Clinton Eastwood, Jr. is an American film director, film actor, producer, and composer. He has won the Academy Award five times - twice each as Best Director and as producer of the Best Picture and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1995.

Robert De Niro is an American actor. He gained his reputation as a volatile actor in Mean Streets (1973), which was his first of 8 films with director Martin Scorsese. In 1974, De Niro received an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in The Godfather: Part II (1974) and received another 4 nominations for best actor. He won the best actor award in 1980 for Raging Bull. He also received 8 Golden Globes nominations. De Niro currently heads his own production company, Tribeca Film Center.

Jeremy John Irons is an English actor. After starring in such films as Moonlighting (1982), Betrayal (1983), and The Mission (1986), he gained critical acclaim for portraying twin gynecologists in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Dead Ringers (1988). In 1990, Irons delivered another strong performance as a European aristocrat in Reversal of Fortune, and took home multiple awards including an Academy Award for Best Actor.(Wikipedia)

John Boorman (born 18 January 1933) is a British filmmaker who is a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama...(wikipedia)

Gillo Pontecorvo has 13 credits at Criticker, including: The Battle of Algiers, Burn! and Kapò

Sergio Leone was virtually born into the cinema - he was the son of Roberto Roberti (A.K.A. Vincenzo Leone), one of Italy's cinema pioneers, and actress Bice Valerian. Leone entered films in his late teens, working as an assistant director to both Italian directors and U.S. directors working in Italy (usually making Biblical and Roman epics, much in vogue at the time). (imdb)

Brian Russell De Palma is an American film director and writer. In a career spanning over forty years, he is probably best known for his suspense and crime thriller films, including such box office successes as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen (his wife from 1979 to 1983), Gary Sinise, John Lithgow...(Wikipedia)

Ennio Morricone has 10 credits at Criticker, including: Stanno tutti bene, Sad Hill Unearthed, Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone, The Spaghetti West and Ennio Morricone

Christopher Frayling has 9 credits at Criticker, including: Ennio Morricone, An Opera of Violence, Turning Like Clockwork, He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce and Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain