Bronze Screen Dream

1880s

Tod Browning ⁽³³⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 |July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962 | Freaks, Dracula

Cecil B. DeMille ⁽³⁰³⁾ | 🇺🇸 | August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959 | The Ten Commandments, Samson and Delilah

Germaine Dulac ^(NA) | 🇫🇷 | November 17, 1882 – July 20, 1942 | The Seashell and the Clergyman, The Smiling Madame Beudet

Sam Wood ⁽³⁰⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | July 10, 1883 – September 22, 1949 | A Night at the Opera, The Pride of the Yankees

Robert Flaherty ⁽¹⁷⁴⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951 | Nanook of the North, Man of Aran

Allan Dwan ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 | Robin Hood, The Sands of Iwo Jima

G. W. Pabst ⁽¹⁶⁴⁾ | 🇩🇪 | August 27, 1885 – May 29, 1967 | Pandora’s Box, Diary of a Lost Girl

Erich Von Stroheim ⁽¹¹⁵⁾ | 🇦🇹 | September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957 | Greed, Foolish Wives

Henry King ⁽³⁶⁰⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 24, 1886 – June 29, 1982 | The Gunfighter, The Bravados

John Cromwell ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | December 23, 1886 – September 26, 1979 | Caged, Dead Reckoning

Michael Curtiz ⁽⁷⁰⁾ | 🇭🇺 | December 24, 1886 – April 10, 1962 | Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood

Raoul Walsh ⁽¹²³⁾ | 🇺🇸 | March 11, 1887 – December 31, 1980 | White Heat, The Roaring Twenties

F. W. Murnau ⁽³⁶⁾ | 🇩🇪 | December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931 | Nosferatu, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Carl Theodor Dreyer ⁽²⁴⁾ | 🇩🇰 | February 3, 1889 – March 20, 1968 | The Passion of Joan of Arc, Vampyr

Victor Fleming ⁽¹¹⁹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949 | Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz

Charles Chaplin ⁽¹³⁾ | 🇬🇧 | April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977 | Modern Times, The Great Dictator

Jean Cocteau ⁽¹⁶⁵⁾ | 🇫🇷 | July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963 | Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus

James Whale ⁽¹⁴²⁾ | 🇬🇧 | July 22, 1889 – May 29, 1957 | Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein

Abel Gance ⁽¹⁷⁵⁾ | 🇫🇷 | October 25, 1889 – November 10, 1981 | Napoleon, J’accuse

1890s

Zhang Shichuan ^(NA) | 🇨🇳 | January 1, 1890 – July 8, 1954 | Laborer’s Love, The Difficult Couple

Clarence Brown ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987 | Anna Karenina, Flesh and the Devil

Fritz Lang ⁽¹⁷⁾ | 🇦🇹 | December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976 | Metropolis, M

Edmund Goulding ⁽⁴⁸¹⁾ | 🇬🇧 | March 20, 1891 – December 24, 1959 | Nightmare Alley, Grand Hotel

Ernst Lubitsch ⁽²⁹⁾ | 🇩🇪 | January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947 | To Be or Not to Be, The Shop Around the Corner

Vsevolod Pudovkin ^(NA) | 🇷🇺 | February 28, 1893 – June 30, 1953 | Mother, Storm over Asia

Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper ⁽²⁸⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸 | June 8, 1893 – December 23, 1979 and October 24, 1893 – April 21, 1973 | King Kong, Grass

William Dieterle ⁽³⁵⁷⁾ | 🇩🇪 | July 15, 1893 – December 9, 1972 | Portrait of Jennie, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

John Ford ⁽⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973 | The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

King Vidor ⁽¹¹⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982 | The Crowd, The Big Parade

Frank Borzage ⁽¹⁷⁰⁾ | 🇺🇸| April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962 | 7th Heaven, Street Angel

Josef von Sternberg ⁽⁸⁴⁾ | 🇦🇹| May 29, 1894 – December 22, 1969 | The Blue Angel, Shanghai Express

Alexander Dovzhenko ⁽²⁴¹⁾ | 🇷🇺/🇺🇦 | September 10, 1894 – November 25, 1956 | Earth, Arsenal

Jean Renoir ⁽¹²⁾ | 🇫🇷 | September 15, 1894 – February 12, 1979 | The Rules of the Game, La Grande Illusion

Lewis Milestone ⁽³¹⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸/🇲🇩 | September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980 | All Quiet on the Western Front, Mutiny on the Bounty

Buster Keaton ⁽³⁹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966 | The General, Sherlock Jr.

Busby Berkeley ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | November 29, 1895 – March 14, 1976 | Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade

Dziga Vertov ⁽²¹⁹⁾ | 🇷🇺 | January 2, 1896 – February 12, 1954 | Man with a Movie Camera, Kino-Eye

William A. Wellman ⁽²¹⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 29, 1896 – December 9, 1975 | Wings, The Public Enemy

Howard Hawks ⁽¹⁰⁾ | 🇺🇸 | May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977 | His Girl Friday, Rio Bravo

Julien Duvivier ⁽²¹³⁾ | 🇫🇷 | October 8, 1896 – October 29, 1967 | Pépé le Moko, The Devil and the Ten Commandments

Jean Epstein ⁽⁴⁵⁹⁾ | 🇫🇷 | March 25, 1897 – April 2, 1953 | The Fall of the House of Usher, Finis Terrae

Douglas Sirk ⁽¹⁰¹⁾ | 🇩🇪 | April 26, 1897 – January 14, 1987 | Imitation of Life, All That Heaven Allows

Frank Capra ⁽⁶⁵⁾ | 🇺🇸/🇮🇹 | May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991 | It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Rouben Mamoulian ⁽³⁰⁸⁾ | 🇺🇸/🇬🇪 | October 8, 1897 – December 4, 1987 | Love Me Tonight, Queen Christina

Sergei Eisenstein ⁽³⁸⁾ | 🇦🇹 | January 22, 1898 – February 11, 1948 | Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky

Henry Hathaway ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | March 13, 1898 – February 11, 1985 | True Grit, Niagara

Kenji Mizoguchi ⁽²⁵⁾ | 🇯🇵 | May 16, 1898 – August 24, 1956 | Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff

Preston Sturges ⁽⁶⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸 | August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959 | The Lady Eve, Sullivan’s Travels

Leo McCarey ⁽⁷⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸 | October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969 | The Awful Truth, Going My Way

Mitchell Leisen ⁽⁴⁴²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | October 6, 1898 – October 28 1972 | Midnight, Hold Back the Dawn

Rene Clair ⁽²⁶⁷⁾ | 🇫🇷 | November 11, 1898 – March 15 1981 | Entr’acte, A Nous La Liberte

Joris Ivens ⁽⁴⁵²⁾ | 🇳🇱 | November 18, 1898 – June 28, 1989 | Rain, The Spanish Earth

George Cukor ⁽⁸¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983 | My Fair Lady, The Philadelphia Story

Alfred Hitchcock ⁽¹⁾ | 🇬🇧 | August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980 | Psycho, Rear Window

1900s

David Hand ⁽²⁶³⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 23, 1900 – October 11, 1986 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi

Luis Buñuel ⁽⁵⁾ | 🇪🇸 | February 22, 1900 – July 29, 1983 | The Exterminating Angel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Jean Negulesco ^(NA) | 🇷🇴 | February 29, 1900 – July 18, 1993 | How to Marry a Millionaire, Johnny Belinda

Robert Siodmak ⁽³⁴⁰⁾ | 🇩🇪 | August 8, 1900 – March 10, 1973 | The Killers, The Spiral Staircase

Mervyn LeRoy ⁽¹⁹⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸 | October 15, 1900 – September 13, 1987 | Little Caesar, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Vittorio De Sica ⁽⁷³⁾ | 🇮🇹 | July 7, 1901 – November 13, 1974 | Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.

