Film Careers Worth Exploring / Following: Directors

Submitted by dgeiser13 on Sun, 03/02/2008 - 08:17
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  1.  
  2. 1887
  3. John Cromwell
  4. Raoul Walsh
  5.  
  6. 1888
  7.  
  8. 1889
  9. Victor Fleming
  10. James Whale
  11.  
  12. 1890
  13. Fritz Lang
  14.  
  15. 1891
  16.  
  17. 1892
  18. Ernst Lubitsch
  19.  
  20. 1893
  21.  
  22. 1894
  23. Jean Renoir
  24.  
  25. 1895
  26. Zoltan Korda
  27.  
  28. 1896
  29. Howard Hawks
  30. William A. Wellman
  31.  
  32. 1897
  33. Frank Capra
  34. Nunnally Johnson
  35.  
  36. 1898
  37. Leo McCarey
  38. Norman Z. McLeod
  39. Preston Sturges
  40.  
  41. 1899
  42. George Cukor
  43. Alfred Hitchcock
  44. Charles Laughton
  45.  
  46. 1900
  47. Mervyn LeRoy
  48. Mark Sandrich
  49. Robert Siodmak
  50.  
  51. 1901
  52. Robert Bresson
  53.  
  54. 1902
  55. Anthony Asquith
  56. William Wyler
  57.  
  58. 1903
  59.  
  60. 1904
  61.  
  62. 1905
  63.  
  64. 1906
  65. John Huston
  66. Otto Preminger
  67. Carol Reed
  68. Billy Wilder
  69.  
  70. 1907
  71. Henri-Georges Clouzot
  72. Joseph H. Lewis
  73. George Pollock
  74. Fred M. Wilcox
  75.  
  76. 1908
  77. David Lean
  78. Manoel de Oliveira
  79.  
  80. 1909
  81. Elia Kazan
  82. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  83. Sidney Salkow
  84.  
  85. 1910
  86. Akira Kurosawa
  87.  
  88. 1911
  89. Jules Dassin
  90. Ronald Neame
  91. John Sturges
  92.  
  93. 1912
  94. Michelangelo Antonioni
  95. Richard Brooks
  96. Gene Kelly
  97. Don Siegel
  98.  
  99. 1913
  100. Melvin Frank
  101. Stanley Kramer
  102.  
  103. 1914
  104. Norman Panama
  105. Robert Wise
  106.  
  107. 1915
  108. Orson Welles
  109.  
  110. 1916
  111. Richard Fleischer
  112. Ubaldo Ragona
  113. George Sidney
  114.  
  115. 1917
  116. Jean-Pierre Melville
  117.  
  118. 1918
  119. Ingmar Bergman
  120.  
  121. 1919
  122.  
  123. 1920
  124. Eric Rohmer
  125. Franklin J. Schaffner
  126.  
  127. 1921
  128. George Roy Hill
  129.  
  130. 1922
  131. Blake Edwards
  132. Jonas Mekas
  133. Alain Resnais
  134.  
  135. 1923
  136. Richard Attenborough
  137. Fielder Cook
  138. Irvin Kershner
  139. Seijun Suzuki
  140.  
  141. 1924
  142. Stanley Donen
  143. Sidney Lumet
  144.  
  145. 1925
  146. Robert Altman
  147. Robert Mulligan
  148.  
  149. 1926
  150. Mel Brooks
  151. Norman Jewison
  152. John Schlesinger
  153.  
  154. 1927
  155. Bob Fosse
  156. Stuart Rosenberg
  157. Herbert Ross
  158. Ken Russell
  159. Elliot Silverstein
  160.  
  161. 1928
  162. James Ivory
  163. Stanley Kubrick
  164. Alan J. Pakula
  165. Tony Richardson
  166. Nicolas Roeg
  167. Pierre Schoendoerffer
  168.  
  169. 1929
  170. Alejandro Jodorowsky
  171. Sergio Leone
  172. Elio Petri
  173. Richard Rush
  174. Peter Yates
  175.  
