1	Hitchcock, Alfred	43	1946	4	USA	English
2	Ford, John	58	1943	12	USA	English
3	Spielberg, Steven	28	1992	21	USA	English
4	Cukor, George	38	1946	30	USA	English
5	Scorsese, Martin	26	1990	18	USA	English
6	Bergman, Ingmar	27	1965	43	Sweden	Swedish
7	Wilder, Billy	22	1956	28	USA	English
8	Buñuel, Luis	20	1957	41	France	French
9	Hawks, Howard	31	1946	70	USA	English
10	Huston, John	30	1961	57	USA	English
11	Kurosawa, Akira	21	1963	7	Japan	Japanese
12	Wyler, William	30	1945	86	USA	English
13	Kubrick, Stanley	12	1969	6	UK	English
14	Truffaut, François	22	1970	16	France	French
15	Lang, Fritz	32	1942	27	Germany	German
16	Lean, David	16	1954	23	UK	English
17	Curtiz, Michael	37	1941	8	USA	English
18	Renoir, Jean	28	1940	5	France	French
19	Allen, Woody	34	1989	15	USA	English
20	Fellini, Federico	17	1965	19	Italy	Italian
21	Godard, Jean-Luc	35	1977	20	France	French
22	Chaplin, Charles	35	1924	123	USA	English
23	Capra, Frank	28	1939	47	USA	English
24	Coppola, Francis Ford	15	1980	3	USA	English
25	Altman, Robert	25	1984	48	USA	English
26	Kazan, Elia	15	1954	33	USA	English
27	Welles, Orson	16	1954	1	USA	English
28	Lumet, Sidney	21	1976	136	USA	English
29	Zinnemann, Fred	18	1954	89	USA	English
30	Minnelli, Vincente	23	1953	192	USA	English
31	Powell, Michael	19	1947	234	UK	English
32	Polanski, Roman	16	1981	13	USA	English
33	Lubitsch, Ernst	29	1929	105	USA	English
34	Keaton, Buster	34	1925	108	USA	English
35	Vidor, King	26	1938	30	USA	English
36	Stevens, George	14	1946	152	USA	English
37	LeRoy, Mervyn	25	1947	30	USA	English
38	Fleming, Victor	20	1938	26	USA	English
39	Wise, Robert	19	1959	80	USA	English
40	Coen, Ethan	16	1999	71	USA	English
40	Coen, Joel	16	1999	71	USA	English
41	Malle, Louis	18	1973	114	France	French
42	Eastwood, Clint	26	1994	65	USA	English
43	McCarey, Leo	25	1935	102	USA	English
44	Donen, Stanley	16	1960	9	USA	English
45	Ray, Satyajit	13	1965	44	India	Bengali
46	Visconti, Luchino	14	1961	160	Italy	Italian
47	De Sica, Vittorio	11	1959	2	Italy	Italian
48	Antonioni, Michelangelo	9	1962	49	Italy	Italian
49	Sturges, Preston	9	1942	96	USA	English
50	Griffith, D.W.	43	1913	166	USA	English
51	King, Henry	30	1942	596	USA	English
52	Reed, Carol	16	1950	77	UK	English
53	Walsh, Raoul	28	1939	207	USA	English
54	Forman, Milos	10	1980	52	USA	English
55	Mankiewicz, Joseph L.	15	1956	34	USA	English
56	Pressburger, Emeric	12	1947	234	UK	English
57	Scott, Ridley	15	1997	97	USA	English
58	Kieslowski, Krzysztof	11	1988	134	Poland	French
59	Bresson, Robert	12	1965	121	France	French
60	Herzog, Werner	21	1992	51	West Germany	German
61	Wellman, William A.	19	1939	260	USA	English
62	Bertolucci, Bernardo	10	1981	29	Italy	Italian
63	von Sternberg, Josef	22	1934	209	USA	English
64	Zhang, Yimou	13	1997	42	China	Mandarin
65	Eisenstein, Sergei M.	8	1935	74	Soviet Union	Russian
66	Mamoulian, Rouben	14	1941	261	USA	English
67	Almodóvar, Pedro	14	1996	133	Spain	Spanish
