Directors
965 directors in our database
Mamoru Hosoda
★ 7.5
11 films
Mamoru Hosoda (細田 守, Hosoda Mamoru, born September 19, 1967) is a Japanese film director and animator. He is known for the short films that made up Di...
Mikio Naruse
★ 7.5
5 films
David Lean
★ 7.5
8 films
Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Widely considered one of the most ...
Jean-Pierre Melville
★ 7.5
6 films
Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Consi...
F. W. Murnau
★ 7.5
5 films
Friedrich Wilhelm “F. W.” Murnau (December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931) was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, and a p...
Jay Oliva
★ 7.4
9 films
Jay Oliva is an American storyboard artist, a film producer and animated film director working for Warner Brothers Animation.
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Alfred Hitchcock
★ 7.4
27 films
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figu...
Byron Howard
★ 7.4
6 films
Byron P. Howard (born December 26, 1968) is an American animator, character designer, story artist, film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is b...
Lee Chang-dong
★ 7.4
6 films
Lee Chang-dong (born July 4, 1954) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and novelist. He won the 2008 Special Director's Prize at the Asian F...
George Tillman Jr.
★ 7.4
6 films
George Tillman Jr. (born January 26, 1969) is an American film director and producer. He attended John Marshall High School in Milwaukee, where he too...
Brad Bird
★ 7.4
7 films
Philip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning over four decades in b...
Masaaki Yuasa
★ 7.4
5 films
Thomas Vinterberg
★ 7.4
5 films
Thomas Vinterberg (born 19 May 1969) is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which e...
Makoto Shinkai
★ 7.4
8 films
Makoto Niitsu (新津 誠, Niitsu Makoto), known as Makoto Shinkai (新海 誠, Shinkai Makoto) is a Japanese animation director, author, and manga artist. Shinka...
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No Hyun-jin
★ 7.4
5 films
David Fincher
★ 7.4
12 films
David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director. His films, mostly thrillers, have received 40 nominations at the Academy...
Hiroyuki Imaishi
★ 7.4
5 films
Alejandro González Iñárritu
★ 7.4
6 films
Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican filmmaker. He is primarily known for making modern psychological drama films about the human condition. His p...
Bong Joon Ho
★ 7.4
8 films
Bong Joon-ho (Korean: 봉준호, Korean pronunciation:[poːŋ tɕuːnho → poːŋdʑunɦo]; born September 14, 1969) is a South Korean filmmaker. The recipient of th...
Peter Jackson
★ 7.4
14 films
Sir Peter Robert Jackson, (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, known for his Lord of the Rings fi...