Robert Richardson has only ever collaborated with women.
Errol Morris . He is perhaps best known and most revered for his 1988 documentary The Thin Blue Line , commonly cited among the best and most influential documentaries ever made . He has also made short films under contract for the controversial lab diagnostic company Theranos . John Sayles . He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Passion Fish ( 1992 ) and Lone Star ( 1996 ) . His film Men with Guns ( 1997 ) was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film . His directorial debut , Return of the Secaucus 7 ( 1980 ) , has been added to the National Film Registry . Martin Scorsese . Many of his films are also known for their depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity . Part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking , he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers in cinematic history . He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema , and has won an Academy Award , a Palme d'Or , Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award , Silver Lion , Grammy Award , Emmys , Golden Globes , BAFTAs , and DGA Awards . He has directed works such as the crime film Mean Streets ( 1973 ) , the vigilante-thriller Taxi Driver ( 1976 ) , the biographical sports drama Raging Bull ( 1980 ) , the black comedy The King of Comedy ( 1983 ) , the religious epic drama The Last Temptation of Christ ( 1988 ) , the crime film Goodfellas ( 1990 ) , the psychological thriller Cape Fear ( 1991 ) and the crime film Casino ( 1995 ) , some of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro . His work in television includes the pilot episode of the HBO series Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl , the latter of which he also co-created . He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the crime drama The Departed ( 2006 ) . Oliver Stone . He also wrote the acclaimed gangster movie Scarface ( 1983 ) . He continued the series with Born on the Fourth of July ( 1989 ) -- for which Stone won his second Best Director Oscar -- and Heaven & Earth ( 1993 ) . His latest film is Snowden ( 2016 ) . Quentin Tarantino . His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines , satirical subject matter , an aestheticization of violence , extended scenes of dialogue , ensemble casts consisting of established and lesser-known performers , references to popular culture , soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s , and features of neo-noir film . He is widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation . His career began in the late 1980s , when he wrote and directed My Best Friend 's Birthday , the screenplay of which formed the basis for True Romance . For his next effort , Tarantino paid homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s with Jackie Brown ( 1997 ) , an adaptation of the novel Rum Punch . His long-postponed Inglourious Basterds , which tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany 's political leadership , was released in 2009 to positive reviews . His eighth film , the mystery Western The Hateful Eight , was released in its roadshow version December 25 , 2015 , in 70 mm film format , complete with opening `` overture '' and halfway-point intermission , after the fashion of big-budget films of the 1960s and early 1970s . He has received many industry awards , including two Academy Awards , two Golden Globe Awards , two BAFTA Awards and the Palme d'Or , and has been nominated for an Emmy and a Grammy . He was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time in 2005 . Robert Richardson (cinematographer) . Richardson is and has been a frequent collaborator for several directors , including Oliver Stone , John Sayles , Errol Morris , Quentin Tarantino , and Martin Scorsese .