← 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. Jean-Luc Godard
22. Sergio Leone
23. Paul Thomas Anderson
24. Ridley Scott
25. William Wyler
26. Fritz Lang
27. Andrei Tarkovsky
28. Yasujirô Ozu
29. Charles Chaplin
30. Frederick Wiseman
31. Steven Soderbergh
32. Éric Rohmer
33. John Ford
34. Ingmar Bergman
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. 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. Michael Powell
69. Rob Reiner
70. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
71. George Stevens
72. William A. Wellman
73. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
74. John Frankenheimer
75. Edgar Wright
76. George Miller
77. Michael Mann
78. Mervyn LeRoy
79. John Carpenter
80. Andrew Bujalski
81. Sean Baker
82. Darren Aronofsky
83. Stanley Donen
84. Robert Zemeckis
85. Jean-Pierre Melville
86. Abbas Kiarostami
87. Paul Verhoeven
88. Leo McCarey
89. Don Siegel
90. Jacques Tourneur
91. Jim Jarmusch
92. Ang Lee
93. Anthony Mann
94. Max Ophüls
95. Michael Haneke
96. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
97. Terry Gilliam
98. Jean Renoir
99. Wong Kar-wai
100. Vincente Minnelli