Here is my newest update to my Director Watch which was begun in 2010 and has changed since then. Mostly directors get added to the list. Sadly this last year one of my favorite directors, Tony Scott passed on so I am removing him from the list as a current, active filmmaker.
Please refer to my earlier post called My Director Watch for explanations.
The Hollywood Master Directors
James Cameron
Piranha II, Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2, True Lies, Titanic, Avatar, Avatar 2, Battle Angel
John Carpenter
Dark Star, Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, Escape From New York, The Thing, Christine, Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, In the Mouth of Madness, Village of the Damned, Escape from L.A., Vampires, Ghosts of Mars, The Ward
Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather, The Conversation, Godfather II, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Godfather III, Dracula, Jack, The Rainmaker, Youth Without Youth, Tetro, Twixt
Clint Eastwood
Unforgiven, A Perfect World, Bridges of Madison County, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, Absolute Power, True Crime, Space Cowboys, Blood Work, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Changeling, Gran Torino, Invictus, Hereafter, J. Edgar
Terry Gilliam
Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Brazil, Jabberwocky, Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Brothers Grimm, Tideland, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Zero Theorem
Werner Herzog
Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Fitzcarraldo, Invincible, Rescue Dawn, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, My Son My Son What Have Ye Done, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Into the Abyss
George Lucas
THX 1138, American Graffiti, Star Wars Franchise
Terrence Malick
Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, The Tree of Life, To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, Voyage of Time
Martin Scorcese
Taxi Driver, New York New York, Raging Bull, After Hours, Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Age of Innocence, Casino, Kundun, Bringing Out The Dead, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, The Departed, Shutter Island, Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street
Ridley Scott
Duelists, Alien, Blade Runner, Legend, Someone to Watch Over Me, Black Rain, Thelma & Louise, 1492, White Squall, GI Jane, Gladiator, Hannibal, Black Hawk Down, Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, A Good Year, American Gangster, Body of Lies, Robin Hood, Prometheus, The Councelor, Gertrude Bell
Stephen Spielberg
Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones Movies, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, Jurassic Park, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, War of the Worlds, Munich, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse, Lincoln, American Sniper
The Currently En Vogue Directors
J. J. Abrams
Alias (TV), Lost (TV), Mission Impossible III, Star Trek (2009), Super 8, Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Wars: Episode VII
Ben Affleck
Gone Baby Gone, Gimme Shelter, The Town, Argo, Live by Night
P. T. Anderson
Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice
Wes Anderson
Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Judd Apatow
40 Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, This is Forty
Darren Aronofsky
Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, Noah
Jacques Audiard
Read My Lips, The Beat That Skipped My Heart, A Prophet, Rust & Bone
David Ayer
Harsh Times, Street Kings, End of Watch, Ten, Fury
Noah Baumbach
Kicking & Screaming, Highball, Mr. Jealousy, The Squid & The Whale, Margot at the Wedding, Greenberg, Frances Ha
Michael Bay
Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys II, The Island, Transformers, Transformers II, Transformers III, Pain and Gain, Transformers 4
Kathryn Bigelow
Near Dark, Blue Steel, Point Break, Strange Days, The Weight of Water, K-19: The Widowmaker, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty
Timur Bekmambetov
Night Watch, Day Watch, Wanted, 9, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
Danny Boyle
Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary, The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, Trance
Edward Burns
The Brothers McMullen, She's the One, No Looking Back, Sidewalks of New York, Ash Wednesday, Looking for Kitty, The Groomsman, Purple Violets, Nice Guy Johnny, Newlyweds, Fitzgerald Family Christmas
Tim Burton
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetle Juice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland, Dark Shadows, Frankenweenie, Big Eyes, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Leos Carax
