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I’m Gonna Make You Love Me | A search for acceptance
Karen Bernstein
Movies
The Walking Dead explores human nature
Frank Darabont
TV Shows
If Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love
Barry Jenkins
Movies
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | The witches of modern times
Roberto Aguirre Sacasa
TV Shows
Grey’s Anatomy | A pillar in the modern TV era
Shonda Rhimes
TV Shows
Selma | Drawing out the essence of Martin Luther King Jr.
Ava DuVernay
Movies
Euphoria | A visceral portrayal of the teenage experience
Sam Levinson
TV Shows
Years and Years | A timely representation of today’s reality
Russell T Davies
TV Shows
When They See Us | The long way towards equality
Ava DuVernay
TV Shows
Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style
Gitanjali Rao
Movies
The Dark Knight | An allegory of 9/11 and The War on Terror
Christopher Nolan
Movies
Gaslight | When the personal becomes political
George Cukor
Movies
The Handmaid’s Tale | It’s all much more than fiction
Bruce Miller
TV Shows
Dark is an exception among TV shows
Baran bo Odar
TV Shows
I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History
Raoul Peck
Movies
Dark humor meets heavy drama in Orange Is the New Black
Jenji Kohan
TV Shows
The End of the F***ing World | A psychopathic love story
Jonathan Entwistle
TV Shows
In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation
Wong Kar-wai
Movies
Breaking Bad | The downward spiral of an ordinary man
Vince Gilligan
TV Shows
Game of Thrones | When the TV goes big
David Benioff
TV Shows
Mad Men | The pursuit of happiness in American society
Matthew Weiner
TV Shows
Bridgerton | A revolutionary period drama
Julia Quinn
TV Shows
I Know This Much is True | A centrifuge of sadness
Derek Cianfrance
TV Shows
Normal People | Diverting the viewer’s expectations
Alice Birch
TV Shows
Dear White People | An exploration of racial identity
Justin Simien
TV Shows
The Law of Desire | Entertainment mixes with auteur cinema
Pedro Almodóvar
Movies
Unbelievable | A story of injustice
Susannah Grant
TV Shows
The War Room | A testimony of Direct Cinema’s last days
D.A. Pennebaker
Movies
Westworld | Free will is not free
Jonathan Nolan
TV Shows
The Office | Pure comedy in the workplace
Greg Daniels
TV Shows
Primary – An intimate portrait of J.F.K.
Robert Drew
Movies
In the Mouth of Madness | A Storyteller’s Testament
John Carpenter
Movies
Killing Eve | Spies and Assassins play their game
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
TV Shows
The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate
Michael Ritchie
Movies
Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings
Tristan Aurouet
Movies
Whiplash | Deromanticizing music and success
Damien Chazelle
Movies
BoJack Horseman | A human journey
Raphael Bob-Waksberg
TV Shows
The Rules of the Game | A war movie without a war
Jean Renoir
Movies
The Queen’s Gambit | A western on the chessboard
Scott Frank
TV Shows
Cat In The Wall | A critical look at the loss of tolerance
Vesela Kazakova
Movies
13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years
Ava DuVernay
Movies
Watchmen | A subversion of the superhero
Damon Lindelof
TV Shows
Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief
Kenneth Lonergan
Movies
Alien | In space no one can hear you scream
Ridley Scott
Movies
Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony
TT the Artist
Movies
The Morning Show | A story about power
Jay Carson
TV Shows
Portrait of a Lady on Fire | A manifesto about the female gaze
Céline Sciamma
Movies
What feed journalists in The Newsroom
Aaron Sorkin
TV Shows
The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity
Robert Eggers
Movies
Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller
Alfred Hitchcock
Movies
Mistery and domestic struggles in Desperate Housewives
Marc Cherry
TV Shows
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | A Case of the Blues
George C. Wolfe
Movies
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Movies
Big Little Lies | What lies beneath the surface
David E.Kelley
TV Shows
Amour | An experience
Michael Haneke
Movies
The Undoing is not only a murder story
Jean Hanff Korelitz
TV Shows
Unorthodox | Finding one own’s voice
Anna Winger
TV Shows
Lost | The first mainstream phenomenon on TV
J.J.Abrams
TV Shows
The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today
Aaron Sorkin
Movies
Queen Sugar is a portrayal of oppression
Ava DuVernay
TV Shows
Fleabag challenges the viewer in many ways
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
TV Shows
Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City
Camila Urrutia
Movies
Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film
Akira Kurosawa
Movies
Elite | A teen drama dealing with complex themes
Carlos Monte
TV Shows
Seinfeld | The Sitcom Grandma
Jerry Seinfeld
TV Shows
The Shock of the Future | It’s the music that matters
Marc Collin
Movies
Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale
Ari Aster
Movies
Betty Blue | A commentary on women depiction in the media
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Movies
Wag the Dog | When comedy looks like reality
Barry Levinson
Movies
Parasite | Defying definition and labels
Bong Joon Ho
Movies
House of Cards offers a dark portrait of America
Beau Willimon
TV Shows
Chernobyl | What history can teach
Craig Mazin
TV Shows
Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad
Kon Ichikawa
Movies
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story
Ana Lily Amirpour
Movies
Rick and Morty | The absurd balance between tragedy and miracle of life
Justin Roiland
TV Shows