My Favorite Directors
by Jack_Coen | created - 28 Sep 2010 | updated - 3 months ago | Public
1. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.
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1- Pulp Fiction 2- Inglourious Basterds 3- Reservoir Dogs 4- Kill Bill 1 & 2 5- Django Unchained 6- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 7- The Hateful Eight 8- Jackie Brown 9- Death Proof 10- True Romance (written by) 11- Natural Born Killers (story) 12- Four Rooms 13- My Best Friend's Birthday (short film)
2. Paul Thomas Anderson
Director | Punch-Drunk Love
Anderson was born in 1970. He was one of the first of the "video store" generation of film-makers. His father was the first man on his block to own a V.C.R., and from a very early age Anderson had an infinite number of titles available to him. While film-makers like Spielberg cut their teeth making...
1- Magnolia 2- The Master 3- There Will Be Blood 4- Boogie Nights 5- Punch-Drunk Love 7- Phantom Thread 8- Inherent Vice 9- Hard Eight 10- Licorice Pizza
3. 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 ...
1- Black Swan 2- Requiem for a Dream 3- The Fountain 4- The Wrestler 5- Pi 6- The Whale 7- Mother! 8- Noah 9- Below (written by)
4. Joel Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Joel Daniel Coen is an American filmmaker who regularly collaborates with his younger brother Ethan. They made Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail Caesar and other projects. Joel ...
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1- No Country for Old Men
2- Fargo
3- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
4- Miller's Crossing
5- Blood Simple.
6- Barton Fink
7- A Serious Man
8- The Man Who Wasn't There
9- The Hudsucker Proxy
10- Burn After Reading
11- True Grit
12- Raising Arizona
13- The Ladykillers
14- Intolerable Cruelty
15- Paris, je t'aime
16- Crimewave
17- Inside Llewyn Davis
5. David Lynch
Writer | Twin Peaks
Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future ...
1- Mulholland Dr. 2- The Elephant Man 3- Lost Highway 4- The Straight Story 5- Wild at Heart 6- Inland Empire 7- Blue Velvet 8- Eraserhead 9- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 10- Dune
6. Martin Scorsese
Producer | Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later ...
1- Taxi Driver 2- Goodfellas 3- Raging Bull 4- The Departed 5- Shutter Island 6- Gangs of New York 7- The Wolf of Wall Street 8- Mean Streets 9- Cape Fear 10- Hugo 11- The Aviator 12- After Hours 13- The Age of Innocence 14- The Last Temptation of Christ 15- Casino 16- Bringing Out the Dead 17- The Color of Money 18- The King of Comedy 19- Kundun 20- Killers of the Flower Moon 21- The Irishman
7. Park Chan-wook
Director | Oldeuboi
Park Chan-wook was born on August 23, 1963 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a producer and director, known for Oldboy (2003), The Handmaiden (2016) and Decision to Leave (2022). He is married to Eun-hee Kim. They have one child.
1- Oldboy 2- Joint Security Area 3- Mr. Vengeance 4- Lady Vengeance 5- Thirst 6- Stoker 7- I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK 8- Three... Extremes 9- Judgment (short) 10- Night Fishing (short)
8. 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 ...
1- 2001: A Space Odyssey 2- The Shining 3- Paths of Glory 4- Eyes Wide Shut 5- The Killing 6- Barry Lyndon 7- Dr. Strangelove 8- A Clockwork Orange 9- Full Metal Jacket 10- Lolita 11- Spartacus 12- Killer's Kiss 13- Fear and Desire 14- Flying Padre (short) 15- The Seafarers (short) 16- Day of the Fight (short)
9. Francis Ford Coppola
Producer | Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola (née Pennino), had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated ...
1- The Godfather 2- The Godfather: Part II 3- The Godfather: Part III 4- Apocalypse Now 5- The Conversation 6- Dracula 7- Tetro 8- The Rainmaker 9- The Outsiders 10- Tucker: The Man and His Dream
10. Sergio Leone
Writer | Once Upon a Time in America
Sergio Leone was virtually born into the cinema - he was the son of Roberto Roberti (A.K.A. Vincenzo Leone), one of Italy's cinema pioneers, and actress Bice Valerian. Leone entered films in his late teens, working as an assistant director to both Italian directors and U.S. directors working in ...
1- Once Upon a Time in America 2- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 3- Once Upon a Time in the West 4- A Fistful of Dollars 5- For a Few Dollars More
11. Jim Jarmusch
Director | Paterson
Moved to New York City at the age of seventeen from Akron, Ohio. Graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in English, class of '75. Without any prior film experience, he was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts, New York.