Boy Meets Girl, The Lovers on the Bridge, Pola X, Tokyo!, Holy Motors
Joe Carnahan
Narc, Ticker, Smokin' Aces, The A-Team, The Grey, Stretch, Killing Pablo
D. J. Caruso
The Salton Sea, Taking Lives, Disturbia, Eagle Eye, I Am Number Four, Standing Up
Park Chan-Wook
Joint Security Area, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Lady Vengeance, Thirst, Stoker
Joel & Ethan Coen
Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Millers Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, True Grit, Inside Llewyn Davis
Sofia Coppola
The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, Somewhere, The Bling Ring
Alfonso Cuaron
Great Expectations, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men, Gravity, A Boy and His Shoe
Guillermo Del Toro
Blade II, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Pacific Rim, Crimson Peak, Pinocchio, Hellboy 3
Quentin Dupieux
Nonfilm, Steak, Rubber, Wrong, Wrong Cops, Realite
Mark & Jay Duplass
The Puffy Chair, Cyrus, Jeff Who Lives At Home, The Do-Deca-Pentathlon
Roland Emmerich
Making Contact, Moon 44, Universal Soldier, Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, The Patriot, Day After Tomorrow, 10,000BC, 2012, Anonymous, White House Down, ID Forever: Part 1 & Part 2
Gareth Evans
Footsteps, Merantau, The Raid: Redemption, V/H/S/2, The Raid 2: Berandal
David Fincher
Alien 3, Seven, The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, House of Cards (TV), Gone Girl
Marc Forster
Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, Stay, Stranger Than Fiction, Quantum of Solace, Machine Gun Preacher, World War Z
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Intact, 28 Weeks Later, Intruders, Wednesday
Mel Gibson
Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto
Michel Gondry
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, Be Kind Rewind, The Green Hornet, The We and the I, Mood Indigo
Paul Greengrass
Resurrected, The Theory of Flight, Bloody Sunday, The Bourne Supremacy, United 93, The Bourne Ultimatum, Green Zone, Captain Phillips, Barca
Davis Guggenheim
An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, Waiting for Superman, From the Sky Down
Mikael Hafstrom
Evil, Derailed, 1408, The Rite, Escape Plan
Michael Haneke
Code Unknown, The Piano Teacher, Cache (Hidden), Funny Games, The White Ribbon, Amour
Jered Hess
Napolean Dynamite, Nacho Libre, Gentlemen Broncos, Loomis Fargo
John Hillcoat
The Proposition, The Road, Lawless, Triple Nine
Gavin Hood
Tsotsi, Rendition, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ender's Game
Tom Hooper
The Damned United, The Kings Speech, Les Miserables
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful, Naran Ja, Birdman
Peter Jackson
Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, Dead Alive, Heavenly Creatures, The Frighteners, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, King Kong, The Lovely Bones, The Hobbit Trilogy, The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun
Jim Jarmusch
Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law, Mystery Train, Dead Man, Night on Earth, Ghost Dog: The Way of The Samurai, Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers, Limits of Control, Only Lovers Left Alive
Rian Johnson
Brick, The Brothers Bloom, Looper
Spike Jonze
Being John Malkovich, Adaptation., Where the Wild Things Are, Pretty Sweet, Her
Wong Kar-Wai
Chunking Express, In the Mood for Love, 2046, My Blueberry Nights, The Grandmaster
Richard Kelly
Donnie Darko, Southland Tales, The Box, Corpus Christi
Abbas Kiarostami
Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, Certified Copy, Like Someone In Love
Francis Lawrence
Constantine, I Am Legend, Water for Elephants, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 & 2
Ang Lee
Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hulk, Brokeback Mountain, Lust Caution, Taking Woodstock, Life of Pi
Baz Lehrmann
Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, Australia, The Great Gatsby
Louis Leterrier
The Transporter, Unleashed, Transporter 2, The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans, Now You See Me
Richard Linklater
Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, School of Rock, Before Sunset, A Scanner Darkly, Fast Food Nation, Me and Orson Welles, Bernie, Before Midnight
David Lynch
Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks (TV), Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Rabbits, Inland Empire
James Mangold
Heavy, Copland, Girl Interrupted, Kate & Leopold, Identity, Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma, Knight & Day, Juliet, The Wolverine, Three Little Words
Michael Mann
Thief, The Keep, Manhunter, Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider, Ali, Collateral, Miami Vice, Public Enemies, Cyber
Adam McKay
Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, The Other Guys, Anchorman: The Legend Continues
Sam Mendes
American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Skyfall, Bond 24
James Cameron
Piranha II, Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2, True Lies, Titanic, Avatar, Avatar 2, Battle Angel
John Carpenter
Dark Star, Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, Escape From New York, The Thing, Christine, Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, In the Mouth of Madness, Village of the Damned, Escape from L.A., Vampires, Ghosts of Mars, The Ward
Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather, The Conversation, Godfather II, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Godfather III, Dracula, Jack, The Rainmaker, Youth Without Youth, Tetro, Twixt
Clint Eastwood
Unforgiven, A Perfect World, Bridges of Madison County, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, Absolute Power, True Crime, Space Cowboys, Blood Work, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Changeling, Gran Torino, Invictus, Hereafter, J. Edgar
Terry Gilliam
Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Brazil, Jabberwocky, Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Brothers Grimm, Tideland, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Zero Theorem
Werner Herzog
Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Fitzcarraldo, Invincible, Rescue Dawn, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, My Son My Son What Have Ye Done, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Into the Abyss
George Lucas
THX 1138, American Graffiti, Star Wars Franchise
Terrence Malick
Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, The Tree of Life, To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, Voyage of Time
Martin Scorcese
Taxi Driver, New York New York, Raging Bull, After Hours, Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Age of Innocence, Casino, Kundun, Bringing Out The Dead, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, The Departed, Shutter Island, Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street
Ridley Scott
Duelists, Alien, Blade Runner, Legend, Someone to Watch Over Me, Black Rain, Thelma & Louise, 1492, White Squall, GI Jane, Gladiator, Hannibal, Black Hawk Down, Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, A Good Year, American Gangster, Body of Lies, Robin Hood, Prometheus, The Councelor, Gertrude Bell
Stephen Spielberg
Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones Movies, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, Jurassic Park, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, War of the Worlds, Munich, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse, Lincoln, American Sniper
The Currently En Vogue Directors
J. J. Abrams
Alias (TV), Lost (TV), Mission Impossible III, Star Trek (2009), Super 8, Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Wars: Episode VII
Ben Affleck
Gone Baby Gone, Gimme Shelter, The Town, Argo, Live by Night
P. T. Anderson
Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice
Wes Anderson
Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Judd Apatow
40 Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, This is Forty
Darren Aronofsky
Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, Noah
Jacques Audiard
Read My Lips, The Beat That Skipped My Heart, A Prophet, Rust & Bone
David Ayer
Harsh Times, Street Kings, End of Watch, Ten, Fury
Noah Baumbach
Kicking & Screaming, Highball, Mr. Jealousy, The Squid & The Whale, Margot at the Wedding, Greenberg, Frances Ha
Michael Bay
Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys II, The Island, Transformers, Transformers II, Transformers III, Pain and Gain, Transformers 4
Kathryn Bigelow
Near Dark, Blue Steel, Point Break, Strange Days, The Weight of Water, K-19: The Widowmaker, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty
Timur Bekmambetov
Night Watch, Day Watch, Wanted, 9, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
Danny Boyle
Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary, The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, Trance
Edward Burns
The Brothers McMullen, She's the One, No Looking Back, Sidewalks of New York, Ash Wednesday, Looking for Kitty, The Groomsman, Purple Violets, Nice Guy Johnny, Newlyweds, Fitzgerald Family Christmas
Tim Burton
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetle Juice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland, Dark Shadows, Frankenweenie, Big Eyes, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Leos Carax
Boy Meets Girl, The Lovers on the Bridge, Pola X, Tokyo!, Holy Motors
Joe Carnahan
Narc, Ticker, Smokin' Aces, The A-Team, The Grey, Stretch, Killing Pablo
D. J. Caruso
The Salton Sea, Taking Lives, Disturbia, Eagle Eye, I Am Number Four, Standing Up
Park Chan-Wook
Joint Security Area, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Lady Vengeance, Thirst, Stoker
Joel & Ethan Coen
Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Millers Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, True Grit, Inside Llewyn Davis
Sofia Coppola
The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, Somewhere, The Bling Ring
Alfonso Cuaron
Great Expectations, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men, Gravity, A Boy and His Shoe
Guillermo Del Toro
Blade II, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Pacific Rim, Crimson Peak, Pinocchio, Hellboy 3
Quentin Dupieux
Nonfilm, Steak, Rubber, Wrong, Wrong Cops, Realite
Mark & Jay Duplass
The Puffy Chair, Cyrus, Jeff Who Lives At Home, The Do-Deca-Pentathlon
Roland Emmerich
Making Contact, Moon 44, Universal Soldier, Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, The Patriot, Day After Tomorrow, 10,000BC, 2012, Anonymous, White House Down, ID Forever: Part 1 & Part 2
Gareth Evans
Footsteps, Merantau, The Raid: Redemption, V/H/S/2, The Raid 2: Berandal
David Fincher
Alien 3, Seven, The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, House of Cards (TV), Gone Girl
Marc Forster
Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, Stay, Stranger Than Fiction, Quantum of Solace, Machine Gun Preacher, World War Z
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Intact, 28 Weeks Later, Intruders, Wednesday
Mel Gibson
Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto
Michel Gondry
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, Be Kind Rewind, The Green Hornet, The We and the I, Mood Indigo
Paul Greengrass
Resurrected, The Theory of Flight, Bloody Sunday, The Bourne Supremacy, United 93, The Bourne Ultimatum, Green Zone, Captain Phillips, Barca
Davis Guggenheim
An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, Waiting for Superman, From the Sky Down
Mikael Hafstrom
Evil, Derailed, 1408, The Rite, Escape Plan
Michael Haneke
Code Unknown, The Piano Teacher, Cache (Hidden), Funny Games, The White Ribbon, Amour
Jered Hess
Napolean Dynamite, Nacho Libre, Gentlemen Broncos, Loomis Fargo
John Hillcoat
The Proposition, The Road, Lawless, Triple Nine
Gavin Hood
Tsotsi, Rendition, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ender's Game
Tom Hooper
The Damned United, The Kings Speech, Les Miserables
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful, Naran Ja, Birdman
Peter Jackson
Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, Dead Alive, Heavenly Creatures, The Frighteners, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, King Kong, The Lovely Bones, The Hobbit Trilogy, The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun
Jim Jarmusch
Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law, Mystery Train, Dead Man, Night on Earth, Ghost Dog: The Way of The Samurai, Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers, Limits of Control, Only Lovers Left Alive
Rian Johnson
Brick, The Brothers Bloom, Looper
Spike Jonze
Being John Malkovich, Adaptation., Where the Wild Things Are, Pretty Sweet, Her
Wong Kar-Wai
Chunking Express, In the Mood for Love, 2046, My Blueberry Nights, The Grandmaster
Richard Kelly
Donnie Darko, Southland Tales, The Box, Corpus Christi
Abbas Kiarostami
Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, Certified Copy, Like Someone In Love
Francis Lawrence
Constantine, I Am Legend, Water for Elephants, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 & 2
Ang Lee
Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hulk, Brokeback Mountain, Lust Caution, Taking Woodstock, Life of Pi
Baz Lehrmann
Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, Australia, The Great Gatsby
Louis Leterrier
The Transporter, Unleashed, Transporter 2, The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans, Now You See Me
Richard Linklater
Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, School of Rock, Before Sunset, A Scanner Darkly, Fast Food Nation, Me and Orson Welles, Bernie, Before Midnight
David Lynch
Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks (TV), Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Rabbits, Inland Empire
James Mangold
Heavy, Copland, Girl Interrupted, Kate & Leopold, Identity, Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma, Knight & Day, Juliet, The Wolverine, Three Little Words
Michael Mann
Thief, The Keep, Manhunter, Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider, Ali, Collateral, Miami Vice, Public Enemies, Cyber
Adam McKay
Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, The Other Guys, Anchorman: The Legend Continues
Sam Mendes
American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Skyfall, Bond 24
John Cameron Mitchell
Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Shortbus, Rabbit Hole
