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1
Jonathan Demme • Starring: Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Anthony Hopkins
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Cannibal Film • Crime Thriller
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James Cameron • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick
Action Thriller • Action • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir
3
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: John Turturro, Michael Lerner, Tony Shalhoub
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
4
Krzysztof Kieslowski • Starring: Wladyslaw Kowalski, Irène Jacob, Halina Gryglaszewska
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
5
Yimou Zhang • Starring: Gong Li, Ding Weimin, Chu Xiao
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Feminist Film
6
Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise • Starring: Richard White, Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury
Animated Musical • Animation • Fairy Tales and Legends
7
Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet • Starring: Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Absurd Comedy • Black Comedy • Cannibal Film
8
Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola • Starring: Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Samuel Bottoms
Biography • Documentary • Female-Directed Film
9
Albert Brooks • Starring: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn
Comedy • Fantasy Comedy • Fantasy
10
John Singleton • Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Angela Bassett
Coming-of-Age • Crime Drama • Crime
11
Oliver Stone • Starring: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon
Biopic • Drama • Ensemble Film
12
Terry Gilliam • Starring: Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Amanda Plummer
Buddy Film • Comedy Drama • Drama
13
Kathryn Bigelow • Starring: Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Patrick Swayze
Action Thriller • Action • Female-Directed Film
14
David Cronenberg • Starring: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm
Addiction Drama • Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
15
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Dustin Hoffman
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre
16
Jim Jarmusch • Starring: Winona Ryder, Roberto Benigni, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Anthology Film • Comedy of Manners • Comedy
17
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
18
Alan Parker • Starring: Robert Arkins, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Drama • Musical • Musical Drama
19
Nicholas Meyer • Starring: William Shatner, Kim Cattrall, Leonard Nimoy
Action • Based-on-Television • Sci-Fi Action
20
Isao Takahata • Starring: Miki Imai, Toshiro Yanagiba, Youko Honna
Animation • Anime • Based-on-Comics
21
Frank Oz • Starring: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty
Comedy • Farce
22
Gus Van Sant • Starring: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, Chiara Caselli
Buddy Film • Drama • Gay and Lesbian Film
23
Joe Johnston • Starring: Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin
Action • Adventure • Based-on-Comics
24
Edward Yang • Starring: Chen Chang, Lisa Yang, Guozhu Zhang
Based-on-a-True-Story • Coming-of-Age • Drama
25
Richard Linklater • Starring: John Slate, Steve Anderson, Aleister Barron
Comedy • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
26
Ridley Scott • Starring: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel
Buddy Film • Chase Movie • Comedy Drama
27
Mick Jackson • Starring: Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Marilu Henner
Comedy • Magic Realism • Romance
28
Kevin Reynolds • Starring: Kevin Costner, Alan Rickman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Fairy Tales and Legends
29
Kenneth Branagh • Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia
Mystery • Post-Noir • Romance
30
Ron Underwood • Starring: Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, Billy Crystal
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Buddy Film
31
Hark Tsui • Starring: Jet Li, Biao Yuen, Rosamund Kwan
Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
32
Barry Sonnenfeld • Starring: Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd
Based-on-Comics • Based-on-Television • Black Comedy
33
Ngai Choi Lam • Starring: Siu-Wong Fan, Mei Sheng Fan, Ka-Kui Ho
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-Comics
34
Carl Franklin • Starring: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Cynda Williams
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
35
Jon Avnet • Starring: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Feminist Film
36
Oliver Stone • Starring: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
37
Tony Scott • Starring: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field
Action • Buddy Film • Crime
38
Lars von Trier • Starring: Anne Werner Thomsen, Erik Mork, Ernst-Hugo Järegård
Drama • Psychological Drama • War
39
Wes Craven • Starring: Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Ving Rhames
Comedy • Horror Comedy • Horror
40
Ron Howard • Starring: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro
Action • Action Thriller • Detective Film
41
Jim Abrahams • Starring: Charlie Sheen, Valeria Golino, Jon Cryer
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Military Comedy
42
Mario Van Peebles • Starring: Wesley Snipes, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
43
Peter Hewitt • Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler
Buddy Film • Comedy • Cyborg / Android / Robot
44
Barry Levinson • Starring: Annette Bening, Elliott Gould, Harvey Keitel
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Crime
45
Charles Shyer • Starring: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Comedy • Domestic Comedy • Romance
46
David Zucker • Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy
Absurd Comedy • Based-on-Television • Comedy of Errors
47
Lawrence Kasdan • Starring: Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin
48
David Mamet • Starring: Joe Mantegna, Ving Rhames, William H. Macy
49
Howard Zieff • Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Glenda Chism, Nancy L. Chlumsky
Family • Comedy Drama • Childhood Drama
50
Mike Nichols • Starring: Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Bill Nunn
Drama • Medical Drama
51
Robert Mulligan • Starring: Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Romance
52
Nancy Savoca • Starring: Richard Panebianco, Mitchell Whitfield, Lili Taylor
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Female-Directed Film
53
Jacques Rivette • Starring: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Foreign Language Film
54
Daniel Petrie Jr. • Starring: Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Andrew Divoff
55
James Lapine • Starring: Joanna Gleason, Bernadette Peters, Chip Zien
Based-on-Theatre • Fairy Tales and Legends • Fantasy
56
Jackie Chan • Starring: Kenn Goodman, Shoko Ikeda, Eva Cobo
Action • Action Comedy • Adventure
57
Michael Hoffman • Starring: Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr.
