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
Aamir Khan1965-(Mohammed, Hussain)
Adam McKay1968-
Adolf E. Licho1876-1944(Edgar)
Adolf Winkelmann1946-
Adolph Zukor1873-1976(Adolf)
Agnès Varda1928-2019(Arlette)
Ajay Nayyar1982-(Pratap, Singh)
Alejandro González Iñárritu1963-
Alessandro Camon1963-
Alexander Payne1961-(Constantine)
Alfonso Cuarón1961-
Alfred Hitchcock1899-1980
Amma Asante1969-
Andrey Zvyagintsev1964-
Ang Lee1954-
Anthony Minghella1954-2008
Antun Vrdoljak1931-
Archer King1917-2012
Arnon Goldfinger1963-
Arnon Milchan1944-
Asghar Farhadi1972-
Assi Dayan1945-2014(Asaf)
Ayelet Menahemi1963-
Barry Levinson1942-
Barry Sonnenfeld1953-
Ben Affleck1972-(Benjamin, Géza)
Benh Zeitlin1982-(Benjamin, Harold)
Bennett Miller1966-
Bernardo Bertolucci1940-2018
Bey Logan1961-
Billy Wilder1906-2002
Bob Fosse1927-1987
Bob Nelson1956-
Bogdan Žižić1934-
Bora Dağtekin1978-
Brandt Andersen1977-
Branko Lustig1932-2019
Branko Schmidt1957-
Brian Klugman1975-
Cameron Crowe1957-
Campion Murphy1962-
Carol Reed1906-1976
Carrie Preston1967-
Carthew Neal1979-
Cecil B. DeMille1881-1959(Blount)
Charlie Chaplin1889-1977(Charles, Spencer)
Chloé Zhao1982-(Ting)
Christopher Nolan1970-(Edward)
Clint Eastwood1930-(Clinton)
Dalibor Matanić1975-
Damien Chazelle1985-
Danilo Šerbedžija1971-
Danny Boyle1956-
Darren Aronofsky1969-
David Cronenberg1943-
David Fincher1962-
David Lean1908-1991
David Lynch1946-
David O. Russell1958-(Owen)
David Seidler1937-
David Zucker1947-
Dejan Aćimović1963-
Delbert Mann1920-2007
Denis Villeneuve1967-
Denys Arcand1941-(Georges, Henri)
Derviş Zaim1964-
Devery Freeman1913-2005
Diablo Cody1978-(Brook)
Dick Maas1951-
Digby Wolfe1929-2012
Ekta Kapoor1975-
Elia Kazan1909-2003
Ellis Jones1943-(Peter)
Elmar Klos1910-1993
Emir Kusturica1954-
Eran Riklis1954-
Ernst Marischka1893-1963
Ethan Coen1957-
Fadil Hadžić1922-2011
Fatin Abdel Wahab1913-1972
Feđa Isović1965-(Fedja)
Férid Boughedir1944-
Fernando Meirelles1955-
Filopimin Finos1908-1977
Fisher Stevens1963-
Florián Rey1894-1962(Antonio)
Francis Ford Coppola1939-
Frank Borzage1894-1962
Frank Capra1897-1991
Frank Darabont1959-
Frank Lloyd1886-1960
Frank Oz1944-
Franklin J. Schaffner1920-1989(James)
Frano Vodopivec1924-1998
František Vláčil1924-1999
Fred Zinnemann1907-1997
F. W. Murnau1888-1931(Friedrich, Wilhelm)
Garry Marshall1934-2016
Gavin Richards1946-
Gene Reynolds1923-2020(Eugene)
George A. Romero1940-2017(Andrew)
George Cukor1899-1983
George Roy Hill1921-2002
George Lucas1944-
George Stevens1904-1975
Goderdzi Chokheli1954-2007
Greta Gerwig1983-(Celeste)
Guillermo Arriaga1958-
Guillermo del Toro1964-
Guinevere Turner1968-
Gus Van Sant1952-
