David Fincher
Alien³
(1992)
Dan O'Bannon (characters), Ronald Shusett (characters), Vincent Ward (story), David Giler (screenplay), Walter Hill (screenplay), Larry Ferguson (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 19 nominations.
Ripley continues to be stalked by a savage alien, after her escape pod crashes on a prison planet.
Fight Club
(1999)
Chuck Palahniuk (novel), Jim Uhls (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 8 wins & 27 nominations.
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Gone Girl
(2014)
Gillian Flynn (screenplay), Gillian Flynn (novel)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 65 wins & 177 nominations.
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
Se7en
(1995)
Andrew Kevin Walker
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 25 wins & 31 nominations.
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi.
The Game
(1997)
John Brancato, Michael Ferris
1 nomination.
Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday (the age his father committed suicide) his brother Conrad, who has gone long ago and surrendered to addictions of all kinds, suddenly returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Giving in to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him.
The Social Network
(2010)
Aaron Sorkin (screenplay), Ben Mezrich (book)
Won 3 Oscars. Another 157 wins & 153 nominations.
Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the cofounder who was later squeezed out of the business.
Zodiac
(2007)
James Vanderbilt (screenplay), Robert Graysmith (book)
2 wins & 60 nominations.
A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer.