D.W. Griffith: The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), Broken Blossoms (1919), Orphans of the Storm (1921)
Buster Keaton: The Playhouse (1921), Our Hospitality (1923), Sherlock Jr. (1924), The General (1927), Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
Charlie Chaplin: The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), The Circus (1928), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), Monsieur Verdoux (1947), Limelight (1952)
George Melford: The Shiek (1921) Robert Flaherty: Nanook of the North (1922) Cecil B. DeMille: The Ten Commandments (1923), The Sign of the Cross (1932), Cleopatra (1934), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), The Ten Commandments (1956) Erich von Stroheim: Greed (1924) Raoul Walsh: The Thief of Baghdad (1924), Sadie Thompson (1928), High Sierra (1941), White Heat (1949) Alan Crossland: The Jazz Singer (1927) F.W. Murnau: Sunrise (1927), Tabu (1931)William A. Wellman: Wings (1927), The Public Enemy (1931), Night Nurse (1931), Nothing Sacred (1937), Beau Geste (1939)
Mervyn LeRoy: Little Caesar (1931), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
James Whale: Frankenstein (1931)
Tod Browning: Dracula (1931), Freaks (1932)
Howard Hawks: Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941) Ball of Fire (1941), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), Monkey Business (1952), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Rio Bravo (1959)
Ernst Lubitsch: Trouble in Paradise (1932), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), To Be Or Not To Be (1942), Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Leo McCarey: Duck Soup (1933), The Awful Truth (1937)
Frank Capra: It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can’t Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
Sam Wood: A Night at the Opera (1935)
William Cottrell: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Michael Curtiz: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Casablanca (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945), White Christmas (1954), We’re No Angels (1955)
Victor Fleming: The Wizard of Oz (1939), Gone with the Wind (1939), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
John Ford: Stagecoach (1939), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), My Darling Clementine (1946), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Rio Grande (1950), The Quiet Man (1952), Mister Roberts (1955), The Searchers (1956), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
George Stevens: Gunga Din (1939), Penny Serenade (1941), The Talk of the Town (1942), Shane (1953)
James Algar: Fantasia (1940)
George Cukor: The Philadelphia Story (1940), Gaslight (1944), Adam’s Rib (1949), A Star Is Born (1954), My Fair Lady (1964)
Alfred Hitchcock: Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), Rope (1948), Strangers on a Train (1951), Dial M for Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo (1958), North By Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964), Frenzy (1972)
John Huston: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moby Dick (1956), The Bible: In The Beginning (1966), Under the Volcano (1984)
Preston Sturges: The Lady Eve (1941), Sullivan’s Travels (1941), The Palm Beach Story (1942), Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
Orson Welles: Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Stranger (1946), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Touch of Evil (1958), The Trial (1962), F for Fake (1974)
Otto Preminger: Laura (1944), Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), Sabrina (1954), The Seven Year Itch (1955), Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), Avanti! (1972)
William Wyler: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Roman Holiday (1953), Ben-Hur (1959)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz: All About Eve (1950), People Will Talk (1951), Guys and Dolls (1955)
Stanley Donen: Royal Wedding (1951), Singin’ in the Rain (1952), Funny Face (1957), Charade (1963)
Elia Kazan: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), On the Waterfront (1954), Baby Doll (1956)
Fred Zinnemann: High Noon (1952)
Fritz Lang: The Big Heat (1953)
Robert Aldrich: Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Stanley Kubrick: Killer’s Kiss (1955), The Killing (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), Spartacus (1960), Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Nicholas Ray: Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
Sidney Lumet: 12 Angry Men (1957), Serpico (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976),
Blake Edwards: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), The Pink Panther (1963), A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Robert Wise: West Side Story (1961), The Sound of Music (1965)
John Frankehheimer: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
John Boorman: Point Blank (1967), Deliverance (1972)
Mike Nichols: The Graduate (1967)
Arthur Penn: Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Night Moves (1975)
Stuart Rosenberg: Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Mel Brooks: The Producers (1968), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977)
Roman Polanski: Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Chinatown (1974)
George A. Romero: Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Peter Yates: Bullitt (1968)
George Roy Hill: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting (1973)
Dennis Hopper: Easy Rider (1969)
Sam Peckinpah: The Wild Bunch (1969)
Robert Altman: MASH (1970), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Nashville (1975), Short Cuts (1993), Gosford Park (2001)
Peter Bogdanovich: The Last Picture Show (1971), What’s Up, Doc? (1972)
William Friedkin: The French Connection (1971), The Exorcist (1973)
George Lucas: THX 1138 (1971), American Graffiti (1973), Star Wars (1977)
Nicolas Roeg: Walkabout (1971), Don’t Look Now (1973)
Don Siegel: Dirty Harry (1971)
Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather (1972), The Conversation (1974), The Godfather, Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979)
Woody Allen: Sleeper (1973), Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Brian De Palma: Sisters (1973), Carrie (1976), Blow Out (1981), Scarface (1983)
Terrence Malick: Badlands (1973), Days of Heaven (1978), The Thin Red Line (1998), The Tree of Life (2011)
Martin Scorsese: Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1975), Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Goodfellas (1990)
John Cassavettes: A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Milos Forman: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Steven Spielberg: Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Schindler’s List (1993)
Ridley Scott: Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Thelma & Louise (1991)
Sydney Pollack: Tootsie (1982)
Paul Brickman: Risky Business (1983)
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