← 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. Éric Rohmer
33. John Ford
34. Ingmar Bergman
35. Otto Preminger
36. David Lean
37. Raoul Walsh
38. Francis Ford Coppola
39. Josef von Sternberg
40. John Huston
41. Roman Polanski
42. Noah Baumbach
43. David Cronenberg
44. Hong Sang-soo
45. Kelly Reichardt
46. Spike Lee
47. F.W. Murnau
48. Terrence Malick
49. Sidney Lumet
50. Yorgos Lanthimos
51. Errol Morris
52. David Fincher
53. Werner Herzog
54. Alfonso Cuarón
55. Satyajit Ray
56. Michael Curtiz
57. Denis Villeneuve
58. Tim Burton
59. Carl Theodor Dreyer
60. Brad Bird
61. Clint Eastwood
62. Sam Raimi
63. Tsai Ming-liang
64. Preston Sturges
65. Federico Fellini
66. Samuel Fuller
67. Rian Johnson
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. Edgar Wright
77. George Miller
78. Michael Mann
79. Mervyn LeRoy
80. John Carpenter
81. Andrew Bujalski
82. Sean Baker
83. Darren Aronofsky
84. Stanley Donen
85. Robert Zemeckis
86. Jean-Pierre Melville
87. Abbas Kiarostami
88. Paul Verhoeven
89. Leo McCarey
90. Don Siegel
91. Jacques Tourneur
92. Jim Jarmusch
93. Ang Lee
94. Anthony Mann
95. Max Ophüls
96. Michael Haneke
97. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
98. Terry Gilliam
99. Wong Kar-wai
100. Vincente Minnelli