David Fincher

Director of:
a shitload of 90s MTV music videos
Alien 3
Seven
The Game
Fight Club (coolest movie ever)
Panic Room
Zodiac
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The social Network
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Creator of Netflix's House of Cards (2013), director of episode 1 and 2.

Known for dark and super-slick cinematography (established with long-time collaborator DOP: Jeff Cronenweth), snappy dialogue/acting, adapting interesting (and often dark) stories into 3-hour long movies, perfect editing and getting robbed from the Oscars like Scorcese before Hugo or Kubrick during his entire life.

Go watch a David Fincher movie.