The Best English Movie Directors. Review on Ten Best English Movie Directors

This isnt such a difficult choice to make. Here's my list of the best english movie directors.

Alfred Hitchcock

Probably the best director of English Movies. Although he is called the master of suspense.he always said that that'I have not made a single suspense movie.'  He studied to be an electrical engineer and starrted his film career wroking in the field of art-direction and tittle designs. His first movie was the Silent moie'The Pleasure Garde'.  He is credited for making the first talkie film, Blackmail. He got instant recognition with The Man who knew too much(1928) which he also remade in 1953. He came in to holywood with Rebecca(194\0) whichwon the oscar for the best film. Made numerous films later. He also made 2 experimental thrillers in Lifeboat(1944) and Rope(1948). Lifeboat was shot entirely on a lifeboat while Rope was shot continously in one shot. Later he directed wonderful thrillers like Vertigo, North By Northwest, The Birds and Dial M for murder. But the movie which  he will always be known by was the 1960 suoer hit, Psycho. Perhaps the first cult-classic film, and inspirations for many other thrillers to follow. He also had the tendancy of making a few seconds cameo in each and every one of his film.  Truly'The Master'.

Steven Spielberg

The most honured and respected director alive today. He learnt most of his film making while he sneaked in to the studios where Alfred Hitchcock used to make movies. Started his career with the mind boggling experimental suspense movie, Duel in 1971. He got instant stardom with the killer shark thriller Jaws in 1975. Also directed another superhit movie, Close Encounters of the thrid kind in 1977. Most of his movies were big-budget huge blockbuster hits. Included E.T, Raiders Of the lost Arc, Indiana Jones and the temple of doom, Indiana Jones and the last crusade. He almost lost stardom with Empire of the sun and the much delayed hook. It was in 1993 with dinosaur saga Jurrasic park(which was the  most highest grossing movie of all time till it came to 2nd position gotten beaten by The Titanic) and

his most personal and intense film, WW-2 drama, Schindler's List. He got the best director oscar. According to many people, Schindler's List is the best english movie ever made. Amongst his other best movies are Amistad and Saving Pvt. Ryan. He is a godfather to Drew Barrymore.

Micheal Mann

Probarbly the most underrated director around. he started career writing for TV shows like'Starsky and Hutch'(1975). He directed his first TV film, the award-winning prison drama Jericho Mile(1979). He followed that in 1981 with his first feature film, Thief(1981) He followed with Keep, The(1983), an adaptation of F. Paul Wilson's novel about a mysterious force within a Nazi fortress. He hit it big in 1984, when he produced and created the long-running TV series'Miami Vice'(1984), which made Don Johnson a household name. He followed that up in 1986 with a disastrous, lesser-known TV series, 'Crime Story'(1986), and the superb thriller Manhunter(1986) a prequel of Silence of the Lambs(1991). Got suoerstardom with Heat(1995) which starred 2 of the world's best actors, Al Pacino as a supercop abd Robert De Niro as a high precison gang leader. Although they share only 7 minutes of screentime together in heat, That one scene in the restaurant made the movie a box-office hit. Later directed the intense drama The Insider which was based on a real life incident about a tobbaco company whistle-blower and his revelations on TV. Thiis movie made Russel Crowe a house hold name. His spoon to be released venture Ali based on the life of boxer mohammed ali is also going to fetch him lots of praise.

Steven Soddenbergh

While still in high school, around the age of 15, Soderbergh enrolled in the university's film animation class and began making short 16 mm films with secondhand equipment. After graduating high school, he went to Hollywood, where he worked as a freelance editor. His time there was brief and shortly after he returned home and continued making short films and writing scripts. His first major break was in 1986 when the rock group'Yes' assigned him to shoot a full-length concert film for the band which eventually earned him a Grammy nomination for the video Yes 9012 Live in 1986. Following this achievement, Soderbergh filmed Winston, the short subject film that he would later expand into Sex, Lies and Videotape(1989), a film that earned him the Cannes Film Festivals Palme d'Or Award, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director and an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He made such films as Kafka(1991), King of the Hill(1993), Underneath(1995) and Gray's Anatomy(1996). In 1998, Soderbergh made Out of Sight(1998), his most critically and commercially successful film since Sex, Lies and Videotape. Then in 2000 Soderbergh directed two major motion pictures that are now his most successful films to date, Erin Brockovich(2000)  and intense drama Traffic(2000). These films were both nominated for Best Picture Oscars at the 2001 Academy Awards and gave him the first twin director Oscar nomination in almost 60 years and the first ever win. He won the Oscar for Best Director for Traffic(2000) at the 2001 Oscars.

Orson Welles

The wonder boy of holywood, he tried unsuccessfully to enter the London and Broadway stages, and travelled in Morocco and Spain(where he fought in the bullring). Recommendations by Thornton Wilder and Alexander Woollcott got him into Katherine Cornell's road company, with which he made his New York debut as Tybalt in 1934. The same year he married, directed his first short film and appeared on radio for the first time. He began working with John Housman and formed the Mercury Theatre with him in 1937. In 1938 they produced'The Mercury Theatre on the Air', famous for its broadcast version of'The War of the Worlds'. His first film to be seen by the public was Citizen Kane(1941), which was a commercial failure losing  $150, 000 nut now regarded by many as the best film ever made. He was also booed at the oscars when he got the award for the best screenplay.  Many of his next films were commercial failures and he exiled himself to Europe in 1948. In 1956 he directed Touch of Evil(1958); it failed in the U.S. but won a prize at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. In 1975, in spite of all his box-office failures, he received the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1984 the Directors Guild of America awarded him its highest honor, the D.W. Griffith Award. His reputation as a film maker has climbed steadily ever since.

Due to constraint of space I am forced to write about the other directors in the comments section. So please read about them in the comments section.