Stripper’ was due to star Marilyn Monroe and Pat Boone. Unfortunately, Monroe died and Boone pulled out on moral grounds. Still… he got to work with Joanne Woodward instead.

In 1981 he was listed by William Goldman as being one of the three best living directors for handling epic films, the other two being David Lean and Richard Attenborough. He died in July 1989.

4. Woody Allen – 1977 – Annie Hall

Now we come to probably the most prolific and multi-talented name on the list. Director of 48 films, nominated for the Best Director Oscar seven times, Woody Allen is also known as a writer, actor, comedian, and musician.

Another person born in NYC, USA, this time in December 1935, he started writing jokes and TV scripts in the 1950s. Inthe public.

3. George Roy Hill – 1973 – The Sting

Top three time!

Born in Minnesota, USA in December 1921 to parents who owned the Minneapolis Tribune and, as every bio of him says at this point, no relation to George W. Hill, director and cinematographer of numerous silent movies and early sound films in the 1920s and 1930s. As a youth he had a love of flying, got his pilot’s license at 16, and aeroplanes (particularly crashing ones) feature in some of his later films.

Following the war, he served as a US Marine Corps cargo pilot in WW2, he moved into the media. Starting as newspaper reporter he then graduated to theatre acting until he was recalled to active service in Korea. On his return he turned to television