Notable Filmmakers
This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the world of film and television production. Included are directors, producers and screenwriters. Not included are the cast, who are instead listed with the famous actors and actresses.
| Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Sorkin | 1961- |  | |
| Abbas Kiarostami | 1940-2016 | | |
| Adam McKay | 1968- | | |
| Adolf Winkelmann | 1946- | | |
| Adolph Zukor | 1873-1976 | (Adolf) | |
| Agnès Varda | 1928-2019 | (Arlette) | |
| Agnieszka Holland | 1948- | (Irena) | |
| Akira Kurosawa | 1910-1998 | | |
| Alain Resnais | 1922-2014 | | |
| Alan Parker | 1944-2020 | | |
| Alejandro González Iñárritu | 1963- | | |
| Alejandro Jodorowsky | 1929- | | |
| Alessandro Camon | 1963- | | |
| Alex van Warmerdam | 1952- | (Alexander, Lucas, Maria) | |
| Alexander Payne | 1961- | (Constantine) | |
| Alfonso Arau | 1932- | | |
| Alfonso Cuarón | 1961- | | |
| Alfred Hitchcock | 1899-1980 | | |
| Amma Asante | 1969- | | |
| Amy Heckerling | 1954- | | |
| Andrei Tarkovsky | 1932-1986 | | |
| Andrew Stanton | 1965- | | |
| Andrey Zvyagintsev | 1964- | | |
| Andrzej Wajda | 1926-2016 | | |
| Andrzej Żuławski | 1940-2016 | | |
| Ang Lee | 1954- | | |
| Anthony Minghella | 1954-2008 | | |
| Anthony Russo | 1970- | | |
| Antun Vrdoljak | 1931- | | |
| Armando Iannucci | 1963- | (Giovanni) | |
| Arnon Milchan | 1944- | | |
| Asghar Farhadi | 1972- | | |
| Asia Argento | 1975- | (Aria, Maria, Vittoria, Rossa) | |
| Assi Dayan | 1945-2014 | (Assaf) | |
| Atom Egoyan | 1960- | | |
| Barry Levinson | 1942- | | |
| Barry Sonnenfeld | 1953- | | |
| Ben Affleck | 1972- | (Benjamin, Géza) | |
| Ben Sombogaart | 1947- | (Bernard, Cornelis) | |
| Benh Zeitlin | 1982- | (Benjamin, Harold) | |
| Bennett Miller | 1966- | | |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | 1940-2018 | | |
| Billy Wilder | 1906-2002 | (Samuel) | |
| Blake Edwards | 1922-2010 | | |
| Bob Fosse | 1927-1987 | (Robert) | |
| Bob Nelson | 1956- | (Robert) | |
| Bobby Farrelly | 1958- | (Robert) | |
| Bora Dağtekin | 1978- | | |
| Brad Bird | 1957- | (Phillip, Bradley) | |
| Branko Lustig | 1932-2019 | | |
| Branko Schmidt | 1957- | | |
| Brett Ratner | 1969- | | |
| Brian De Palma | 1940- | | |
| Brian Klugman | 1975- | | |
| Bruce Beresford | 1940- | | |
| Bryan Forbes | 1926-2013 | (John, Theobald) | |
| Bryan Singer | 1965- | (Jay) | |
| Buck Henry | 1930-2020 | | |
| Cameron Crowe | 1957- | | |
| Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1889-1968 | | |
| Carl Reiner | 1922-2020 | | |
| Carlo Lizzani | 1922-2013 | | |
| Carlo Ponti | 1912-2007 | | |
| Carlos Saura | 1932-2023 | | |
| Carol Reed | 1906-1976 | | |
