1	Hitchcock, Alfred	43	1946	4	USA	English
2	Ford, John	57	1942	14	USA	English
3	Spielberg, Steven	28	1992	19	USA	English
4	Scorsese, Martin	26	1990	15	USA	English
5	Cukor, George	38	1946	35	USA	English
6	Bergman, Ingmar	27	1965	47	Sweden	Swedish
7	Wilder, Billy	22	1956	26	USA	English
8	Buñuel, Luis	20	1957	46	France	French
9	Hawks, Howard	31	1946	72	USA	English
10	Kurosawa, Akira	21	1963	10	Japan	Japanese
11	Huston, John	30	1961	57	USA	English
12	Wyler, William	30	1945	82	USA	English
13	Kubrick, Stanley	12	1969	5	UK	English
14	Truffaut, François	22	1970	18	France	French
15	Lean, David	16	1954	23	UK	English
16	Lang, Fritz	32	1942	28	Germany	German
17	Allen, Woody	33	1988	12	USA	English
18	Renoir, Jean	28	1940	6	France	French
19	Fellini, Federico	17	1965	21	Italy	Italian
20	Godard, Jean-Luc	34	1976	22	France	French
21	Coppola, Francis Ford	15	1980	3	USA	English
22	Curtiz, Michael	37	1941	9	USA	English
23	Altman, Robert	25	1984	48	USA	English
24	Capra, Frank	28	1939	49	USA	English
25	Kazan, Elia	15	1954	33	USA	English
26	Chaplin, Charles	35	1924	127	USA	English
27	Welles, Orson	15	1955	1	USA	English
28	Lumet, Sidney	21	1976	134	USA	English
29	Zinnemann, Fred	18	1954	83	USA	English
30	Polanski, Roman	16	1981	13	USA	English
31	Minnelli, Vincente	23	1953	184	USA	English
32	Keaton, Buster	34	1925	104	USA	English
33	Stevens, George	14	1946	147	USA	English
34	Powell, Michael	19	1947	258	UK	English
35	Coen, Ethan	16	1999	70	USA	English
35	Coen, Joel	16	1999	70	USA	English
36	Vidor, King	26	1938	35	USA	English
37	LeRoy, Mervyn	25	1947	35	USA	English
38	Lubitsch, Ernst	28	1929	103	USA	English
39	Ray, Satyajit	13	1965	42	India	Bengali
40	Fleming, Victor	20	1938	29	USA	English
41	Malle, Louis	18	1973	114	France	French
42	Wise, Robert	19	1959	76	USA	English
43	McCarey, Leo	25	1935	102	USA	English
44	Eastwood, Clint	24	1992	62	USA	English
45	Sturges, Preston	9	1942	92	USA	English
46	Antonioni, Michelangelo	9	1962	54	Italy	Italian
47	Donen, Stanley	16	1960	7	USA	English
48	De Sica, Vittorio	11	1959	2	Italy	Italian
49	Visconti, Luchino	14	1961	171	Italy	Italian
50	Kieslowski, Krzysztof	11	1988	129	Poland	French
51	Scott, Ridley	14	1995	97	USA	English
52	Forman, Milos	10	1980	50	USA	English
53	Zhang, Yimou	13	1997	39	China	Mandarin
54	Herzog, Werner	22	1992	58	West Germany	German
55	Bertolucci, Bernardo	10	1981	31	Italy	Italian
56	Bresson, Robert	12	1965	131	France	French
57	Mankiewicz, Joseph L.	15	1956	27	USA	English
58	Reed, Carol	16	1950	78	UK	English
59	Almodóvar, Pedro	14	1996	122	Spain	Spanish
60	Wellman, William A.	19	1939	255	USA	English
61	Lee, Ang	10	2000	126	USA	English
62	Pressburger, Emeric	12	1947	258	UK	English
63	Resnais, Alain	15	1969	185	France	French
64	Eisenstein, Sergei M.	8	1935	80	Soviet Union	Russian
65	Ray, Nicholas	15	1955	109	USA	English
66	Nichols, Mike	15	1985	45	USA	English
67	Tarantino, Quentin	9	2002	11	USA	English
68	Mamoulian, Rouben	14	1941	253	USA	English
