Here are some notable film directors who are 80 or older and have directed at least one theatrical film.
Jonathan Lynn (April 3, 1943, 80, Clue; My Cousin Vinny)
Most recent direction: Yes, Prime Minister (TV series, 2013)
Most recent film: Wild Target (2010)
Roy Andersson (March 31, 1943, 80, Songs from the Second Floor; You, the Living)
Most recent film: About Endlessness (2019)
Richard Eyre (March 28, 1943, 80, Iris; Notes on a Scandal)
Most recent film: Allelujah (2022)
David Cronenberg (March 15, 1943, 80, Videodrome; Dead Ringers)
Most recent film: Crimes of the Future (2022)
Upcoming film: The Shrouds
André Téchiné (March 13, 1943, 80, Wild Reeds; Being 17)
Most recent film: Farewell to the Night (2019)
Upcoming film: Dans le viseur
Bill Duke (February 26, 1943, 80, Deep Cover; Hoodlum)
Most recent directing: Bill Duke Presents… Insights (2021, video)
Most recent film: Created Equal (2017)
Mike Leigh (February 20, 1943, 80, Naked; Secrets & Lies)
Most recent film: Peterloo (2018)
Upcoming film: Untitled Mike Leigh Project
Michael Mann (February 5, 1943, 80, Manhunter; Heat)
Most recent directing: Tokyo Vice (TV episode, 2022)
Most recent film: Blackhat (2015)
Upcoming film: Ferrari
Richard Pearce (January 25, 1943, 80, Heartland; The Long Walk Home)
Most recent directing: Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006, TV movie)
Most recent film: A Family Thing (1996)
Larry Clark (January 19, 1943, 1943, 80, Kids; Bully)
Most recent directing: A Day in a Life (2022, short), directed with Jonathan Velasquez
Most recent film: Marfa Girl 2 (2018)
Martin Bell (January 16, 1943, 80, Streetwise; American Heart)
Most recent directing: Streetwise Revisited: Rat (2021, short)
Most recent film: Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell (2016)
Martin Scorsese (November 17, 1942, 80, Taxi Driver; Raging Bull)
Most recent film: The Irishman (2019)
Upcoming film: Killers of the Flower Moon
Graeme Clifford (September 27, 1942, 80, Frances; Burke & Wills)
Most recent directing: Write and Wrong (2007, TV movie)
Most recent film: Deception (1992)
Werner Herzog (September 5, 1942, 80, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo)
Most recent film: Theatre of Thought (2022)
Mike Kuchar (August 31, 1942, 80, Sins of the Fleshapoids; The Craven Sluck)
Most recent film: Adam’s Apple (2014, short)
Upcoming film: Daytime Dreamers (short)
Giancarlo Giannini (August 1, 1942, 80, The Numbers Game)
Most recent film: The Gambler Who Wouldn’t Die (2013)
Barbra Streisand (April 24, 1942, 81, Yentl; The Prince of Tides)
Most recent directing: Barbra Streisand: Don’t Lie to Me (music video, 2018)
Most recent film: The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Barry Levinson (April 6, 1942, 81, Diner; Rain Man)
Most recent directing: Dopesick (TV episode, 2021)
Most recent film: The Survivor (2021)
Upcoming film: Sheela
Peter Greenaway (April 5, 1942, 81, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover; The Pillow Book)
Most recent directing: Luther and His Legacy (documentary short, 2017)
Most recent film: Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)
Upcoming film: Walking to Paris
Mike Newell (March 28, 1942, 81, Enchanted April; Four Weddings and a Funeral)
Most recent directing: One Red Nose and a Wedding (2019)- TV short
Most recent film: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Upcoming film: The Ambassadors
Michael Haneke (March 23, 1942, 81, The Piano Teacher; Amour)
Most recent film: Happy End (2017)
Margarethe von Trotta (February 21, 1942, 81, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum; Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness)
Most recent film: Searching for Ingmar Bergman (2018)
Upcoming film: Bachmann & Frisch
Walter Hill (January 10, 1942, 81, The Driver; The Warriors)
Most recent film: Dead for a Dollar (2022)
Sean S. Cunningham (December 31, 1941, 81, Friday the 13th; Spring Break)
Most recent directing: The Connection (short, 2022)
Most recent film: Trapped Ashes, segment “Jibaku” (2006)
Jim McBride (September 16, 1941, 81, David Holzman’s Diary; Breatless [1983])
Most recent directing: My Son’s Wedding to My Sister-in-Law (documentary short, 2009)
Most recent film: The Informant (1997)
Barbet Schroeder (August 26, 1941, 81, Barfly; Reversal of Fortune)
Most recent film: The Venerable W. (2017)
Denys Arcand (June 25, 1941, 81, The Decline of the American Empire; The Barbarian Invasions)
Most recent film: The Fall of the American Empire (2018)
Stephen Frears (June 20, 1941, 81, The Grifters; The Queen)
Most recent film: The Lost King (2022)
Roman Balayan (April 15, 1941, 82, Biryuk; Flights in Dreams and in Reality)
Most recent film: We Are Here We Are Close (2020)
Adrian Lyne (March 4, 1941, 82, Fatal Attraction; Jacob’s Ladder)
Most recent film: Deep Water (2022)
Hayao Miyazaki (January 5, 1941, 82, Princess Mononoke; Spirited Away)
Most recent directing: Boro the Caterpillar (short, 2018)
Most recent film: The Wind Rises (2013)
Upcoming film: How Do You Live?
