Famous Filmmakers Word Scramble
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American film director, screenwriter, and film producer; won the Academy Award for Best Director for 1993's Schindler's List and 1998's Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg |
Italian-American film director, producer and screenwriter; most renowned for directing the Godfather films, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola |
an American film producer, screenwriter, director; best known for being the creator of the epic sci-fi franchise Star Wars and joint creator of the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones | George Lucas |
two-time Academy Award-nominated Indian-American filmmaker and screenwriter; known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots that usually climax with a twist ending; The Sixth Sense, The Happening, Lady in the Water, The Village, Signs | M. Night Shyamalan |
British filmmaker and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres; silent films | Alfred Hitchcock |
American actor, film director, film producer and composer; primarily known for his alienated, morally ambiguous, anti-hero acting roles in violent action and western films; Rawhide, Man With No Name, Dirty Harry, Mystic River | Clint Eastwood |
an American film director, producer, writer, and actor; movies have examined race relations, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues; She's Gotta Have It | Spike Lee |
American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art; Sleep, Eat, Blow Job, Batman Dracula | Andy Warhol |
New Zealand filmmaker, producer and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings trilogy, District 9, King Kong; "splatstick" horror comedies | Peter Jackson |
Brothers, American filmakers who directed/produce screwball films (O Brother Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona)and hardboiled thrillers (No Country For Old Men, The Man Who Wasn't There) | The Coen Brothers |
German film director; known for film work: The NeverEnding Story, Outbreak, In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, Troy, and Poseidon | Wolfgang Peterson |
American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian; founder of the World Cinema Foundation; The Departed, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese |
American film director; Noted for his innovative dramatic productions as well as his distinctive voice and personality; Touch of Evil, Chimes at Midnight, the Stranger, Othello | Orson Welles |
American film director, producer, and screenwriter; work includes The Terminator, Titanic, Rambo: First Blood Part II, True Lies, Spider-Man, Aliens | James Cameron |
American director; noted for: scrupulous care with which subjects choosen, slow method of working, variety of genres he worked in, technical perfectionism and his reclusiveness about his films and personal life; 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lolita, The Shining | Stanley Kubrick |
Austrian born American film director; stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura and Fallen Angel; Porgy and Bess, Exodus, Advise and Consent, The Hobbit | Otto Preminger |
American film director renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies; Carmen, The Greatest Show On Earth, The Squaw Man | Cecil B. DeMille |
Italian film director; associated with "Spaghetti Western;" style: juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots; Man With No Name trilogy | Sergio Leone |
French film director, creator of EuropaCorp film company; Transporter series, Nikita, Taxi, Taken | Luc Besson |
American independant filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization of violence; Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds | Quinton Tarantino |
American film producer known for series of critically and commercially successful comedy films; The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Funny People, Knocked-Up | Judd Apatow |
American film director of Irish heritage famous for westerns (Stagecoach and The Searchers) and classic adaptations of The Grapes of Wrath | John Ford |
Swedish director whose themes dealt with bleakness and despair, as well as comedy and hope, in his cinematic exploration of the human condition; | Ingmar Bergman |
English filmmaker remembered for epics: A Passage to India, Bridge on the River Kwai, Ryan's Daughter, Madeleine, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations | David Lean |
Belgian film director; Je, tu, elle and D'est | Chantal Ackerman |
American film director; The Big Trail, They Died With Their Boots On, The Theif of Baghdad | Raoul Walsh |
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