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Making movies is an art form built on collaboration. A single movie takes armies of talented artisans to turn cinematic dreams into reality. But when it comes down to it, it’s the one who says “Action!” who quite literally gets the cameras rolling. But with so many directors to have lived and died in the history of movies, which filmmakers are actually deserving of “must-see” status?
Some of the most prominent directors in the first years of the movie industry include Georges Méliès, D.W. Griffith, F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, and Sergei Eisenstein. But who else since them are directors of mandatory recognition? These are just 35 must-see directors you need to know about.
35. Antoine Fuqua
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One of many Hollywood directors to cut their teeth in the world of music videos, Antoine Fuqua made his feature directing debut with the 1998 action thriller The Replacement Killers. Between his critically acclaimed Training Day (2001) and box office hits like Olympus Has Fallen and The Equalizer trilogy, Fuqua’s name is synonymous with a particular vibe of modern day Hollywood that never ceases to draw audiences.
34. John Cassavettes
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An actor before he became a pioneer in American independent cinema, John Cassavettes is remembered for his string of acclaimed movies that altogether rejected Hollywood standards and formalization. Starting with Shadows in 1959, Cassavettes' cemented his place in the art and culture of movies with dramas and comedies like Faces (1968), Husbands (1970), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), Gloria (1980) and more.
33. Nancy Meyers
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Originally a screenwriter of movies like Father of the Bride (1991), Nancy Meyers has since become one of the most commercially successful female directors in Hollywood history. Her canon of upbeat romantic comedies, like What Women Want (2000), Something’s Gotta Give (2003), The Holiday (2006), and It’s Complicated (2009) have become foundational to millennial pop culture. As an artist, Meyers is known for her elaborate sets (usually luxurious aspirational homes) and a distinct female gaze through which her characters see their worlds.
32. Luca Guadagnino
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31. Terrence Malick
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30. Justin Lin
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A Taiwanese American filmmaker, Justin Lin is one of the most bankable action directors in modern Hollywood with films that have collectively grossed billions worldwide. After financing his first two movies Shopping For Fangs (1997) and Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) on maxed-out credit cards and his emptied life savings, Lin graduated to a whole new level with The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift in 2006. He continued revving up Hollywood with several Fast & Furious sequels, including the box office hits Fast Five (2011) and Fast & Furious 6 (2013), as well as Star Trek Beyond (2016), the third installment in Paramount’s Star Trek film series.
29. Sidney Lumet
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28. John Carpenter
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A titan of horror cinema, John Carpenter is one of the few filmmakers to direct and score his movies; his synthesizer soundtracks are foundational to the retrowave genre. After his first two features - Dark Star (1974) and Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) - Carpenter changed horror pop culture with 1978’s Halloween, the first in the hit franchise. His other movies, like Escape From New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Christine (1984), Big Trouble in Little China (1987), and They Live (1988) are considered classics of ’80s horror cinema.
27. Ava DuVernay
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After working as a journalist (including covering the O.J. Simpson trial) and publicist for Hollywood studios, Ava DuVernay eventually heeded the call to tell her own stories. Following her narrative film debut I Will Follow (2010) and her acclaimed sophomore movie Middle of Nowhere (2012), Ava DuVernay won widespread recognition with her historical drama Selma, about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s march from Selma to Montgomery during the Civil Rights Movement. Two years later, she returned to documentary filmmaking with her must-see feature 13th, analyzing the disproportionate mass incarceration of people of color in the United States. After, DuVernay expanded into TV, and also helmed the big budget sci-fi A Wrinkle in Time forDisney.
26. Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard wasn’t the only director of the radical French New Wave movement; Francois Truffaut and Jacques Demy say bonjour. But Godard is easily its most prolific representative, with a vast collection of celebrated films including a whopping 16 movies (both features and shorts) in the 1960s alone. After his celebrated debut Breathless in 1960, Godard established his artistry with pictures like The Little Soldier (1963), Pierrot Le Fou (1965), and La Chinoise (1967). Impressively, Godard made films even long after the French New Wave rolled back; his last film was The Image Book, released in 2018. His last short,Scénarios, was released posthumously in 2024, two years after his death in 2022 at age 91.
25. Akira Kurosawa
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Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of global cinema, Akira Kurosawa’s 30 films across five decades have played a huge influence over other directors like George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, andZack Snyder. While he is best known for period samurai epics like Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958), and Yojimbo (1961), Kurosawa’s main concern was Japan itself, and how its postwar environment was rapidly transforming society.