| Carrie Preston | 1967- | | |
| Cecil B. DeMille | 1881-1959 | (Blount) | |
| Celine Song | 1988- | | |
| Chantal Akerman | 1950-2015 | (Anne) | |
| Charlie Chaplin | 1889-1977 | (Charles, Spencer) | |
| Chiem van Houweninge | 1940- | (Joachimus, Johannes) | |
| Chloé Zhao | 1982- | (Ting) | |
| Chris Columbus | 1958- | | |
| Christopher Nolan | 1970- | (Edward) | |
| Chuck Jones | 1912-2002 | (Charles) | |
| Claude Chabrol | 1930-2010 | | |
| Clint Eastwood | 1930- | (Clinton) | |
| Costa-Gavras | 1933- | (Konstantinos) | |
| Dalibor Matanić | 1975- | | |
| Dalton Trumbo | 1905-1976 | (James) | |
| Damien Chazelle | 1985- | | |
| Damon Lindelof | 1973- | | |
| Daniel Petrie | 1920-2004 | (Mannix) | |
| Danny Boyle | 1956- | (Daniel) | |
| Dario Argento | 1940- | | |
| Darren Aronofsky | 1969- | | |
| Darryl F. Zanuck | 1902-1979 | (Francis) | |
| David Benioff | 1970- | | |
| David Cronenberg | 1943- | | |
| David Fincher | 1962- | | |
| David Geffen | 1943- | | |
| D. W. Griffith | 1875-1948 | (David, Wark) | |
| David Heyman | 1961- | | |
| David Lean | 1908-1991 | | |
| David Lynch | 1946- | | |
| David O. Russell | 1958- | (Owen) | |
| David Seidler | 1937- | | |
| David O. Selznick | 1902-1965 | | |
| David Zucker | 1947- | | |
| Dejan Aćimović | 1963- | | |
| Delbert Mann | 1920-2007 | | |
| Denis Villeneuve | 1967- | | |
| Denys Arcand | 1941- | (Georges, Henri) | |
| Derviş Zaim | 1964- | | |
| Dev Anand | 1923-2011 | (Dharamdev, Pishorimal) | |
| Diablo Cody | 1978- | (Brook) | |
| Dick Maas | 1951- | | |
| Digby Wolfe | 1929-2012 | | |
| Dino De Laurentiis | 1919-2010 | (Agostino) | |
| Don Bluth | 1937- | (Donald, Virgil) | |
| Don Siegel | 1912-1991 | (Donald) | |
| Don Taylor | 1920-1998 | (Donald, Ritchie) | |
| Douglas Sirk | 1897-1987 | (Hans, Detlef) | |
| Dziga Vertov | 1896-1954 | (David) | |
| Ed Wood | 1924-1978 | (Edward) | |
| Edward Burns | 1968- | (Fitzgerald) | |
| Ekta Kapoor | 1975- | | |
| Elaine May | 1932- | (Iva) | |
| Elia Kazan | 1909-2003 | | |
| Elmar Klos | 1910-1993 | | |
| Emir Kusturica | 1954- | | |
| Eran Riklis | 1954- | | |
| Éric Rohmer | 1920-2010 | | |
| Erich von Stroheim | 1885-1957 | (Oswald) | |
| Ernst Lubitsch | 1892-1947 | | |
| Ernst Marischka | 1893-1963 | | |
| Ethan Coen | 1957- | | |
| Fadil Hadžić | 1922-2011 | | |
| Fatin Abdel Wahab | 1913-1972 | | |
| Federico Fellini | 1920-1993 | | |
| Férid Boughedir | 1944- | | |
| Fernando Meirelles | 1955- | | |
| Filopimin Finos | 1908-1977 | | |
| Fisher Stevens | 1963- | | |
| Florián Rey | 1894-1962 | (Antonio) | |
| Francis Ford Coppola | 1939- | | |
| Franco Zeffirelli | 1923-2019 | | |
| François Truffaut | 1932-1984 | (Roland) | |
