Notable Filmmakers

This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the world of film and television production. Included are directors, producers and screenwriters. Not included are the cast, who are instead listed with the famous actors and actresses.
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NameLifespanOther Names
Aaron Sorkin1961-
Abbas Kiarostami1940-2016
Adam McKay1968-
Adolf Winkelmann1946-
Adolph Zukor1873-1976(Adolf)
Agnès Varda1928-2019(Arlette)
Akira Kurosawa1910-1998
Alain Resnais1922-2014
Alan Parker1944-2020
Alejandro González Iñárritu1963-
Alejandro Jodorowsky1929-
Alessandro Camon1963-
Alex van Warmerdam1952-(Alexander, Lucas, Maria)
Alexander Payne1961-(Constantine)
Alfonso Cuarón1961-
Alfred Hitchcock1899-1980
Amma Asante1969-
Amy Heckerling1954-
Andrei Tarkovsky1932-1986
Andrew Stanton1965-
Andrey Zvyagintsev1964-
Andrzej Wajda1926-2016
Andrzej Żuławski1940-2016
Ang Lee1954-
Anthony Minghella1954-2008
Anthony Russo1970-
Antun Vrdoljak1931-
Armando Iannucci1963-(Giovanni)
Arnon Milchan1944-
Asghar Farhadi1972-
Assi Dayan1945-2014(Assaf)
Atom Egoyan1960-
Barry Levinson1942-
Barry Sonnenfeld1953-
Ben Affleck1972-(Benjamin, Géza)
Ben Sombogaart1947-(Bernard, Cornelis)
Benh Zeitlin1982-(Benjamin, Harold)
Bennett Miller1966-
Bernardo Bertolucci1940-2018
Billy Wilder1906-2002(Samuel)
Blake Edwards1922-2010
Bob Fosse1927-1987(Robert)
Bob Nelson1956-(Robert)
Bobby Farrelly1958-(Robert)
Bora Dağtekin1978-
Brad Bird1957-(Phillip, Bradley)
Branko Lustig1932-2019
Branko Schmidt1957-
Brett Ratner1969-
Brian De Palma1940-
Brian Klugman1975-
Bryan Singer1965-(Jay)
Cameron Crowe1957-
Carl Theodor Dreyer1889-1968
Carl Reiner1922-2020
Carlo Lizzani1922-2013
Carlo Ponti1912-2007
Carlos Saura1932-2023
Carol Reed1906-1976
Carrie Preston1967-
Cecil B. DeMille1881-1959(Blount)
Celine Song1988-
Chantal Akerman1950-2015(Anne)
Charlie Chaplin1889-1977(Charles, Spencer)
Chiem van Houweninge1940-(Joachimus, Johannes)
Chloé Zhao1982-(Ting)
Chris Columbus1958-
Christopher Nolan1970-(Edward)
Chuck Jones1912-2002(Charles)
Claude Chabrol1930-2010
Clint Eastwood1930-(Clinton)
Costa-Gavras1933-(Konstantinos)
Dalibor Matanić1975-
Damien Chazelle1985-
Damon Lindelof1973-
Daniel Petrie1920-2004(Mannix)
Danny Boyle1956-(Daniel)
Dario Argento1940-
Darren Aronofsky1969-
Darryl F. Zanuck1902-1979(Francis)
David Benioff1970-
David Cronenberg1943-
David Fincher1962-
David Geffen1943-
D. W. Griffith1875-1948(David, Wark)
David Heyman1961-
David Lean1908-1991
David Lynch1946-
David O. Russell1958-(Owen)
David Seidler1937-
David O. Selznick1902-1965
David Zucker1947-
Dejan Aćimović1963-
Delbert Mann1920-2007
Denis Villeneuve1967-
Denys Arcand1941-(Georges, Henri)
Derviş Zaim1964-
Diablo Cody1978-(Brook)
Dick Maas1951-
Digby Wolfe1929-2012
Dino De Laurentiis1919-2010(Agostino)
Don Bluth1937-(Donald, Virgil)
Don Siegel1912-1991(Donald)
Dziga Vertov1896-1954(David)
Ed Wood1924-1978(Edward)
Ekta Kapoor1975-
Elia Kazan1909-2003
