1. Paul Cox (1940)

Australian Film Director

Award-winning Australian film director of films such as Salvation, Golden Braid, and Lust and Revenge.

2. Peter Weir (1944)

Australian Film Director

Director whose best known films include Witness (1985), The Truman Show (1998) and Dead Poets Society (1989).

3. Jim Sharman (1945)

Australian Film Director

Director of the 1975 cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

4. Phillip Noyce (1950)

Australian Film Director

Director known for his diverse body of work, which included the films Dead Calm, Rabbit-Proof Fence, and The Bone Collector.

5. Chris Noonan (1952)

Australian Film Director

Famous for his Academy Award-nominated directorial and screenwriting work on the 1995 Universal Pictures film Babe, this Australian filmmaker is also notable for directing the Beatrix Potter biopic Miss Potter (2006).

6. Stephan Elliott (1964)

Australian Film Director

Director of critically acclaimed films Easy Virtue and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

7. Alex Proyas (1963)

Australian Film Director

Egyptian-born director of dark films such as The Crow and Dark City.

8. Paul Fenech (1972)

Australian Film Director

Australian actor and filmmaker who has been in many television series and films including Fat Pizza in 2003 and Housos since 2011.

9. Scott Hicks (1953)

Australian Film Director

Academy Award-nominated director of the biopic Shine. He also directed the adaptation of Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis.

10. Carlo Ledesma (1975)

Australian Film Director

Carlo Ledesma is a Filipino film director producer and screenwriter. Ledesma rose to fame when he won the Cannes Film Festival award for Best Short Film at its annual Short...

11. Luke McKay (1981)

Australian Film Director

Luke McKay is an award winning Australian Writer/Director.

12. Ana Kokkinos (1958)

Australian Film Director

Ana Kokkinos is an Australian film director. Kokkinos was born in Melbourne and prior to her career in film she worked as an industrial lawyer.

13. Sarah Watt (1958)

Australian Film Director

Sarah Ann Watt was an Australian film director. Born in Sydney Watt completed a Graduate Diploma of Film and Television at the Swinburne Film and Television School Melbourne in 1990....

14. Timothy Grucza (1976)

Australian Film Director

Timothy Grucza is a cameraman and documentary film maker. He is best known for his work in conflict zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan. He is currently based in Paris...

15. Jonathan Messer (1976)

Australian Film Director

Jonathan Messer is an Australian director of theatre and film.

16. Geoffrey Wright (Unknow)

Australian Film Director

Geoffrey Wright is an Australian film director born in Melbourne in 1959 who gained cult success with the 1992 film Romper Stomper which starred Russell Crowe. In 1994 he directed...

17. Roger Scholes (Unknow)

Australian Film Director

Roger Scholes has been an independent film and television maker since 1983. He’s worked as a producer director writer script editor cinematographer and editor in drama and documentary projects for...

18. Kathy Smith (filmmaker) (1963)

Australian Film Director

Kathy Smith is an Australian independent filmmaker painter photographer and Associate Professor with the John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts USC School of Cinematic Arts. She has...

19. Mark Savage (Australian film director) (1962)

Australian Film Director

Mark Savage is an Australian film and television screenwriter and film director specializing in independent horror cult action and exploitation-themed films. He is influenced by European and Asian genre cinema...

20. Michael James Rowland (1964)

Australian Film Director

Michael James Rowland is an Australian film director.

21. Neil Armfield (1955)

Australian Film Director

Neil Geoffrey Armfield AO is an Australian director of theatre film and opera. Born in Sydney Armfield was the youngest of three boys. The son of a factory worker at...

22. Mario Andreacchio (Unknow)

Australian Film Director

Mario Andreacchio is an Australian film producer/director. Born in Leigh Creek South Australia Andreacchio graduated from Flinders University with a degree in Psychology and then was selected to study at...

23. Peter Butt (1955)

Australian Film Director

Peter Butt is an Australian film producer director writer. He produces investigative documentaries for television about 20th century global and Australian history. Most of his films have been in conjunction...

24. John Polson (1965)

Australian Film Director

John Polson is an Australian actor director and founder of Tropfest. As an actor Polson's best known role is probably starring opposite Russell Crowe and Jack Thompson in The Sum...

25. Karl Zwicky (1956)

Australian Film Director

Karl Zwicky is Australian film director producer and screenwriter.

26. Cate Shortland (1968)

Australian Film Director

Cate Shortland is an Australian writer and director of film and television.

