Steven Spielberg was criticized for multiple reasons for The Color Purple, including his handling of the story and the fact he was even the film's director.
Kurt Russell rocked amazing long hair in 2015's Bone Tomahawk, but that was only because his character's look in The Hateful Eight required something similar.
A Clockwork Orange director Stanley Kubrick, ever the perfectionist, tried to 'correct' the color of an actor's pubic hair on the movie. It didn't work.