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Frank Darabont • Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Buddy Film • Drama
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
3
Jonathan Demme • Starring: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards
Courtroom Drama • Drama • Gay and Lesbian Film
4
Jonathan Demme • Starring: Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Anthony Hopkins
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Cannibal Film • Crime Thriller
5
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
6
Roberto Benigni • Starring: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
Comedy Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
7
Quentin Tarantino • Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis
Black Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Crime Comedy
8
Gus Van Sant • Starring: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Psychological Drama
9
Robert Zemeckis • Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
Americana • Comedy Drama • Drama
10
John Singleton • Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Angela Bassett
Coming-of-Age • Crime Drama • Crime
11
Andrew Davis • Starring: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-Television
12
Spike Lee • Starring: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Albert Hall
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
13
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Richard Attenborough
Action • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Fantasy
14
John Lasseter • Starring: Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Jim Varney
Adventure • Animation • Comedy
15
Bryan Singer • Starring: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro
Crime Thriller • Crime • Ensemble Film
16
Harold Ramis • Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
Comedy • Fantasy Comedy • Fantasy
17
Ron Howard • Starring: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
18
Rob Reiner • Starring: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore
Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama • Crime Drama
19
Peter Weir • Starring: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich
Comedy Drama • Drama • Media Satire
20
David Fincher • Starring: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
21
Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise • Starring: Richard White, Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury
Animated Musical • Animation • Fairy Tales and Legends
22
Jon Avnet • Starring: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Feminist Film
23
David Fincher • Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow
Crime Thriller • Crime • Police Detective Film
24
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi
Americana • Black Comedy • Crime Comedy
25
Robert Altman • Starring: Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher
Comedy • Ensemble Film • Satire
26
Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff • Starring: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones
Adventure • Animated Musical • Animation
27
Wolfgang Petersen • Starring: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo
Action • Action Thriller • Crime
28
Chris Columbus • Starring: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Errors • Comedy
29
Richard Linklater • Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert
Comedy Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
30
James Cameron • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane
Adventure • Costume Romance • Disaster Film
31
Peter Cattaneo • Starring: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy
Buddy Film • Comedy • Dance Film
32
Steve James • Starring: Spike Lee, Sheila Agee, Gene Pingatore
Biography • Culture and Society • Documentary
33
The Wachowskis • Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
Action • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Cyborg / Android / Robot
34
Quentin Tarantino • Starring: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen
Caper • Crime Thriller • Crime
35
Mike Nichols • Starring: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending
36
Penny Marshall • Starring: Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty
37
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Combat Films • Drama • Ensemble Film
38
Jonathan Lynn • Starring: Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei
Comedy of Manners • Comedy • Crime Comedy
39
Bobby & Peter Farrelly • Starring: Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon, Lee Evans
Comedy • Farce • Gross-Out Comedy
40
Nora Ephron • Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman
Comedy Drama • Drama • Female-Directed Film
41
Mel Gibson • Starring: Mel Gibson, Patrick McGoohan, Angus MacFadyen
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story
42
M. Night Shyamalan • Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
Childhood Drama • Drama • Ghost Film
43
Curtis Hanson • Starring: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
44
Tony Scott • Starring: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight
Action • Action Thriller • Chase Movie
45
Rob Reiner • Starring: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
46
Frank Darabont • Starring: Tom Hanks, David Morse, James Cromwell
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Fantasy
47
Scott Hicks • Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Lynn Redgrave
48
James Cameron • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick
Action Thriller • Action • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir
49
Paul Thomas Anderson • Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore
Comedy Drama • Drama • Ensemble Film
50
Jan de Bont • Starring: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock
51
Kevin Costner • Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Epic
52
Garry Marshall • Starring: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Ralph Bellamy
Comedy • Prostitution Film • Romance
53
Christopher Nolan • Starring: Lucy Russell, John Nolan, Jeremy Theobald
Post-Noir • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
54
Brian Gibson • Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Jenifer Lewis, Phyllis Stickney
55
Cameron Crowe • Starring: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger
Comedy Drama • Drama • Romance
56
Brad Bird • Starring: Eli Marienthal, Vin Diesel, Harry Connick Jr.
