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Spider-Man (Avengers) Collection 3 watched
The Avengers Collection 4 watched
The Dark Knight Collection 3 watched
The Lord of the Rings Collection 3 watched
Captain America Collection 3 watched
Star Wars Collection 9 watched
Harry Potter Collection 8 watched
Iron Man Collection 3 watched
The Godfather Collection 3 watched
Back to the Future Collection 3 watched
The Hunger Games Collection 4 watched
Before... Collection 3 watched
Alien Collection 4 watched
Austin Powers Collection 3 watched
The Avengers Collection 4 watched
Back to the Future Collection 3 watched
Before... Collection 3 watched
Captain America Collection 3 watched
The Dark Knight Collection 3 watched
Evil Dead Collection 3 watched
Fantastic Beasts Collection 3 watched
The Godfather Collection 3 watched
Halloween Collection 11 watched
The Hannibal Lecter Collection 3 watched
Harry Potter Collection 8 watched
The Hobbit Collection 3 watched
The Hunger Games Collection 4 watched
Indiana Jones Collection 4 watched
Iron Man Collection 3 watched
The Jack Ryan Collection 3 watched
The Lord of the Rings Collection 3 watched
Naked Gun Collection 3 watched
A Nightmare on Elm Street Collection 7 watched
Spider-Man (Avengers) Collection 3 watched
Star Trek: Alternate Reality Collection 3 watched
Star Wars Collection 9 watched
The Wolverine Collection 3 watched
X-Men Collection 7 watched
Ace Ventura Collection 2 of 3 watched
Ant-Man Collection 2 of 3 watched
Basket Case Trilogy 2 of 3 watched
Batman Collection 3 of 4 watched
Blade Collection 2 of 3 watched
Blair Witch Collection 2 of 3 watched
The Fast and the Furious Collection 7 of 9 watched
Ghostbusters Collection 2 of 3 watched
Home Alone Collection 5 of 6 watched
I Know What You Did Last Summer Collection 2 of 3 watched
James Bond Collection 25 of 26 watched
Jaws Collection 3 of 4 watched
Lethal Weapon Collection 3 of 4 watched
Mad Max Collection 3 of 4 watched
Mariachi Collection 2 of 3 watched
The Matrix Collection 3 of 4 watched
Meet the Parents Collection 2 of 3 watched
Ocean's Collection 2 of 3 watched
Planet of the Apes (Reboot) Collection 2 of 3 watched
Scream Collection 5 of 6 watched
The Slumber Party Massacre Collection 2 of 3 watched
Spider-Man Collection 2 of 3 watched
Thor Collection 3 of 4 watched
Toy Story Collection 3 of 4 watched
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Directors
Crew & studios
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Co-Directors
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Add. Directing
Adam Somner 14
Nilo Otero 10
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Producers
Scott Rudin 32
Kevin Feige 29
David Heyman 18
Joel Silver 18
Brian Grazer 17
Tim Bevan 16
Eric Fellner 16
Jason Blum 15
Ethan Coen 14
Dede Gardner 12
Ridley Scott 12
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Exec. Producers
Stan Lee 44
Bruce Berman 19
Thomas Tull 14
Joseph Drake 13
Alan Fine 13
Tessa Ross 12
Mario Kassar 11
Tim Bevan 11
Avi Arad 10
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Writers
David Lynch 15
Ethan Coen 14
Joel Coen 14
George Lucas 11
Steve Kloves 10
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Original Writers
Stan Lee 26
Ian Fleming 24
Jack Kirby 23
Stephen King 17
Bob Kane 11
J.K. Rowling 10
Steve Ditko 10
Larry Lieber 10
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Casting
Jane Jenkins 36
Mary Vernieu 35
Ellen Lewis 29
Avy Kaufman 26
Mike Fenton 25
Debra Zane 21
Mali Finn 19
Nina Gold 18
Jina Jay 18
Kerry Barden 18
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Editors
Michael Kahn 24
William Hoy 15
Lee Smith 13