24. Jane Campion
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One of the few female directors in history to be nominated multiple times for the Best Director Oscar, Jane Campion’s movies center on seduction and female power that debatably stretch beyond basic feminist labels. After her filmmaking debut with the TV film Two Friends in 1986, Campion won acclaim for The Piano in 1993. She spent the ’90s and 2000s making films like The Portrait of a Lady (1996), In the Cut (2003), and Bright Star (2009). In 2021, she won acclaim for her dark Western epic The Power of the Dog, for which she won her second Oscar for Best Director.
23. Kathryn Bigelow
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One of Kathryn Bigelow’s first movies, the short film The Set-Up, portrays two men actually beating each other up for real, while two semioticians analyze the images in voice-over. It’s a succinct summary of her career for the next several decades, being one of the few female directors of action movies at the Hollywood studio level. After her feature debut The Loveless in 1981, Bigelow found huge success with her adrenaline-fueled crime thriller Point Break in 1991. In 2008, she won acclaim for her high-wire Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker, as well as 2012’s Zero Dark Thirty that recreated the lead-up to, and assassination of, terrorist Osama bin Laden.
22. Takashi Miike
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An iconoclast director who rose from the Japanese underground to direct big budget spectacles, Takashi Miike is known for his hyper-violence and gonzo sensibilities. He made several films in his native Japan throughout the 1990s before finding worldwide infamy with Audition in 1999. In 2001, his film Ichi the Killer drew controversy for its stomach-churning gore. Despite his off-putting taste, Miike has found mainstream success, with his acclaimed samurai epic 13 Assassins (2010) and other studio fare like Yatterman (2009), Ace Attorney (2012), and Blade of the Immortal (2017).
21. David Fincher
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20. Stanley Kubrick
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A filmmaker remembered for his exhaustive perfectionism, Stanley Kubrick arose toward the end of the original Hollywood golden age with his first film The Killing in 1956. After leaving the U.S. for the UK in the 1960s, he directed movies like Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), all of which have been wildly influential in art and culture. His movies in the ’70s and ’80s have been equally formative, including A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), and Full Metal Jacket (1987). He died only a few weeks after completing his last movie, Eyes Wide Shut, in 1999.
19. The Wachowskis
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18. John Hughes
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17. Satoshi Kon
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The Japanese animation industry has no shortage of prolific directors, like Hayao Miyazaki and Hideaki Anno. But Satoshi Kon is singular. Until his death in 2010, Satoshi Kon rewrote the playbook on animation filmmaking with a series of acclaimed pictures, like his psychological thriller Perfect Blue (1997), Millennium Actress (2001), Tokyo Godfathers (2003), and Paprika (2006). Despite a very short filmography, Satoshi Kon’s work is renowned for his mixture of realistic visual expression and dreamlike editing. His work has influenced other major filmmakers like Darren Aronofsky and Christopher Nolan.
16. Jordan Peele
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Originating as one half of the sketch comedy duo Key & Peele (with creative partner Keegan Michael-Key), Jordan Peele has quickly established himself a horror auteur of renown. Starting with his modest budget horror Get Out (2017) - a gripping fusion of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? with Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Peele has since helmed transfixing sci-fi horror films like Us (2019), which plays into ancient doppelganger myths, and Nope (2022), an alien invasion horror about Hollywood traumas and man’s arrogance to dominate over nature.
15. Guillermo del Toro
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14. James Cameron
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13. Nora Ephron
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A prolific director who shaped the modern romantic comedy, Nora Ephron made audiences fall in love with characters with big hearts on the big screen. A journalist and author before she sat behind the camera, Ephron first wrote screenplays for movies like Silkwood (1983), Heartburn (1986) - which was based on her own semi-autobiographical novel - and When Harry Met Sally.. (1989). In 1993, she directed Sleepless in Seattle, which was a major critical and commercial hit. Her last movie was Julie & Julia (2009), released just a few years before her death in 2012.
12. Wong Kar-wai
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11. Kevin Smith
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A film school dropout from New Jersey, Kevin Smith earned acclaim for his indie hit Clerks, filmed inside the real convenience store where he worked part-time, in 1994. Its unlikely success birthed Smith’s own original cinematic universe - made up of comedies like Mallrats (1996), Chasing Amy (1997), and Dogma (1999) - all featuring foul-mouthed Jersey slackers, notably the nomadic observers Jay and Silent Bob. Starting in 2011, Smith swerved into the horror genre with movies like Red State, (2014) and Yoga Hosers (2016).