68	Penn, Arthur	11	1968	10	USA	English
69	Ray, Nicholas	15	1955	112	USA	English
70	Resnais, Alain	15	1969	173	France	French
71	Mizoguchi, Kenji	18	1944	99	Japan	Japanese
72	Nichols, Mike	15	1985	46	USA	English
73	Lee, Ang	10	2000	140	USA	English
74	Murnau, F.W.	8	1926	62	Germany	German
75	Lynch, David	10	1989	143	USA	English
76	Schlesinger, John	12	1974	129	UK	English
77	Wood, Sam	16	1936	335	USA	English
78	Wenders, Wim	13	1988	53	West Germany	German
79	Tarantino, Quentin	9	2002	11	USA	English
80	Preminger, Otto	18	1955	261	USA	English
81	Weir, Peter	13	1987	486	USA	English
82	Jackson, Peter	10	2004	146	New Zealand	English
83	Fassbinder, Rainer Werner	15	1975	296	West Germany	German
84	Rossellini, Roberto	13	1953	79	Italy	Italian
85	Ozu, Yasujiro	14	1945	37	Japan	Japanese
86	Leigh, Mike	16	1993	258	UK	English
87	Chabrol, Claude	20	1978	268	France	French
88	Whale, James	10	1933	95	USA	English
89	Dreyer, Carl Theodor	9	1934	135	Denmark	Danish
90	Peckinpah, Sam	10	1970	76	USA	English
91	Clair, René	16	1936	275	France	French
92	Ophüls, Max	9	1947	300	France	French
93	Milestone, Lewis	14	1940	204	USA	English
94	Cameron, James	9	1994	168	USA	English
95	Siegel, Don	13	1967	147	USA	English
96	Tati, Jacques	7	1959	138	France	French
97	Demme, Jonathan	15	1991	66	USA	English
98	unknown	96	1888	2369	USA	English

99	Van Dyke, W.S.	19	1935	246	USA	English
100	Frears, Stephen	16	1997	309	UK	English
101	Aldrich, Robert	17	1965	305	USA	English
102	Lucas, George	7	1984	17	USA	English
103	Pollack, Sydney	15	1982	237	USA	English
104	Tarkovsky, Andrei	7	1975	149	Soviet Union	Russian
105	Edwards, Blake	17	1973	582	USA	English
106	Malick, Terrence	6	1996	201	USA	English
107	DeMille, Cecil B.	27	1929	600	USA	English
108	Clément, René	10	1954	88	France	French
109	Leone, Sergio	6	1969	148	Italy	English
110	Jewison, Norman	15	1977	208	USA	English
111	Dieterle, William	14	1939	303	USA	English
112	Wajda, Andrzej	12	1974	83	Poland	Polish
113	Kelly, Gene	7	1961	9	USA	English
114	Stone, Oliver	13	1995	362	USA	English
115	von Trier, Lars	11	2002	406	Denmark	English
116	Hathaway, Henry	22	1950	939	USA	English
117	Carné, Marcel	8	1947	72	France	French
118	Borzage, Frank	27	1930	883	USA	English
119	Lee, Spike	16	1997	69	USA	English
120	Lester, Richard	13	1970	94	UK	English
121	Soderbergh, Steven	16	2003	487	USA	English
122	Fuller, Samuel	13	1960	341	USA	English
122	Melville, Jean-Pierre	9	1961	217	France	French
123	Luske, Hamilton	12	1951	186	USA	English
124	Cocteau, Jean	5	1946	88	France	French
125	Zemeckis, Robert	13	1996	339	USA	English
126	Frankenheimer, John	12	1971	87	USA	English
127	Cassavetes, John	10	1972	299	USA	English
128	Kramer, Stanley	11	1962	447	USA	English
129	Richardson, Tony	8	1963	206	UK	English
130	Pakula, Alan J.	10	1979	128	USA	English
131	Rohmer, Eric	18	1981	548	France	French
132	Hill, George Roy	11	1973	142	USA	English
133	Mackendrick, Alexander	6	1953	125	UK	English
