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.
| Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aamir Khan | 1965- | (Mohammed, Hussain) |  |
| Adam McKay | 1968- | | |
| Adolf E. Licho | 1876-1944 | (Edgar) | |
| Adolf Winkelmann | 1946- | | |
| Adolph Zukor | 1873-1976 | (Adolf) | |
| Agnès Varda | 1928-2019 | (Arlette) | |
| Ajay Nayyar | 1982- | (Pratap, Singh) | |
| Alejandro González Iñárritu | 1963- | | |
| Alessandro Camon | 1963- | | |
| Alexander Payne | 1961- | (Constantine) | |
| Alfonso Cuarón | 1961- | | |
| Alfred Hitchcock | 1899-1980 | | |
| Amma Asante | 1969- | | |
| Andrey Zvyagintsev | 1964- | | |
| Ang Lee | 1954- | | |
| Anthony Minghella | 1954-2008 | | |
| Antun Vrdoljak | 1931- | | |
| Archer King | 1917-2012 | | |
| Arnon Goldfinger | 1963- | | |
| Arnon Milchan | 1944- | | |
| Asghar Farhadi | 1972- | | |
| Assi Dayan | 1945-2014 | (Asaf) | |
| Ayelet Menahemi | 1963- | | |
| Barry Levinson | 1942- | | |
| Barry Sonnenfeld | 1953- | | |
| Ben Affleck | 1972- | (Benjamin, Géza) | |
| Benh Zeitlin | 1982- | (Benjamin, Harold) | |
| Bennett Miller | 1966- | | |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | 1940-2018 | | |
| Bey Logan | 1961- | | |
| Billy Wilder | 1906-2002 | | |
| Bob Fosse | 1927-1987 | | |
| Bob Nelson | 1956- | | |
| Bogdan Žižić | 1934- | | |
| Bora Dağtekin | 1978- | | |
| Brandt Andersen | 1977- | | |
| Branko Lustig | 1932-2019 | | |
| Branko Schmidt | 1957- | | |
| Brian Klugman | 1975- | | |
| Cameron Crowe | 1957- | | |
| Campion Murphy | 1962- | | |
| Carol Reed | 1906-1976 | | |
| Carrie Preston | 1967- | | |
| Carthew Neal | 1979- | | |
| Cecil B. DeMille | 1881-1959 | (Blount) | |
| Charlie Chaplin | 1889-1977 | (Charles, Spencer) | |
| Chloé Zhao | 1982- | (Ting) | |
| Christopher Nolan | 1970- | (Edward) | |
| Clint Eastwood | 1930- | (Clinton) | |
| Dalibor Matanić | 1975- | | |
| Damien Chazelle | 1985- | | |
| Danilo Šerbedžija | 1971- | | |
| Danny Boyle | 1956- | | |
| Darren Aronofsky | 1969- | | |
| David Cronenberg | 1943- | | |
| David Fincher | 1962- | | |
| David Lean | 1908-1991 | | |
| David Lynch | 1946- | | |
| David O. Russell | 1958- | (Owen) | |
| David Seidler | 1937- | | |
| David Zucker | 1947- | | |
| Dejan Aćimović | 1963- | | |
| Delbert Mann | 1920-2007 | | |
| Denis Villeneuve | 1967- | | |
| Denys Arcand | 1941- | (Georges, Henri) | |
| Derviş Zaim | 1964- | | |
| Devery Freeman | 1913-2005 | | |
| Diablo Cody | 1978- | (Brook) | |
| Dick Maas | 1951- | | |
| Digby Wolfe | 1929-2012 | | |
| Ekta Kapoor | 1975- | | |
| Elia Kazan | 1909-2003 | | |
| Ellis Jones | 1943- | (Peter) | |
| Elmar Klos | 1910-1993 | | |
| Emir Kusturica | 1954- | | |
| Eran Riklis | 1954- | | |
| Ernst Marischka | 1893-1963 | | |
| Ethan Coen | 1957- | | |
| Fadil Hadžić | 1922-2011 | | |
| Fatin Abdel Wahab | 1913-1972 | | |
| Feđa Isović | 1965- | (Fedja) | |
| Férid Boughedir | 1944- | | |
| Fernando Meirelles | 1955- | | |
| Filopimin Finos | 1908-1977 | | |
| Fisher Stevens | 1963- | | |