Gustav von Wangenheim1895-1975(Ingo, Clemens, Adolf)
Guy Ritchie1968-
Harold Ramis1944-2014
Hugh Wilson1943-2018(Hamilton)
Ida Lupino1918-1995
Idrissa Ouédraogo1954-2018
Ildikó Enyedi1955-
Isao Takahata1935-2018
Ismail Merchant1936-2005(Noor, Muhammad, Abdul)
Issa Rae1985-(Jo)
Ivan Reitman1946-
Jaco Van Dormael1957-
Jakov Sedlar1952-
Jalil Lespert1976-
James L. Brooks1940-(Lawrence)
James Cameron1954-
James Wan1977-
James Young Deer1876-1946(Jim, Young)
Jan de Bont1943-
Jane Campion1954-
Jaume Collet-Serra1974-
Jean Renoir1894-1979
J. J. Abrams1966-(Jeffrey, Jacob)
Jelena Veljača1981-
Jennifer Podemski1983-
Jeroen Krabbé1944-
Jerome Robbins1918-1998
Jerry Bruckheimer1943-(Jerome, Leon)
Jerry Lewis1926-2017
Jerry Weintraub1937-2015(Jerome, Charles)
Jerry Zucker1950-
Jez Butterworth1969-(Jeremy)
Jim Abrahams1944-
Jim Henson1936-1990
Jim Jarmusch1953-
Joel Coen1954-
Joel Schumacher1939-2020
John G. Avildsen1935-2017(Guilbert)
John Badham1939-
John Banville1945-
John Boorman1933-
John Carpenter1948-
John Cassavetes1929-1989
John Derek1926-1998(Delevan)
John Ford1894-1973
John Hughes1950-2009
John Huston1906-1987
John Kani1942-(Bonisile)
John Schlesinger1926-2003
John M. Stahl1886-1950(Jacob, Malcolm, Morris)
John Woo1946-
Jonathan Demme1944-2017
Jonathan Nolan1976-(Jonah)
Bong Joon-ho1969-
Jordan Peele1979-(Haworth)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz1909-1993(Leo)
Joss Whedon1964-
Judd Apatow1967-
Julian Schnabel1951-
Kathleen Kennedy1953-
Kathryn Bigelow1951-
Keenen Ivory Wayans1958-
Keir Pearson1966-
Kevin Costner1955-
Kevin Smith1970-
Krešo Golik1922-1996(Krešimir)
Kristen Wiig1973-(Carroll)
Krsto Papić1933-2013
Lana Wachowski1965-(Larry, Laurence)
Larisa Shepitko1938-1979
Lasse Hallström1946-
Lawrence Kasdan1949-
Lee Cronin
Lenny Abrahamson1966-(Leonard)
Leo McCarey1898-1969
Lewis Gilbert1920-2018
Lewis Milestone1895-1980
Lilly Wachowski1967-(Andrew, Andy, Paul)
Linwood Boomer1955-
Lisa Cholodenko1964-
Lordan Zafranović1944-
M. Night Shyamalan1970-(Manoj)
Marius Holst1965-
Marius Sestier1861-1928(Ely, Joseph)
Mark Boal1973-
Martin Scorsese1942-
Matt Groening1954-
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-
Michelle Latimer19xx-
Michelle Rejwan1982-
Mike Leigh1943-
Mike Newell1942-
Mike Nichols1931-2014(Michael, Igor)
Miloš Forman1932-2018(Jan, Tomáš)
Mitra Farahani1975-
Moshe Ivgy1953-
Moshé Mizrahi1931-2018
Nancy Oliver1955-
Neil Jordan1950-
Neil Simon1927-2018(Marvin)
Nia Vardalos1962-(Antonia, Eugenia)
Nick Cassavetes1959-
Nicolas Roeg1928-2018(Jack)
Nika Agiashvili1979-(Nick)
Norman Taurog1899-1981
Nuri Bilge Ceylan1959-
M. Nurullah Tuncer1959-