  176. 1930
  177. Claude Chabrol
  178. Richard Donner
  179. Clint Eastwood
  180. John Frankenheimer
  181. Kinji Fukasaku
  182. Jean-Luc Godard
  183.  
  184. 1931
  185. Anthony Harvey
  186. Mike Nichols
  187. Jan Troell
  188.  
  189. 1932
  190. Robert Benton
  191. Mike Hodges
  192. Richard Lester
  193. Louis Malle
  194. Carlos Saura
  195. George Sluizer
  196.  
  197. 1933
  198. John Boorman
  199. Costa-Gavras
  200. Roman Polanski
  201.  
  202. 1934
  203. Claude Berri
  204. Sydney Pollack
  205.  
  206. 1935
  207. Woody Allen
  208. Theodoros Angelopoulos
  209.  
  210. 1936
  211. Philip Kaufman
  212. Ken Loach
  213.  
  214. 1937
  215. Peter Davis
  216. Andrei Konchalovsky
  217. Claude Lelouch
  218. Peter Medak
  219. Ridley Scott
  220.  
  221. 1938
  222. Ralph Bakshi
  223. Michael Ritchie
  224. István Szabó
  225. Paul Verhoeven
  226.  
  227. 1939
  228. Peter Bogdanovich
  229. Michael Cimino
  230. Wes Craven
  231. Robin Hardy
  232. Fred Schepisi
  233. Volker Schlöndorff
  234. Joel Schumacher
  235.  
  236. 1940
  237. Dario Argento
  238. Bruce Beresford
  239. Bernardo Bertolucci
  240. James L. Brooks
  241. Terry Gilliam
  242. Abbas Kiarostami
  243. George A. Romero
  244.  
  245. 1941
  246. Michael Apted
  247. Denys Arcand
  248. Nora Ephron
  249. Stephen Frears
  250. Krzysztof Kieslowski
  251. Adrian Lyne
  252. Hayao Miyazaki
  253. Wolfgang Petersen
  254. Barbet Schroeder
  255. Bertrand Tavernier
  256.  
  257. 1942
  258. George Armitage
  259. Peter Greenaway
  260. Michael Haneke
  261. Werner Herzog
  262. Walter Hill
  263. Terry Jones
  264. Barry Levinson
  265. Mike Newell
  266. Gérard Pirès
  267. Martin Scorsese
  268. Joel Zwick
  269.  
  270. 1943
  271. Jean-Jacques Annaud
  272. Larry Clark
  273. David Cronenberg
  274. Jan de Bont
  275. Robert De Niro
  276. Richard Eyre
  277. Tobe Hooper
  278. Peter Hyams
  279. Mick Jackson
  280. Mike Leigh
  281. Terrence Malick
  282. Michael Mann
  283. Penny Marshall
  284. John N. Smith
  285.  
  286. 1944
  287. Patrice Chéreau
  288. Jonathan Demme
  289. Gary David Goldberg
  290. Taylor Hackford
  291. Gregory Hoblit
  292. George Lucas
  293. John Milius
  294. Frank Oz
  295. Alan Parker
  296. Harold Ramis
  297. Tony Scott
  298. James Toback
  299. Peter Weir
  300.  
  301. 1945
  302. Bob Balaban
  303. Henry Bean
  304. Andrew Bergman
  305. Roger Donaldson
  306. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  307. Robert Greenwald
  308. Curtis Hanson
  309. Roland Joffé
  310. Nikita Mikhalkov
  311. George Miller
  312. Ron Shelton
  313. Penelope Spheeris
  314. Roger Spottiswoode
  315. Wim Wenders
  316.  
  317. 1946
  318. Hector Babenco
  319. Martha Coolidge
  320. Joe Dante
  321. Andrew Davis
  322. Bill Forsyth
  323. Lasse Hallström
  324. Richard Loncraine
  325. David Lynch
  326. Yuri Mamin
  327. Michael Radford
  328. Ivan Reitman
  329. Paul Schrader
  330. Steven Spielberg
  331. Oliver Stone
  332. John Waters
  333. John Woo
  334.  