69	Walsh, Raoul	27	1939	215	USA	English
70	Lynch, David	10	1989	147	USA	English
71	von Sternberg, Josef	22	1934	234	USA	English
72	Mizoguchi, Kenji	18	1944	90	Japan	Japanese
73	Jackson, Peter	9	2003	140	New Zealand	English
74	Penn, Arthur	11	1968	8	USA	English
75	Wenders, Wim	13	1988	52	West Germany	German
76	Murnau, F.W.	8	1926	64	Germany	German
77	Weir, Peter	13	1987	440	USA	English
78	Leigh, Mike	15	1992	237	UK	English
79	Fassbinder, Rainer Werner	15	1975	315	West Germany	German
80	Schlesinger, John	12	1974	128	UK	English
81	Preminger, Otto	18	1955	246	USA	English
82	Cameron, James	9	1994	159	USA	English
83	Rossellini, Roberto	13	1953	84	Italy	Italian
84	King, Henry	30	1942	565	USA	English
85	Whale, James	9	1934	106	USA	English
86	Ozu, Yasujiro	14	1945	41	Japan	Japanese
87	Dreyer, Carl Theodor	9	1934	143	Denmark	Danish
88	Chabrol, Claude	20	1978	285	France	French
89	Frears, Stephen	16	1997	290	UK	English
90	Wood, Sam	16	1936	335	USA	English
91	Demme, Jonathan	15	1991	61	USA	English
92	Griffith, D.W.	42	1913	158	USA	English
93	Tati, Jacques	7	1959	146	France	French
94	Ophüls, Max	9	1947	311	France	French
95	Peckinpah, Sam	10	1970	75	USA	English
96	Lucas, George	7	1984	16	USA	English
97	Tarkovsky, Andrei	7	1975	138	Soviet Union	Russian
98	Malick, Terrence	6	1996	194	USA	English

99	Clair, René	16	1936	287	France	French
100	Milestone, Lewis	14	1940	225	USA	English
101	Stone, Oliver	13	1995	351	USA	English
102	von Trier, Lars	10	2001	385	Denmark	English
103	Siegel, Don	13	1967	149	USA	English
104	Soderbergh, Steven	16	2003	460	USA	English
105	Clément, René	10	1954	99	France	French
106	Lee, Spike	16	1997	71	USA	English
107	Aldrich, Robert	17	1965	283	USA	English
108	Pollack, Sydney	15	1982	224	USA	English
109	Van Dyke, W.S.	19	1935	257	USA	English
110	Kelly, Gene	7	1961	7	USA	English
111	Leone, Sergio	6	1969	170	Italy	English
112	Cline, Edward F.	24	1926	248	USA	English
113	Zemeckis, Robert	13	1996	334	USA	English
114	unknown	94	1887	2196	USA	English
115	Melville, Jean-Pierre	9	1961	199	France	French
116	Luske, Hamilton	12	1951	196	USA	English
117	Wajda, Andrzej	12	1974	91	Poland	Polish
118	Fuller, Samuel	13	1960	372	USA	English
119	Jewison, Norman	15	1977	205	USA	English
120	Mackendrick, Alexander	6	1953	124	UK	English
121	Rohmer, Eric	18	1981	598	France	French
122	Reiner, Rob	11	1994	348	USA	English
123	Cocteau, Jean	5	1946	99	France	French
124	Cassavetes, John	10	1972	312	USA	English
125	Carné, Marcel	8	1947	77	France	French
126	Edwards, Blake	17	1973	540	USA	English
127	Kramer, Stanley	11	1962	427	USA	English
128	Tourneur, Jacques	11	1948	195	USA	English
129	Clouzot, Henri-Georges	7	1951	157	France	French
130	Sharpsteen, Ben	5	1938	196	USA	English
131	Pakula, Alan J.	10	1979	119	USA	English
132	Friedkin, William	8	1987	107	USA	English
133	Brooks, Mel	8	1976	150	USA	English
134	Payne, Alexander	5	2005	240	USA	English
