Director Research

          Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tarantino was a devoted film fan. His career began in the late 1980s, when he wrote and directed My Best Friend's Birthday.

His movies are mostly characterised by stylistic influences from grindhouse, kung fu and spaghetti western films.
Tarantino also commonly collaborates with his filmmaker Robert Rodriguez.

He has received many industry awards, including a Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA Award, Empire Awards, Hollywood Film Award, NSFC Award and has been nominated for an Grammy and Emmy.


Movies Directed:

• Kill Bill: Volume 1 & 2
• Sin City
• My Best Friend's Birthday
• Four Rooms
• Inglourious Basterds
• Grindhouse
• Reservoir Dogs
• Pulp Fiction
• Death Proof
• Django Unchained

 Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer and studio entrepreneur. 

In he career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres ranging from sci-fi to historical drama's.

Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing issues such as the Holocaust,the Transatlantic slave trade, terrorism and war. He is considered one of he most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. 

He is also one of the co-founders of DreamWorks movie studio.

* Uses low height camera shot very frequently

He received many awards such as; Blue Ribbon Award, BAFTA Award, Academy Award, Daytime Emmy Award, Golden Globe, Empire Award, Emmy Award and London Critics Circle Film Awards with so many more.

Movies Directed:

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• E.T the Extra Terrestrial
• Jaws
• Jurassic Park
• Munich
• Transformers
• War of the Worlds
• The Adventures of Tintin
• Saving Private Ryan
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Schindler's List
• War Horse

 James Cameron

James Cameron is a Canadian film director, film producer, deep-sea explorer, screen writer, visual artist and editor.

In the huge gap between making Titanic and Avatar, Cameron spent several years creating many documentary films, specifically underwater documentaries. He also co-developed the digital 3D Fusion Camera System. He was described by a biographer as a part-scientist and part-artist.

*Cameron has also contributed to creating underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies.

Achievements include him reaching the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean. He was the first person to do this in a solo falling, and only the third to do so ever.

He has been nominated for six Academy Awards overall and won three for Titanic. 

Recurring themes include the conflicts between humanity and technology, the dangers of corporate greed, strong female characters and a strong romance subplot. 

In almost all of his films, characters tend to get into dramatic crisis situations with powerful threats to their own life. 

Movies Directed:

• The Terminator 
• Rambo: First Blood Part II 
• Aliens(1986)
• The Abyss
• Terminator 2: Judgement Day(1991)
• True Lies
• Titanic(1997)
• Spider Man and the Dark Angel
• Sanctum (2011)
• Various Documentaries(2002-12)

Many inspirational directors see James Cameron as a idol, teacher and leader of film.