Thursday, November 26, 2020

Directors - by Moses

       

        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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