Robert Bresson ⁽¹⁴⁾ | 🇫🇷 | September 25, 1901 – December 18, 1999 | A Man Escaped, Pickpocket

Max Ophüls ⁽⁵⁶⁾ | 🇩🇪/🇫🇷 | May 6, 1902 – March 26, 1957 | Letter from an Unknown Woman, Lola Montès

Boris Barnet ⁽³²⁵⁾ | 🇷🇺 | June 18, 1902 – January 8, 1965 | Outskirts, By the Bluest of Seas

William Wyler ⁽⁵³⁾ | 🇩🇪/🇨🇭 | July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981 | Ben-Hur, The Best Years of Our Lives

Anthony Asquith ⁽²⁷⁹⁾ | 🇬🇧 | November 9, 1902 – February 20, 1968 | Pygmalion, The Browning Version

Vincente Minnelli ⁽⁷¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986 | An American in Paris, The Bad and the Beautiful

Hiroshi Shimizu ⁽³²⁰⁾ | 🇯🇵 | March 28, 1903 – June 23, 1966 | Mr Thank You, Ornamental Hairpin

Yasujiro Ozu ⁽⁹⁾ | 🇯🇵 | December 12, 1903 – December 12, 1963 | Tokyo Story, Late Spring

Mikhail Kalatazov ⁽¹⁴⁰⁾ | 🇷🇺 | December 28, 1903 – March 27, 1973 | The Cranes Are Flying, I Am Cuba

Delmer Daves ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | July 24, 1904 – August 17, 1977 | Dark Passage, 3:10 to Yuma

Edgar G. Ulmer ⁽²⁵¹⁾ | 🇦🇹 | September 17, 1904 – September 30, 1972 | Detour, The Black Cat

Jacques Tourneur ⁽⁸⁹⁾ | 🇫🇷 | November 12, 1904 – December 19, 1977 | Cat People, Out of the Past

George Stevens ⁽¹²²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975 | A Place in the Sun, Shane

Jean Vigo ⁽¹²⁵⁾ | 🇫🇷 | April 26, 1905 – October 5, 1934 | L’Atalante, Zero for Conduct

Mikio Naruse ⁽⁸⁶⁾ | 🇯🇵 | August 20, 1905 – July 2, 1969 | When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Floating Clouds

Michael Powell ⁽¹⁵⁾ | 🇬🇧 | September 30, 1905 – February 19, 1990 | The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus

Otto Preminger ⁽¹³⁵⁾ | 🇦🇹🇭🇺 | December 5, 1905 – April 23, 1986 | Laura, Anatomy of a Murder

Roberto Rossellini ⁽²³⁾ | 🇮🇹 | May 8, 1906 – June 3, 1977 | Rome, Open City, Journey to Italy

Billy Wilder ⁽¹⁹⁾ | 🇦🇹 | June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002 | Some Like It Hot, Sunset Boulevard

Anthony Mann ⁽¹⁷⁵⁾ | 🇺🇸 | June 30, 1906 – April 29, 1967 | Winchester ’73, The Naked Spur

John Huston ⁽⁴⁴⁾ | 🇺🇸 | August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987 | The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Marcel Carné ⁽¹⁰⁴⁾ | 🇫🇷 | August 18, 1906 – October 31, 1996 | Children of Paradise, Le Jour Se Lève

Jacques Becker ⁽¹⁸¹⁾ | 🇫🇷 | September 15, 1906 – February 21, 1960 | Casque d’or, Le Trou

Fei Mu ⁽³¹⁵⁾ | 🇨🇳 | October 10, 1906 – January 31, 1951 | Spring in a Small Town, Confucius

Luchino Visconti ⁽⁴⁰⁾ | 🇮🇹 | November 2, 1906 – March 17, 1976 | The Leopard, Death in Venice

Carol Reed ⁽¹³⁶⁾ | 🇬🇧 | December 30, 1906 – April 25, 1976 | The Third Man, The Fallen Idol

Joseph H. Lewis ⁽⁴²⁹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | April 6, 1907 – August 30, 2000 | Gun Crazy, The Big Combo

Fred Zinnemann ⁽¹⁵⁷⁾ | 🇦🇹 | April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997 | High Noon, From Here to Eternity

Humphrey Jennings ⁽²²⁹⁾ | 🇬🇧 | August 19, 1907 – September 24, 1950 | Listen to Britain, Fires Were Started

Jacques Tati ⁽¹⁰⁵⁾ | 🇫🇷 | October 9, 1907 – November 5, 1982 | Playtime, Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday

Henri-Georges Clouzot ⁽¹²⁴⁾ | 🇫🇷 | November 20, 1907 – January 12, 1977 | Diabolique, The Wages of Fear

Robert Rossen ⁽²⁷⁴⁾ | 🇺🇸 | March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966 | The Hustler, All the King’s Men

David Lean ⁽⁴⁶⁾ | 🇬🇧 | March 25, 1908 – April 16, 1991 | Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai

Phil Karlson ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | July 2, 1908 – December 12, 1985 | Kansas City Confidential, The Phenix City Story

Manoel de Oliveira ⁽²⁴⁰⁾ | 🇵🇹 | December 11, 1908 – April 2, 2015 | Doomed Love, Abraham’s Valley

Joseph Losey ⁽²⁷¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 14, 1909 – June 22, 1984 | The Servant, Mr Klein

Joseph L. Mankiewicz ⁽⁹³⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993 | All About Eve, The Barefoot Contessa

Elia Kazan ⁽⁸²⁾ | 🇺🇸/🇬🇷 | September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003 | A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront

Sadao Yamanaka ⁽³³⁵⁾ | 🇯🇵 | November 8, 1909 – September 17, 1938 | Humanity and Paper Balloons, The Million Ryo Pot

1910s

John Sturges ⁽²⁹⁸⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992 | The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape

Akira Kurosawa ⁽³⁾ | 🇯🇵 | March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998 | Seven Samurai, Rashomon

Basil Dearden ^(NA) | 🇬🇧 | January 1, 1911 – March 23, 1971 | Victim, Khartoum

Robert Hamer ⁽²⁴⁵⁾ | 🇬🇧 | March 31, 1911 – December 4, 1963 | Kind Hearts and Coronets, It Always Rains on Sunday

Nicholas Ray ⁽⁶⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979 | Rebel Without a Cause, In a Lonely Place

Jules Dassin ⁽¹⁶⁹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | December 18, 1911 – March 31, 2008 | Rififi, Night and the City

Georges Franju ⁽³⁰⁵⁾ | 🇫🇷 | April 12, 1912 – November 5, 1987 | Eyes Without A Face, Judex

Kaneto Shindo ⁽²⁷⁵⁾ | 🇯🇵 | April 22, 1912 – May 29, 2012 | Onibaba, The Naked Island

Richard Brooks ⁽³⁹¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Professionals

Samuel Fuller ⁽¹⁹⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997 | Shock Corridor, The Naked Kiss

Gene Kelly ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1992 | Singin’ in the Rain, On the Town

Alexander Mackendrick ⁽²³⁹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | September 8, 1912 – December 22, 1993 | Sweet Smell of Success, The Man in the White Suit

Chuck Jones ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002 | Rabbit Seasoning, Duck Amuck

Michelangelo Antonioni ⁽²⁸⁾ | 🇮🇹 | September 29, 1912 – July 30, 2007 | Blow-Up, L’Avventura

Don Siegel ⁽²¹²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | October 26, 1912 – April 20, 1991 | Dirty Harry, Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Keisuke Kinoshita ⁽⁴⁹⁹⁾ | 🇯🇵 | December 5, 1912 – December 30, 1998 | Twenty-Four Eyes, The Ballad of Narayama

Frank Tashlin ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972 | Artists and Models, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

René Clément ⁽⁴²¹⁾ | 🇫🇷 | March 18, 1913 – March 17, 1996 | Purple Noon, Forbidden Games

Andre De Toth ^(NA) | 🇭🇺 | May 15, 1913 – October 27, 2002 | House of Wax, Day of the Outlaw

Stanley Kramer ⁽²⁸⁵⁾ | 🇺🇸 | September 29, 1913 – February 19, 2001 | Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, Judgment at Nuremberg

Martin Ritt ⁽⁴⁹⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | March 2, 1914 – December 8, 1990 | Hud, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Marguerite Duras ⁽⁴³⁸⁾ | 🇫🇷 | April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1995 | India Song, Nathalie Granger

Mario Bava ^(NA) | 🇮🇹 | July 31, 1914 – April 27, 1980 | Black Sunday, Blood and Black Lace

Robert Wise ⁽¹⁰⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005 | The Sound of Music, West Side Story

Pietro Germi ⁽³⁹²⁾ | 🇮🇹 | September 14, 1914 – December 5, 1974 | Divorce Italian Style, Seduced and Abandoned

Orson Welles ⁽²¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985 | Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil

Mario Monicelli ⁽¹³⁹⁾ | 🇮🇹 | May 16, 1915 – November 29, 2010 | Big Deal on Madonna Street, The Great War

Kon Ichikawa ⁽²⁶⁸⁾ | 🇯🇵 | November 20, 1915 – February 13, 2008 | The Burmese Harp, Fires on the Plain