134	Cline, Edward F.	24	1926	249	USA	English
135	Reiner, Rob	12	1995	360	USA	English
136	Brooks, Richard	13	1963	608	USA	English
137	Brooks, Mel	8	1976	151	USA	English
138	Tourneur, Jacques	11	1948	195	USA	English
139	Clouzot, Henri-Georges	7	1951	139	France	French
140	Boorman, John	8	1982	183	USA	English
141	Sharpsteen, Ben	5	1938	186	USA	English
142	De Palma, Brian	19	1987	595	USA	English
143	Roeg, Nicolas	6	1975	290	UK	English
144	Friedkin, William	8	1987	109	USA	English
145	Jackson, Wilfred	12	1946	319	USA	English
146	Brown, Clarence	20	1934	1153	USA	English
147	Cronenberg, David	12	1995	796	USA	English
148	Roberts, Bill	4	1942	270	USA	English
149	Ritt, Martin	14	1968	437	USA	English
150	Mann, Anthony	19	1953	604	USA	English
151	Fincher, David	9	2004	502	USA	English
152	Conway, Jack	14	1935	538	USA	English
153	Goulding, Edmund	13	1937	674	USA	English
154	Bogdanovich, Peter	11	1979	116	USA	English
155	Losey, Joseph	15	1964	499	UK	English
156	Sandrich, Mark	8	1938	91	USA	English
157	Keighley, William	10	1938	104	USA	English
158	Payne, Alexander	5	2005	267	USA	English
159	Sirk, Douglas	10	1952	298	USA	English
160	Fosse, Bob	5	1975	111	USA	English
161	Armstrong, Samuel	3	1941	270	USA	English
162	Ashby, Hal	7	1974	373	USA	English
163	Haneke, Michael	8	2002	523	Austria	French
164	Wong, Kar Wai	8	1998	182	Hong Kong	Cantonese
165	Dassin, Jules	10	1957	292	USA	English
166	Anderson, Paul Thomas	7	2003	368	USA	English
167	Bacon, Lloyd	14	1938	205	USA	English
167	Sturges, John	9	1963	318	USA	English
168	Logan, Joshua	9	1959	634	USA	English
169	Levinson, Barry	12	1993	330	USA	English
170	Mann, Michael	10	1995	327	USA	English
171	Rossen, Robert	5	1955	171	USA	English
172	Ivory, James	8	1985	313	UK	English
173	Kiarostami, Abbas	13	1991	465	Iran	Persian
174	Hand, David	4	1937	81	USA	English
175	Hamer, Robert	5	1951	158	UK	English
176	Van Sant, Gus	12	1998	699	USA	English
177	Yates, Peter	6	1976	452	USA	English
178	Miyazaki, Hayao	8	1998	219	Japan	Japanese
179	Vigo, Jean	2	1933	107	France	French
180	Nolan, Christopher	9	2006	627	USA	English
181	Dmytryk, Edward	13	1953	512	USA	English
182	Schaffner, Franklin J.	7	1969	287	USA	English
183	Tavernier, Bertrand	13	1992	663	France	French
184	Algar, James	11	1954	270	USA	English
185	Mann, Delbert	8	1959	294	USA	English
186	McLeod, Norman Z.	8	1936	431	USA	English
187	von Stroheim, Erich	8	1923	230	USA	English
188	Aleksandrov, Grigori	6	1933	74	Soviet Union	Russian
189	Cromwell, John	16	1941	654	USA	English
190	Crichton, Charles	6	1956	314	UK	English
191	Pabst, Georg Wilhelm	9	1931	239	Germany	German
192	Siodmak, Robert	11	1945	355	USA	English
193	Loach, Ken	18	1990	438	UK	English
194	Gilliam, Terry	11	1993	508	UK	English
195	Riefenstahl, Leni	4	1935	429	Germany	German

196	Olivier, Laurence	5	1954	289	UK	English
197	Schoedsack, Ernest B.	7	1935	58	USA	English
198	Benton, Robert	6	1984	249	USA	English
199	Verhoeven, Paul	8	1988	700	Netherlands	Dutch
