- James Cameron - Aliens, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, True Lies, The Abyss, Titanic
- Steven Spielberg - Jaws, Close Encounters, E.T., Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Catch Me If You Can, War of the Worlds (2005)
- George Lucas - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
- Terry Gilliam - Casanova, The Brothers Grimm, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- M. Night Shyamalan - The 6th Sense, Signs, The Village, Lady in the Water
- Mimi Leder - Deep Impact
- Brian Helgeland - A Knight's Tale, The Order
- Peter Jackson - Lord of the Rings, King Kong (2005)
- Tim Burton - Edward Scissorhands, Sweeney Todd, Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland
- Sean Penn - Into the Wild
- Clint Eastwood - Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Flags of Our Fathers, Space Cowboys, Hereafter, Invictus, Letters from Iwo Jima, Changeling, J. Edgar
- Wolfgang Peterson - Troy, The Neverending Story, The Perfect Storm, Poseidon (2006)
- Ridley Scott - Alien, Legend, Gladiator, Thelma & Louise, White Squall, Kingdom of Heaven, Robin Hood (2010)
- Ron Howard - Apollo 13, Far and Away, The Da Vinci Code, Frost / Nixon
- John Hughes - The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Uncle Buck
- Gore Verbinski - The Weather Man, Pirates of the Caribbean
- Cameron Crowe - Elizabethtown, Jerry Maguire, Singles, Say Anything
- Shawn Levy - Night at the Museum, Date Night
- Roland Emmerich - The Patriot, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, Independence Day, Godzilla (1998)
- Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight, Inception, The Prestige
- Martin Scorsese - Shutter Island, The Age of Innocence, Gangs of New York, The Aviator
- Danny Boyle - 127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire
Who are some of your favorite directors and why?
This blog post is another one that I started the draft of a few days earlier.
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