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When a work — usually a film — is better known as the work of its producer than as the work of its director. Often a result of marketing, as the name of a well-known producer may be used prevalently in advertising a film where the director is a rookie or largely unknown. In some cases, the director can also be displaced by the screenwriter if the writer is well-known (and neither the producers nor director are). More rarely, all of these can be displaced by an actor if the movie is seen as a star-vehicle. This trope tends to happen more in America than elsewhere due to Hollywood being a very producer-focused system, as opposed to other countries where directors get much more clout. The Auteur Theory was formed to avert and correct this trope, however, and it has generally succeeded in giving more attention to the work of directors and craftsmen. It, too, has received criticism for attributing entire movies to directors and not considering the contributions of writers, cinematographers, editors, and, ironically enough, producers. Compare with All Animation Is Disney, when a director or producer wasn't involved in a work despite its strong similarities with their productions. |
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Mann was show-runner for Miami Vice in its first two seasons and co-wrote one episode, but didn't create the series or direct any episodes. | |
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Poltergeist was directed by Tobe Hooper. Most people think of it as a Spielberg film, though he was busy with ET at the time. Spielberg was on set for much of the production (and even saved actor Oliver Robbins' life when the clown prop nearly choked him to death); Hooper was battling a cocaine addiction at the time, so he likely needed someone on set to keep an eye on him. Spielberg also came up with the story, wrote the screenplay and was the major producer, also taking part in the post-production. He said that he and Hooper had a very special relationship, as he had a lot of input, and he has gone out of his way to discredit the rumour that he actually directed the film. | |
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Many people are under the impression that Inside Job is created by Alex Hirsch. In actuality, it was created by Shion Takeuchi, while Alex Hirsch is the executive producer. | |
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The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi are viewed as Lucas' works (and they are, in a way), but they were directed by Irvin Kershner and Richard Marquand, respectively. However, this has been less true of Empire over time; Lucas had a very hands-off role in its production, leaving those duties to Kershner and producer Gary Kurtz. In the wake of the prequel trilogy, his critics have been fond of pointing out that the movie he had the least creative involvement with is also considered the best. | |
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City of God (directed by Fernando Meireilles and Katia Lund) | |
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This also applies to the four theatrically released National Lampoon's Vacation films, which were respectively directed by Harold Ramis, Amy Heckerling, Jeremiah S. Chechik, and Stephen Kessler. And even then, Hughes only wrote the first and third films. | |
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The Goonies was directed by Richard Donner but was produced by Spielberg. As an adventure starring children in the lead roles, it does seem typical of early-80s Spielberg movies. | |
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If you talk about the earlier films in the Disney Animated Canon, nearly everybody in the world will think about Walt Disney. Only hardcore animation fans know the names of the actual directors (Walt himself rarely directed cartoons and never directed any of the movies). It didn't help matters that when much of the early Disney animated films were released, they were generally made by a team of segment directors under the command of a supervising director, who was himself answerable to Walt. Under that system, each segment director would direct a single portion of the film, and then report back to the supervising director so he could edit all the portions into a single, cohesive film. | |
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Zone of the Enders is far more commonly associated with producer Hideo Kojima than it is to either Noriaki Okamura or Shuyo Murata (respectively the directors of the first and second game). | |
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For that matter, Lucas gets most of the blame for Howard the Duck (Willard Huyck), Willow (Ron Howard), The Radioland Murders (Mel Smith) and Red Tails (Anthony Hemingway); he executive produced all four and did come up with the stories for Willow and Radioland Murders, but he didn't write the scripts or direct them. | |
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Nintendo R&D1's early games (Metroid, Kid Icarus (1986), Wario Land... etc) are often credited to executive producer Gunpei Yokoi, who was more focused on hardware development and had little input on the games his department produced. | |
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An example in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty comes from the game's soundtrack. The game was heavily promoted to have famed movie composer Harry Gregson Williams as the man behind the game's score. And while he does compose the official theme of the game and some cutscene music, all of the in-game music and even majority of the cutscene music was done by Norihiko Hibino. This became confusing when fans of the music purchased the official soundtrack, only to discover that all of the in-game music was missing, causing Konami to release another soundtrack, which included all of Hibino's work, meaning majority of the music found in the game. There is also the fact that Williams' name is shown in big bold print during the openings of both part 1 and part 2 of the game, while Hibino's name is shown in small print during the ending credits. | |
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Play It Again, Sam starred Allen and was written by him and based on his play, but the movie was directed by Herbert Ross. | |
