← Lists

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