These actors worked with which director?

This ought to be pretty easy!

I'll name a series of 15 actors. The next person has to: 1) Guess which director they all worked with, and then: 2) Give the next list of actors. After which: 3) The person after that needs to guess the director the previous person's list of actors worked with. And so on and so on, etcetera, etcetera, ad nausem, ad infinitum...

I'll start off with an easy one...

Jack Nicholson
Peter Sellers
Malcolm McDowell
Sue Lyon
Kirk Douglas
Vincent D'Onofrio
Nicole Kidman
Joe Turkel
Murray Melvin
Laurence Olivier
Sterling Hayden
Marisa Berenson
Gary Lockwood
Lee Ermey
Scatman Crothers

Now then, which director did all these actors work for?

Michael Bay?

I was thinking Stanley Kubrick

Mesmerized is correct! But now he has to give his own list.

Robert De Niro
Peter Fonda
John Hurt
Vincent Price
Jason Robards
Nancy Sinatra
Debra Paget
Ray Milland
Jack Nicholson
Peter Lorre
Joyce Jameson
Barbara Steele
Bruce Dern
Dick Miller
Charles Bronson

Roger Corman!

Next list... another softball!

James Stewart
Anthony Perkins
Joan Fontaine
Sean Connery
Gregory Peck
Joseph Cotten
Tallulah Bankhead
Ivor Novello
Bruce Dern
Marlene Dietrich
Farley Granger
Paul Newman
Kim Novak
Claude Rains
George Sanders

Alfred Hitchcock

Correct! And you're up next. Give your list...

Bette Davis
Gregory Peck
Charlton Heston
Teresa Wright
Audrey Hepburn
Barbra Streisand
Humphrey Bogart
Anthony Perkins
David Niven
Olivia de Havilland
Kirk Douglas
Myrna Loy
Shirley MacLaine
Lee J. Cobb
Peter O'Toole

Just a shot in the dark, but... William Wyler?

Yup.

Okay, here's another easy one. But trust me, they will get harder!.

John Travolta
Robert Forster
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Christoph Waltz
Daryl Hannah
Tim Roth
Leonardo DiCaprio
David Carradine
Uma Thurman
Walton Goggins
Steve Buscemi
Chris Tucker
Mélanie Laurent
Kurt Russell
Samuel L. Jackson

Quentin Tarantino

Paul Newman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Michael Jackson
Al Pacino
Lauren Bacall
Walter Matthau
Sean Connery
Vanessa Redgrave
Lynn Redgrave
James Mason
Charlotte Rampling
Ethan Hawke
James Coburn
George Segal
Candice Bergen

Sidney Lumet?

Indeed.

A little more difficult, this next one...

Burt Lancaster
Dirk Bogarde
Marcello Mastroianni
Dominique Sanda
Cyril Cusack
John Malkovich
Mickey Rourke
Charlotte Rampling
Robert Powell
Kenneth Marshall
Tom Berenger
Ray Winstone
Gudrun Landgrebe
Pierre Clementi
Erland Josephson

Stick with it, people!

I'm still waiting...

HINT: The director is a European woman. An IMDb user review once referred to her as "the dame of discomfort".

Liliana Cavani - ?