| Frank Borzage | 1894-1962 | | |
| Frank Capra | 1897-1991 | | |
| Frank Darabont | 1959- | | |
| Frank Lloyd | 1886-1960 | | |
| Frank Oz | 1944- | | |
| Franklin J. Schaffner | 1920-1989 | (James) | |
| František Vláčil | 1924-1999 | | |
| Fred Niblo | 1874-1948 | (Frederick) | |
| Fred Zinnemann | 1907-1997 | (Alfred) | |
| F. W. Murnau | 1888-1931 | (Friedrich, Wilhelm) | |
| Fritz Lang | 1890-1976 | (Friedrich) | |
| Garry Marshall | 1934-2016 | | |
| Gavin Richards | 1946- | | |
| Gene Nelson | 1920-1996 | (Leander, Eugene) | |
| Gene Reynolds | 1923-2020 | (Eugene) | |
| Gene Roddenberry | 1921-1991 | (Eugene) | |
| George A. Romero | 1940-2017 | (Andrew) | |
| George Cukor | 1899-1983 | | |
| George Roy Hill | 1921-2002 | | |
| George Lucas | 1944- | | |
| George Miller | 1945- | | |
| George Stevens | 1904-1975 | | |
| Georges Méliès | 1861-1938 | | |
| Goderdzi Chokheli | 1954-2007 | | |
| Gore Verbinski | 1964- | (Gregor) | |
| Grant Heslov | 1963- | | |
| Greta Gerwig | 1983- | (Celeste) | |
| Guillermo Arriaga | 1958- | | |
| Guillermo del Toro | 1964- | | |
| Guinevere Turner | 1968- | | |
| Gus Van Sant | 1952- | | |
| Gustav von Wangenheim | 1895-1975 | (Ingo, Clemens, Adolf) | |
| Guy Ritchie | 1968- | | |
| Hal Roach | 1892-1992 | (Harold, Eugene) | |
| Hannah Marks | 1993- | | |
| Hardee Kirkland | 1868-1929 | | |
| Harold Ramis | 1944-2014 | | |
| Harvey Weinstein | 1952- | | |
| Hayao Miyazaki | 1941- | | |
| Henry King | 1886-1982 | | |
| Howard Hawks | 1896-1977 | | |
| Hugh Wilson | 1943-2018 | (Hamilton) | |
| Ida Lupino | 1918-1995 | | |
| Idrissa Ouédraogo | 1954-2018 | | |
| Ildikó Enyedi | 1955- | | |
| Ingmar Bergman | 1918-2007 | | |
| Irving Thalberg | 1899-1936 | | |
| Isao Takahata | 1935-2018 | | |
| Ismail Merchant | 1936-2005 | (Noor, Muhammad, Abdul) | |
| Issa Rae | 1985- | (Jo) | |
| Ivan Passer | 1933-2020 | | |
| Ivan Reitman | 1946-2022 | | |
| Jack Hill | 1933- | | |
| Jaco Van Dormael | 1957- | | |
| Jacques Tati | 1907-1982 | | |
| Jakov Sedlar | 1952- | | |
| Jalil Lespert | 1976- | | |
| James L. Brooks | 1940- | (Lawrence) | |
| James Cameron | 1954- | | |
| James Gunn | 1966- | | |
| James Hilton | 1900-1954 | | |
| James Mangold | 1963- | (Allen) | |
| James Wan | 1977- | | |
| James Young Deer | 1876-1946 | (Jim, Young) | |
| Jan de Bont | 1943- | | |
| Jane Campion | 1954- | | |
| Jason Blum | 1969- | (Ferus) | |
| Jaume Collet-Serra | 1974- | | |
| Jean-Jacques Annaud | 1943- | | |
| Jean-Luc Godard | 1930-2022 | | |
| Jean-Pierre Melville | 1917-1973 | | |
| Jean Renoir | 1894-1979 | | |
| Jean van de Velde | 1957- | | |
| J. J. Abrams | 1966- | (Jeffrey, Jacob) | |
| Jeffrey Katzenberg | 1950- | | |
