From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

[1] The 1948 Hollywood Antitrust Case led to the end of the Hollywood studio system and the development of art-house and grind-house movie theatres.

American-born directors/producers or directors/producers who have made films in the United States:

A - Woody Allen - Robert Altman - P.T. Anderson - Kenneth Anger - B - Kroger Babb - Paul Bartel - Bernardo Bertolucci - Peter Bogdanovich - Stan Brakhage - Tim Burton - C - John Carpenter - Coen brothers - Larry Cohen - Tony Conrad - Alex Cox - Francis Coppola - Roger Corman - David Cronenberg - D - Joe Dante - Jonathan Demme - Cecil B. DeMille - Maya Deren - E - Thomas Edison - F - Abel Ferrara - Samuel Fuller - G - Vincent Gallo - H - Todd Haynes - I - Alfred Hitchcock - Tobe Hooper J - Spike Jonze - K - Philip Kaufman - Amos Kollek - L - Fritz Lang - Ang Lee - Spike Lee - Val Lewton - David Lynch - M - Guy Maddin - Radley Metzger - E. Elias Merhige - Russ Meyer - N - O - P - Brian De Palma - Roman Polanski - Otto Preminger - Q - Brothers Quay - R - Alex de Renzy - George Romero - Ken Russell - S - Joe Sarno - John Sayles - Douglas Sirk - Jack Smith - Martin Scorsese - Josef von Sternberg - Erich von Stroheim - T - Quentin Tarantino - Dante Tomaselli - V - Gus Van Sant - W - John Waters - Orson Welles - Doris Wishman - Ed Wood, Jr.