  335. 1947
  336. Stuart Baird
  337. Henry Bromell
  338. Stuart Gordon
  339. Jonathan Kaplan
  340. Takeshi Kitano
  341. Patrice Leconte
  342. Francisco J. Lombardi
  343. David Mamet
  344. Rob Reiner
  345.  
  346. 1948
  347. Jon Amiel
  348. Bille August
  349. John Carpenter
  350. Claire Denis
  351. Mike Figgis
  352. Marleen Gorris
  353. Christopher Guest
  354. Ray Lawrence
  355. Errol Morris
  356.  
  357. 1949
  358. Pedro Almodóvar
  359. Rob Cohen
  360. Richard Elfman
  361. Julian Fellowes
  362. Carl Franklin
  363. Lawrence Kasdan
  364. Nancy Meyers
  365. Dominic Sena
  366. Jim Sheridan
  367. Randall Wallace
  368. Wayne Wang
  369. Terry Zwigoff
  370.  
  371. 1950
  372. Martin Donovan
  373. Amos Gitai
  374. John Hughes
  375. Joe Johnston
  376. Neil Jordan
  377. John Landis
  378. Deepa Mehta
  379. Phillip Noyce
  380. Tsui Hark
  381. Phil Alden Robinson
  382. Joseph Ruben
  383. Lee Tamahori
  384. Agustín Díaz Yanes
  385.  
  386. 1951
  387. Kathryn Bigelow
  388. Jean-Pierre Dardenne
  389. Luc Dardenne
  390. John McTiernan
  391. Tom Noonan
  392. Mamoru Oshii
  393. Julian Schnabel
  394. Corey Yuen
  395. Zhang Yimou
  396.  
  397. 1952
  398. Jacques Audiard
  399. Roberto Benigni
  400. Kaige Chen
  401. Julie Dash
  402. Kirby Dick
  403. Christopher Doyle
  404. David R. Ellis
  405. Tony Kaye
  406. Mimi Leder
  407. Chris Noonan
  408. Kevin Reynolds
  409. Whit Stillman
  410. Julie Taymor
  411. Gus Van Sant
  412. Alexander Witt
  413. Edward Zwick
  414.  
  415. 1953
  416. Tom DiCillo
  417. James Foley
  418. Scott Hicks
  419. Jim Jarmusch
  420. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  421. Nanni Moretti
  422. Russell Mulcahy
  423. Marcelo Piñeyro
  424. Charles Martin Smith
  425. Barry Sonnenfeld
  426. Steven Zaillian
  427.  
  428. 1954
  429. Allison Anders
  430. James Cameron
  431. Jane Campion
  432. Joel Coen
  433. Don Coscarelli
  434. Amy Heckerling
  435. Ron Howard
  436. Gil Junger
  437. Emir Kusturica
  438. Ang Lee
  439. Menno Meyjes
  440. Michael Moore
  441. Katsuhiro Ôtomo
  442. Denzel Washington
  443.  
  444. 1955
  445. Olivier Assayas
  446. Barry W. Blaustein
  447. Bill Condon
  448. Roland Emmerich
  449. Paul Greengrass
  450. Catherine Hardwicke
  451. Mika Kaurismäki
  452. Fernando Meirelles
  453. Bill Paxton
  454. Don Roos
  455. Billy Bob Thornton
  456. Johnny To
  457. Yukihiko Tsutsumi
  458. David Twohy
  459.  
