Directors Movies Directed
1.
Stanley Kubrick – ‘Dr. Strangelove’, ‘2001’, ‘A Clockwork Orange’, ‘The
Shining', 'Full Metal Jacket’, ‘Eyes Wide Shut’
2. Steven
Spielberg – ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’, ‘E.T’, ‘Saving Private Ryan’,
‘Schindler’s List’, ‘Jurassic Park’
3. Martin Scorsese – ‘Raging Bull’, ‘Taxi Driver’, ‘After
Hours’, ‘Good Fellas’, ‘The Irishman’
4. Francis Ford
Coppola – ‘The Godfather 1 and 11’, ‘Apocalypse Now’, ‘The Rainmaker’
5. John
Singleton – ‘Boyz in the Hood’, ‘Shaft’, ‘Rosewood’
6. Barry
Levinson – ‘The Natural’, ‘Diner’, ‘Good Morning Vietnam’, ‘Bugsy’
7. John Landis
– ‘Animal House’, ‘The Blues Brothers’, ‘Coming to America’, ‘Trading Places’, ‘Beverly
Hills Part 3’, ‘An American Werewolf in London’
8. George Lucas
– ‘American Graffiti’, ‘Star Wars 1, 11, 111, 1V, V, V1, V11, V111, V1111’
9. Quentin
Tarantino – ‘Resevoir Dogs’, ‘Pulp Fiction’, ‘Jango Unchained’
10. Ron Howard – ‘Nightshift’,
‘Apollo 13’, ‘De Vinci Code’
11. Peter Jackson
– ‘Lord of the Rings’ (Trilogy), ‘King Kong’
12. Norman
Jewison – ‘Fiddler on the Roof’, ‘Moonstruck’, ‘Rollerball’, ‘The Hurricane’, ‘The
Thomas Crown Affair’, ‘In the Heat of the Night’
13. James Cameron
– ‘Titanic’, ‘Aliens’, ‘Avatar’ (Trilogy), ‘Terminator’ (Trilogy), ‘Rambo’
(First Blood Part 2)
14 14. Oliver Stone – ‘Platoon’, ‘Wall Street’, ‘JFK’, ‘Salvador’,
‘Born on the Fourth of July’, ‘The Doors’
15. Tim Burton – ‘Batman’,
‘Edward Scissorhands’, ‘Beetlegeuse’, ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’
16. Alfred
Hitchcock – ‘The Birds’, ‘Rear Window’, ‘Psycho’, ‘Vertigo’
17. Rob Reiner – ‘The
Princess Bride’, ‘Sleepless in Seattle’, ‘Stand By Me’, ‘This is Spinal Tap’
18. David Fincher
– ‘The Fight Club’, ‘Zodiac,’ ‘Seven’, ‘The Social Network’
19. Richard
Attenborough – ‘Gandhi’, ‘Greystroke–The Legend of Tarzan’
20. Spike Lee – ‘Do
the Right Thing’, ‘Malcolm X’
21. Tommy Chong –
‘Still Smokin’’, ‘Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie’
22. Phil Alden
Robinson (writer/director) – ‘Field of Dreams’, ‘Freedom Song’, ‘The Sum of All
Fears’
23. Alan Parker –
‘The Wall’, ‘Midnight Express’, ‘Mississippi Burning’
24. Walter Hill –
‘48 Hours’, ‘The Warriors’, ‘Johnny Handsome’
25. John Huston –
‘Casablanca’, ‘The Maltese Falcon’
26. Robert
Redford – ‘A River Runs Through it’, ‘Ordinary People’, ‘The Horse Whisperer’
27. David Lynch –
‘Elephant Man’, ‘Blue Velvet’, ‘Sleep’, (directed the T.V show Twin Peaks)
28. George Roy
Hill – ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’, ‘The Sting’
29. Brian De
Palma – ‘Scarface’, ‘Carrie’, ‘The Untouchables’, ‘Mission Impossible’, ‘Wiseguys’
30. Matt Damon
and Ben Affleck (writers and lead actors) – ‘Good Will Hunting’
31. The
Wolchowski Brothers (writers) – ‘The Matrix’
32. Harold Ramis
– ‘Caddyshack’, ‘Groundhog Day’, ‘Analyze This’, ‘Analyze That’, (co-wrote
Ghostbusters and Stripes)
33. Peter Weir – ‘Dead
Poet Society’, ‘The Year of Living Dangerously’, ‘Witness’, ‘Mosquito Coast’, ‘The
Truman Show’
34. Richard
Cronenberg – ‘The Fly’, ‘Videodrome’
35. Robert DeNiro
(actor/director) – ‘Bronx Tale’, ‘The Good Shephard’ (Leading roles
in; Taxi Driver and The Godfather 2)
36. Abel Ferrara –
‘The Bad Lieutenant’, ‘King of New York’, ‘Body Snatchers’
37. John Hughes –
‘The Breakfast Club’; ‘Planes, Trains, and Automobiles’, ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day
Off’
38. Jonathan
Demme – ‘Philadelphia’, ‘Silence of the Lambs’, ‘Innerspace’
39. Robert Zemeckis – ‘Back to the Future’ (Trilogy),
‘Romancing the Stone’, ‘Forrest Gump’
40. Jonathan Lynn
– ‘My Cousin Vinny’, ‘The Distinguished Gentleman’, ‘Clue’
41. John
Carpenter – ‘The Thing’, ‘The Fog’, ‘Halloween’, ‘Christine’, ‘Escape From New
York’