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The notorious 1994 The Fantastic Four movie is known colloquially as "The Roger Corman FF", despite the fact that he only produced it (Oley Sassone was the real director.) | |
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They wrote the script for V for Vendetta and produced Ninja Assassin, but James McTeigue directed. | |
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True Romance was the first script that Tarantino ever wrote, but Tony Scott directed. | |
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Likewise, many David Guetta songs are less associated with the French producer than the guest singer ("Sexy Bitch": Akon; "Titanium": Sia; "Turn Me On" and "Hey Mama": Nicki Minaj; "Without You": Usher). | |
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Hero (2002) (Zhang Yimou) and Hostel (Eli Roth) were both marketed as "Quentin Tarantino Presents (film name)", owing to his production role in those films although in the case Hero (2002) his role was limited to "presenting" it to the US audience. | |
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Balloon Fight was directed by Yoshio Sakamoto but is far more associated with its programmer, the late Satoru Iwata, due to it being the first-party Nintendo game he worked on. | |
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Cameron's name was featured in advertising for Alita: Battle Angel, despite being directed by Robert Rodriguez. Though to be fair, it was a pet project of Cameron's for so long. | |
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Austin Powers is better known as the work of Mike Myers, who wrote and starred in the films, than Jay Roach, who directed. | |
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Sesame Street is associated with Jim Henson; while he created the Muppet characters, performed some of them and even directed some shorts for it, he didn't actually create the show or direct any whole episodes. | |
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Howard Deutch directed Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful and The Great Outdoors, but they're viewed as Hughes films (Hughes was the screenwriter). | |
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Slumdog Millionaire (directed by Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan) | |
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Return of the Jedi is even more contested. After Empire went WAY over budget and schedule, Lucas decided to be part of Jedi. He was on set for the whole film and some say his relationship with director Marquand was at points bad (to the extent that original DP Alan Hume is said to have quit the last week in protest) and there are talks about how he wanted credit as a second unit director for it. | |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its sequel, Shock Treatment are more often associated with creator and writer, Richard O'Brien rather than director, Jim Sharman. | |
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My Favorite Wife was billed as "A LEO McCAREY PRODUCTION Directed by Garson Kanin." Leo McCarey also received credit for co-writing the story. | |
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Gentlemen of Fortune is often viewed as Georgi Danelia movie, but the actual director was much lesser-known Aleksandr Seryj. Georgi Danelia was a co-writer and art director. | |
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The James Bond films are rarely ever viewed as the works of anyone other than Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and later Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. If you want to see a Bond fans head explode, inform them that Goldeneye and Casino Royale (2006) was directed by the same guy, Martin Campbell. When it came to Sam Mendes, let's say he put his fingerprints all over Skyfall and Spectre. | |
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Mortal Engines: The name of producer and co-writer Peter Jackson shows up more in advertising and discussions than that of director Christian Rivers. | |
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And Kiss of the Dragon, which was directed by Chris Nahon. | |
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Due to the success of The Dark Knight Trilogy, many people assume Christopher Nolan has a great deal of control over the Superman reboot Man of Steel. In reality, he's just the film's producer and has said his direct involvement ended pretty much at the stage of story development because he knew director Zack Snyder was more suited to the Superman material than he was. Unlike many examples, this died down over time, due to other movies promoting Snyder as "the director of Man of Steel" and Snyder's name being front and center in the campaign for the sequel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, with Nolan's name nowhere in sight despite being an executive producer. Snyder would later end up being a publicity usurper himself, with his name outshining director Noam Murro's in the promotion of 300: Rise of an Empire, due to having directed the original film and being the producer. | |
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (directed by Mike Judge and Yvette Kaplan) | |
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Cameron also co-wrote Rambo: First Blood Part II, though George P. Cosmatos actually directed. | |
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Gremlins was directed by Joe Dante, written by Chris Columbus and produced by Steven Spielberg, but it is commonly thought to have been directed by Spielberg himself. | |
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Ditto for District 13, Taken and From Paris with Love which were directed by Pierre Morel. | |
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The Star Wars Holiday Special is frequently blamed on George Lucas, even though he had nothing to do with it beyond writing a basic story outline for CBS. | |
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He was a producer and main creative force on Crime Story, but didn't create the series, though he did direct at least one episode. | |
