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1. Henry King
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Director | The Song of Bernadette
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For more than three decades, Henry King was the most versatile
and reliable (not to mention hard-working) contract director on
the 20th Century-Fox lot. His tenure lasted from 1930 to 1961,
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3. Frank Capra
Director | It's a Wonderful Life

One of seven children, Frank Capra was born on May 18, 1897, in best animated feature
Bisacquino, Sicily. On May 10, 1903, his family left for America a list of 8 titles
aboard the ship Germania, arriving in New York on May 23rd.
"There's no ventilation, and it stinks like hell. They're all
miserable. It's the most degrading place you ...
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4. John Huston
Director | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

An eccentric rebel of epic proportions, this Hollywood titan

reigned supreme as director, screenwriter and character actor in
a career that endured over five decades. The ten-time Oscar-
nominated legend was born John Marcellus Huston in Nevada,
Missouri, on August 5, 1906. His ancestry was English,...

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5. Robert Rossen
Writer | The Hustler

Robert Rossen was born on March 16, 1908 in New York City,
New York, USA as Robert Rosen. He was a writer and director,
known for The Hustler (1961), All the King's Men (1949) and
Lilith (1964). He was married to Susan Siegal. He died on
February 18, 1966 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

6. Cecil B. DeMille
Producer | The Ten Commandments

His parents Henry C. DeMille and Beatrice DeMille were

playwrights. His father died when he was 12, and his mother
supported the family by opening a school for girls and a
theatrical company. Too young to enlist in the Spanish-American
War, Cecil followed his brother William C. de Mille to the New ...

7. Joshua Logan
Writer | Fanny

Joshua Logan started directing plays while he was still at

Princeton and among the first actors he directed were Henry
Fonda and James Stewart. His graduation from Princeton was
delayed to accompany a classmate to Russia to study with
Konstantin Stanislavski, inventor of "method acting". ...

8. Vincente Minnelli
Director | An American in Paris

Born Lester Anthony Minnelli in Chicago on February 28 1903, his

father Vincent was a musical conductor of the Minnelli Brothers'
Tent Theater. Wanting to pursue an artistic career, Minelli worked
in the costume department of the Chicago Theater, then on
Broadway during the depression as a set ...

9. William Wyler
Director | The Best Years of Our Lives

William Wyler was an American filmmaker who, at the time of his

death in 1981, was considered by his peers as second only to
John Ford as a master craftsman of cinema. The winner of three
Best Director Academy Awards, second again only to Ford's four,
Wyler's reputation has unfairly suffered as the...

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10. Stanley Kramer

Producer | Judgment at Nuremberg

Stanley Kramer was born on September 29, 1913 in Hell's

Kitchen [now Clinton], Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
as Stanley Earl Abramson. He is known for his work on Judgment
at Nuremberg (1961), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and
Inherit the Wind (1960). He was married to Karen Sharpe, ...

11. George Cukor

Director | My Fair Lady

George Cukor was born on July 7, 1899 in Lower East Side,

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA as George Dewey
Cukor. He is known for his work on My Fair Lady (1964), The
Philadelphia Story (1940) and A Star Is Born (1954). He died on
January 24, 1983 in Beverly Grove, Los Angeles, California, ...

12. Fred Zinnemann

Director | A Man for All Seasons

Initially grew up wanting to be a violinist, but while at the

University of Vienna decided to study law. While doing so, he
became increasingly interested in American film and decided that
was what he wanted to do. He became involved in European
filmaking for a short time before going to America to...

13. Mike Nichols

Director | The Graduate

He, along with the other members of the "Compass Players"

including Elaine May, Paul Sills, Byrne Piven, Joyce Hiller Piven
and Edward Asner helped start the famed "Second City Improv"
company. They used the games taught to them by fellow cast
mate, Paul Sills 's mother, Viola Spolin. He later ...

14. Arthur Hiller

Director | Love Story

Arthur Hiller was born on November 22, 1923 in Edmonton,

Alberta, Canada. He was a director and producer, known for Love
Story (1970), The Hospital (1971) and See No Evil, Hear No Evil
(1989). He was married to Gwen Hiller. He died on August 17,
2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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15. Francis Ford Coppola

Producer | Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but

grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-
American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer
and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola (née Pennino), had been
an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated ...

16. Roman Polanski

Actor | Chinatown

Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and

actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA,
he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers.
Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933.

His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years

...

17. Sidney Lumet

Director | 12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet was a master of cinema, best known for his

technical knowledge and his skill at getting first-rate
performances from his actors -- and for shooting most of his
films in his beloved New York. He made over 40 movies, often
complex and emotional, but seldom overly sentimental. Although
...

18. Herbert Ross

Director | The Turning Point

Herbert Ross was born on May 13, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York
City, New York, USA as Herbert David Ross. He is known for his
work on The Turning Point (1977), The Goodbye Girl (1977) and
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969). He was married to Lee Radziwill and
Nora Kaye. He died on October 9, 2001 in New York ...