Paul Hirsch 12
Paul Rubell 11
Sally Menke 10
Ethan Coen 10
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Cinematography
Dean Cundey 14
Peter Deming 14
Mark Irwin 13
Bill Pope 11
Oliver Wood 11
John Seale 10
Don Burgess 10
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Add. Photography
Mitch Dubin 14
Chuck Finch 11
David Worley 11
Peter Field 11
Kyle Rudolph 10
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Production Design
Rick Carter 15
Stuart Craig 14
Peter Lamont 12
David Wasco 12
Bo Welch 9
Ken Adam 9
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Art Direction
Gary Tomkins 15
Peter Dorme 11
Neil Lamont 10
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Set Decoration
Nancy Haigh 18
Gene Serdena 14
Anna Pinnock 13
Jay Hart 12
Larry Dias 11
Peter Howitt 10
George Lee 10
Tim Croshaw 10
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Special Effects
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Visual Effects
John Knoll 16
Craig Barron 15
Tim Burke 13
Janek Sirrs 10
Russell Earl 10
Mat Beck 9
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Stunts
Debbie Evans 37
Dick Ziker 32
Donna Evans 24
Doug Coleman 20
Rick Avery 20
Freddie Hice 19
Jeff Imada 18
Joel Kramer 18
Brian Avery 17
Kurt Bryant 16
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Choreography
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Composers
Hans Zimmer 41
Howard Shore 31
Danny Elfman 27
James Horner 24
John Barry 16
John Ottman 13
Tyler Bates 12
John Debney 12
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Songs
Prince 2
Fred Ebb 2
Rihanna 2
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Sound
John Roesch 58
Andy Nelson 43
Skip Lievsay 40
Jana Vance 33
Dino Dimuro 32
David Parker 31
Mary Jo Lang 30
Paul Massey 30
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Costume Design
Mark Bridges 21
Mary Zophres 20
Ann Roth 16
Sandy Powell 13
Nick Scarano 12
Edith Head 12
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Makeup
Gary Archer 54
Ve Neill 29
Donald Mowat 17
Bill Corso 16
Sian Grigg 16
Judy Chin 12
Rick Baker 12
Luisa Abel 11
Greg Cannom 11
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Hairstyling
Joy Zapata 21
Alex Rouse 19
Kay Georgiou 14
Janine Rath 13
Adruitha Lee 11
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Studios
Paramount 128
20th Century Fox 104
Miramax 50
StudioCanal 31
Canal+ 27
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Co-Directors
Ágnes Hranitzky 4.5
Lee Unkrich 4.0
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Add. Directing
Tony Brandt 5.0
Kitarou Kousaka 5.0
Don Kranze 5.0
Fred T. Gallo 4.8
Kelly Kiernan 4.8
Irby Smith 4.8
Daniel McCauley 4.8
Hal W. Polaire 4.8
Deepak Nayar 4.8
Henry Bergman 4.8
Guy Hamilton 4.8
Derek Cracknell 4.7
Larry J. Franco 4.7
Karen Davis 4.5
Charles Myers 4.5
Roy Button 4.5
Peter R. Scoppa 4.5
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Producers
Victor Lyndon 5.0
Arthur Freed 5.0
Darryl F. Zanuck 5.0
Sam Spiegel 4.9
Toshio Suzuki 4.8
Gary Kurtz 4.8
Stanley Kubrick 4.8
Alfred Hitchcock 4.8
Marc A. Hammer 4.8
Albert S. Ruddy 4.8
Julia Phillips 4.8
Michael Phillips 4.8
Syd Lim 4.8
Alain Sarde 4.8
Jeffrey Lau 4.8
John Wentworth 4.8
Neal Edelstein 4.8
David Foster 4.8
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Exec. Producers
Seiichiro Ujiie 5.0
Yutaka Narita 5.0
Robert Evans 5.0
Michael Shamberg 4.8
Michael Beugg 4.8
Kathleen Kennedy 4.8
Pierre Edelman 4.8
Michael Kuhn 4.8
Jake Myers 4.7
Erica Steinberg 4.7
Yasuyoshi Tokuma 4.6
Miky Lee 4.5
Christopher Ball 4.5
William Tyrer 4.5
Charlie Kaufman 4.5
Ken Kao 4.5
E. Bennett Walsh 4.5
