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Name Dropping #20: Film Directors

Each hint is the beginning of the name of a renowned film director. Match it to their surname by selecting from among the choices given. The Additional Hint displays the individual’s birth year and (if deceased) death year; and the title of one of the best-known films they directed. Use the Additional Hint to distinguish between individuals with the same first name or with similar first names, or just to jog your memory.

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Joel
1954–. True Grit (2010)
Federico
1920–1993. La Dolce Vita (1960)
Paul Thomas
1970–. There Will Be Blood (2007)
Clint
1930–. Unforgiven (1992)
Ridley
1937–. Alien (1979)
David
1908–1991. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Alfred
1899–1980. Rear Window (1954)
Billy
1906–2002. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
James
1954–. The Terminator (1984)
David
1962–. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Sidney
1924–2011. 12 Angry Men (1957)
Darren
1969–. The Fountain (2006)
Woody
1935–. Annie Hall (1977)
Tim
1958–. Ed Wood (1994)
Spike
1957–. Do the Right Thing (1988)
Quentin
1963–. Pulp Fiction (1994)
Martin
1942–. Goodfellas (1990)
Hayao
1941–. Spirited Away (2001)
Steven
1946–. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Stanley
1928–1999. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Christopher
1970–. Oppenheimer (2023)
Miloš
1932–2018. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Akira
1910–1998. Seven Samurai (1954)
Francis Ford
1939–. The Godfather (1972)
Orson
1915–1985. Citizen Kane (1941)
Allen
Anderson
Aronofsky
Burton
Cameron
Coen
Coppola
Eastwood
Fellini
Fincher
Forman
Hitchcock
Kubrick
Kurosawa
Lean
Lee
Lumet
Miyazaki
Nolan
Scorsese
Scott
Spielberg
Tarantino
Welles
Wilder
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