Terry Gilliam (November 22, 1940, 82, Time Bandits; Brazil)
Most recent film: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
Chris Menges (September 15, 1940, 82, A World Apart; Second Best)
Most recent film: The Lost Son (1999)
Brian De Palma (September 11, 1940, 82, Carrie; Scarface)
Most recent film: Domino (2019)
Upcoming film: Sweet Vengeance
Dario Argento (September 7, 1940, 82, Deep Red; Suspiria)
Most recent film: Black Glasses (2022)
Upcoming film: Longinus
Bruce Beresford (August 16, 1940, 82, Breaker Morant, Driving Miss Daisy)
Most recent film: Ladies in Black (2018)
Víctor Erice (June 30, 1940, 82, The Spirit of the Beehive; El Sur)
Most recent film: Centro Histórico (2012), segment
Upcoming film: Cerrar los Ojos
James L. Brooks (May 9, 1940, 83, Broadcast News; As Good as It Gets)
Most recent film: How Do You Know (2010)
John Irvin (May 7, 1940, 83, Raw Deal; Hamburger Hill)
Most recent film: Mandela’s Gun (2016)
Al Pacino (April 25, 1940, 83, Looking for Richard; Chinese Coffee)
Most recent film: Salomé (2013)
Souleymane Cissé (April 21, 1940, 83, Baara; Yeelen)
Most recent film: Our House (2015)
Aleksandr Proshkin (March 25, 1940, 83, The Cold Summer of 1953; Russkiy bunt)
Most recent film: Nazad v step to sarmatians (2020)
Trevor Nunn (January 14, 1940, 83, Hedda; Twelfth Night)
Most recent directing: Prisoner C33 (2022)
Most recent film: Red Joan (2018)
Fred Schepisi (December 26, 1939, 83, Roxanne; Six Degrees of Separation)
Most recent film: Words and Pictures (2013)
Marco Bellocchio (November 9, 1939, 83, Fists in the Pocket; Vincere)
Most recent film: Esterno notte (2022)
Upcoming film: La conversione
John Badham (August 25, 1939, 83, Saturday Night Fever; Short Circuit)
Most recent directing: Meatballs (short, 2022)
Most recent film: Incognito (1997)
Krzysztof Zanussi (June 17, 1939, 83, The Illumination; Camouflage)
Most recent film: Liczba doskonala (2022)
Christopher Miles (April 19, 1939, 84, The Maids; Priest of Love)
Most recent directing: Fire from Olympia (2012) (video documentary)
Most recent film: The Clandestine Marriage (1998)
Francis Ford Coppola (April 7, 1939, 84, The Godfather; Apocalypse Now)
Most recent directing: Distant Vision (2016)
Most recent film: Twixt (2011)
Upcoming film: Megalopolis
Volker Schlöndorff (March 31, 1939, 84, Young Törless; The Tin Drum)
Most recent film: The Forestmaker (2022)
Bertrand Blier (March 14, 1939, 84, Going Places; Get Out Your Handkerchiefs)
Most recent film: Heavy Duty (2019)
Robert Shaye (March 4, 1939, 84, Book of Love; The Last Mimzy)
Most recent film: Ambition (2019)
Bahram Beyzaie (December 26, 1938, 84, Death of Yazdgerd; Bashu, the Little Stranger)
Most recent film: When We Are All Sleep (2009)
Liv Ullmann (December 16, 1938, 84, Sofie; Faithless)
Most recent film: Miss Julie (2014)
Waris Hussein (December 9, 1938, 84, A Touch of Love; Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx)
Most recent directing: Great Performances: “Sarah” (TV episode, 2022)
Most recent film: Sixth Happiness (1997)
Michael Schultz (November 10, 1938, 84, Cooley High; Car Wash)
Most recent directing: All American (TV episode, 2022)
Most recent film: Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)
Ralph Bakshi (October 29, 1938, 84, Fritz the Cat; Wizards)
Most recent film: Last Days of Coney Island (short, 2015)
Enzo G. Castellari (July 29, 1938, 84, Kill Them All and Come Back Alone; The Inglorious Bastards)
Most recent film: Caribbean Basterds (2010)
Paul Verhoeven (July 18, 1938, 84, RoboCop; Total Recall)
Most recent film: Benedetta (2021)
Upcoming project: Bel Ami (TV miniseries)
Tommy Chong (May 24, 1938, 85, Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie; Nice Dreams)