200	Litvak, Anatole	16	1944	644	USA	English
201	Howard, Ron	11	1997	588	USA	English
202	Anderson, Lindsay	5	1973	288	UK	English
203	Cuarón, Alfonso	5	2003	132	USA	Spanish
204	Pasolini, Pier Paolo	9	1966	164	Italy	Italian
205	Jordan, Neil	9	1998	285	UK	English
206	Hanson, Curtis	4	2001	55	USA	English
206	Parker, Alan	11	1985	911	USA	English
207	Linklater, Richard	15	2002	625	USA	English
208	Sayles, John	15	1992	815	USA	English
209	Asquith, Anthony	15	1944	464	UK	English
210	Fleischer, Richard	15	1963	1256	USA	English
211	Mendes, Sam	6	2005	118	USA	English
212	Demy, Jacques	8	1970	312	France	French
212	Jeunet, Jean-Pierre	5	2000	223	France	French
213	Iñárritu, Alejandro González	5	2006	421	USA	English
214	Robson, Mark	17	1954	1155	USA	English
215	Apted, Michael	18	1990	550	UK	English
216	Berri, Claude	5	1985	375	France	French
217	Carpenter, John	10	1984	372	USA	English
218	Jonze, Spike	4	2005	260	USA	English
219	Dearden, Basil	10	1955	598	UK	English
220	Romero, George A.	8	1989	278	USA	English
221	Korda, Alexander	7	1935	440	UK	English
222	Korda, Zoltan	10	1942	440	UK	English
223	Leisen, Mitchell	15	1940	776	USA	English
224	Lloyd, Frank	14	1928	302	USA	English
225	Beresford, Bruce	10	1990	723	Australia	English
226	Cooper, Merian C.	4	1934	58	USA	English
227	Rivette, Jacques	11	1985	378	France	French
228	Rafelson, Bob	8	1979	156	USA	English
229	Browning, Tod	8	1930	395	USA	English
230	Burton, Tim	13	2000	1066	USA	English
231	Lang, Walter	14	1949	905	USA	English
232	Russell, David O.	7	2004	581	USA	English
233	Jarmusch, Jim	7	1994	556	USA	English
234	Lasseter, John	7	1997	272	USA	English
235	Ferguson, Norman	3	1942	319	USA	English
236	Leonard, Robert Z.	10	1933	748	USA	English
237	Flaherty, Robert J.	7	1935	591	USA	English
238	Boyle, Danny	6	2002	387	UK	English
239	Neame, Ronald	12	1964	799	UK	English
240	Satterfield, Paul	2	1941	270	USA	English
241	Mazursky, Paul	11	1978	960	USA	English
242	Newell, Mike	8	1996	655	UK	English
243	Campion, Jane	9	1991	144	Australia	English
244	Costa-Gavras	7	1974	266	France	French
245	Kaufman, Philip	9	1983	350	USA	English
246	Attenborough, Richard	8	1982	381	UK	English
247	Brooks, James L.	5	1993	533	USA	English
248	Sidney, George	18	1954	1380	USA	English
249	Ross, Herbert	12	1976	1130	USA	English
250	Stevenson, Robert	14	1954	520	USA	English
251	Tornatore, Giuseppe	6	2001	189	Italy	Italian
252	Dardenne, Jean-Pierre	7	2005	875	Belgium	French
252	Dardenne, Luc	7	2005	875	Belgium	French
253	Marshall, George	12	1943	513	USA	English
254	Varda, Agnès	8	1981	773	France	French
255	Morris, Errol	9	1998	651	USA	English
256	Mulligan, Robert	10	1965	228	USA	English
257	Clayton, Jack	6	1968	405	UK	English
258	Koster, Henry	11	1949	1079	USA	English
259	Reisz, Karel	5	1970	358	UK	English
260	La Cava, Gregory	7	1932	367	USA	English
261	Daldry, Stephen	5	2007	599	USA	English
262	Cimino, Michael	3	1977	120	USA	English
