The 'Auteur'

With an origin in the 1920's, but flourishing 1960 - 65 in where film directors started adding an individual style and taking complete control over all elements of their film production.
Having this creative control added a unique stamp and made this period in time an iconic season for the film industry.
Authors like Hitchcock manage to control the audience emotions (either european and american) by creating a surrealism, suspense and expressionism defined his style and made films like Psyco (1960), Vertigo (1958) and The Lodger (1927).

Now a days I find the director and producer Guillermo del Toro an inspiring and with some similar aspects that make films in which he has been involve iconic to mainstream audience; and also the fact that he's a world wide renowned director that comes from my city (Guadalajara, Mexico) makes it even more appealing to me. He worked on the Hellboy saga, Pan's Labyrinth and the coming The Hobbit, nothing more iconic than that (there is...but can't think of another mexican one)