10. Agnès Varda
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9. Robert Eggers
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8. Park Chan-wook
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One of the most celebrated directors of Korean New Wave cinema, Park Chan-work came to prominence with his third film Joint Security Area (2000), a politically-charged drama that became South Korea’s highest-grossing film at the time of its release. Armed with creative freedom, he embarked on an anthology trilogy of movies themed after revenge, with the 2003 picture Oldboy its most revered. His other movies include the sci-fi rom-com I’m a Cyborg But That’s OK (2006), the romantic horror Thirst (2009), and his erotic noir Decision to Leave (2022). In 2013, he made his English film debut with Stoker, starring Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman.
7. John Woo
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A major figure of the heroic bloodshed era of Hong Kong cinema, John Woo nearly quit filmmaking after a string of disappointments. In 1986, he finally saw through his dream movie A Better Tomorrow, which not only exploded Chow Yun-fat to stardom but also Woo himself. After the sequel A Better Tomorrow II in 1987, Woo elevated action filmmaking with game-changing hits like The Killer (1989), Bullet in the Head (1990), and Hard Boiled (1992). Woo spent the rest of the ’90s in Hollywood, helming hits like Hard Target (1993), Face/Off (1997), and Mission: Impossible II (2002). Woo returned to Hollywood with his Christmas action movie Silent Night in 2023.
6. Quentin Tarantino
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5. Francis Ford Coppola
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A leading figure of the New Hollywood movement of the ’60s and ’70s, Francis Ford Coppola earned immortality with his 1972 epic The Godfather. He spent the rest of the 1970s making more unimpeachable classics like The Godfather Part II, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now, the latter of which remains infamous for its troubled production. In the 1980s, Coppola diversified his output to focus on youth-oriented dramas like The Outsiders and romantic comedy Peggy Sue Got Married. While Coppola slowed down considerably in the 21st century, his ambitious science fiction epic Megalopolis drew divisive reviews out of the Cannes Film Festival.
4. Christopher Nolan
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A master filmmaker concerned with the intricacies of time, space, and love, Christopher Nolan is one of the few true auteurs of the 21st century whose name alone draws crowds. Starting with his humble psychological thriller Following in 1998, Christopher Nolan unleashed two more dark movies in the same vein - Memento (2000) and Insomnia (2002) - before changing the superhero genre forever with his 2005 blockbuster Batman Begins. His “Dark Knight” trilogy made him a household name that audiences flocked to his more puzzling features like Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014), and Dunkirk (2017); his sci-fi Tenet might have drawn as many had it not been during a pandemic. In 2023, Nolan again took over the box office with his biographical masterpiece Oppenheimer, unofficially one-half of the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon.
3. Spike Lee
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A singular filmmaker with knife-sharp observations about American politics and the Black American experience, Spike Lee is compelling even when his movies fall short. A proud son of New York who is at home at Knicks games as he is behind the camera, Lee made his feature debut with She’s Gotta Have It, a multi-dimensional portrait of contemporary relationships. He drew more acclaim with his socially conscious 1989 drama Do the Right Thing. His other acclaimed movies include Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Clockers (1995), Summer of Sam (1999), 25th Hour (2002), Inside Man (2006), Miracle at St. Anna (2008), Chi-Raq (2015), BlacKkKlansman (2018), and Da 5 Bloods (2020).
2. Martin Scorsese
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There is maybe no one on Earth, living or dead, who loves the art and culture of cinema like Martin Scorsese. A director, writer, and historian with a career spanning five decades, Scorsese’s works, often but not always gangster epics, are practically synonymous with American cinema. After his debut with the 1967 movie Who’s That Knocking at My Door, Scorsese arose in the 1970s and 1980s with classics like Mean Streets (1973), Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Goodfellas (1990). Scorsese simply never faltered in his game, with his output between the 1990s and 2020s full of outsized epics, like Gangs of New York (2002), The Departed (2006), The Wolf of Wall Street 2013), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
1. Steven Spielberg
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A towering Hollywood artist whose films wholly define American cinema, Steven Spielberg spans as many genres as he does decades. Starting with his theatrical film debut The Sugarland Express in 1974, Spielberg catapulted to immortality with his 1975 summer horror Jaws. While many of his movies of this era concerned genres like sci-fi and pulp adventure, including the influential Indiana Jones series, Spielberg eventually found his way to grounded human stories with features like The Color Purple (1985), Empire of the Sun (1987), and Schindler’s List (1993). With even more revered pictures across the late 20th and 21st century, Spielberg, there is simply no one deserving of proper recognition as one of the greatest movie artists who ever lived than the one who taught us that movies are an invitation to adventure.
