hu 3900 : science fiction film @ wpi.edu

hu 3900 : science fiction film
c term 2016
t 3.00-4.50 : ak 232

jim cocola

associate professor of
literature, film, and media

department of
humanities and arts

worcester polytechnic institute

detail from promotional materials for
gamera (1965), dir. noriaki yusa

seminar description

if science fiction came into its own in the nineteenth century, then science fiction film emerged in the twentieth century as a complementary and contrastive phenomenon that drew on, extended, and transformed the themes and tropes of the genre. in this seminar we will consider the aesthetic, political, and social impact of a range of science fiction films from georges méliès's le voyage dans la lune (1902) through guillermo del toro's pacific rim (2013), looking also to works in related film genres such as the action film and the western, to works of film criticism and theory, and to works in other media forms from graphic novels and short stories to radio plays and television shows. project options will include critical and interpretative essays, digital humanities pursuits, documentary mashups, and original short films.

seminar objectives

to complete a substantial creative and/or critical project relating to science fiction film

to gain a breadth and depth of knowledge relating to the history of science fiction film

to become more conversant in discussing the history of science fiction film

extremely long list of science fiction films

1891-1900

Georges Méliès, The Astronomer's Dream (1898)

1901-1910

Walter R. Booth, An Over-Incubated Baby (1901)

Georges Méliès, A Trip to the Moon (1902)

Georges Méliès, The Impossible Voyage (1904)

Walter R. Booth, The '?' Motorist (1906)

Georges Méliès, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1907)

J. Searle Dawley, Frankenstein (1910)

1911-1920

Georges Méliès, The Conquest of the Pole (1912)

Louis J. Gasnier, et al., The Exploits of Elaine (1914)

Joseph W. Smiley, Life Without a Soul (1915)

Stuart Paton, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)

1921-1930

Yakov Protazanov, Aelita (1924)

John G. Blystone, The Last Man on Earth (1924)

Harry Hoyt, The Lost World (1925)

Fritz Lang, Metropolis (1927)

Noel Pemberton Billing, High Treason (1929)

Benjamin Christensen, et al., The Mysterious Island (1929)

Fritz Lang, Woman in the Moon (1929)

David Butler, Just Imagine (1930)

Ben F. Wilson, The Voice from the Sky (1930)

1931-1935

James Whale, Frankenstein (1931)

William Cameron Menzies and Marcel Varnel, Chandu, The Magician (1932)

Karl Hartl, F.P.1 (1932)

Erle C. Kenton, Island of Lost Souls (1932)

Felix E. Feist, Deluge (1933)

A . Edward Sutherland, International House (1933)

James Whale, The Invisible Man (1933)

Harry Piel, Master of the World (1934)

James Whale, Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Otto Brower and B. Reeves Eason, The Phantom Empire (1935)

1936-1940

Frederick Stephani, Flash Gordon (1936)

Lambert_Hillyer, The Invisible Ray (1936)

Robert Stevenson, The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)

Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times (1936)

William Cameron Menzies, Things to Come (1936)

B. Reeves Eason and Joseph Kane, Underseas Kingdom (1936)

Michael Curitz, The Walking Dead (1936)

Alan James and Ray Taylor, Dick Tracy (1937)

Sam Katzman, Sky Racket (1937)

Ford Beebe et al., Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)

Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodland, Buck Rogers (1939)

Roiwland V. Lee, Son of Frankenstein (1939)

John H. Auer, S.O.S. Tidal Wave (1939)

Ernest_B._Schoedsack, Dr. Cyclops (1940)

Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)

1941-1945

William Witney and John English, The Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)

Lew Landers, The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)

James W. Horne, Captain Midnight (1942)

Erle C. Kenton, The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)

Lambert Hillyer, The Batman (1943)

Roy William Neill, Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943)

Elmer Clifton and John English, Captain America (1944)

Erle C. Kenton, House of Frankenstein (1944)

George Sherman, The Lady and the Monster (1944)

Erle C. Kenton, House of Dracula (1945)

Spencer Gordon Bennet and Fred C. Brannon, The Purple Monster Strikes (1945)

1946-1950

Spencer Gordon Bennet and Thomas Carr, Brick Bradford (1947)

Wallace Fox, Jack Armstrong (1947)

Charles Barton, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Alfred J. Goulding, Dick Barton: Special Agent (1948)