19. Michael Cimino

Writer | The Deer Hunter

Michael Cimino studied architecture and dramatic arts; later he

filmed advertisements and documentaries and also wrote scripts
until the actor, producer and director Clint Eastwood gave him
the opportunity to direct the thriller Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
(1974). But his biggest success was The Deer...

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20. Robert Redford

Actor | The Natural

Charles Robert Redford, Jr. was born on August 18, 1936, in

Santa Monica, California, to Martha (Hart), from Texas, and
Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, who was
originally from Connecticut. He is of English, Scottish, Cornish,
and Irish ancestry. Robert's mother died in 1955,...

21. Richard Attenborough

Actor | Jurassic Park

Lord Richard Attenborough was born in Cambridge, England, the

son of Mary (née Clegg), a founding member of the Marriage
Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and
academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College and
wrote a standard text on Anglo-Saxon law. ...

22. Bernardo Bertolucci

Writer | Ultimo tango a Parigi

Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director whose films were known

for their colorful visual style, was born in Parma, Italy. He
attended Rome University and became famous as a poet. He
served as assistant director for Pier Paolo Pasolini in the film
Accattone (1961) and directed The Grim Reaper (...

23. Kevin Costner

Actor | The Postman

Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood,

California, the third child of Bill Costner, a ditch digger and
ultimately an electric line servicer for Southern California Edison,
and Sharon Costner (née Tedrick), a welfare worker. His older
brother, Dan, was born in 1950. A middle ...

24. Robert Zemeckis

Writer | Back to the Future

A whiz-kid with special effects, Robert is from the Spielberg camp

of film-making (Steven Spielberg produced many of his films).
Usually working with writing partner Bob Gale, Robert's earlier
films show he has a talent for zany comedy (Romancing the
Stone (1984), 1941 (1979)) and special effect ...

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25. Mel Gibson

Actor | Braveheart

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in

Peekskill, New York, USA, as the sixth of eleven children of
Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly)
Gibson (who died in December of 1990). His mother was Irish,
from County Longford, while his American-born father is ...

26. 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-...

27. Robert Altman

Director | Gosford Park

Robert Altman was born on February 20th, 1925 in Kansas City,

Missouri, to B.C. (an insurance salesman) and Helen Altman. He
entered St. Peters Catholic school at the age six, and spent a
short time at a Catholic high school. From there, he went to
Rockhurst High School. It was then that he started...

28. Peter Jackson

Producer | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Peter Jackson was born as an only child in a small coast-side

town in New Zealand in 1961. When a friend of his parents
bought him a super 8 movie camera (because she saw how much
he enjoyed taking photos), the then eight-year-old Peter instantly
grabbed the thing to start recording his own movies,...

29. Ang Lee

Director | Wo hu cang long

Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of

today's greatest contemporary filmmakers. Ang graduated from
the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then came to the
U.S. to receive a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre/Theater Direction at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ...

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30. Julian Schnabel

Director | Le scaphandre et le papillon

Julian Schnabel was born on October 26, 1951 in Brooklyn, New

York, USA.

31. Danny Boyle

Director | 127 Hours

Danny Boyle was born on October 20, 1956 in Manchester,

England as Daniel Boyle. He is a director and producer, known for
127 Hours (2010), 28 Days Later... (2002) and Slumdog
Millionaire (2008).

32. 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...

33. Ben Affleck

Producer | Argo

American actor and filmmaker Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt was

born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California, and was raised
in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His mother, Chris Anne (née
Boldt), is a school teacher, and his father, Timothy Byers Affleck,
is a social worker; the two are divorced. Ben has...

34. Richard Linklater

Director | Waking Life

Self-taught writer-director Richard Stuart Linklater was born in

Houston, Texas, to Diane Margaret (Krieger), who taught at a
university, and Charles W. Linklater III. Richard was among the
first and most successful talents to emerge during the American
independent film renaissance of the 1990s. ...

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35. Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Producer | The Revenant

Alejandro González Iñárritu (ih-nyar-ee-too), born August 15th,

1963, is a Mexican film director.

González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for

the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild
of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican-born ...

36. Damien Chazelle

Writer | La La Land

Damien Sayre Chazelle is an American director and screenwriter.

He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother, Celia Sayre
(Martin) Chazelle, is an American-Canadian writer and professor
of history at The College of New Jersey. His father, Bernard
Chazelle, is a French-American Eugene Higgins...

37. Guillermo del Toro

Writer | El laberinto del fauno

Guillermo del Toro was born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara

Jalisco, Mexico. Raised by his Catholic grandmother, del Toro
developed an interest in filmmaking in his early teens. Later, he
learned about makeup and effects from the legendary Dick Smith
(The Exorcist (1973)) and worked on making his ...

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