| Florián Rey | 1894-1962 | (Antonio) | |
| Francis Ford Coppola | 1939- | | |
| Frank Borzage | 1894-1962 | | |
| Frank Capra | 1897-1991 | | |
| Frank Darabont | 1959- | | |
| Frank Lloyd | 1886-1960 | | |
| Frank Oz | 1944- | | |
| Franklin J. Schaffner | 1920-1989 | (James) | |
| Frano Vodopivec | 1924-1998 | | |
| František Vláčil | 1924-1999 | | |
| Fred Zinnemann | 1907-1997 | | |
| F. W. Murnau | 1888-1931 | (Friedrich, Wilhelm) | |
| Garry Marshall | 1934-2016 | | |
| Gavin Richards | 1946- | | |
| Gene Reynolds | 1923-2020 | (Eugene) | |
| George A. Romero | 1940-2017 | (Andrew) | |
| George Cukor | 1899-1983 | | |
| George Roy Hill | 1921-2002 | | |
| George Lucas | 1944- | | |
| George Stevens | 1904-1975 | | |
| Goderdzi Chokheli | 1954-2007 | | |
| Greta Gerwig | 1983- | (Celeste) | |
| Guillermo Arriaga | 1958- | | |
| Guillermo del Toro | 1964- | | |
| Guinevere Turner | 1968- | | |
| Gus Van Sant | 1952- | | |
| Gustav von Wangenheim | 1895-1975 | (Ingo, Clemens, Adolf) | |
| Guy Ritchie | 1968- | | |
| Harold Ramis | 1944-2014 | | |
| Hugh Wilson | 1943-2018 | (Hamilton) | |
| Ida Lupino | 1918-1995 | | |
| Idrissa Ouédraogo | 1954-2018 | | |
| Ildikó Enyedi | 1955- | | |
| Isao Takahata | 1935-2018 | | |
| Ismail Merchant | 1936-2005 | (Noor, Muhammad, Abdul) | |
| Issa Rae | 1985- | (Jo) | |
| Ivan Reitman | 1946- | | |
| Jaco Van Dormael | 1957- | | |
| Jakov Sedlar | 1952- | | |
| Jalil Lespert | 1976- | | |
| James L. Brooks | 1940- | (Lawrence) | |
| James Cameron | 1954- | | |
| James Wan | 1977- | | |
| James Young Deer | 1876-1946 | (Jim, Young) | |
| Jan de Bont | 1943- | | |
| Jane Campion | 1954- | | |
| Jaume Collet-Serra | 1974- | | |
| Jean Renoir | 1894-1979 | | |
| J. J. Abrams | 1966- | (Jeffrey, Jacob) | |
| Jelena Veljača | 1981- | | |
| Jennifer Podemski | 1983- | | |
| Jeroen Krabbé | 1944- | | |
| Jerome Robbins | 1918-1998 | | |
| Jerry Bruckheimer | 1943- | (Jerome, Leon) | |
| Jerry Lewis | 1926-2017 | | |
| Jerry Weintraub | 1937-2015 | (Jerome, Charles) | |
| Jerry Zucker | 1950- | | |
| Jez Butterworth | 1969- | (Jeremy) | |
| Jim Abrahams | 1944- | | |
| Jim Henson | 1936-1990 | | |
| Jim Jarmusch | 1953- | | |
| Joel Coen | 1954- | | |
| Joel Schumacher | 1939-2020 | | |
| John G. Avildsen | 1935-2017 | (Guilbert) | |
| John Badham | 1939- | | |
| John Banville | 1945- | | |
| John Boorman | 1933- | | |
| John Carpenter | 1948- | | |
| John Cassavetes | 1929-1989 | | |
| John Derek | 1926-1998 | (Delevan) | |
| John Ford | 1894-1973 | | |
| John Hughes | 1950-2009 | | |
| John Huston | 1906-1987 | | |
| John Kani | 1942- | (Bonisile) | |
| John Schlesinger | 1926-2003 | | |
| John M. Stahl | 1886-1950 | (Jacob, Malcolm, Morris) | |
| John Woo | 1946- | | |
| Jonathan Demme | 1944-2017 | | |
| Jonathan Nolan | 1976- | (Jonah) | |
| Bong Joon-ho | 1969- | | |
| Jordan Peele | 1979- | (Haworth) | |
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1909-1993 | (Leo) | |
| Joss Whedon | 1964- | | |
| Judd Apatow | 1967- | | |