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Writers
Ingmar Bergman 5.0
Akira Kurosawa 5.0
Hideo Oguni 5.0
Michael Wilson 5.0
Hayao Miyazaki 4.8
Stanley Kubrick 4.8
Hampton Fancher 4.8
Kim Krizan 4.8
George Miller 4.8
Michael Herr 4.8
Orson Welles 4.8
Terry Southern 4.8
I. A. L. Diamond 4.8
James Agee 4.8
Roger Avary 4.7
Charlie Chaplin 4.7
Wong Kar-wai 4.6
David Lynch 4.6
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Original Writers
Mario Puzo 5.0
Uma Thurman 4.5
Nicholas Pileggi 4.5
Arthur Laurents 4.5
Jerome Robbins 4.5
J.R.R. Tolkien 4.3
Andrew Stanton 4.3
Pete Docter 4.3
Philip K. Dick 4.2
Thomas Harris 4.2
Kim Krizan 4.2
Raymond Chandler 4.2
Mary Shelley 4.2
Dennis Lehane 4.0
Elmore Leonard 4.0
Bram Stoker 4.0
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Casting
Terry Liebling 5.0
Ronnie Yeskel 4.8
Fred Roos 4.8
Shari Rhodes 4.8
Leonard Murphy 4.8
Al Ernest Garcia 4.8
James Liggat 4.7
Louis DiGiaimo 4.7
Vic Ramos 4.6
Phyllis Huffman 4.5
Ruth Lambert 4.5
Jenny Jue 4.5
Koko Maeda 4.5
Zsolt Csutak 4.5
Leon Vitali 4.5
Lucky Englander 4.5
Jane Brody 4.5
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Editors
Akira Kurosawa 5.0
Peter Zinner 4.8
David Lynch 4.8
George Tomasini 4.8
Yang Jin-mo 4.8
William Reynolds 4.8
Wong Ming-Lam 4.8
Walter Murch 4.8
Sheldon Kahn 4.8
Owen Marks 4.8
Willard Nico 4.8
Sally Menke 4.7
Tom Cross 4.7
Ray Lovejoy 4.7
Tom Rolf 4.7
Duwayne Dunham 4.7
Charlie Chaplin 4.7
William Chang 4.6
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Cinematography
Atsushi Okui 5.0
Boris Kaufman 5.0
Harold Rosson 5.0
Asakazu Nakai 5.0
Gregg Toland 4.8
Arthur Edeson 4.8
Barry Sonnenfeld 4.8
Andrew Lau 4.8
John A. Alonzo 4.8
Frederick Elmes 4.7
John Alcott 4.7
Gilbert Taylor 4.7
Robert Burks 4.7
Joseph Walker 4.7
Roland Totheroh 4.7
Gordon Willis 4.6
Owen Roizman 4.6
Vilmos Zsigmond 4.5
Hong Kyung-pyo 4.5
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Add. Photography
Michael Chapman 5.0
Robert Ward 5.0
Kelvin Pike 4.8
Bobby Greene 4.8
Bob Gorelick 4.8
Yang Hyeon-seok 4.8
Helmut Prein 4.8
Pierre Gill 4.8
Davon Slininger 4.8
Christopher Norr 4.8
Robert C. Thomas 4.8
R. Adam Chambers 4.8
Albert Bettcher 4.8
Ernest Day 4.8
George Hill 4.8
Mike Joyce 4.8
Earl Gilbert 4.8
Harlow Stengel 4.8
Edward Scaife 4.8
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Production Design
Dean Tavoularis 5.0
Ken Adam 5.0
Richard Sylbert 4.8
John Barry 4.8
Allan Starski 4.8
Joe Alves 4.8
Patricia Norris 4.7
Jack Fisk 4.7
Paul Sylbert 4.7
William Chang 4.6
Kristi Zea 4.5
Yohei Taneda 4.5
Norman Reynolds 4.5
Darren Gilford 4.5
Jane Musky 4.5
Boris Leven 4.5
John Box 4.5
Charles D. Hall 4.5
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Art Direction
Yoji Takeshige 5.0
Angelo P. Graham 5.0
Leslie Dilley 4.9
Bence Erdelyi 4.8
David Doran 4.8
Sam Hudecki 4.8
Tibor Lázár 4.8
Kazuo Oga 4.8
David Crank 4.8
John Hoesli 4.8
Henry Bumstead 4.8
Wade B. Rubottom 4.8
Lyle R. Wheeler 4.8
Cedric Gibbons 4.6
Richard Day 4.6
Eggert Ketilsson 4.5
Eric Sundahl 4.5
Gergely Rieger 4.5
Benjamin Nowicki 4.5
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Set Decoration
George R. Nelson 4.9
Edwin B. Willis 4.8
Chris Sanford 4.8
Jennie Harris 4.8
Philip Smith 4.8
Frank R. McKelvy 4.8
Ruby R. Levitt 4.8
Jerry Wunderlich 4.8
Daniel Bradford 4.7
Edward G. Boyle 4.7
Sam Comer 4.6
Walter M. Scott 4.6
Thomas Little 4.6
Ray Moyer 4.5
Victor J. Zolfo 4.5
Sarah Contant 4.5
Paul Healy 4.5
Noelle King 4.5
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Special Effects
Joe Lombardi 5.0
David H. Watkins 5.0
Wally Veevers 5.0
Daniel Hays 5.0
Brian Johnson 4.9
Logan Frazee 4.8
Philip Bartko 4.8
