Film theorists

Steven Allan Spielberg is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema and he is the second highest-grossing film director of all time. Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTA Awards, twelve Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a Grammy Award, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, an honorary knighthood in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. According to Forbes, he is one of the world's wealthiest celebrities. He is one of 22 people to achieve EGOT status.

Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)

Martin Charles Scorsese is an American filmmaker. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in the history of cinema. He has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. He has been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".

Slovenian philosopher (born 1949)

French film director (1932–1984)

American film critic and author (1942–2013)

French and Swiss film director (1930–2022)

French philosopher (1925–1995)

American writer (1925–2012)

American filmmaker (1925–2006)

American author and activist (1952–2021)

Russian-Soviet documentary/avantgarde filmmaker (1896-1954)

French film director (1930–2010)

French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931–1994)

American film director (1939–2022)

American film director, producer, and actor (1926–2024)

Soviet Jewish writer

Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor (1893–1953)

French film director, screenwriter and film critic (1928–2016)

Russian-Estonian semiotician (1922–1993)

Japanese film director and screenwriter (1932–2013)

Soviet filmmaker and film theorist (1899–1970)

French film director, essayist and novelist (1897–1953)

Ukranian-born American avant-garde filmmaker (1917–1961)

French film critic and theorist (1918–1958)

German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist (1889-1966)

German psychologist (1904-2007)

Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet (1884–1949)

British feminist film theorist

filmmaker (1941-2011)

Indian Bengali filmmaker and script writer (1925–1976)

French film director (1888–1979)

Israeli historian

German artist (1888–1976)

American philosopher (1926-2018)

American filmmaker and writer (1933–2003)

American academic specialised in seminars for screenwriters

Italian academic

French film critic (1931–1993)

American film editor and sound designer

American film critic, writer, and historian

English novelist (born 1959)

American film and theatre critic (1924–2000)

American film critic (1928-2012)

American film historian and actor (1932–2017)

American screenwriting guru (1935-2013)

American film historian (1947–2024)

French writer (1877–1923)

Indian director (1944–2021)

American writer and film critic

Ethiopian director, film professor, philosopher, and writer

Israeli artist, painter, photographer, theorist and psychoanalyst (born 1948)

German film director (1909–2002)

English filmmaker and film historian

French film critic (1929–2019)

American film scholar (1933–2017)

American philosopher

French film director and screenwriter

Polish film educator (1909-1995)

American filmmaker and writer