- Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. on May 31, 1930) is an American actor, composer, film director and producer. While his recent work as a director, on films like "Million Dollar Baby" and "Letters from Iwo Jima", is consistently praised by critics, Eastwood is perhaps most famous for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles, … - Mel Gibson
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3 1956) is an American-born actor, director, and producer raised primarily in Australia. After establishing himself as a household name with the "Mad Max" and "Lethal Weapon" series, Gibson went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning "Braveheart". Gibson's direction of "Braveheart" made him the sixth actor-turned-filmmaker to receive an Oscar for Best Director. - Ang Lee
Ang Lee (born October 23, 1954) is a film director from Taiwan. - Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director and producer. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award winner and is the highest grossing filmmaker of all time, with an estimated net worth of $3 billion. As of 2006, "Premiere" listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. "TIME" named him in the '100 Greatest People of the Century'. - Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson CNZM (born October 31, 1961) is a New Zealand filmmaker best known as the director of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, which he, along with Fran Walsh, his long time partner, and Philippa Boyens, adapted from the novels by J. R. R. Tolkien. He is also known for his 2005 remake of "King Kong". Jackson first gained attention with his "splatstick" horror comedies, … - Robert Redford
Robert Redford (born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. on August 18 1936), is a American motion picture actor, director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, and philanthropist. One of Hollywood's biggest superstars, Redford's appeal has lasted several decades. - James Cameron
James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian director, producer and screenwriter. He is noted for his action/science fiction films, which are often highly successful financially and innovatively. Thematically, James Cameron's films generally explore the relationship between man and technology. Cameron also directed the film "Titanic", which went on to become the top-grossing film of all time, with a worldwide gross of over US$1.8 billion. - John Ford
John Ford was an American film director famous for both his westerns such as "Stagecoach" and "The Searchers" and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as "The Grapes of Wrath". His win of four Best Director Academy Awards (1935, 1940, 1941, 1952) is a record till today unmatched, although only one of those films, "How Green Was My Valley", won Best Picture. His style of film-making has been tremendously influential, … - Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, writer and producer and founder of the World Cinema Foundation. He is also a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won an Academy Award as well as awards from the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, … - Woody Allen
Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, … - George Stevens
George Stevens (December 18, 1904 - March 8, 1975) was an American motion picture director, producer, writer and cinematographer. Born in Oakland, California, Stevens broke into the movie business as a cameraman, working on many Laurel and Hardy shorts. His first feature film was "The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble" in 1933. In 1934 he got his first directing job, the slapstick "Kentucky Kernels". - William Friedkin
William Friedkin (born August 29 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American movie and television director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing "The Exorcist" and "The French Connection" in the early 1970s. - Kevin Costner
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American film actor and director who has often produced his own films. - Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack (born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, producer and actor. He has directed over 21 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 films or shows, and produced over 44 films.<small> </small> Sydney Pollack is best known for directing films "Out of Africa" (Academy Awards, 1985), "Tootsie" (1982), "Three Days of the Condor" (1975), … - William Wyler
William Wyler was a prolific, Oscar-winning motion picture director. He was known to require tens of takes for every shot in his films and for demanding control over the story, location and crew of each production, yet his exacting nature and attention to detail paid off in the form of both popular and critical success. - Steven Soderbergh
Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and Oscar-winning director - Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beaty (born March 30, 1937), better known as Warren Beatty, is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. The Academy Awards honored him with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2000, presented by his close friend Jack Nicholson, while in 2004 he received a Kennedy Center Honor. In 2007, he was honored with the Cecil B. Demille Award at the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony. - Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946), known as Oliver Stone, is a American film director, and screenwriter. - Robert Wise
Robert Wise (September 10, 1914 - September 14, 2005) was an American sound effects editor, film editor, and Academy Award-winning American film producer and director. Among his many famous films are "The Sand Pebbles", "The Sound of Music", "West Side Story", "The Hindenburg", "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "Run Silent, Run Deep", "The Andromeda Strain", "The Set-Up", … - Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five-time Academy Award winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher, and hotelier. He earned an M.F.A. in film directing from the UCLA Film School. He is most renowned for directing the highly regarded "Godfather" trilogy, "The Conversation", and the Vietnam War epic "Apocalypse Now". - David Lean
Sir David Lean KBE (March 25, 1908 - April 16, 1991) was an English film director and producer, best remembered for big-screen epics such as "Lawrence of Arabia", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", and "Doctor Zhivago". He was voted 9th best director of all time in the BFI "Directors Top Directors" poll 2002. - Frank Capra
