Jean-Pierre Jeunet

This director followed Ridley Scott, James Cameron and David Fincher directing in the Alien series. You know the "keeell meee" scene in Alien: Resurrection ?. Yeah, he did that. Then he did Amélie. Like, it was his next film!

Which was an enormous hit, launched Audrey Tatou to stardom (but after the da Vinci Code she decided to stay in france), and defined a style. But none of the films made in its likeness or style either by him or others every matched the charm of Amelie