| Jelena Veljača | 1981- | | |
| Jennifer Podemski | 1983- | | |
| Jeroen Krabbé | 1944- | (Aart) | |
| Jerome Robbins | 1918-1998 | | |
| Jerry Bruckheimer | 1943- | (Jerome, Leon) | |
| Jerry Weintraub | 1937-2015 | (Jerome, Charles) | |
| Jerry Zucker | 1950- | | |
| Jez Butterworth | 1969- | (Jeremy) | |
| Jim Abrahams | 1944- | (James) | |
| Jim Henson | 1936-1990 | (James) | |
| Jim Jarmusch | 1953- | (James) | |
| Joel Coen | 1954- | | |
| Joel Schumacher | 1939-2020 | | |
| John G. Avildsen | 1935-2017 | (Guilbert) | |
| John Badham | 1939- | | |
| John Banville | 1945- | | |
| John Boorman | 1933- | | |
| John Carpenter | 1948- | | |
| John Cassavetes | 1929-1989 | (Nicholas) | |
| John Derek | 1926-1998 | (Delevan) | |
| John Ford | 1894-1973 | | |
| John Hughes | 1950-2009 | | |
| John Huston | 1906-1987 | | |
| John Kani | 1942- | (Bonisile) | |
| John Landis | 1950- | | |
| John Lasseter | 1957- | | |
| John McTiernan | 1951- | (Campbell) | |
| John Schlesinger | 1926-2003 | | |
| John M. Stahl | 1886-1950 | (Jacob, Malcolm, Morris) | |
| John Woo | 1946- | | |
| Jon Favreau | 1966- | (Jonathan, Kolia) | |
| Jon Landau | 1960-2024 | | |
| Jon Turteltaub | 1963- | (Jonathan, Charles) | |
| Jonathan Demme | 1944-2017 | | |
| Jonathan Nolan | 1976- | (Jonah) | |
| Bong Joon-ho | 1969- | | |
| Jordan Peele | 1979- | (Haworth) | |
| Joseph Barbera | 1911-2006 | | |
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1909-1993 | (Leo) | |
| Joseph Russo | 1971- | | |
| Joss Whedon | 1964- | (Joseph) | |
| Judd Apatow | 1967- | | |
| Julian Schnabel | 1951- | | |
| Justin Baldoni | 1984- | (Louis) | |
| Kathleen Kennedy | 1953- | | |
| Kathryn Bigelow | 1951- | | |
| Keenen Ivory Wayans | 1958- | (Desuma) | |
| Keir Pearson | 1966- | | |
| Ken Loach | 1936- | (Kenneth) | |
| Kenji Mizoguchi | 1898-1956 | | |
| Kevin Costner | 1955- | | |
| Kevin Feige | 1973- | | |
| Kevin Smith | 1970- | (Patrick) | |
| Kim van Kooten | 1974- | | |
| King Baggot | 1879-1948 | (William) | |
| King Vidor | 1894-1982 | (Wallis) | |
| Konstantin Stanislavski | 1863-1938 | | |
| Krešo Golik | 1922-1996 | (Krešimir) | |
| Kristen Wiig | 1973- | (Carroll) | |
| Krsto Papić | 1933-2013 | | |
| Krzysztof Kieślowski | 1941-1996 | | |
| Krzysztof Zanussi | 1939- | (Pius) | |
| Lana Wachowski | 1965- | (Larry, Laurence) | |
| Larisa Shepitko | 1938-1979 | | |
| Lars von Trier | 1956- | | |
| Lasse Hallström | 1946- | | |
| Lawrence Kasdan | 1949- | | |
| Lee Cronin | 19xx- | | |
| Leni Riefenstahl | 1902-2003 | (Helene) | |
| Lenny Abrahamson | 1966- | (Leonard) | |
| Leo McCarey | 1898-1969 | | |
| Lewis Gilbert | 1920-2018 | | |
| Lewis Milestone | 1895-1980 | | |
| Lewis Teague | 1938- | | |
