100 Greatest Film Directors

The 100 greatest directors in motion picture history. These directors are ranked according to their directional technique, their longevity and popularity, along with their impact and influence in the film industry.

C* : Critics votes, V* : Viewers votes. Only registred users are allowed to vote.

C*	V*	Name	Birth(b)/Death(d)	Country	Notable work
3	3	Akira Kurosawa	1910-03-23	Japan	Seven Samurai Seven Samurai Rashomon
47	47	Alan J. Pakula	1928-04-07	USA	Klute To Kill a Mockingbird All the President's Men
1	2	Alfred Hitchcock	1899-08-13	England	North by Northwest North by Northwest Rebecca
56	56	Andrei Tarkovsky	1932-04-04	USSR	Соля́рис Андрей Рублёв Nostalghia
75	75	Bernardo Bertolucci	1940-03-16	Italy	C'era una volta il West The Last Emperor Last Tango In Paris
7	8	Billy Wilder	1906-06-22	Austria-Hungary	Some Like It Hot The Apartment People on Sunday
59	59	Brian De Palma	1940-09-11	USA	Scarface The Untouchables Carlito's Way
70	70	Buster Keaton	1895-10-04	U.S.	Sunset Blvd. The General Around the World in 80 Days
85	85	Carl Theodor Dreyer	1889-02-03	Denmark	Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
54	54	Cecil B. DeMille	1881-08-12	USA	Sunset Blvd. The Buccaneer The Ten Commandments
15	15	Charlie Chaplin	1889-04-16	UK	City Lights City Lights The Great Dictator
50	50	Clint Eastwood	1930-05-31	USA	Unforgiven Million Dollar Baby Mystic River
24	24	D.W. Griffith	1875-01-22	USA	The Birth Of A Nation Intolerance The Musketeers of Pig Alley
100	100	Darren Aronofsky	1969-02-12	USA	Pi Requiem for a Dream The Fountain
45	45	David Fincher	1962-08-28	USA	Being John Malkovich Panic Room Alien 3
13	13	David Lean	1908-03-25	UK	The Bridge on the River Kwai Brief Encounter Doctor Zhivago
16	16	David Lynch	1946-01-20	USA	The Straight Story Wild at Heart Lost Highway
14	14	Elia Kazan	1909-09-07	Ottoman Empire	East of Eden On the Waterfront A Streetcar Named Desire
42	42	Erich von Stroheim	1885-09-22	Austria-Hungary	Sunset Blvd. Grand Illusion Five Graves to Cairo
88	88	Ernst Lubitsch	1892-01-28	Germany	Trouble in Paradise To Be or Not To Be Ninotchka
35	35	F.W. Murnau	1888-12-28	Germany	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
10	10	Federico Fellini	1920-01-20	Italy	Rome, Open City La Strada 8½
11	11	Francis Ford Coppola	1939-04-07	USA	Apocalypse Now Lost in Translation Rumble Fish
29	29	François Truffaut	1932-02-06	France	The 400 Blows The 400 Blows Stolen Kisses
12	12	Frank Capra	1897-05-18	Italy	Arsenic and Old Lace Pocketful of Miracles It's a Wonderful Life
82	82	Fred Zinnemann	1907-04-29	Austria-Hungary (now Austria)	High Noon People on Sunday A Man for All Seasons
68	68	Fritz Lang	1890-12-05	Austria-Hungary	Metropolis Le mépris Secret Beyond the Door
31	31	George Cukor	1899-07-07	USA	The Philadelphia Story A Star Is Born My Fair Lady
83	83	George Lucas	1944-05-14	USA	Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope
81	81	George Roy Hill	1921-12-20	USA	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Sting The World According to Garp
78	78	Hayao Miyazaki	1941-01-05	Tokyo	Kaze no tani no Naushika Kaze no tani no Naushika Kaze no tani no Naushika
66	66	Henri-Georges Clouzot	1907-08-18	France	Le Salaire de la Peur Diabolique Diabolique
46	46	Howard Hawks	1896-05-30	USA	Rio Bravo Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Scarface: The Shame of the Nation
8	9	Ingmar Bergman	1918-07-14	Sweden	The Seventh Seal The Seventh Seal Wild Strawberries
41	41	James Cameron	1954-08-16	Canada	The Terminator Terminator 2: Judgment Day Strange Days
52	52	Jean Cocteau	1889-07-05	France	Beauty and the Beast Orphée The Blood of a Poet
28	28	Jean Renoir	1894-09-15	France	La Règle du Jeu Grand Illusion Grand Illusion
34	34	Jean-Luc Godard	1930-12-03	France	Le mépris À bout de souffle Vivre sa Vie
37	37	Joel Coen	1954-11-29	USA	The Big Lebowski O Brother, Where Art Thou? Fargo
90	90	John Carpenter	1948-01-16	USA	The Fog Halloween The Thing
5	5	John Ford	1894-02-01	USA	The Grapes of Wrath Stagecoach My Darling Clementine
36	36	John Frankenheimer	1930-02-19	USA	Birdman of Alcatraz The Manchurian Candidate The Train
98	98	John Hughes	1950-02-18	U.S.	Home Alone Home Alone 2 Home Alone 2
17	17	John Huston	1906-08-05	USA	The African Queen Chinatown The Maltese Falcon
84	84	John Schlesinger	1926-02-16	UK	Pacific Heights Midnight Cowboy Far from the Madding Crowd
63	63	Jonathan Demme	1944-02-22	USA	The Silence of the Lambs Adaptation Philadelphia
61	61	Kenji Mizoguchi	1898-05-16	Japan	Ugetsu monogatari Chikamatsu monogatari Asahi wa kagayaku