135	Dieterle, William	14	1939	316	USA	English
136	Boorman, John	8	1982	182	USA	English
137	Cronenberg, David	11	1993	738	USA	English
138	Haneke, Michael	8	2002	439	Austria	French
139	Richardson, Tony	8	1963	198	UK	English
140	Fincher, David	8	2003	432	USA	English
141	Mann, Anthony	19	1953	576	USA	English
142	Roberts, Bill	4	1942	270	USA	English
143	Hill, George Roy	11	1973	144	USA	English
144	Lester, Richard	13	1970	116	UK	English
145	Frankenheimer, John	12	1971	88	USA	English
146	Wong, Kar Wai	8	1998	167	Hong Kong	Cantonese
147	Anderson, Paul Thomas	6	2002	349	USA	English
148	Jackson, Wilfred	12	1946	308	USA	English
149	Brooks, Richard	13	1963	572	USA	English
150	Mann, Michael	10	1995	309	USA	English
151	Bogdanovich, Peter	11	1979	115	USA	English
152	Armstrong, Samuel	3	1941	270	USA	English
153	Roeg, Nicolas	6	1975	294	UK	English
154	Hathaway, Henry	22	1950	1135	USA	English
155	Fosse, Bob	5	1975	111	USA	English
156	Van Sant, Gus	12	1998	658	USA	English
157	Ritt, Martin	14	1968	410	USA	English
158	Miyazaki, Hayao	8	1998	204	Japan	Japanese
159	Sirk, Douglas	10	1952	278	USA	English
160	De Palma, Brian	19	1987	641	USA	English
161	Kiarostami, Abbas	14	1991	451	Iran	Persian
162	Borzage, Frank	26	1931	1061	USA	English
163	Ivory, James	8	1985	297	UK	English
164	Hand, David	4	1937	85	USA	English
165	Ashby, Hal	7	1974	400	USA	English
166	Rossen, Robert	5	1955	163	USA	English
167	Sandrich, Mark	8	1938	101	USA	English
168	Algar, James	11	1954	270	USA	English
169	Levinson, Barry	11	1991	378	USA	English
170	Nolan, Christopher	8	2005	548	USA	English
171	Dassin, Jules	10	1957	298	France	English
172	Loach, Ken	18	1990	464	UK	English
173	Losey, Joseph	15	1964	553	UK	English
174	Vigo, Jean	2	1933	120	France	French
175	Keighley, William	10	1938	113	USA	English
176	DeMille, Cecil B.	25	1929	573	USA	English
177	Tavernier, Bertrand	13	1992	595	France	French
178	Hamer, Robert	5	1951	180	UK	English
179	Cuarón, Alfonso	5	2003	121	USA	Spanish
180	Yates, Peter	6	1976	424	USA	English
181	Howard, Ron	11	1997	542	USA	English
181	Jordan, Neil	10	1998	260	UK	English
182	Hanson, Curtis	4	2001	55	USA	English
183	Sturges, John	9	1963	362	USA	English
184	Crichton, Charles	6	1956	345	UK	English
185	Mendes, Sam	6	2005	112	USA	English
186	Jeunet, Jean-Pierre	5	2000	199	France	French
187	Bacon, Lloyd	14	1938	226	USA	English
188	Goulding, Edmund	13	1937	829	USA	English
189	Verhoeven, Paul	8	1988	635	Netherlands	Dutch
190	Schaffner, Franklin J.	7	1969	273	USA	English
191	Benton, Robert	6	1984	233	USA	English
192	Logan, Joshua	9	1959	679	USA	English
193	Aleksandrov, Grigori	6	1933	80	Soviet Union	Russian
194	Jonze, Spike	4	2005	244	USA	English
195	Brown, Clarence	18	1934	1043	USA	English
196	Siodmak, Robert	11	1945	396	USA	English

197	Conway, Jack	13	1934	560	USA	English
198	Gilliam, Terry	11	1993	506	UK	English
199	Schoedsack, Ernest B.	7	1935	60	USA	English
200	Riefenstahl, Leni	4	1935	454	Germany	German