Spencer Gordon Bennet and Thomas Carr, Superman (1948)

Godfrey Grayson, Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949)

Fred C. Brannon, King of the Rocket Men (1949)

Bernard Knowles, The Perfect Woman (1949)

Spencer Gordon Bennet, Atom Man vs. Superman (1950)

Irving Pichel, Destination Moon (1950)

Godfrey Grayson, Dick Barton at Bay (1950)

Kurt Neumann, Rocketship X-M (1950)

1951-1955

Spencer Gordon Bennet and Wallace Grissell, Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (1951)

Robert Wise, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Arch Oboler, Five (1951)

Lesley Selander, Flight to Mars (1951)

Fred C. Brannon, Flying Disc Man from Mars (1951)

Edgar G. Ulmer, The Man from Planet X (1951)

Alexander Mackendrick, The Man in the White Suit (1951)

Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks, The Thing from Another World (1951)

Rudolph_Maté, When Worlds Collide (1951)

Terrence Fisher, Four Sided Triangle (1952)

Fred C. Brannon, Radar Men from the Moon (1952)

Harry Horner, Red Planet Mars (1952)

Fred C. Brannon, Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952)

Charles Lamont, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)

Arthur Hilton, Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)

Fred C. Brannon, et al., Commando Cody, Sky Marshal of the Universe (1953)

Felix E. Feist, Donovan's Brain (1953)

William Cameron Menzies, Invaders from Mars (1953)

Jack Arnold, It Came from Outer Space (1953)

Spencer Gordon Bennet, The Lost Planet (1953)

Curt Siodmak and Herbert L. Strock, The Magnetic Monster (1953)

Eugène Lourié, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

Byron Haskin, The War of the Worlds (1953)

Richard Fleischer, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

Arthur Hilton, Cat-Women of the Moon (1954)

Jack Arnold, Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

David MacDonald, Devil Girl from Mars (1954)

Ishirō Honda, Gojira / Godzilla (1954)

W. Lee Wilder, Killers from Space (1954)

Jack Arnold, Revenge of the Creature (1954)

Richard Carlson, et al., Riders to the Stars (1954)

Gordon_Douglas, Them! (1954)

Jack Finney, The Body Snatchers (1955)

Byron Haskin, Conquest of Space (1955)

Roger Corman, Day the World Ended (1955)

Robert Gordon, It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)

Bert I. Gordon, King Dinosaur (1955)

Val Guest, The Quartermass Xperiment (1955)

Jack Arnold, Tarantula (1955)

Joseph M. Newman, This Island Earth (1955)

1956-1960

Michael Anderson, 1984 (1956)

Reginald Le Borg, The Black Sleep (1956)

Ed Wood, Bride of the Monster (1956)

John Sherwood, The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

Fred F. Sears, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)

Cy Roth, Fire Maidens from Outer Space (1956)

Fred M. Wilcox, Forbidden Planet (1956)

John Gilling, The Gamma People (1956)

Terry Morse and Ishirō Honda, Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)

Don Siegel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Roger Corman, It Conquered the World (1956)

Roger Corman, Not of This Earth (1956)

Ed Wood, Plan 9 From Outer Space (1956)

Winston Jones, Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers (1956)

Koji Shima, Warning from Space (1956)

Edward Bernds, World Without End (1956)

Les Norman and Joseph Losey, X the Unknown (1956)

Nathan H. Juran, 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

Bert I. Gordon, The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)

Bert I. Gordon, Beginning of the End (1957)

Edward Ludwig, The Black Scorpion (1957)

Nathan H. Juran, The Brain From Planet Arous (1957)

Terence Fisher, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Bert I. Gordon, The Cyclops (1957)

Nathan H. Juran, The Deadly Mantis (1957)

Montgomery Tully, Escapement (1957)

Jack Arnold, The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Edward Cahn, Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)

Herman Hoffman, The Invisible Boy (1957)

Kurt Neumann, Kronos (1957)

John Sherwood, The Monolith Monsters (1957)

Ishirō Honda, The Mysterians / Earth Defense Force (1957)

Val Guest, Quartermass 2 (1957)

Boris Petroff, The Unearthly (1957)

Bert I. Gordon, Earth v. the Spider (1958)

Arthur Crabtree, Fiend Without a Face (1958)

Robert Day, First Man Into Space (1958)

Kurt Neumann, The Fly (1958)

Irvin S. Yeaworth, The Blob (1958)

