Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY 2.0

A filmmaker who has moved fluently between intimate drama and large-scale historical epic, directing Glory, Legends of the Fall, The Last Samurai, and Blood Diamond, and co-creating the television dramas thirtysomething and Once and Again. As a producer, he shared the Academy Award and BAFTA for Shakespeare in Love in 1998, work that sits alongside a directing career built on stories of individuals caught inside history's larger conflicts.