201	Romero, George A.	8	1989	272	USA	English
202	Mann, Delbert	8	1959	274	USA	English
203	Pabst, Georg Wilhelm	9	1931	250	Germany	German
204	Rivette, Jacques	11	1985	347	France	French
205	Russell, David O.	7	2004	543	USA	English
206	Pasolini, Pier Paolo	9	1966	169	Italy	Italian
207	Demy, Jacques	8	1970	317	France	French
208	Berri, Claude	5	1985	350	France	French
209	McLeod, Norman Z.	8	1936	418	USA	English
210	Apted, Michael	18	1990	594	UK	English
211	Burton, Tim	12	1999	981	USA	English
212	Anderson, Lindsay	5	1973	301	UK	English
213	Sayles, John	15	1992	745	USA	English
214	Olivier, Laurence	5	1954	307	UK	English
215	Dmytryk, Edward	13	1953	491	USA	English
216	Litvak, Anatole	16	1944	695	USA	English
217	Boyle, Danny	6	2002	339	UK	English
218	Jarmusch, Jim	7	1994	526	USA	English
219	Parker, Alan	11	1985	944	USA	English
220	Beresford, Bruce	10	1990	789	Australia	English
221	Cooper, Merian C.	4	1934	60	USA	English
222	Lasseter, John	6	1999	267	USA	English
223	Korda, Alexander	7	1935	504	UK	English
224	Newell, Mike	8	1996	600	UK	English
225	Campion, Jane	9	1991	139	Australia	English
226	von Stroheim, Erich	7	1923	210	USA	English
227	Satterfield, Paul	2	1941	270	USA	English
228	Brooks, James L.	5	1993	496	USA	English
229	Tornatore, Giuseppe	6	2001	173	Italy	Italian
230	Carpenter, John	10	1984	358	USA	English
231	Dearden, Basil	10	1955	667	UK	English
232	Costa-Gavras	7	1974	282	France	French
233	Ferguson, Norman	3	1942	308	USA	English
234	Rafelson, Bob	8	1979	148	USA	English
235	Flaherty, Robert J.	7	1935	687	USA	English
236	Morris, Errol	9	1998	621	USA	English
237	Leisen, Mitchell	15	1940	747	USA	English
238	Korda, Zoltan	10	1942	504	UK	English
239	Browning, Tod	8	1930	444	USA	English
240	Cromwell, John	16	1941	713	USA	English
241	Kaufman, Philip	9	1983	327	USA	English
242	Bigelow, Kathryn	5	1998	291	USA	English
243	Daldry, Stephen	4	2005	546	USA	English
244	Chen, Kaige	7	1998	135	China	Mandarin
245	Redford, Robert	7	1994	393	USA	English
246	Iñárritu, Alejandro González	4	2004	387	Mexico	Spanish
247	Asquith, Anthony	15	1944	583	UK	English
248	Egoyan, Atom	11	1995	394	Canada	English
249	Attenborough, Richard	8	1982	361	UK	English
250	Fleischer, Richard	15	1963	1112	USA	English
251	Kasdan, Lawrence	7	1991	497	USA	English
252	Leconte, Patrice	9	1997	995	France	French
253	Linklater, Richard	14	2001	1170	USA	English
254	Arcand, Denys	3	1992	395	Canada	French
255	Beatty, Warren	4	1986	220	USA	English
256	La Cava, Gregory	7	1932	354	USA	English
257	Moore, Michael	6	2001	761	USA	English
258	Gance, Abel	6	1929	276	France	French
259	Robson, Mark	17	1954	1038	USA	English
260	Marshall, George	12	1943	502	USA	English
261	Lang, Walter	14	1949	838	USA	English
262	Zucker, Jerry	6	1985	277	USA	English
263	Cimino, Michael	3	1977	117	USA	English
264	Ichikawa, Kon	8	1960	455	Japan	Japanese
265	Clayton, Jack	6	1968	449	UK	English
266	Unkrich, Lee	5	2005	719	USA	English
267	Singer, Bryan	7	2002	313	USA	English
