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10 Most Influential Filmmakers of the 2010s
These filmmakers made waves in the past decade — for better or worse.
This past decade as been a whilrwind for the film industry. With a lack of diversity beginning to be acknowledged, things are starting to change. New stories are being told, and the current socio-political climate has created some well founded anger in those stories. It’s impossible to know for sure, but the 2010s may be the decade that film scholars look back on as the one that filmmakers decided to take on issues of class division, race relations, and tapped into copious amounts of childhood nostalgia. Here are some of the filmmakers that made the biggest impact in the past decade, and why their respective impacts are positive or not.
Phil Lord and Chris Miller
Who would have thought that two dudes working exclusively with major studio IP would have one of the most distinct cinematic voices of the 2010s? None of their films should have been as good as they were — a reboot of a forgotten television series (21 Jump Street), a movie based on a children’s toy brand (The Lego Movie), and a multiverse-introducing animated…