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District 9: Peter Jackson's involvement in the film was a major selling point leading up to the release, due to it being Neill Blomkamp's directorial debut. Since its release, however, Blomkamp's stock has risen, and District 9 is recognized as his film. It helps that the film is set in and about Blomkamp's native South Africa, while Jackson is famously Kiwi. | |
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Woo executive-produced and choreographed the action scenes for The Replacement Killers, which Antoine Fuqua directed. He was also a producer on Bulletproof Monk, which Paul Hunter directed. | |
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The Cameron-produced film Sanctum was directed by Alister Grierson, but many are convinced that Cameron actually directed the film. This has created the same amount of Hatedom that Avatar suffered. | |
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He was a writer and producer on The Transporter and Danny the Dog, but both films were directed by Louis Leterrier. | |
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Whenever The Patriot (2000) is mentioned, it's usually described as "Mel Gibson's The Patriot". It's actually directed by Roland Emmerich and Gibson only plays the lead, but since Gibson is also an accomplished director in his own right and the movie is actually closer to Gibson's Signature Style than the big-action summer blockbusters that Emmerich is mainly known for, it can give some people the impression that Gibson himself directed it. | |
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has three directors. None of them are Phil Lord & Chris Miller, who were the film's producers. The directors are Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti, and Rodney Rothman. Lord did co-write the screenplay with Rothman, though. The displacement likely comes from Spider-Verse being a project that felt like it should have failed but succeeded, with Lord and Miller having a history of pulling such a trick. | |
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The Back to the Future trilogy and Who Framed Roger Rabbit were executive produced by Spielberg, but directed by Robert Zemeckis. | |
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With the exception of The Shining, which everybody knows as the work of Stanley Kubrick, and maybe Stand by Me (Rob Reiner), all of the films based on Stephen King novels are more popularly associated with him than their directors. Unsurprising if you look at what happens to his novels... With that in mind, it makes one wonder how The Langoliers isn't commonly affiliated with its director considering the DVD cover where, in massive outlined, metallic letters, the name of Tom Holland can be seen clear as day, taking over two-thirds of the credits. | |
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Author V.E. Schwab is credited as the creator of First Kill, which is true only to the extent that she wrote the short story the show is based on and serves as one of the executive producers. The showrunner, however, is Felicia D. Henderson, and Shwab has stated that though she was present in the writer's room herself she intentionally did not contribute much. | |
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Young Sherlock Holmes was executive-produced by Spielberg, written by Columbus and directed by Barry Levinson. | |
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*batteries not included was also executive produced by Spielberg, yet directed by Matthew Robinson. | |
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He also starred in The Front, yet neither wrote nor directed it. | |
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The '50s classic The Thing from Another World was officially directed by Christian Nyby, but is often seen as Producer Howard Hawks's film. How directly Hawks was involved in production has long been debated, even by people who actually worked on the film. | |
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Their first film was Assassins, which they wrote but Richard Donner directed. | |
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Cloud Atlas (Directed by The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer) | |
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When From Dusk Till Dawn came out, some people confused it for a Quentin Tarantino directorial effort, given that he wrote and appears in it, but it was directed by Robert Rodriguez. Since that time, Rodriguez has become more famous as a director and screenwriter, and the film is recognized as part of his oeuvre. Some people even now forget that it was penned by Tarantino, given how uncharacteristic it is of Tarantino's other work. | |
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Hughes' first film as a writer was Mr. Mom, which was directed by Stan Dragoti. Hughes was supposed to direct, but he wanted to film in Chicago as opposed to Hollywood. | |
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The original Rocky tends to be associated with writer/star Sylvester Stallone, rather than with its director, John G. Avildsen. Adding to the confusion, Stallone actually did direct the second, third, and fourth films. | |
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Scooby-Doo (2002) and Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed are generally seen as James Gunn films but he wrote them while Raja Gosnell directed them. | |
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Chrono Trigger has writer Masato Kato (probably because he was the one who ended up directing the sequel), its main artist Akira Toriyama, and its composer, Yasunori Mitsuda; those three tend to overshadow the three directors Yoshinori Kitase, Akihiko Matsui, and Takashi Tokita in terms of association with the game in particular. | |
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The Mitchells vs. the Machines has an example perpetrated by the trailers and ads for the film even; Phil Lord and Chris Miller have been pushed as the masterminds of the movie, to the point of it being called "Lord & Miller's The Mitchells vs. the Machines" in some sources. The two are among the film's three producers, and it was actually directed by Michael Rianda, who also co-wrote the film. | |
