2	Ford, John	57	1942	9	USA	English
1	Hitchcock, Alfred	43	1946	3	USA	English
82	Griffith, D.W.	42	1913	156	USA	English
5	Cukor, George	37	1944	35	USA	English
22	Curtiz, Michael	37	1941	10	USA	English
26	Chaplin, Charles	35	1924	118	USA	English
17	Godard, Jean-Luc	34	1976	19	France	French
32	Keaton, Buster	33	1923	101	USA	English
15	Lang, Fritz	32	1942	24	Germany	German
18	Allen, Woody	32	1988	12	USA	English
9	Hawks, Howard	31	1946	72	USA	English
11	Huston, John	30	1961	56	USA	English
13	Wyler, William	30	1945	87	USA	English
85	King, Henry	30	1942	562	USA	English
25	Capra, Frank	28	1939	50	USA	English
36	Lubitsch, Ernst	28	1929	103	USA	English
6	Bergman, Ingmar	27	1965	44	Sweden	Swedish
19	Renoir, Jean	27	1940	6	France	French
65	Walsh, Raoul	27	1939	225	USA	English
3	Spielberg, Steven	26	1992	20	USA	English
153	Borzage, Frank	26	1931	1020	USA	English
4	Scorsese, Martin	25	1990	15	USA	English
23	Altman, Robert	25	1984	48	USA	English
35	Vidor, King	25	1935	35	USA	English
163	DeMille, Cecil B.	25	1929	569	USA	English
38	LeRoy, Mervyn	24	1944	35	USA	English
42	Eastwood, Clint	24	1992	60	USA	English
110	Cline, Edward F.	24	1926	251	USA	English
29	Minnelli, Vincente	23	1953	184	USA	English
7	Wilder, Billy	22	1956	27	USA	English
14	Truffaut, François	22	1970	18	France	French
67	von Sternberg, Josef	22	1934	223	USA	English
149	Hathaway, Henry	22	1950	1131	USA	English
10	Kurosawa, Akira	21	1963	11	Japan	Japanese
28	Lumet, Sidney	21	1976	130	USA	English
57	Herzog, Werner	21	1991	65	West Germany	German
595	Méliès, Georges	21	1903	1251	France	French
8	Buñuel, Luis	20	1957	43	France	French
90	Chabrol, Claude	20	1978	287	France	French
33	Powell, Michael	19	1947	253	UK	English
40	Wise, Robert	19	1959	80	USA	English
44	McCarey, Leo	19	1938	91	USA	English
60	Wellman, William A.	19	1939	247	USA	English
108	Van Dyke, W.S.	19	1935	255	USA	English
132	Mann, Anthony	19	1953	544	USA	English
30	Zinnemann, Fred	18	1954	82	USA	English
41	Malle, Louis	18	1973	110	France	French
43	Fleming, Victor	18	1934	32	USA	English
71	Mizoguchi, Kenji	18	1944	86	Japan	Japanese
79	Preminger, Otto	18	1955	245	USA	English
119	Rohmer, Eric	18	1981	583	France	French
151	De Palma, Brian	18	1986	615	USA	English
184	Brown, Clarence	18	1934	1057	USA	English
320	Sidney, George	18	1954	1590	USA	English
20	Fellini, Federico	17	1965	23	Italy	Italian
102	Aldrich, Robert	17	1965	281	USA	English
126	Edwards, Blake	17	1973	614	USA	English
178	Loach, Ken	17	1988	486	UK	English
207	Apted, Michael	17	1989	609	UK	English
246	Robson, Mark	17	1954	1013	USA	English
16	Lean, David	16	1954	25	UK	English
31	Polanski, Roman	16	1981	13	USA	English
46	Donen, Stanley	16	1960	7	USA	English
58	Reed, Carol	16	1950	79	UK	English
91	Wood, Sam	16	1936	339	USA	English
100	Clair, René	16	1936	291	France	French
104	Lee, Spike	16	1997	67	USA	English
206	Litvak, Anatole	16	1944	690	USA	English
229	Cromwell, John	16	1941	715	USA	English