Most recent film: Far Out Man (1990)
Richard Benjamin (May 22, 1938, 85, My Favorite Year; The Money Pit)
Most recent directing: A Little Thing Called Murder (TV movie) (2005)
Most recent film: Marci X (2003)
Jerzy Skolimowski (May 5, 1938, 85, Deep End; Moonlighting)
Most recent film: EO (2022)
Lewis Teague (March 8, 1938, 85, Cujo; The Jewel of the Nile)
Most recent film: Charlotta-TS (2010)
Paul Morrissey (February 23, 1938, 85, Chelsea Girls [with Andy Warhol]; Flesh)
Most recent film: News from Nowhere (2010)
István Szabó (February 18, 1938, 85, Mephisto; Sunshine [1999])
Most recent film: Final Report (2020)
Henry Jaglom (January 26, 1938, 85, Eating; New Year’s Day)
Most recent film: Train to Zakopané (2017)
Anthony Hopkins (December 31, 1937, 85, August)
Most recent film: Slipstream (2007)
Peter Medak (December 24, 1937, 85, The Ruling Class; The Changeling)
Most recent film: The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018)
Ridley Scott (November 30, 1937, 85, Alien; Blade Runner)
Most recent film: House of Gucci (2021)
Upcoming film: Napoleon
Claude Lelouch (October 30, 1937, 85, A Man and a Woman; The Crook)
Most recent film: Love Is Better Than Life (2021)
Carroll Ballard (October 14, 1937, 85, The Black Stallion; Fly Away Home)
Most recent film: Duma (2005)
Don Bluth (September 13, 1937, 85, The Secret of NIMH; An American Tail)
Most recent directing: Gift of the Hoopoe (short, 2009)
Most recent film: Titan A.E. (2000) with Gary Goldman
Andrey Konchalovskiy (August 20, 1937, 85, Siberiade; Runaway Train)
Most recent film: Homo Sperans (2020)
Dustin Hoffman (August 8, 1937, 85)
Only film: Quartet (2012)
Francis Veber (July 28, 1937, 85, The Fugitives; Le Dîner de Cons)
Most recent film: A Pain in the Ass (2008)
Morgan Freeman (June 1, 1937, 86)
Only film: Bopha! (1993)
Jack Nicholson (April 22, 1937, 86, Drive, He Said; Goin’ South)
Most recent film: The Two Jakes (1990)
Warren Beatty (March 30, 1937, 86, Reds; Dick Tracy)
Most recent film: Rules Don’t Apply (2016)
Vanessa Redgrave (January 30, 1937, 86)
Only film: Sea Sorrow (2017)
Joyce Chopra (October 27, 1936, 86, Smooth Talk; The Lemon Sisters)
Most recent directing: Wild Ones (2016)
Philip Kaufman (October 23, 1936, 86, Invasion of the Body Snatchers; The Right Stuff)
Most recent directing: Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
Most recent film: Twisted (2004)
Robert Redford (August 18, 1936, 86, Ordinary People; Quiz Show)
Most recent film: Cathedrals of Culture (segment, 2014)
Dick Richards (July 9, 1936, 86, The Culpepper Cattle Co.; Farewell, My Lovely)
Most recent film: Heat (1986)
Ken Loach (June 17, 1936, 86, Kes; The Wind That Shakes the Barley)
Most recent film: Sorry We Missed You (2019)
Upcoming film: The Old Oak
Kwon-taek Im (May 2, 1936, 87, The Surrogate Woman; Painted Fire)
Most recent film: Hwajang (2014)
Alan Alda (January 28, 1936, 87, The Four Seasons; New Liberty)
Most recent film: Betsy’s Wedding (1990)
Woody Allen (November 30, 1935, 87, Annie Hall; Manhattan)
Most recent film: Rifkin’s Festival (2020)
Upcoming film: Wasp 22
William Friedkin (August 29, 1935, 87, The French Connection; The Exorcist)
Most recent film: The Devil and Father Amorth (2017)
Costas Ferris (April 18, 1935, 88, The Murderess; Rembetiko)
Most recent directing: Oneirou Ellas (2008, TV series)
Most recent film: Oh Babylon (1989)
Jane Wagner (February 26, 1935, 88)
Only film: Moment by Moment (1978)
Robert Towne (November 23, 1934, 88, Personal Best; Without Limits)
Most recent film: Ask the Dust (2006)
Jan Svankmajer (September 4, 1934, 88, Alice; Greedy Guts)
Most recent film: Kunstkamera (2022)
Shirley MacLaine (April 24, 1934, 89, The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir)
