Thriller Directors

Steven Spielberg:


Steven Spielberg was born on December the 18Th in the year 1946 and is an American film director, film writer and film producer in an illustrious career that has lasted for over 4 decades. He went to a school called the Hebrew school from 1953 to 1957. After moving to California however, he applied to go to the University Of California State school of Theatre, Film and Television but was unsuccessful after trying three times. Instead he went to Long Beach State in the 1960's. Then his career began in an unpaid environment as a intern and a guest of the editing department. As an intern and guest of Universal Studios, he created his first short film, which lasted 24 minutes and was called Amblin, which later on he took that name and used it as his production name, Amblin Entertainment.

The first long film that Spielberg directed was Malcolm Winkler, written by Claudia Salter, produced by John Orland and with Frank Price being the executive producer, however because of the casting difficulties the film was not made. Since then Spielberg has created many of great films such as Jurassic Park:The Lost World, which generated $618 million only second to James Cameron's Titanic. Another film he produced was Saving Private Ryan, which was another huge hit by Spielberg which was grossing at over $481 million and was the biggest film of the year at the North American box office, again only second worldwide to Michael Bay's Armageddon. He has won three academy awards and has been nominated for six academy awards for the category of Best Director and has won two out of those six. Also seven of his films he directed were up for the Best Picture Oscar. The achievement he got in 1987 was when he was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg memorial award for his work as a creative producer. He has won many more awards but these are the most outstanding of those that he has won.

James Cameron:

He was born on the 16Th of August in 1954 and is a Canadian film director, editor, screenwriter, producer and inventor.He grew up in Chippewa, Ontario where he attended Stamford Collegiate in Niagara Falls. He studied physics and English at Fullerton College and California State University, Fullerton. However when he had the opportunities he always went to visit the film archive in the University of California State. His job before he entered the film industry was a truck driver, until he decided to give it up for the film industry. Him and 2 other friends decided to raise money in order to rent out the camera, lenses, film stocks and the studio. The first thing they did was dismantled the camera and spent the first half of the day figuring out how to use it.

He has created many films, two of which, titanic and avatar are the two highest grossing films of all time. He himself is also one of the highest grossing earner of all time earning $1.88billion in North America and then a further $5.7billion worldwide. He has contributed to many things in the technological side of things like the underwater filming. He has many blockbuster films that he has created over the years that he has been filming such as; Titanic, Avatar, Terminator 1 and 2, Spider man and many many more. He self taught his techniques and went through the rankings from being a miniature model maker, to special effects design and then to a director of films.