1. Georgia Lee (1976)

Director

Independent film director who made the 2006 film Red Doors. The movie earned honors at both the Tribeca Film Festival and the NY, NY Competition. Along with directing films, she...

2. John Pfeiffer (1967)

Director

Casting director who became known for his work with models in the fashion industry. He has cast various editions of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show as well as the popular reality...

3. Anurag Basu (1974)

Director

Television and film director who is best known for his work on the soap opera series Koshish ...Ek Aashaa. He also directed a number of episodes of Miit and Manzilien Apni Apni. 

4. Quark Henares (1980)

Director

Actor, writer, and director who's best known for directing the 2003 film Keka and the 2011 comedy Rakenrol. He won the 2004 and 2011 Audience Award at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film...

5. Ian SBF (1980)

Director

Award-winning filmmaker best known as the creator of the series' Anões em Chamas and Porta dos Fundos. He has also written and directed O Fantástico Mundo de Gregório and Portátil. 

6. Giorgio Alfieri (1970)

Director

Television director and model who became the bachelor seeking love on the Italian reality series Uomini e Donne in 2006. His TV fame helped catapult his Instagram stardom to over 120,000 followers.

7. Hernán Jiménez (1980)

Director

Costa Rican film director, actor and comedian who is known for movies like Entonces Nosotros and Elsewhere. 

8. Jake Schreier (1980)

Director

Director of music videos, commercials, shorts and feature films who became best known as the director of the movies Paper Towns and Robot & Frank.

9. Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1970)

Director

In the last years of the nineteenth century, this Russian stage director and dramatist co-founded the famous Moscow Art Theatre with Constantin Stanislavski and also headed the organization's Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre wing,...

10. Seth Gordon (1974)

Director

Writer, producer, and director whose most notable films include Horrible Bosses, Identity Thief, and Baywatch. He also directed The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters and Four Christmases.

11. David Michôd (1972)

Director

Film director and screenwriter who made a name for himself with the critically acclaimed Animal Kingdom (2010). He also directed The Rover, War Machine and was a co-writer on Hesher.

12. Edgar Selwyn (1970)

Director

Filmmaker and co-founder of Goldwyn Pictures. He was also remembered for directing The Sin of Madelon Claudet from 1931.

13. DW Griffith (1875)

Director

Silent film director known for his work on the 1915 movie The Birth of a Nation. His later films include Orphans of the Storm and Broken Blossoms.

14. George Loane Tucker (1880)

Director

Director of the 1913 film Traffic in Souls, as well as The Miracle Man.

15. Benny Lim (1980)

Director

Theater director who is recognized for founding Singapore's The Fun Stage. At one point he was the youngest artistic director of a theater company in all of his native country.

16. Marco Castro (1980)

Director

Director and actor best known for his work on the 2007 film Glen or Glenda.

17. Robert J. Flaherty (1884)

Director

He directed and produced the 1922 documentary Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature-length documentary.

18. Sam Wood (1884)

Director

Director of films such as A Night at the Opera, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and The Pride of the Yankees.

19. David Lowery (1980)

Director

Filmmaker known for the independent works Ain't Them Body Saints and A Ghost Story whose first mainstream work was directing 2016's Pete's Dragon. Ain't Them Body Saints was a 2013 Sundance...

20. Maurice Schwartz (1889)

Director

Director and screenwriter, most recognized for films Broken Hearts and Uncle Moses.

21. Lee Byung-hoon (1947)

Director

For his work on the 2010 Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) series Dong Yi, this South Korean director earned a Korea Drama Award. He had previously won Korean Producers & Directors...

22. Ernst Lubitsch (1892)

Director

Three-time Oscar nominee for Best Director whose work included the films Trouble in Paradise and Heaven Can Wait.

23. Gregory La Cava (1970)

Director

Director of My Man Godfrey, Stage Door, She Married Her Boss, and many other films.

24. Ernest B. Schoedsack (1970)

Director

Co-director of the 1933 classic King Kong and its semi-official 1949 sequel Mighty Joe Young.

25. Sergei M. Eisenstein (1898)

Director

Russian film director of Ivan the Terrible starring Nikolai Cherkasov.

26. Sam Newfield (1970)

Director

Prolific B-movie director who was credited with more than 250 films, sometimes working on as many as 20 at a time for PRC Pictures.

