Paul Thomas Anderson, Director: Punch-Drunk Love. Anderson was born in 1970. He was one of the first of the "video store" generation of film-makers. His father was the first man on his block to own a V.C.R., and from a very early age...

S. Craig Zahler, Writer: Bone Tomahawk. S. Craig Zahler was born on January 23, 1973 in Miami, Florida, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Bone Tomahawk (2015), Dragged Across Concrete (2018) and Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017).

Quentin Dupieux, Director: Rubber. Quentin Dupieux was born on April 14, 1974 in Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is a director and writer, known for Rubber (2010), Deerskin (2019) and Wrong Cops (2013).

Wes Anderson, Director: Fantastic Mr. Fox. Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising...

Robert Eggers, Director: The Lighthouse. Robert Eggers was born on July 7, 1983 in Lee, New Hampshire, USA. He is a production designer and director, known for The Lighthouse (2019), The Witch (2015) and The Tell-Tale Heart (2008).

Ari Aster, Director: Midsommar. Ari Aster was born on July 15, 1986 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Midsommar (2019), Hereditary (2018) and Disappointment Blvd. (2022).

Jordan Peele, Writer: Get Out. Jordan Haworth Peele attended Sarah Lawrence College as a member of the class of 2001. His mother is white and his father is black. Jordan is married to comedian Chelsea Peretti, with whom he has a son. He is...

Nicolas Winding Refn, Writer: The Neon Demon. Writer, director, and producer Nicolas Winding Refn was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1970, to Anders Refn, a film director and editor, and Vibeke Winding (née Tuxen), a cinematographer. Just...

Denis Villeneuve, Director: Blade Runner 2049. Denis Villeneuve is a French Canadian film director and writer. He was born in 1967, in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. He started his career as a filmmaker at the National Film Board of...

Christopher Nolan, Writer: Tenet. Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed writer-director Christopher Nolan was born on July 30, 1970, in London, England. Over the course of 15 years of filmmaking, Nolan has...

David Fincher, Director: Se7en. David Fincher was born in 1962 in Denver, Colorado, and was raised in Marin County, California. When he was 18 years old he went to work for John Korty at Korty Films in Mill Valley. He subsequently worked...

Spike Jonze, Producer: Her. Spike Jonze made up one-third (along with Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman) of the triumvirate of genius minds behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine. These...

Lars von Trier, Writer: Dancer in the Dark. Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and...

Jim Jarmusch, Director: Broken Flowers. Moved to New York City at the age of seventeen from Akron, Ohio. Graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in English, class of '75. Without any prior film experience, he was accepted into the...

David Lynch, Writer: Twin Peaks. Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting...

Ethan Coen, Producer: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The younger brother of Joel, Ethan Coen is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning writer, producer and director coming from small independent films to big profile Hollywood films. He...

Joel Coen, Producer: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Joel Coen was born on November 29, 1954 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA as Joel Daniel Coen. He is a producer and writer, known for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), Barton Fink (1991)...

Quentin Tarantino, Writer: Reservoir Dogs. Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from...

Stanley Kubrick, Writer: 2001: A Space Odyssey. Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and...