← Lists

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