1. David Yates (1963)

British Film Director

Filmmaker best known for directing the last four Harry Potter films from 2007 to 2011. He is a founding member of the group Directors UK.

2. Nicolas Roeg (1928)

British Film Director

Acclaimed film director and cinematographer known for works such as Walkabout and The Man Who Fell to Earth.

3. Hugh Hudson (1936)

British Film Director

British director of the Academy Award-winning Chariots of Fire.

4. Lynne Ramsay (1969)

British Film Director

Versatile artist known for her work on Ratcatcher from 1999, Morvern Callar from 2002, and We Need to Talk about Kevin from 2011.

5. Richard Marquand (1937)

British Film Director

British director most famous for directing Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. He went on to direct films like Until September and Jagged Edge before dying of a...

6. Andrew Grieve (1939)

British Film Director

English director best known for directing several episodes of the British drama Wire in the Blood.

7. Chris Menges (1940)

British Film Director

Known for his Academy Award-winning work on both the 1984 film The Killing Fields and the 1986 movie The Mission, this British cinematographer also served as Director of Photography on...

8. Trevor Nunn (1940)

British Film Director

Theatre director who won Tony Awards for the iconic musicals CATS and Les Miserables.

9. Adrian Lyne (1941)

British Film Director

Academy Award-nominated director of 1988's Fatal Attraction.

10. Guy Ritchie (1968)

British Film Director

Producer, director and writer who specializes in crime and action films. His feature debut, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and his second film, Snatch, have developed wide followings. His other...

11. Michael Radford (1946)

British Film Director

Director of the films Nineteen Eighty-Four and Il Postino, the latter earning him Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

12. Nick Broomfield (1948)

British Film Director

Directed film documentaries like Kurt and Courtney and Soldier Girls.

13. Tony Richardson (1928)

British Film Director

Winner of the 1964 Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for the film Tom Jones.

14. Michael Caton-Jones (1957)

British Film Director

Scottish film director known for The Jackal from 1997 and TV's World Without End.

15. Frank Lloyd (1886)

British Film Director

Director who is best known as one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He served as the president of the academy from 1934 to...

16. Alex Cox (1954)

British Film Director

British director of the 1980s films Sid & Nancy and Repo Man. He later turned to directing independent films.

17. Matthew Vaughn (1971)

British Film Director

Stylistic action filmmaker who produced Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in 1998 and Snatch in 2000. He also directed Kick-Ass in 2010, X-Men: First Class in 2011,...

18. Debbie Isitt (1966)

British Film Director

Famous for writing the 2006 mockumentary film Confetti, Isitt is also notable for her BAFTA-winning television movie The Illustrated Mum and for her theatrical piece The Woman Who Cooked Her...

19. Gil Kenan (1976)

British Film Director

British director who directed a number of films including The Lark in 2004 and Monster House in 2006.

20. David Slade (1969)

British Film Director

Known for his work on the films The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Hard Candy, and 30 Days of Night. He has also directed a multitude of music videos, including multiple for...

21. Jon Sen (1974)

British Film Director

Jon Sen is a British television and film director and writer born in Bradford in 1974. Sen attended Bradford Grammar School between the 1984 and 1992. He read Political Philosophy...

22. Tom Kingsley (1985)

British Film Director

Tom Kingsley is a British film director. He is best known for co-directing Black Pond a 2011 feature film starring Chris Langham and Simon Amstell. He first made his name...

23. Vicky Jewson (1985)

British Film Director

Vicky Jewson is an English screenwriter and film director. She was born in Oxford where she still lives and where she has long term plans to establish a film studio....

24. Margaret Salmon (1975)

British Film Director

Margaret Salmon is an American and British based film maker-artist. The work of this New York-born filmmaker is fuelled by references to the great realist tradition in film be it...

25. Alison Snowden (1958)

British Film Director

Alison Snowden is a voice actress producer and screenwriter best known for Bob and Margaret.

26. John Sichel (1937)

British Film Director

John Peter Sichel was a British director of film stage and television and later in life a film television and theatre trainer. Early in his career he became known for...

