Discover 15 directors and the movies that made them famous. Learn about the stories that shaped their careers and defined ...

, like pulp novels or personal memories. Tarantino drew inspiration from Hong Kong cinema , stating, "John Woo was a major hero to me." Victorian gothic literature Great filmmakers are often ...

Stanley Kubrick directing behind the scenes of Barry Lyndon (1975) - Warner Bros. What makes a great movie director? In the days of the studio system, all it took was an ability to yell "action" and ...

For a filmmaker, there is no honor greater than an Academy Award. Many of our greatest living directors have won the Best Director Oscar, including but not limited to Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese ...

The 2026 Academy Awards are just around the corner. Zhao is one of just nine women who have ever been nominated for Best Director. After the Academy Awards' first ceremony in 1929, it took until 1976 ...

Bentley won the best director award at the awards show on Sunday. By Beatrice Verhoeven Awards Editor “I’ve been thinking a lot, I think as we all have, like, what’s the point at times? It can feel as ...

LOS ANGELES – Paul Thomas Anderson has long stood among modern cinema’s most influential filmmakers. Now he has an Oscar to match. Anderson won the Academy Award for best director for “One Battle ...

The DGA Awards will clear up who the Best Director frontrunner is, but there is a path for every Oscar nominee to win. In an effort to not sound too much like a broken record, rather than write ...

*Ryan Coogler entered this awards season with unprecedented momentum, but his path to a historic Oscar victory now appears increasingly narrow. His film “Sinners” collected 16 Academy Award nods — ...

From Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' to Bradley Cooper's 'A Star Is Born,' we've listed our favorite movies directed by actors ...

Don't follow your spooky daughter over to the 'other side', instead learn more about 'Poltergeist' star JoBeth Williams and ...