Elmar Klos1910-1993
Emir Kusturica1954-
Eran Riklis1954-
Éric Rohmer1920-2010
Ernst Lubitsch1892-1947
Ernst Marischka1893-1963
Ethan Coen1957-
Fadil Hadžić1922-2011
Fatin Abdel Wahab1913-1972
Federico Fellini1920-1993
Férid Boughedir1944-
Fernando Meirelles1955-
Filopimin Finos1908-1977
Fisher Stevens1963-
Florián Rey1894-1962(Antonio)
Francis Ford Coppola1939-
Franco Zeffirelli1923-2019
François Truffaut1932-1984(Roland)
Frank Borzage1894-1962
Frank Capra1897-1991
Frank Darabont1959-
Frank Lloyd1886-1960
Frank Oz1944-
Franklin J. Schaffner1920-1989(James)
František Vláčil1924-1999
Fred Zinnemann1907-1997(Alfred)
F. W. Murnau1888-1931(Friedrich, Wilhelm)
Fritz Lang1890-1976(Friedrich)
Garry Marshall1934-2016
Gavin Richards1946-
Gene Reynolds1923-2020(Eugene)
Gene Roddenberry1921-1991(Eugene)
George A. Romero1940-2017(Andrew)
George Cukor1899-1983
George Roy Hill1921-2002
George Lucas1944-
George Miller1945-
George Stevens1904-1975
Georges Méliès1861-1938
Goderdzi Chokheli1954-2007
Gore Verbinski1964-(Gregor)
Greta Gerwig1983-(Celeste)
Guillermo Arriaga1958-
Guillermo del Toro1964-
Guinevere Turner1968-
Gus Van Sant1952-
Gustav von Wangenheim1895-1975(Ingo, Clemens, Adolf)
Guy Ritchie1968-
Hal Roach1892-1992(Harold, Eugene)
Hardee Kirkland1868-1929
Harold Ramis1944-2014
Harvey Weinstein1952-
Hayao Miyazaki1941-
Howard Hawks1896-1977
Hugh Wilson1943-2018(Hamilton)
Ida Lupino1918-1995
Idrissa Ouédraogo1954-2018
Ildikó Enyedi1955-
Ingmar Bergman1918-2007
Irving Thalberg1899-1936
Isao Takahata1935-2018
Ismail Merchant1936-2005(Noor, Muhammad, Abdul)
Issa Rae1985-(Jo)
Ivan Reitman1946-2022
Jack Hill1933-
Jaco Van Dormael1957-
Jacques Tati1907-1982
Jakov Sedlar1952-
Jalil Lespert1976-
James L. Brooks1940-(Lawrence)
James Cameron1954-
James Gunn1966-
James Hilton1900-1954
James Mangold1963-(Allen)
James Wan1977-
James Young Deer1876-1946(Jim, Young)
Jan de Bont1943-
Jane Campion1954-
Jaume Collet-Serra1974-
Jean-Jacques Annaud1943-
Jean-Luc Godard1930-2022
Jean-Pierre Melville1917-1973
Jean Renoir1894-1979
Jean van de Velde1957-
J. J. Abrams1966-(Jeffrey, Jacob)
Jeffrey Katzenberg1950-
Jelena Veljača1981-
Jennifer Podemski1983-
Jeroen Krabbé1944-(Aart)
Jerome Robbins1918-1998
Jerry Bruckheimer1943-(Jerome, Leon)
Jerry Weintraub1937-2015(Jerome, Charles)
Jerry Zucker1950-
Jez Butterworth1969-(Jeremy)
Jim Abrahams1944-(James)
Jim Henson1936-1990(James)
Jim Jarmusch1953-(James)
Joel Coen1954-
Joel Schumacher1939-2020
John G. Avildsen1935-2017(Guilbert)
John Badham1939-
John Banville1945-
John Boorman1933-
John Carpenter1948-
John Cassavetes1929-1989(Nicholas)
John Derek1926-1998(Delevan)
John Ford1894-1973
John Hughes1950-2009
John Huston1906-1987
John Kani1942-(Bonisile)
John Landis1950-
John Lasseter1957-
John McTiernan1951-(Campbell)
John Schlesinger1926-2003
John M. Stahl1886-1950(Jacob, Malcolm, Morris)
John Woo1946-
Jon Favreau1966-(Jonathan, Kolia)
Jon Turteltaub1963-(Jonathan, Charles)
Jonathan Demme1944-2017
Jonathan Nolan1976-(Jonah)