21	Coppola, Francis Ford	15	1980	4	USA	English
24	Kazan, Elia	15	1954	30	USA	English
27	Welles, Orson	15	1955	1	USA	English
37	Coen, Ethan	15	1998	70	USA	English
37	Coen, Joel	15	1998	70	USA	English
56	Mankiewicz, Joseph L.	15	1956	31	USA	English
61	Resnais, Alain	15	1969	180	France	French
64	Ray, Nicholas	15	1955	106	USA	English
68	Nichols, Mike	15	1985	47	USA	English
77	Leigh, Mike	15	1992	249	UK	English
80	Fassbinder, Rainer Werner	15	1975	310	West Germany	German
88	Demme, Jonathan	15	1991	63	USA	English
96	Frears, Stephen	15	1996	292	UK	English
106	Pollack, Sydney	15	1982	241	USA	English
107	Soderbergh, Steven	15	2003	445	USA	English
116	Jewison, Norman	15	1977	205	USA	English
168	Losey, Joseph	15	1964	565	UK	English
211	Sayles, John	15	1992	714	USA	English
238	Leisen, Mitchell	15	1940	864	USA	English
240	Fleischer, Richard	15	1963	1095	USA	English
243	Asquith, Anthony	15	1944	597	UK	English
685	Porter, Edwin S.	15	1904	1216	USA	English
34	Stevens, George	14	1946	143	USA	English
48	Visconti, Luchino	14	1961	170	Italy	Italian
59	Almodóvar, Pedro	14	1996	127	Spain	Spanish
66	Mamoulian, Rouben	14	1941	245	USA	English
85	Ozu, Yasujiro	14	1945	39	Japan	Japanese
101	Milestone, Lewis	14	1940	216	USA	English
135	Dieterle, William	14	1939	321	USA	English
154	Ritt, Martin	14	1968	422	USA	English

179	Bacon, Lloyd	14	1938	221	USA	English
265	Lang, Walter	14	1949	836	USA	English
282	Stevenson, Robert	14	1954	581	USA	English
302	Tashlin, Frank	14	1955	1086	USA	English
315	Negulesco, Jean	14	1950	1105	USA	English
396	Winterbottom, Michael	14	2002	1589	UK	English
509	Del Ruth, Roy	14	1937	2065	USA	English
39	Ray, Satyajit	13	1965	41	India	Bengali
52	Scott, Ridley	13	1994	92	USA	English
53	Zhang, Yimou	13	1997	38	China	Mandarin
72	Wenders, Wim	13	1988	53	West Germany	German
78	Rossellini, Roberto	13	1953	84	Italy	Italian
81	Weir, Peter	13	1987	463	USA	English
105	Siegel, Don	13	1967	154	USA	English
112	Fuller, Samuel	13	1960	370	USA	English
139	Lester, Richard	13	1970	115	UK	English
141	Brooks, Richard	13	1963	594	USA	English
152	Kiarostami, Abbas	13	1990	447	Iran	Persian
172	Tavernier, Bertrand	13	1992	593	France	French
175	Goulding, Edmund	13	1937	794	USA	English
190	Conway, Jack	13	1934	584	USA	English
202	Dmytryk, Edward	13	1953	518	USA	English
274	Linklater, Richard	13	2001	1162	USA	English
277	Lloyd, Frank	13	1928	314	USA	English
388	Taurog, Norman	13	1945	1857	USA	English
453	Jones, Chuck	13	1953	1729	USA	English
497	Dwan, Allan	13	1935	1725	USA	English
12	Kubrick, Stanley	12	1969	5	UK	English
51	Bresson, Robert	12	1965	122	France	French
62	Pressburger, Emeric	12	1947	253	UK	English
83	Schlesinger, John	12	1974	128	UK	English
99	Stone, Oliver	12	1994	332	USA	English
114	Luske, Hamilton	12	1951	196	USA	English
117	Wajda, Andrzej	12	1974	85	Poland	Polish
122	Zemeckis, Robert	12	1994	322	USA	English
140	Frankenheimer, John	12	1971	93	USA	English
145	Jackson, Wilfred	12	1946	305	USA	English