Michael Moore
Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, Capitalism: A Love Story
Vincenzo Natali
Cube, Cypher, Nothing, Splice, Haunter, High Rise, ABC's of Death 2
Christopher Nolan
Following, Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar
Niels Arden Oplev
We Shall Overcome, Worlds Apart, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Dead Man Down
Wolfgang Petersen
Das Boot, The Neverending Story, In the Line of Fire, Outbreak, The Perfect Storm, Troy, Poseidon
Alex Proyas
Spirits of the Air Gremlins of the Clouds, The Crow, Dark City, Garage Days, I Robot, Knowing, The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, Gods of Egypt
Sam Raimi
Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Darkman, Army of Darkness, The Quick and the Dead, Spiderman Franchise, Drag Me To Hell, Oz: The Great & Powerful
Matt Reeves
Cloverfield, Let Me In, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Ivan Reitman
Foxy Lady, Cannibal Girls, Meatballs, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Legal Eagles, Twins, Ghostbusters II, Kindergarten Cop, Dave, Junior, Fathers' Day, Six Days Seven Nights, Evolution, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, No Strings Attached, Draftday, Triplets
Jason Reitman
Thank You For Smoking, Juno, Up In The Air, Young Adult, Labor Day
Nicholas Winding Refn
Pusher, Bleeder, Fear X, With Blood On My Hands: Pusher II, I'm the Angel of Death: Pusher III, Bronson, Valhalla Rising, Drive, Only God Forgives, I Walk With The Dead
Guy Ritchie
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch., Swept Away, Revolver, RocknRolla, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Robert Rodriguez
El Mariachi, Desperado, From Dusk Til Dawn, The Faculty, Spy Kids, Spy Kids 2, Spy Kids 3, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, Sin City, Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Planet Terror, Shorts, Machete, Spy Kids 4, Machete Kills, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Mark Romanek
Static, One Hour Photo, Never Let Me Go, The Lost Symbol
David O. Russell
Spanking the Monkey, Flirting with Disaster, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Fighter, The Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, Nailed
Walter Salles
Behind the Sun, The Motorcycle Diaries, Dark Water, Paris Je T'aime, On the Road
Joel Schumacher
The Lost Boys, Flatliners, Falling Down, Batman Forever, The Phantom of the Opera, The Number 23, Blood Creek, Twelve, Man in the Mirror, Trespass
M. Night Shyamalan
The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Lady In The Water, The Last Airbender, After Earth
Bryan Singer
The Usual Suspects, X-Men, X2, Superman Returns, Valkyrie, Jack the Giant Killer, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Tarsem Singh
The Cell, The Fall, Immortals, Mirror Mirror, Marco Polo, Selfless
Kevin Smith
Clerks., Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl, Clerks II, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Cop Out, Red State, Clerks 3
Zack Snyder
Dawn of the Dead, 300, Watchmen, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, Sucker Punch, The Man of Steel, Man of Steel 2
Steven Soderburgh
Sex Lies and Videotape, Kafka, The Underneath, Out of Sight, The Limey, Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Ocean's 11, Solaris, Ocean's 12, Bubble, The Good German, Ocean's 13, Che, The Girlfriend Experience, The Informant!, Haywire, Contagion, Magic Mike, Side Effects, Behind the Candelabra
Joe Swanberg
Kissing on the Mouth, LOL, Hanna Takes the Stairs, Nights & Weekends, Alexander the Last, Uncle Kent, Silver Bullets, V/H/S, All the Light in the Sky, Privacy Setting, Drinking Buddies, 24 Exposures, Happy Christmas
Quentin Tarantino
Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol I-II, Death Proof, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained, Kill Bill: Vol III
Gus Van Sant
My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, Psycho (1998), Finding Forrester, Elephant, Paranoid Park, Milk, Restless, My Own Private River, Promised Land
Gore Verbinski
The Mexican, The Ring, Pirates of the Caribbean I-III, The Weather Man, Rango, The Lone Ranger
The Wachowskis
Bound, The Matrix Trilogy, Speed Racer, Cloud Atlas, Jupiter Ascending
Joss Whedon
Firefly (TV), Buffy The Vampire Slayer (TV), Angel (TV), Serenity, Thor, The Avengers, Much Ado About Nothing, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Avengers: Age of Ultron
Edgar Wright
Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The World's End, Ant-Man
Joe Wright
Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, The Soloist, Hanna, Anna Karenina
The New Directors with Fresh Eyes
They have made 1-3 films with at least one film that speaks with a new and skillful voice.
