Martin Brest

Directed two of the biggest studio hits of the 1980s, Beverly Hills Cop and Midnight Run, then earned Best Director and Best Picture nominations for Scent of a Woman, which won Al Pacino his only Oscar. His career took an unusual turn in 2003: after Revolution Studios seized creative control of Gigli and forced a reshot, rewritten cut, the film became a notorious box-office bomb — and Brest has not directed since, a rare case of a hit-making filmmaker's career ending on someone else's edit.