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* Creator/RolandEmmerich, best known for large-scale disaster movies such as ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'', ''Film/IndependenceDay'', and ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'', tackled ''Film/{{Anonymous}}'', a historical mystery-thriller addressing the age-old question: "who wrote the plays attributed to Creator/WilliamShakespeare"?

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* Creator/RolandEmmerich, best known for large-scale disaster movies such as ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'', ''Film/IndependenceDay'', and ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'', tackled ''Film/{{Anonymous}}'', ''Film/{{Anonymous|2011}}'', a historical mystery-thriller addressing the age-old question: "who wrote the plays attributed to Creator/WilliamShakespeare"?
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* Creator/MichaelBay, best known for his ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' films and ''Film/Armageddon1998'', went against type with the true crime action/comedy ''Film/PainAndGain''.

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* Creator/MichaelBay, best known for his ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' films and ''Film/Armageddon1998'', went against type with the true crime action/comedy ''Film/PainAndGain''.
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* Creator/SamMendes basically followed Creator/JamesMangold's footsteps. He also believes that doing a film of a different genre is the perfect way to challenge himself as a filmmaker. Because of this mindset, he went out of his way to make a modern-day suburban drama (''Film/AmericanBeauty''), a gangster film (''Film/RoadtoPerdition''), two war films with drastically different styles and narratives (''Film/{{Jarhead}}''/''Film/NineteenSeventeen''), a period suburban drama (''Film/RevolutionaryRoad''), an indie comedy-drama (''Film/AwayWeGo'') and two big-budget franchise espionage films (''{{Film/Skyfall}}''/''{{Film/Spectre}}'').

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* Creator/SamMendes basically followed Creator/JamesMangold's footsteps. He also believes that doing a film of a different genre is the perfect way to challenge himself as a filmmaker. Because of this mindset, he went out of his way to make a modern-day suburban drama (''Film/AmericanBeauty''), a gangster film (''Film/RoadtoPerdition''), (''Film/RoadToPerdition''), two war films with drastically different styles and narratives (''Film/{{Jarhead}}''/''Film/NineteenSeventeen''), a period suburban drama (''Film/RevolutionaryRoad''), an indie comedy-drama (''Film/AwayWeGo'') and two big-budget franchise espionage films (''{{Film/Skyfall}}''/''{{Film/Spectre}}'').
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** He also directed ''Film/ThePatriot'', a war epic that's quite infamous for its historical innacuracy; nevertheless, it's his most critically acclaimed film.

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** He also directed ''Film/ThePatriot'', ''Film/ThePatriot2000'', a war epic that's quite infamous for its historical innacuracy; nevertheless, it's his most critically acclaimed film.
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* Creator/SidneyLumet, known for crime dramas such as ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'', ''Film/{{Serpico}}'', ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'', as well as ''Film/{{Network}}'', also did the family musical ''Film/TheWiz''.

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* Creator/SidneyLumet, known for crime gritty New York dramas such as ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'', ''Film/{{Serpico}}'', ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'', as well as ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'' and ''Film/{{Network}}'', also did the family musical ''Film/TheWiz''.''Film/TheWiz''. ''Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress1974'' took him out of New York entirely, instead being a European-set mystery film.
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* Creator/ToddPhillips is mostly known for comedies such as ''Film/Starsky&Hutch'' and the ''Film/TheHangover''-trilogy. Few expected him to be behind ''Film/Joker2019'', a thriller-drama inspired by Creator/MartinScorsese-movies such as ''Film/TaxiDriver'', based on the [[ComicBook/{{Joker}} DC-Character of the same name]]. He even co-wrote the movie.

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* Creator/ToddPhillips is mostly known for comedies such as ''Film/Starsky&Hutch'' ''Film/StarskyAndHutch'' and the ''Film/TheHangover''-trilogy. Few expected him to be behind ''Film/Joker2019'', a thriller-drama inspired by Creator/MartinScorsese-movies such as ''Film/TaxiDriver'', based on the [[ComicBook/{{Joker}} DC-Character of the same name]]. He even co-wrote the movie.

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