1. Daniel Petrie (1920)

Canadian Film Director

Canadian film director who won multiple awards and inspired his children to continue working in Hollywood.

2. Arthur Hiller (1923)

Canadian Film Director

Directed the Oscar-nominated film Love Story starring Ryan O'Neal.

3. Ted Kotcheff (1931)

Canadian Film Director

Director of various Hollywood hits such as First Blood, Uncommon Valor, and Weekend at Bernie's.

4. Denys Arcand (1941)

Canadian Film Director

Academy Award-winning director of the 2004 film The Barbarian Invasions, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

5. Denis Villeneuve (1967)

Canadian Film Director

French-Canadian award-winning film director whose 2010 film Incendies was nominated in the category of Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Academy Awards. He would go on to receive further...

6. Ivan Reitman (1946)

Canadian Film Director

Director and producer of the comedies I Love You, Man and Old School. He directed the famous 1980s comedy Ghostbusters and its sequel. He died at the age of 75.

7. Zacharias Kunuk (1957)

Canadian Film Director

Canadian Inuk producer and director of the film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner and co-founder of Igloolik Isuma Productions.

8. Emmanuelle Schick Garcia (1977)

Canadian Film Director

Emmanuelle Schick Garcia was born in the south of France to a Spanish mother and a Canadian father. At the age of three her family moved to Vancouver Canada where...

9. Nisha Ganatra (1974)

Canadian Film Director

Nisha Ganatra is a Canadian film director film producer writer and actress of Indian ancestry. She is most well known for her acclaimed films Chutney Popcorn and Cosmopolitan.

10. Beverly Shaffer (1945)

Canadian Film Director

Beverly Shaffer is a filmmaker in Montreal Quebec Canada. Shaffer spent the bulk of her professional career with the National Film Board of Canada directing short documentaries and dramas including...

11. Lenin M. Sivam (1974)

Canadian Film Director

Lenin M. Sivam is a Canadian filmmaker. He was born in Jaffna Sri Lanka and moved to Toronto Canada in 1991. He writes and directs all of his movies. His...

12. Leo Scherman (1975)

Canadian Film Director

Leo Edmund Scherman is an award winning Canadian director writer producer and actor. Scherman graduated in 1997 from McGill University with a degree in Cultural Studies.

13. Terence Macartney-Filgate (1924)

Canadian Film Director

Terence Macartney-Filgate OC is a British-Canadian film director who has directed written produced or shot more than 100 films in a career spanning more than 50 years.

14. Jared Pelletier (1990)

Canadian Film Director

Jared Pelletier is a Canadian director responsible for a number of short films including In the Hearts of Men and the Machinima series Omega.

15. Darrell Wasyk (1958)

Canadian Film Director

Darrell Wasyk is a Canadian film director.

16. David Hackl (1963)

Canadian Film Director

David Hackl is a Canadian film director and production designer.

17. Alison Maclean (Unknow)

Canadian Film Director

Alison Maclean is a Canadian film director of music videos short films television commercials and feature films.

18. Graeme Ferguson (1929)

Canadian Film Director

Ivan Graeme Ferguson CM is a Canadian filmmaker and inventor who co-invented IMAX. Ferguson was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 1993. He graduated from the University...

19. Cynthia Scott (Unknow)

Canadian Film Director

Cynthia Scott RCA is a film director producer screenwriter and editor. She won the 1983 Academy Award for her short documentary Flamenco at 5:15 produced by the National Film Board...

20. Adam Humphreys (1982)

Canadian Film Director

Adam Humphreys is a Canadian filmmaker entrepreneur and hall of fame tree planter. He is the director of two non-fiction films: Franz Otto Ultimate Highballer and Shitty Youth. He is...

21. Simcha Jacobovici (1953)

Canadian Film Director

Simcha Jacobovici is a Canadian Israeli film director producer free-lance journalist and writer. He is an Emmy winner for Outstanding Investigative Journalism and a New York Times best selling author....

22. Anne Wheeler (1946)

Canadian Film Director

Anne Wheeler OC is a Canadian film and television writer producer and director. Graduating in Mathematics from the University of Alberta she was a computer programmer before traveling abroad. Her...

23. Elza Kephart (1976)

Canadian Film Director

Elza Kephart is Canadian filmmaker from Montreal Quebec. She owns her own production company Midnight Kingdom Films.

24. Graeme Campbell (director) (1954)

Canadian Film Director

Graeme Neil Campbell is an award-winning film director writer and editor.

25. Perry Mark Stratychuk (1959)

Canadian Film Director

Perry Mark Stratychuk is an independent Canadian filmmaker writer musician poet and actor from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. A film director cinematographer and producer in several genres such as experimental short...

