Guy Ritchie

British filmmaker whose Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch established a distinctive neo-noir crime comedy style — fast editing, British criminal milieu, non-linear storytelling — and who has maintained a prolific career through blockbusters (Sherlock Holmes, Aladdin) and recent returns to form (The Gentlemen series).

Created a distinctly British masculine crime aesthetic — the working-class criminal milieu, the sharp dialogue, the interconnected schemes — and the fast-cut editing style that influenced action cinema of the 2000s.