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1. Damien Chazelle Tell Your Friends

Writer | La La Land Share this list:
Damien Sayre Chazelle is an American director and screenwriter.
He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother, Celia Sayre
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(Martin) Chazelle, is an American-Canadian writer and professor this feature.
of history at The College of New Jersey. His father, Bernard
Chazelle, is a French-American Eugene Higgins...
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2. Denis Villeneuve
Director | Blade Runner 2049 rewatch list
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Denis Villeneuve is a French Canadian film director and writer. He
was born in 1967, in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. He started
his career as a filmmaker at the National Film Board of Canada.
He is best known for his feature films Arrival (2016), Sicario
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3. Taika Waititi
Writer | What We Do in the Shadows

Taika Waititi, also known as Taika Cohen, hails from the

Raukokore region of the East Coast of New Zealand, and is the
son of Robin (Cohen), a teacher, and Taika Waiti, an artist and
farmer. His father is Maori (Te-Whanau-a-Apanui), and his
mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, Scottish, and ...

Thor Ragnarok
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
What We Do in the Shadows

4. Martin Scorsese
Director | Taxi Driver

Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in

Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and
Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment
district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He
was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later ...
The Wolf of Wall Street
Goodfellas
Silence
Shutter Island
The Departed
The Age of Innocence
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Irishman

5. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs

Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His

father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician
from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse
from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance,
California, when he was four years old.

In January of...

Inglourious Basterds
Django Unchained
The Hateful Eight
Reservoir Dogs
Once Upon A Time... in Hollywood

6. Wes Anderson
Writer | Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother,

Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate
agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in
advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel.
Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Moonrise Kingdom
The Royal Tenenbaums
Fantastic Mr. Fox

7. Edgar Wright
Director | Shaun of the Dead

Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English director,

screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his
comedic Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy consisting of Shaun
of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End
(2013), made with recurrent collaborators Simon Pegg...

Baby Driver
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
The World's End
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
 8. Christopher Nolan
Writer | Interstellar

Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling,

acclaimed writer-director Christopher Nolan was born on July 30,
1970, in London, England. Over the course of 15 years of
filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films
to working on some of the biggest blockbusters ever made.

...

Inception
Interstellar
Dunkirk
Memento
The Prestige
Batman

9. Yorgos Lanthimos
Director | The Lobster

Yorgos Lanthimos was born in Athens, Greece. He studied

directing for Film and Television at the Stavrakos Film School in
Athens. He has directed a number of dance videos in
collaboration with Greek choreographers, in addition to TV
commercials, music videos, short films and theater plays.
Kinetta,...

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

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10. Alfonso Cuarón

Writer | Gravity

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th in Mexico

City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film
director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the
army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first
camera until his twelfth birthday, and then ...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Roma

11. David Fincher

Director | Se7en

David Fincher was born in 1962 in Denver, Colorado, and was

raised in Marin County, California. When he was 18 years old he
went to work for John Korty at Korty Films in Mill Valley. He
subsequently worked at ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) from
1981-1983. Fincher left ILM to direct TV commercials...

Se7en
Zodiac
Fight Club
 12. Martin McDonagh
Writer | In Bruges

Martin McDonagh was born on March 26, 1970 in Camberwell,

London, England. He is a writer and director, known for In Bruges
(2008), Seven Psychopaths (2012) and Three Billboards Outside
Ebbing, Missouri (2017).

In Bruges
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

13. Steven Spielberg

Producer | Schindler's List

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, ...

Jaws
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Bridge of Spies
Saving Private Ryan
Indiana Jones
Jurassic Park

14. Joel Coen

Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Joel Coen was born on November 29, 1954 in Minneapolis,

Minnesota, USA as Joel Daniel Coen. He is a producer and writer,
known for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), Fargo (1996)
and A Serious Man (2009). He has been married to Frances
McDormand since April 1, 1984. They have one child.

Fargo
The Big Lebowski
Burn After Reading
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
No Country For Old Men
True Grit
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Raising Arizona

15. Sam Mendes

Producer | 1917

Samuel Alexander Mendes was born on August 1, 1965 in

Reading, England, UK to parents James Peter Mendes, a retired
university lecturer, and Valerie Helene Mendes, an author who
writes children's books. Their marriage didn't last long, James
divorced Sam's mother in 1970 when Sam was just 5-...

Skyfall
American Beauty
 16. Alex Garland
Writer | Ex Machina

Alex Garland is an English novelist, screenwriter, film producer

and director. He is best known for the films Ex Machina (2015)
and Annihilation (2018).

Garland's others works as a writer includes The Beach (2000), 28

Days Later (2002), Sunshine (2007), Never Let Me Go (2011)
and Dredd (2012).

He is ...

Ex Machina
Annihilation

17. Ari Aster

Director | Midsommar

Ari Aster is a director and writer, known for Midsommar (2019),

Hereditary (2018) and Munchausen (2013).

Hereditary
Midsommar

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