263	Beatty, Warren	4	1986	225	USA	English
264	Kasdan, Lawrence	7	1991	521	USA	English
265	Gance, Abel	6	1929	259	France	French
266	Hamilton, Guy	8	1965	176	UK	English
267	Chen, Kaige	7	1998	137	China	Mandarin
268	Egoyan, Atom	11	1995	417	Canada	English
269	Menzies, William Cameron	6	1941	440	UK	English
270	Miller, George	9	1990	587	Australia	English
271	Redford, Robert	7	1994	422	USA	English
272	Rapper, Irving	7	1949	304	USA	English
273	Bigelow, Kathryn	5	1998	340	USA	English
274	Schrader, Paul	9	1986	1035	USA	English
275	Arcand, Denys	3	1992	434	Canada	French
276	Zucker, Jerry	6	1985	277	USA	English
277	Anderson, Wes	7	2006	749	USA	English
278	Leconte, Patrice	9	1997	1125	France	French
279	Singer, Bryan	7	2003	316	USA	English
280	Badham, John	6	1983	191	USA	English
281	Moore, Michael	6	2001	814	USA	English
282	Ichikawa, Kon	8	1960	510	Japan	Japanese
283	Geronimi, Clyde	11	1949	1433	USA	English
284	Mann, Daniel	8	1960	977	USA	English
285	Bruckman, Clyde	3	1930	108	USA	English
286	Unkrich, Lee	5	2005	789	USA	English
287	Zucker, David	5	1984	277	USA	English
288	Avildsen, John G.	5	1974	250	USA	English
289	Méliès, Georges	21	1903	1208	France	French
290	Negulesco, Jean	14	1950	1052	USA	English
291	Franklin, Sidney	11	1931	542	USA	English

292	Pontecorvo, Gillo	4	1962	115	Italy	French
293	Minghella, Anthony	4	2001	307	USA	English
294	Erice, Víctor	2	1982	122	Spain	Spanish
295	Sjöström, Victor	9	1919	567	USA	English
296	Crowe, Cameron	4	1999	604	USA	English
297	Meirelles, Fernando	2	2003	154	USA	Portuguese
298	Duvivier, Julien	10	1939	725	France	French
299	Menzel, Jirí	5	1985	194	Czechoslovakia	Czech
300	Zeffirelli, Franco	8	1978	683	Italy	English
301	Mikhalkov, Nikita	8	1988	932	France	Russian
302	Aronofsky, Darren	6	2006	842	USA	English
303	Robbins, Jerome	1	1961	80	USA	English
304	Rosson, Arthur	2	1937	163	USA	English
305	Walters, Charles	12	1954	1158	USA	English
306	Pagnol, Marcel	8	1937	761	France	French
307	Hallström, Lasse	11	1999	767	USA	English
308	Haynes, Todd	7	1998	527	USA	English
309	Luhrmann, Baz	4	2002	470	Australia	English
310	Vidor, Charles	7	1949	580	USA	English
311	Boulting, John	5	1952	805	UK	English
311	Rosi, Francesco	9	1972	1309	Italy	Italian
312	Schlöndorff, Volker	8	1985	435	West Germany	German
313	Taylor, Sam	10	1926	845	USA	English
314	del Toro, Guillermo	8	2003	224	USA	Spanish
315	Seaton, George	7	1957	827	USA	English
316	Solondz, Todd	6	2003	410	USA	English
317	Sedgwick, Edward	5	1936	511	USA	English
318	Dovzhenko, Aleksandr	8	1936	348	Soviet Union	Russian
319	Tashlin, Frank	15	1954	1232	USA	English
320	Jones, Terry	4	1981	578	UK	English
321	Laughton, Charles	2	1952	124	USA	English
322	Kershner, Irvin	6	1973	342	USA	English
323	Raimi, Sam	9	1998	1117	USA	English
324	Saura, Carlos	8	1982	566	Spain	Spanish
325	Petersen, Wolfgang	5	1995	281	West Germany	German
326	Gilbert, Lewis	9	1972	989	UK	English
327	Landis, John	7	1980	809	USA	English
