Which British film director deserves more global recognition than they currently get?

The woman behind Fish Tank and American Honey captures working-class life with a ferocity that puts most prestige cinema to shame. She's won a BAFTA and a Cannes Jury Prize, yet Hollywood still treats her like a well-kept secret. Frankly, that's an embarrassment.

He took home the Oscar for Best Picture and still gets treated as an occasional visitor to mainstream cinema rather than one of its most commanding voices. His Small Axe anthology alone should have cemented him as untouchable. The industry's selective memory is staggering.

You Were Never Really Here left audiences shattered and critics scrambling for superlatives, yet Ramsay remains a name most multiplex-goers couldn't place. She works with a precision and emotional violence that most directors could only dream of. Her relative obscurity is genuinely baffling.

This Is England is one of the most culturally important British films ever made, full stop. Meadows documents a Britain that polished prestige dramas wouldn't dare touch, yet he remains largely invisible beyond these shores. The world is poorer for not knowing his work.

Her Souvenir films dissected class and heartbreak with a surgical coldness that made even Phoebe Waller-Bridge look loud. Alfonso Cuarón called her a genius. Yet outside film festival circles, she's practically a stranger. That needs to change urgently.