Not intended to be a complete list, but these are the names and studios that we think deserve a little more recognition. Sorry if you didn’t make it, no hard feelings...
Invented the idea that opening credits could be good. Everyone since has been working off his homework. Cut paper, big shapes, zero wasted frames.
Hand-lettered Dr. Strangelove and made split screens and frantic cutting look cool decades before your editor discovered them.
I mean... is he the Wayne Gretzky of modern film title design, or is Wayne Gretzky the Kyle Cooper of hockey? Co-founded Imaginary Forces, then founded Prologue.
Founded by Kyle Cooper, Peter Frankfurt and Chip Houghton. Decades of main titles, and half the industry’s résumés list it as a former employer.
Kyle Cooper again, because apparently one Hall of Fame entry wasn’t enough. Titles that feel like the first scene, not a waiting room.
Hung giant credits off Manhattan skyscrapers for Panic Room, which remains more interesting than most of the movies that came after it.
Garson Yu’s Hollywood studio. Has opened so many blockbusters and prestige shows that you’ve almost certainly watched their work without skipping it.
Started in 2007 by motion designer Ian Albinson, edited since 2018 by Lola Landekic. The reason anyone can still find these things. Go lose an afternoon there.