1- Night on Earth 2- Dead Man 3- Broken Flowers 4- Down by Law 5- Ghost Dog 6- Mystery Train 7- Stranger Than Paradise 8- Permanent Vacation 9- Coffee and Cigarettes 10- The Limits of Control
12. David Fincher
Director | Se7en
David Fincher was born in 1962 in Denver, Colorado, and was raised in Marin County, California. When he was 18 years old he went to work for John Korty at Korty Films in Mill Valley. He subsequently worked at ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) from 1981-1983. Fincher left ILM to direct TV commercials...
1- Se7en 2- Fight Club 3- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 4- Gone Girl 5- Zodiac 6- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 7- Panic Room 8- The Social Network 9- Alien 3 10- Mank 11- The Killer
13. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer | Trois couleurs: Bleu
Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lódz Film School in 1969, and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and scriptwriter. Before making his first film for TV, Przejscie podziemne (1974) (The Underground Passage), he made a number of short documentaries. His next TV title, Personnel (...
1- The Double Life of Veronique 2- Three Colors trilogy 3- A Short Film About Love 4- A Short Film About Killing 5- Blind Chance
14. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
1- City Lights 2- The Circus 3- The Kid 4- The Gold Rush 5- The Great Dictator 6- Modern Times 7- Limelight 8- Monsieur Verdoux 9- A King in New York 10- The Chaplin Revue
15. Alfred Hitchcock
Director | Psycho
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and ...
1- Vertigo 2- Rebecca 3- Dial M for Murder 4- Rear Window 5- Psycho 6- Notorious 7- The Birds 8- North by Northwest 9- Rope 10- Spellbound
16. Federico Fellini
Writer | Le notti di Cabiria
The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII - inspired the dreams that Fellini started recording in notebooks in the 1960s. Life and dreams were raw material for his films. His native Rimini and characters like Saraghina (the ...
1- 8½ 2- La strada 3- Amarcord 4- La dolce vita 5- I vitelloni
17. 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 ...
1- Interstellar 2- The Dark Knight 3- The Prestige 4- Memento 5- Inception 6- Batman Begins 7- Insomnia 8- The Dark Knight Rises 9- Oppenheimer 10- Following 11- Dunkirk 12- Tenet
18. 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, ...
1- Schindler's List 2- Saving Private Ryan 3- Munich 4- Catch Me If You Can 5- Close Encounters of the Third Kind 6- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 7- A.I. Artificial Intelligence 8- Empire of the Sun 9- Minority Report 10- The Terminal 11- Jaws 12- The Color Purple 13- Bridge of Spies 14- Indiana Jones 15- Lincoln
19. Wes Anderson
Director | Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...
1- The Grand Budapest Hotel 2- Rushmore 3- Moonrise Kingdom 4- The Royal Tenenbaums 5- The Darjeeling Limited
20. David Cronenberg
Actor | The Fly
David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of Blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father, Milton Cronenberg, was a journalist and editor, and his mother, Esther (Sumberg), was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early...
1- Eastern Promises 2- A History of Violence 3- Videodrome 4- Crash 5- Naked Lunch 6- Dead Ringers 7- M. Butterfly 8- The Fly 9- Scanners 10- eXistenZ 11- The Brood 12- The Dead Zone
21. Robert Zemeckis
Writer | Back to the Future
A whiz-kid with special effects, Robert is from the Spielberg camp of film-making (Steven Spielberg produced many of his films). Usually working with writing partner Bob Gale, Robert's earlier films show he has a talent for zany comedy (Romancing the Stone (1984), 1941 (1979)) and special effect ...
1- Forrest Gump 2- Cast Away 3- Contact 4- Back to the Future 5- Flight 6- The Walk 7- What Lies Beneath 8- Allied 9- Who Framed Roger Rabbit 10- The Polar Express
22. Tim Burton
Producer | Edward Scissorhands
Timothy Walter Burton was born in Burbank, California, to Jean Rae (Erickson), who owned a cat-themed gift shop, and William Reed Burton, who worked for the Burbank Park and Recreation Department. He spent most of his childhood as a recluse, drawing cartoons, and watching old movies (he was ...
1- Big Fish 2- Edward Scissorhands 3- Sweeney Todd 4- Ed Wood 5- Batman 6- Sleepy Hollow 7- Beetlejuice 8- Mars Attacks! 9- Big Eyes 10- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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