27. Jocelyn Moorhouse (1960)

Australian Film Director

Jocelyn Denise Moorhouse is an Australian writer and film director born in Victoria Australia on 4 September 1960. Moorhouse did her HSC year in 1978 at Vermont High School where...

28. Tracey Moffatt (1960)

Australian Film Director

Tracey Moffatt is an Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video. Born in Brisbane in 1960 she holds a degree in visual communications from the Queensland College of Art...

29. Richard Wolstencroft (1969)

Australian Film Director

Richard Wolstencroft is an Australian filmmaker film festival director former nightclub promoter writer cinema critic cultural and political commentator. As of August 2013 he is the founder and director of...

30. Clara Law (1957)

Australian Film Director

Clara Law Cheuk-yiu is a Hong Kong Second Wave film director who has now relocated to Australia.

31. Peter Kirk (director) (1969)

Australian Film Director

Peter R. Kirk is an Australian director screen writer producer. Started directing at 2000 his career in the film making industry has been very active. His versatile directing skills emanates...

32. Macario De Souza (1983)

Australian Film Director

Macario De Souza is an Australian farmer. Macario is the youngest of the three children of Macario Snr and Maria De Souza who immigrated from Minas Gerais Brazil in the...

33. A. J. Carter (1980)

Australian Film Director

A. J. Carter is an Australian film director screenwriter and producer. In his recent emerging career as a film director his debut narrative short film Ronan's Escape awarded him and...

34. Daniel Krige (1970)

Australian Film Director

Daniel Krige is a writer director and actor. Born in Cape Town South Africa he grew up in Australia. Krige began working as a writer at the age of sixteen...

35. Ben Hackworth (1977)

Australian Film Director

Ben Hackworth is an Australian writer and film director. He is the son of retired Colonel David Hackworth.

36. Judd Tilyard (1978)

Australian Film Director

Judd Tilyard is an Australian film director and producer based in Toronto since 2010 where he is the co-owner and head of Production at Dimeworth Films. Best known for his...

37. Brett Sullivan (1971)

Australian Film Director

Brett Sullivan is a London based Australian filmmaker. Born in Sydney Australia 1971 Sullivan formed production company Steam Motion and Sound with Julian Chow in 1996. Steam established a UK...

38. Burleigh Smith (1979)

Australian Film Director

Burleigh Smith is an Australian screenwriter film director and actor. His films centre on relationships between men and women and often emphasise dry wit and desperate characters. His strongest influence...

39. Murali K. Thalluri (1984)

Australian Film Director

Murali Krishna Thalluri is an Australian film director writer and producer. Born in Canberra to Indian-born parents he moved to Adelaide where he attended Rostrevor College before completing his education...

40. Richard James Allen (1960)

Australian Film Director

Richard James Allen is a contemporary Australian poet dancer and filmmaker.

41. Emma-Kate Croghan (1972)

Australian Film Director

Emma-Kate Croghan is an Australian director and writer born in Adelaide South Australia on Australia Day 1972. She is the daughter of Kate Croghan. She has been nominated for two...

42. Eddie White (director) (1981)

Australian Film Director

Edward Alexander White is an Australian animation writer/director and actor and co-founder of The People's Republic Of Animation. White won an Australian Film Institute Award for Short Animation for The...

43. Nash Edgerton (1973)

Australian Film Director

Nash Edgerton is an Australian film director and stuntman and a principal member of the movie-making collective Blue-Tongue Films.

44. Robert Luketic (1973)

Australian Film Director

Robert Luketic is an Australian film director. He directed the films Monster-in-Law Legally Blonde and 21.

45. Kimberley Joseph (1973)

Australian Film Director

Kimberley Joseph is a Canadian-Australian actress who is based in the United States. Joseph was born in Canada raised on the Gold Coast in Australia and educated in Switzerland. After...

46. Adam Bayliss (1979)

Australian Film Director

Adam Bayliss is an Australian producer of films. His films Luna and the Moon and Alex's Party have been shown at international film festivals including the Palm Springs International Film...

47. Abe Forsythe (1981)

Australian Film Director

Abe Forsythe is an Australian film and television actor director writer and producer. He is the son of actor and comedian Drew Forsythe.

48. Kieran Galvin (1966)

Australian Film Director

Kieran Galvin is an Irish-born Australian film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed four award-winning short films before he made his debut feature film Puppy in 2005. Also in...

49. Trent O’Donnell (1976)

Australian Film Director

Trent O'Donnell is a famous Australian film director, who was born on February 12, 1976 in Australia. Trent O’Donnell (born 12 February 1976) is an Australian film director and screenwriter....