Bong Joon-ho1969-
Jordan Peele1979-(Haworth)
Joseph Barbera1911-2006
Joseph L. Mankiewicz1909-1993(Leo)
Joseph Russo1971-
Joss Whedon1964-(Joseph)
Judd Apatow1967-
Julian Schnabel1951-
Kathleen Kennedy1953-
Kathryn Bigelow1951-
Keenen Ivory Wayans1958-(Desuma)
Keir Pearson1966-
Ken Loach1936-(Kenneth)
Kenji Mizoguchi1898-1956
Kevin Costner1955-
Kevin Feige1973-
Kevin Smith1970-(Patrick)
Kim van Kooten1974-
Konstantin Stanislavski1863-1938
Krešo Golik1922-1996(Krešimir)
Kristen Wiig1973-(Carroll)
Krsto Papić1933-2013
Krzysztof Kieślowski1941-1996
Lana Wachowski1965-(Larry, Laurence)
Larisa Shepitko1938-1979
Lars von Trier1956-
Lasse Hallström1946-
Lawrence Kasdan1949-
Lee Cronin19xx-
Leni Riefenstahl1902-2003(Helene)
Lenny Abrahamson1966-(Leonard)
Leo McCarey1898-1969
Lewis Gilbert1920-2018
Lewis Milestone1895-1980
Lewis Teague1938-
Lilly Wachowski1967-(Andrew, Andy, Paul)
Linwood Boomer1955-
Lisa Cholodenko1964-
Lordan Zafranović1944-
Louis B. Mayer1884-1957(Lazar, Burt)
Luc Besson1959-
Luca Guadagnino1971-
Luchino Visconti1906-1976
Luis Buñuel1900-1983
Mack Sennett1880-1960(Michael)
M. Night Shyamalan1970-(Manoj)
Marius Holst1965-
Mark Boal1973-
Martin Koolhoven1969-(Martinus, Wouter)
Martin Scorsese1942-
Matt Groening1954-(Matthew)
Matt Stone1971-(Matthew)
Matthew Vaughn1971-(Allard, Robert)
Max Nosseck1902-1972
Med Hondo1936-2019(Mohamed, Abid)
Mehran Modiri1967-
Mel Brooks1926-(Melvin, James)
Mel Gibson1956-
Michael Bay1965-
Michael Cimino1939-2016
Michael Curtiz1886-1962
Michael Haneke1942-
Michael Mann1943-
Michael Moore1954-
Michal Bat-Adam1945-
Michel Hazanavicius1967-
Michelangelo Antonioni1912-2007
Michelle Latimer1976-
Mike Leigh1943-
Mike Newell1942-(Michael)
Mike Nichols1931-2014(Michael, Igor)
Miloš Forman1932-2018(Jan, Tomáš)
Mitra Farahani1975-
Monte Collins1898-1951(Monty, Francis)
Monte Hellman1929-2021(Jay)
Moshe Ivgy1953-
Moshé Mizrahi1931-2018
Nancy Oliver1955-
Nedrick Young1914-1968(Nathan)
Neil Jordan1950-
Neil Simon1927-2018(Marvin)
Nia Vardalos1962-(Antonia, Eugenia)
Nick Cassavetes1959-(Nicholas, David, Rowland)
Nicolas Roeg1928-2018(Jack)
Norman Jewison1926-2024(Frederick)
Norman Taurog1899-1981
Nuri Bilge Ceylan1959-
Obrad Gluščević1913-1980
Oliver Stone1946-
Ömer Lütfi Akad1916-2011
Oren Moverman1966-
Orson Welles1915-1985
Otto Preminger1905-1986
Paul Thomas Anderson1970-
Paul W. S. Anderson1965-(William, Scott)
Paul Henreid1908-1992(Georg, Julius)
Paul Verhoeven1938-
Paweł Pawlikowski1957-(Aleksander)
Pedro Almodóvar1949-
Penny Marshall1943-2018(Carole)
Peter Bogdanovich1939-2022
Peter Brook1925-2022
Peter Farrelly1956-
Peter Greenaway1942-
Peter Jackson1961-
Peter Weir1944-
Pier Paolo Pasolini1922-1975
Piotr Szulkin1950-2018
Pupi Avati1938-(Giuseppe)
Quentin Tarantino1963-
Rainer Werner Fassbinder1945-1982
Rajko Grlić1947-
Rakesh Roshan1949-(Roshanlal)
René Clair1898-1981
Rian Johnson1973-(Craig)
Richard Attenborough1923-2014
Richard Donner1930-2021
Richard Linklater1960-
Richard Quine1920-1989