257	Marshall, George	12	1943	507	USA	English
278	Neame, Ronald	12	1964	903	UK	English
313	Ross, Herbert	12	1976	1007	USA	English
377	Walters, Charles	12	1954	1227	USA	English
560	de Oliveira, Manoel	12	1993	1992	Portugal	Portuguese
49	De Sica, Vittorio	11	1959	2	Italy	Italian
50	Kieslowski, Krzysztof	11	1988	121	Poland	French
70	Penn, Arthur	11	1968	8	USA	English
118	Tourneur, Jacques	11	1948	176	USA	English
128	Kramer, Stanley	11	1962	444	USA	English
133	Cronenberg, David	11	1993	722	USA	English
144	Hill, George Roy	11	1973	146	USA	English
146	Bogdanovich, Peter	11	1979	120	USA	English
156	Van Sant, Gus	11	1996	631	USA	English
166	Algar, James	11	1954	264	USA	English
169	Levinson, Barry	11	1991	383	USA	English
189	Siodmak, Robert	11	1945	387	USA	English
193	Rivette, Jacques	11	1985	340	France	French
213	Parker, Alan	11	1985	957	USA	English
216	Burton, Tim	11	1998	946	USA	English
241	Egoyan, Atom	11	1995	397	Canada	English
254	Mazursky, Paul	11	1978	991	USA	English
304	Koster, Henry	11	1949	1201	USA	English
305	Geronimi, Clyde	11	1949	1245	USA	English
401	Ruiz, Raoul	11	1990	846	France	French
406	Wang, Wayne	11	1997	1394	USA	English
407	Brakhage, Stan	11	1968	1616	USA	English
596	Dickson, William K.L.	11	1895	2363	USA	English
656	Avery, Tex	11	1947	2363	USA	English
660	Cummings, Irving	11	1936	2245	USA	English
891	Hart, William S.	11	1917	1946	USA	English
1021	Blackton, J. Stuart	11	1907	2233	USA	English
54	Bertolucci, Bernardo	10	1981	34	Italy	Italian
55	Forman, Milos	10	1980	54	USA	English
69	Lynch, David	10	1989	153	USA	English
93	Peckinpah, Sam	10	1970	73	USA	English
98	von Trier, Lars	10	2001	389	Denmark	English
103	Clément, René	10	1954	90	France	French
109	Cassavetes, John	10	1972	285	USA	English
123	Reiner, Rob	10	1992	363	USA	English
130	Pakula, Alan J.	10	1979	116	USA	English
148	Mann, Michael	10	1995	317	USA	English
155	Sirk, Douglas	10	1952	283	USA	English
165	Dassin, Jules	10	1957	289	France	English
171	Keighley, William	10	1938	114	USA	English
187	Howard, Ron	10	1996	541	USA	English
197	Gilliam, Terry	10	1991	492	UK	English
219	Carpenter, John	10	1984	329	USA	English
228	Korda, Zoltan	10	1942	493	UK	English
237	Dearden, Basil	10	1955	672	UK	English
262	Mulligan, Robert	10	1965	215	USA	English
292	Hallström, Lasse	10	1998	745	USA	English
300	Duvivier, Julien	10	1939	739	France	French
340	Hou, Hsiao-hsien	10	1994	1012	Taiwan	Mandarin
392	Berkeley, Busby	10	1941	1284	USA	English
399	Taylor, Sam	10	1926	884	USA	English
419	Hill, Walter	10	1985	1673	USA	English
563	Dante, Joe	10	1987	1968	USA	English
587	Daves, Delmer	10	1951	1560	USA	English
45	Antonioni, Michelangelo	9	1962	49	Italy	Italian
47	Sturges, Preston	9	1942	101	USA	English
74	Lee, Ang	9	1999	123	USA	English

84	Dreyer, Carl Theodor	9	1934	135	Denmark	Danish
87	Whale, James	9	1934	107	USA	English
89	Ophüls, Max	9	1947	290	France	French
115	Melville, Jean-Pierre	9	1961	204	France	French
