology of the Midlands ...

21. Agatha Christie

Writer | Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie

Agatha was born as "Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller" in 1890 to Frederick Alvah Miller and Clara Boehmer. Agatha was of American and British descent, her father being American and her mother British. Her father was a relatively affluent stockbroker. Agatha received home education from early childhood ...

22. Edgar Allan Poe

Writer | Stonehearst Asylum

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, named David Poe Jr., and his mother, named Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, were touring actors. Both parents died in 1811, and Poe became an orphan before he was 3 years old. He was adopted by John Allan, a tobacco ...

23. 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 ...

24. 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 ...

25. Patrice Désilets

Writer | Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Patrice Désilets is known for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2010), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003) and Assassin's Creed (2007).

26. 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 ...

27. Robert Stromberg

Production_designer | Avatar

Robert Stromberg is known for Avatar (2009), Maleficent (2014) and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003).

28. Len Wiseman

Writer | Underworld

Filmmaker Len Wiseman's career began through his work in the art department on the blockbuster hits like Godzilla (1998), Men in Black (1997), and Independence Day (1996). His design talents soon got him behind the camera directing commercials for PlayStation, Time Warner, Oracle, Intel, and ...

29. 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 ...

30. Bill Condon

Director | Dreamgirls

Bill Condon was born on October 22, 1955 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Dreamgirls (2006), Gods and Monsters (1998) and Kinsey (2004).

31. Tom Tykwer

Writer | Lola rennt

Director, writer, producer and composer Tom Tykwer was born in 1965 in Wuppertal, Germany. He showed an interest in film-making from childhood, making super 8 films from the age of 11. Among his first jobs was working at a local art-house cinema. Tykwer eventually relocated to Berlin, first working...

32. Kenneth Branagh

Actor | Henry V

Kenneth Charles Branagh was born on December 10, 1960, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to parents William Branagh, a plumber and carpenter, and Frances (Harper), both born in 1930. He has two siblings, William Branagh, Jr. (born 1955) and Joyce Branagh (born 1970). When he was nine, his family ...

33. 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 ...

34. 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).

35. Steve Kloves

Writer | The Fabulous Baker Boys

Steve Kloves was born on March 18, 1960 in Austin, Texas, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Wonder Boys (2000) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011).

36. 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, "...

37. Morten Tyldum

Director | Hodejegerne

Morten Tyldum was born on May 19, 1967 in Bergen, Norway. He is a director and producer, known for Headhunters (2011), The Imitation Game (2014) and Passengers (2016).

38. Ti West

Director | Pearl

Ti West is most notable for directing horror films, as well as being an actor, writer, producer, and editor. Ti broke out, after directing various projects, in 2009, when he directed two feature films - 2009's The House Of The Devil and Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever. Ti later directed, with his ...

39. Brian Bloom

Actor | The A-Team

Brian Bloom is an American actor and writer known for playing Brock Pike in The A-Team, Captain America, Daredevil, Bullseye, the Silver Surfer and the Punisher in several Marvel games and cartoons, Kleiver in Jak and Daxter, Black Mask in Batman: Arkham Origins, Nick Reyes in Call of Duty: ...

40. Faruk Aksoy

Producer | Fetih 1453

Faruk Aksoy was born in 1964 in Sanliurfa, Turkey. He is a producer and director, known for Conquest 1453 (2012), Özgür Dünya (2019) and Recep Ivedik (2008).

41. Thomas Baum

Writer | The Hitchhiker

Thomas Baum was born on June 1, 1940 in New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Hitchhiker (1983), Nightmare Cafe (1992) and Witness to the Execution (1994). He has been married to Carol Baum since 1963. They have two children.

42. Sylvain Bernard

Director | Assassin's Creed: Unity

Sylvain Bernard is known for Assassin's Creed: Unity (2014), Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2010) and Assassin's Creed II (2009).

43. Shea Wageman

Producer | Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures

Shea Wageman was born on April 1, 1977 in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Shea is a producer and director, known for Young Jedi Adventures (2023), What Could Have Been (2011) and A Clown's Gift (2004).

44. M. Dooma Wendschuh

Writer | Batman: Arkham Origins

M. Dooma Wendschuh is known for Batman: Arkham Origins (2013), Terminator Salvation (2009) and Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection (2016).

45. Joshua Rubin

Writer | Assassin's Creed II

Joshua Rubin is known for Assassin's Creed II (2009), Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son (2019) and Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection (2016).

