1	Hitchcock, Alfred	43	1946	4	USA	English
2	Ford, John	58	1943	12	USA	English
3	Spielberg, Steven	30	1994	22	USA	English
4	Cukor, George	38	1946	32	USA	English
5	Scorsese, Martin	26	1990	18	USA	English
6	Bergman, Ingmar	27	1965	44	Sweden	Swedish
7	Wilder, Billy	22	1956	24	USA	English
8	Buñuel, Luis	20	1957	42	France	French
9	Huston, John	30	1961	58	USA	English
10	Hawks, Howard	31	1946	71	USA	English
11	Wyler, William	30	1945	82	USA	English
12	Kurosawa, Akira	21	1963	9	Japan	Japanese
13	Kubrick, Stanley	12	1969	5	UK	English
14	Truffaut, François	22	1970	16	France	French
15	Lean, David	16	1954	21	UK	English
16	Lang, Fritz	32	1942	27	Germany	German
17	Curtiz, Michael	37	1941	10	USA	English
18	Renoir, Jean	28	1940	6	France	French
19	Allen, Woody	35	1990	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	126	USA	English
23	Capra, Frank	28	1939	48	USA	English
24	Kazan, Elia	15	1954	30	USA	English
25	Coppola, Francis Ford	15	1980	3	USA	English
26	Altman, Robert	25	1984	49	USA	English
27	Lumet, Sidney	21	1976	137	USA	English
28	Welles, Orson	16	1954	1	USA	English
29	Zinnemann, Fred	18	1954	84	USA	English
30	Minnelli, Vincente	23	1953	173	USA	English
31	Powell, Michael	19	1947	212	UK	English
32	Polanski, Roman	16	1981	13	USA	English
33	Lubitsch, Ernst	29	1929	108	USA	English
34	Stevens, George	14	1946	140	USA	English
35	Vidor, King	26	1938	32	USA	English
36	Keaton, Buster	34	1925	110	USA	English
37	LeRoy, Mervyn	25	1947	32	USA	English
38	Wise, Robert	19	1959	79	USA	English
39	Fleming, Victor	20	1938	28	USA	English
40	Coen, Ethan	17	2000	72	USA	English
40	Coen, Joel	17	2000	72	USA	English
41	Malle, Louis	18	1973	115	France	French
42	McCarey, Leo	26	1935	105	USA	English
43	Eastwood, Clint	26	1994	66	USA	English
44	Donen, Stanley	16	1960	7	USA	English
45	Ray, Satyajit	13	1965	46	India	Bengali
46	Visconti, Luchino	14	1961	161	Italy	Italian
47	De Sica, Vittorio	11	1959	2	Italy	Italian
48	Sturges, Preston	9	1942	97	USA	English
49	Antonioni, Michelangelo	9	1962	50	Italy	Italian
50	Griffith, D.W.	44	1913	168	USA	English
51	Scott, Ridley	16	1998	99	USA	English
52	Reed, Carol	16	1950	80	UK	English
53	King, Henry	30	1942	599	USA	English
54	Mankiewicz, Joseph L.	15	1956	36	USA	English
55	Walsh, Raoul	28	1939	214	USA	English
56	Forman, Milos	10	1980	54	USA	English
57	Pressburger, Emeric	12	1947	212	UK	English
58	Wellman, William A.	19	1939	262	USA	English
59	Herzog, Werner	22	1993	53	West Germany	German
60	Kieslowski, Krzysztof	11	1988	135	Poland	French
61	Bresson, Robert	12	1965	123	France	French
62	Bertolucci, Bernardo	10	1981	29	Italy	Italian
63	von Sternberg, Josef	22	1934	215	USA	English
64	Zhang, Yimou	13	1997	43	China	Mandarin
65	Eisenstein, Sergei M.	8	1935	76	Soviet Union	Russian
66	Mamoulian, Rouben	14	1941	241	USA	English
67	Penn, Arthur	11	1968	8	USA	English
68	Almodóvar, Pedro	14	1996	134	Spain	Spanish
69	Ray, Nicholas	15	1955	114	USA	English
70	Resnais, Alain	15	1969	175	France	French
71	Nichols, Mike	15	1985	45	USA	English
72	Mizoguchi, Kenji	18	1944	101	Japan	Japanese
73	Lee, Ang	10	2000	142	USA	English
74	Murnau, F.W.	8	1926	63	Germany	German
75	Lynch, David	10	1989	144	USA	English
76	Schlesinger, John	12	1974	120	UK	English
77	Wenders, Wim	15	1991	55	West Germany	German
78	Wood, Sam	17	1936	337	USA	English
79	Preminger, Otto	18	1955	241	USA	English
80	Tarantino, Quentin	10	2003	11	USA	English
81	Weir, Peter	13	1987	489	USA	English
82	Jackson, Peter	10	2004	147	New Zealand	English
83	Fassbinder, Rainer Werner	15	1975	294	West Germany	German
84	Rossellini, Roberto	13	1953	81	Italy	Italian
85	Ozu, Yasujiro	14	1945	38	Japan	Japanese
86	Leigh, Mike	16	1993	260	UK	English
87	Whale, James	11	1934	96	USA	English
88	Chabrol, Claude	20	1978	269	France	French
89	Dreyer, Carl Theodor	9	1934	136	Denmark	Danish
90	Peckinpah, Sam	10	1970	78	USA	English
