To celebrate 30 years of Empire Magazine, we launched Empire 30 – a campaign which listed the 30 greatest filmmakers of Empire’s lifetime, and brought exclusive interviews, never-before-seen photos, and tributes to some of their latest and greatest works. Across the months of 2019, each issue of Empire celebrated a different filmmaker on the list – the directorial voices that have shaped cinema and changed the game over the course of three decades.
Empire 30 Filmmakers
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Martin Scorsese
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Edgar Wright
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Kevin Feige
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Peter Jackson
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James Cameron
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Danny Boyle
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Spike Lee
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Christopher McQuarrie
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Taika Waititi
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Quentin Tarantino
Now you can read some of the highlights online, celebrating the iconic moviemakers that continue to make cinema thrive.
James Cameron
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The director of Avatar, Titanic, Aliens, The Terminator and more writes a personal essay on the past, present, and future of cinema. Read here.
Plus: We challenged James Cameron to a Movie Mastermind quiz, answering trivia questions about his own body of work. Watch it here:
Taika Waititi
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The Polynesian polymath has a unique filmmaking voice – so we asked the stars of his movies (including Chris Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, and Tessa Thompson) to tell us about their experiences working with him. Read here.
Plus: We interviewed Taika for a special Empire Podcast episode, talking about his screenwriting process. Listen here.
Edgar Wright
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The films of Edgar Wright are stuffed with iconic shots – so we got our readers to vote for their favourites, and asked Wright to talk us through each of them. Read here.
Plus: We challenged Edgar Wright to a Movie Mastermind quiz, answering trivia questions about his own body of work. Watch it here:
Christopher Nolan
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In the digital age, Christopher Nolan continues to astonish with epic-scale practical filmmaking. Empire’s Dan Jolin talks about his experiences going on the director’s film sets over the years. Read here.
Danny Boyle
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No two Danny Boyle movies are alike – so for Empire 30, we went genre-by-genre through his epic filmography in a brand new interview. Read here.
Plus: We challenged Danny Boyle to a Movie Mastermind quiz, answering trivia questions about his own body of work. Watch it here:
Christopher McQuarrie
![Christopher McQuarrie Empire 30](https://images.bauerhosting.com/legacy/media/5e86/fac4/1935/1727/fc84/36bf/D5j_LToX4AIiphz.jpeg?auto=format&w=1440&q=80)
Over the past decade, Christopher McQuarrie became one of the most exciting action directors around. He tells Empire how it all happened. Read here.
Peter Jackson
![Empire - Summer 2019 issue](https://images.bauerhosting.com/legacy/empire-images/articles/5cdc2944133d503e3a49d1e1/emp-summer-pj.jpg?auto=format&w=1440&q=80)
The Lord Of The Rings director doesn’t just make geeky movies – he’s a massive movie geek himself. Empire went inside his personal vault of incredible film memorabilia. Read here.
Quentin Tarantino
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We asked your reader questions to QT, getting the low-down on Marvel movies, his vision for True Romance, the reception to Death Proof, and much more. Read here.
Jordan Peele
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In Get Out, Jordan Peele delivered one of the most iconic horror scenes of the decade – Chris’ descent into The Sunken Place. Read Empire’s oral history of the scene here.
Spike Lee
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Writer-director Spike Lee, along with his crew and stars, talk the making of his 1989 masterpiece Do The Right Thing. Read here.
Martin Scorsese
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The genius director talks Mean Streets, movie-making, and – yes – Marvel in Empire’s world exclusive interview. Read here.
David Fincher
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The man behind Seven, Fight Club, Zodiac and more answers your reader questions. Read here.
Patty Jenkins
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Her debut film Monster saw Charlize Theron win an Oscar – but still, director Patty Jenkins had to fight every step of the way to continue her career, she reveals in an interview with Empire. Read here.
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