This is research into the top 5 best directors. Research done by Clara Barroso

1. RESEARCH INTO
DIRECTORS
CLARA BARROSO

2. STEVEN SPIELBERGSteven Allan Spielberg is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is
considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as well as being
viewed as one of the most popular directors and producers in film history. He is also
one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios. From the whole films that he have
directed, he has done many movies with a different variety of different themes and
genres.
Some of his famous films are: Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977),
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Spielberg won
the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, as
well as receiving five other nominations.Three of Spielberg's films—Jaws, E.T. the Extra-
Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park—achieved box office records, originated and came to
epitomize the blockbuster film.
He started by working for the TV, and started working behind the TV show. He knew he
had a passion for film, while he was a student that didn’t love school, he did find his
passion after all. Many years later of experience and working in the industry, he started
to produce and direct his very own films. His career started in 1970 till this day he is still
impressing people with his amazing films that he produces/ directs it.
His personal net worth is estimated to be more than $3 billion. He is also known for his
long-standing associations with several actors, producers, and technicians, most notably
composer John Williams, who has composed music for all but three of Spielberg's films
(The Color Purple, Bridge of Spies, and Ready Player One).

3. JAMES CAMERONJames Francis Cameron is a Canadian filmmaker, director, producer, screenwriter,
inventor, engineer, philanthropist, and deep-sea explorer. After working in special
effects, he found major success after directing and writing the science fiction action film
The Terminator (1984). He has become a popular Hollywood director and has been
placed on the top 10 best directors. From this he was hired to write and direct very
known films in the Hollywood world, such as: Aliens (1986) and three years later also
The Abyss (1989). Right after He found further critical acclaim for his use of special
effects in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).
Besides of the population of The Terminator, he is also very know for being the director
that directed the Titanic film which was released in 1994. From the Titanic film he won
three awards: Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Film Editing.
After Titanic, Cameron began a project that took almost 10 years to make: his science-
fiction epic Avatar (2009), which was in particular a landmark for 3D technology, and for
which he received nominations for the same three Academy Awards. Despite Avatar
being his only movie made to date in 3D, Cameron is the most successful 3D film-maker
in terms of box-office revenue.
Cameron also holds the achievement of having directed two of the three films in history
to gross over $2 billion worldwide. This film gross that he has doesn’t include, the
Titanic and Avatar. In March 2011, he was named Hollywood's top earner by Vanity Fair,
with estimated 2010 earnings of $257 million. He is one of the most known directors of
all time for his work throughout his career and for all his success.

4. Martin Charles Scorsese is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and film
historian. He has been in the film industry and had a career for more than 50 years.
Many of his films are also known for their depiction of violence and liberal use of
profanity. 1990, he founded The Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated
to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation. Martin
Scorsese is very known for being in the top 10 best directors.
The most known for directing big films: the crime film Mean Streets (1973), the
vigilante-thriller Taxi Driver (1976), the biographical sports drama Raging Bull (1980),
the black comedy The King of Comedy (1983), the religious epic drama The Last
Temptation of Christ (1988), the crime film Goodfellas (1990), the psychological thriller
Cape Fear (1991) and the crime film Casino (1995).
Martin Scorsese has won many Academy Award for Best Director for many crime drama
films he directs along for being nominated more than eight times for being the Best
Director. His career started in 1960 where in 1967, Scorsese made his first feature-
length film, the black and white I Call First, which was later retitled Who's That
Knocking at My Door.
he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers in
cinematic history. He is recently known for releasing a recent known film The Wolf of
Wall Street (2013) with Leornado DiCaprio on the film. He has won many awards
throughout his film career, such as: Academy Award, a Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival
Best Director Award, Silver Lion, Grammy Award, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and
DGA Awards.
MARTIN SCORSESE

5. QUENTIN TARANTINOQuentin Tarantino is an American film director, writer, and actor. His career began in the
late 1980s, when he wrote and directed My Best Friend's Birthday, the screenplay of
which formed the basis for True Romance. He is still now very known for being one of
the top 10 best directors in the film industry within Hollywood films that he produces/
directs. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with the
release of Reservoir Dogs in 1992. From this film he gained popularity from the Empire
Magazine, for labelling this 1992 film as the "Greatest Independent Film of All Time“.
Two years later, from gaining so much popularity from the independent film, he
released a second film. The film boost him up with even more popularity in 1994. The
film is one of the greatest films known today, Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction is known for
being a black comedy crime film that was a major success both among critics and
audiences.
From all his career and work that he has done and released till this year (2017) his net
worth in the film industry is worth $100 million. He has received many industry awards,
including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and the
Palme d'Or, and has been nominated for an Emmy and a Grammy. Back in 2005, he was
named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time. At the end of
2015, Quentin Tarantino received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his
contributions to the film industry. He has been quoted and is an influence to many by
being known as "the single most influential director of his generation“. An awards
ceremony in the Critics Choice Awards celebrated Tarantino, citing his start in
filmmaking when he was in his twenties, at the time when he was growing in the film
industry.

6. CHRISTOPHER NOLANChristopher Edward Nolan is an English film director, screenwriter, and producer. He
holds both, American and British citizenship. It has been confirmed that he is one of
the top/ highest-grossing directors in the film history. He gained attention from two of
his early films: Following (1998) and Memento (2000). From these two films he
received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He got recent
success from the past couple of years since 2005 till 2012, from The Dark Knight Trilogy.
The audience also recognise for being the director of the film Inception that was
released in 2010, where Leonardo DiCaprio was featured in the film.
He began making films at age seven. He always had a passion for films. His father used
to let him borrow his Super 8 camera and shooting short films with his action figures.
While growing up he use to have an influence with Star Wars. When he was eight years
old, he made a stop motion animation homage called Space Wars. His uncle who
worked at NASA, building guidance systems for the Apollo rockets, sent him some
launch footage: "I re-filmed them off the screen and cut them in, thinking no-one would
notice," Nolan later remarked.
While he was growing up he attended the University College London, where he got to
grow his passion and career within the film industry. Shortly before Christmas of 2011,
Nolan invited several prominent directors, including, Edgar Wright, Michael Bay, Bryan
Singer, Jon Favreau, Eli Roth, Duncan Jones and Stephen Daldry, to Universal CityWalk's
IMAX theatre for a private screening of the first six minutes of The Dark Knight Rises,
which had been shot on IMAX film and edited from the original camera negative. He is
known for being on the top 10 directors chart within the Hollywood films.