46. Alexandre Amancio

Director | Assassin's Creed: Unity

Alexandre Amancio is Senior Vice President & Head of World Building & IP Strategy at FunPlus, leading the charge on many of its AA/AAA cross-platform and transmedia initiatives.

Amancio founded Reflector Entertainment and served as its Chief Creative Officer, where he pioneered the creation of the ...

47. Alex Hutchinson

Writer | Assassin's Creed III

Alex Hutchinson is known for Assassin's Creed III (2012), Far Cry 4 (2014) and Assassin's Creed III: Remastered (2019).

48. Matt Turner

Writer | Assassin's Creed III

Matt Turner is known for Assassin's Creed III (2012), Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection (2016) and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2010).

49. Scott Phillips

Director | Assassin's Creed Odyssey - The Fate of Atlantis

Scott Phillips is known for Assassin's Creed Odyssey - The Fate of Atlantis (2019), Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Jack the Ripper (2015) and Saints Row: The Third - Gangstas in Space (2012).

50. Ramiro Bélanger

Visual_effects | 300

Ramiro Bélanger is known for 300 (2006), Clydecynic (2013) and The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D (2005).

51. Richard Farrese

Writer | Assassin's Creed III: Liberation

Richard is a professional writer, narrative designer, editor and musician. Best known for his work as the brand writer of Assassin's Creed, a popular video game franchise developed by Ubisoft, Richard worked for a decade as a freelance writer, editor and game designer.

Before joining Ubisoft he ...

52. John Karnay

Writer | Hot Tub Time Machine 2

John Karnay is known for Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015), The Matrix Online (2005) and Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (2015).

53. Ashraf Ismail

Director | Assassin's Creed: Origins - The Hidden Ones

Ashraf Ismail is known for Assassin's Creed: Origins - The Hidden Ones (2018), Assassin's Creed: Origins - The Curse of the Pharaohs (2018) and Assassin's Creed: Origins (2017).

54. Jean Guesdon

Writer | Assassin's Creed: Origins

Jean Guesdon is known for Assassin's Creed: Origins (2017), Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013) and Assassin's Creed: Origins - The Hidden Ones (2018).

55. Jonathan Dumont

Writer | Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

Jonathan Dumont is known for Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (2018), Assassin's Creed Odyssey - The Fate of Atlantis (2019) and Assassin's Creed Odyssey - Legacy of the First Blade (2018).

56. Kelly Bender

Writer | Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

Kelly Bender is a Canadian who has lived and worked in Asia for the past 12 years as a creative writer, game writer, and narrative designer.

He has been a professional writer for over 15 years, having created, written, and published over thirty comic book stories digitally, online, and in print. He ...

57. 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 ...

58. David S. Goyer

Writer | Dark City

David S. Goyer was born on December 22, 1965 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Dark City (1998), The Dark Knight (2008) and Flashforward (2009). He is married to Marina Black. They have two children. He was previously married to Jessika Borsiczky.

59. Gene Colan

Writer | Blade II

Long-time comic book artist, perhaps best known for his work at Marvel. At that company, Gene drew a revival of the Sub-Mariner in the mid-1960s; took over from artist Don Heck on Iron Man; took over from John Romita Sr. on Daredevil; spent time drawing Captain America; and launched a successful ...

60. Mark A.Z. Dippé

Director | Spawn

Mark A.Z. Dippé was born on November 9, 1956 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a director and producer, known for Spawn (1997), Jurassic Park (1993) and The Abyss (1989).

61. Todd McFarlane

Writer | Spawn

Todd McFarlane was born on March 16, 1961 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is a writer and producer, known for Spawn (1997), Venom (2018) and Spawn (1997). He has been married to Wanda Kolomyjec since July 27, 1985. They have three children.

62. Eli Roth

Producer | Thanksgiving

Eli Raphael Roth was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Cora (Bialis), a painter, and Sheldon H. Roth, a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and clinical professor. His family is Jewish (from Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Poland). He began shooting Super 8 films at the age of eight; after watching Ridley ...

63. Nicolás López

Writer | Aftershock

Writer, Director, Producer.

At age 19, López wrote and directed his first feature film: 'Promedio Rojo,' a teen comedy that Quentin Tarantino called, "The funniest movie of the year." 'Promedio Rojo' was a box-office smash in Chile and it was selected in Tokyo, SXSW, LA Film Festival. López's second...

