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Hollywood's Best Film Directors: Created by Mark Kaplan, Martin Saint Charles, David Freydt. With Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, William Friedkin, Chris Columbus. Looks at Hollywood's best or luckiest directors.
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- Stanley Kubrick. Best Movie Directors • Stanley Kubrick. So, here we are. Why is Stanley Kubrick the best movie director of all time? Well, we don't have 3 hours to explain everything so here's a brief argument for this decision.
- Alfred Hitchcock. Best Movie Directors • Alfred Hitchcock. There's a scene in Hitchcock, the biography starring Anthony Hopkins, where Alfred Hitchcock stands outside a packed theater as an audience watches Psycho for the first time.
- Akira Kurosawa. Best Movie Directors • Akira Kurosawa. You don't have to understand Japanese culture or be a scholar of the country's Sengoku period to appreciate what Akira Kurosawa's work means.
- Steven Spielberg. Best Movie Directors • Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg has been directing for over 50 years and shows no signs of stopping. Looking at his career, it's not just the sheer number of movies he's directed (30+), it's the amount of greatness on that list.
May 20, 2020 · Before they tried their hands at TV, they had already developed signature styles as film directors. These are the best of the series currently streaming.
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- Martin Scorsese. Succeeding the mobster-genre expert Francis Ford Coppola is Martin Scorsese. He's picked up the torch for keeping the genre (as well as psychological character studies like Taxi Driver) compelling today and is even now releasing highly-anticipated movies.
- Stanley Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick is one of the movie industry's best directors for effectively adapting unique source materials. This has led him to direct a variety of genres in movies, with his works having predominantly been characterized by grim realism and dark humor.
- Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock's work is undoubtedly one of the most studied subjects in film classes across the world. His influence in movies has permeated to this day in some form when it comes to things like cinematography and establishing an atmosphere.
- Steven Spielberg. In terms of sheer mainstream appeal, Steven Spielberg has given audiences a wide variety of movies that capture that feel of "Hollywood magic."
- Susanne Bier
- Jane Campion
- Lisa Cholodenko
- Lena Dunham
- Mark and Jay Duplass
- Ava Duvernay
- David Fincher
- Cary Fukunaga
- Andrew Haigh
- Rian Johnson
Oscar winner Susanne Bier made her American television debut with the stylish and sexy John le Carré miniseries “The Night Manager.” Unlike Tomas Alfredson’s barren aesthetic for the Carré film “Tinker Tailor Solider Spy,” Bier opted instead to bring a golden-hued sensuality to nearly every frame of her Carré vision. As a result, she brought an ele...
Given the opportunity to stretch out her storytelling across multiple episodes, Campion has been able to move critics and audiences on a deeply profound level. “Top of the Lake” and its follow-up installment “China Girl” has given the filmmaker the sort of universal acclaim many could argue she’s deserved for years, and the moody drama has become a...
The most recent works of the director of “The Kids Are All Right” have all been television, and it’s impossible to understate how heartbreaking and affecting “Olive Kitteridge,” her Emmy-winning HBO miniseries, ended up being. Cholodenko has been relatively underground of late, but her small screen experience, which also included episodes of “Six F...
The chief girl of “Girls” would never have made the transition to television without her initial descent into indie film, most notably with the 2010 feature “Tiny Furniture,” which did a great job of capturing her aesthetic and voice while also showcasing why television might ultimately be a better home for her work — given an episodic structure an...
The Duplass brothers made their television debut with HBO’s “Togetherness,” which was canceled after two seasons but remains a small miracle of human storytelling, and have since moved on to the more ambitious “Room 104” anthology series for the network. In both series, the brothers have managed to preserve the mumblecore intimacy and humanism of t...
Ava DuVernay was already one of the most celebrated directors in Hollywood when she joined forces with OWN to create and direct the drama series “Queen Sugar.” While the filmmaker already had TV experience having directed an episode of “Scandal,” “Queen Sugar” gave her the opportunity to set the directorial voice of a TV drama from the very first e...
David Fincher‘s jump from film to television is so monumental because “House of Cards” more or less jumpstarted the era of binge-watching as we know it. Fincher launched Netflix’s first original drama series with the kind of cinematic precision he is widely celebrated for, making Washington D.C. look and feel like a sterile kingdom of corruption, l...
Indie movie lovers already knew who Cary Fukunaga was by the time HBO debuted “True Detective” Season 1. The director was coming off two acclaimed dramas, “Sin Nombre” and “Jane Eyre,” when he moved to television for the first time, but it would be his work on “True Detective” that would put Fukunaga on the radar of the masses. The director was beh...
English filmmaker Andrew Haigh firmly stayed in his wheelhouse when following-up his breakthrough indie film “Weekend” with the HBO comedy-drama series “Looking,” but in doing so he proved himself as one of the most empathetic and humanist directors working today. Like a descendant of Richard Linklater, Haigh excels at heightening his character’s c...
It’s a testament to Rian Johnson’s skills behind the camera that he can make this list having only directed four episodes of television to date, one for the short-lived FX series “Terriers” and three for AMC’s Emmy-winning “Breaking Bad.” Honestly, Johnson would still be included here if “Ozymandias” was the only television episode on his résumé. T...
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Jul 23, 2022 · Richard Brody lists directors from Hollywood’s studio-system era—such as Busby Berkeley, John Cassavetes, George Cukor, Ida Lupino, Vincente Minnelli, and Orson Welles—and recommends films ...
