Steven Spielberg,George Lucas, Satyajit Ray....have a man in common who is ofcourse regarded as their guru...who directly influenced al these directors...who s dis legend and winner of Academy Award and d best director till date....

Akira Kurosawa, the legendary Japanese filmmaker, directly influenced Spielberg, Lucas, and Ray through his masterpieces like 'Seven Samurai' and 'Rashomon'. Kurosawa won an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1990. Scorsese, Tarkovsky, and Coppola, while influential directors, were not cited as the specific guru common to all three filmmakers in the question.