42. James L.
Brooks – ‘Terms of Endearment’, ‘As Good As it Gets’, ‘Broadcast News’
43. Roland
Emmerich – ‘Stargate’, ‘Independence Day’, ‘Godzilla’, ‘2012’
44. John Glen – ‘For
Your Eyes Only’, ‘Licence to Kill’, ‘The Living Daylights’
45. Guy Hamilton
– ‘The Man With the Golden Gun’, ‘Diamonds are Forever’, ‘Live and Let Die’,
‘Goldfinger’
46. Barbara
Streisand – ‘Yentl’, ‘The Way We Were’, ‘Nuts’
47. Adrian Lyne –
‘Fatal Attraction’, ‘Jacob’s Ladder’, ‘9 1/2 Weeks’, ‘Flashdance’, ‘Indecent
Proposal’
48. 48. Mary Lambert – ‘Pet Sematary’, ‘Pet Sematary 2’, ‘The Attic’
49. 49. Ridley Scott – ‘Alien’, ‘Bladerunner’, ‘Gladiator’, ‘Robin
Hood’, ‘American Gangster’
50. Cecile B. DeMille – ‘The Ten Commandments’ (Two versions), ‘Samson
and Delilah’, ‘Cleopatra’, ‘Adam's Rib’
51. 51. Robert Benton – ‘Kramer versus Kramer’, (also wrote the
screenplays for 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'Superman')
52. 52. Arthur Penn – ‘Bonnie and Clyde’, ‘Alice's Restaurant’
53. 53. Frank Darabont – ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, ‘The Green Mile’,
(was script doctor of 'Saving Private Ryan')
54. Michael Cimino – ‘The Deer Hunter’, ‘Year of the Dragon’, ‘The
Sicilian’
55. 55. Clint Eastwood – ‘Unforgiven’, ‘Heartbreak Ridge’, ‘Sudden
Impact’, ‘Invictus’, ‘J. Edgar’
56. 56. Roland Joffe – ‘The Killing Fields’, ‘The Mission’
57. 57. Leonard Nimoy – ‘Star Trek 3 (The Search For Spock)’, ‘Star
Trek 4 (The Voyage Home)’, ‘Three Men and a Baby’
58. 58. Sam Raimi – ‘Spiderman’, ‘Spiderman 2’, ‘Spiderman 3’
59. 59. Sam Mendez – ‘American Beauty’, ‘Skyfall’ (James Bond) ‘Spectre’
(James Bond), ‘1917’
60. 60. Justin Lin – ‘Fast and Furious’, ‘Fast Five’, ‘Fast and
Furious 6’, ‘Star Trek Beyond’
61.
Wolfgang Petersen – ‘Das Boot’, ‘Outbreak’, ‘NeverEnding Story’, ‘Poseidon’
62.
Michael Moore – ‘Roger and Me’, ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’, ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’, ‘Canadian
Bacon’, ‘Bowling for Columbine’
63.
Tom Hooper – ‘Les Miserables’, ‘The King’s Speech’, ‘Cats’, ‘The Danish
Girl’
64.
David Anspaugh – ‘Hoosiers’, ‘Rudy’
65.
Jim Sheridan – ‘My Left Foot’, ‘In the Name of the Father’, ‘The Boxer’
66.
Ivan Reitman – ‘Meatballs’, ‘Stripes’, ‘Ghostbusters’, ‘Ghostbusters 2’,
‘Twins’
67.
Mel Gibson – ‘Passion of the Christ’, ‘Braveheart’
68.
John G. Avildsen – ‘Rocky’, ‘The Karate Kid’ (Trilogy), ‘Lean on Me’
69.