Most recent film: Bruno (2000)
Alan Arkin (March 26, 1934, 89, Little Murders)
Most recent directing: Blood (Thinner Than Water) (short, 2004)
Most recent film: Fire Sale (1977)
Lou Adler (December 13, 1933, 89, Up in Smoke)
Most recent film: Ladies and Gentleman, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
Roman Polanski (August 18, 1933, 89, Rosemary’s Baby; Chinatown)
Most recent film: An Officer and a Spy (2019)
Upcoming film: The Palace
Ken Jacobs (May 25, 1933, 90, Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son; Star Spangled to Death)
Most recent film: XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX (2022)
Aleksandr Mitta (March 28, 1933, 90, Shine, Shine, My Star; Ekipazh)
Most recent film: Chagall-Malevich (2014)
Tinto Brass (March 26, 1933, 90, Madam Kitty; Caligula)
Most recent directing: I Miss Sonia Henie (short, 2009)
Most recent film: Monamour (2005)
Robert Young (March 16, 1933, 90, Splitting Heirs; Fierce Creatures [with Fred Schepisi])
Most recent film: Curse of the Phoenix (2014)
Sidney J. Furie (February 28, 1933, 90, The Ipcress File; Lady Sings the Blues)
Most recent film: Drive Me to Vegas and Mars (2018)
Upcoming film: Finding Hannah
Yoko Ono (February 18, 1933, 90, Match; Smile)
Most recent directing: Walking on Thin Ice (music video, 2016)
Costa-Gavras (February 12, 1933, 90, Z; Missing)
Most recent film: Adults in the Room (2022)
Jack Hill (January 28, 1933, 90, Spider Baby; Foxy Brown)
Most recent directing: The Host (short, 2000)
Most recent film: Sorceress (1982)
Eldar Shengelaia (January 26, 1933, 90, Sherekilebi; Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story)
Most recent directing: Cha (2020, short)
Most recent film: The Chair (2017)
John Boorman (January 18, 1933, 90, Point Blank; Deliverance)
Most recent film: Queen and Country (2014)
Liliana Cavani (January 12, 1933, 90, The Night Porter; Francesco)
Most recent directing: Francesco (TV movie, 2014)
Most recent film: Ripley’s Game (2002)
Upcoming film: L’ordine del tempo
Robert Benton (September 29, 1932, 90, Kramer vs. Kramer; Places in the Heart)
Most recent film: Feast of Love (2007)
Fernando Arrabal (August 11, 1932, 90, Long Live Death; I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse)
Most recent film: Jorge Luis Borges: Una vita di poesia (1998)
Anna Claire Poirier (June 6, 1932, 90, Le temps de l’avant; A Scream from Silence)
Most recent film: You Cried: Let Me Go (1997)
Elaine May (April 21, 1932, 91, A New Leaf; The Heartbreak Kid)
Most recent directing: American Masters– “Mike Nichols” (TV series episode, 2016)
Most recent film: Ishtar (1987)
Richard Lester (January 19, 1932, 91, A Hard Day’s Night; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
Most recent film: Paul McCartney’s Get Back (1991)
Alfonso Arau (January 11, 1932, 91, Like Water for Chocolate; A Walk in the Clouds)
Most recent film: L’imbroglio nel lenzuolo (2010)
Upcoming film: The Crime of Love
Paolo Taviani (November 8, 1931, 91) (directed with his late brother Vittorio: Padre Padrone; The Night of the Shooting Stars)
Most recent film: Leonora addio (2022)
Márta Mészáros (September 19, 1931, 91, Adoption; Diary for My Children)
Most recent directing: Mészáros: László emlékére (2023, short)
Most recent film: Aurora Borealis: Northern Light (2017)
Ruy Guerra (August 22, 1931, 91, The Guns; Of Gods and the Undead)
Most recent film: Aos Pedaços (2020)
Jan Troell (July 23, 1931, 91, The Emigrants; Everlasting Moments)
Most recent film: The Last Sentence (2012)
Irwin Winkler (May 28, 1931, 92, Guilty by Suspicion; Night and the City)
Most recent film: Home of the Brave (2006)
Ted Kotcheff (April 7, 1931, 92, Wake in Fright; First Blood)