Frank Capra (18 May 1897 - 3 September 1991) was an Academy Award winning Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", among others. - Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE (born August 29 1923) is a English actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur. Attenborough has won an Academy Award, BAFTA and three Golden Globes. - Robert Zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American movie director, producer and writer. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the eighties as the director of "intricate cinematic jungle gyms" like "Back to the Future" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", though he has since diversified into more dramatic fare, including "Forrest Gump", for which he won an Oscar. - Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein was an accomplished, and award-winning motion picture director. He is known for directing "Two Arabian Knights" (1927), "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930), "The General Died at Dawn" (1936)"Of Mice and Men" (1940), "Ocean's Eleven" (1960) and "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962). Milestone was born in Kishinev (Bessarabia, Imperial Russia, now — Chişinău, Moldova), … - John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger CBE (February 16, 1926 - July 25, 2003) was an English film director. Born in London to a Jewish family, he went on to work in television as an actor after graduating from Balliol College, Oxford. One of his first movies, the documentary "Terminus" (1960), earned him a Venice Film Festival Gold Lion and a British Academy Award. He was also openly gay with his life partner of 30 years. - George Cukor
George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 - January 24, 1983) was an American film director. Cukor's career flourished at RKO Studios where he directed a string of impressive films including "What Price Hollywood?" (1932), "A Bill of Divorcement" (1932), "Dinner at Eight" (1933), "Little Women" (1933), "David Copperfield" (1935), "Romeo and Juliet" (1936), and "Camille" (1937). - Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer of film and television. After growing up in Baltimore and graduating from Forest Park Senior High School, Levinson attended American University in Washington, D.C. before moving to Los Angeles to work as an actor and writer. His first writing work was for variety shows such as "The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine", … - John Huston
John Marcellus Huston was an American film director and actor. He was known for directing several classic films, "The Maltese Falcon", "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", "Key Largo", and "The African Queen". - Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder was an Austrian-born, Jewish-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Many of Wilder's films achieved both critical and public acclaim. - Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme (born February 22 1944, in Baldwin, New York) is an Academy Award winning American film director, producer and writer. Demme broke into feature film directing working for Roger Corman. His first mainstream feature "Melvin and Howard" caught the eye of Hollywood and he was signed to direct the Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell vehicle "Swing Shift". - Ron Howard
Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954 in Duncan, Oklahoma) is a American actor, film director, and producer, primarily for his roles on sitcoms, movies and television, who came to prominence in the 1960s as Andy Griffith's son, Opie Taylor, on "The Andy Griffith Show", and later as Tom Bosley's son & Henry Winkler's best friend, Richie Cunningham, on "Happy Days" (a role he played from 1974 to 1980). - Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd (born 2 February 1886 in Glasgow, UK, died 10 August 1960 in Santa Monica, California, United States) was a film director, scriptwriter and producer. Lloyd was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and its president between 1934 and 1935. - Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born November 6 1931) is an American Emmy Award, Academy Award, Grammy Award, and Tony Award-winning stage and film director, writer, and producer. Born Michael Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin, Germany, he and his German-Russian Jewish family moved to the United States to flee the Nazis in 1939. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944. While attending the University of Chicago in the 1950s, … - Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage (April 23, 1894 –- June 19, 1962) was an American film director and actor famed for his mystical romanticism. Borzage's father, Luigi, was born in Roncone, Austria-Hungary in 1859. As a stone mason, he sometimes worked in Switzerland; he met his future wife, Maria Ruegg (1860, Ricken - 1947), in Zürich, where she worked in a silk factory. - Leo McCarey
Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 - July 5, 1969) was a film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his great elegance and his fine sense of humour. French director Jean Renoir once said that no other Hollywood director understood people better than Leo McCarey. Born in Los Angeles, California, he began in the movie business as an assistant director to Tod Browning in 1920, … - Norman Taurog
Norman Taurog, (February 23, 1899 - April 7, 1981) was an American film director born in Chicago, Illinois. Between 1920 and 1968 he directed over 140 films. Taurog won the 1931 Oscar for Best Director for the film Skippy and still holds the record as the youngest director to win that award, 32. He was later nominated for Best Director for his 1938 film, Boys Town. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, … - Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933) is a film director, writer, actor and producer. After beginning his career in Poland, he became a celebrated arthouse filmmaker, and Hollywood director of such films as "Rosemary's Baby" (1968) and "Chinatown" (1974). He is also known for his tumultuous personal life. In 1969, his wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered by the Manson Family. - Robert Benton
Robert Benton (born September 29, 1932 in Waxahachie, Texas) is an American screenwriter and film director. He has enjoyed a highly successful career in film, winning numerous prestigious awards for both writing and directing. He was also the art director at "Esquire" magazine in the early 1960s. - Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella (born January 6, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was born on the Isle of Wight to an Italian/Scottish father and a mother who came from Leeds, whose ancestors originally came from Valvori, a small village in the Lazio region of central Italy. He went to Sandown Grammar School and St John's College (Portsmouth).
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