← 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. Wes Anderson
10. Akira Kurosawa
11. Orson Welles
12. Quentin Tarantino
13. Billy Wilder
14. Ernst Lubitsch
15. Christopher Nolan
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. John Ford
33. Ingmar Bergman
34. Paul Thomas Anderson
35. David Lean
36. Raoul Walsh
37. Josef von Sternberg
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. 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. Michael Curtiz
56. Denis Villeneuve
57. Tim Burton
58. Carl Theodor Dreyer
59. Brad Bird
60. Clint Eastwood
61. Sam Raimi
62. Tsai Ming-liang
63. Preston Sturges
64. Federico Fellini
65. Samuel Fuller
66. Rian Johnson
67. Michael Powell
68. Rob Reiner
69. Satyajit Ray
70. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
71. George Stevens
72. William A. Wellman
73. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
74. Edgar Wright
75. George Miller
76. Michael Mann
77. Mervyn LeRoy
78. John Carpenter
79. Andrew Bujalski
80. Sean Baker
81. Darren Aronofsky
82. Stanley Donen
83. Robert Zemeckis
84. Jean-Pierre Melville
85. Abbas Kiarostami
86. Paul Verhoeven
87. Leo McCarey
88. Don Siegel
89. Jacques Tourneur
90. Jim Jarmusch
91. Ang Lee
92. Anthony Mann
93. Max Ophüls
94. Michael Haneke
95. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
96. Terry Gilliam
97. Jean Renoir
98. Wong Kar-wai
99. Vincente Minnelli
100. Danny Boyle