Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)

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1. Alfred Hitchcock

   Author of North by Northwest [Film], Psycho [Film], Rear Window [Film]

2. Billy Wilder

   Author of Some Like It Hot, The Seven Year Itch, Witness for the Prosecution

3. Orson Welles

   Author of Citizen Kane, The Lady from Shanghai, The Magnificent Ambersons

4. Howard Hawks

   Author of His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby, The Big Sleep [movie]

5. Stanley Donen

   Author of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Charade [film - 1963]

6. Ingmar Bergman

   Author of The Seventh Seal, Cries and Whispers

7. Leo McCarey

   Author of An Affair to Remember, Duck Soup

8. Stanley Kubrick

   Author of Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, The Shining

9. Vincente Minnelli

   Author of An American in Paris, Meet Me in St. Louis

10. Victor Fleming

    Author of Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz

11. Steven Spielberg

    Author of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark [videorecording], Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [videorecording], Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom [videorecording]

12. Luchino Visconti

    Author of The Leopard, La caduta degli dei

13. George Cukor

    Author of My Fair Lady [1964 film], The Women [videorecording]

14. Pedro Almodovar

    Author of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, High Heels ('Tacones lejanos')

15. Alexander Payne

    Author of Sideways [videorecording]

16. Woody Allen

    Author of Annie Hall

17. Michael Curtiz

    Author of Casablanca [movie]

18. Gene Kelly

    Author of Singin' in the Rain

19. Martin Scorsese

    Author of The Aviator

20. Joshua Logan

    Author of Bus Stop