American directors

Brian De Palma

• Carlito’s Way (1993)
• The Untouchables (1987)

Guy Ritchie

• Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023)
• Wrath of Man (2021)
• The Gentlemen (2019)
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
• Sherlock Holmes (2009)
• RocknRolla (2008)
• Revolver (2005)
• Snatch. (2000)
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Quentin Tarantino

• Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019)
• The Hateful Eight (2015)
• Django Unchained (2012)
• Inglourious Basterds (2009)
• Death Proof (2007)
• Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
• Jackie Brown (1997)
• Four Rooms (1995)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Wes Anderson

• The French Dispatch (2021)
• Isle of Dogs (2018)
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
• Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
• The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

Darren Aronofsky

• Black Swan (2010)
• The Wrestler (2008) – 2008 Golden Lion
• The Fountain (2006)
• Requiem for a Dream (2000)
• Pi (1998)

David Fincher

• Gone Girl (2014)
• The Social Network (2010)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• Fight Club (1999)
• Se7en (1995)

Jean-Marc Vallée

• Wild (2014)
• Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
• Café de Flore (2011)
• The Young Victoria (2009) – UK | USA

David O. Russell

• Joy (2015)
• American Hustle (2013)
• Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Mike Cahill

• I Origins (2014)
• Another Earth (2011)

Ang Lee

• Taking Woodstock (2009)
• Lust, Caution (2007)
• Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Tim Burton

• Dark Shadows (2012)
• Alice in Wonderland (2010)
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
• Corpse Bride (2005)

Robert Rodriguez

• Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
• Desperado (1995)

Terry Gilliam

• The Brothers Grimm (2005)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
• Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Steven Andrew Soderbergh

• Side Effects (2013)
• Che Part 2: Guerrilla (2008)
• Che Part 1: The Argentine (2008)
• Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)
• Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
• Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
• Traffic (2000)

Sofia Coppola

• The Bling Ring (2013)
• Somewhere (2010)
• Marie Antoinette (2006)
• Lost in Translation (2003)

Rob Marshall

• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
• Nine (2009)
• Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
• Chicago (2002)

Edward Zwick

• Blood Diamond (2006)
• The Last Samurai (2003)

Christopher Nolan

• Oppenheimer (2023)
• Dunkirk (2017)
• Interstellar (2014)
• Inception (2010)
• The Dark Knight (2008)
• The Prestige (2006)
• Memento (2000)

Mike Nichols

• Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)
• Closer (2004)

Ron Howard

• Rush (2013)
• Frost/Nixon (2008)
• A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Tony Kaye

• Detachment (2011)
• American History X (1998)

Neil Burger

• Limitless (2011)
• The Illusionist (2006)

Peter Jackson

• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Gore Verbinski

• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Steven Spielberg

• The Post (2017)
• Lincoln (2012)
• Munich (2005)
• Catch Me if You Can (2002)
• Schindler’s List (1993)

Francis Ford Coppola

• The Godfather: Part III (1990)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• The Godfather: Part II (1974)
• The Godfather (1972)

Martin Scorsese

• Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
• The Irishman (2019)
• Silence (2016)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• Shutter Island (2010)
• The Departed (2006)
• The Aviator (2004)
• Gangs of New York (2002)
• Kundun (1997)
• Goodfellas (1990)

Michael Mann

• Ferrari (2023)
• Public Enemies (2009)
• Hancock (2008)
• Heat (1995)

James Cameron

• Avatar (2009)

Greta Gerwig

• Barbie (2023)
• Lady Bird (2017)

Ridley Scott

• Napoleon (2023)
• The Last Duel (2021)
• House of Gucci (2021)
• All the Money in the World (2017)
• Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
• The Counselor (2013)
• Robin Hood (2010)
• Body of Lies (2008)
• American Gangster (2007)
• Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
• Gladiator (2000)

Jim Jarmusch

• Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
• The Limits of Control (2009)
• Broken Flowers (2005)
• Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)

Clint Eastwood

• Invictus (2009)
• Million Dollar Baby (2004)
• Unforgiven (1992)

Coen brothers

• Hail, Caesar! (2016)
• Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
• True Grit (2010)
• A Serious Man (2009)
• Burn After Reading (2008)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Fargo (1996)

Woody Allen

• A Rainy Day in New York (2019)
• Blue Jasmine (2013)
• To Rome with Love (2012)
• Midnight in Paris (2011)
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

Terrence Malick

• The Tree of Life (2011)
• Amazing Grace (2006)
• The New World (2005)

Gus Van Sant

• Restless (2011)
• Milk (2008)

Paul Thomas Anderson

• The Master (2012)
• There Will Be Blood (2007)

David Cronenberg

• Cosmopolis (2012)
• A Dangerous Method (2011)

Bennett Miller

• Foxcatcher (2014)
• Moneyball (2011)
• Capote (2005)

Mike Mills

• Beginners (2010)
• Thumbsucker (2005)

Richard Linklater

• Boyhood (2014)
• Before Midnight (2013)
• Before Sunset (2004)
• Before Sunrise (1995)

Spike Jonze

• Her (2013)
• Being John Malkovich (1999)

Steve McQueen

• 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• Hunger (2008)

Ben Affleck

• Air (2023)

Milos Forman

• Amadeus (1984)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

Stanley Kubrick

• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)