← Lists

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Howard Hawks
3. Martin Scorsese
4. Billy Wilder
5. Stanley Kubrick
6. Steven Spielberg
7. Richard Linklater
8. Wes Anderson
9. Quentin Tarantino
10. Woody Allen
11. Ernst Lubitsch
12. Christopher Nolan
13. Ethan & Joel Coen
14. Orson Welles
15. Akira Kurosawa
16. Nicholas Ray
17. Frank Capra
18. Buster Keaton
19. Hayao Miyazaki
20. William Wyler
21. Ridley Scott
22. Sergio Leone
23. Jean-Luc Godard
24. Andrei Tarkovsky
25. Yasujirô Ozu
26. Charles Chaplin
27. Robert Altman
28. John Ford
29. Éric Rohmer
30. Francis Ford Coppola
31. Fritz Lang
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. Otto Preminger
41. Raoul Walsh
42. Steven Soderbergh
43. John Huston
44. Kelly Reichardt
45. F.W. Murnau
46. Terrence Malick
47. David Cronenberg
48. Errol Morris
49. David Fincher
50. Alfonso Cuarón
51. Sidney Lumet
52. Yorgos Lanthimos
53. Carl Theodor Dreyer
54. Brad Bird
55. Federico Fellini
56. Denis Villeneuve
57. Samuel Fuller
58. Tim Burton
59. Rian Johnson
60. Rob Reiner
61. Werner Herzog
62. Sam Raimi
63. Satyajit Ray
64. William A. Wellman
65. Michael Curtiz
66. Wong Kar-wai
67. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
68. Spike Lee
69. Clint Eastwood
70. Edgar Wright
71. Michael Mann
72. Mervyn LeRoy
73. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
74. Andrew Bujalski
75. Jean-Pierre Melville
76. Abbas Kiarostami
77. Paul Verhoeven
78. Darren Aronofsky
79. George Stevens
80. Jacques Tourneur
81. Jim Jarmusch
82. Robert Zemeckis
83. John Carpenter
84. Max Ophüls
85. Michael Haneke
86. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
87. Terry Gilliam
88. Jean Renoir
89. Brian De Palma
90. Vincente Minnelli
91. Todd Haynes
92. Michael Powell
93. Masaki Kobayashi
94. Tsai Ming-liang
95. James Cameron
96. Danny Boyle
97. David Lynch
98. George Miller
99. James Whale
100. Luis Buñuel