← Lists

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Howard Hawks
3. Martin Scorsese
4. Billy Wilder
5. Richard Linklater
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Steven Spielberg
8. Ethan & Joel Coen
9. Wes Anderson
10. Quentin Tarantino
11. Woody Allen
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. William Wyler
21. Jean-Luc Godard
22. Ridley Scott
23. Sergio Leone
24. Fritz Lang
25. Andrei Tarkovsky
26. Yasujirô Ozu
27. Charles Chaplin
28. Robert Altman
29. John Ford
30. Éric Rohmer
31. Francis Ford Coppola
32. Ingmar Bergman
33. Paul Thomas Anderson
34. Frederick Wiseman
35. Josef von Sternberg
36. David Lean
37. Roman Polanski
38. Noah Baumbach
39. Hong Sang-soo
40. Steven Soderbergh
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. Alfonso Cuarón
52. Denis Villeneuve
53. Tim Burton
54. Carl Theodor Dreyer
55. Brad Bird
56. Preston Sturges
57. Federico Fellini
58. Sidney Lumet
59. Samuel Fuller
60. Rian Johnson
61. Spike Lee
62. Rob Reiner
63. Werner Herzog
64. Sam Raimi
65. Satyajit Ray
66. William A. Wellman
67. Michael Curtiz
68. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
69. Clint Eastwood
70. Edgar Wright
71. Michael Mann
72. Mervyn LeRoy
73. John Carpenter
74. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
75. Andrew Bujalski
76. Jean-Pierre Melville
77. Abbas Kiarostami
78. Paul Verhoeven
79. George Miller
80. Don Siegel
81. Darren Aronofsky
82. Michael Powell
83. George Stevens
84. Jacques Tourneur
85. Jim Jarmusch
86. Robert Zemeckis
87. Ang Lee
88. Max Ophüls
89. Michael Haneke
90. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
91. Terry Gilliam
92. Jean Renoir
93. Wong Kar-wai
94. Vincente Minnelli
95. Brian De Palma
96. Todd Haynes
97. Masaki Kobayashi
98. Tsai Ming-liang
99. James Cameron
100. Danny Boyle