Masaki Kobayashi ⁽¹¹⁴⁾ | 🇯🇵 | February 14, 1916 – October 4, 1996 | Harakiri, Kwaidan

Budd Boetticher ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | July 29, 1916 – November 29, 2001 | Ride Lonesome, Seven Men from Now

Richard Fleischer ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | December 8, 1916 – March 25, 2006 | Soylent Green, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

Maya Deren ⁽²⁶²⁾ | 🇺🇸/🇺🇦 | May 12, 1917 – October 13, 1961 | Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land

Jean Rouch ⁽⁴²⁰⁾ | 🇫🇷 | May 31, 1917 – February 18, 2004 | Chronicle of a Summer, Les Maîtres Fous

Jean-Pierre Melville ⁽⁷⁹⁾ | 🇫🇷 | October 20, 1917 – August 2, 1973 | Le Samouraï, Army of Shadows

Ingmar Bergman ⁽²⁾ | 🇸🇪 | July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007 | The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries

Robert Aldrich ⁽¹⁹⁹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983 | What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, The Dirty Dozen

Shirley Clarke ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | October 2, 1919 – September 23, 1997 | The Connection, The Cool World

Kim Ki-young ^(NA) | 🇰🇷 | October 10, 1919 – February 5, 1998 | The Housemaid, Woman of Fire

Gillo Pontecorvo ⁽²³⁷⁾ | 🇮🇹 | November 19, 1919 – October 12, 2006 | The Battle of Algiers, Burn!

1920s

Federico Fellini ⁽¹⁶⁾ | 🇮🇹 | January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993 | 8½, La Dolce Vita

Eric Rohmer ⁽⁶⁹⁾ | 🇫🇷 | April 21, 1920 – January 11, 2010 | My Night at Maud’s, Pauline at the Beach

Franklin J. Schaffner ⁽²⁵⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | May 30, 1920 -July 2, 1989 | Patton, The Planet of the Apes

Jack Clayton ⁽³⁶⁷⁾ | 🇬🇧 | March 1, 1921 – February 26, 1995 | The Innocents, Room at the Top

Satyajit Ray ⁽²⁶⁾ | 🇮🇳 | May 2, 1921 – April 23, 1992 | Pather Panchali, Charulata

Luis Garcia Berlanga ⁽²¹⁷⁾ | 🇪🇸 | June 12, 1921 – November 13, 2010 | The Executioner, Welcome Mr. Marshall

Chris Marker ⁽⁹⁵⁾ | 🇫🇷 | July 29, 1921 – July 30, 2012 | La Jetée, Sans Soleil

Miklos Jancsó ⁽⁴⁹³⁾ | 🇭🇺 | September 27, 1921 – January 31, 2014 | The Round-Up, The Red and the White

George Roy Hill ⁽²²³⁾ | 🇺🇸 | December 20, 1921 – December 27, 2002 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting

Pier Paolo Pasolini ⁽⁸⁷⁾ | 🇮🇹 | March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975 | Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, The Gospel According to St. Matthew

Alain Resnais ⁽⁶¹⁾ | 🇫🇷 | June 3, 1922 – March 1, 2014 | Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad

Blake Edwards ⁽³³⁰⁾ | 🇺🇸 | July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010 | Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Pink Panther

Arthur Penn ⁽¹⁷³⁾ | 🇺🇸 | September 27, 1922 – September 28, 2010 | Bonnie and Clyde, Little Big Man

Francesco Rosi ⁽²⁸⁰⁾ | 🇮🇹 | November 15, 1922 – January 10, 2015 | Salvatore Giuliano, Christ Stopped At Eboli

Jonas Mekas ⁽²²⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸/🇱🇹 | December 24, 1922 – January 23, 2019 | Walden, Lost, Lost, Lost

Ousmane Sembene ⁽²²⁰⁾ | 🇸🇳 | January 1, 1923 – June 9, 2007 | Black Girl, Moolaadé

Chang Cheh ^(NA) | 🇨🇳/🇭🇰 | February 10, 1923 – June 22, 2002 | Five Deadly Venoms, The One-Armed Swordsman

Lindsay Anderson ⁽³⁶¹⁾ | 🇬🇧 | April 17, 1923 – August 30, 1994 | This Sporting Life, If…

Seijun Suzuki ⁽⁴⁸⁷⁾ | 🇯🇵 | May 24, 1923 – February 17, 2017 | Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter

Richard Attenborough ^(NA) | 🇬🇧 | August 29, 1923 – 24 August, 2014 | Gandhi, Chaplin

Sergei Parajanov ⁽¹⁶⁸⁾ | 🇬🇪/🇦🇲 | January 9, 1924 – July 20, 1990 | The Color of Pomegranates, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Kihachi Okamoto ^(NA) | 🇯🇵 | February 17, 1924 – February 19, 2005 | The Sword of Doom, Japan’s Longest Day

Frantisek Vlacil ⁽²⁹⁵⁾ | 🇨🇿 | February 19, 1924 – January 27 1999 | Marketa Lazarova, The Valley of the Bees

Stanley Donen ⁽¹¹⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸 | April 13, 1924 – February 21, 2019 | Singing in the Rain, Charade

Sidney Lumet ⁽⁷²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011 | 12 Angry Men, Network

Yasuzo Masumura ^(NA) | 🇯🇵 | August 25, 1924 – November 23, 1986 | Red Angel, Blind Beast

Robert Altman ⁽⁵⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006 | MASH, Nashville

Sam Peckinpah ⁽¹⁰⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984 | The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs

Wojciech Has ⁽³²⁶⁾ | 🇵🇱 | April 1, 1925 – October 3, 2000 | The Hourglass Sanatorium, The Saragossa Manuscript

Guru Dutt ⁽²⁹⁹⁾ | 🇮🇳 | July 9, 1925 – October 10, 1964 | Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool

D. A. Pennebaker ⁽³⁸⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸 | July 15, 1925 – August 1, 2019 | Don’t Look Back, The War Room

Maurice Pialat ⁽¹⁹¹⁾ | 🇫🇷 | August 31, 1925 – January 11, 2003 | A Nos Amours, Van Gogh

Ritwik Ghatak ⁽³⁴³⁾ | 🇮🇳 | November 4, 1925 – February 6, 1976 | The Cloud-Capped Star, Subarnarekha

Claude Lanzmann ⁽²⁵⁶⁾ | 🇫🇷 | November 27, 1925 – July 5, 2018 | Shoah, The Last of the Unjust

John Schlesinger ⁽³¹⁸⁾ | 🇬🇧 | February 16, 1926 – July 25, 2003 | Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man

Andrzej Wajda ⁽¹³⁷⁾ | 🇵🇱 | March 6, 1926 – October 9, 2016 | Ashes and Diamonds, Man of Marble

Jerry Lewis ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017 | The Nutty Professor, The Ladies Man

Roger Corman ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | April 5, 1926 – – | The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum

Mel Brooks ⁽²⁰⁹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | June 28, 1926 – – | The Producers, Blazing Saddles

Karel Reisz ^(NA) | 🇬🇧🇨🇿 | July 21, 1926 – November 22, 2002 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Norman Jewison ⁽³⁶⁴⁾ | 🇨🇦 | July 21, 1926 – – | In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof

Shohei Imamura ⁽¹⁷¹⁾ | 🇯🇵 | September 15, 1926 – May 30, 2006 | The Ballad of Narayama, Vengeance Is Mine

Albert and David Maysles ⁽²⁸²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | November 26, 1926 – March 5, 2015 and January 10, 1931 – January 3, 1987 | Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter

Hiroshi Teshigahara ⁽²⁸¹⁾ | 🇯🇵 | January 28, 1927 – April 14, 2001 | Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another

Kenneth Anger ⁽⁴⁰⁸⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 3, 1927 – May 11, 2023 | Scorpio Rising, Fireworks

Bob Fosse ⁽¹⁸⁹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987 | Cabaret, All That Jazz

Ken Russell ⁽³⁹⁹⁾ | 🇬🇧 | July 3, 1927 – November 27, 2011 | The Devils, Women in Love

Jacques Rivette ⁽⁸³⁾ | 🇫🇷 | March 1, 1928 – January 29, 2016 | Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse

Alan J. Pakula ⁽²⁸⁴⁾ | 🇺🇸 | April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998 | Klute, All the President’s Men

Marco Ferreri ^(NA) | 🇮🇹 | May 11, 1928 – May 9, 1997 | La Grande Bouffe, Dillinger Is Dead