27. Brian Large (1939)

British Film Director

Brian Large is a television director. He is among the world's foremost TV directors specializing in opera and classical music.

28. Pete Walker (director) (Unknow)

British Film Director

Pete Walker is an English film director writer and producer specialising in horror and sexploitation films frequently combining the two. His films include Die Screaming Marianne The Flesh and Blood...

29. Karl Francis (1942)

British Film Director

Karl Francis is a Welsh film and television director producer and screenwriter associated with left-wing political causes. His work is inspired by the likes of Chris Marker and Ken Loach...

30. Roger Tucker (1945)

British Film Director

Roger Tucker is a British television and film director. Since 1972 he has directed over 40 television series miniseries and television films including many dramas thrillers and action series.

31. Jake Scott (director) (1965)

British Film Director

Jake Scott is a British film director who works primarily in the field of music videos. Most of his works were produced under the Ridley Scott Associates banner or RSA's...

32. Nigel Dick (1953)

British Film Director

Nigel Dick is an English music video and film director writer and musician based in Los Angeles California. He directed the Band Aid video Do They Know It's Christmas? as...

33. Bill Forsyth (1946)

British Film Director

Bill Forsyth is a Scottish film director and writer best known for his films Gregory's Girl Local Hero and Comfort and Joy as well as his commitment to national film-making.

34. Johannes Roberts (1976)

British Film Director

Johannes Roberts is a British film director and writer.

35. Tony Kirkhope (1949)

British Film Director

Anthony James Henry Kirkhope was a British filmmaker and distributor. He was also the co-founder of the Latin American Film Festival.

36. Andy Picheta (1957)

British Film Director

Andy Picheta is a Film and TV director producer screenwriter and editorPicheta has worked alongside some of entertainment's greatest and most famed names such as Ian McKellen Andrew Lloyd Webber...

37. Anthony Waller (1959)

British Film Director

Anthony Waller is a film director.

38. Harry Bromley Davenport (1950)

British Film Director

Harry Bromley Davenport is an English director producer as well as in the beginning of his career a film screenwriter. He is most popular for the famous horror science-fiction video...

39. Gareth Edwards (director) (1975)

British Film Director

Gareth Edwards is a British film director. He is best known for Monsters an independent film for which he acted as writer director cinematographer and visual effects artist. He is...

40. Gary Tarn (1962)

British Film Director

Gary Tarn is a British filmmaker and composer. His debut feature a documentary entitled Black Sun was nominated for The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director...

41. Dominic Savage (1962)

British Film Director

Dominic Savage is a BAFTA-award-winning British director writer and actor. Originally a child actor — making several television appearances and featuring in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon — Savage moved into...

42. Duncan Gibbins (1952)

British Film Director

Duncan Gibbins was a British film and music video director as well as a screenwriter. Gibbins was known for his romance and thriller films as well as for the various...

43. David Attwood (1952)

British Film Director

David Attwood is an English filmmaker.

44. Tony Kaye (director) (1952)

British Film Director

Tony Kaye is a British director of films music videos advertisements and documentaries.

45. Peter Cattaneo (1964)

British Film Director

Peter Cattaneo was born in 1964 in Twickenham London. He is a two-time Academy Award-nominated English filmmaker most famous for directing the hit British film The Full Monty. He also...

46. Annabel Jankel (1955)

British Film Director

Annabel Jankel is an English film and TV director who first came to prominence as a music video director and the co-creator and director of the pioneering cyber-character Max Headroom....

47. Luke Losey (1968)

British Film Director

Luke Losey is a film director lighting designer and photographer. His work has been seen in avant-garde and mainstream media.

48. Tim Pope (1956)

British Film Director

Timothy Michael Pope is a film director most famous for his music videos having directed feature films and for a brief pop career.

49. Chris Jury (1956)

British Film Director

Chris Jury is an English actor/writer/director with a range of television credits. He is best known for his role as Eric Catchpole in the antique trade drama Lovejoy starring Ian...

50. Danny Cannon (1968)

British Film Director

Danny Cannon is a film and television writer director and producer.