- Country: Japan, USA
- Genres: Documentary
- Release: 1990-09-07
- Director: Florence Dauman , Dale Ann Stieber , Lance Bird , Hal Lansberry
- Writers: Todd McCarthy , Michael Henry Wilson
- Language: English
- Stars: Martin Scorsese , Paul Schrader , Peter Bogdanovich
- Runtime: 90 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Hollywoods Einzelgänger , Hollywood Mavericks (United Kingdom) , Hollywood Mavericks (United States of America) , Hollywood Mavericks
- Plot: When Orson Welles gave his acceptance speech when he received the third AFI Lifetime Achievment Award, he made a plea for the filmmaker who was a maverick. This documentary uses current and archival interviews and film footage of seventeen notable directors who went against the grain to place their unique vision on the screen. Beginning with D. W. Griffith, this documentary uses film clips to demonstrate how some of the mavericks, like John Ford, were able to work inside the system while others, like John Cassavetes, worked out of it. Among the classic directors profiled are Josef von Sternberg, Erich Von Stroheim, and Preston Sturges up until more current filmmakers like David Lynch, Robert Altman, and Martin Scorsese.
- IMDB:tt0280745
Hollywood Mavericks Cast · · · ALL
Florence Dauman
Director
Dale Ann Stieber
Director
Lance Bird
Director
Hal Lansberry
Director
Robert Altman
(I)
(1925–2006)
Self
Peter Bogdanovich
Self
Francis Ford Coppola
Self
Robert De Niro
Self
David Lynch
Self
Gena Rowlands
Self (archive footage)
Alan Rudolph
Self
Paul Schrader
Self
Martin Scorsese
Self