The leading figures of cinema are mainly those directors who have marked time with his masterpieces.

First half of the twentieth century

·  Buster Keaton (1895): director of the silent film that was devoted to the address after achieving great success as an actor.

·  Marx Brothers (1887): comic group stressed that because the followers of the great comedians of the silent film.

·  Charlie Chaplin (1898): dumb most famous actor who, like Keaton, he became a film director.

·  Es uno de los realizadores más importante de Hollywood. IS one of the most important filmmakers in Hollywood.

·  Frank Capra (1897): Director of Italian origin creator of great films in the 30s and 40 as How beautiful it is to live! .

·  Alfred Hitchcock (1899): English director creator of the best suspense movies in the history of cinema.

·  William Wyler (1902): succeeded in winning all óscars with his 1959 film Ben-Hur.

·  Billy Wilder (1906): Director Samuel Wilder's nickname. She began as a scriptwriter for Paramount.

Second half of the twentieth century

·  Stanley Kubrick (1928): director of 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of the best films in the history of cinema.

·  Woody Allen (1935) is one of the most prol íficos directors of the modern era of cinema. Es ganador de varios óscars. It is the winner of several óscars.

·  Francis Ford Coppola (1939) is one of the most influential film directors. He began his film career as a screenwriter.

·  Martin Scorsese (1942) is one of the most important film directors of the moment.

·  Oliver Stone (1946): director who shows a highly political in his films always in favor of their ideology. Their escenografías resemble a documentary.

·  Steven Spielberg (1946): great director who was fascinated with this world from an early age.

·  Pedro Almodovar (1951): this is the most important filmmaker and winner of Spain

·  Quentin Tarantino (1963): convitió one of the great film directors of Hollywood in a short time.

Remarks

Georges Méliès was the creator, a principios del siglo XX, the genre of science fiction film as a result of the recording of the film trip to the moon in the year 1902.

The Lumiére brothers were the first to shoot images real and present publicly.. Some of his most important recordings are the "arrival of a train station Ciotat" and "Out of the workers of the factory Lumiére."

These two brothers called Jen Louis and Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas are the precursors of cinema and the cinema that was patented by them in the year 1894.