  460. 1956
  461. Danny Boyle
  462. Adam Brooks
  463. Larry Charles
  464. Peter Chelsom
  465. Richard Curtis
  466. John Dahl
  467. Peter Farrelly
  468. George Gallo
  469. Mel Gibson
  470. Tony Gilroy
  471. Tom Hanks
  472. Michael Hoffman
  473. Nicholas Hytner
  474. Guy Maddin
  475. Roger Michell
  476. Gary Ross
  477. Walter Salles
  478. Giuseppe Tornatore
  479. Lars von Trier
  480. Wong Kar Wai
  481. Vincent Ward
  482.  
  483. 1957
  484. Brad Bird
  485. Michael Caton-Jones
  486. Ethan Coen
  487. Cameron Crowe
  488. Jonathan Dayton
  489. John Gulager
  490. Oliver Hirschbiegel
  491. John Lasseter
  492. Clara Law
  493. Spike Lee
  494. Michael Lehmann
  495. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  496. Frank Miller
  497. Mira Nair
  498. Pawel Pawlikowski
  499. Stacy Peralta
  500. Pitof
  501. Jay Roach
  502. John Turturro
  503. Jaco van Dormael
  504. Mario Van Peebles
  505. Chris Wedge
  506.  
  507. 1958
  508. Tim Burton
  509. Chris Columbus
  510. Valerie Faris
  511. Raja Gosnell
  512. Stephen Herek
  513. Joel Hershman
  514. Stephen Hopkins
  515. Charlie Kaufman
  516. John Maybury
  517. Julio Medem
  518. Nick Park
  519. Manuel Gómez Pereira
  520. Tim Robbins
  521. Patricia Rozema
  522. David O. Russell
  523. Victor Salva
  524. Tom Shadyac
  525. Iain Softley
  526. Silvio Soldini
  527.  
  528. 1959
  529. Gregg Araki
  530. Fabián Bielinsky
  531. Antonia Bird
  532. Ole Bornedal
  533. Nick Cassavetes
  534. Fruit Chan
  535. Frank Darabont
  536. David Frankel
  537. Rodrigo García
  538. Todd Graff
  539. Paul Gross
  540. Renny Harlin
  541. Hal Hartley
  542. Janusz Kaminski
  543. Richard LaGravenese
  544. Ron Mann
  545. Bruce McDonald
  546. Paul Rachman
  547. Sam Raimi
  548. Mark Romanek
  549. Nancy Savoca
  550. Lone Scherfig
  551. Harry Sinclair
  552. Todd Solondz
  553. Anthony Waller
  554.  
  555. 1960
  556. Kelly Asbury
  557. Susanne Bier
  558. Rob Bowman
  559. Kenneth Branagh
  560. Gurinder Chadha
  561. Isabel Coixet
  562. Arnaud Desplechin
  563. Atom Egoyan
  564. Scott Frank
  565. Christophe Gans
  566. Mikael Håfström
  567. Savage Steve Holland
  568. Julian Jarrold
  569. Kim Ki-duk
  570. Andrew Lau
  571. Richard Linklater
  572. Sharon Maguire
  573. Rob Marshall
  574. Takashi Miike
  575. Jafar Panahi
  576. Oliver Parker
  577. Sean Penn
  578. Bernard Rose
  579. Jay Russell
  580. Chris Sanders
  581. Elia Suleiman
  582.  
  583. 1961
  584. Alejandro Agresti
  585. Timur Bekmambetov
  586. Laurent Cantet
  587. George Clooney
  588. Alfonso Cuarón
  589. Vincent Gallo
  590. Keith Gordon
  591. Todd Haynes
  592. John Hillcoat
  593. Bonnie Hunt
  594. Peter Jackson
  595. Phil Joanou
  596. David Kane
  597. Larry Karaszewski
  598. Cédric Klapisch
  599. Kasi Lemmons
  600. Cory McAbee
  601. Jonathan Mostow
  602. Hideo Nakata
  603. Steve Oedekerk
  604. Alexander Payne
  605. John Stockwell
  606. Simon Wells
  607. Simon West
  608. Nick Willing
  609. Gary Winick
  610. Michael Winterbottom
  611.  
