Brian De Palma

American filmmaker who directed Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible — known for elaborate set pieces, split-screen techniques, and homages to Hitchcock — and who was a core member of the New Hollywood generation.

Developed the most technically elaborate visual style of the New Hollywood generation — the split screen, the slow-motion set piece, the subjective camera — while also demonstrating that being a 'movie lover's director' (influences visible, stylized) is a viable commercial approach.