Quentin Lawrence, The Trollenberg Terror (1958)

Ishirō Honda, The H-Man (1958)

Bert I. Gordon, War of the Colossal Beast (1958)

Ronald V. Ashcroft, Astounding She Monster (1957)

Bruno VeSota, The Brain Eaters (1958)

Byron Haskin, From the Earth to the Moon (1958)

Gene Fowler, Jr., I Married a Monster From Outer Space (1958)

Edward L. Cahn, It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958)

Richard E. Cunha, Missile to the Moon (1958)

Kenneth G. Crane, Monster from Green Hell (1958)

Bernard L. Kowalski, Night of the Blood Beast (1958)

Edward Bernds, Queen of Outer Space (1958)

Jack Arnold, The Space Children (1958)

Gilbert Gunn, The Strange World of Planet X / Cosmic Monsters (1958)

Roger Corman, Teenage Cave Man (1958)

Robert J. Gurney, Jr., Terror From the Year 5000 (1958)

Irvin Yeaworth, 4D Man (1959)

Spencer G. Bennet, The Atomic Submarine (1959)

Eugène Lourié, Behemoth, the Sea Monster (1959)

Riccardo Freda, Caltiki -- The Immortal Monster (1959)

Herbert S. Greene, The Cosmic Man (1959)

Kurt Maetzig, First Spaceship on Venus (1959)

David Lowell Rich, Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959)

Tom Boutross and Robert Clarke, Hideous Sun Demon (1959)

Edward L. Cahn, Invisible Invaders (1959)

Henry Levin, Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Stanley Kramer, On the Beach (1959)

Edward Bernds, Return of the Fly (1959)

Virgil W. Vogel, Space Invasion of Lapland (1959)

Tom Graeff, Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)

Gerardo de Leon, Terror is a Man (1959)

Roger Corman and Jack Hill, The Wasp Woman (1959)

David Bradley, 12 to the Moon (1960)

Edgar G. Ulmer, The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)

Ib Melchior, The Angry Red Planet (1960)

Spencer Gordon Bennet, The Atomic Submarine (1960)

Coleman Francis, The Beast of Yucca Flats (1960)

Edgar G. Ulmer, Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)

Phil Tucker, The Cape Canaveral Monsters (1960)

Will Vinton, Dinosaurs! – A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time! (1960)

Roger Corman, The Last Woman on Earth (1960)

Irwin Allen, The Lost World (1960)

Basil Dearden, Man in the Moon (1960)

George Pal, The Time Machine (1960)

Wolf Rilla, Village of the Damned (1960)

Norman Taurog, Visit to a Small Planet (1960)

1961-1965

Robert Stevenson, The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)

Val Guest, The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

Reginald Le Borg, The Flight That Disappeared (1961)

Eugène Lourié, Gorgo (1961)

Alain Resnais, Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

William Witney, Master of the World (1961)

Ishirō Honda, Mothra (1961)

Ishirō Honda, Varan the Unbelievable (1961)

Irwin Allen, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)

Joseph Green, The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

Steve Sekely, The Day of the Triffids (1962)

Sidney W. Pink, Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)

James Neilson, Moon Pilot (1962)

Ray Milland, Panic in Year Zero (1962)

William Marshall, The Phantom Planet (1962)

Pavel Klushantsev, Planeta Bur (1962)

Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds (1963)

Joseph Losey, The Damned (1963)

Jindřich Polák, Ikarie XB-1 (1963)

Richard Lester, The Mouse on the Moon (1963)

Robert Hutton, The Slime People (1963)

John Krish, The Unearthly Stranger (1963)

Roger Corman, X (1963)

Ishirō Honda, Atragon (1964)

Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Terence Fisher, The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)

Nathan H. Juran, H.G. Wells' First Men in the Moon (1964)

Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, The Last Man on Earth (1964)

Byron Haskin, Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)

Nicholas Webster, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)

Ib Melchior, The Time Travelers (1964)

Jean-Luc Godard, Alphaville (1965)

Jacques Tourneur, City Under the Sea / War-Gods of the Deep (1965)

Andrew Marton, Crack in the World (1965)

Don Sharp, The Curse of the Fly (1965)

Daniel Haller, Die, Monster, Die! (1965)

Gordon Flemyng, Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)

Robert Gaffney, Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965)

Noriaki Yuasa, Gamera (1965)

