Directors who have shaped film as auteurs. For TV, the auteurs are usually the Producers.
This is not IMDb. Still, there are a number of film directors whose creativity, impact, and style are worthy of comment.
Also includes TV directors.
Please don't just add a name, unless you are about to do the article.
Directors:
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- Lenny Abrahamson
- J. J. Abrams
- Charlie Adler
- Ben Affleck
- Casey Affleck
- Dianna Agron
- Alexandre Aja
- Alan Alda
- Robert Aldrich
- Jason Alexander
- Tomas Alfredson
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Robert Altman
- Woody Allen
- Leigh Allyn Baker
- Paul Alter
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Paul W.S. Anderson
- Wes Anderson
- Roy Andersson
- Kenneth Anger
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Noah Antwiler
- Judd Apatow
- Michael Apted
B
- Ralph Bakshi
- Scott Bakula
- Antonio Banderas
- Elizabeth Banks
- Paul Bartel
- Andrzej Bartkowiak
- Drew Barrymore
- Craig Bartlett
- Jason Bateman
- Kathy Bates
- Noah Baumbach
- Mario Bava
- Michael Bay
- Warren Beatty
- Lake Bell
- Troian Bellisario
- Roberto Benigni
- David Benioff
- Richard Benjamin
- Melissa Benoist
- Amber Benson
- Ingmar Bergman
- Greg Berlanti
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Busby Berkeley
- Luc Besson
- Angela Bettis
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Brad Bird
- Shane Black
- Cate Blanchett
- Neill Blomkamp
- Don Bluth
- Anna Boden
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Sergei Bondarchuk
- Bong Joon-ho
- Ed Boon
- John Boorman
- David Boreanaz
- Frank Borzage
- Danny Boyle
- Zach Braff
- Brannon Braga
- Kenneth Branagh
- Marlon Brando
- Neil Breen
- Catherine Breillat
- Robert Bresson
C
- James Cameron
- Bruce Campbell
- Martin Campbell
- Peter Capaldi
- John Carpenter
- Frank Capra
- Steve Carell
- Robert Carlyle
- John Cassavetes
- Katie Cassidy
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- Dennis Gansel
- Alex Garland
- Mark Gatiss
- Ricky Gervais
- Greta Gerwig
- Alex Gibney
- Mel Gibson
- Lewis Gilbert
- Terry Gilliam
- Vince Gilligan
- Crispin Glover
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Adam Goldberg
- Eric Goldberg
- Bobcat Goldthwait
- Tony Goldwyn
- Michel Gondry
- Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Bert I. Gordon
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Ryan Gosling
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- Jude Law
- David Lean
- Ang Lee
- Bruce Lee
- Spike Lee
- Mike Leigh
- Mitchell Leisen
- Bethany Joy Lenz
- Sergio Leone
M
- Guy Maddin
- Terrence Malick
- Louis Malle
- David Mamet
- Joe Manganiello
- James Mangold
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Anthony Mann
- Michael Mann
- Jose Mojica Marins
- Donovan Marsh
- Steve McQueen
- James McTeigue
- John McTiernan
- Christopher McQuarrie
- Georges Méliès
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Sam Mendes
- Erica Mendez
- Vladimir Menshov
- Stephen Merchant
- Burgess Meredith
- Nicholas Meyer
- Russ Meyer
- Christopher R. Mihm
- Takashi Miike
- Nikita Mikhalkov
- Chris Miller
- George Miller
- Tim Miller
- John Milius
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- Sam Raimi
- Harold Ramis
- David Ramsey
- Brett Ratner
- Nicholas Ray
- Satyajit Ray
- Robert Redford
- Peyton Reed
- Keanu Reeves
- Matt Reeves
- Nicolas Winding Refn
- Rob Reiner
- Ivan Reitman
- Jason Reitman
- Jean Renoir
- Alain Resnais
- Burt Reynolds
- Shonda Rhimes
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Eden Riegel
- Sam Riegel
- Guy Ritchie
S
- The Safdie Brothers
- Angus Sampson
- David F. Sandberg
- Chris Sanders
- Jorge Saudinós
- Jeremy Saulnier
- Derek Savage
- Chris Savino
- John Sayles
- Joel Schumacher
- Til Schweiger
- Robert Schwentke
- David Schwimmer
- Céline Sciamma
- Martin Scorsese
- Ridley Scott
- Tony Scott
- Steven Seagal
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- Amanda Tapping
- Quentin Tarantino
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Béla Tarr
- Genndy Tartakovsky
- Frank Tashlin
- Jacques Tati
- Sam Taylor-Johnson
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ADR/Voice Directors for anime dubs: Here's a list of noteworthy English dub voice directors. ADR voice directors are usually not exclusive to one studio or region - this list is separated by where they are based.
Los Angeles area: (Bang Zoom! Entertainment, New Generation Pictures, Animaze, Studiopolis, NYAV Post West)
- Chris Cason (based in Dallas until 2013)
- Alex von David
- Suzanne Goldish (worked in New York until the late 2000s or early 2010s)
- Lex Lang
- Wendee Lee
- Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
- Michael Sinterniklaas
- Tony Oliver (primarily works as an ADR Director at Bang Zoom! Entertainment)
- Patrick Seitz (also frequently works in Texas with Funimation)
- Stephanie Sheh (primarily works as an ADR Director at NYAV Post West)
- Jamie Simone
- Kirk Thornton
Texas: (Funimation, Seraphim Digital Studios (formerly ADV Studios), the now-closed Monster Island Studio)
Because anime dubbing is big in Texas and done in two separate cities, the ADR/Voice Directors are divided by which city they primarily work in.Primarily works for Funimation in Dallas/Ft. Worth:
Primarily works in Houston for Seraphim Digital Studios (and Sentai Filmworks):
- Chris Ayres
- Kyle Jones
- Emily Neves
New York City: (4Kids (now closed), NYAV Post note , Headline Studios, MB VoiceWorks)
- Lisa Ortiz
- Tom Wayland
