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.
Updated January 2010.

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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.
    stanley kubrick

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  5. 5.
    John Ford

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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.
    Francis Ford Coppola

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  10. 10.
    Jean-Luc Godard

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  11. 11.
    Charlie Spencer Chaplin

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  12. 12.
    Billy Wilder

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  13. 13.
    Luis Bunuel

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  14. 14.
    Martin Scorsese

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  15. 15.
    Howard Hawks

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  16. 16.
    Carl Theodore Dreyer

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  17. 17.
    Sergei Eisenstein

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  18. 18.
    F.W. Murnau

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  19. 19.
    Yasujiro Ozu

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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.
    David Lean

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  24. 24.
    François Truffaut

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  25. 25.
    Kenji Mizoguchi

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  26. 26.
    Buster Keaton

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  27. 27.
    Michaelangelo Antonioni

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  28. 28.
    Roberto Rossellini

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  29. 29.
    Steven Spielberg

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  30. 30.
    D.W. Griffith

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  31. 31.
    Luchino Visconti

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  32. 32.
    Vittorio Di Sica

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  33. 33.
    Max Ophuls

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  34. 34.
    Ernst Lubitsch

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  35. 35.
    Woody Allen

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  36. 36.
    Satyajit Ray

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  37. 37.
    John Huston

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  38. 38.
    Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly

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  39. 39.
    Robert Altman

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  40. 40.
    Jean Vigo

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  41. 41.
    Roman Polanski

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  43. 43.
    Sergio Leone

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  44. 44.
    Frank Capra

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  45. 45.
    Alain Resnais

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  46. 46.
    Michael Curtiz

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  47. 47.
    Preston Sturges

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  48. 48.
    Sam Peckinpah

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  49. 49.
    Ridley Scott

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  50. 50.
    Bernardo Bertolucci

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Created by crimeandpunishment on Dec 08, 2006.
 

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Top 200 — 7 weeks ago

TSPDT have extended their directors list to 200. What do you guys think is better: should we extend this list, or should we make a new one?


crimeandpunishment
Steinbach

January 2010 — 9 weeks ago

The January 2010 update is now complete.


Untitled — 42 weeks ago

Fastastic List!


Full Filmographies — 46 weeks ago

I have decided to only check directors of whom I have seen every feature film.

In the case of silent film directors, a lot of the films no longer exist. So I will only check them once I have seen every film that is available. I will not count unfinished films that are not available, or that are available in parts. I will not count (most) Tv Movies. I will not count (Most) short films. I will not count films were directors such as Welles, Walsh or Cukor might have directed some of the film, but are not credited as directors.

Maybe other peope want to do it this way to?


Lean and Scorsese Should Switch — 1 year ago

I think David Lean and Martin Scorsese should switch places on this list. Scorsese is a great director, but none of his films match the brilliance of Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai.


Untitled — 1 year ago

for some reason i think u hojon should be very very happy that Spielberg is even in the top 50. Because he dosnt deserve to be at all. While I will admit that SCHINDLER’s LIST is a very good film. But thats about it.


Untitled — 1 year ago

my alternative greatest:

Mizoguchi, Tarkovsky, Renoir, Hitchcock, Ozu, Kubrick, Eisenstein, Kurosawa, Welles, Bergman, Antonioni, Godard, Bunuel, Dreyer, Satyajit Ray, Ford, Lang..

Oliveira, Angelopoulos, Ophuls, Rohmer, Sternberg + Rivette are underrated i.m.o.

I’m sorry to say i’m not convinced any woman clearly deserves inclusion- plenty of goodies by women but not enough masterpieces in any single career yet?


kthejoker
Austin

No Robert Wise? — 1 year ago

Boo to that, sirs and madams.


marezydotes
Baltimore

Not a single female director... — 2 years 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



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