27. Ken G. Hall (1901)

Director

One of the most notable Australian directors in film history. He was responsible for over 35 titles between 1928 and 1957.

28. Hiroshi Shimizu (1970)

Director

Silent film director of the 1948 silent neo-realist film Children of the Beehive and its 1951 sequel Children of the Beehive: What Happened Next. His films often explored the themes...

29. Norman Foster (1903)

Director

Director of the Davy Crockett segments from the Disney TV series Disneyland in the 1950's. He also directed Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto mystery films in the 1930's and '40's.

30. Wolfgang Liebeneiner (1970)

Director

German-born actor and director who directed propaganda for the Nazi Party during World War II.

31. Hans Obrist (1970)

Director

Art director and historian who is best known for being the director of Serpentine Galleries in London. He is also known for his ongoing efforts with The Interview Project which...

32. Joyce Bernal (1968)

Director

Director who started editing for Viva Films in 1994. She won Best Director at the 2013 Metro Manila Film Festival for 10,000 Hours. She has more than 70,000 followers on her direkbinibini Instagram account.

33. Susanne Bartsch (1968)

Director

Event director and producer who is best recognized for having thrown monthly parties at the Copacabana in the late 1980s. She gained international attention from Montreal to Miami and was...

34. Aaron Blaise (1968)

Director

Director of Brother Bear, which was nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003. She has more than 500,000 followers on her aaronblaiseart Instagram account. 

35. Zach Ingrasci (1989)

Director

Documentary director and filmmaker most well known as the mind behind the acclaimed film Living On One Dollar, a documentary about living on a dollar a day in rural Guatemala. 

36. Robby Starbuck (1989)

Director

Famous as a music video director, Starbuck worked with such high-profile artists and bands as Snoop Dogg and Smashing Pumpkins and was named to OC METRO's 2010 list of 'Top 40 under...

37. Fred De Cordova (1910)

Director

Though he also directed the Ronald Reagan feature Bedtime for Bonzo and the Elvis Presley film Frankie and Johnny, de Cordova is remembered best for his two-decade career as a multiple-Emmy-winning producer and director...

38. Fedor Hanzekovic (1970)

Director

Film director known for his political documentaries and adaptations of Yugoslavian novels.

39. Baldev Raj Chopra (1914)

Director

Late Bollywood director and producer who won a Best Director Filmfare Award for 1996's Kanoon.

40. Alina Pasok (1970)

Director

Director who filmed the music video for "Everyday I'm Drinking." by the band Little Big in 2018. She has over 220,000 followers on her alina_pasok Instagram account.

41. Helmy Halim (1916)

Director

Egyptian film director, screenwriter, and producer who was prominent in the 1950s and 1960s.

42. Satyen Bose (1970)

Director

Renowned director of both Bengali and Hindi films. He was best remembered for films like Raat Aur Din, Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, and Jagriti.

43. Howard W. Koch (1916)

Director

Filmmaker who won an Oscar for co-writing the iconic film Casablanca. He also served as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

44. George Pistoney (1916)

Director

Remembered for his work on such documentary films as The Uprising of '34, How the Myth Was Made, and All My Babies, this acclaimed filmmaker and director taught for many...

45. Chris Temple (1989)

Director

Filmmaker and activist who has won acclaim for socially-conscious documentaries like Living on One Dollar, in which he lived off $1 per day in rural Guatemala for two months. He...

46. Sam Wanamaker (1919)

Director

Actor and director who became blacklisted during the "McCarthyism" era of the early 50's. As a TV actor he appeared on shows like "Gunsmoke".

47. Ganesh Raj (1989)

Director

Film director who found immediate success with his feature film debut, Aanandam (2016), which he also wrote. He was previously an actor who appeared in the films Thattathin Marayathu (2012) and Oru Vadakkan...

48. Branko Bauer (1970)

Director

He directed the 1956 war film Don't Look Back, My Son about a World War II resistance fighter.

49. Paul Wendkos (1922)

Director

His film Gidget, about a girl midget chasing romance on the sandy beaches, came out of the surfer-movie cultural craze.

50. Jonas Mekas (1922)

Director

Pioneer of American avant-garde cinema whose film Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.