← 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