Directors

James L. Brooks Terms of Endearment (Oscar)

Tim Burton Nightmare Before Christmas

Edward Scissorhands

Mars Attacks

Sleepy Hollow

James Cameron The Terminator

Terminator II: Judgment Day

Aliens

Titanic (Oscar)

Avatar

True Lies

Michael Cimino The Deer Hunter (Oscar)

Frank Capra It’s a Wonderful Life

You Can’t Take it With You (Oscar)

It Happened One Night (Oscar)

Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (Oscar)

John Carpenter Halloween I, II, III, ...

Scream I, II

Charlie Chaplin The Gold Rush

The Great Dictator

Limelight

City Lights

Coen Brothers Fargo

No Country for Old Men

Raising Arizona

The Big Lebowski

Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather I,II & III (Oscar, II)

Apocalypse Now

Peggy Sue Got Married

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Kevin Costner Dances with Wolves (Oscar)

Wes Craven A Nightmare on Elm Street

Michael Crichton Westworld

George Cukor My Fair Lady (Oscar)

Gaslight

Michael Curtiz Casablanca (Oscar)

Cecil B. DeMille Cleopatra

The Ten Commandments

The Greatest Show on Earth

Jonathan Demme The Silence of the Lambs (Oscar)

Philadelphia

Brian De Palma Mission: Impossible

The Untouchables

Clint Eastwood Unforgiven (Oscar)

The Bridges of Madison County

Million Dollar Baby (Oscar)

Mystic River

Gran Torino

Letters from Iwo Jima

Sergio Eisenstien The Battleship Potempkin

Ivan the Terrible

Federico Fellini La Dolce Vita

Robert Flaherty Nanook of the North

Victor Fleming Gone With the Wind (Oscar)

The Wizard of Oz

John Ford The Grapes of Wrath (Oscar)

How Green Was My Valley (Oscar)

The Informer (Oscar)

The Quiet Man (Oscar)

Fort Apache

Stagecoach

Milos Forman One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Oscar)

Amadeus (Oscar)

Bob Fosse All That Jazz

Cabaret (Oscar)

William Friedkin The French Connection (Oscar)

Mel Gibson Braveheart (Oscar)

Jean-Luc Godard Breathless

D. W. Griffith Birth of a Nation

The Struggle

George Roy Hill The Sting (Oscar)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Slaughterhouse Five

Alfred Hitchcock Rebecca

Rear Window

Psycho

Frenzy

Strangers on a Train

North By Northwest

Vertigo

Notorious

Ron Howard Cocoon

Apollo 13

A Beautiful Mind ( Oscar )

John Huston The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Oscar)

Prizzi’s Honor

The Maltese Falcon

The African Queen

Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy (Oscar for Return of the King )

The Hobbit

The Lovely Bones

King Kong

Norman Jewison In the Heat of the Night

Moonstruck

Lawrence Kasdan The Big Chill

Body Heat

Elia Kazan On the Waterfront (Oscar)

Gentlemen’s Agreement (Oscar)

A Streetcar Named Desire

Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey

Dr. Strangelove

Spartacus

Clockwork Orange

The Shining

Full Metal Jacket

Eyes Wide Shut

Akira Kurosawa Seven Samurai

Rashomon

Ran

Fritz Lang Metropolis

David Lean The Bridge on the River Kwai (Oscar)

Dr. Zhivago

A Passage to India

Lawrence of Arabia (Oscar)

Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain (Oscar)

Sergio Leone (spagetti western direcector) A Fist Full of Dollars

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Once Upon a Time in America

Barry Levinson Rain Man (Oscar)

The Natural

Good Morning, Vietnam

George Lucas Star Wars

American Graffiti

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

Joseph L. Mankiewicz Letter to Three Wives (Oscar)

All About Eve (Oscar)

Guys and Dolls

Penny Marshall Awakenings

Big

A League of Their Own

Sam Mendes American Beauty (Oscar)

Anthony Mingella The English Patient (Oscar)

Vincent Minnelli Gigi (Oscar)

An American in Paris

Mike Nichols Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The Graduate (Oscar)

Silkwood

Working Girl

Postcards from the Edge

Christopher Nolan Inception

The Dark Knight

Alan Parker Midnight Express

Mississippi Burning

Wolfgang Peterson In the Line of Fire

Air Force One

Sam Peckinpah The Wild Bunch

Roman Polanski Chinatown

The Pianist (Oscar)

Rosemary’s Baby

Sidney Pollack Out of Africa (Oscar)

The Electric Horseman

Tootsie

Robert Redford Ordinary People (Oscar)

A River Runs Through It

Quiz Show

Rob Reiner When Harry Met Sally

Misery

A Few Good Men

Jerome Robbins West Side Story (Oscar)

Sir Carol Reed Oliver (Oscar)

Tom Richardson Tom Jones (Oscar)

Franklin Schaffner Patton (Oscar)

Martin Scorsese Raging Bull

The Last Temptation of Christ

The Gangs of New York

Cape Fear

The Departed (Oscar)

Goodfellas

Taxi Driver

Ridley Scott Alien

Thelma and Louise

G. I. Jane

Blade Runner

Mack Sennett Keystone Kops series

John Schlesinger Midnight Cowboy (Oscar)

Steven Spielberg Duel (TV movie)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

E.T.-The Extra-Terrestrial

The Color Purple

Jaws

Poltergeist

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Empire of the Sun

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park: The Lost World

Schindler’s List (Oscar)

Saving Private Ryan (Oscar)

Munich

Catch Me if You Can

The Terminal

George Stevens A Place in the Sun (Oscar)

Giant (Oscar)

Oliver Stone Platoon (Oscar)

Born on the 4th of July (Oscar)

The Doors

JFK

Natural Born Killers

Wall Street

Barbra Streisand Prince of Tides

The Mirror Has Two Faces

Yentl

Quentin Tarantino Pulp Fiction

Reservoir Dogs

Jackie Brown

Django Unchained

François Truffaut Small Change

Orson Welles Citizen Kane

Macbeth (1948)

The Magnificent Ambersons

Lina Wertmuller Seven Beauties

Billy Wilder The Lost Weekend (Oscar)

The Apartment (Oscar)

Sunset Boulevard

Robert Wise The Sound of Music (Oscar)

Ed Wood Plan 9 From Outer Space

William Wyler Mrs. Miniver (Oscar)

The Best Years of Our Lives (Oscar)

Ben-Hur (Oscar)

Wuthering Heights

Funny Girl

Franco Zeffirelli The Taming of the Shrew

Robert Zemeckis Forrest Gump (Oscar)

Cast Away

Fred Zinnemann From Here to Eternity (Oscar)

A Man for All Seasons (Oscar)

The Day of the Jackal

High Noon

David Zucker Airplane!

Ghost