Agnès Varda ⁽⁴²⁾ | 🇫🇷 | May 30, 1928 – March 29, 2019 | Cleo from 5 to 7, Vagabond

Tony Richardson ^(NA) | 🇬🇧 | June 5, 1928 – November 14, 1991 | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, A Taste of Honey

James Ivory ⁽⁴¹⁰⁾ | 🇺🇸 | June 7, 1928 – – | A Room with a View, The Remains of the Day

Stanley Kubrick ⁽⁸⁾ | 🇺🇸 | July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999 | 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining

Andy Warhol ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 | Empire, Chelsea Girls

Lina Wertmüller ^(NA) | 🇮🇹 | August 14, 1928 – December 9, 2021 | Love and Anarchy, Swept Away

Nicolas Roeg ⁽¹⁰²⁾ | 🇬🇧 | August 15, 1928 – November 23, 2018 | Don’t Look Now, Walkabout

Nelson Pereira dos Santos ⁽²⁵⁸⁾ | 🇧🇷 | October 22, 1928 – April 21, 2018 | Barren Lives, Rio 100 Degrees F

Michael Snow ⁽²³³⁾ | 🇨🇦 | December 10, 1928 – January 5, 2023 | Wavelength, La Région Centrale

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea ⁽³¹²⁾ | 🇨🇺 | December 11, 1928 – April 16, 1996 | Memories of Underdevelopment, Strawberry and Chocolate

Sergio Leone ⁽⁵¹⁾ | 🇮🇹 | January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West

Vera Chytilová ⁽³⁵³⁾ | 🇨🇿 | February 2, 1929 – March 12, 2014 | Daisies, Fruit of Paradise

Alejandro Jodorowsky ⁽²³⁸⁾ | 🇨🇱 | February 7, 1929 – – | El Topo, The Holy Mountain

Monte Hellman ⁽⁴³¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | July 12, 1929 – April 20, 2021 | Two-Lane Blacktop, The Shooting

Peter Yates ⁽⁴⁶⁵⁾ | 🇬🇧 | July 24, 1929 – January 9, 2011 | Bullitt, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Hal Ashby ⁽¹⁶⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸 | September 2, 1929 – December 27, 1988 | Harold and Maude, Being There

John Cassavetes ⁽³⁴⁾ | 🇺🇸 | December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989 | A Woman Under the Influence, Faces

1930s

Frederick Wiseman ⁽²⁰⁰⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 1, 1930 – – | Titicut Follies, High School

John Frankenheimer ⁽²⁶⁵⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 19, 1930 -July 6, 2002 | Seconds, The Manchurian Candidate

Richard Donner ⁽⁴²⁴⁾ | 🇺🇸 | April 24, 1930 – July 5, 2021 | Lethal Weapon, The Goonies

Paul Mazursky ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | April 25, 1930 – June 30, 2014 | An Uunmarried Woman, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Clint Eastwood ⁽⁶³⁾ | 🇺🇸 | May 31, 1930 – – | Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby

Claude Chabrol ⁽⁴³⁵⁾ | 🇫🇷 | June 30, 1930 – September 10, 2010 | La Ceremonie, Le Bouchar

Kinji Fukasaku ^(NA) | 🇯🇵 | July 3, 1930 – January 12, 2003 | Battle Royale, Battles Without Honour and Humanity

Jean-Luc Godard ⁽⁶⁾ | 🇫🇷 | December 3, 1930 – September 13, 2022 | Breathless, Contempt

Masahiro Shinoda ^(NA) | 🇯🇵 | March 9, 1931 – – | Pale Flower, Double Suicide

Ettore Scola ⁽²¹⁴⁾ | 🇮🇹 | May 10, 1931 – January 19, 2016 | A Special Day, We All Loved Each Other So Much

Jacques Demy ⁽¹⁰⁸⁾ | 🇫🇷 | June 5, 1931 – October 27, 1990 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Young Girls of Rochefort

Jan Troell ⁽²⁵⁹⁾ | 🇸🇪 | July 23, 1931 – – | The Emigrants, The New Land

Ermanno Olmi ⁽²¹⁸⁾ | 🇮🇹 | July 24, 1931 – May 7, 2018 | The Tree of Wooden Clogs, Il Posto

Yôji Yamada ^(NA) 🇯🇵 | September 13 1931 – – | The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade

Mike Nichols ⁽¹⁷⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014 | The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Carlos Saura ⁽⁴¹⁴⁾ | 🇪🇸 | January 4, 1932 – February 10, 2023 | Cria Cuervos, Carmen

François Truffaut ⁽⁴³⁾ | 🇫🇷 | February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984 | The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim

Miloš Forman ⁽¹¹⁰⁾ | 🇨🇿 | February 18, 1932 – April 13, 2018 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus

Toshio Matsumoto ⁽³⁴⁵⁾ | 🇯🇵 | March 25, 1932 – April 12, 2017 | Funeral Parade of Roses, Demons

Nagisa Oshima ⁽²⁴³⁾ | 🇯🇵 | March 31, 1932 – January 15, 2013 | In the Realm of the Senses, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Andrei Tarkovsky ⁽²⁰⁾ | 🇷🇺 | April 4, 1932 – December 29, 1986 | Stalker, Andrei Rublev

King Hu ⁽¹⁶⁷⁾ | 🇨🇳 | April 29, 1932 – January 14, 1997 | Dragon Inn, A Touch of Zen

Louis Malle ⁽¹¹³⁾ | 🇫🇷 | October 30, 1932 – November 23, 1995 | Au Revoir Les Enfants, My Dinner with Andre

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet ⁽²⁷⁰⁾ | 🇫🇷 | January 8, 1933 – November 20, 2020 and May 1, 1936 – October 9, 2006 | The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Class Relations

Stan Brakhage ⁽³³⁸⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003 | Dog Star Man, Mothlight

John Boorman ⁽²²²⁾ | 🇬🇧 | January 18, 1933 – – | Deliverance, Excalibur

Costa-Gavras ⁽²⁴⁷⁾ | 🇬🇷 | February 12, 1933 – – | Z, Missing

Yoshishige Yoshida ^(NA) | 🇯🇵 | February 16, 1933 – December 8, 2022 | Eros + Massacre, Heroic Purgatory

Bob Rafelson ⁽⁴¹⁵⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 21, 1933 – July 23, 2022 | Five Easy Pieces, The King of Marvin Gardens

Eduardo Coutinho ⁽²⁴⁶⁾ | 🇧🇷 | May 11, 1933 – February 2, 2014 | Twenty Years Later, The Mighty Spirit

Juzo Itami ⁽⁴⁵¹⁾ | 🇯🇵 | May 15, 1933 – December 20, 1997 | Tampopo, The Funeral

Elem Klimov ⁽¹⁹⁴⁾ | 🇷🇺 | July 9, 1933 – November 26, 2003 | Come and See, Farewell

Roman Polanski ⁽⁵⁸⁾ | 🇵🇱 | August 18, 1933 – – | Rosemary’s Baby, The Pianist

Otar Iosseliani ^(NA) | 🇬🇪 | February 2, 1934 – December 17, 2023 | Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird, Falling Leaves

Sydney Pollack ⁽²³¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008 | Tootsie, Out of Africa

Lau Kar-leung ^(NA) | 🇨🇳/🇭🇰 | July 28, 1934 – June 25, 2013 | The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Drunken Master II

Jan Svankmajer ⁽²⁶⁶⁾ | 🇨🇿 | September 4, 1934 – – | Alice, Little Otik

Theo Angelopoulos ⁽⁹⁰⁾ | 🇬🇷 | April 27, 1935 – January 24, 2012 | Eternity and a Day, The Travelling Players

William Friedkin ⁽¹⁴⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | August 29, 1935 – – | The Exorcist, The French Connection

Alan Clarke ^(NA) | 🇬🇧 | October 28, 1935 – July 24, 1990 | Scum, Made in Britain

Peter Watkins ⁽²⁰⁴⁾ | 🇬🇧 | October 29, 1935 – – | The War Game, Punishment Park

Isao Takahata ⁽¹⁸⁴⁾ | 🇯🇵 | October 29, 1935 – April 5, 2018 | Grave of the Fireflies, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Les Blank ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | November 27, 1935 – April 7, 2013 | Burden of Dreams, A Poem Is A Naked Person

Woody Allen ⁽³¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | December 1, 1935 – – | Annie Hall, Manhattan

Shūji Terayama ⁽³⁰⁰⁾ | 🇯🇵 | December 10, 1935 – May 4, 1983 | Pastoral: To Die in the Country, Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

