After writing The Fly II and The Mummy, Garris wrote and directed Psycho IV: The Beginning. He has teamed with Stephen King on Sleepwalkers, The Stand, The Shining (TV), and Riding the Bullet. He created and directed many episodes of Masters Of Horror. His popular podcast Post Mortem, which hosts filmmakers of all stripes and callings, will soon stream it’s 100th episode.
Rachel Goldberg is an award-winning filmmaker with close to thirty productions for stage and screen. She has won over twenty awards for her work in film and theater. She has directed episodes of Mayans M.C., Veronica Mars, Cloak & Dagger, American Horror Story, and Raising Dion.
Taylor Hackford is a former president of the Directors Guild of America and has directed thirteen features, including An Officer and a Gentleman, Against All Odds, Dolores Claiborne, and Ray. He is married to Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren.
Peter Hyams began telling stories as a journalist before becoming captivated by filmmaking. He is also one of the few directors who photographs almost all of his own films. Some of his more notable works include 2010 (the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey), Timecop, The Presidio, and End of Days.
Patty Jenkins directed Charlize Theron’s Oscar-winning performance in Monster. She won the DGA Award for her direction of the pilot of the AMC series The Killing. She also directed Gal Gadot in the blockbuster hit Wonder Woman, which made over $800 million at the box office.
Eriq La Salle is an accomplished actor, director, and novelist. He is best known for his long run on the hit show ER and his appearance in Coming to America. His directorial debut, Rebound, was executive produced by Badham.
Michelle MacLaren is a producer and director, best known for Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Better Call Saul, and The Deuce.
Penelope Ann Miller was a Tony Award nominee for Our Town, and she starred in The Freshman with Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick. She also starred in Carlito’s Way with Sean Penn, winning a Golden Globe nomination, as well Awakenings, Chaplin, and Other People’s Money.
Ryan Murphy is a writer and producer, known for Glee, American Horror Story, Pose, Scream Queens, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, and Eat Pray Love.
Kevin Parks has been working on the TV series Supernatural as first assistant director from the beginning—he is one of the few who have been there for all fourteen seasons. Episodes he directed in seasons eight and nine are among the show’s top-rated episodes.
Donald Petrie began his career as an actor, then segued into directing and followed in the footsteps of his father, director Daniel Petrie. He helmed the hit comedies Grumpy Old Men, Miss Congeniality, and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. His TV directing work includes episodes of Chicago P.D., The Kominsky Method, and Chicago Med. He is on the National Board of the Directors Guild of America.
Sydney Pollack took up directing on the advice of legendary actor Burt Lancaster. His prolific career as producer and director includes Tootsie, The Way We Were, Three Days of the Condor, The Firm, and Oscars for both directing and producing Out of Africa.
Brett Ratner began directing music videos for hip hop, rap, and pop artists before segueing into directing feature films with Money Talks. Next came the smash hit Rush Hour series, X-Men: The Last Stand, Red Dragon, and Tower Heist. He most recently directed Hercules and executive produced The Lego Ninjago Movie.
John Rich directed and produced some of the most well-known and beloved shows in television, including The Jeffersons, Maude, Benson,and Barney Miller. He won three Emmy Awards for The Dick Van Dyke Show and All in the Family. A longtime vice president of the Directors Guild of America, he was a major force in forging creative rights for television directors.
Mark Rydell was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for On Golden Pond. Other films of his include The Reivers, The Cowboys, The Rose, and The Fox. He received an Emmy nomination for his direction of James Dean.
Daniel Sackheim is a producer and director known for House, True Detective, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Americans, and The Glass House.
Thomas Schlamme, President of the Directors Guild of America, is a producer and director known for The West Wing, Sports Night, Snowfall, Manhattan, and Tracey Takes On….
Arthur Allan Seidelman is a director and actor known for A Christmas Carol: The Musical, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, and The Sisters. He has also directed several documentaries, including Buff Enough and Where Muscles Were Born.
Martin Sheen is a Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning actor best remembered for his haunting performance in Apocalypse Now and his seven-year run as President Josiah Bartlet on The West Wing. He is the father of actors Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen.
Brad Silberling made his feature debut with 1995’s Casper after getting started directing in television. He went on to direct City of Angels with Meg Ryan and Nicolas Cage, Moonlight Mile with Susan Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman, and 10 Items or Less with Morgan Freeman. His recent TV work includes Charmed, Things to Do in Seattle When You’re Dead, Dynasty, and Jane the Virgin.
Steven Soderbergh burst onto the filmmaking scene with the indie sensation Sex, Lies, and Videotape in 1989. In the years since, he has successfully moved between huge studio films like the Ocean’s Eleven series and Erin Brockovich and small budget projects like Magic Mike, Bubble, and Schizopolis. He is national vice president of the Directors Guild of America.
Oliver Stone is an innovative writer and director of films that examine the darker side of society, past and present. He is best known as the co-writer/director of JFK, Nixon, Platoon, Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, and, most recently, Savages.
Romeo Tirone is an American cinematographer and television director. Best known for his Emmy-nominated work on the television series Dexter, he recently worked on the Amazon reboot of The Tick, as well as the TV adaptations of Taken and Constantine, and is currently in postproduction on Paradise Lost.
Jeanne Tripplehorn became prominent starring opposite Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct. She continued to impress as a strong screen talent in Waterworld, The Firm, and Brother’s Keeper. She appears in fifty-three episodes of Big Love, as well as Criminal Minds and the forthcoming Mrs. America.
David S. Ward is the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Sting, as well as the director of the beloved baseball film Major League and its sequel. In addition to his writing and directing work, he is a professor at the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Chapman University, in Orange, California.
James Woods is one of the most acclaimed character actors of our day, appearing on stage, screen, and TV and working with some of the top directors in Hollywood, such as Martin Scorsese, David Cronenberg, Sergio Leone, Oliver Stone, and Robert Zemeckis. He starred in Badham’s The Hard Way alongside Michael J. Fox.
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