  612. 1962
  613. Peter Chan
  614. Stephen Chow
  615. Paul Feig
  616. David Fincher
  617. Peter Hedges
  618. P.J. Hogan
  619. Tamara Jenkins
  620. Mike Judge
  621. Hirokazu Koreeda
  622. Kenneth Lonergan
  623. Baz Luhrmann
  624. Rod Lurie
  625. Dominik Moll
  626. Billy Morrissette
  627. Phedon Papamichael
  628. Mark Pellington
  629. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
  630. Darrell Roodt
  631. Peter Segal
  632. Rob Sitch
  633. Stephen Sommers
  634.  
  635. 1963
  636. Scott Alexander
  637. Sylvain Chomet
  638. Michael Cuesta
  639. Ted Demme
  640. Marc Evans
  641. François Girard
  642. Michel Gondry
  643. Gavin Hood
  644. Alejandro González Iñárritu
  645. David Koepp
  646. Neil LaBute
  647. James Mangold
  648. Paul McGuigan
  649. Dave McKean
  650. Don McKellar
  651. John Cameron Mitchell
  652. Gaspar Noé
  653. Chan-wook Park
  654. Alex Proyas
  655. James Robinson
  656. Steven Shainberg
  657. Brad Silberling
  658. Steven Soderbergh
  659. Quentin Tarantino
  660. Jon Turteltaub
  661. Jean-Marc Vallée
  662.  
  663. 1964
  664. Brad Anderson
  665. Peter Berg
  666. Peter Cattaneo
  667. Lisa Cholodenko
  668. Guillermo del Toro
  669. Todd Field
  670. Mark Steven Johnson
  671. Caroline Link
  672. E. Elias Merhige
  673. Greg Mottola
  674. Tim Blake Nelson
  675. Andrew Niccol
  676. Marcus Nispel
  677. Stephen Norrington
  678. Peyton Reed
  679. Adam Shankman
  680. Erik Skjoldbjærg
  681. Gore Verbinski
  682. Mark Waters
  683. Joss Whedon
  684. Kurt Wimmer
  685. Andrei Zvyagintsev
  686.  
  687. 1965
  688. Paul W.S. Anderson
  689. Miguel Arteta
  690. Roger Avary
  691. Michael Bay
  692. D.J. Caruso
  693. Roman Coppola
  694. Gary Fleder
  695. Jonathan Glazer
  696. David S. Goyer
  697. Álex de la Iglesia
  698. Wayne Kramer
  699. Doug Liman
  700. Alan Mak
  701. Sam Mendes
  702. Danny and Oxide Pang
  703. Chris Rock
  704. Yann Samuell
  705. Hans-Christian Schmid
  706. Rob Schmidt
  707. Bryan Singer
  708. Florent Emilio Siri
  709. Andrew Stanton
  710. Burr Steers
  711. Ben Stiller
  712. Tom Tykwer
  713. Paula van der Oest
  714. Larry Wachowski
  715. Paul Weitz
  716. Alex Winter
  717.  
  718. 1966
  719. J.J. Abrams
  720. Andrew Adamson
  721. Jonas Åkerlund
  722. Jesse Dylan
  723. Jon Favreau
  724. Anne Fletcher
  725. Antoine Fuqua
  726. Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
  727. Debbie Isitt
  728. Cedric Kahn
  729. Baltasar Kormákur
  730. Donal Logue
  731. David Mackenzie
  732. Bennett Miller
  733. Sandra Nettelbeck
  734. Matt Reeves
  735. Zack Snyder
  736. Richard Stanley
  737. Charles Stone III
  738. Katja von Garnier
  739. Andy Wachowski
  740.  
  741. 1967
  742. Judd Apatow
  743. Niki Caro
  744. Yoon-Hyun Chang
  745. Patrick Creadon
  746. Andrew Dominik
  747. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
  748. Gregor Jordan
  749. Kevin Macdonald
  750. François Ozon
  751. Kimberly Peirce
  752. Denis Villeneuve
  753.  
  754. 1968
  755. David Ayer
  756. Walt Becker
  757. Edward Burns
  758. Justin Chadwick
  759. Jay Chandrasekhar
  760. Christian Charles
  761. Pete Docter
  762. Karyn Kusama
  763. McG
  764. Adam McKay
  765. Christopher McQuarrie
  766. Tommy O'Haver
  767. George Ratliff
  768. Guy Ritchie
  769. Robert Rodriguez
  770. Eduardo Sánchez
  771. Robert Schwentke
  772. John Singleton
  773. Conrad Vernon
  774. Peter Webber
  775.  
  776. 1969
  777. Wes Anderson
  778. Darren Aronofsky
  779. Noah Baumbach
  780. Jeffrey Blitz
  781. Joon-ho Bong
  782. Jez Butterworth
  783. Joe Carnahan
  784. David Dobkin
  785. Marc Forster
  786. F. Gary Gray
  787. Spike Jonze
  788. Dylan Kidd
  789. Ryuhei Kitamura
  790. Thomas McCarthy
  791. Lukas Moodysson
  792. Vincenzo Natali
  793. Edward Norton
  794. Trey Parker
  795. Brett Ratner
  796. George Tillman Jr.
  797. David Wain
  798. Chris Weitz
  799.  
  800. 1970
  801. Paul Thomas Anderson
  802. Chris Cunningham
  803. Dean DeBlois
  804. John Hamburg
  805. Malcolm D. Lee
  806. Todd Louiso
  807. Neil Marshall
  808. Martin McDonagh
  809. John Moore
  810. Christopher Nolan
  811. Todd Phillips
  812. M. Night Shyamalan
  813. Kevin Smith
  814. Morgan Spurlock
  815. Tim Story
  816. Genndy Tartakovsky
  817. Mike White
  818.  
  819. 1971
  820. Adam Abraham
  821. Raja Amari
  822. Craig Brewer
  823. Sofia Coppola
  824. Patty Jenkins
  825. Duncan Jones
  826. Craig Mazin
  827. Marc Schoelermann
  828. Carter Smith
  829. Matthew Vaughn
  830.  
  831. 1972
  832. Alejandro Amenábar
  833. Shane Carruth
  834. Sebastián Cordero
  835. Albert and Allen Hughes
  836. Eli Roth
  837. Takashi Shimizu
  838. Fabrice Du Welz
  839. Joe Wright
  840.  
  841. 1973
  842. Fatih Akin
  843. Nimród Antal
  844. Rian Johnson
  845. Louis Leterrier
  846. Justin Lin
  847. Robert Luketic
  848. Len Wiseman
  849.  
  850. 1974
  851. Jaume Collet-Serra
  852. Laetitia Colombani
  853. Miranda July
  854. Jake Kasdan
  855. Edgar Wright
  856.  
  857. 1975
  858. Asia Argento
  859. Juan Antonio Bayona
  860. Zach Braff
  861. Xavier Gens
  862. David Gordon Green
  863. Richard Kelly
  864. Lucky McKee
  865. Rawson Marshall Thurber
  866.  
  867. 1976
  868. Gil Kenan
  869. Greg Marcks
  870. Nicholas Stoller
  871.  
  872. 1977
  873. Jason Reitman
  874. Akiva Schaffer
  875. Nacho Vigalondo)
  876. James Wan
  877.  
  878. 1978
  879. Alexandre Aja
  880.  
  881. 1979
  882. Neill Blomkamp
  883. Jared Hess
  884. Sarah Polley
  885.  
  886. 1980
  887. Ti West
professor03/06/2008

I would have to include Francis Ford Coppola (1939) on my list (if I did one).

dgeiser1303/06/2008

Yes, he would be on mine, too. I've been fleshing this list out over the last few days and figure at about 325 directors I'm still about 100 directors shy of being close to having a complete list. Let's see if I can come up with 100 more. :-)