ALPHABETICAL LIST OF DIRECTORS
Here is a alphabetical list of all the directors appearing throughout my "Decades List of Films." Some of the directors have mulitple films on the list and these are the giants of the media. One problem that is noticable about this list is the absence of women and the inclusion of only one African American. Hopefully in the coming decades there will be a drastic change on this issue.
Robert Aldrich
Woody Allen
Robert Altman
John G. Avildsen
John Badham
- Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Mel Brooks
- Young Frankenstein (1974)
James Cameron
- Aliens (1986)
- Terminator (1984)
- Terminator 2 (1991)
- Titanic (1997)
Frank Capra
- It's A Wonderful Life(1946)
Michael Cimino
Joel Coen
Francis Ford Coppola
- Apocalyspe Now (1979)
- Godfather (1972)
- Godfather 2 (1974)
Kevin Costner
- Dances with Wolves (1992)
George Cukor
Frank Darabont
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Cecil B. DeMille
- The Ten Commandments (1956)
Jonathan Demme
- Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Brian Desmond-Hurst
Stanley Donen
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
- Singin In the Rain (1952): (with Gene Kelly)
David Fincher
John Ford
- My Darling Clementine (1946)
- The Quiet Man (1952)
- The Searchers (1956)
Milos Forman
- Amadeus (1984)
- One Flew Over the Cockoo's Nest (1975)
Bob Fosse
John Frankenheimer
- The Mancurian Candiate (1962)
William Friedkin
- French Connection (1971)
- The Exorcist (1973)
Mel Gibson
Terry Gilliam
Howard Hawks
- The Big Sleep (1946)
- Red River (1948)
George Roy Hill
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Alfred Hitchcock
- North By Northwest (1959)
- Notorious (1946)
- Psycho (1960)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Vertigo (1958)
Dennis Hopper
John Hughes
John Huston
- The African Queen (1951)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Elia Kazan
- On the Waterfront (1954)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Gene Kelly
- Singin In the Rain (1952): (with Stanley Donen)
Irwin Kershner
- The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Stanley Kramer
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Stanley Kubrick
- The Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Dr. Strangelove (1964)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
John Lasseter
Charles Laughton
- The Night of the Hunter (1955)
David Lean
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Brief Encounter (1946)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- Great Expectations (1946)
- Lawerence of Arabia (1962)
Spike Lee
- Do the Right Thing (1989)
Richard Lester
George Lucas
- American Graffiti (1973)
- Star Wars (1977)
Sidney Lumet
- Network (1976)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
David Lynch
John Madden
- Shakespeare in Love (1998)
John Mankiewicz
Sam Mendes
Robert Mulligan
- To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
Mike Nichols
Christian Nyby
- The Thing (From Another World) (1951)
Sam Peckinpah
Arthur Penn
Roman Polanski
- Chinatown (1974)
- Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Sydney Pollack
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Nicholas Ray
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Carol Reed
Rob Reiner
- The Princess Bride (1987)
- When Harry Met Sally (1989)
John Schlesinger
Martin Scorsese
- Goodfellas (1990)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
Ridley Scott
Ron Shelton
Don Siegel
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Bryan Singer
Steven Soderbergh
- Sex, Lies and Videotapes (1989)
Steven Spielberg
- Close Encounter of the Third Kind (1977)
- E.T. (1982)
- Jaws (1975)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Schindler's List (1993)
George Stevens
Robert Stevenson
Oliver Stone
John Sturges
- Bad Day At Black Rock (1955)
Quentin Tarantino
Jacques Tourneur
Gary Trousdale (with Kirk Wise)
- Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Andy and Larry Wachowski
Raoul Walsh
Orson Welles
Billy Wilder
- The Apartment (1960)
- The Lost Weekend (1945)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Robert Wise
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- West Side Story (1961): (with Jerome Robbins)
William Wyler
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Robert Zemeckis
- Back to the Future (1985)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Fred Zinnemann
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- High Noon (1952)