Doug Nichol started out his career as a cinematographer on such music documentaries as Truth or Dare (Madonna) and Rattle and Hum (U2) and the director of hundreds of award-winning music videos and commercials. He has been nominated for three Grammy Awards and has won one, for directing Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales. His documentary feature debut, California Typewriter, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. He lives in San Francisco and Paris.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1tie
Blow-Up
UnavailableMichelangelo Antonioni
1966
111 min
1tie
The Graduate
UnavailableMike Nichols
1967
106 min
2tie
Five Easy Pieces
UnavailableBob Rafelson
1970
98 min
2tie
The Last Picture Show
UnavailablePeter Bogdanovich
1971
119 min
3tie
Ikiru
Akira Kurosawa
1952
143 min
3tie
Wild Strawberries
Ingmar Bergman
1957
91 min
4
Paris, Texas
Wim Wenders
1984
145 min
5tie
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut
1959
99 min
5tie
The Red Balloon
Albert Lamorisse
1956
34 min
6
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
UnavailableStanley Kramer
1963
192 min
7
La dolce vita
UnavailableFederico Fellini
1960
176 min
8
Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio De Sica
1948
89 min
9tie
Burden of Dreams
Les Blank
1982
97 min
9tie
Gates of Heaven
Errol Morris
1978
83 min
9tie
Vernon, Florida
Errol Morris
1981
55 min
10
Two-Lane Blacktop
UnavailableMonte Hellman
1971
102 min