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Though the director of the infamous film The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure was a documentary filmmaker named Matthew Diamond, the real brainchild behind the film was Kenn Viselmann, whose Small Name, Big Ego was so rampant that he even named the movie's production company after himself (despite no one really knowing who he was). | |
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Strange Magic is produced by George Lucas and comes from Lucasfilm Animation, so naturally, Lucas' name overshadows that of director Gary Rydstrom, who is primarily a sound designer and never directed a full-length film before. | |
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Exosquad's producer Will Meugniot is often credited as the series creator (and not in a My Real Daddy kind of way), though he clarified in multiple interviews that the series was created by Jeff Segal. | |
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The primary creative force behind Casablanca was producer Hal B. Wallis, and not director Michael Curtiz. | |
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The Longest Day has only one name in the Blu-Ray cover, that of producer Darryl F. Zanuck. It helps the thing is an Epic Movie with an All-Star Cast and five directors, that only came out because of Zanuck's guidance. | |
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The song "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee tends to be associated with Justin Bieber in the Anglosphere instead of its original artists. This case is more extreme than most others, as the song in question became a major hit after Bieber's involvement in a remix (the original didn't have Bieber at all), and the original artists still sing on the remix. Unfortunately, the song's ensuing popularity coupled with Bieber's inability to speak Spanish has led to much disappointment at his concerts. | |
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"The Hanging Tree" from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 is almost universally considered a Jennifer Lawrence song, as she sings it in character in the movie, even though it was released under James Newton Howard's name. That didn't stop Billboard themselves from hyping the song's chart performance as a Lawrence song while relegating Howard to a footnote. | |
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They also executive produced Bad Santa, which was a Terry Zwigoff film. | |
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In addition, it applies to the first three Home Alone films, which were directed by Chris Columbus (1 & 2) and Raja Gosnell (3). | |
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Another Woo example, Blood Brothers (2007), a Heroic Bloodshed film from the 2000s, proudly sells Woo's involvement in it's promotional materials, when it was actually directed by Alexis Tan. | |
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The Tekken series is always associated first and foremost with Katsuhiro Harada, even though he only started to direct the series with Tekken Tag Tournament. | |
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Home video releases of the original The Out-of-Towners have generally tended to play up the name of writer Neil Simon, while making little-to-no mention of the actual director, Arthur Hiller. | |
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Cameron co-wrote and co-produced Strange Days, but it was directed by his then-wife Kathryn Bigelow. | |
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Antz is often pointed out as "his" most financially successful film. He didn't write it or direct it, and was merely a voice actor for hire. | |
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For all that the Mega Man series is associated with Keiji Inafune, he actually only acted as the game director on two entries, Mega Man 4 and Mega Man X (and even then he co-directed both games with Yoshinori Takenaka). Starting with Mega Man 3 he did take on a loose role as the creative lead for the series, but other people handled the actual direction of the games. | |
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Paul Henning, executive producer of Green Acres, actually took out an ad in Variety to make it clear that not he but Jay Sommers was the showrunner. (Neither, of course, was the director; Richard L. Bare covered that job for most of the series). | |
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The Muppet Movie is more known for Jim Henson than its director James Frawley who previously directed many episodes of The Monkees. | |
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The Muppets (2011): The film seems better known for its writing from Jason Segel than Director James Bobin. This partly seems due to the fact that as a professed Muppet fan, he had the ambition of bringing them to the forefront again. | |
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Cloverfield is more commonly associated with J. J. Abrams than its director, Matt Reeves. | |
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In a more retroactive case, X-Men Origins: Wolverine seems to be mostly associated with screenwriter David Benioff, mostly following the much maligned final season of Game of Thrones, of which Benioff was one of the showrunners, with critics of the season attributing many of the faults of the film to Benioff, though Benioff only wrote early drafts of the script and he wasn't responsible for the most negatively received aspects of the film. Regardless, Benioff seems to have supplanted the film's director Gavin Hood in terms of association. | |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox (directed by Wes Anderson and Mark Gustafson, this is notable in the fact that the film's cinematographer mentioned that Gustafson spent much more time on set working on the animation and with crew while Anderson would direct scenes by e-mail and therefore felt that Anderson's credit shouldn't have been as high as it was) | |
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The Cabin in the Woods was co-written and produced by Joss Whedon, but the actual director was Drew Goddard (who was also the other co-writer). | |
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