Comedy • Farce • Media Satire
58
Michael Caton-Jones • Starring: Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Barnard Hughes
Americana • Comedy of Manners • Comedy
59
Anthony Minghella • Starring: Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Jenny Howe
Fantasy • Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies • Romance
60
Kazuki Ohmori • Starring: Kosuke Toyohara, Anna Nakagawa, Megumi Odaka
61
Leos Carax • Starring: Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Daniel Buain
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Romance
62
John Badham • Starring: Michael J. Fox, James Woods, Annabella Sciorra
Action Comedy • Action • Buddy Film
63
Spike Lee • Starring: Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
64
Sean Penn • Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper
Drama • Family Drama
65
Michael Lehmann • Starring: Andie MacDowell, Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello
Action • Action Comedy • Caper
66
Michael Pressman • Starring: Michelan Sisti, Leif Tilden, Kenn Scott
Action • Action Comedy • Based-on-Comics
67
Garry Marshall • Starring: Al Pacino, Hector Elizondo, Nathan Lane
Comedy Drama • Drama • Romance
68
John Duigan • Starring: Nicole Kidman, Bartholomew Rose, Kiri Paramore
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
69
Stephen Herek • Starring: Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy, John Getz
Comedy • Domestic Comedy • Teen Movie
70
Michael Tolkin • Starring: David Duchovny, Patrick Bauchau, Mimi Rogers
Apocalyptic Film • Drama • Psychological Drama
71
Steven Soderbergh • Starring: Jeremy Irons, Josef Abrhám, Toon Agterberg
72
Lili Fini Zanuck • Starring: Jason Patric, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sam Elliott
Addiction Drama • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story
73
Jodie Foster • Starring: Jodie Foster, Adam Hann-Byrd, Dianne Wiest
Childhood Drama • Drama • Family Drama
74
Russell Mulcahy • Starring: Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T
Action Thriller • Action • Crime Thriller
75
John Landis • Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Tim Curry
Comedy • Crime • Crime Comedy
76
Joseph Ruben • Starring: Elizabeth Lawrence, Kyle Secor, Claudette Nevins
Thriller • Psychological Thriller
77
Peter Greenaway • Starring: John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre
78
Jocelyn Moorhouse • Starring: Heather Mitchell, Frank Gallacher, Frankie J. Holden
79
Phil Nibbelink • Starring: Philip Glasser, James Stewart, Dom DeLuise
Adventure • Animation • Family-Oriented Adventure
80
Bruce Beresford • Starring: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt
Adventure Drama • Costume Adventure • Drama
81
Simon Wincer • Starring: Mickey Rourke, Tom Sizemore, Tia Carrere
Action • Adventure • Buddy Film
82
Chris Columbus • Starring: John Candy, Maureen O'Hara, Ally Sheedy
Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy • Romance
83
Peter Faiman • Starring: Ed O'Neill, Ethan Embry, JoBeth Williams
Comedy • Odd Couple Film • Road Movie
84
John Flynn • Starring: Steven Seagal, William Forsythe, Gina Gershon
Action • Action Thriller • Crime
85
Irwin Winkler • Starring: Robert De Niro, Patricia Wettig, Sam Wanamaker
Drama • Political Drama • Period Film
86
Mark L. Lester • Starring: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Dolph Lundgren, Brandon Lee
Action Comedy • Action Thriller • Action
87
Errol Morris • Starring: Stephen Hawking, John Wheeler, John Taylor
Biography • Documentary
88
Randal Kleiser • Starring: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Seymour Cassel, Susan Hogan
Adventure • Family • Family-Oriented Adventure
89
Wolfgang Petersen • Starring: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Theodore Bikel
Psychological Thriller • Thriller
90
Barbra Streisand • Starring: Nick Nolte, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner
Drama • Female-Directed Film • Melodrama
91
Stan Dragoti • Starring: Scott Bakula, Hector Elizondo, Harley Jane Kozak
Comedy • Sports Comedy
92
Bryan Gordon • Starring: Frank Whaley, Jennifer Connelly, Kieran Mulroney
Comedy • Teen Movie
93
Robert Benton • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Bruce Willis
Coming-of-Age • Crime • Gangster Film
94
Alek Keshishian • Starring: Warren Beatty, Pedro Almodóvar, Oliver Crumes
Biography • Documentary • Music
95
Wim Wenders • Starring: William Hurt, Sam Neill, Solveig Dommartin
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir
96
Mira Nair • Starring: Roshan Seth, Charles S. Dutton, Denzel Washington
Comedy Drama • Drama • Family Drama
97
Rachel Talalay • Starring: Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Breckin Meyer
Black Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Fantasy Comedy
98
Ate de Jong • Starring: Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall, Tim Matheson
Comedy • Fantasy • Fantasy Comedy
99
Michael Apted • Starring: Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Laurence Fishburne
Drama • Courtroom Drama • Family Drama
100
Steve Miner • Starring: Gabrielle Anwar, Cliff Robertson, Dylan Kussman
Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
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