← 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. Ridley Scott
24. Sergio Leone
25. Fritz Lang
26. Andrei Tarkovsky
27. Yasujirô Ozu
28. Charles Chaplin
29. Steven Soderbergh
30. Éric Rohmer
31. Ingmar Bergman
32. Paul Thomas Anderson
33. John Ford
34. Frederick Wiseman
35. Josef von Sternberg
36. David Lean
37. Francis Ford Coppola
38. John Huston
39. Roman Polanski
40. Noah Baumbach
41. Hong Sang-soo
42. Otto Preminger
43. Raoul Walsh
44. Kelly Reichardt
45. F.W. Murnau
46. Terrence Malick
47. David Cronenberg
48. Yorgos Lanthimos
49. Errol Morris
50. David Fincher
51. Werner Herzog
52. Alfonso Cuarón
53. Michael Curtiz
54. Denis Villeneuve
55. Tim Burton
56. Carl Theodor Dreyer
57. Brad Bird
58. Sam Raimi
59. Preston Sturges
60. Federico Fellini
61. Clint Eastwood
62. Sidney Lumet
63. Samuel Fuller
64. Rian Johnson
65. Spike Lee
66. Rob Reiner
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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. Jean-Pierre Melville
79. Abbas Kiarostami
80. Paul Verhoeven
81. Leo McCarey
82. George Miller
83. Don Siegel
84. Darren Aronofsky
85. Michael Powell
86. Jacques Tourneur
87. Jim Jarmusch
88. Robert Zemeckis
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