| Julian Schnabel | 1951- | | |
| Kathleen Kennedy | 1953- | | |
| Kathryn Bigelow | 1951- | | |
| Keenen Ivory Wayans | 1958- | | |
| Keir Pearson | 1966- | | |
| Kevin Costner | 1955- | | |
| Kevin Smith | 1970- | | |
| Krešo Golik | 1922-1996 | (Krešimir) | |
| Kristen Wiig | 1973- | (Carroll) | |
| Krsto Papić | 1933-2013 | | |
| Lana Wachowski | 1965- | (Larry, Laurence) | |
| Larisa Shepitko | 1938-1979 | | |
| Lasse Hallström | 1946- | | |
| Lawrence Kasdan | 1949- | | |
| Lee Cronin | | ||
| Lenny Abrahamson | 1966- | (Leonard) | |
| Leo McCarey | 1898-1969 | | |
| Lewis Gilbert | 1920-2018 | | |
| Lewis Milestone | 1895-1980 | | |
| Lilly Wachowski | 1967- | (Andrew, Andy, Paul) | |
| Linwood Boomer | 1955- | | |
| Lisa Cholodenko | 1964- | | |
| Lordan Zafranović | 1944- | | |
| M. Night Shyamalan | 1970- | (Manoj) | |
| Marius Holst | 1965- | | |
| Marius Sestier | 1861-1928 | (Ely, Joseph) | |
| Mark Boal | 1973- | | |
| Martin Scorsese | 1942- | | |
| Matt Groening | 1954- | | |
| Matthew Vaughn | 1971- | (Allard, Robert) | |
| Max Nosseck | 1902-1972 | | |
| Med Hondo | 1936-2019 | (Mohamed, Abid) | |
| Mehran Modiri | 1967- | | |
| Mel Brooks | 1926- | (Melvin, James) | |
| Mel Gibson | 1956- | | |
| Michael Bay | 1965- | | |
| Michael Cimino | 1939-2016 | | |
| Michael Curtiz | 1886-1962 | | |
| Michael Haneke | 1942- | | |
| Michael Mann | 1943- | | |
| Michael Moore | 1954- | | |
| Michal Bat-Adam | 1945- | | |
| Michel Hazanavicius | 1967- | | |
| Michelle Latimer | 19xx- | | |
| Michelle Rejwan | 1982- | | |
| Mike Leigh | 1943- | | |
| Mike Newell | 1942- | | |
| Mike Nichols | 1931-2014 | (Michael, Igor) | |
| Miloš Forman | 1932-2018 | (Jan, Tomáš) | |
| Mitra Farahani | 1975- | | |
| Moshe Ivgy | 1953- | | |
| Moshé Mizrahi | 1931-2018 | | |
| Nancy Oliver | 1955- | | |
| Neil Jordan | 1950- | | |
| Neil Simon | 1927-2018 | (Marvin) | |
| Nia Vardalos | 1962- | (Antonia, Eugenia) | |
| Nick Cassavetes | 1959- | | |
| Nicolas Roeg | 1928-2018 | (Jack) | |
| Nika Agiashvili | 1979- | (Nick) | |
| Norman Taurog | 1899-1981 | | |
| Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 1959- | | |
| M. Nurullah Tuncer | 1959- | | |
| Obrad Gluščević | 1913-1980 | | |
| Oktavijan Miletić | 1902-1987 | | |
| Oliver Stone | 1946- | | |
| Ömer Lütfi Akad | 1916-2011 | | |
| Oren Moverman | 1966- | | |
| Orson Welles | 1915-1985 | | |
| Paul Thomas Anderson | 1970- | | |
| Paul W. S. Anderson | 1965- | (William, Scott) | |
| Paul Verhoeven | 1938- | | |
| Paweł Pawlikowski | 1957- | (Aleksander) | |
| Penny Marshall | 1943-2018 | (Carole) | |
| Peter Bogdanovich | 1939-2022 | | |
| Peter Greenaway | 1942- | | |
| Peter Jackson | 1961- | | |
| Piotr Szulkin | 1950-2018 | | |
| Pupi Avati | 1938- | (Giuseppe) | |
| Quentin Tarantino | 1963- | | |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1945-1982 | | |
| Rajko Grlić | 1947- | | |
| Rakesh Roshan | 1949- | (Roshanlal) | |
| Rian Johnson | 1973- | (Craig) | |
| Richard Attenborough | 1923-2014 | | |
