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7. Christopher Nolan Christopher Nolan is the blockbuster machine behind some of the most intelligent cinematic juggernauts of the last 25 years. He’s the mind behind pop culture hits likeThe Dark Knight(2008),Inception(2010),The Dark Knight Rises(2012),Interstellar(2014), andDunkirk(2017), all of which made over $500 million. The last two entries of hisDark Knight Trilogynetted him over a billion, withDark Knight Risesbeing his highest-grossing film to date. With all of these great films, Christopher Nolan has amassed a box office record of nearly$5 billiongained....

7. Bill Murray (Groundhog Day) Bill Murray is known for his up-and-down mood swings. In fact, some may even call it a trait! But on the set ofGroundhog Day, things went much too far—even for him. As he partnered up with his dear old pal Harold Ramis, Bill Murray just wasn’t in the mood to make any kind of movie because his recently failed marriage was weighing heavily upon him....

7. Oliver Stone Oliver Stoneis a patriot and a great filmmaker, who created several Hollywood classics over the decades, including the likes ofPlatoon(1986),JFK(1991), andNatural Born Killers(1994). Oliver Stone apparently based his directorial style on his former drill sergeants from his service during the Vietnam War. Known for being tough and demanding on set, Stone has rubbed many the wrong way. He’s worked with many notable actors, but few have good things to say about him—most notably Sean Penn,who described talking with himas like “talking to a pig....

7. Lorraine Broughton in Atomic Blonde (2017) The 2017 movieAtomic Blondemet with warm critical reviews for the film itself, but Charlize Theron’s iteration of Lorraine Broughton was acclaimed. There aren’t enough female spies in film history, and Theron made audiences wish there were more. Set in 1989, the film follows Lorraine—a spy working for MI6 who’s sent to Berlin to find and recover a list of agents currently working on either side of the Wall....

7. Max Eckhardt in Batman (1989) Max Eckhardt wasn’t a huge part of 1989’sBatman, but he leaves a lasting impression. He has the perfect comic book crooked cop look. This unscrupulous schlub with a bad attitude was probably the first dirty cop character that I—and many others who were children in the early 90s—was introduced to. The fedora, the cigar, the voice. It’s all part of the package that informs an entire generation’s go-to image of what a crooked cop looks like....