Director Style/important facts Movie Credits

Jack Arnold	Props	Incredible Shrinking Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon
Mel Brooks	Comedic satirist	Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein
Tim Burton	surrealist	Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Frank Capra	Everyday American Heroes	It’s A Wonderful Life, Meet John Doe, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Mr. Deeds
Cecil B. DeMille	Epics, mostly religious, dealt with HAYES CODE	Cleopatra, The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, the Greatest Story Ever Told
D.W. Griffith	First feature length director	Birth of A Nation, Sunrise
Alfred Hitchcock	Suspense, cameo appearances in his own movies	Psycho, The Birds, Lifeboat, Rear Window
Elia Kazan	Lifetime Oscar-Shunned by fellow actors in 1999 Dramas using method actors (Warner Bros)	East Of Eden, Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront
Spike Lee	African-Life from the outside looking in	Crooklyn, Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing
John Singleton	African-Life from the inside looking out	Boyz N The Hood, Rosewood
Baz Luhrmann	Somewhat surreal use of music not matching era	Romeo and Juliet Moulin Rouge
Louis Milestone	Blackballed for anti-American movies	All Quiet on the Western Front
Roman Polanski	Wife murdered by Charles Manson	Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown
Nicholas Ray	Warner Director using method actors	Rebel Without A Cause
Jerome Robbins	Choreographer	West Side Story, Peter Pan, Fiddle On the Roof, The King and I,
Martin Scorcese	NYC, most movies star Robert DiNero	Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Cape Fear
Stephen Spielberg	Perfectionist, uses research in historical accounts	Jaws, ET, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Color Purple, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan
Oliver Stone	Historical movies	JFK, Born On the Fourth Of July, Natural Born Killers, World Trade (2006)
Orson Welles	Film Noir as a genre developed	The Third Man, A Touch of Evil, Citizen Kane
Robert Wise	Varied filmography of genres	Curse of the Cat People, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Star Trek The Motion Picture, The Sound Of Music, West Side Story, The Body Snatchers
Ron Howard	Uses adapted screenplays	Splash, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, DiVinci Code
Quentin Tarantino	Surreal with "Spaghetti Western music	Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill I, II, Sin City
Francis Ford Coppola	Varied Filmography of Genres Related to Nicholas Cage, Daughter Sofia is also director and appeared as a baby in Godfather I, and as an adult in Godfather III	Godfather I,II, III, New York Stories, Apocalypse Now, The Departed