Robert Mulligan

Directed by Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird), The Man in the Moon marked the feature film debut of one Reese Witherspoon.

Damien Chazelle

Oscar® - winning director Damien Chazelle focusing on Neil Armstrong , star Ryan Gosling reteam for the riveting story behind the first manned mission to the moon .

by Duncan Jones

Directed by Duncan Jones, Moon’s plot sees astronaut Sam Bell approach the conclusion of land astronauts Neil Armstrong's three-year tenure at a lunar mining facility.

Duncan Jones, son of the infamous British rock star David Bowie

Moon was directed by Duncan Jones, son of the infamous British rock star David Bowie.

Basil Dearden

Man in the Moon is a 1960 comedy film directed by Basil Dearden.

William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg

(The film is based on Reel FX's short film, The Man in the Moon, directed by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg at Reel FX Creative Studios.

Brandon Oldenburg at Reel FX Creative Studios

(The film is based on Reel FX's short film, The Man in the Moon, directed by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg at Reel FX Creative Studios.

Director Duncan Jones

Director Duncan Jones (Bowie’s progeny and the wunderkind behind MOON, Director Duncan Jones's film debut) proves that the disturbing resonance and edge-of-seat storytelling finesse Director Duncan Jones brought to that old-fashioned new tale was not a fluke.

by Miloš Forman which featured Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman

Man on the Moon is a documentary film directed by Miloš Forman which featured Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman.

Georges Méliès

A year before the Wright brothers launched the first airplane flight in 1903, Georges Méliès, a French filmmaker with already 400 films to Georges Méliès's credit, directed a film that visualized a much bigger human ambition – landing a spacecraft on the moon.

by Michael Bay

Directed by Michael Bay, THE MOON stars Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, and Peter Cullen.

by Academy Award winner Milos Forman, who'd made One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,

Man on the Moon was a biopic of a famous person; released in prime Oscar-bait season (late December); and directed by Academy Award winner Milos Forman, who'd made One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, and The People vs. Larry Flynt.

by the relatively unknown Duncan Jones

Directed by the relatively unknown Duncan Jones, Moon is devoid of the stereotype aliens, overblown visual-effects, CGI, et al.

Ernest D. Farino

Largely based on Andrew Chaikin's book, A Man on the Moon, the series is known for the series's accurate telling of the story of Apollo and the outstanding special effects under visual director Ernest D. Farino.

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Long before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon in Apollo 11, on July 20, 1969, French filmmaker Georges Méliès had imagined the event in French filmmaker Georges Méliès's 1902 film, Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon).

directed by British film-maker Duncan Jones

James Cameron’s Avatar, the highest grossing film of all time, and Moon, directed by British film-maker Duncan Jones have strong ecological themes.

Ron Howard

The film, based loosely on the book Lost Moon, co-authored by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, was directed by Ron Howard.

by Fritz Lang,

the Moon was written and directed by Fritz Lang, based on the novel Die Frau i m Mond (1928, translated as The Rocket to the Moon) by Fritz Lang's then-wife and collaborator Thea von Harbou.

Albert Lewin

The director, Albert Lewin, was a Hollywood aesthete, maker of The Moon and Sixpence and The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (both with George Sanders) and the uniquely daffy Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, a very special experience.

Sam Rockwell

the film isn’t as if a solo act in space is impossible, Sam Rockwell did the film to perfection earlier this year in Moon, which was clearly influenced by Silent Running.