← Lists

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Howard Hawks
3. Martin Scorsese
4. Woody Allen
5. Richard Linklater
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Billy Wilder
8. Steven Spielberg
9. Ethan & Joel Coen
10. Wes Anderson
11. Akira Kurosawa
12. Quentin Tarantino
13. Ernst Lubitsch
14. Christopher Nolan
15. Orson Welles
16. Nicholas Ray
17. Frank Capra
18. Buster Keaton
19. Robert Altman
20. Hayao Miyazaki
21. William Wyler
22. Jean-Luc Godard
23. Sergio Leone
24. Ridley Scott
25. Fritz Lang
26. Andrei Tarkovsky
27. Yasujirô Ozu
28. Charles Chaplin
29. Frederick Wiseman
30. Steven Soderbergh
31. Éric Rohmer
32. John Ford
33. Ingmar Bergman
34. Paul Thomas Anderson
35. Raoul Walsh
36. Josef von Sternberg
37. Francis Ford Coppola
38. David Lean
39. John Huston
40. Roman Polanski
41. Noah Baumbach
42. David Cronenberg
43. Hong Sang-soo
44. Otto Preminger
45. Kelly Reichardt
46. F.W. Murnau
47. Terrence Malick
48. Sidney Lumet
49. Yorgos Lanthimos
50. Errol Morris
51. David Fincher
52. Werner Herzog
53. Alfonso Cuarón
54. Michael Curtiz
55. Denis Villeneuve
56. Tim Burton
57. Carl Theodor Dreyer
58. Brad Bird
59. Sam Raimi
60. Preston Sturges
61. Federico Fellini
62. Clint Eastwood
63. Samuel Fuller
64. Rian Johnson
65. Spike Lee
66. Michael Powell
67. Rob Reiner
68. Satyajit Ray
69. George Stevens
70. William A. Wellman
71. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
72. Edgar Wright
73. Michael Mann
74. Mervyn LeRoy
75. John Carpenter
76. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
77. Andrew Bujalski
78. Sean Baker
79. Robert Zemeckis
80. Jean-Pierre Melville
81. Abbas Kiarostami
82. Paul Verhoeven
83. Leo McCarey
84. George Miller
85. Don Siegel
86. Darren Aronofsky
87. Jacques Tourneur
88. Jim Jarmusch
89. Ang Lee
90. Max Ophüls
91. Michael Haneke
92. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
93. Terry Gilliam
94. Jean Renoir
95. Wong Kar-wai
96. Vincente Minnelli
97. Brian De Palma
98. George Cukor
99. Todd Haynes
100. Luis Buñuel