Michael Moore
Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, Capitalism: A Love Story
Vincenzo Natali
Cube, Cypher, Nothing, Splice, Haunter, High Rise, ABC's of Death 2
Christopher Nolan
Following, Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar
Niels Arden Oplev
We Shall Overcome, Worlds Apart, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Dead Man Down
Wolfgang Petersen
Das Boot, The Neverending Story, In the Line of Fire, Outbreak, The Perfect Storm, Troy, Poseidon
Alex Proyas
Spirits of the Air Gremlins of the Clouds, The Crow, Dark City, Garage Days, I Robot, Knowing, The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, Gods of Egypt
Sam Raimi
Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Darkman, Army of Darkness, The Quick and the Dead, Spiderman Franchise, Drag Me To Hell, Oz: The Great & Powerful
Matt Reeves
Cloverfield, Let Me In, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Ivan Reitman
Foxy Lady, Cannibal Girls, Meatballs, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Legal Eagles, Twins, Ghostbusters II, Kindergarten Cop, Dave, Junior, Fathers' Day, Six Days Seven Nights, Evolution, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, No Strings Attached, Draftday, Triplets
Jason Reitman
Thank You For Smoking, Juno, Up In The Air, Young Adult, Labor Day
Nicholas Winding Refn
Pusher, Bleeder, Fear X, With Blood On My Hands: Pusher II, I'm the Angel of Death: Pusher III, Bronson, Valhalla Rising, Drive, Only God Forgives, I Walk With The Dead
Guy Ritchie
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch., Swept Away, Revolver, RocknRolla, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Robert Rodriguez
El Mariachi, Desperado, From Dusk Til Dawn, The Faculty, Spy Kids, Spy Kids 2, Spy Kids 3, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, Sin City, Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Planet Terror, Shorts, Machete, Spy Kids 4, Machete Kills, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Mark Romanek
Static, One Hour Photo, Never Let Me Go, The Lost Symbol
David O. Russell
Spanking the Monkey, Flirting with Disaster, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Fighter, The Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, Nailed
Walter Salles
Behind the Sun, The Motorcycle Diaries, Dark Water, Paris Je T'aime, On the Road
Joel Schumacher
The Lost Boys, Flatliners, Falling Down, Batman Forever, The Phantom of the Opera, The Number 23, Blood Creek, Twelve, Man in the Mirror, Trespass
M. Night Shyamalan
The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Lady In The Water, The Last Airbender, After Earth
Bryan Singer
The Usual Suspects, X-Men, X2, Superman Returns, Valkyrie, Jack the Giant Killer, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Tarsem Singh
The Cell, The Fall, Immortals, Mirror Mirror, Marco Polo, Selfless
Kevin Smith
Clerks., Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl, Clerks II, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Cop Out, Red State, Clerks 3
Zack Snyder
Dawn of the Dead, 300, Watchmen, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, Sucker Punch, The Man of Steel, Man of Steel 2
Steven Soderburgh
Sex Lies and Videotape, Kafka, The Underneath, Out of Sight, The Limey, Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Ocean's 11, Solaris, Ocean's 12, Bubble, The Good German, Ocean's 13, Che, The Girlfriend Experience, The Informant!, Haywire, Contagion, Magic Mike, Side Effects, Behind the Candelabra
Joe Swanberg
