14 Directors Who Desperately Need A Hit Movie

4. Roland Joffé

Perhaps the most historic and impressive fall from grace in cinema history belongs to Roland Joffé, who received two Best Director Oscar nominations in 1985 and 1987 for his first two theatrically-released movies, The Killing Fields and The Killing...and his career violently dive-bombed immediately after.

Not a single of the nine movies he's directed since have made money or been well-reviewed, including the infamously awful 1995 bust The Scarlet Letter, leading him to eventually direct 2011's You and I, an horrendous, Mischa Barton-starring drama revolving around Russian pop band Tatu.

Joffe still routinely makes movies that nobody sees (There Will Be Dragons, The Lovers), and it's really just incredibly sad that someone won't give such a talented director a script that's actually worth a damn.

Will It Happen?: Joffe has already shot a Desmond Tutu biopic, The Forgiven, starring Forest Whitaker, Eric Bana and Vince Vaughn, so there's definitely potential there, but with Joffe due to turn 72 this year, the clock is starting to tick down on any sort of major career redemption.