List of Filmmakers

Christopher Nolan

Christopher Edward Nolan
First Name Christopher
Last Name Nolan
Born on July 30, 1970 (age 52)
Height 181 cm | 5'11

Christopher Edward Nolan is a British-American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His directorial efforts have grossed more than US$5.1 billion worldwide, garnered 34 Oscar nominations and ten wins.

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Steven Spielberg

First Name Steven
Last Name Spielberg
Born on December 18, 1946 (age 76)
Height 171 cm | 5'7
Net Worth $3.7B

Steven Allan Spielberg is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He began his career in the New Hollywood era, and is one of the most commercially successful directors in history. Spielberg is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards for Best Director, a Kennedy Center honor, and a Cecil B. DeMille Award.

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Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino
First Name Quentin
Last Name Tarantino
Born on March 27, 1963 (age 60)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, dark humor, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture and a wide variety of other films, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, alternate history, and features of neo-noir film.

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Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese
First Name Martin
Last Name Scorsese
Born on November 17, 1942 (age 80)
Height 160 cm | 5'3

Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential directors in film history. Scorsese's body of work explores themes such as Italian-American identity, Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, faith, machismo, nihilism, crime and sectarianism. Many of his films are known for their depiction of violence, and the liberal use of profanity and rock music. In 1990, he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation and in 2017, he introduced the African Film Heritage Project.

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Peter Jackson

Peter Robert Jackson
First Name Peter
Last Name Jackson
Born on October 31, 1961 (age 61)
Height 164 cm | 5'5

Sir Peter Robert Jackson is a New Zealand film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the director, writer, and producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03) and the Hobbit trilogy (2012–14), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. He is the third-highest-grossing film director of all time, his films having made over $6.5 billion worldwide.

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David Fincher

David Andrew Leo Fincher
First Name David
Last Name Fincher
Height 184 cm | 6'0

David Andrew Leo Fincher is an American film director. Known for his psychological thrillers, his films have received thirty nominations at the Academy Awards including two for him as Best Director.

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Ridley Scott

First Name Ridley
Last Name Scott
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Sir Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer. He is best known for directing the science fiction horror film Alien (1979), the neo-noir dystopian film Blade Runner (1982), the road adventure film Thelma & Louise (1991), the historical drama film Gladiator (2000), the war film Black Hawk Down (2001), and the science fiction film The Martian (2015).

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Francis Ford Coppola

First Name Francis
Last Name Coppola
Born on April 7, 1939 (age 84)

Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He was a central figure in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. His accolades include five Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Palmes d'Or, and a British Academy Film Award.

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Ethan Coen

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, collectively referred to as the Coen Brothers, are American film directors, producers, screenwriters, and editors. Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody. Their most acclaimed works include: Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), No Country for Old Men (2007), Burn After Reading (2008), A Serious Man (2009), True Grit (2010), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018).

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Joel Coen

First Name Joel
Last Name Coen
Born on November 29, 1954 (age 68)

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, collectively referred to as the Coen Brothers, are American film directors, producers, screenwriters, and editors. Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody. Their most acclaimed works include: Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), No Country for Old Men (2007), Burn After Reading (2008), A Serious Man (2009), True Grit (2010), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018).

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Frank Darabont

Ferenc Árpád Darabont
First Name Frank
Last Name Darabont
Born on January 28, 1959 (age 64)

Frank Árpád Darabont is a Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In his early career, he was primarily a screenwriter for horror films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), The Blob (1988) and The Fly II (1989). As a director, he is known for his film adaptations of Stephen King novellas and novels such as The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999) and The Mist (2007).

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Tim Burton

Timothy Walter Burton
First Name Tim
Last Name Burton
Born on August 25, 1958 (age 64)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Timothy Walter Burton is an American film director, producer, writer, and artist. He is best known for his gothic fantasy and horror films such as Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Dark Shadows (2012), the films Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), the sci-fi film Planet of the Apes (2001), the fantasy-drama Big Fish (2003), the musical adventure film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and the fantasy films Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016).

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Bryan Singer

First Name Bryan
Last Name Singer
Born on September 17, 1965 (age 57)

Bryan Jay Singer is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is the founder of Bad Hat Harry Productions and has produced or co-produced almost all of the films he has directed.

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Ron Howard

Ronald William Howard
First Name Ron
Last Name Howard
Born on March 1, 1954 (age 69)
Height 174 cm | 5'9

Ronald William Howard is an American film director, producer and actor. Howard first came to prominence as a child actor, guest-starring in several television series, including an episode of The Twilight Zone. He gained national attention for playing young Opie Taylor, the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show from 1960 through 1968. During this time, he also appeared in the musical film The Music Man (1962), a critical and commercial success. He was credited as Ronny Howard in his film and television appearances from 1959 to 1973. Howard was cast in one of the lead roles in the coming-of-age film American Graffiti (1973), and became a household name for playing Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days, a role he would play from 1974 through 1980.

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Lee Unkrich

First Name Lee
Last Name Unkrich
Born on August 8, 1967 (age 55)

Lee Edward Unkrich is an American director, film editor, screenwriter, and animator. He was a longtime member of the creative team at Pixar, where he started in 1994 as a film editor. He later began directing, first as co-director of Toy Story 2.

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Guy Ritchie

First Name Guy
Last Name Ritchie
Born on September 10, 1968 (age 54)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

Guy Stuart Ritchie is an English film director, producer, writer, and businessman. His work includes British gangster films and the Sherlock Holmes franchise.

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Michael Bay

First Name Michael
Last Name Bay
Born on February 17, 1965 (age 58)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Michael Benjamin Bay is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films characterized by fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions. The films he has produced and directed, which include Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001) and the Transformers film series (2007–present), have grossed over US$7.8 billion worldwide, making him one of the most commercially successful directors in history.

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George Lucas

First Name George
Last Name Lucas
Born on May 14, 1944 (age 79)
Height 168 cm | 5'6
Net Worth $7.4B

George Walton Lucas Jr. is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and entrepreneur. Lucas is best known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founding Lucasfilm, LucasArts, and Industrial Light & Magic. He served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. Lucas is one of history's most financially successful filmmakers and has been nominated for four Academy Awards. His films are among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the North American box office, adjusted for ticket-price inflation. Lucas is considered a significant figure of the 20th-century New Hollywood movement.

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Lana Wachowski

Laurence Wachowski
First Name Lana
Last Name Wachowski
Born on June 21, 1965 (age 57)

Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski are American film and television directors, writers and producers. The sisters are both trans women.

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Lilly Wachowski

First Name Lilly
Last Name Wachowski
Born on December 29, 1967 (age 55)

Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski are American film and television directors, writers and producers. The sisters are both trans women.

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