26. Clarke Mackey (1950)

Canadian Film Director

Clarke Mackey is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker author and educator. His 1971 feature film The Only Thing You Know is considered a key film in the early period of Canadian...

27. Bruce McDonald (director) (1959)

Canadian Film Director

Bruce McDonald is a Canadian film and television director.

28. James Motluk (1964)

Canadian Film Director

James Motluk is a Canadian filmmaker of Ukrainian descent. After studying philosophy at Trent University he travelled to Toronto where he struggled to break into the film industry working for...

29. Yves Simoneau (1955)

Canadian Film Director

Yves Simoneau is a Canadian film and television director.

30. Bryan Michael Stoller (1960)

Canadian Film Director

Bryan Michael Stoller is an award winning independent filmmaker whose films include Turn of the Blade The Random Factor Miss Cast Away Undercover Angel and Light Years Away. Stoller is...

31. Tim Southam (1961)

Canadian Film Director

Tim Southam is an award-winning Canadian television and film director.

32. Patrick Masbourian (1969)

Canadian Film Director

Patrick Masbourian is a coordinator and Canadian director. He was born in 1970 in the United States to Armenian parents. He began his television career while participating in La Course...

33. Doug Karr (1980)

Canadian Film Director

Doug Karr has worked in the industry since 1997 creating original independent films. Karr’s 2009 film Ten for Grandpa is a personal investigation into the life of Karr's grandfather an...

34. Gavin Heffernan (1980)

Canadian Film Director

Gavin Heffernan is an AFI grad and Canadian filmmaker/screenwriter repped by the Agency for the Performing Arts and Zero Gravity Management in Los Angeles. Co-writer of Bryan Singer's upcoming horror...

35. Daniel Roby (1970)

Canadian Film Director

Daniel Roby is a Canadian film director and cinematographer. An alumnus of the film programs at Concordia University and the University of Southern California he worked as a camera operator...

36. Mark Kenneth Woods (1977)

Canadian Film Director

Mark Kenneth Woods is a Canadian comedy writer actor producer director and TV host.

37. Ricardo Trogi (1970)

Canadian Film Director

Ricardo Trogi is a French Canadian filmmaker director and actor.

38. Matthiew Klinck (1978)

Canadian Film Director

Matthiew Klinck is a film director and producer residing in Belize. He founded and currently operates the cinema arts training and production program Make-Belize Films.

39. Tibor Takács (director) (1954)

Canadian Film Director

Tibor Takács living in Canada from 1956 is a Canadian director noted for directing The Gate and its sequel The Gate II: Trespassers. He was the recording engineer behind Toronto...

40. Adrien Lorion (1972)

Canadian Film Director

Adrien Lorion is an art director and film writer. The 30th Montreal World Film Festival presents its idea original in the official opening show : Cadavre Exquis premiere edition. A...

41. Shane Belcourt (1972)

Canadian Film Director

Shane Anthony Belcourt is a Métis writer director and cinematographer living and working in Canada. He is best known for his feature film Tkaronto which depicts the life of urban...

42. Ruba Nadda (1972)

Canadian Film Director

Ruba Nadda is an Arab Canadian film director. She made several award-winning short films including Lost Woman Story Interstate Love Story So Far Gone and Damascus Nights before writing and...

43. Peter Scheerer (1973)

Canadian Film Director

Peter Scheerer is a film director film producer and screenwriter. He collaborates on his movies with fellow filmmaker Michael Roesch. A film fan since his early childhood Scheerer started shooting...

44. Michael Dowse (1973)

Canadian Film Director

Michael Dowse is a Canadian film director.

45. Robert Budreau (1974)

Canadian Film Director

Robert Budreau is a Canadian director screenwriter and producer at his production company Lumanity with offices in Los Angeles Toronto and North Bay. Before completing his debut theatrical feature film...

46. Ziad Touma (1983)

Canadian Film Director

Ziad Touma is a Lebanese Canadian film director producer and screenwriter born in Beirut Lebanon in 1974 and residing in Montreal Quebec Canada. He is the founder of the film...

47. Jamie Travis (1979)

Canadian Film Director

Jamie Travis is a Toronto-based filmmaker who has written and directed award-winning short films music videos and television commercials. He received international recognition for his two short film trilogies: The...

48. Rob Stewart (filmmaker) (1979)

Canadian Film Director

Rob Stewart is a Canadian photographer and movie director/filmmaker. He is best known for making and directing the multi-award-winning movie Sharkwater along with the recent 2013 release of Revolution.