Fernando Solanas ⁽⁴⁸⁸⁾ | 🇦🇷 | February 16, 1936 – November 6, 2020 | The Hour of the Furnaces, The South

Kōji Wakamatsu ^(NA) | 🇯🇵 | April 1, 1936 – October 17, 2012 | Go, Go, Second Time Virgin, Ecstasy of the Angels

Dennis Hopper ⁽³⁹⁵⁾ | 🇺🇸 | May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010 | Easy Rider, The Last Movie

Ken Loach ⁽¹⁸⁰⁾ | 🇬🇧 | June 17, 1936 – – | Kes, I, Daniel Blake

Yılmaz Güney ^(NA) | 🇹🇷 | April 1, 1937 – September 9, 1984 | Yol, Umut

Ridley Scott ⁽⁵⁹⁾ | 🇬🇧 | November 30, 1937 – – | Alien, Blade Runner

Larisa Shepitko ⁽³³¹⁾ | 🇷🇺 | January 6, 1938 – July 2, 1979 | The Ascent, Wings

Nobuhiko Obayashi ⁽³¹⁹⁾ | 🇯🇵 | January 9, 1938 – April 10, 2020 | House, His Motorbike, Her Island

István Szabó ⁽⁴⁷⁶⁾ | 🇭🇺 | February 18, 1938 – – | Mephisto, Colonel Redl

Jiri Menzel ⁽³⁷⁰⁾ | 🇨🇿 | February 23, 1938 – September 5, 2020 | Closely Watched Trains, My Sweet Little Village

Jerzy Skolimowski ^(NA) | 🇵🇱 | May 5, 1938 – – | EO, Deep End

Paul Verhoeven ⁽²²¹⁾ | 🇳🇱 | July 18, 1938 – – | RoboCop, Basic Instinct

Aleksei German ⁽³⁵²⁾ | 🇷🇺 | July 20, 1938 – February 21, 2013 | Hard to Be a God, Khrystalyov, My Car!

Michael Ritchie ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | November 28, 1938 – April 16, 2001 | Downhill Racer, The Candidate

Jean Eustache ⁽¹⁷⁹⁾ | 🇫🇷 | November 30, 1938 – November 5, 1981 | The Mother and the Whore, Mes petites amoureuses

Michael Cimino ⁽¹⁵⁴⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016 | The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate

Glauber Rocha ⁽¹⁵¹⁾ | 🇧🇷 | March 14, 1939 – August 22, 1981 | Black God, White Devil, Entranced Earth

Volker Schlöndorff ^(NA) | 🇩🇪 | March 31, 1939 – – | The Tin Drum, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

Francis Ford Coppola ⁽³⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | April 7, 1939 – – | The Godfather, Apocalypse Now

Peter Bogdanovich ⁽¹⁴⁹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | July 30, 1939 – January 6, 2022 | The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon

Wes Craven ⁽⁴⁰⁹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015 | Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street

Marco Bellocchio ^(NA) | 🇮🇹 | November 9, 1939 – – | Fists in the Pocket, The Traitor

1940s

Walter Hill ⁽⁴⁷⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 10, 1940 – – | The Warriors, 48 Hours

George A. Romero ⁽¹⁵²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017 | Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead

James L. Brooks ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | May 9, 1940 – – | As Good As It Gets, Terms of Endearment

Abbas Kiarostami ⁽²⁷⁾ | 🇮🇷 | June 22, 1940 – July 4, 2016 | Taste of Cherry, Close-Up

Víctor Erice ⁽¹²⁰⁾ | 🇪🇸 | June 30, 1940 – – | The Spirit of the Beehive, El Sur

Bruce Beresford ^(NA) | 🇦🇺 | August 16, 1940 – – | Driving Miss Daisy, Breaker Morant

Dario Argento ⁽²⁰⁶⁾ | 🇮🇹 | September 7, 1940 – – | Suspiria, Deep Red

Brian De Palma ⁽⁹¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | September 11, 1940 – – | Scarface, Carrie

Andrzej Żuławski ⁽³¹³⁾ | 🇵🇱| November 22, 1940 – February 17, 2016 | Possession, On the Silver Globe

Terry Gilliam ⁽¹³²⁾ | 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 | November 22, 1940 – – | Brazil, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Hayao Miyazaki ⁽³²⁾ | 🇯🇵 | January 5, 1941 – – | Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro

Bernardo Bertolucci ⁽⁹⁶⁾ | 🇮🇹 | March 16, 1941 – November 26, 2018 | Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor

Bertrand Tavernier ^(NA) | 🇫🇷 | April 25, 1941 – March 25, 2021 | Round Midnight, Coup de Torchon

Stephen Frears ^(NA) | 🇬🇧 | June 20, 1941 – – | Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity

Krzysztof Kieslowski ⁽⁴⁵⁾ | 🇵🇱 | June 27, 1941 – March 13, 1996 | The Double Life of Veronique, Three Colors trilogy

Raúl Ruiz ⁽¹⁴⁸⁾ | 🇨🇱 | July 25, 1941 – August 19, 2011 | Mysteries of Lisbon, Time Regained

Patricio Guzmán ⁽²⁸⁸⁾ | 🇨🇱 | August 11, 1941 – – | The Battle of Chile, Nostalgia for the Light

Yuri Norstein ⁽⁴⁵⁵⁾ | 🇷🇺 | September 15, 1941 – – | Hedgehog in the Fog, Tale of Tales

Derek Jarman ⁽⁴⁹¹⁾ | 🇬🇧 | January 31, 1942 – February 19, 1994 | Caravaggio, Blue

Michael Haneke ⁽⁵⁵⁾ | 🇦🇹 | March 23, 1942 – – | The White Ribbon, Amour

Peter Greenaway ⁽¹⁶³⁾ | 🇬🇧 | April 5, 1942 – – | The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, The Draughtsman’s Contract

Barry Levinson ⁽³⁶⁸⁾ | 🇺🇸 | April 6, 1942 – – | Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam

Werner Herzog ⁽⁴⁷⁾ | 🇩🇪 | September 5, 1942 – – | Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo

Martin Scorsese ⁽⁴⁾ | 🇺🇸 | November 17, 1942 – – | Goodfellas, The Departed

Tobe Hooper ⁽²²⁴⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 25, 1943 – August 26, 2017 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Poltergeist

Michael Mann ⁽¹⁴⁴⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 5, 1943 – – | Heat, The Last of the Mohicans

Mike Leigh ⁽¹²⁹⁾ | 🇬🇧 | February 20, 1943 – – | Secrets & Lies, Naked

André Téchiné ^(NA) | 🇫🇷 | March 13, 1943 – – | Wild Reeds, My Favourite Season

David Cronenberg ⁽⁶⁸⁾ | 🇨🇦 | March 15, 1943 – – | The Fly, Videodrome

Roy Andersson ⁽³⁴⁹⁾ | 🇸🇪 | March 31, 1943 – – | A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting on Existence, Songs from the Second Floor

Terrence Malick ⁽⁴¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | November 30, 1943 – – | The Tree of Life, Badlands

Alan Parker ⁽²⁸⁹⁾ | 🇬🇧 | February 14, 1944 – July 31, 2020 | Midnight Express, Mississippi Burning

Jonathan Demme ⁽²⁰⁵⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017 | The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia

Charles Burnett ⁽²⁷⁸⁾ | 🇺🇸 | April 13, 1944 – – | Killer of Sheep, To Sleep with Anger

George Lucas ⁽¹⁷⁸⁾ | 🇺🇸 | May 14, 1944 – – | Star Wars, American Graffiti

Tony Scott ^(NA) | 🇬🇧 | June 21, 1944 – August 19, 2012 | Top Gun, True Romance

Peter Weir ⁽¹⁶²⁾ | 🇦🇺 | August 21, 1944 – – | The Truman Show, Dead Poets Society

Harold Ramis ⁽²⁹¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | November 21, 1944 – February 24, 2014 | Groundhog Day, Caddyshack

Djibril Diop Mambéty ⁽³⁵⁸⁾ | 🇸🇳 | January 23, 1945 – July 23, 1998 | Hyenas, Touki Bouki

George Miller ⁽¹⁵⁰⁾ | 🇦🇺 | March 3, 1945 – – | Mad Max: Fury Road, Mad Max 2

Curtis Hanson ⁽⁴³⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸 | March 24, 1945 – September 20, 2016 | L.A. Confidential, 8 Mile

