auteur - a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works

film director - the person who directs the making of a film

New Waver - a film maker who follows New Wave ideas

producer - someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work)

Allen Stewart Konigsberg, Woody Allen, Allen - United States filmmaker and comic actor (1935-)

Bernardo Bertolucci, Bertolucci - Italian filmmaker (born in 1940)

Capra, Frank Capra - United States film maker (1897-1991)

Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin - English comedian and film maker; portrayed a downtrodden little man in baggy pants and bowler hat (1889-1977)

Cocteau, Jean Cocteau - French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963)

Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola - United States filmmaker (born in 1939)

Cecil B. DeMille, Cecil Blount DeMille, DeMille - United States film maker remembered for his extravagant and spectacular epic productions (1881-1959)

De Sica, Vittorio De Sica - Italian film maker (1901-1974)

Disney, Walt Disney, Walter Elias Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966)

Eisenstein, Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein - Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures (1898-1948)

Ford, John Ford - United States film maker (1896-1973)

Godard, Jean Luc Godard - French film maker influenced by surrealism; early work explored the documentary use of film; noted for innovative techniques (born in 1930)

Goldwyn, Sam Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn - United States film maker (born in Poland) who founded his own film company and later merged with Louis B. Mayer (1882-1974)

D. W. Griffith, David Lewelyn Wark Griffith, Griffith - United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948)

Howard Hughes, Howard Robard Hughes, Hughes - United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)

Huston, John Huston - United States film maker born in the United States but an Irish citizen after 1964 (1906-1987)

Jewison, Norman Jewison - Canadian filmmaker (born in 1926)

Kieslowski, Krzysztof Kieslowski - Polish filmmaker who made ten films based on he ten commandments (1941-1996)

Korda, Sandor Kellner, Sir Alexander Korda - British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956)

Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick - United States filmmaker (born in 1928)

Akira Kurosawa, Kurosawa - Japanese filmmaker noted for blending Japanese folklore with Western styles of acting (1910-1998)

Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee, Spike Lee - United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of Black culture in America (born in 1957)

Ernst Lubitsch, Lubitsch - German filmmaker of sophisticated comedies (1892-1947)

George Lucas, Lucas - United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944)

Louis B. Mayer, Louis Burt Mayer, Mayer - United States filmmaker (born in Russia) who founded his own film company and later merged with Samuel Goldwyn (1885-1957)

Pollack, Sydney Pollack - United States filmmaker (born in 1934)

Charles Robert Redford, Redford, Robert Redford - United States actor and filmmaker who starred with Paul Newman in several films (born in 1936)

Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell, Ken Russell, Russell - English film director (born in 1927)

Martin Scorsese, Scorsese - United States filmmaker (born in 1942)