Ridley Scott1937-
Robert Aldrich1918-1983
Robert Altman1925-2006
Robert Benton1932-
Robert Bresson1901-1999
Robert Redford1936-
Robert Rodriguez1968-
Robert Wise1914-2005
Robert Zemeckis1951-
Roberto Rossellini1906-1977
Roger Rees1944-2015
Roger Vadim1928-2000
Roland Emmerich1955-
Roman Coppola1965-(Ford)
Roman Polanski1933-
Ron Howard1954-(Ronald)
Ruben Östlund1974-(Claes, Olle)
Rupert Hughes1872-1956
Rupert Julian1879-1943(Thomas, Percival)
Rupert Sanders1971-(Miles)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala1927-2013
Sam Mendes1965-(Samuel)
Sam Raimi1959-(Samuel)
Sam Taylor-Johnson1967-(Samantha, Louise)
Samuel Goldwyn1882-1974(Szmuel)
Satish Kaushik1956-2023
Satyajit Ray1921-1992
Scott Rudin1958-
Sebastián Lelio1974-
Sergei Eisenstein1898-1948
Sergei Parajanov1924-1990
Sergio Leone1929-1989
Şerif Gören1944-
Shawn Levy1968-(Adam)
Sherman Alexie1966-(Joseph)
Shonda Rhimes1970-
Sidney J. Furie1933-(Joseph)
Sidney Lumet1924-2011(Arthur)
Sofia Coppola1971-
Sophie Hunter1978-(Irene)
Spike Jonze1969-
Spike Lee1957-
Stanley Kubrick1928-1999
Stephen Frears1941-
Stephen Hillenburg1961-2018
Stephen Poliakoff1952-
Stephen Sommers1962-
Steve McQueen1969-(Steven, Rodney)
Steven Soderbergh1963-
Steven Spielberg1946-
Stijn Coninx1957-(Augustijn, Robert, Marguerite)
Stuart Blumberg1969-(Ethan)
Susanne Bier1960-
Sydney Pollack1934-2008
Tahir Hussainc. 1938-2010
Taika Waititi1975-(David)
Takeshi Kitano1947-
Tamara Jenkins1962-
Tanel Toom1982-
Taylor Hackford1944-(Edwin)
Taylor Sheridan1970-
Ted Kotcheff1931-(William, Theodore)
Terrence Malick1943-(Frederick)
Terry Gilliam1940-(Terence, Vance)
Terry Jones1942-2020(Terence, Graham)
Tessa Schram1988-
Tex Avery1908-1980(Frederick, Bean)
Theo Angelopoulos1935-2012(Theodoros)
Theo van Gogh1957-2004(Theodoor)
Til Schweiger1963-(Tilman, Valentin)
Tim Burton1958-(Timothy)
Tinto Brass1933-(Giovanni)
Todd Field1964-(William)
Tom Hooper1972-(Thomas)
Tony Richardson1928-1991(Cecil, Antonio)
Tony Scott1944-2012(Anthony)
Trey Parker1969-
Udi Aloni1959-
Ulli Lommel1944-2017
Val Guest1911-2006(Valmond, Maurice)
Vatroslav Mimica1923-2020
Veiko Õunpuu1972-
Veljko Bulajić1928-
Vera Farmiga1973-(Ann)
Veronica Kedar1984-
Victor Fleming1889-1949
Vincente Minnelli1903-1986
Vinko Brešan1964-
Vittorio De Sica1901-1974
Vladimir Menshov1939-2021
Walt Disney1901-1966(Walter, Elias)
Walter Hill1942-
Warren Beatty1937-
Warwick Ward1891-1967
Werner Herzog1942-
Wes Anderson1969-(Wesley)
Wes Craven1939-2015(Wesley)
Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen1957-2005(Hendrik)
William Peter Blatty1928-2017
William Friedkin1935-2023(David)
William Hanna1910-2001
William Wyler1902-1981
Wim Wenders1945-(Ernst, Wilhelm)
Wolfgang Petersen1941-2022
Woody Allen1935-(Allan, Heywood, Stewart)
Xavier Dolan1989-
Yasujirō Ozu1903-1963
Zhang Yimou1951-
Yorgos Lanthimos1973-
Zacharias Kunuk1957-(Kifutikajuk, Taqaq, Nujatut, Attafutaluk, Quatuk)
Zack Snyder1966-(Zachary)
Zeki Alasya1943-2015
Ziad Doueiri1963-