Sylvester Stallone – ‘Rocky 2’, ‘Rocky 3’, ‘Rocky 4’, ‘Rocky Balboa’, ‘Rambo;
Last Blood’, ‘The Expendables’
70. Luis Llosa Urquidi – ‘The
Specialist’, ‘Anaconda’, ‘Sniper’
71.
Steve Gordon – ‘Arthur’, (directed T.V shows ‘Chico and the Man’, and ‘Barney
Miller’)
72.
Blake Edwards – ‘The Pink Panther’ (including all sequels), ‘The Party’,
‘Victor Victoria’, ‘Gunn’, ‘Peter Gunn’, ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’, ‘10’
73.
Bob Fosse – ‘Cabaret’, ‘Lenny’, ‘All That Jazz’, (won countless Tony
Awards as a playwright director)
74.
Gus Van Sant – ‘Drugstore Cowboy’, ‘Good Will Hunting’, ‘Psycho’
(remake)
75.
Sean S. Cunningham – ‘Friday the 13th’, ‘A Stranger is
Watching’, ‘Spring Break’
76.
Ted Kotcheff – ‘The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz’, ‘First Blood’, ‘Joshua
Then and Now’, ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’
77.
Steven Soderbergh – ‘Sex, Lies, and Videotape’, ‘Erin Brockovich’, ‘Ocean’s
Eleven’, ‘Ocean’s Twelve’, ‘Ocean’s Thirteen’
78.
George Seaton – ‘Miracle on 34rth Street’, ‘Diamond Horseshoe’
79.
Warren Beatty – ‘Heaven Can Wait’, ‘Reds’, ‘Dick Tracy’, ‘Bulworth’
80.
Robert Aldrich – ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’, ‘The Dirty Dozen’, ‘The Longest
Yard’, ‘The Frisco Kid’
81.
Michael Mann – ‘The Last of the Mohicans’, ‘Ali’, ‘Heat’, ‘The Insider’,
‘The Aviator’
82.
Elia Kazan – ‘Gentlemen’s Agreement’, ‘On the Waterfront’, ‘East of Eden’,
’A Streetcar Named Desire’, ‘Baby Doll’, ‘America America’
83.
James Frawley – ‘The Muppet Movie’, (directed many T.V shows including
‘Magnum P.I’, ‘Cagney and Lacey’, ‘Law and Order’, ‘Chicago Hope’, ‘Ally
McBeal’)
84.
John McTiernan Jr. – ‘Predator’, ‘Die Hard’, ‘The Hunt For Red October’,
Remakes of; ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ and ‘Rollerball’
85.
Peter Bogdanovich – ‘Mask’, ‘To Sir with Love 2’
86.
Mike Nichols – ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’, ‘The Graduate’, ‘Silkwood’
87.
Jim Sharman – ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’, ‘Shock Treatment’
88.
Roman Polanski – ‘Rosemary’s
Baby’, ‘Chinatown’, ‘Frantic’, ‘The Pianist’, ‘The Ghost Writer’, ‘Oliver Twist’
89.
Michael Ritchie – ‘The Bad News Bears’, ‘The Candidate’
90.
Penny Marshall – ‘Awakenings’, ‘A League of Their Own’, ‘Big’
91.
Mark Rydell – ‘On Golden Pond’
92.
Andrew Davis – ‘The Fugitive’, ‘Under Siege’, ‘Above the Law’
93.
Phillip Noyce – ‘Patriot Games’, ‘Clear and Present Danger’, ‘The Bone
Collector’
94.
Richard Donner – ‘Superman’, ‘Superman 2’, ‘Lethal Weapon’ (1-1V), ‘Scrooged’
95.
Sydney Pollack – ‘Tootsie’, ‘Absence of Malice’, ‘Out of Africa’, ‘The
Fabulous Baker Boys’, ‘The Firm’, ‘Sabrina’
96.
Carl Reiner – ‘The Jerk’, ‘Summer School’, ‘Oh God!’, ‘All of Me’
97.
John Badham – ‘War Games’, ‘Saturday Night Fever’
98.
Joel Schumacher – ‘Cousins’, ‘The Lost Boys’, ‘Flatliners’, ‘The Client’,
‘A Time to Kill’, ‘Batman Forever’, ‘Phantom of the Opera’
99.
Ron Shelton – ‘Bull Durham’, ‘White Men Can’t Jump’, ‘Cobb’
100.
Mel Brooks – ‘The Producers’, ‘Blazing Saddles’, ‘Young Frankenstein’, ‘History
of the World Part One’, ‘Spaceballs’
1 Honorable Mention; Cameron Crowe (Fast Times at Ridgemount High, Almost Famous, Aloha, Jerry McGuire)
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