Andrew Davis
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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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25 people. Sort by List order. 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.
- 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.
- Stanley Kubrick. A long time back, in our take on ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, we had proclaimed that the science-fiction philosophical masterpiece was the most important piece of cinematic art ever conceived.
- Alfred Hitchcock. A lot of people were noticeably surprised when the longstanding supremacy of ‘Citizen Kane’ as the greatest film of all time was usurped by an Alfred Hitchcock film ‘Vertigo’ in the 2012 Sight and Sound Polls.
- Martin Scorsese. Right from ‘Mean Streets’ up to his recent works like ‘Silence’, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, and ‘Hugo’, Martin Scorsese has managed to not only stay relevant but has also continued to push the cinematic boundaries.
- Charlie Chaplin. Unarguably the greatest comedian to have ever taken birth, Charlie Chaplin’s accomplishments as a cinematic genius and an auteur often takes a backseat to his onscreen performances as an actor.
- Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Joseph was the youngest son of Emma and William Hitchcock, a traditional English couple, who gave him a strict Catholic upbringing.
- Billy Wilder. An undisputed cinematic genius, Billy Wilder was born on June 22, 1906 in the now extinct Austria-Hungary, where he gave up a promising career as a lawyer to become reporter.
- Cecil B. DeMille. Known for his high-value epic productions, Cecil B DeMille was a pioneer of the American Movie Industry. In 1913, alongside Jesse Lasky and Samuel Goldwyn, he created the Lasky Film Company, which would eventually become Paramount Pictures.
- Charlie Chaplin. One of the most recognizable faces of 20th century Entertainment, Charlie Chaplin was the first Film celebrity to attain incontestable world fame.
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Apr 6, 2024 · John Huston on set of "Annie." Getty Images. Not only a director, but also a writer and actor, John Huston is behind many classic American films. He directed films like The Maltese Falcon (1941 ...
In "Hollywood's Best Film Directors," we go behind-the-scenes with some of Hollywood's biggest names. They talk about their lives and work, explaining what makes them so successful.