Rainer Werner Fassbinder ⁽⁵⁰⁾ | 🇩🇪 | May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982 | The Marriage of Maria Braun, Berlin Alexanderplatz

Wim Wenders ⁽⁵⁴⁾ | 🇩🇪 | August 14, 1945 – – | Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas

Terence Davies ⁽¹⁸³⁾ | 🇬🇧 | November 10, 1945 – October 7, 2023 | The Long Day Closes, Distant Voices, Still Lives

David Lynch ⁽¹⁸⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 20, 1946 – – | Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks

Haile Gerima ^(NA) | 🇪🇹 | March 4, 1946 – – | Sankofa, Bush Mama

Claire Denis ⁽¹⁰⁰⁾ | 🇫🇷 | April 21, 1946 – – | Beau Travail, 35 Shots of Rum

John Waters ⁽³⁷²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | April 22, 1946 – – | Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble

John Woo ⁽¹⁹²⁾ | 🇭🇰 | May 1, 1946 – – | The Killer, Hard Boiled

Lasse Hallstöm ⁽³⁶³⁾ | 🇸🇪 | June 2, 1946 – – | What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Chocolat

Paul Schrader ⁽²⁶⁴⁾ | 🇺🇸 | July 22, 1946 – – | First Reformed, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Bill Forsyth ⁽³⁷³⁾ | 🇬🇧 | July 29, 1946 – – | Local Hero, Gregory’s Girl

Oliver Stone ⁽¹⁹⁵⁾ | 🇺🇸 | September 15, 1946 – – | Platoon, JFK

Ivan Reitman ⁽⁴⁷²⁾ | 🇨🇦 | October 27, 1946 – February 12, 2022 | Ghostbusters, Stripes

Joe Dante ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | November 28, 1946 – – | Gremlins, The Howling

Steven Spielberg ⁽¹¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | December 18, 1946 – – | Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Takeshi Kitano ⁽²⁴⁹⁾ | 🇯🇵 | January 18, 1947 – – | Hana-bi, Sonatine

Rob Reiner ⁽⁹⁹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | March 6, 1947 – – | Stand by Me, The Princess Bride

Hou Hsiao-hsien ⁽⁴⁸⁾ | 🇹🇼 | April 8, 1947 – – | A City of Sadness, The Assassin

Stuart Gordon ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | August 11, 1947 – March 24, 2020 | Re-Animator, From Beyond

Edward Yang ⁽⁷⁴⁾ | 🇹🇼 | November 6, 1947 – June 29, 2007 | Yi Yi, A Brighter Summer Day

John Carpenter ⁽¹¹²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 16, 1948 – – | Halloween, The Thing

Errol Morris ⁽²⁵³⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 5, 1948 – – | The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War

Philippe Garrel ^(NA) | 🇫🇷 | April 6, 1948 – – | Regular Lovers, Jealousy

Catherine Breillat ^(NA) | 🇫🇷 | July 13, 1948 – – | Fat Girl, A Real Young Girl

Agnieszka Holland ^(NA) | 🇵🇱 | November 28, 1948 – – | Europa Europa, The Secret Garden

Lawrence Kasdan ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | January 14, 1949 – – | Body Heat, The Big Chill

Jim Sheridan ⁽³⁰⁹⁾ | 🇮🇪 | February 6, 1949 – – | In the Name of the Father, My Left Foot

Pedro Almodóvar ⁽⁹⁸⁾ | 🇪🇸 | September 25, 1949 – – | Talk to Her, All About My Mother

1950s

Tsui Hark ⁽⁴²⁶⁾ | 🇭🇰 | February 15, 1950 – – | Once Upon a Time in China, Peking Opera Blues

Neil Jordan ^(NA) | 🇮🇪 | February 25, 1950 – – | The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire

Phillip Noyce ^(NA) | 🇦🇺 | April 29, 1950 – – | Rabbit Proof Fence, Clear and Present Danger

Chantal Akerman ⁽⁸⁸⁾ | 🇧🇪 | June 6, 1950 – October 5, 2015 | Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, News from Home

John Landis ⁽²⁰¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | August 3, 1950 – – | The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London

John Sayles ⁽³⁸³⁾ | 🇺🇸 | September 28. 1950 – – | Lone Star, Matewan

Gillian Armstrong ^(NA) | 🇦🇺 | December 18, 1950 – – | My Brilliant Career, Little Women

John McTiernan ⁽²³⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 8, 1951 – – | Die Hard, Predator

Dardenne Brothers ⁽¹⁵³⁾ (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) | 🇧🇪 | April 21, 1951 – -, March 10, 1954 – – | Rosetta, The Kid with a Bike

Aleksandr Sokurov ⁽¹⁵⁹⁾ | 🇷🇺 | June 14, 1951 – – | Russian Ark, Faust

Abel Ferrara ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | July 19, 1951 – – | Bad Lieutenant, King of New York

Zhang Yimou ⁽¹²¹⁾ | 🇨🇳 | November 14, 1951 – – | Raise the Red Lantern, Hero

Kathryn Bigelow ⁽²⁰²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | November 27, 1951 – – | The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty

Tian Zhuangzhuang ^(NA) | 🇨🇳 | April 1, 1952 – – | The Horse Thief, The Blue Kite

Jacques Audiard ⁽³⁹⁴⁾ | 🇫🇷 | April 30, 1952 – – | A Prophet, Rust and Bone

Robert Zemeckis ⁽¹³⁴⁾ | 🇺🇸 | May 14, 1952 – – | Back to the Future, Forrest Gump

Gus Van Sant ⁽¹⁴¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | July 24, 1952 – – | Good Will Hunting, My Own Private Idaho

Chen Kaige ⁽²⁷³⁾ | 🇨🇳 | August 12, 1952 – – | Farewell My Concubine, Yellow Earth

Julie Dash ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | October 22, 1952 – – | Daughters of the Dust, Illusions

Ulrich Seidl ^(NA) | 🇦🇹 | November 24, 1952 – – | Paradise: Love, Import Export

Henry Selick ⁽⁴³⁰⁾ | 🇺🇸 | November 30, 1952 – – | Coraline, The Nightmare Before Christmas

Jim Jarmusch ⁽⁹⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 22, 1953 – – | Stranger Than Paradise, Dead Man

Nanni Moretti ⁽³⁷⁴⁾ | 🇮🇹 | August 19, 1953 – – | Dear Diary, The Son’s Room

Jean-Pierre Jeunet ⁽²³⁴⁾ | 🇫🇷 | September 3, 1953 – – | Amélie, The City of Lost Children

Anthony Minghella ^(NA) | 🇬🇧 | January 6, 1954 – March 18, 2008 | The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley

Idrissa Ouédraogo ^(NA) | 🇧🇫 | January 21, 1954 – – | Yaaba, The Law

Ron Howard ⁽²⁵²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | March 1, 1954 – – | A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13

Lee Chang-dong ⁽¹³⁸⁾ | 🇰🇷 | April 4, 1954 – – | Burning, Poetry

Michael Moore ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | April 23, 1954 – – | Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11

Jane Campion ⁽¹²⁸⁾ | 🇳🇿 | April 30, 1954 – – | The Piano, The Power of the Dog

James Cameron ⁽⁷⁷⁾ | 🇨🇦 | August 16, 1954 – – | Titanic, Avatar

Ang Lee ⁽¹¹⁸⁾ | 🇹🇼 | October 23, 1954 – – | Brokeback Mountain, Life of Pi

Emir Kusturica ⁽¹⁴³⁾ | 🇷🇸 | November 24, 1954 – – | Time of the Gypsies, Underground

Coen Brothers (Joel & Ethan Coen) ⁽²²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | November 29, 1954 – – and September 21, 1957 – – | Fargo, No Country for Old Men

Olivier Assayas ⁽⁴⁶⁷⁾ | 🇫🇷 | January 25, 1955 – – | Irma Vep, Clouds of Sils Maria

Johnnie To ^(NA) | 🇭🇰 | April 22, 1955 – – | Election, The Mission

Kiyoshi Kurosawa ⁽⁴⁰⁰⁾ | 🇯🇵 | July 19, 1955 – – | Cure, Pulse

Béla Tarr ⁽⁷⁵⁾ | 🇭🇺 | July 21, 1955 – – | Satantango, Werckmeister Harmonies

Paul Greengrass ⁽³²⁸⁾ | 🇬🇧 | August 13, 1955 – – | The Bourne Ultimatum, Captain Phillips

Fernando Meirelles ⁽³²¹⁾ | 🇧🇷 | November 9, 1955 – – | The Two Popes, City of God

Mel Gibson ⁽²⁹⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 3, 1956 – – | Braveheart, Hacksaw Ridge

Guy Maddin ⁽³⁶²⁾ | 🇨🇦 | February 28, 1956 – – | My Winnipeg, Brand Upon the Brain!

Lars von Trier ⁽⁶⁰⁾ | 🇩🇰| April 30, 1956 – – | Melancholia, Breaking the Waves

Giuseppe Tornatore ⁽²⁴⁸⁾ | 🇮🇹 | May 27, 1956 – – | Cinema Paradiso, The Best Offer

Danny Boyle ⁽²⁰⁸⁾ | 🇬🇧 | October 20, 1956 – – | Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire

John Lasseter ⁽³⁸¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 12, 1957 – – | Toy Story, Cars

Spike Lee ⁽⁸⁵⁾ | 🇺🇸 | March 20, 1957 – – | Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X

Aki Kaurismäki ⁽¹⁸⁷⁾ | 🇫🇮 | April 4, 1957 – – | The Man Without a Past, Le Havre

Mohsen Makhmalbaf ⁽³⁴⁴⁾ | 🇮🇷 | May 29, 1957 – – | A Moment of Innocence, Gabbeh

Cameron Crowe ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | July 13, 1957 – – | Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire

Brad Bird ⁽²³²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | September 24, 1957 – – | The Incredibles, Ratatouille

Mira Nair ^(NA) | 🇮🇳 | October 15, 1957 – – | Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake

Tsai Ming-liang ⁽⁹⁴⁾ | 🇹🇼 | October 27, 1957 – – | Vive L’Amour, Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Bruno Dumont ^(NA) | 🇫🇷 | March 14, 1958 – – | Li’l Quinquin, L’Humanité

Wong Kar-wai ⁽³⁵⁾ | 🇭🇰 | July 17, 1958 – – | In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express

David O. Russell ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | August 20, 1958 – – | Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle

Tim Burton ⁽¹⁵⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸 | August 25, 1958 – – | Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas

Charlie Kaufman ⁽³²²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | November 19, 1958 – – | Synecdoche, New York, I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Lav Diaz ⁽⁴⁶⁴⁾ | 🇵🇭 | December 30, 1958 – – | Norte, the End of History, From What Is Before

Nuri Bilge Ceylan ⁽¹³¹⁾ | 🇹🇷 | January 26, 1959 – – | Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Winter Sleep

Frank Darabont ⁽²⁷⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 28, 1959 – – | The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile

Luc Besson ⁽⁴¹¹⁾ | 🇫🇷 | March 18, 1959 – – | Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element

Majid Majidi ⁽²⁶¹⁾ | 🇮🇷 | April 17, 1959 – – | Children of Heaven, The Colour of Paradise

Todd Solondz ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | October 15, 1959 – – | Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse

Sam Raimi ⁽²⁶⁰⁾ | 🇺🇸 | October 23, 1959 – – | The Evil Dead, Spider-Man

Hal Hartley ⁽⁴²⁵⁾ | 🇺🇸 | November 3, 1959 – – | Trust, The Unbelievable Truth

Gregg Araki ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | December 17, 1959 – – | Nowhere, Mysterious Skin

Pedro Costa ⁽¹²⁷⁾ | 🇵🇹 | December 30, 1959 – – | Colossal Youth, Vitalina Varela

1960s

Shin’ya Tsukamoto ^(NA) | 🇯🇵 | January 1, 1960 – – | Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Tokyo Fist

Stephen Daldry ^(NA) | 🇬🇧 | May 2, 1960 – – | Billy Elliot, The Reader

Hideaki Anno ⁽²²⁷⁾ | 🇯🇵 | May 22, 1960 – – | Neon Genesis Evangelion, The End of Evangelion

Jafar Panahi ⁽²⁹²⁾ | 🇮🇷 | July 11, 1960 – – | No Bears, Taxi

Atom Egoyan ⁽⁴⁹²⁾ | 🇨🇦 | July 19, 1960 – – | Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter

Richard Linklater ⁽⁷⁸⁾ | 🇺🇸 | July 30, 1960 – – | Boyhood, Before Trilogy

Takashi Miike ^(NA) | 🇯🇵 | August 24, 1960 – – | Audition, Ichi the Killer

Hong Sang-soo ⁽⁴⁶⁸⁾ | 🇰🇷 | October 25, 1960 – – | On the Beach at Night Alone, Right Now, Wrong Then

Leos Carax ⁽¹⁸⁵⁾ | 🇫🇷 | November 22, 1960 – – | Holy Motors, Les Amants du Pont-Neuf

Abdellatif Kechiche ⁽³⁷⁸⁾ | 🇫🇷/🇹🇳 | December 7, 1960 – – | Blue is the Warmest Colour, The Secret of the Grain

Kenneth Branagh ^(NA) | 🇬🇧 | December 10, 1960 – – | Belfast, Henry V

Kim Ki-duk ⁽³³⁹⁾ | 🇰🇷 | December 20, 1960 – December 11, 2020 | 3-Iron, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring

Todd Haynes ⁽¹⁵⁵⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 2, 1961 – – | Far from Heaven, Carol

Alexander Payne ⁽²⁷²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 10, 1961 – – | Sideways, Election

Andrea Arnold ⁽⁴⁷⁴⁾ | 🇬🇧 | April 5, 1961 – – | American Honey, Fish Tank

Abderrahmane Sissako ^(NA) | 🇲🇷 | October 13, 1961 – – | Timbuktu, Bamako

Peter Jackson ⁽¹⁰³⁾ | 🇳🇿 | October 31, 1961 – – | The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit

Alfonso Cuarón ⁽⁹²⁾ | 🇲🇽 | November 28, 1961 – – | Children of Men, Roma

Sion Sono ⁽²⁵⁰⁾ | Japan 🇯🇵 | December 18, 1961 – – | Love Exposure, Why Don’t You Play in Hell?

Hirokazu Koreeda ⁽¹⁰⁹⁾ | 🇯🇵 | June 6, 1962 – – | Shoplifters, Still Walking

David Fincher ⁽⁶²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | August 28, 1962 – – | Fight Club, The Social Network

Baz Luhrmann ⁽⁴¹⁹⁾ | 🇦🇺 | September 17, 1962 – – | The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge!

Kenneth Lonergan ⁽²⁶⁸⁾ | 🇺🇸 | October 16, 1962 – – | Manchester by the Sea, Margaret

Steven Soderbergh ⁽³⁷⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 14, 1963 – – | Ocean’s Eleven, Sex, Lies and Videotapes

Shunji Iwai ⁽³³⁴⁾ | 🇯🇵 | January 23, 1963 – – | All About Lily Chou-Chou, Love Letter

Quentin Tarantino ⁽³³⁾ | 🇺🇸 | March 27, 1963 – – | Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill

Michel Gondry ⁽²⁷⁷⁾ | 🇫🇷 | May 8, 1963 – – | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mood Indigo

Alejandro G. Iñárritu ⁽¹⁹⁸⁾ | 🇲🇽 | August 15, 1963 – – | Birdman, The Revenant

Park Chan-wook ⁽¹⁴⁵⁾ | 🇰🇷 | August 23, 1963 – – | Oldboy, The Handmaiden

Satoshi Kon ⁽¹⁸⁶⁾ | 🇯🇵 | October 12, 1963 – August 24, 2010 | Perfect Blue, Paprika

James Mangold ⁽³³²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | December 18, 1963 – – | Logan, Ford v Ferrari

Gaspar Noe ⁽³⁰²⁾ | 🇦🇷 | December 27, 1963 – – | Irreversible, Climax

Andrey Zvyagintsev ⁽³⁵⁶⁾ | 🇷🇺 | February 6, 1964 – – | Leviathan, The Return

Kelly Reichardt ⁽²⁰⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | March 3, 1964 – – | Wendy and Lucy, Certain Women

Guillermo Del Toro ⁽¹⁷⁶⁾ | 🇲🇽 | October 9, 1964 – – | Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water

Michael Bay ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | February 17, 1965 – – | Transformers, The Rock

Lou Ye ^(NA) | 🇨🇳 | March 15, 1965 – – | Suzhou River, Summer Palace

Jonathan Glazer ⁽³²⁴⁾ | 🇬🇧 | March 26, 1965 – – | Under the Skin, Sexy Beast

Lana and Lilly Wachowski ⁽²⁹³⁾ | 🇺🇸 | June 21, 1965 – – and December 29, 1967 – – | The Matrix, Cloud Atlas