Ishirō Honda, Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster (1965)

Masao Kuroda and Sanae Yamamoto, Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon (1965)

Hugo Grimaldi, The Human Duplicators (1965)

Ishirō Honda, Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)

Hugo Grimaldi, Mutiny In Outer Space (1965)

John Gilling, The Night Caller from Outer Space (1965)

John Sturges, The Satan Bug (1965)

Elio Petri, The Tenth Victim (1965)

Pavel Klushantsev and Curtis Harrington, Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)

1966-1970

Leslie H. Martinson, Batman (1966)

Franklin Adreon, Cyborg 2087 (1966)

Gordon Flemyng, Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966)

Francis D. Lyon, Destination Inner Space (1966)

François Truffaut, Farenheit 451 (1966)

Richard Fleischer, Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Terence Fisher, Island of Terror (1966)

Karel Zeman, Journey to the Beginning of Time (1966)

Ian Curteis and John Croydon, The Projected Man (1966)

Curtis Harrington, Queen of Blood (1966)

John Frankenheimer, Seconds (1966)

Arthur C. Pierce, Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966)

Freddie Francis, The Deadly Bees (1967)

David L. Hewitt, Journey to the Center of Time (1967)

Freddie Francis, They Came from Beyond Space (1967)

Terence Fisher, Night of the Big Heat (1967)

Roy Ward Baker, Quartermass and the Pit (1967)

Montgomery Tully, The Terrornauts (1967)

Kazui Nihonmatsu, The X from Outer Space (1967)

Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Frank Telford, The Bamboo Saucer (1968)

Roger Vadim, Barbarella (1968)

Alain Resnais, Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968)

Nicholas Webster, Mission Mars (1968)

George A. Romero, Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Primo Zeglio, Orbita Mortal (1968)

Franklin J. Schaffner, Planet of the Apes (1968)

Byron Haskin, The Power (1968)

William Castle, Project X (1968)

Peter Bogdanovich, Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)

James Hill, Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)

Robert Parrish, Doppelgänger (1969)

Al Adamson, Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1969)

Jack Smight, The Illustrated Man (1969)

Ishirō Honda, Latitude Zero (1969)

John Sturges, Marooned (1969)

Jack Shea, The Monitors (1969)

Roy Ward Baker, Moon Zero Two (1969)

Ted Post, Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

Harald Reinl, Chariots of the Gods (1970)

Ralph Nelson, Charly (1970)

Joseph Sargent, Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

Dennis Muren, Equiniox (1970)

Roger Corman, GAS-S-S-S (1970)

Cornel Wilde, No Blade of Grass (1970)

1971-1975

Robert Wise, The Andromeda Strain (1971)

Robert F. Slatzer, Bigfoot (1971)

Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Don Taylor, Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)

Jim McBride, Glen and Randa (1971)

Ed Spiegel and Walon Green, The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)

Al Adamson, Horror of the Blood Monsters (1971)

Boris Sagal, Omega Man (1971)

George Lucas, THX 1138 (1971)

Josef Pinkava, The Wishing Machine (1971)

Larry Hagman, Beware! The Blob (1972)

J. Lee Thompson, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)

Douglas Trumbull, Silent Running (1972)

George Roy Hill, Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris (1972)

Lee Frost, The Thing With Two Heads (1972)

J. Lee Thompson, Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

René_Laloux, Fantastic Planet (1973)

Robert Fuest, The Final Programme (1973)

Woody Allen, Sleeper (1973)

Richard Fleischer, Soylent Green (1973)

Michael Crichton, Westworld (1973)

John Carpenter, Dark Star (1974)

Richard Wilner, The Devil's Triangle (1974)

Saul Bass, Phase IV (1974)

John Boorman, Zardoz (1974)

L.Q. Jones, A Boy And His Dog (1975)

John Hough, Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

Bill Rebane, The Giant Spider Invasion (1975)

Fred Warshofsky, The Outer Space Connection (1975)

Jim Sharman, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Norman Jewison, Rollerball (1975)

1976-1980

Ralph Nelson, Embryo (1976)

Richard T. Heffron, Futureworld (1976)

Michael Anderson, Logan's Run (1976)

Nicholas Roeg, The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Jack Smight, Damnation Alley (1977)

Donald Cammell, Demon Seed (1977)

Bert I. Gordon, Empire of the Ants (1977)

Derek Jarman, Jubilee (1977)

George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)