| Lilly Wachowski | 1967- | (Andrew, Andy, Paul) | |
| Linwood Boomer | 1955- | | |
| Lisa Cholodenko | 1964- | | |
| Lordan Zafranović | 1944- | | |
| Louis B. Mayer | 1884-1957 | (Lazar, Burt) | |
| Luc Besson | 1959- | | |
| Luca Guadagnino | 1971- | | |
| Luchino Visconti | 1906-1976 | | |
| Lucio Fulci | 1927-1996 | | |
| Luis Buñuel | 1900-1983 | | |
| Mack Sennett | 1880-1960 | (Michael) | |
| Mai Zetterling | 1925-1994 | (Elisabeth) | |
| M. Night Shyamalan | 1970- | (Manoj) | |
| Maria de Medeiros | 1965- | | |
| Marius Holst | 1965- | | |
| Mark Boal | 1973- | | |
| Martin Koolhoven | 1969- | (Martinus, Wouter) | |
| Martin Scorsese | 1942- | | |
| Matt Groening | 1954- | (Matthew) | |
| Matt Stone | 1971- | (Matthew) | |
| Matthew Vaughn | 1971- | (Allard, Robert) | |
| Max Linder | 1883-1925 | (Gabriel, Maximilien) | |
| Max Nosseck | 1902-1972 | | |
| Med Hondo | 1936-2019 | (Mohamed, Abid) | |
| Mehran Modiri | 1967- | | |
| Mel Brooks | 1926- | (Melvin, James) | |
| Mel Gibson | 1956- | | |
| Michael Bay | 1965- | | |
| Michael Cimino | 1939-2016 | | |
| Michael Curtiz | 1886-1962 | | |
| Michael Haneke | 1942- | | |
| Michael Mann | 1943- | | |
| Michael Moore | 1954- | | |
| Michal Bat-Adam | 1945- | | |
| Michel Hazanavicius | 1967- | | |
| Michelangelo Antonioni | 1912-2007 | | |
| Michelle Latimer | 1976- | | |
| Mike Judge | 1962- | (Michael, Craig) | |
| Mike Leigh | 1943- | | |
| Mike Newell | 1942- | (Michael) | |
| Mike Nichols | 1931-2014 | (Michael, Igor) | |
| Miloš Forman | 1932-2018 | (Jan, Tomáš) | |
| Mitra Farahani | 1975- | | |
| Monte Collins | 1898-1951 | (Monty, Francis) | |
| Monte Hellman | 1929-2021 | (Jay) | |
| Morgan Spurlock | 1970-2024 | (Valentine) | |
| Moshe Ivgy | 1953- | | |
| Moshé Mizrahi | 1931-2018 | | |
| Nancy Oliver | 1955- | | |
| Nedrick Young | 1914-1968 | (Nathan) | |
| Neil Jordan | 1950- | | |
| Neil Simon | 1927-2018 | (Marvin) | |
| Nia Vardalos | 1962- | (Antonia, Eugenia) | |
| Nick Cassavetes | 1959- | (Nicholas, David, Rowland) | |
| Nicolas Roeg | 1928-2018 | (Jack) | |
| Norman Jewison | 1926-2024 | (Frederick) | |
| Norman Lear | 1922-2023 | (Milton) | |
| Norman Lloyd | 1914-2021 | (Nathan) | |
| Norman Taurog | 1899-1981 | | |
| Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 1959- | | |
| Obrad Gluščević | 1913-1980 | | |
| Oliver Stone | 1946- | | |
| Ömer Lütfi Akad | 1916-2011 | | |
| Oren Moverman | 1966- | | |
| Orson Welles | 1915-1985 | | |
| Otto Preminger | 1905-1986 | | |
| Paul Thomas Anderson | 1970- | | |
| Paul W. S. Anderson | 1965- | (William, Scott) | |
| Paul Henreid | 1908-1992 | (Georg, Julius) | |
| Paul Verhoeven | 1938- | | |
| Paweł Pawlikowski | 1957- | (Aleksander) | |