| Richard Linklater | 1960- | | |
| Ridley Scott | 1937- | | |
| Robert Benton | 1932- | | |
| Robert Redford | 1936- | | |
| Robert Rodriguez | 1968- | | |
| Robert Wise | 1914-2005 | | |
| Robert Zemeckis | 1951- | | |
| Roberto Rossellini | 1906-1977 | | |
| Roger Rees | 1944-2015 | | |
| Roland Emmerich | 1955- | | |
| Roman Coppola | 1965- | (Ford) | |
| Roman Polanski | 1933- | | |
| Ron Howard | 1954- | | |
| Ronnie Taylor | 1924-2018 | (Ronald, Charles) | |
| Ruben Östlund | 1974- | (Claes, Olle) | |
| Rupert Hughes | 1872-1956 | | |
| Rupert Julian | 1879-1943 | (Thomas, Percival) | |
| Rupert Sanders | 1971- | (Miles) | |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | 1927-2013 | | |
| Sam Mendes | 1965- | | |
| Sam Raimi | 1959- | | |
| Sam Taylor-Johnson | 1967- | (Samantha, Louise) | |
| Sanford Bookstaver | 1973- | | |
| Satish Kaushik | 1956- | | |
| Sebastián Lelio | 1974- | | |
| Şerif Gören | 1944- | | |
| Sheldon Schrager | 1931- | | |
| Sherman Alexie | 1966- | (Joseph) | |
| Shirley Cheechoo | 1952- | | |
| Sofia Coppola | 1971- | | |
| Sophie Hunter | 1978- | (Irene) | |
| Spike Jonze | 1969- | | |
| Spike Lee | 1957- | | |
| Stanley Kubrick | 1928-1999 | | |
| Stegath Dorr | 1973- | (James) | |
| Stephen Frears | 1941- | | |
| Stephen Poliakoff | 1952- | | |
| Steve McQueen | 1969- | (Steven, Rodney) | |
| Steven Soderbergh | 1963- | | |
| Steven Spielberg | 1946- | | |
| Stijn Coninx | 1957- | (Augustijn, Robert, Marguerite) | |
| Stuart Blumberg | 1969- | (Ethan) | |
| Sydney Pollack | 1934-2008 | | |
| Tahir Hussain | c. 1938-2010 | | |
| Taika Waititi | 1975- | (David) | |
| Tamara Jenkins | 1962- | | |
| Tanel Toom | 1982- | | |
| Taylor Hackford | 1944- | (Edwin) | |
| Taylor Sheridan | 1970- | | |
| Tegan Summer | 1972- | | |
| Terrence Malick | 1943- | (Frederick) | |
| Terry Gilliam | 1940- | | |
| Theo van Gogh | 1957-2004 | | |
| Tim Burton | 1958- | | |
| Tom Hooper | 1972- | | |
| Tomislav Pinter | 1926-2008 | | |
| Tony Richardson | 1928-1991 | | |
| Tony Scott | 1944-2012 | | |
| Udi Aloni | 1959- | | |
| Ulli Lommel | 1944-2017 | | |
| Val Guest | 1911-2006 | (Valmond, Maurice) | |
| Vatroslav Mimica | 1923- | | |
| Veiko Õunpuu | 1972- | | |
| Veljko Bulajić | 1928- | | |
| Vera Farmiga | 1973- | (Ann) | |
| Veronica Kedar | 1984- | | |
| Victor Fleming | 1889-1949 | | |
| Vincente Minnelli | 1903-1986 | | |
| Vinko Brešan | 1964- | | |
| Vjekoslav Vrdoljak | 1954- | | |
| Vladimir Menshov | 1939- | | |
| Walt Disney | 1901-1966 | | |
| Warren Beatty | 1937- | | |
| Warwick Ward | 1891-1967 | | |
| Wes Anderson | 1969- | | |
| Wes Craven | 1939-2015 | | |
| William Friedkin | 1935- | | |
| William Wyler | 1902-1981 | | |
| Wim Wenders | 1945- | (Ernst, Wilhelm) | |
| Woody Allen | 1935- | | |
| Yorgos Lanthimos | 1973- | | |
| Zacharias Kunuk | 1957- | (Kifutikajuk, Taqaq, Nujatut, Attafutaluk, Quatuk) | |
| Zack Snyder | 1966- | | |
| Zeki Alasya | 1943-2015 | | |
| Ziad Doueiri | 1963- | | |
| Zvonimir Berković | 1928-2009 | |