176	Sturges, John	9	1963	346	USA	English
180	Jordan, Neil	9	1996	265	UK	English
185	Logan, Joshua	9	1959	699	USA	English
194	Pasolini, Pier Paolo	9	1966	169	Italy	Italian
201	Pabst, Georg Wilhelm	9	1931	234	Germany	German
217	Campion, Jane	9	1991	139	Australia	English
221	Beresford, Bruce	9	1988	811	Australia	English
239	Kaufman, Philip	9	1983	361	USA	English
250	Leconte, Patrice	9	1997	988	France	French
269	Leonard, Robert Z.	9	1933	869	USA	English
275	Schrader, Paul	9	1986	1191	USA	English
284	Miller, George	9	1990	650	Australia	English
309	Rosi, Francesco	9	1972	1250	Italy	Italian
316	Zwick, Edward	9	1998	775	USA	English
339	Franklin, Sidney	9	1933	674	USA	English
359	Sjöström, Victor	9	1919	554	USA	English
371	Gilbert, Lewis	9	1972	1046	UK	English
375	Garnett, Tay	9	1940	587	USA	English
405	Donner, Richard	9	1989	809	UK	English
427	Forbes, Bryan	9	1967	1589	UK	English
452	Thompson, J. Lee	9	1958	1280	USA	English
488	Potter, H.C.	9	1942	1435	USA	English
522	Boetticher, Budd	9	1958	1880	USA	English
618	Straub, Jean-Marie	9	1984	1874	France	German
679	Oz, Frank	9	1993	1921	USA	English
710	Miller, David	9	1955	1932	USA	English
63	Eisenstein, Sergei M.	8	1935	77	Soviet Union	Russian
73	Murnau, F.W.	8	1926	59	Germany	German
75	Jackson, Peter	8	2000	141	New Zealand	English
76	Tarantino, Quentin	8	2001	14	USA	English
86	Cameron, James	8	1994	152	USA	English
125	Carné, Marcel	8	1947	75	France	French
131	Friedkin, William	8	1987	105	USA	English
134	Brooks, Mel	8	1976	155	USA	English
136	Boorman, John	8	1982	183	USA	English
137	Richardson, Tony	8	1963	203	UK	English
143	Fincher, David	8	2003	441	USA	English
159	Sandrich, Mark	8	1938	99	USA	English
162	Ivory, James	8	1985	306	UK	English
192	Verhoeven, Paul	8	1988	634	Netherlands	Dutch
195	Romero, George A.	8	1989	262	USA	English
196	Demy, Jacques	8	1970	307	France	French
200	Mann, Delbert	8	1959	277	USA	English
203	McLeod, Norman Z.	8	1936	444	USA	English
224	Newell, Mike	8	1996	644	UK	English
227	Browning, Tod	8	1930	443	USA	English
230	Rafelson, Bob	8	1979	145	USA	English
233	Morris, Errol	8	1997	596	USA	English
245	Attenborough, Richard	8	1982	377	UK	English
256	Ichikawa, Kon	8	1960	497	Japan	Japanese
259	Varda, Agnès	8	1981	707	France	French
273	Hamilton, Guy	8	1965	182	UK	English
286	Pagnol, Marcel	8	1937	698	France	French
288	Mikhalkov, Nikita	8	1988	914	France	Russian
290	Saura, Carlos	8	1982	500	Spain	Spanish
296	Raimi, Sam	8	1996	970	USA	English
308	Zeffirelli, Franco	8	1978	718	Italy	English
317	Schlöndorff, Volker	8	1985	508	France	German
328	Dovzhenko, Aleksandr	8	1936	324	Soviet Union	Russian
330	Hiller, Arthur	8	1970	1000	USA	English
344	Mann, Daniel	8	1960	1055	USA	English
357	Annakin, Ken	8	1957	806	USA	English
440	Newmeyer, Fred C.	8	1923	884	USA	English
445	Perry, Frank	8	1971	1650	USA	English
458	Mamet, David	8	1997	756	USA	English
461	Corman, Roger	8	1963	1356	USA	English
481	Ferrara, Abel	8	1997	1513	USA	English