| Pedro Almodóvar | 1949- | | |
| Penny Marshall | 1943-2018 | (Carole) | |
| Peter Bogdanovich | 1939-2022 | | |
| Peter Brook | 1925-2022 | | |
| Peter Farrelly | 1956- | | |
| Peter Greenaway | 1942- | | |
| Peter Jackson | 1961- | | |
| Peter Weir | 1944- | | |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1922-1975 | | |
| Piotr Szulkin | 1950-2018 | | |
| Preston Sturges | 1898-1959 | (Edmund) | |
| Pupi Avati | 1938- | (Giuseppe) | |
| Quentin Tarantino | 1963- | | |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1945-1982 | | |
| Rajko Grlić | 1947- | | |
| Rakesh Roshan | 1949- | (Roshanlal) | |
| René Clair | 1898-1981 | | |
| Rex Ingram | 1893-1950 | (Reginald, Montgomery) | |
| Rian Johnson | 1973- | (Craig) | |
| Richard Attenborough | 1923-2014 | | |
| Richard Donner | 1930-2021 | | |
| Richard Linklater | 1960- | | |
| Richard Quine | 1920-1989 | | |
| Ridley Scott | 1937- | | |
| Rob Zombie | 1965- | (Robert, Bartleh) | |
| Robert Aldrich | 1918-1983 | | |
| Robert Altman | 1925-2006 | | |
| Robert Benton | 1932- | | |
| Robert Bresson | 1901-1999 | | |
| Robert Redford | 1936- | | |
| Robert Rodriguez | 1968- | | |
| Robert Towne | 1934-2024 | (Bertram) | |
| Robert Wise | 1914-2005 | | |
| Robert Zemeckis | 1951- | | |
| Roberto Rossellini | 1906-1977 | | |
| Roger Rees | 1944-2015 | | |
| Roger Vadim | 1928-2000 | | |
| Roland Emmerich | 1955- | | |
| Roman Coppola | 1965- | (Ford) | |
| Roman Polanski | 1933- | | |
| Ron Howard | 1954- | (Ronald) | |
| Ruben Östlund | 1974- | (Claes, Olle) | |
| Rupert Hughes | 1872-1956 | | |
| Rupert Julian | 1879-1943 | (Thomas, Percival) | |
| Rupert Sanders | 1971- | (Miles) | |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | 1927-2013 | | |
| Sam Mendes | 1965- | (Samuel) | |
| Sam Raimi | 1959- | (Samuel) | |
| Sam Taylor-Johnson | 1967- | (Samantha, Louise) | |
| Samuel Goldwyn | 1882-1974 | (Szmuel) | |
| Satish Kaushik | 1956-2023 | | |
| Satyajit Ray | 1921-1992 | | |
| Scott Rudin | 1958- | | |
| Sebastián Lelio | 1974- | | |
| Sergei Eisenstein | 1898-1948 | | |
| Sergei Parajanov | 1924-1990 | | |
| Sergio Leone | 1929-1989 | | |
| Şerif Gören | 1944- | | |
| Shawn Levy | 1968- | (Adam) | |
| Sherman Alexie | 1966- | (Joseph) | |
| Shonda Rhimes | 1970- | | |
| Sidney J. Furie | 1933- | (Joseph) | |
| Sidney Lumet | 1924-2011 | (Arthur) | |
| Sofia Coppola | 1971- | | |
| Sophie Hunter | 1978- | (Irene) | |
| Spike Jonze | 1969- | | |
| Spike Lee | 1957- | | |
| Stanley Kubrick | 1928-1999 | | |
| Stephen Frears | 1941- | | |
| Stephen Hillenburg | 1961-2018 | | |
| Stephen Poliakoff | 1952- | | |
| Stephen Sommers | 1962- | | |
| Steve McQueen | 1969- | (Steven, Rodney) | |