Kissing on the Mouth, LOL, Hanna Takes the Stairs, Nights & Weekends, Alexander the Last, Uncle Kent, Silver Bullets, V/H/S, All the Light in the Sky, Privacy Setting, Drinking Buddies, 24 Exposures, Happy Christmas
Quentin Tarantino
Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol I-II, Death Proof, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained, Kill Bill: Vol III
Gus Van Sant
My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, Psycho (1998), Finding Forrester, Elephant, Paranoid Park, Milk, Restless, My Own Private River, Promised Land
Gore Verbinski
The Mexican, The Ring, Pirates of the Caribbean I-III, The Weather Man, Rango, The Lone Ranger
The Wachowskis
Bound, The Matrix Trilogy, Speed Racer, Cloud Atlas, Jupiter Ascending
Joss Whedon
Firefly (TV), Buffy The Vampire Slayer (TV), Angel (TV), Serenity, Thor, The Avengers, Much Ado About Nothing, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Avengers: Age of Ultron
Edgar Wright
Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The World's End, Ant-Man
Joe Wright
Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, The Soloist, Hanna, Anna Karenina
The New Directors with Fresh Eyes
They have made 1-3 films with at least one film that speaks with a new and skillful voice.
Tomas Alfredson - Let the Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Fede Alvarez - Evil Dead
Andrea Arnold - Red Road, Fish Tank, Wuthering Heights
Richard Ayoade - Submarine, The Double
Zal Batmanblij - Sound of my Voice, The East
Jeffrey Blitz - Rocket Science, Lucky
Neill Blomkamp - District 9, Elysium, Chappie
Mike Cahill - Boxers & Bellerinas, Another Earth, I Origins
Antonio Campos - Afterschool, Simon Killer
Shane Carruth - Primer, Upstream Color
Stephen Chbosky - The Four Corners of Nowhere, Perks of Being a Wallflower
Derek Cianfrance - Brother Tied, Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines, Metalhead
Roman Coppola - CQ, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
Joe Cornish - Attack the Block, Rust
Andrew Dominik - Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Killing them Softly, Blonde
Lena Dunham - Tiny Furniture, Girls
Sean Durkin - Martha Marcy May Marlene, Janis
Gareth Edwards - Monsters, Godzilla
Ruben Fleischer - Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less, Gangster Squad
Chris Fuller - Loren Cass, Surpassing All Other Kings
Evan Glodell - Bellflower
Drew Goddard - Cabin in the Woods
Debra Granik - Down to the Bone, Winters Bone
James Gunn - Slither, Super, Guardians of the Galaxy
Ian Hubert - Anagnorisis, Tears of Steel, Project London
Duncan Jones - Moon, Source Code, Warcraft
Harmony Korine - Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, Mister Lonely, Spring Breakers
Joseph Kosinski - Tron: Legacy, Oblivion, Untitled Tron: Legacy Sequel
Jonathan Levine - All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, The Wackness, 50/50, Warm Bodies
Jennifer Chambers Lynch- Surveillance, Chained, A Fall From Grace
Greg Marcks - 11:14, Echelon Conspiracy
John Maybury - The Jacket, The Edge of Love
Martin McDonagh - In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths
Jeff Nichols - Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud
Calvin Reeder - The Oregonian, The Rambler
Kelly Reichardt - Old Joy, Wendy & Lucy, Meek's Cutoff, Night Moves
Scott Stewart - Legion, Priest, Dark Skies, Dominion
M. Dot Strange - We Are The Strange, Heart String Marionette
Josh Trank - Chronicle, Fantastic Four, Venom
Pete Travis - Vantage Point, Endgame, Dredd, Hangman
Colin Trevorrow - Safety Not Guaranteed, Jurassic Park IV
Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild
Craig Zobel - Great World of Sound, Compliance, Z for Zachariah
