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• Legendary director Robert Zemeckis has touched almost every genre. From directing comedies from his early career (I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Used Cars) to fun action adventures (Romancing the Stone) to Science-Fiction (Back To The Future) to mystery noir mixing live-action and animation (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) to westerns (Back to the Future Part III) to black comedy (Death Becomes Her) to romantic comedy-dramas (Forrest Gump) to straight up dramas (Cast Away and Flight) to Hitchcock horror suspense (What Lies Beneath) to Christmas movies (The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol (2009) to folklore Beowulf to biographical films The Walk to war romance thrillers Allied. Even his upcoming film The Women Of Marwen is a fantasy psychological drama. Is there a genre this man hasn't touched? All thats missing is a monster movie and a erotic porno.
• Stanley Kubrick: While many film directors usually work within one identifiable genre Kubrick tried out different kinds of genres all his life: war films (Paths of Glory, Full Metal Jacket), science fiction (2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange), historical drama (Spartacus, Barry Lyndon), crime film noir (The Killing), comedy (Dr. Strangelove), erotic thriller (Lolita, Eyes Wide Shut) and horror (The Shining).
• Martin Scorsese: Also showed his versatility by making biopics (Raging Bull, The Aviator, The Wolf of Wall Street, Hugo), historical dramas (The Age of Innocence, Gangs of New York), comedy (The King of Comedy, After Hours), film noir/real life drama (Taxi Driver), musical (New York, New York), gangster films (Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino, the remake The Departed), bible movies (The Last Temptation of Christ), thrillers (Cape Fear), concert films (The Last Waltz, Shine A Light), children-family films (Film/Hugo), documentaries (Italianamerican, A Personal Journey Through American Films, A Personal Journey Through Italian Films, Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues,...), horror (Shutter Island)
• Woody Allen: While best known for comedy, he has made movies that are serious dramas too (Interiors, September), a musical (Everyone Says I Love You), slapstick (His early films before Annie Hall), historical movies (Bullets over Broadway, Radio Days,...), jazz biopics (Sweet and Lowdown),...
• Terry Gilliam: Started out in animation (Monty Python's Flying Circus), then directed live-action films: fantasy (Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen), science fiction (Brazil, 12 Monkeys), fairy tales (The Brothers Grimm), stoner movie (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas),...
• Long before Jonathan Demme cemented himself as a legend with the psychological thriller The Silenceofthe Lambs and the courtroom drama Philadelphia, he was known for directing concert films (which he continued making up until his death) like Stop Making Sense and quirky comedies like Something Wild and Marriedtothe Mob.
• Steven Spielberg: monster movies (Jaws, Jurassic Park), science fiction (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, War of the Worlds), action adventure (Indiana Jones), comedy (1941), war drama (Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, War Horse), fantasy (Hook), biopics (Lincoln), racial drama (The Color Purple, Amistad, Munich), comic book movies (The Adventures of Tintin),...
• Sam Mendes: suburban dramas (American Beauty and Revolutionary Road), gangster drama (Road to Perdition), war (Jarhead), light-hearted road comedy (Away We Go) and...James Bond films? (Skyfall and Spectre)
• Peter Jackson: Began as a splatter horror director (Bad Taste, Braindead), demented puppet movies (Meet the Feebles), drama (Heavenly Creatures), fantasy (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit), monster movies (The 2005 King Kong remake), comic book movie (The Adventures of Tintin), Horror/Comedy (The Frighteners)
• Roman Polański: horror (Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby), horror comedy (The Fearless Vampire Killers), adventure comedy (Pirates), Shakespeare (Macbeth), war drama (The Pianist), film noir (Chinatown), ...

An artist creating works in a variety of genres seems to be a completely different trope than a single work including parts from a variety of genres.