Bronze Screen Dream

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1900s

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1920s

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1930s

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1960s

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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