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1. Steven Spielberg. Producer. Writer. Director. Schindler's List (1993) One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world.
Scorsese directed De Niro to an Oscar-winning performance as boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980), which received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, and is hailed as one of the masterpieces of modern cinema.
- Steven Spielberg (1946-) Pick an age, any age. Now remember what it was like seeing a particular Spielberg movie for the first time. As children, we believed in E.T.;
- Martin Scorsese (1942-) After calling the shots for more than 40 years, most directors would quietly recede from work and just participate in anniversary panels.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) Hitchcock will forever be one of the greats because of his sheer brilliance in his craft. His movies unfold with the utmost confidence, enabling audiences to put their blind trust in him.
- James Cameron (1954-) The appropriate descriptor is titanic—and that’s not just a reference to his behemoth 1997 movie of the same name. Cameron is the director who can tackle mammoth projects with sky-high budgets and turn them into awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping wonders.
4 days ago · This is a list of the greatest directors in movie history, who are most deserving of Academy Awards and critical recognition. The list includes directors who have already won major awards, those who continue to have the potential to win Oscars, and filmmakers who were overlooked by the Academy during their lifetime.
- Robert Altman
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- David Lean
- Michael Powell
- Buster Keaton
- Howard Hawks
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Martin Scorsese
- Yasujirō Ozu
Some would dispute Altman’s right to be on a list of the two hundred best directors of all time, let alone the top 20 because they do not like his uniquely individual and genuinely iconoclastic style, the trademarks of which included unlikely or anti-heroes, overlapping dialogue, and historical revisionism. And yet it is arguable that at the end of...
Andrei Tarkovsky is the James Joyce of cinema: a man who directed relatively few films (only seven features in total), just as Joyce wrote relatively few books, but, just like Joyce, every one of his works was a masterpiece. Tarkovsky’s magnificent seven films began with Ivan’s Childhood(1962), one of the greatest films ever made about both childho...
David Lean’s star may have fallen from its high point at the end of the 1960s when he capped a trilogy of truly epic films — The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965) – with Ryan’s Daughter (1970), which was so savaged by critics that Lean did not make another film for nearly 15 years (A Passage To In...
It is almost perverse to type the words “Michael Powell” without immediately adding “Emeric Pressburger” because the Briton and the Hungarian-born Briton were arguably the greatest directing-screenwriting partnership in history. Nonetheless, Powell was a great director in his own right. Powell and Pressburger took a while to get going, making sever...
It would of course be possible to produce a list of the 20 Best Directors of the Silent Era, the formative phase of cinema that is so often forgotten now. Chaplin, Griffith, Murnau, Von Stroheim, and many others would merit inclusion on that list, but arguably the greatest silent filmmaker of them all and the one whose work most resonates with audi...
Howard Hawks was one of the greatest Hollywood directors ever, mastering many different genres and eliciting career-best performances even from superstars such as Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant. In a career lasting nearly fifty years – so, from the Silent Era to the start of the 1970s and the second golden age of Hollywood – he produced at least ha...
Almost all the directors on this list enjoyed imperial phases of some kind or other when almost everything they touched turned to greatness, but arguably the most imperial phase of them all was enjoyed by Francis Ford Coppola in the 1970s. In that decade, Hollywood’s second golden age, Coppola wrote and directed The Godfather (Parts I & II) (1972 a...
Dreyer was Bergman before Bergman, bringing a singularly Scandinavian sensibility to filmmaking, contrasting a cold, austere, almost Arctic darkness of subject matter with spectacular and beautiful Aurora Borealis (or Northern Lights)-like displays of emotion. Dreyer’s greatest film is La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc) (1928),...
If people had had to bet at the end of the 1970s on which of the “Movie Brats turned Movie Moguls” – i.e. Francis Ford Coppola or Martin Scorsese – would have the longer and more stellar career, most money would have been on Coppola after his own spectacular 1970s. Yet in the end, it was no contest, as Scorsese built on his own superb 1970s (notabl...
Like several other entrants on this list, Yasujirō Ozu enjoyed a long apprenticeship as a filmmaker, directing his first film when he was only 24 and making many more films for another quarter-century before finally finding his perfect subject matter and style. However, it was ultimately worth the wait, as Ozu’s late masterpieces, particularly Toky...
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...
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Jul 14, 2023 · Many younger audiences consider Stanley Kubrick to be perhaps the greatest director of all time. While it's a comparatively short filmography, his attention to detail was frequently documented...
