Top Ten Directors in Hollywood

1)Christopher Nolan

Best known for his cerebral, often non-linear storytelling, acclaimed writer-director Christopher Nolan was born on July 30, 1970 in London, England. Over the course of a decade plus of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the biggest blockbusters ever. At an early age...

1. Inception
2. The Prestige
3. The Dark Knight
4. Memento
5. Insomnia ” - dolphinsrock81

2)David Fincher

David Fincher was born in 1962 in Denver, Colorado, and was raised in Marin County, California. When he was 18 years old he went to work for John Korty at Korty Films in Mill Valley. He subsequently worked at ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) from 1981-1983. Fincher left ILM to direct TV commercials and music videos after signing with N...

 1. Fight Club
2. The Social Network
3. Seven
4. The Game
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ” - dolphinsrock81

3)Jason Reitman

1. Up in the Air
2. Juno
3. Thank You for Smoking
4. (does not apply)
5. (does not apply) ” - dolphinsrock81

4)Quentin Tarantino

In January of 1992, Reservoir Dogs appeared at the Sundance Film Festival, by first-time writer-director Quentin Tarantino. The film garnered critical acclaim and the director became a legend immediately. Two years later, he followed up Dogs success with Pulp Fiction which premiered at the Cannes film festival...

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Death Proof ” - dolphinsrock81

5)Danny Boyle

 1. Slumdog Millionaire

2. The Beach
3. 127 Hours
4. Trainspotting
5. 28 Days Later ” - dolphinsrock81

6)Martin Scorsese

After serious deliberations about entering the priesthood - he entered a seminary in 1956 - Martin Scorsese opted to channel his passions into film. He graduated from NYU as a film major in 1964. Catching the eye of producer Roger Corman with his 1960s student films (including co-editing Woodstock)...

1. The Aviator

2. Raging Bull

3. Goodfellas

4. Taxi Driver

5. The Departed ” - dolphinsrock81

7)Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson was born as an only child in a small coast-side town in New Zealand in 1961. When a friend of his parents bought him a super 8mm movie camera (because she saw how much he enjoyed taking photos), the then eight-year-old Peter instantly grabbed the thing to start recording his own movies...

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4. King Kong
5. The Lovely Bones ” - dolphinsrock81

8)Steven Spielberg

Undoubtedly one of the most influential film personalities in the history of film, Steven Spielberg is perhaps Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. Spielberg has countless big-grossing, critically acclaimed credits to his name, as producer, director and writer...

 1. E.T.
2. Schindler's List
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Minority Report ” - dolphinsrock81

9)Ron Howard

Ron was born in Oklahoma, into an acting family - his father had realized a boyhood dream of acting by attending the University of Oklahoma and majoring in drama, and his mother went through acting school in New York. He was in his first movie at 18 months, Frontier Woman, although his first real part was at the age of 4...

1. Apollo 13
2. Frost/Nixon
3. A Beautiful Mind
4. The Da Vinci Code
5. Parenthood ” - dolphinsrock81

10)J.J. Abrams

    1. Star Trek
2. Super 8
                     3. Mission Impossible 3
          4. (does not apply)
                                      5. (does not apply) ” - dolphinsrock81