← 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. Quentin Tarantino
12. Ernst Lubitsch
13. Christopher Nolan
14. Orson Welles
15. Akira Kurosawa
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. Ingmar Bergman
33. Paul Thomas Anderson
34. John Ford
35. Raoul Walsh
36. Josef von Sternberg
37. David Lean
38. Francis Ford Coppola
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. Rob Reiner
67. Satyajit Ray
68. George Stevens
69. William A. Wellman
70. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
71. Edgar Wright
72. Michael Mann
73. Mervyn LeRoy
74. John Carpenter
75. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
76. Andrew Bujalski
77. Sean Baker
78. Robert Zemeckis
79. Jean-Pierre Melville
80. Abbas Kiarostami
81. Paul Verhoeven
82. Leo McCarey
83. George Miller
84. Don Siegel
85. Darren Aronofsky
86. Michael Powell
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