United States

• Darren Aronofsky
• Robert Aldrich
• Woody Allen
• Allison Anders
• Wes Anderson
• Kenneth Anger
• Robert Benton
• Busby Berkeley
• Peter Bogdonovich
• Mel Brooks
• Tim Burton
• James Cameron
• Frank Capra (Italy)
• John Cassavetes
• Charles Chaplin (Great Britain)
• Joel Cohen
• Francis Ford Coppola
• Sofia Coppola
• Wes Craven
• Cameron Crowe
• George Cukor
• Michael Curtiz
• Cecil B. De Mille
• Maya Deren
• Clint Eastwood
• Nora Ephron
• Bobby Farrelly
• Peter Farrelly
• David Fincher
• Victor Fleming
• John Ford
• Jodie Foster
• John Frankenheimer
• Samuel Fuller
• Terry Gilliam
• Nick Gomez
• Lee Grant
• D.W. Griffith
• Hal Hartley
• Howard Hawks
• Amy Heckerling
• Nicole Holofcener
• Dennis Hopper
• Ron Howard
• John Hughes
• Angelica Huston
• John Huston
• Stanley Jaffe
• Jim Jarmusch
• Spike Jonze
• Elia Kazan (Turkey)
• Buster Keaton
• Harmony Korine
• Lisa Krueger
• Stanley Kubrick
• Spike Lee
• Mimi Leder
• Richard Linklater
• George Lucas
• Sydney Lumet
• David Lynch
• Garry Marshall
• Penny Marshall
• Terence Malick
• David Mamet
• Anthony Mann
• Leo McCarey
• Norman Z. McLeod
• Vincente Minnelli
• Dudley Murphy
• Sean Penn
• Nicholas Ray
• Robert Redford
• Martin Ritt
• Jay Roach
• Tim Robbins
• John Sayles
• Martin Scorsese
• Paul Schrader
• Ridley Scott
• John Singleton
• Kevin Smith
• Todd Solondz
• Steven Spielberg
• Whit Stillman
• Oliver Stone
• Barbra Streisand
• Preston Sturges
• Quentin Tarantino
• Betty Thomas
• Jacques Tourneur
• Gus Van Sant
• King Vidor
• Andy Warhol
• John Waters
• Orson Welles
• Robert Zemeckis
• David Zucker

Original writeup by zadignose

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