Hollywood

Louis Lumiere (1860's-1948) and Auguste Lumiere (1862-1954) are film innovators.

D.W. Griffith (d. 1948), Léon Gaumont (b. 1860's) and Charles Pathé (1860's-1957) are likewise film innovators.

Eadweard Muybridge (d. 1900's) and Louis Le Prince (1841-1890/1897) are film innovators as well.

Guglielmo Marconi (d. 1937), Reginald Fessenden (1866-1930's), Philo T. Farnsworth (b. 1906), John Logie Baird and Vladimir K. Zworykin (d. 1980's) are radio and television inventors.

Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky (d. 1950's) and William Wadsworth Hodkinson are some of the best and most influential media moguls in history.

Barney Balaban, A.J. Balaban (d. 1962) and Sam Katz (1890's-1961) are movie-exhibition pioneers.

William Fox (d. 1950's) and Darryl F. Zanuck (b. 1902) are likewise media moguls.

Jack Warner (1890's-1978) is also one of the most successful media moguls ever, whose other brothers include Sam Warner (d. 1920's), Harry Warner (d. 1950's) and Albert Warner (d. 1960's).

Benjamin Franklin Keith (d. 1914), Edward Franklin Albee II (d. 1930) and Martin Beck (b. 1860's) are likewise film pioneers.

Samuel Goldwyn (d. 1974), Louis B. Mayer (d. 1957) and Marcus Loew are the other media moguls.

Carl Laemmle (d. 1930's), Harry Cohn (1890's-1950's) and J. Arthur Rank (d. 1972) are likewise media moguls.

David O. Selznick (1902-1960's), Cecil B. DeMille (d. 1950's) and Merian C. Cooper (1893-1973) are likewise film pioneers.

Billy Wilder (1906-2002) and Otto Preminger (1905-1986) are Austrian-American film directors.

Michael Curtiz (d. 1962), William Wyler (1902-1981) and John Huston (1906-1980's) are also famous Hollywood directors.

Elia Kazan (b. 1909) and Arthur Miller (d. 2005) are trailblazers in both Broadway and Hollywood.

George Cukor (1890's-1980's), Victor Fleming (d. 1949), Sam Wood (d. 1949) and Fred Zinnemann (1900's-1997) are also Hollywood trailblazers.

Akira Kurosawa (d. 1998), Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) and Satyajit Ray (1921-1990's) are likewise influential filmmakers.

John Grierson (1898-1972) and Alexander Korda (1893-1950's) are British film pioneers.

Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola (b. 1930's) and George Lucas (b. 1942) are Hollywood's most influential visionaries.

Peter Bodganovich (1930's-2022) and William Friedkin (1930's-2020's) are also Hollywood directors.