97	97	Kenneth Branagh	1960-12-10	UK	Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets Rabbit-Proof Fence Hamlet
77	77	Krzysztof Kieslowski	1941-06-27		Three Colours: Blue Three Colours: Blue Three Colors: White
69	69	Lars von Trier	1956-04-30	Denmark	Dancer in the Dark Breaking The Waves The Idiots
25	25	Laurence Olivier	1907-05-22	UK	Rebecca Spartacus Sleuth
65	65	Lewis Milestone	1895-09-30	Russian Empire	All Quiet on the Western Front Ocean's Eleven Ocean's Eleven
64	64	Luchino Visconti	1906-11-02	Italy	Il gattopardo Ludwig II L'Innocente
20	20	Luis Buñuel	1900-02-22	Spain	Las Hurdes – Tierra sin Pan Belle de Jour Los Olvidados
6	6	Martin Scorsese	1942-11-17	USA	Taxi Driver Mean Streets The King of Comedy
94	94	Max Ophüls	1902-05-06	Germany	Letter from an Unknown Woman Madame de... The Reckless Moment
86	86	Mel Brooks	1926-06-28	USA	Spaceballs Young Frankenstein Life Stinks
76	76	Michael Curtiz	1886-12-24	Hungary	Casablanca Santa Fe Trail Yankee Doodle Dandy
74	74	Michael Mann	1943-02-05	USA	Miami Vice Heat Collateral
43	43	Michael Powell	1905-09-30	England	Peeping Tom The Thief of Bagdad Black Narcissus
60	60	Michelangelo Antonioni	1912-09-29	Italy	Blowup Zabriskie Point The Passenger
58	58	Mike Nichols	1931-11-06	Germany	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Closer Working Girl
23	23	Milos Forman	1932-02-18	Czechoslovakia	Amadeus One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest The People vs. Larry Flynt
99	99	Nicholas Ray	1911-08-07	USA	Rebel Without a Cause In a Lonely Place Party Girl
62	62	Norman Jewison	1926-07-21	Canada	The Cincinnati Kid The Thomas Crown Affair Moonstruck
44	44	Oliver Stone	1946-09-15	New York	Scarface Natural Born Killers Platoon
4	4	Orson Welles	1915-05-06	USA	Citizen Kane Citizen Kane Citizen Kane
87	87	Paul Thomas Anderson	1970-06-26	USA	Magnolia Magnolia Magnolia
91	91	Pedro Almodóvar	1949-09-25	Spain	Talk to her Talk to her All About My Mother
79	79	Peter Jackson	1961-10-31	New Zealand	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
32	32	Quentin Tarantino	1963-03-27	USA	Four Rooms Jackie Brown Sin City
96	96	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	1945-05-31		Angst essen Seele auf The Marraige of Maria Braun The Marraige of Maria Braun
27	27	Ridley Scott	1937-11-30	UK	Blade Runner Gladiator Alien
95	95	Rob Reiner	1947-03-06	USA	Sleepless in Seattle Misery The Bucket List
71	71	Robert Aldrich	1918-08-09	USA	The Dirty Dozen The Longest Yard Hustle
26	26	Robert Altman	1925-02-20	USA	MAS*H Short Cuts The Long Goodbye
67	67	Robert Bresson	1901-09-25	France	Pickpocket Mouchette Au hasard Balthazar
40	40	Robert Zemeckis	1951-05-14	USA	Forrest Gump Back to the Future Back to The Future Part 2
22	22	Roman Polanski	1933-08-18	France	Oliver Twist The Pianist Rosemary's Baby
38	38	Sam Peckinpah	1925-02-21	United States	The Wild Bunch Straw Dogs Cross of Iron
89	89	Sam Wood	1883-07-10	USA	A Day at the Races Our Town For Whom the Bell Tolls
49	49	Satyajit Ray	1921-05-02		The Music Room অপুর সংসার Pather Panchali
33	33	Sergei Eisenstein	1898-01-23
18	18	Sergio Leone	1929-01-03	Italy	Once Upon a Time in America C'era una volta il West C'era una volta il West
21	21	Sidney Lumet	1924-06-25	USA	12 Angry Men Fail-Safe Dog Day Afternoon
39	39	Spike Lee	1957-03-20	USA	Do the Right Thing 25th Hour Jungle Fever
2	1	Stanley Kubrick	1928-07-26	US	2001: A Space Odyssey A Clockwork Orange The Killing
48	48	Steven Soderbergh	1963-01-14	USA	Ocean's Eleven Ocean's Eleven Ocean's Twelve
9	7	Steven Spielberg	1946-12-18	USA	War of the Worlds Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
53	53	Sydney Pollack	1934-07-01	USA	The Interpreter Eyes Wide Shut Out of Africa
72	72	Terrence Malick	1943-11-30	USA	Badlands The Thin Red Line The Tree of Life
51	51	Terry Gilliam	1940-11-22	USA	Twelve Monkeys Brazil The Fisher King
57	57	Tim Burton	1958-08-25	USA	Mars Attacks! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Edward Scissorhands
73	73	Victor Fleming	1889-02-23	USA	The Wizard of Oz Gone with the Wind Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
92	92	Vittorio De Sica	1901-07-07	Italy	Umberto D. I Girasoli Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini
80	80	Werner Herzog	1942-09-05	Germany	Aguirre, The Wrath of God Aguirre, The Wrath of God Aguirre, The Wrath of God
19	19	William Wyler	1902-07-01	Germany	Ben-Hur Roman Holiday The Best Years of Our Lives
30	30	Woody Allen	1935-12-01	USA	Match Point Manhattan Annie Hall
55	55	Yasujirô Ozu	1903-12-12	Japan	Banshun Hitori musuko Sanma no aji
93	93	Yimou Zhang	1951-11-14	China	Hero Ju Dou Raise the Red Lantern

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