Top 100 Directors

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Top 100 Film Directors of all time according to theyshootpictures.com .
Check mark if you have seen at least one feature film by the director.

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  1. 1.
    Orson Welles

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  2. 2.
    Alfred Hitchcock

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  3. 3.
    Federico Fellini

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  4. 4.
    John Ford

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  5. 5.
    stanley kubrick

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  6. 6.
    Jean Renoir

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  7. 7.
    Akira Kurosawa 黒沢 明

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  8. 8.
    Ingmar Bergman

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  9. 9.
    Jean-Luc Godard

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  10. 10.
    Francis Ford Coppola

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  11. 11.
    Charlie Spencer Chaplin

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  12. 12.
    Billy Wilder

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  13. 13.
    Martin Scorsese

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  14. 14.
    Howard Hawks

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  15. 15.
    Carl Theodore Dreyer

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  16. 16.
    Sergei Eisenstein

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  17. 17.
    F.W. Murnau

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  18. 18.
    Yasujiro Ozu

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  19. 19.
    Luis Bunuel

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  20. 20.
    Robert Bresson

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  21. 21.
    Andrei Tarkovsky

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  22. 22.
    Fritz Lang

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  23. 23.
    Kenji Mizoguchi

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  24. 24.
    David Lean

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  25. 25.
    Buster Keaton

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  26. 26.
    Michaelangelo Antonioni

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  27. 27.
    D.W. Griffith

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  28. 28.
    Roberto Rossellini

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  29. 29.
    François Truffaut

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  30. 30.
    Steven Spielberg

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  31. 31.
    Vittorio Di Sica

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  32. 32.
    Satyajit Ray

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  33. 33.
    Luchino Visconti

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  34. 34.
    Woody Allen

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  35. 35.
    Ernst Lubitsch

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  36. 36.
    John Huston

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  37. 37.
    Roman Polanski

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  38. 38.
    Jean Vigo

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  39. 39.
    Robert Altman

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  40. 40.
    Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly

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  42. 42.
    Max Ophuls

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  43. 43.
    Frank Capra

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  44. 44.
    Alain Resnais

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  45. 45.
    Sergio Leone

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  46. 46.
    Michael Curtiz

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  47. 47.
    Sam Peckinpah

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  48. 48.
    Bernardo Bertolucci

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  49. 49.
    Preston Sturges

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  50. 50.
    Carol Reed

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Created by crimeandpunishment on Dec 08, 2006.
 

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Capra — 13 weeks ago

What the hell! Capra is at number 43? So, Steven Spielberg is a better director than the man who made ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, ‘It Happened One Night’, and ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’?


Not a single female director... — 15 weeks ago

How about Agnes Varda? Agnieszka Holland? Chantal Ackerman? Mira Nair? Euzhan Palcy (from Martinique, she’s the first black woman to direct a film in Hollywood – The Dry White Season)
These women are all auters in their own right, that have been making films for decades with very little attention. Ask yourself – why?
Here’s a site I found about ‘great directors’ that lists plenty of women…
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/index.html


Untitled — 18 weeks ago

Interesting how they are all males..i wish more women would direct


Melissa B.
Oklahoma City

December 2007 Update — 20 weeks ago

In: Clint Eastwood, Jean-Pierre Melville, Andrzej Wajda.

Out: George A. Romero, James Cameron, Glauber Rocha.


Melissa B.
Oklahoma City

Out of Order? — 34 weeks ago

The order of the directors has been changed on this list since last time I looked at it; I went to the list source and it is still the December 2006 version, which this new order does not match. Is there a new version of the 100 Directors list someplace (or is this out of order now)?


crimeandpunishment
Steinbach

Directors filmographies — 38 weeks ago

Almost all of these directors now have filmography lists on this site. Search for the directors name if you’re interested.


Katie's running as if she has a choice.
Second Star To The Right And Straight On Till Morning

I'm upset — 45 weeks ago

Because every single director on this list is a boy. There needs to be more women in this field. Who agrees with me? I know, that all the people on this list are magnificent directors, but I find it very sad that none of them are girls.


champagnesque
Michigan

ANG LEE — 47 weeks ago

where’s ang lee? as far as i’m concerned he’s one of the best directors of our time, as well as in history.


34? — 1 year ago

Spielberg is 34?! They’re saying 33 directors, including some guy who made a total of 4 films I never heard of, back in the 30s, is a better director than the man who made Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan and Raiders of the Lost Ark? That’s beyond insulting.


crimeandpunishment
Steinbach

Update — 1 year ago

I’ve updated this list as per the theyshootpicture December update.



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