Bill Rebane, The Alpha Incident (1978)

Philip Kaufman, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Richard Donner, Superman (1978)

Ridley Scott, Alien (1979)

Gary Nelson, The Black Hole (1979)

Daniel Haller, Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century (1979)

George Miller, Mad Max (1979)

Lewis Gilbert, Moonraker (1979)

Andrei Tarkovsky, Stalker (1979)

Robert Wise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Ken Russell, Altered States (1980)

Jimmy T. Murakami, Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

Mike Hodges, Flash Gordon (1980)

Jeannot Szwarc, Somewhere in Time (1980)

Irvin Kershner, Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

1981-1985

John Carpenter, Escape from New York (1981)

Peter Hyams, Outland (1981)

David Cronenberg, Scanners (1981)

Ridley Scott, Blade Runner (1982)

Steven Spielberg, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Nicholas Meyer, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

John Carpenter, The Thing (1982)

Steven Lisberger, Tron (1982)

Steve De Jarnatt, Cherry 2000 (1983)

Enzo G. Castellari, The New Barbarians (1983)

Philip Kaufman, The Right Stuff (1983)

Lamont Johnson, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)

Richard Marquand, Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)

David Cronenberg, Videodrome (1983)

John Badham, War Games (1983)

Michael Radford, 1984 (1984)

Joseph Ruben, Dreamscape (1984)

David Lynch, Dune (1984)

Nick Castle, The Last Starfighter (1984)

Alex Cox, Repo Man (1984)

John Carpenter, Starman (1984)

James Cameron, The Terminator (1984)

Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future (1985)

Terry Gilliam, Brazil (1985)

Simon Wincer, D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)

Wolfgang Petersen, Enemy Mine (1985)

Joe Dante, Explorers (1985)

Tobe Hooper, Lifeforce (1985)

1986-1990

James Cameron, Aliens (1986)

John Hough, Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986)

Randal Kleiser, Flight of the Navigator (1986)

David Cronenberg, The Fly (1986)

Tobe Hooper, Invaders from Mars (1986)

John Badham, Short Circuit (1986)

Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Matthew Robbins, batteries not included (1987)

Gary Goddard, Masters of the Universe* (1987)

John McTiernan, Predator (1987)

Kon Ichikawa, Princess from the Moon (1987)

Paul Verhoeven, Robocop (1987)

Mel Brooks, Spaceballs (1987)

Graham Baker, Alien Nation (1988)

Katsuhiro Otomo, Akira (1988)

Kenneth Johnson, Short Circuit 2 (1988)

Chuck Russell, The Blob (1988)

John Carpenter, They Live (1988)

James Cameron, The Abyss (1989)

Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Stephen Herek, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

Craig R. Baxley, I Come in Peace (1990)

William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Jetsons: The Movie (1990)

Paul Verhoeven, Total Recall (1990)

1991-1995

Duncan Gibbins, Eve of Destruction (1991)

James Cameron, Terminator II: Judgment Day (1991)

Brett Leonard, The Lawnmower Man (1992)

Greg Beeman, Mom and Dad Save the World (1992)

Steve Barron, Coneheads (1993)

Harold Ramis, Groundhog Day (1993)

Steven Spielberg, Jurassic Park (1993)

Kenneth Branagh, Frankenstein (1994)

Roland Emmerich, Stargate (1994)

Terry Gilliam, 12 Monkeys (1995)

Ron Howard, Apollo 13 (1995)

Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, The City of Lost Children (1995)

Mamoru Oshii, Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Robert Longo, Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

Danny Cannon, Judge Dredd (1995)

Roger Donaldson, Species (1995)

Kathryn Bigelow, Strange Days (1995)

John Carpenter, Village of the Damned (1995)

1996-2000

Roland Emmerich, Independence Day (1996)

Tim Burton, Mars Attacks! (1996)

Harold Ramis, Multiplicity (1996)

Joe Pytka, Space Jam (1996)

Jonathan Frakes, Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Alejandro Amenábar, Abre Los Ojos (1997)

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Alien Resurrection (1997)

Robert Zemeckis, Contact (1997)

Vincenzo Natali, Cube (1997)

Paul W.S. Anderson, Event Horizon (1997)

Andrew Niccol, Gattaca (1997)

Stephen Spielberg, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

Barry Sonnenfeld, Men in Black (1997)

Paul Verhoeven, Starship Troopers (1997)

