My Top 10 Favourite directors
by dimitard1 | created - 20 Aug 2015 | updated - 20 Aug 2015 | PublicMy Top 10 Favourire directors
1. 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...
The Rock, Armageddon and Pearl Harbor provided him this spot. In addition, he is responsible for the real positive change of the careers of actors like Will Smith, Ben Affleck and Nicolas Cage.
2. 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 ...
300 was unforgetable. Not many people give him credit for Sucker Punch, but the music and directing in that movie were exceptional.
3. 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...
May he rest in Peace. One of the greatest sins of the Academy is that he is Oscar-less. My personal favourite is Man On Fire, but I would like to mention also The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Enemy of the State and True Romance.
4. John Woo
Director | Ying hung boon sik
Born in southern China, John Woo grew up in Hong Kong, where he began his film career as an assistant director in 1969, working for Shaw Brothers Studios. He directed his first feature in 1973 and has been a prolific director ever since, working in a wide variety of genres before A Better Tomorrow ...
Face Off is the best two actors partnership for me. In addition, who can forget his action directing, shown unforgetably also in Broken Arror.
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, ...
Saving Private Ryan is undoubtedly the best war movie in the history. In addition, my other favourites are Minority report and The Terminal.
6. 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 ...
Natural Born Killers knocked me down. His movies speak for himself.
7. 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 ...
He changed the movie industry with Titanic and then with Avatar. He recently rarely directs movies, but when he does it, they are discussed with years (besides the gross sales income).
8. Roland Emmerich
Writer | Independence Day
Roland Emmerich is a German film director and producer of blockbuster films like The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Godzilla (1998), Independence Day (1996) and The Patriot (2000). Before fame, he originally wanted to be a production designer, but decided to be a director, after watching the original ...
He uses best the special effects and offers the audience exactly what it wants in this respect. My personal favourites are Independence Day, The Patriot, 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow.
9. 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 ...
The screenplay of Inception was something beyond original.Dark Night and Memento deserved him a spot in this list.
10. 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 ...
The Matrix Trilogy was undoubtedly genious. However, we are waiting for more genious movies in order to provide him a higher spot in the list.
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