Religious Affiliation of Other Film Directors:
Aside from film directors named on other lists on this website (on such lists as "The Film 100: The 100 Most Influential People in the History of Film"), below are other directors. This page is in no way comprehensive. We have not yet made any effort to collect information about film directors generally. We have focused on specific lists of directors. Nearly all of the individuals below were extracted to this page from the online famous people database NNDB.com under by searching the occupation of "director," along with the information from the "Religion" field of their entry. These religious affiliations should be read cautiously, and may only be preliminary and perfunctory, as much of the data in NNDB.com is compiled through automated and academically non-stringent methods. The database is a useful resource, but is known to have errors.
| Darren Aronofsky | Jewish |
| Hal Ashby | Latter-day Saint |
| Bob Balaban | Jewish |
| Peter Bogdanovich | Jewish; Vegan |
| Mel Brooks | Jewish |
| Abel Ferrara | Catholic |
| Amy Heckerling | Jewish; Scientology |
| Arthur Hiller | Jewish |
| Lloyd Kaufman | Jewish |
| Henry Koster | Jewish |
| Neil LaBute | Latter-day Saint |
| John Landis | Jewish |
| Robert Z. Leonard | Jewish |
| Mike Leigh | Jewish |
| Anatole Litvak | Jewish |
| Garry Marshall | Catholic |
| Paul Mazursky | Jewish |
| Bill Melendez | Catholic |
| Jonathan Miller | Jewish |
| Michael Moore | Catholic |
| Irvin Kershner | Buddhist |
| Emeric Pressburger | Jewish |
| Jeremy Leven | Jewish |
| Otto Preminger | Jewish |
| Martin Ritt | Jewish |
| Stuart Rosenberg | Jewish |
| Ken Russell | Catholic |
| Joel Schumacher | Jewish |
| Bryan Singer | Jewish |
| Kevin Smith | Catholic |
| Barry Sonnenfeld | Jewish |
| Guillermo del Toro | other |
| Jon Turteltaub | Jewish |
| Wayne Wang | Christian |
| Jerry Zucker | Jewish |
| Tim Burton | nominal Protestant background |
| Rob Cohen | Buddhist |
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Webpage created 28 June 2005. Last modified 21 November 2005.