Most recent film: Soul of an Artist (dir. with Yorgo Lorandos, 2017)
William Shatner (March 22, 1931, 92, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier)
Most recent directing: William Shatner War Chronicles (TV series episodes, 2015)
Most recent film: The Captains (2011)
Masahiro Shinoda (March 9, 1931, 92, Pale Flower; Double Suicide)
Most recent film: Spy Sorge (2003)
Robert Duvall (January 5, 1931, 92, The Apostle; Assassination Tango)
Most recent film: Wild Horses (2015)
Clint Eastwood (May 31, 1930, 93, Unforgiven; Million Dollar Baby)
Most recent film: Cry Macho (2021)
Giuliano Montaldo (February 22, 1930, 93, Sacco & Vanzetti; The Gold Rimmed Glasses)
Most recent film: The Entrepreneur (2011)
Frederick Wiseman (January 1, 1930, 93, Titicut Follies; Welfare)
Most recent film: A Couple (2022)
Mark Rydell (March 23, 1929, 94, The Cowboys; On Golden Pond)
Most recent directing: Masters of Science Fiction (TV series episode, 2007)
Most recent film: Even Money (2006)
Alejandro Jodorowsky (February 17, 1929, 94, El Topo, The Holy Mountain)
Most recent film: Psychomagic, a Healing Art (2019)
Harold Becker (September 25, 1928, 94, Taps; Sea of Love)
Most recent directing: Masters of Science Fiction (TV series episode, 2007)
Most recent film: Domestic Disturbance (2001)
James Ivory (June 7, 1928, 94, A Room with a View; The Remains of the Day)
Most recent film: A Cooler Climate (dir. with Giles Gardner)
Joseph McGrath (March 28, 1928, 95, The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom; The Magic Christian)
Most recent directing: Night Train to Murder (TV movie, 1984)
Most recent film: Rising Damp (1980)
Marcel Ophüls (November 1, 1927, 95, The Sorrow and the Pity; Hotel Terminus)
Most recent film: Un voyageur (2013)
Toshio Masuda (October 5, 1927, 95, Rusty Knife; Tora! Tora! Tora!)
Most recent directing: Shinsengumi keppuhroku (TV series, 1998)
Most recent film: Tengoku no Taizai (1992)
Elliot Silverstein (August 3, 1927, 95, Cat Ballou; A Man Called Horse)
Most recent directing: Tale from the Crypt: “Surprise Party” (1994) (TV episode)
Most recent film: Flashfire (1994)
Jerry Schatzberg (June 26, 1927, 95, The Panic in Needle Park; Scarecrow)
Most recent film: The Day the Ponies Come Back (2000)
Allen Baron (April 14, 1927, 96, Blast of Silence; Terror in the City)
Most recent directing: Fortune Dane (TV series episode, 1986)
Most recent film: Foxfire Light (1983)
Jaime de Armiñán (March 9, 1927, 96, Mi querida señorita; El nido)
Most recent film: 14, Fabian Road (2008)
Alvin Rakoff (February 6, 1927, 96, Hoffman; Say Hello to Yesterday)
Most recent directing: A Dance to the Music of Time (TV miniseries episodes, 1997)
Most recent film: Dirty Tricks (1981)
Norman Jewison (July 21, 1926, 96, In the Heat of the Night; Fiddler on the Roof)
Most recent film: The Statement (2003)
Mel Brooks (June 28, 1926, 96, Blazing Saddles; Young Frankenstein)
Most recent film: Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Roger Corman (April 5, 1926, 97, The Little Shop of Horrors; Pit and the Pendulum)
Most recent film: Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
Lee Grant (October 31, 1925, 97, Tell Me a Riddle)
Most recent directing: … A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2005)
Most recent film: Staying Together (1989)
Robert M. Young (November 22, 1924, 98, Short Eyes; Alambrista!)
Most recent film: The Maze (2011)
Ebrahim Golestan (October 19, 1922, 100, The Brick and the Mirror)
Most recent film: Secrets of the Treasure of the Jinn Valley (1974)
Norman Lear (July 29, 1922, 100)
Most recent directing: Maggie Bloom (TV movie, 2000)
Most recent (and only) film: Cold Turkey (1971)
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