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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
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Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Courtroom Drama
3
Werner Herzog • Starring: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
4
Ridley Scott • Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen
Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
5
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Action • Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama
6
David Lean • Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story
7
Andrei Tarkovsky • Starring: Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Epic
8
Gillo Pontecorvo • Starring: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi
Docudrama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
9
Mel Gibson • Starring: Mel Gibson, Patrick McGoohan, Angus MacFadyen
10
Ron Howard • Starring: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
11
Christopher Nolan • Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
12
Steve McQueen • Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
13
Philip Kaufman • Starring: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris
14
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara
Based-on-a-True-Story • Combat Films • Epic
15
Stanley Kramer • Starring: Fredric March, Spencer Tracy, Dick York
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama
16
Anthony Harvey • Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Kenneth Griffith, Peter O'Toole
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Family Drama
17
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jim Broadbent
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
18
Sam Mendes • Starring: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Mark Strong
Drama • Epic • Historical Epic
19
Ron Howard • Starring: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly
20
Chan-wook Park • Starring: Min-hee Kim, Tae-ri Kim, Jung-woo Ha
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Costume Romance
21
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Adventure • Epic
22
Victor Fleming • Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard
Epic • Historical Epic • Historical Film
23
Zack Snyder • Starring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West
Action • Based-on-Comics • Epic
24
Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw
Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama • Drama
25
David Lean • Starring: Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Epic
26
Luchino Visconti • Starring: Claudia Cardinale, Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon
Drama • Epic • Family Drama
27
Andrew Dominik • Starring: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard
28
Ken Russell • Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Historical Film
29
Spike Lee • Starring: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Albert Hall
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
30
Benjamin Christensen • Starring: Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan, Elith Pio
Docudrama • Documentary • Drama
31
Tom Hooper • Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter
32
D.W. Griffith • Starring: Tully Marshall, Mary Alden, Frank Bennett
33
Edward Zwick • Starring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes
34
Wilson Yip • Starring: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Siu-Wong Fan
Action • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
35
Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki • Starring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda
36
John Ford • Starring: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Ward Bond
37
Kenneth Branagh • Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre
38
Frank Lloyd • Starring: Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin, Eddie Quillan
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Based-on-a-True-Story
39
Cy Endfield • Starring: Michael Caine, James Booth, Stanley Baker
Action • Adventure • Adventure Drama
40
Yorgos Lanthimos • Starring: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Black Comedy
41
Oliver Stone • Starring: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon
Biopic • Drama • Ensemble Film
42
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones, Sally Field
43
Richard Attenborough • Starring: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine
Action • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Combat Films
44
Edward Zwick • Starring: Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise, Koyuki
45
Roy Ward Baker • Starring: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres
46
Yimou Zhang • Starring: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung
Action • Epic • Foreign Language Film
47
Oliver Hirschbiegel • Starring: Juliane Köhler, Ulrich Matthes, Christian Berkel
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Docudrama
48
Richard Attenborough • Starring: Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard
49
Bernardo Bertolucci • Starring: Peter O'Toole, John Lone, Joan Chen
50
Peter Glenville • Starring: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Biopic
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