64. Guillermo Amoedo

Writer | The Stranger

Guillermo Amoedo Schultze (born on March 2nd 1983 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a director and screenwriter working in Santiago, Chile, since 2007. Amoedo directed the TV movies El Crack (2011), Retorno (2009), La Leyenda de El Crack (2015) and the feature films The Stranger (2014) and El habitante (...

65. Taylor Hackford

Producer | Ray

In addition to helming the iconic feature hits An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Against All Odds (1984), Ray (2004), and the cult thriller The Devil's Advocate (1997), Taylor Hackford has directed the films Dolores Claiborne (1995), Everybody's All-American (1988), and Proof of Life (2000). ...

66. Tony Gilroy

Writer | Michael Clayton

Tony Gilroy was born in Manhattan, New York, New York, USA; and raised in upstate New York. His father, Frank D. Gilroy, was a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, director, and screenwriter. Tony has penned many films, including The Devil's Advocate (1997) and The Cutting Edge (1992).

67. Jonathan Lemkin

Writer | The Devil's Advocate

Jonathan Lemkin was born on April 25, 1961 in the USA. He is a writer, known for The Devil's Advocate (1997), Shooter (2007) and Red Planet (2000). He was previously married to Kiersten Warren.

68. Andrew Neiderman

Writer | The Devil's Advocate

Andrew Neiderman was born on October 26, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Devil's Advocate (1997), Aura and Rain (2006). He is married to Diane Wilson. They have two children.

69. Lorene Scafaria

Producer | Hustlers

Lorene Scafaria was born on May 1, 1978 in Holmdel, New Jersey, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Hustlers (2019), Coherence (2013) and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012).

70. Graham Moore

Writer | The Imitation Game

Graham Moore was born on October 18, 1981 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Imitation Game (2014), The Outfit (2022) and Emmerdale Farm (1972).

71. Andrew Hodges

Writer | The Imitation Game

Andrew Hodges is known for The Imitation Game (2014), Breaking the Code (1996) and Horizon (1964).

72. James Marsh

Director | The Theory of Everything

James Marsh was born on April 30, 1963 in Truro, Cornwall, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for The Theory of Everything (2014), The King (2005) and Shadow Dancer (2012).

73. Jane Hawking

Writer | The Theory of Everything

Jane Hawking was born on March 29, 1944 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She is a writer, known for The Theory of Everything (2014), Hawking (2013) and Hawking: Can You Hear Me? (2021). She has been married to Jonathan Hellyer Jones since 1997. She was previously married to Stephen Hawking.

74. Alexei Navalny

Self | Navalny

Alexei Navalny was born on June 4, 1976 in Butyn, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Navalny (2022), The Case Is Solved. I Know Everyone Who Tried to Kill Me (2020) and Parazity (2020). He was married to Yulia Navalnaya. He died on February 16, 2024 in ...

75. 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 ...

76. Allan Heinberg

Producer | The Sandman

Allan Heinberg was born on June 29, 1967 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Allan is a producer and writer, known for The Sandman (2022), Wonder Woman (2017) and The Catch (2016).

77. Patty Jenkins

Director | Wonder Woman

Patty Jenkins is a writer/director best known for directing Wonder Woman, the Warner Bros./DC Comics blockbuster of 2017, and her debut feature Monster. Patty also works in television where she is best known for the pilot and finale episode of AMC's hit show The Killing.

Patty began her career as a ...

78. Joe Wright

Director | Pride & Prejudice

Joe Wright is an English film director. He is best known for Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), and Darkest Hour (2017).

Wright always had an interest in the arts, especially painting. He would also make films on his Super 8 camera as well as spend time in the evenings...

79. Anthony McCarten

Writer | The Theory of Everything

Anthony McCarten was born on April 28, 1961 in New Plymouth, New Zealand. He is a writer and producer, known for The Theory of Everything (2014), Darkest Hour (2017) and The Two Popes (2019). He is married to Eva Maiwald. They have three children.

80. Álex de la Iglesia

Director | El bar

Álex de la Iglesia is one of the most popular and respected European filmmakers of his generation. Considered a genre of his own, based on his skill and originality in a range of cinematographic art styles, he has currently finished shooting the second season of "30 Coins", the successful HBO Max ...

81. Bernardo Bertolucci

Writer | Il conformista

Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director whose films were known for their colorful visual style, was born in Parma, Italy. He attended Rome University and became famous as a poet. He served as assistant director for Pier Paolo Pasolini in the film Accattone (1961) and directed The Grim Reaper (...