491	Frank, Melvin	8	1962	1417	USA	English
492	Pudovkin, Vsevolod	8	1930	1311	Soviet Union	Russian
494	Kitano, Takeshi	8	1998	1395	Japan	Japanese
558	Mayo, Archie	8	1937	1418	USA	English
612	Feyder, Jacques	8	1929	1518	Germany	French
630	Brabin, Charles	8	1923	1233	USA	English
642	Wallace, Richard	8	1934	1718	USA	English
746	Butler, David	8	1941	1767	USA	English
807	Barker, Reginald	8	1917	2233	USA	English
848	Nichols, Charles A.	8	1951	2287	USA	English
897	Becker, Harold	8	1985	2245	USA	English
92	Tati, Jacques	7	1959	138	France	French
94	Lucas, George	7	1984	17	USA	English
95	Tarkovsky, Andrei	7	1975	133	Soviet Union	Russian
111	Kelly, Gene	7	1961	7	USA	English
127	Clouzot, Henri-Georges	7	1951	151	France	French
142	Wong, Kar Wai	7	1996	168	Hong Kong	Cantonese
158	Ashby, Hal	7	1974	408	USA	English
173	Miyazaki, Hayao	7	1996	213	Japan	Japanese
181	Nolan, Christopher	7	2004	560	USA	English
186	Schaffner, Franklin J.	7	1969	273	USA	English
199	Haneke, Michael	7	2001	648	Austria	French
204	Schoedsack, Ernest B.	7	1935	62	USA	English
209	Jarmusch, Jim	7	1994	488	USA	English
214	von Stroheim, Erich	7	1923	202	USA	English
223	Flaherty, Robert J.	7	1935	656	USA	English
226	Korda, Alexander	7	1935	493	UK	English
231	Costa-Gavras	7	1974	288	France	French

242	Redford, Robert	7	1994	405	USA	English
253	La Cava, Gregory	7	1932	362	USA	English
279	Haynes, Todd	7	1998	462	USA	English
283	Rapper, Irving	7	1949	300	USA	English
287	del Toro, Guillermo	7	2001	194	USA	Spanish
303	Kaurismäki, Aki	7	1997	990	Finland	Finnish
312	Forster, Marc	7	2004	653	USA	English
325	Amelio, Gianni	7	1999	501	Italy	Italian
331	Greenaway, Peter	7	1990	1308	UK	English
332	Seaton, George	7	1957	824	USA	English
337	Branagh, Kenneth	7	1996	820	UK	English
341	Schepisi, Fred	7	1988	905	Australia	English
343	Vidor, Charles	7	1949	621	USA	English
345	Lelouch, Claude	7	1982	1077	France	French
347	Noyce, Phillip	7	1994	1028	Australia	English
360	Anderson, Michael	7	1964	724	USA	English
369	Denis, Claire	7	1999	1208	France	French
373	Landis, John	7	1980	784	USA	English
387	Oshima, Nagisa	7	1975	886	Japan	Japanese
425	Sokurov, Aleksandr	7	1997	921	Russia	Russian
442	Thorpe, Richard	7	1950	1383	USA	English
480	Rudolph, Alan	7	1990	1200	USA	English
486	Makhmalbaf, Mohsen	7	1994	1071	Iran	Persian
493	Crosland, Alan	7	1926	661	USA	English
531	Autant-Lara, Claude	7	1951	1143	France	French
531	Feuillade, Louis	7	1916	1064	France	French
534	Imamura, Shohei	7	1979	1476	Japan	Japanese
535	Maddin, Guy	7	2000	1874	Canada	English
562	Akerman, Chantal	7	1984	1348	Belgium	French
566	Heisler, Stuart	7	1943	1857	USA	English
571	Scola, Ettore	7	1982	1698	Italy	Italian
577	Vadim, Roger	7	1962	1685	France	French
599	Launder, Frank	7	1950	1753	UK	English
655	Gitai, Amos	7	1996	1886	France	Hebrew
668	LaBute, Neil	7	2002	1831	USA	English
681	Cruze, James	7	1925	1762	USA	English
682	Konchalovsky, Andrei	7	1979	2197	Soviet Union	Russian