Sam Mendes ⁽¹⁹³⁾ | 🇬🇧 | August 1, 1965 – – | American Beauty, 1917

Andrew Stanton ⁽²¹¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | December 3, 1965 – – | Finding Nemo, WALL-E

Mike Mills ⁽³⁷⁹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | March 20, 1966 – – | C’mon, C’mon, 20th Century Women

Lucrecia Martel ⁽¹³³⁾ | 🇦🇷 | December 14, 1966 – – | The Headless Woman, The Holy Girl

Cristi Puiu ⁽³¹¹⁾ | 🇷🇴 | April 3, 1967 – – | The Death of Mr Lazarescu, Sieranevada

Mamoru Hosoda ^(NA) | 🇯🇵 | September 19, 1967 – – | Summer Wars, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Denis Villeneuve ⁽¹²⁶⁾ | 🇨🇦 | October 3, 1967 – – | Blade Runner 2049, Arrival

Andrew Dominik ⁽²⁹⁴⁾ | 🇦🇺 | October 7, 1967 – – | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Blonde

François Ozon ^(NA) | 🇫🇷 | November 15, 1967 – – | Summer of 85, 8 Women

Wang Bing ⁽¹⁸²⁾ | 🇨🇳 | November 17, 1967 – – | Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, ‘Til Madness Do Us Part

Cristian Mungiu ⁽²⁵⁴⁾ | 🇷🇴 | April 27, 1968 – – | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Beyond the Hills

Robert Rodriguez ⁽⁴⁷⁸⁾ | 🇺🇸 | June 20, 1968 – – | From Dusk Till Dawn, El Mariachi

Guy Ritchie ⁽³⁴¹⁾ | 🇬🇧 | September 10, 1968 – – | Snatch, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Pete Docter ⁽²¹⁰⁾ | 🇺🇸 | October 9, 1968 – – | Inside Out, Up

Kleber Mendonça Filho ⁽⁴⁰⁵⁾ | 🇧🇷 | November 22, 1968 – – | Bacurau, Aquarius

Darren Aronofsky ⁽¹⁴⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 12, 1969 – – | Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream

James Gray ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | April 14, 1969 – – | Ad Astra, Two Lovers

Wes Anderson ⁽⁸⁰⁾ | 🇺🇸 | May 1, 1969 – – | The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom

Thomas Vinterberg ⁽²⁰³⁾ | 🇩🇰 | May 19, 1969 – – | The Hunt, The Celebration

Naomi Kawase ^(NA) | 🇯🇵 | May 30, 1969 – – | Sweet Bean, Suzaku

Noah Baumbach ⁽³⁵¹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | September 3, 1969 – – | Marriage Story, Frances Ha

Bong Joon-ho ⁽¹¹¹⁾ | 🇰🇷 | September 14, 1969 – – | Parasite, Memories of Murder

Steve McQueen ⁽¹⁵⁸⁾ | 🇬🇧 | October 9, 1969 – – | 12 Years a Slave, Shame

Spike Jonze ⁽¹⁸⁸⁾ | 🇺🇸 | October 22, 1969 – – | Her, Being John Malkovich

Lynne Ramsay ⁽³²³⁾ | 🇬🇧 | December 5, 1969 – – | You Were Never Really Here, We Need to Talk About Kevin

1970s

Jia Zhangke ⁽¹⁶⁰⁾ | 🇨🇳 | May 24, 1970 – – | Still Life, A Touch of Sin

Paolo Sorrentino ⁽⁴³³⁾ | 🇮🇹 | May 31, 1970 – – | The Great Beauty, The Hand of God

Paul Thomas Anderson ⁽³⁰⁾ | 🇺🇸 | June 26, 1970 – – | There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights

Apichatpong Weerasethakul ⁽⁶⁴⁾ | 🇹🇭 | July 16, 1970 – – | Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Syndromes and a Century

Christopher Nolan ⁽⁵²⁾ | 🇬🇧 | July 30, 1970 – – | Inception, The Dark Knight

Nicolas Winding Refn ⁽³⁹⁰⁾ | 🇩🇰 | September 29, 1970 – – | Drive, Pusher

Sean Baker ⁽³⁸⁹⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 26, 1971 – – | The Florida Project, Tangerine

Sofia Coppola ⁽²⁴²⁾ | 🇺🇸 | May 14, 1971 – – | Lost in Translation, The Virgin Suicides

Luca Guadagnino ⁽⁴⁵⁴⁾ | 🇮🇹 | August 10, 1971 – – | Call Me by Your Name, Suspiria

Carlos Reygadas ⁽⁴¹²⁾ | 🇲🇽 | October 10, 1971 – – | Silent Light, Post Tenebras Lux

Miguel Gomes ⁽⁴¹⁸⁾ 🇵🇹 | February 20, 1972 – – | Tabu, Arabian Nights

Asghar Farhadi ⁽¹⁶¹⁾ | 🇮🇷 | May 7, 1972 – – | A Separation, The Salesman

Joe Wright ⁽³³⁶⁾ | 🇬🇧 | August 25, 1972 – – | Atonement, Pride and Prejudice

Harmony Korine ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | January 4, 1973 – – | Gummo, Spring Breakers

Makoto Shinkai ^(NA) | 🇯🇵 | February 9, 1973 – – | Your Name., Suzume

Yorgos Lanthimos ⁽³⁸⁴⁾ | 🇬🇷 | May 27, 1973 – – | The Favourite, The Lobster

Rian Johnson ⁽⁴⁰⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸 | December 17, 1973 – – | Knives Out, Brick

Joachim Trier ⁽³⁴⁸⁾ | 🇳🇴 | March 1, 1974 – – | The Worst Person in the World, Oslo, August 31st

Ruben Östlund ^(NA) | 🇸🇪 | April 13, 1974 – – | Triangle of Sadness, The Square

Edgar Wright ⁽²²⁵⁾ | 🇬🇧 | April 18, 1974 – – | Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver

Joshua Oppenheimer ⁽²⁸³⁾ | 🇺🇸 | September 23, 1974 – – | The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence

Ramin Bahrani ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | March 20, 1975 – – | The White Tiger, 99 Homes

Lisandro Alonso ^(NA) | 🇦🇷 | June 2, 1975 – – | La Libertad, Jauja

Taika Waititi ⁽²⁴⁴⁾ | 🇳🇿 | August 16, 1975 – – | Thor: Ragnarok, Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Pablo Larraín ^(NA) | 🇨🇱 | August 19, 1976 – – | Spencer, Jackie

Maren Ade ⁽³¹⁴⁾ | 🇩🇪 | December 12, 1976 – – | Toni Erdmann, Everyone Else

James Wan ^(NA) | 🇦🇺 | February 26, 1977 – – | Saw, The Conjuring

Céline Sciamma ⁽¹⁹⁰⁾ | 🇫🇷 | November 12, 1978 – – | Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Girlhood

Jeff Nichols ^(NA) | 🇺🇸 | December 7, 1978 – – | Mud, Take Shelter

Ryusuke Hamaguchi ⁽²³⁵⁾ | 🇯🇵 | December 16, 1978 – – | Happy Hour, Drive My Car

Jordan Peele ⁽³¹⁰⁾ | 🇺🇸 | February 21, 1979 – – | Get Out, Nope

Barry Jenkins ⁽²³⁰⁾ | 🇺🇸 | November 19, 1979 – – | Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk

1980s

Mia Hansen-Løve ^(NA) | 🇫🇷 | February 5, 1981 – – | One Fine Morning, Bergman Island

Chloe Zhao ⁽⁴¹⁶⁾ | 🇨🇳 | March 31, 1982 – – | Nomadland, The Rider

Robert Eggers ⁽³⁰⁶⁾ | 🇺🇸 | July 7, 1983 – – | The Northman, The Lighthouse

Greta Gerwig ⁽³⁰⁴⁾ | 🇺🇸 | August 4, 1983 – – | Barbie, Little Women

Josh and Benny Safdie ⁽³⁸⁷⁾ | 🇺🇸 | April 3, 1984 – – and February 24, 1986 – – | Good Time, Uncut Gems

Damien Chazelle ⁽²²⁸⁾ | 🇺🇸 | January 19, 1985 – – | Whiplash, La La Land

Ari Aster ⁽³⁹⁸⁾ | 🇺🇸 | July 15, 1986 – – | Hereditary, Midsommar

Xavier Dolan ⁽⁴⁴⁶⁾ | 🇨🇦 | March 20, 1989 – – | Mommy, I Killed My Mother