82. Nicolas Cage

Actor | Face/Off

Nicolas Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California, the son of comparative literature professor August Coppola (whose brother is director Francis Ford Coppola) and dancer/choreographer Joy Vogelsang. He is of Italian (father) and Polish and German (mother) descent. Cage changed his...

83. Steve McQueen

Director | 12 Years a Slave

Steve McQueen was born on October 9, 1969 in London, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for 12 Years a Slave (2013), Shame (2011) and Hunger (2008). He is married to Bianca Stigter. They have two children.

84. Michael Spierig

Director | Predestination

Michael Spierig was born in Germany. He is known for Predestination (2014), Daybreakers (2009) and Winchester (2018).

85. Peter Spierig

Director | Predestination

Peter Spierig was born in Germany. He is known for Predestination (2014), Daybreakers (2009) and Undead (2003).

86. 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 ...

87. David O. Russell

Director | American Hustle

David Owen Russell is an American film writer, director, and producer, known for a cinema of intense, tragi-comedic characters whose love of life can surpass dark circumstances faced in very specific worlds. His films address such themes as mental illness as stigma or hope; invention of self and ...

88. Matthew Vaughn

Producer | Kick-Ass

Matthew Vaughn is an English film producer and director. He is known for producing such films as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000) and for directing the crime thriller, Layer Cake (2004), the fantasy epic, Stardust (2007), the superhero comedy, Kick-Ass (2010), and the ...

89. Gary Ross

Writer | The Hunger Games

Gary Ross is an American writer, director and actor born November 3rd, 1956 in Los Angeles, California. His father was screenwriter Arthur A. Ross (1920 - 2008). After writing for television series The Hitchhiker (1983) in 1986, Ross broke through by penning the Tom Hanks hit Big (1988), his first ...

90. David Benioff

Producer | Game of Thrones

David Benioff was born on September 25, 1970 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Game of Thrones (2011), The Kite Runner (2007) and 25th Hour (2002). He has been married to Amanda Peet since September 30, 2006. They have three children.

91. D.B. Weiss

Producer | Game of Thrones

D.B. Weiss was born on April 23, 1971 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Game of Thrones (2011), 3 Body Problem (2024) and Metal Lords (2022). He is married to Andrea Troyer.

92. Francis Lawrence

Director | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Francis Lawrence is an American filmmaker. He started directing over sixty music videos before he directed the cult classic Keanu Reeves film Constantine, I Am Legend and Water for Elephants. He also directed The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2, and Red ...

93. Justin Haythe

Writer | Revolutionary Road

Justin Haythe is known for Revolutionary Road (2008), The Lone Ranger (2013) and A Cure for Wellness (2016).

94. Jamie Delano

Writer | Constantine

Jamie Delano was born in 1954 in Northampton, England, UK. He is a writer, known for Constantine (2005), Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie (2018) and Constantine 2.

95. Garth Ennis

Writer | The Boys

Garth Ennis was born on January 16, 1970 in Holywood, Northern Ireland, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for The Boys (2019), The Boys Presents: Diabolical (2022) and Constantine (2005).

96. Jon Spaihts

Writer | Prometheus

Jon Spaihts is an American screenwriter and author. He has written the films Dune starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, Doctor Strange starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Mummy starring Tom Cruise and Sofia Boutella, Passengers starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, Prometheus starring ...

97. J.J. Abrams

Producer | Lost

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, the son of TV producer parents. At 15, he wrote the music for Don Dohler's Nightbeast (1982). In his senior year of college, he and Jill Mazursky teamed up to write a feature film, which became Taking Care of Business (1990)....

98. Paul T. Scheuring

Producer | The Experiment

Paul T. Scheuring was born on November 20, 1968 in Aurora, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for The Experiment (2010), Den of Thieves (2018) and Prison Break (2005).

99. Chuck Lorre

Writer | Two and a Half Men

For the past twenty years, award-winning creator, executive producer and writer Chuck Lorre has conquered the entertainment industry with hit shows like Grace Under Fire (1993), Dharma & Greg (1997), Roseanne (1988) and Cybill (1995) as well as the number 1 comedy on television and four year ...

100. Bill Prady

Producer | The Big Bang Theory

Born in Detroit, Michigan. Prady began working in entertainment in 1982 at 'Jim Henson' Productions (then "Henson Associates") in New York. Prady worked on a variety of projects there, including writing for the "Jim Henson Hour" and writing "MuppetVision 3-D." the 3-D Muppet Movie that appears at ...