Mike Leigh

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1. Woody Allen

   Author of Annie Hall, Match Point, Scoop

2. Clint Eastwood

   Author of Million Dollar Baby [Film], Gran Torino

3. Alfred Hitchcock

   Author of Psycho [Film], Vertigo [Film], Rear Window [Film]

4. François Truffaut

   Author of Jules et Jim, The Man Who Loved Women

5. Wallace Shawn

   Author of My Dinner With Andre, Aunt Dan and Lemon

6. Peter Weir

   Author of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Truman Show [1998 film]

7. Mike Leigh

   Author of Career Girls

8. Jim Jarmusch

   Author of Broken Flowers

9. Kevin Costner

   Author of Open Range

10. Fernando Meirelles

    Author of City of God

11. John Ford

    Author of The Grapes of Wrath (DVD)

12. Stanley Kubrick

    Author of The Shining

13. Oliver Hirschbiegel

    Author of Downfall

14. Billy Wilder

    Author of The Apartment

15. Tom Stoppard

    Author of Travesties, The Invention of Love

16. Alejandro González Iñárritu

    Author of Babel

17. David Mamet

    Author of Oleanna, Writing in Restaurants

18. Roman Polanski

    Author of The Pianist

19. Charlie Chaplin

    Author of City Lights

20. Peter Weiss

    Author of The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis De Sade, The Investigation