268	Bruckman, Clyde	3	1930	104	USA	English
269	Meirelles, Fernando	2	2003	142	USA	Portuguese
270	Minghella, Anthony	4	2001	282	USA	English
271	Mulligan, Robert	10	1965	217	USA	English
272	Dardenne, Jean-Pierre	6	2003	806	Belgium	French
272	Dardenne, Luc	6	2003	806	Belgium	French
273	Aronofsky, Darren	6	2006	730	USA	English
274	Leonard, Robert Z.	9	1933	863	USA	English
275	Crowe, Cameron	4	1999	566	USA	English
276	Zucker, David	5	1984	277	USA	English
277	Varda, Agnès	8	1981	712	France	French
278	Mazursky, Paul	11	1978	986	USA	English
279	Schrader, Paul	9	1986	1148	USA	English
280	Mikhalkov, Nikita	8	1988	874	France	Russian
281	Hamilton, Guy	8	1965	177	UK	English
282	Robbins, Jerome	1	1961	76	USA	English
283	Stevenson, Robert	14	1954	498	USA	English
284	Reisz, Karel	5	1970	392	UK	English
285	Lloyd, Frank	13	1928	307	USA	English
286	Erice, Víctor	2	1982	125	Spain	Spanish
287	Pontecorvo, Gillo	4	1962	129	Italy	French
288	del Toro, Guillermo	8	2003	193	USA	Spanish
289	Neame, Ronald	12	1964	878	UK	English
290	Hallström, Lasse	11	1999	715	USA	English
291	Haynes, Todd	7	1998	469	USA	English
292	Luhrmann, Baz	4	2002	416	Australia	English
293	Rapper, Irving	7	1949	295	USA	English
294	Menzel, Jirí	5	1985	219	Czechoslovakia	Czech

295	Pagnol, Marcel	8	1937	722	France	French
296	Saura, Carlos	8	1982	505	Spain	Spanish
297	Anderson, Wes	7	2006	725	USA	English
298	Miller, George	9	1990	642	Australia	English
299	Salles, Walter	4	2002	417	France	Portuguese
300	Raimi, Sam	9	1998	988	USA	English
301	Koster, Henry	11	1949	1162	USA	English
302	Solondz, Todd	6	2003	390	USA	English
303	Laughton, Charles	2	1952	118	USA	English
304	Duvivier, Julien	10	1939	787	France	French
305	Badham, John	6	1983	192	USA	English
306	Forster, Marc	8	2005	633	USA	English
307	Menzies, William Cameron	6	1941	504	UK	English
308	Rosi, Francesco	9	1972	1189	Italy	Italian
309	Rosson, Arthur	2	1937	161	USA	English
310	Kaurismäki, Aki	7	1997	967	Finland	Finnish
311	Avildsen, John G.	5	1974	230	USA	English
312	Vinterberg, Thomas	2	2005	213	Denmark	Danish
313	Sheridan, Jim	5	1998	525	Ireland	English
314	Greengrass, Paul	6	2007	851	USA	English
315	Audiard, Jacques	5	2004	435	France	French
316	Boulting, John	5	1952	755	UK	English
317	Zwigoff, Terry	5	1998	446	USA	English
318	Petersen, Wolfgang	5	1995	286	West Germany	German
319	Geronimi, Clyde	11	1949	1319	USA	English
320	Zeffirelli, Franco	8	1978	733	Italy	English
321	Madden, John	4	2002	326	USA	English
322	Zwick, Edward	9	1998	819	USA	English
323	Nair, Mira	6	2000	627	India	Hindi
324	Negulesco, Jean	14	1950	1099	USA	English
325	Amelio, Gianni	8	2001	474	Italy	Italian
326	Schlöndorff, Volker	8	1985	485	France	German
327	Tashlin, Frank	14	1955	1131	USA	English
328	Ross, Herbert	12	1976	991	USA	English
329	Yang, Edward	4	1993	340	Taiwan	Mandarin
330	Lund, Kátia	1	2002	142	Brazil	Portuguese
331	Sedgwick, Edward	5	1936	528	USA	English
