← 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. Éric Rohmer
30. Ingmar Bergman
31. Paul Thomas Anderson
32. John Ford
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. Michael Curtiz
54. Denis Villeneuve
55. Tim Burton
56. Carl Theodor Dreyer
57. Brad Bird
58. Preston Sturges
59. Federico Fellini
60. Clint Eastwood
61. Sidney Lumet
62. Samuel Fuller
63. Rian Johnson
64. Spike Lee
65. Rob Reiner
66. Sam Raimi
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