Obrad Gluščević1913-1980
Oktavijan Miletić1902-1987
Oliver Stone1946-
Ömer Lütfi Akad1916-2011
Oren Moverman1966-
Orson Welles1915-1985
Paul Thomas Anderson1970-
Paul W. S. Anderson1965-(William, Scott)
Paul Verhoeven1938-
Paweł Pawlikowski1957-(Aleksander)
Penny Marshall1943-2018(Carole)
Peter Bogdanovich1939-2022
Peter Greenaway1942-
Peter Jackson1961-
Piotr Szulkin1950-2018
Pupi Avati1938-(Giuseppe)
Quentin Tarantino1963-
Rainer Werner Fassbinder1945-1982
Rajko Grlić1947-
Rakesh Roshan1949-(Roshanlal)
Rian Johnson1973-(Craig)
Richard Attenborough1923-2014
Richard Linklater1960-
Ridley Scott1937-
Robert Benton1932-
Robert Redford1936-
Robert Rodriguez1968-
Robert Wise1914-2005
Robert Zemeckis1951-
Roberto Rossellini1906-1977
Roger Rees1944-2015
Roland Emmerich1955-
Roman Coppola1965-(Ford)
Roman Polanski1933-
Ron Howard1954-
Ronnie Taylor1924-2018(Ronald, Charles)
Ruben Östlund1974-(Claes, Olle)
Rupert Hughes1872-1956
Rupert Julian1879-1943(Thomas, Percival)
Rupert Sanders1971-(Miles)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala1927-2013
Sam Mendes1965-
Sam Raimi1959-
Sam Taylor-Johnson1967-(Samantha, Louise)
Sanford Bookstaver1973-
Satish Kaushik1956-
Sebastián Lelio1974-
Şerif Gören1944-
Sheldon Schrager1931-
Sherman Alexie1966-(Joseph)
Shirley Cheechoo1952-
Sofia Coppola1971-
Sophie Hunter1978-(Irene)
Spike Jonze1969-
Spike Lee1957-
Stanley Kubrick1928-1999
Stegath Dorr1973-(James)
Stephen Frears1941-
Stephen Poliakoff1952-
Steve McQueen1969-(Steven, Rodney)
Steven Soderbergh1963-
Steven Spielberg1946-
Stijn Coninx1957-(Augustijn, Robert, Marguerite)
Stuart Blumberg1969-(Ethan)
Sydney Pollack1934-2008
Tahir Hussainc. 1938-2010
Taika Waititi1975-(David)
Tamara Jenkins1962-
Tanel Toom1982-
Taylor Hackford1944-(Edwin)
Taylor Sheridan1970-
Tegan Summer1972-
Terrence Malick1943-(Frederick)
Terry Gilliam1940-
Theo van Gogh1957-2004
Tim Burton1958-
Tom Hooper1972-
Tomislav Pinter1926-2008
Tony Richardson1928-1991
Tony Scott1944-2012
Udi Aloni1959-
Ulli Lommel1944-2017
Val Guest1911-2006(Valmond, Maurice)
Vatroslav Mimica1923-
Veiko Õunpuu1972-
Veljko Bulajić1928-
Vera Farmiga1973-(Ann)
Veronica Kedar1984-
Victor Fleming1889-1949
Vincente Minnelli1903-1986
Vinko Brešan1964-
Vjekoslav Vrdoljak1954-
Vladimir Menshov1939-
Walt Disney1901-1966
Warren Beatty1937-
Warwick Ward1891-1967
Wes Anderson1969-
Wes Craven1939-2015
William Friedkin1935-
William Wyler1902-1981
Wim Wenders1945-(Ernst, Wilhelm)
Woody Allen1935-
Yorgos Lanthimos1973-
Zacharias Kunuk1957-(Kifutikajuk, Taqaq, Nujatut, Attafutaluk, Quatuk)
Zack Snyder1966-
Zeki Alasya1943-2015
Ziad Doueiri1963-
Zvonimir Berković1928-2009