332	Babenco, Hector	3	1985	448	Brazil	Portuguese
333	Abrahams, Jim	4	1983	277	USA	English
334	Hooper, Tom	4	2009	421	UK	English
335	Reitman, Jason	4	2008	613	USA	English
336	Sidney, George	18	1954	1517	USA	English
337	Szabó, István	6	1987	644	Hungary	Hungarian
338	Seaton, George	7	1957	792	USA	English
339	Hiller, Arthur	8	1970	985	USA	English
340	Hopper, Dennis	3	1973	221	USA	English
341	Noyce, Phillip	7	1994	976	Australia	English
342	Jones, Terry	4	1981	635	UK	English
343	Greenaway, Peter	7	1990	1366	UK	English
344	Lelouch, Claude	7	1982	1056	France	French
345	Ulmer, Edgar G.	4	1940	516	USA	English
346	Schepisi, Fred	7	1988	885	Australia	English
347	Vidor, Charles	7	1949	551	USA	English
348	Stanton, Andrew	4	2005	719	USA	English
349	Franklin, Sidney	9	1933	654	USA	English
350	Branagh, Kenneth	7	1996	802	UK	English
351	Gibson, Mel	3	2001	527	USA	English
352	Woo, John	5	1997	723	Hong Kong	Cantonese
353	Forsyth, Bill	4	1983	639	UK	English
354	Dovzhenko, Aleksandr	8	1936	325	Soviet Union	Russian
355	Parajanov, Sergei	3	1974	650	Soviet Union	Ukrainian
356	Darabont, Frank	4	2000	300	USA	English
357	Kershner, Irvin	6	1973	324	USA	English
358	Maysles, Albert	4	1968	700	USA	English
359	Hudson, Hugh	2	1982	190	UK	English
360	Joffé, Roland	2	1985	320	UK	English
361	Coppola, Sofia	4	2004	351	USA	English
362	Mann, Daniel	8	1960	1060	USA	English
363	Anderson, Michael	7	1964	693	USA	English
364	Bird, Brad	4	2005	1116	USA	English
365	Hou, Hsiao-hsien	10	1994	1058	Taiwan	Mandarin
366	Kinney, Jack	6	1943	376	USA	English
367	Annakin, Ken	8	1957	813	USA	English
368	Rappeneau, Jean-Paul	2	1996	243	France	French
369	Maysles, David	3	1971	700	USA	English
370	Ophüls, Marcel	3	1977	554	France	French
371	Vertov, Dziga	5	1928	247	Soviet Union	Russian
372	Sjöström, Victor	9	1919	547	USA	English
373	Lanzmann, Claude	2	1993	259	France	English
374	Schnabel, Julian	4	2003	409	USA	French
375	Clooney, George	4	2008	476	USA	English
375	Landis, John	7	1980	747	USA	English
376	Trousdale, Gary	5	2000	323	USA	English
376	Wise, Kirk	5	2000	323	USA	English
377	Wachowski, Andy	4	2002	404	USA	English
378	Sembene, Ousmane	6	1983	1012	Senegal	French
379	Alfredson, Tomas	2	2009	391	Sweden	Swedish
380	Denis, Claire	7	1999	1281	France	French
381	Park, Chan-wook	5	2006	423	South Korea	Korean
382	Angelopoulos, Theo	4	1989	579	Greece	Greek
383	Horne, James W.	5	1931	738	USA	English
384	Taurog, Norman	14	1944	1886	USA	English
385	Gilbert, Lewis	9	1972	1040	UK	English
386	Pearce, Perce	2	1942	270	USA	English
387	Hooper, Tobe	3	1980	721	USA	English
388	Beebe, Ford	4	1938	308	USA	English
389	Brest, Martin	5	1983	940	USA	English
390	Olmi, Ermanno	3	1975	508	Italy	Italian
391	Figgis, Mike	6	1994	506	USA	English
392	Winterbottom, Michael	15	2002	1556	UK	English
393	Glenville, Peter	6	1961	834	USA	English
394	Rosson, Richard	2	1934	302	USA	English
395	Hicks, Scott	4	2000	330	Australia	English

Directors (4,241 Most Notable)