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