IMportant Directors  by Decade
 
Decade Directors Films Comments
1900-1920's
  • Lumeiere Bros
  • Georges Melies
    • Voyage to the Moon (1902)
  • Fritz Lang
    • Metropolis (1926)
    • The WOman in the Moon (1929)
1930's
1940's
1950's
  • Jack Arnold
    • Incredible Shrinking Man
    • It Came from Outer Space
  • Don Siegel
    • Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  • George Pal (Producer)
    • Destination Moon (1950)
    • When Worlds Collide (1951
    • War of the WOrlds (1953)
    • Conquest of Space (1955)
    • Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
    • The Time Machine (dir.1960)
    • The Power (1968)
  • Byron Haskins
    • War of the Worlds (1953)
    • Conquest of Space (1955)
    • From Earht to Moon (1958)
    • Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
  • Roger Corman
    • The Day the WOrld Ended (1956)
    • Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
    • Little Hop of Horrors (1960)
    • Man with X-Ray Eyes (1962)
    • GAS-S-S (1970)
    • Frankenstin Unbound (1990)
1960's
  • Hitchcock
    • The Birds (1963)
  • John Frankenheimer
    • The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
    • Seven Days in May (1964)
    • Seconds (1966)
  • Stanley Kubrick
    • Dr. Strangelove (1964)
    • 2001 (1968)
    • Clockwork Orange (1971)
1970's
  • Steven Spielburg
    • Close Encounters (1977)
    • E.T. (1982)
  • George Lucas
    • THX 1138 (1970)
    • Star Wars (1977)
  • Michael Crichton
    • Westworld (1973)
    • Terminal Man (1974)
    • Coma (1978)
  • George Romero
    • Night of the Living Dead (1968)
    • The Crazies (1973)
    • Blue Sunshine (1977)
    • Piranha (1978)
    • Phantasm (1979)
  • Larry Cohen
    • It's Alive (1973)
    • God TOld me to (1976)
1980's
  • Ridley Scott
    • Alien 
    • Blade Runner 
  • David Cronenberg
    • The Parasite Murders (1974)
    • Rabid (1976)
    • The Brood (1979)
    • Scanners (1980)
    • The Dad Zone (1983)
    • The Fly (1986)
  • John Carpenter
    • The Thing (1982)
  • John Badham
    • Wargames (1983)
    • Short Circuit (1986)
  • Paul Verhoven
    • Robocop
    • Total Recall
    • Starship Troopers
  • James Cameron
    • Terminator (1984)
    • Aliens (1986)
    • The abyss (1989)
    • Terminator II : Judgment Day (1991)
    • True Lies (1994)
    • Titanic (1997)
  • Robert Zemeckis
    • Back to the Future (1985)
1990's
  • Wachowski Brothers
  • Jean-Pierre Jeunet
    • Delicatessen
    • City of Lost CHildren
    • Alien Resurrection (IV)
2000's