328	Salles, Walter	4	2002	463	France	Portuguese
329	Zwigoff, Terry	5	1998	457	USA	English
330	Schepisi, Fred	8	1991	819	Australia	English
331	Hiller, Arthur	8	1970	962	USA	English
332	Kaurismäki, Aki	7	1997	1107	Finland	Finnish
333	Vinterberg, Thomas	2	2005	231	Denmark	Danish
334	Porter, Edwin S.	15	1904	1176	USA	English
335	Sheridan, Jim	5	1998	559	Ireland	English
336	Vertov, Dziga	5	1928	211	Soviet Union	Russian
337	Forster, Marc	8	2005	722	USA	English
338	Ulmer, Edgar G.	4	1940	465	USA	English
339	Babenco, Hector	3	1985	411	Brazil	Portuguese
340	Audiard, Jacques	5	2004	504	France	French
341	Madden, John	4	2002	346	USA	English
342	Greengrass, Paul	6	2007	958	USA	English
343	Zwick, Edward	9	1998	867	USA	English
344	Yang, Edward	4	1993	361	Taiwan	Mandarin
345	Anderson, Michael	7	1964	757	USA	English
346	Nair, Mira	6	2000	666	India	Hindi
347	Greenaway, Peter	7	1990	1256	UK	English
348	Amelio, Gianni	8	2001	518	Italy	Italian
349	Taurog, Norman	14	1944	1710	USA	English
350	Abrahams, Jim	4	1983	277	USA	English
351	Annakin, Ken	8	1957	874	USA	English
352	Szabó, István	6	1987	597	Hungary	Hungarian
353	Newmeyer, Fred C.	8	1923	845	USA	English
354	Forsyth, Bill	4	1983	684	UK	English
355	Russell, Ken	5	1973	706	UK	English
356	Lund, Kátia	1	2002	154	Brazil	Portuguese
357	Lelouch, Claude	7	1982	1022	France	French
358	Forbes, Bryan	9	1967	1478	UK	English
359	Kinney, Jack	6	1943	345	USA	English
360	Hopper, Dennis	3	1973	229	USA	English
361	Noyce, Phillip	7	1994	1084	Australia	English
362	Hooper, Tom	4	2009	485	UK	English
363	Berkeley, Busby	10	1941	1425	USA	English
364	Garnett, Tay	9	1940	636	USA	English
365	Hudson, Hugh	2	1982	200	UK	English
366	Parajanov, Sergei	3	1974	630	Soviet Union	Ukrainian
367	Branagh, Kenneth	7	1996	839	UK	English
368	Hill, Walter	10	1985	1569	USA	English
369	Reitman, Jason	4	2008	710	USA	English
370	Ophüls, Marcel	3	1977	504	France	French
371	Gibson, Mel	3	2001	565	USA	English
372	Woo, John	5	1997	796	Hong Kong	Cantonese
373	Stanton, Andrew	4	2005	789	USA	English
374	Boleslawski, Richard	5	1933	672	USA	English
375	Maysles, Albert	4	1968	727	USA	English
376	Corman, Roger	8	1963	1289	USA	English
377	Darabont, Frank	4	2000	317	USA	English
378	Glenville, Peter	6	1961	795	USA	English
379	Hooper, Tobe	3	1980	732	USA	English
380	Joffé, Roland	2	1985	338	UK	English
381	Hou, Hsiao-hsien	10	1994	1163	Taiwan	Mandarin
382	Horne, James W.	5	1931	792	USA	English
383	Thorpe, Richard	7	1950	1404	USA	English
384	Ramis, Harold	5	1992	370	USA	English
385	Maysles, David	3	1971	727	USA	English
386	Blier, Bertrand	6	1981	1135	France	French
387	Coppola, Sofia	4	2004	388	USA	English
388	Donner, Richard	9	1989	784	UK	English
389	Brest, Martin	5	1983	993	USA	English
390	Pudovkin, Vsevolod	8	1930	1193	Soviet Union	Russian
391	Oshima, Nagisa	7	1975	934	Japan	Japanese
392	Bird, Brad	4	2005	1234	USA	English
393	Lanzmann, Claude	2	1993	276	France	English

Directors (4,310 Most Notable)