5 Directors Who Mastered Multiple Genres

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Filmmakers are usually associated with one particular genre. Martin Scorsese is known for directing gangster movies. Jordan Peele is known for directing socially conscious horror movies. Alfred Hitchcock was renowned for his thrillers, David Lynch is renowned for his surrealistic horror films, and Guillermo del Toro is renowned for blending dark fantasy with social commentary. But some directors have mastered more than one genre. From Quentin Tarantino to Stanley Kubrick, many legendary filmmakers have contributed all-time classics to multiple genres.

Steven Spielberg is a true master of the filmmaking craft. His breakout movie, Jaws, reshaped the entire film industry. Hollywood studios have spent the last half-century trying to recapture the success of Spielberg’s Hitchcockian shark thriller. Everything Spielberg touches turns to genre gold. Raiders of the Lost Ark is the ultimate action-adventure movie. Close Encounters of the Third Kind is the ultimate UFO movie. Saving Private Ryan is the ultimate war movie. Jurassic Park is the ultimate monster movie.

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The director continues to experiment with genre to this day. Last year, he directed his first musical with a dazzling, deeply cinematic remake of West Side Story that was praised as an improvement over its widely adored predecessor.

Since he burst onto the indie scene in the 1990s, Quentin Tarantino has become one of the most prominent figures in genre cinema. After kicking off his career with a trio of stylish crime thrillers – his nonlinear heist caper Reservoir Dogs, his darkly comedic anthology Pulp Fiction, and his underappreciated Elmore Leonard adaptation Jackie Brown – Tarantino started