Animation • Buddy Film • Comedy Drama
57
Danny Boyle • Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller
Addiction Drama • Buddy Film • Comedy Drama
58
Wes Anderson • Starring: Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Brian Cox
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
59
Stephan Elliott • Starring: Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp
Buddy Film • Comedy • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending
60
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
61
Spike Lee • Starring: Maxine McNair, Chris McNair, Helen Pegues
Biography • Documentary • History
62
Jim Sheridan • Starring: Pete Postlethwaite, Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Courtroom Drama
63
George P. Cosmatos • Starring: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott
Revisionist Western • Western
64
Clint Eastwood • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Frances Fisher
Outlaw • Prostitution Film • Revenge Film
65
Paul Thomas Anderson • Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, Tom Cruise
Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
66
Trey Parker • Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, George Clooney
Absurd Comedy • Animated Musical • Animation
67
Jerry Zucker • Starring: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg
Drama • Fantasy • Ghost Film
68
Kevin Smith • Starring: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti
Buddy Film • Comedy • Workplace Comedy
69
Michael Mann • Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer
Action Thriller • Action • Caper
70
Oliver Stone • Starring: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon
Biopic • Drama • Ensemble Film
71
Ron Underwood • Starring: Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, Billy Crystal
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Buddy Film
72
Rob Reiner • Starring: Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen
Comedy Drama • Political Drama • Romance
73
George Gallo • Starring: Danny Aiello, Anthony LaPaglia, Lainie Kazan
Comedy • Farce
74
Joe Johnston • Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Family Drama
75
Spike Jonze • Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, John Malkovich
76
Chris Noonan • Starring: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh
Animal Picture • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Family-Oriented Fantasy
77
Terry Gilliam • Starring: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt
Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Dystopian Film • Mindbender
78
Kimberly Peirce • Starring: Matt McGrath, Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending
79
Julie Dash • Starring: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbarao
Drama • Family Drama • Female-Directed Film
80
Mike Judge • Starring: Stephen Root, Gary Cole, John C. McGinley
Black Comedy • Comedy • Workplace Comedy
81
Charles Shyer • Starring: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Comedy • Domestic Comedy • Romance
82
Ridley Scott • Starring: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel
Buddy Film • Chase Movie • Comedy Drama
83
Guy Ritchie • Starring: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran
Buddy Film • Caper • Comedy
84
Taylor Hackford • Starring: Jesse Borrego, Carlos Carrasco, Raymond Cruz
Crime • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
85
Rob Sitch • Starring: Michael Caton, Stephen Curry, Eric Bana
Comedy • Domestic Comedy
86
James Ivory • Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Period Film
87
Robert Mandel • Starring: Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Message Movie
88
Michael Apted • Starring: Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Laurence Fishburne
Drama • Courtroom Drama • Family Drama
89
Gregory Hoblit • Starring: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton
Courtroom Drama • Crime Drama • Crime
90
Tony Kaye • Starring: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
91
George Stevens Jr. • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley
Based-on-a-True-Story • Courtroom Drama • Docudrama
92
Robert Markowitz • Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Cuba Gooding Jr.
Drama • Historical Film • Made-for-Television
93
James Foley • Starring: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Ensemble Film
94
Lasse Hallström • Starring: Delroy Lindo, Paul Rudd, Tobey Maguire
Americana • Coming-of-Age • Drama
95
David Fincher • Starring: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger
Mindbender • Mystery • Paranoid Thriller
96
Ang Lee • Starring: Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Harriet Walter
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners
97
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Julianne Moore, David Huddleston, Jeff Bridges
Buddy Film • Comedy • Crime Comedy
98
Robert Townsend • Starring: Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Tico Wells
Drama • Family Drama • Showbiz Drama
99
Tony Scott • Starring: Christian Slater, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman
Crime Thriller • Crime • Road Movie
100
Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka
Adventure • Animation • Anime
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