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1
George Lucas • Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Action • Adventure • Cyborg / Android / Robot
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Frank Darabont • Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Buddy Film • Drama
3
Charles Chaplin • Starring: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
Comedy Drama • Comedy • Drama
4
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Romance
5
Milos Forman • Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Drama
6
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Combat Films • Drama • Ensemble Film
7
Sidney Lumet • Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Klugman
Based-on-Television • Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama
8
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
9
Robert Zemeckis • Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
Americana • Comedy Drama • Drama
10
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Cyborg / Android / Robot
11
Elia Kazan • Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
12
John G. Avildsen • Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
Drama • New Hollywood • Sports Drama
13
Stuart Rosenberg • Starring: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin
Drama • New Hollywood • Prison Film
14
Frank Capra • Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
15
Preston Sturges • Starring: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick
Comedy • Road Movie • Romance
16
Victor Fleming • Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Adventure • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre
17
Frank Capra • Starring: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
18
William Wyler • Starring: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell
Americana • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
19
David Lean • Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story
20
Alan J. Pakula • Starring: Jason Robards, Hal Holbrook, Jack Warden
Based-on-a-True-Story • Docudrama • Drama
21
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
22
Robert Mulligan • Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Childhood Drama • Courtroom Drama
23
Mel Gibson • Starring: Mel Gibson, Patrick McGoohan, Angus MacFadyen
24
David Lean • Starring: William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ensemble Film
25
Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell
Western
26
Barry Levinson • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino
Drama • Family Drama • Melodrama
27
Hal Ashby • Starring: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles
Black Comedy • Coming-of-Age • New Hollywood
28
Norman Jewison • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
29
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr
30
John Ford • Starring: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
31
Peter Weir • Starring: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Ensemble Film
32
Ron Howard • Starring: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
33
John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
34
Sidney Lumet • Starring: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Crime Drama
35
Philip Kaufman • Starring: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris
36
Sidney Lumet • Starring: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden
Courtroom Drama • Drama
37
Robert Wise • Starring: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe
Alien Invasion Films • Apocalyptic Film • Cyborg / Android / Robot
38
Ron Howard • Starring: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly
39
Frank Capra • Starring: George Bancroft, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur
Americana • Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners
40
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Adventure • Epic
41
Victor Fleming • Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard
Epic • Historical Epic • Historical Film
42
John G. Avildsen • Starring: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue
Action • Coming-of-Age • Drama
43
Peter Yates • Starring: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
44
George Stevens • Starring: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
45
David Anspaugh • Starring: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper
Docudrama • Drama • Rural Drama
46
Stanley Kramer • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama
47
Robert Wise • Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Peggy Wood
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Biopic
48
William Wyler • Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Epic
49
Edward Zwick • Starring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes
Based-on-a-True-Story • Combat Films • Epic
50
Roland Joffé • Starring: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich
Based-on-a-True-Story • Drama • Newspaper Film
51
Phil Alden Robinson • Starring: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Burt Lancaster
Americana • Drama • Fantasy
52
Norman Jewison • Starring: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy Drama • Drama
53
Kevin Costner • Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Epic
54
Stanley Kramer • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Tony Curtis
Buddy Film • Chase Movie • Drama
55
Michael Curtiz • Starring: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
56
William Wyler • Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright
Drama • Family Drama • Romance
57
Frank Capra • Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
58
Sam Wood • Starring: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, George Herman "Babe" Ruth
59
Cecil B. DeMille • Starring: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Drama
60
Jonathan Demme • Starring: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards
Courtroom Drama • Drama • Gay and Lesbian Film
61
Richard Attenborough • Starring: Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Epic
62
Terry George • Starring: Nick Nolte, Mothusi Magano, Don Cheadle
Docudrama • Drama • Political Drama
63
Howard Hawks • Starring: Joan Leslie, Walter Brennan, Gary Cooper
64
George Seaton • Starring: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn
Comedy • Family • Family-Oriented Comedy
65
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Feminist Film
66
Hamilton Luske • Starring: Christian Rub, Dick Jones, Cliff Edwards
Animated Musical • Animation • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature
67
John Frankenheimer • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Neville Brand
68
Mike Nichols • Starring: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Craig T. Nelson
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Docudrama
69
Arthur Penn • Starring: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson
70
Victor Fleming • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Childhood Drama
71
David Anspaugh • Starring: Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Lili Taylor
Biopic • Drama • Sports Drama
72
Michael Apted • Starring: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo
73
George Stevens • Starring: Cary Grant, Sam Jaffe, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Adventure • War • War Adventure
74
Steven Zaillian • Starring: Joe Mantegna, Ben Kingsley, Laurence Fishburne
Childhood Drama • Docudrama • Drama
75
Edmund Goulding • Starring: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart
Drama • Medical Drama • Romance
76
Hugh Hudson • Starring: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers
Drama • Period Film • Sports Drama
77
Ridley Scott • Starring: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel
Buddy Film • Chase Movie • Comedy Drama
78
Daniel Petrie • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Family Drama
79
Taylor Hackford • Starring: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Gossett Jr.
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
80
Ralph Nelson • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Isa Crino
Drama • Religious Drama
81
Mark Rydell • Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda
82
Martin Ritt • Starring: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Gail Strickland
Drama • Family Drama • Social Problem Film
83
Bruce Beresford • Starring: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Esther Rolle
Comedy Drama • Drama • Message Movie
84
Mike Nichols • Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
85
Ramón Menéndez • Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanna de Soto, Andy Garcia
Based-on-a-True-Story • Coming-of-Age • Docudrama
86
Robert Benton • Starring: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris
Americana • Drama • Family Drama
87
Taylor Hackford • Starring: Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell, Harry Lennix
88
George Stevens • Starring: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters
89
Steven Soderbergh • Starring: Julia Roberts, Marg Helgenberger, Aaron Eckhart
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Comedy Drama
90
Chris Noonan • Starring: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh
Animal Picture • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Family-Oriented Fantasy
91
Billy Wilder • Starring: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith
Adventure • Biopic • Drama
92
Alan Parker • Starring: Paul McCrane, Barry Miller, Lee Curreri
Dance Film • Drama • Ensemble Film
93
Norman Taurog • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull
94
Carroll Ballard • Starring: Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Animal Picture
95
Gary Ross • Starring: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Elizabeth Banks
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Drama
96
Clarence Brown • Starring: Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor
Animal Picture • Drama • Family Drama
97
Brian Gibson • Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Jenifer Lewis, Phyllis Stickney
98
James Bridges • Starring: Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman
99
Martin Ritt • Starring: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks
Animal Picture • Coming-of-Age • Drama
100
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson
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