| Steven Soderbergh | 1963- | | |
| Steven Spielberg | 1946- | | |
| Stijn Coninx | 1957- | (Augustijn, Robert, Marguerite) | |
| Stuart Blumberg | 1969- | (Ethan) | |
| Susanne Bier | 1960- | | |
| Sydney Pollack | 1934-2008 | | |
| Tahir Hussain | c. 1938-2010 | | |
| Taika Waititi | 1975- | (David) | |
| Takeshi Kitano | 1947- | | |
| Tamara Jenkins | 1962- | | |
| Tanel Toom | 1982- | | |
| Taylor Hackford | 1944- | (Edwin) | |
| Taylor Sheridan | 1970- | | |
| Ted Kotcheff | 1931- | (William, Theodore) | |
| Terrence Malick | 1943- | (Frederick) | |
| Terry Gilliam | 1940- | (Terence, Vance) | |
| Terry Jones | 1942-2020 | (Terence, Graham) | |
| Tessa Schram | 1988- | | |
| Tex Avery | 1908-1980 | (Frederick, Bean) | |
| Theo Angelopoulos | 1935-2012 | (Theodoros) | |
| Theo van Gogh | 1957-2004 | (Theodoor) | |
| Til Schweiger | 1963- | (Tilman, Valentin) | |
| Tim Burton | 1958- | (Timothy) | |
| Tinto Brass | 1933- | (Giovanni) | |
| Todd Field | 1964- | (William) | |
| Tom Hooper | 1972- | (Thomas) | |
| Tony Richardson | 1928-1991 | (Cecil, Antonio) | |
| Tony Scott | 1944-2012 | (Anthony) | |
| Trey Parker | 1969- | | |
| Tyler Perry | 1969- | (Emmitt) | |
| Udi Aloni | 1959- | | |
| Ulli Lommel | 1944-2017 | | |
| Val Guest | 1911-2006 | (Valmond, Maurice) | |
| Vatroslav Mimica | 1923-2020 | | |
| Veiko Õunpuu | 1972- | | |
| Veljko Bulajić | 1928- | | |
| Věra Chytilová | 1929-2014 | | |
| Vera Farmiga | 1973- | (Ann) | |
| Veronica Kedar | 1984- | | |
| Victor Fleming | 1889-1949 | | |
| Vincente Minnelli | 1903-1986 | | |
| Vinko Brešan | 1964- | | |
| Vittorio De Sica | 1901-1974 | | |
| Vladimir Menshov | 1939-2021 | | |
| Walt Disney | 1901-1966 | (Walter, Elias) | |
| Walter Hill | 1942- | | |
| Warren Beatty | 1937- | | |
| Warwick Ward | 1891-1967 | | |
| Werner Herzog | 1942- | | |
| Wes Anderson | 1969- | (Wesley) | |
| Wes Craven | 1939-2015 | (Wesley) | |
| Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen | 1957-2005 | (Hendrik) | |
| William Peter Blatty | 1928-2017 | | |
| William Friedkin | 1935-2023 | (David) | |
| William Hanna | 1910-2001 | | |
| William Desmond Taylor | 1872-1922 | (Cunningham) | |
| William Wyler | 1902-1981 | | |
| Wim Wenders | 1945- | (Ernst, Wilhelm) | |
| Wolfgang Petersen | 1941-2022 | | |
| Woody Allen | 1935- | (Allan, Heywood, Stewart) | |
| Xavier Dolan | 1989- | | |
| Yasujirō Ozu | 1903-1963 | | |
| Zhang Yimou | 1951- | | |
| Yorgos Lanthimos | 1973- | | |
| Zacharias Kunuk | 1957- | (Kifutikajuk, Taqaq, Nujatut, Attafutaluk, Quatuk) | |
| Zack Snyder | 1966- | (Zachary) | |
| Zeki Alasya | 1943-2015 | | |
| Ziad Doueiri | 1963- | | |
| Zoe Lister-Jones | 1982- | |