David Domeyer 4.8
John P. Fulton 4.8
Milt Rice 4.8
Cliff Richardson 4.8
Sass Bedig 4.7
Robert Cole 4.5
Steve Cremin 4.5
Mark Stanton 4.5
Michael Rifkin 4.5
Corey Pritchett 4.5
Jack Jennings 4.5
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Visual Effects
Cody Stoof 4.8
Matthew Plummer 4.8
Pierre Rousseau 4.8
Nicholas Murphy 4.8
Alain Carsoux 4.8
Annie Normandin 4.8
Tim McGovern 4.8
H. R. Giger 4.8
John P. Fulton 4.8
Andrew Jackson 4.7
Paul Lambert 4.7
Douglas Trumbull 4.7
Farciot Edouart 4.5
Viktor Müller 4.5
Mark Owen Forker 4.5
Andrew Kalicki 4.5
Dave Levine 4.5
Eliot Speed 4.5
Will Lucas 4.5
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Stunts
Roy Scammell 4.8
Yoo Mi-jin 4.8
Abel Kocsis 4.8
Gaspar Adam 4.8
Kristof Belovai 4.8
Orsányi Iván 4.8
Péter Sokorai 4.8
Rob de Groot 4.8
Viktor Sokorai 4.8
Zoltan Szanto 4.8
Dalton Rondell 4.8
Josh Yadon 4.8
Peter Diamond 4.8
Sean Morrissey 4.7
Ken Lesco 4.7
Yoo Sang-seob 4.7
Harvey Parry 4.7
Gáspár Szabó 4.5
Mark Norby 4.5
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Choreography
Jerome Robbins 4.5
Toni Basil 4.0
Aakomon Jones 4.0
John O'Connell 4.0
Michael Arnold 3.8
Marguerite Pomerhn Derricks 3.8
Paul Becker 3.5
Terry Notary 3.5
Cynthia Onrubia 3.5
Francesca Jaynes 3.2
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Composers
Nino Rota 5.0
Carmine Coppola 5.0
Michael Galasso 5.0
David Lynch 5.0
Alfred Newman 5.0
Bernard Herrmann 4.9
Joe Hisaishi 4.8
Jack Nitzsche 4.8
Roel A. García 4.8
Justin Hurwitz 4.7
Ennio Morricone 4.7
Adolph Deutsch 4.7
Charlie Chaplin 4.7
Franz Waxman 4.6
Max Steiner 4.5
Cho Young-wuk 4.5
Hugo Friedhofer 4.5
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Songs
Stephen Sondheim 4.5
Fred Ebb 3.2
John Kander 3.2
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Sound
John Cox 5.0
Catherine Rowe 5.0
Nathan Boxer 5.0
Leslie Hodgson 5.0
Jim Shields 5.0
Winston Ryder 4.8
Pat Jackson 4.8
Mark Berger 4.8
Lee Chung-gyu 4.8
Theo Green 4.8
Mildred Iatrou 4.8
Jamie Hardt 4.8
Bill Rowe 4.8
James Fritch 4.8
Howard Beals 4.8
Bonnie Koehler 4.8
Bernard Weiser 4.8
John Neff 4.8
Jacques Maumont 4.8
Jon Huck 4.8
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Costume Design
William Chang 5.0
Edward Stevenson 5.0
Ruth Morley 4.8
Amy Stofsky 4.8
Cheri Reed 4.8
Orry-Kelly 4.8
Lilla Vasvári 4.8
Adrian 4.8
Walter Plunkett 4.7
Mark Avery 4.6
John Mollo 4.6
Edith Head 4.5
Jacqueline West 4.5
Kelly Porter 4.5
Choi Se-yeon 4.5
Tiny Nicholls 4.5
Anthea Sylbert 4.5
Irene Sharaff 4.5
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Makeup
Ken Chase 5.0
Jack H. Young 5.0
Fred B. Phillips 5.0
Kwan Lee-na 4.8
Torsten Witte 4.8
Karen Bradley 4.8
Christina Smith 4.8
Jim Gillespie 4.8
Kim Ka-ryoon 4.8
Harry Ray 4.8
Julie L. Pearce 4.8
Allan Snyder 4.8
William Tuttle 4.8
Web Overlander 4.8
Jack Dawn 4.8
Charles Gemora 4.8
George Frost 4.8
Stuart Freeborn 4.7
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Hairstyling
Barbara Ritchie 5.0
Iain Jones 4.8
Jon Henry Gordon 4.8
Sherry Wilson 4.8
Vera Tomei 4.8
Sydney Guilaroff 4.7
Alice Monte 4.7
Jerry DeCarlo 4.5
Bill Fletcher 4.5
Jacklin Masteran 4.5
Mona Orr 4.5
Sarah Monzani 4.5
Iloe Flewelling 4.5
Linda D. Flowers 4.3
Verne Caruso 4.3
Romaine Greene 4.3
Jean Burt Reilly 4.3
Edie Panda 4.3
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Studios
Horizon Pictures 5.0
Mosfilm 5.0
SF Studios 5.0
Studio Ghibli 4.8
Hawk Films 4.8
Peregrine 4.8
Nibariki 4.8
Tokuma Shoten 4.8
Kennedy Miller Productions 4.8
Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions 4.8
Absurda 4.8
Bavaria Film 4.8
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