Alex Proyas, Dark City (1998)

Mimi Leder, Deep Impact (1998)

Stephen Hopkins, Lost in Space (1998)

Paul W.S. Anderson, Soldier (1998)

Peter Weir, The Truman Show (1998)

David Cronenberg, eXistenZ (1999)

Dean Parisot, Galaxy Quest (1999)

Brad Bird, The Iron Giant (1999)

The Wachowskis, The Matrix (1999)

George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)

Chris Roberts, Wing Commander (1999)

Paul Verhoeven, Hollow Man (2000)

Bryan Singer, X-Men (2000)

2001-2005

Steven Spielberg, A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Terence Gross, The Day the World Ended (2001)

Richard Kelly, Donnie Darko (2001)

Hironobu Sakaguchi and Moto Sakakibara, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)

John A. Davis, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)

James Mangold, Kate and Leopold (2001)

Barry Sonnenfeld, Men in Black II (2002)

Rintaro, Metropolis (2001)

Danny Boyle, 28 Days Later (2002)

Ron Underwood, The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)

Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, Lilo and Stitch (2002)

Stephen Spielberg, Minority Report (2002)

Paul W.S. Anderson, Resident Evil (2002)

Andrew Niccol, S1m0ne (2002)

George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)

Simon Wells, The Time Machine (2002)

Ron Clements and John Musker, Treasure Planet (2002)

The Wachowskis, The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

The Wachowskis, The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

Shinji Aramaki, Appleseed (2004)

Eric Bress and J. Mackye Grube, The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Roland Emmerich, The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Alex Proyas, I, Robot (2004)

Brad Bird, The Incredibles (2004)

Shane Carruth, Primer (2004)

Jonathan Frakes, Thunderbirds (2004)

Karyn Kusama, Aeon Flux (2005)

Andrzej Bartkowiak, Doom (2005)

Tim Story, Fantastic Four (2005)

Garth Jennings, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Joss Whedon, Serenity (2005)

Peter Hyams, A Sound of Thunder (2005)

George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Steven Spielberg, War of the Worlds (2005)

2006-2010

Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men (2006)

Tony Scott, Déjà Vu (2006)

Darren Aronofsky, The Fountain (2006)

Mamoru Hosoda, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)

Mike Judge, Idiocracy (2006)

Alejandro Agresti, The Lake House (2006)

Richard Linklater, A Scanner Darkly (2006)

Christian Volckman, Renaissance (2006)

Richard Kelly, Southland Tales (2006)

Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend (2007)

Stepehn J. Anderson, Meet the Robinsons (2007)

Lee Tamahori, Next (2007)

Robert Rodriguez, Planet Terror (2007)

John McTiernan, Predator (2007)

Danny Boyle, Sunshine (2007)

Michael Bay, Transformers (2007)

Matt Reeves, Cloverfield (2008)

Scott Derrickson, The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

Jon Favreau, Iron Man (2008)

Alex Rivera, Sleep Dealer (2008)

Dave Filoni, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

Andrew Stanton, Wall-E (2008)

Roland Emmerich, 2012 (2009)

John Schultz, Aliens in the Attic (2009)

James Cameron, Avatar (2009)

Neill Blomkamp, District 9 (2009)

Conrad Vernon and Rob Letterman, Monsters v. Aliens (2009)

Duncan Jones, Moon (2009)

Fede Álvarez, Panic Attack! (2009)

Jorge Blanco, Planet 51 (2009)

Vincenzo Natali, Splice (2009)

J.J. Abrams, Star Trek (2009)

Robert Schwentke, The Time Traveller's Wife (2009)

Michael Bay, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

Christopher Nolan, Inception (2010)

Jon Favreau, Iron Man 2 (2010)

Gareth Edwards, Monsters (2010)

Brothers Strause, Skyline (2010)

2011-2015

Joe Cornish, Attack the Block (2011)

Rupert Wyatt, Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., The Thing (2011)

Pete Travis, Judge Dredd (2012)

Rian Johnson, Looper (2012)

Barry Sonnenfeld, Men in Black 3 (2012)

Ridley Scott, Prometheus (2012)

Len Wiseman, Total Recall (2012)

Dominic Burns, U.F.O. (2012)

Stephen Sommers, When Worlds Collide (2012)

Guillermo del Toro, Pacific Rim (2013)

Shane Carruth, Upstream Color (2013)

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