Top 5 Best Hollywood Film Directors of all Time

Steven Spielberg

According to Walt Disney, movies can and do have a tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

He is definitely right. A movie can change your life. It can change the way you think. It captures our imagination like no other. Few Hollywood movies are laudable and very praiseworthy, for the way they have been made. A film is a fountain of thought.

When you make a film, it is usually about an idea.  It involves showing the world to look at things from a new perspective, from your perspective. It all comes down to the director.

Their job is not easy. To handle so many people on the sets, to tutor the actors and to set the scenes, it requires great vision. Directors are answerable to the audience, so they always make credible movies.

This article is dedicated to the top 5 best Hollywood directors of all time.

 5. ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Alfred Hitchcock went on to become the most widely known and influential director in the history of world cinema with a significant body of work produced over 50 years.

His first American film, “Rebecca” won an Academy Award for best picture. Hitchcock created more than 50 films, including the classics “Rear Window”, “The 39 Steps”, “The Man Who Knew Too Much” and “Psycho”. His movies show eccentric characterization and comedy. Nicknamed, the “Master of Suspense,” Hitchcock received the AFI’s Life Achievement Award in 1979.

He died in 1980.

 4. CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Nolan is best known for his existential explorations of time and memory. He is intrigued and fascinated by the perception of reality and identity.

Nolan is known as one of the most imaginative  innovative storytellers today.

He is a director of psychologically demanding movies.

His most famous character is Batman. In July 2012, Nolan became the youngest director to be honoured with a hand and footprint ceremony at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.

“The Dark Knight Rises” was one of the biggest films of 2012, grossing about $ 1 Billion at the box office.

 3. JAMES CAMERON 

Cameron first found success for directing the sci-fi hit “The Terminator”, in 1984. He is one of the most popular Hollywood directors.

After his film “True Lies”, he took on his biggest film at the time “Titanic” (1997) which won the Academy Award for best picture and him, the Academy Award for best director and film editing.

After Titanic, Cameron began a project that took almost 10 years to make, his sci-fiction “Avatar” (2009), for which he was nominated for best director and film editing, again. Even today, the movie Titanic is revered by people worldwide and it is one of the greatest movies ever to be made.

2. CLINT EASTWOOD

Clint is not unheard of. He is one of macho of stars. His suave style has made him an international icon. His characters have a trademark expression.

In a career that spanned over half a century, actor-director Clint Eastwood managed to become both a top box office draw and an Oscar-winning director.

 In 2000, he was awarded the Italian Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.

In recent years, Eastwood has directed many films, including the Academy Award-winning projects “Unforgiven”, “Mystic River”, “Million Dollar Baby” and “The Changeling”.

1.     STEVEN SPIELBERG

Steven Spielberg is a celebrated American director.

He is loved by his fans, the world over. He is perhaps the world’s most popular filmmaker. He has made some of the most successful movies ever.

 In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg’s films have covered many themes and genres. Steven Spielberg went on to become the enormously successful and Academy Award-winning director of such films as “Schindler’s List”, “The Color Purple”, “E.T..The Extra-Terrestrial” and “Saving Private Ryan”.

He is one of the most influential film personalities and has counless big grossing films and accolades to his name.

This list would be incomplete without him and he is the numero uno!