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Charlie Chaplin 1889–1977Film, Television & ComedyBritish-American actor and filmmaker whose Tramp character became an icon of the silent film era.Steven Spielberg b. 1946Film, Television & ComedyDirector and producer whose blockbusters and dramas have defined American cinema for five decades.Alfred Hitchcock 1899–1980Film, Television & ComedyDirector whose Hollywood films and television presence defined modern suspense and influenced generations of American filmmakers.George Lucas b. 1944Film, Television & ComedyFilmmaker who created Star Wars and Indiana Jones, later selling Lucasfilm to Disney for over $4 billion.Orson Welles 1915–1985Film, Television & ComedyDirector, actor, and broadcaster whose innovations in film, radio, and theater reshaped American visual and dramatic storytelling.Stanley Kubrick 1928–1999Film, Television & ComedyDirector whose technically ambitious films redefined science fiction, war, horror, and cinematic authorship.Martin Scorsese b. 1942Film, Television & ComedyDirector and preservation advocate whose films and institutions have shaped both American cinema and understanding of its history.Clint Eastwood b. 1930Film, Television & ComedyActor and director whose Westerns and gritty dramas, from Dirty Harry to Unforgiven, defined American masculinity.Jim Henson 1936–1990Film, Television & ComedyCreator of the Muppets and a central figure in Sesame Street and family television.Tom Cruise b. 1962Film, Television & ComedyAction superstar and producer whose Mission: Impossible franchise and box office dominance span four decades.Sidney Poitier 1927–2022Film, Television & ComedyFirst Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, breaking barriers in Hollywood.Gene Kelly 1912–1996Film, Television & ComedyDanced in a T-shirt instead of tails, co-directed Singin' in the Rain, and rebuilt how dance is filmed.Quentin Tarantino b. 1963Film, Television & ComedyDirector of Pulp FictionBuster Keaton 1895–1966Film, Television & ComedySilent-film comedian and director whose visual precision, stunts, and deadpan style became foundational to screen comedy.Denzel Washington b. 1954Film, Television & ComedyAcademy Award-winning actor and director regarded as one of the greatest actors of his generation.Francis Ford Coppola b. 1939Film, Television & ComedyDirector and producer whose landmark films helped define the New Hollywood era and modern American epic filmmaking.John Ford 1894–1973Film, Television & ComedyDirector of Westerns and Depression dramas who won four directing Academy Awards.Spike Lee b. 1957Film, Television & ComedyFour decades of American films about race that refuse to end in reconciliation.Frank Capra 1897–1991Film, Television & ComedyThree directing Oscars in five years, and the Christmas film nobody wanted in 1946.Robert Altman 1925–2006Film, Television & ComedyMade overlapping dialogue, drifting cameras and enormous casts into an American film language, lost Hollywood for a decade, and came back at 67.Warren Beatty b. 1937Film, Television & ComedyProducing Bonnie and Clyde and directing RedsElia Kazan 1909–2003Film, Television & ComedyDirected A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman and On the Waterfront, and named names to HUAC.Billy Wilder 1906–2002Film, Television & ComedyHollywood writer-director of Sunset Boulevard — Some Like It Hot and Double Indemnity.Brad Pitt b. 1963Film, Television & ComedyActor and producer whose roles in Fight Club and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood made him a global star.