697	Pichel, Irving	7	1944	2168	USA	English
708	Huillet, Danièle	7	1989	1874	France	German
742	Karlson, Phil	7	1960	1738	USA	English
756	Cayatte, André	7	1958	2193	France	French
786	Tourneur, Maurice	7	1918	2132	USA	English
839	Fleischer, Dave	7	1937	2233	USA	English
906	Schumacher, Joel	7	1994	2305	USA	English
940	Garrel, Philippe	7	1997	2378	France	French
981	Freleng, Friz	7	1948	2414	USA	English
1084	Bardem, Juan Antonio	7	1956	2369	Spain	Spanish
1281	Lubin, Arthur	7	1947	2414	USA	English
113	Leone, Sergio	6	1969	166	Italy	English
124	Mackendrick, Alexander	6	1953	124	UK	English
147	Roeg, Nicolas	6	1975	311	UK	English
173	Yates, Peter	6	1976	415	USA	English
182	Crichton, Charles	6	1956	345	UK	English
188	Aleksandrov, Grigori	6	1933	77	Soviet Union	Russian
191	Benton, Robert	6	1984	237	USA	English
215	Boyle, Danny	6	2002	351	UK	English
222	Lasseter, John	6	1999	278	USA	English
247	Chen, Kaige	6	1996	137	China	Mandarin
251	Kasdan, Lawrence	6	1987	523	USA	English
252	Gance, Abel	6	1929	272	France	French
260	Zucker, Jerry	6	1985	288	USA	English
261	Clayton, Jack	6	1968	460	UK	English
263	Moore, Michael	6	2001	815	USA	English
268	Singer, Bryan	6	2000	312	USA	English
297	Solondz, Todd	6	2003	394	USA	English
298	Menzies, William Cameron	6	1941	493	UK	English
299	Badham, John	6	1983	207	USA	English
301	Dardenne, Jean-Pierre	6	2003	814	Belgium	French
301	Dardenne, Luc	6	2003	814	Belgium	French
342	Szabó, István	6	1987	670	Hungary	Hungarian
350	Kershner, Irvin	6	1973	325	USA	English
363	Kinney, Jack	6	1943	384	USA	English
364	Sembene, Ousmane	6	1983	1033	Senegal	French
376	Figgis, Mike	6	1994	494	USA	English
384	Glenville, Peter	6	1961	826	USA	English
400	Blier, Bertrand	6	1981	1230	France	French
408	Parrott, James	6	1930	930	USA	English
413	Becker, Jacques	6	1951	1056	France	French
424	Holland, Agnieszka	6	1995	653	Germany	German
435	Ritchie, Michael	6	1976	894	USA	English
446	Seiter, William A.	6	1935	933	USA	English
448	Assayas, Olivier	6	2003	1268	France	French
451	Brooks, Albert	6	1989	1362	USA	English
468	Rydell, Mark	6	1975	949	USA	English
469	Craven, Wes	6	1986	956	USA	English
474	Lewis, Jerry	6	1968	1138	USA	English
475	Widerberg, Bo	6	1973	1443	Sweden	Swedish
482	Hackford, Taylor	6	1991	1163	USA	English
523	Reiner, Carl	6	1979	1312	USA	English
551	Warhol, Andy	6	1965	1110	USA	English
573	Sherman, Vincent	6	1944	1639	USA	English
593	Youngson, Robert	6	1962	2189	USA	English
602	Pialat, Maurice	6	1980	1070	France	French
605	Zanussi, Krzysztof	6	1983	1763	Poland	Polish
615	Tsai, Ming-liang	6	1999	1430	Taiwan	Mandarin
618	Nelson, Ralph	6	1965	1784	USA	English
631	Niblo, Fred	6	1923	1233	USA	English
633	Green, Guy	6	1961	1641	UK	English
647	Fernández, Emilio	6	1946	1629	Mexico	English
648	Ruggles, Wesley	6	1934	1680	USA	English
651	Stahl, John M.	6	1938	1523	USA	English
657	Monicelli, Mario	6	1964	1594	Italy	Italian
675	Michell, Roger	6	2002	1794	USA	English

Directors (3,994 Most Notable)