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1Nemesis review: “A magical sense of tension”
1Nemesis review: “A magical sense of tension”
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Nemesis review: “A magical sense of tension”
2Arcs review: “A whole lot of game in a small package”
2Arcs review: “A whole lot of game in a small package”
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3Path of Exile 2 review: “A stellar start to a thrilling and brutal dark adventure”
3Path of Exile 2 review: “A stellar start to a thrilling and brutal dark adventure”
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Path of Exile 2 review: “A stellar start to a thrilling and brutal dark adventure”
4Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review: “The best adventure Indy has embarked on in over 30 years”
4Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review: “The best adventure Indy has embarked on in over 30 years”
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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review: “The best adventure Indy has embarked on in over 30 years”
5Marvel Rivals review: “So preoccupied with trying to be like Overwatch that it forgets to play to its own strengths”
5Marvel Rivals review: “So preoccupied with trying to be like Overwatch that it forgets to play to its own strengths”
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Marvel Rivals review: “So preoccupied with trying to be like Overwatch that it forgets to play to its own strengths”
1Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review: “Keanu Reeves as Shadow is wasted whilst Jim Carrey steals the show”
1Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review: “Keanu Reeves as Shadow is wasted whilst Jim Carrey steals the show”
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review: “Keanu Reeves as Shadow is wasted whilst Jim Carrey steals the show”
2Mufasa: The Lion King review – “It’s no Hakuna Matata but this Disney origin story is a class above the 2019 movie”
2Mufasa: The Lion King review – “It’s no Hakuna Matata but this Disney origin story is a class above the 2019 movie”
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Mufasa: The Lion King review – “It’s no Hakuna Matata but this Disney origin story is a class above the 2019 movie”
3Kraven the Hunter review: “The insistence on an R-rating helps save this, with a decent helping of bloodthirsty action”
3Kraven the Hunter review: “The insistence on an R-rating helps save this, with a decent helping of bloodthirsty action”
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Kraven the Hunter review: “The insistence on an R-rating helps save this, with a decent helping of bloodthirsty action”
4The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim review – “An uninspired expansion of the most iconic screen take on Tolkien”
4The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim review – “An uninspired expansion of the most iconic screen take on Tolkien”
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim review – “An uninspired expansion of the most iconic screen take on Tolkien”
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5Nightbitch review: “Amy Adams' disappointing dark comedy is all bark and no bite”
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Nightbitch review: “Amy Adams' disappointing dark comedy is all bark and no bite”
1Squid Game season 2 review: “Secures its place as one of the best shows on television right now”
1Squid Game season 2 review: “Secures its place as one of the best shows on television right now”
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Squid Game season 2 review: “Secures its place as one of the best shows on television right now”
2Doctor Who 2024 Christmas special review: “Ncuti Gatwa is as magnetic as ever in this delightful festive treat”
2Doctor Who 2024 Christmas special review: “Ncuti Gatwa is as magnetic as ever in this delightful festive treat”
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Doctor Who 2024 Christmas special review: “Ncuti Gatwa is as magnetic as ever in this delightful festive treat”
3Secret Level review: “An uneven experience with serious highlights that ultimately make up for the misses”
3Secret Level review: “An uneven experience with serious highlights that ultimately make up for the misses”
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Secret Level review: “An uneven experience with serious highlights that ultimately make up for the misses”
4Skeleton Crew review: “Perfectly captures the vibes of classic Star Wars with a swashbuckling twist”
4Skeleton Crew review: “Perfectly captures the vibes of classic Star Wars with a swashbuckling twist”
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Skeleton Crew review: “Perfectly captures the vibes of classic Star Wars with a swashbuckling twist”
5Creature Commandos review: “James Gunn’s heartwarming, R-rated tale about super-monsters proves that the DCU is in good hands”
5Creature Commandos review: “James Gunn’s heartwarming, R-rated tale about super-monsters proves that the DCU is in good hands”
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Creature Commandos review: “James Gunn’s heartwarming, R-rated tale about super-monsters proves that the DCU is in good hands”