91	Clair, René	16	1936	275	France	French
92	Ophüls, Max	9	1947	299	France	French
93	Cameron, James	9	1994	170	USA	English
94	Milestone, Lewis	14	1940	210	USA	English
95	Siegel, Don	13	1967	148	USA	English
96	unknown	98	1890	2381	USA	English
97	Tati, Jacques	7	1959	139	France	French
98	Demme, Jonathan	16	1993	68	USA	English

99	Frears, Stephen	17	1998	310	UK	English
100	Aldrich, Robert	17	1965	304	USA	English
101	Van Dyke, W.S.	19	1935	251	USA	English
102	Lucas, George	7	1984	17	USA	English
103	Pollack, Sydney	15	1982	238	USA	English
104	Tarkovsky, Andrei	7	1975	150	Soviet Union	Russian
105	Edwards, Blake	17	1973	536	USA	English
106	DeMille, Cecil B.	27	1929	566	USA	English
107	Malick, Terrence	7	1999	204	USA	English
108	Jewison, Norman	15	1977	196	USA	English
109	Clément, René	10	1954	92	France	French
110	Kelly, Gene	7	1961	7	USA	English
111	Leone, Sergio	6	1969	149	Italy	English
112	Hathaway, Henry	22	1950	953	USA	English
113	Wajda, Andrzej	12	1974	89	Poland	Polish
114	Dieterle, William	14	1939	305	USA	English
115	Stone, Oliver	13	1995	367	USA	English
116	von Trier, Lars	11	2002	406	Denmark	English
117	Borzage, Frank	27	1930	893	USA	English
118	Carné, Marcel	8	1947	73	France	French
119	Frankenheimer, John	12	1971	83	USA	English
120	Lester, Richard	13	1970	88	UK	English
121	Kramer, Stanley	11	1962	421	USA	English
122	Lee, Spike	16	1997	70	USA	English
123	Soderbergh, Steven	16	2003	490	USA	English
124	Fuller, Samuel	13	1960	344	USA	English
124	Melville, Jean-Pierre	9	1961	221	France	French
125	Luske, Hamilton	12	1951	190	USA	English
126	Zemeckis, Robert	14	1997	341	USA	English
127	Richardson, Tony	8	1963	192	UK	English
128	Cocteau, Jean	5	1946	92	France	French
129	Brooks, Richard	13	1963	612	USA	English
130	Hill, George Roy	11	1973	133	USA	English
131	Pakula, Alan J.	10	1979	130	USA	English
132	Cassavetes, John	10	1972	297	USA	English
133	Rohmer, Eric	18	1981	550	France	French
134	Mackendrick, Alexander	6	1953	128	UK	English
135	Cline, Edward F.	24	1926	252	USA	English
136	Reiner, Rob	12	1995	365	USA	English
137	Brooks, Mel	8	1976	152	USA	English
138	Tourneur, Jacques	11	1948	198	USA	English
139	Jackson, Wilfred	14	1946	318	USA	English
140	Clouzot, Henri-Georges	7	1951	141	France	French
141	Boorman, John	8	1982	187	USA	English
142	Sharpsteen, Ben	5	1938	190	USA	English
143	Ritt, Martin	14	1968	402	USA	English
144	Brown, Clarence	20	1934	1073	USA	English
145	De Palma, Brian	19	1987	598	USA	English
146	Roeg, Nicolas	6	1975	289	UK	English
147	Friedkin, William	8	1987	111	USA	English
148	Mann, Anthony	19	1953	548	USA	English
149	Roberts, Bill	4	1942	271	USA	English
150	Cronenberg, David	12	1995	797	USA	English
151	Fincher, David	9	2004	505	USA	English
152	Conway, Jack	14	1935	543	USA	English
153	Bogdanovich, Peter	11	1979	117	USA	English
154	Goulding, Edmund	13	1937	682	USA	English
154	Sirk, Douglas	10	1952	296	USA	English
155	Losey, Joseph	15	1964	502	UK	English
156	Sandrich, Mark	8	1938	94	USA	English
157	Ashby, Hal	7	1974	329	USA	English
158	Keighley, William	10	1938	107	USA	English
159	Logan, Joshua	9	1959	588	USA	English
160	Payne, Alexander	5	2005	268	USA	English
161	Dassin, Jules	10	1957	291	USA	English
162	Fosse, Bob	5	1975	113	USA	English
163	Armstrong, Samuel	3	1941	271	USA	English
164	Haneke, Michael	8	2002	521	Austria	French
165	Wong, Kar Wai	8	1998	186	Hong Kong	Cantonese
166	Anderson, Paul Thomas	7	2003	371	USA	English
167	Sturges, John	9	1963	306	USA	English
168	Rossen, Robert	5	1955	160	USA	English
169	Levinson, Barry	12	1993	331	USA	English
170	Mann, Michael	10	1995	327	USA	English
171	Bacon, Lloyd	14	1938	213	USA	English
172	Dmytryk, Edward	13	1953	473	USA	English
173	Ivory, James	8	1985	314	UK	English
174	Kiarostami, Abbas	13	1991	464	Iran	Persian
175	Hamer, Robert	5	1951	159	UK	English
176	Hand, David	4	1937	86	USA	English
177	Iñárritu, Alejandro González	6	2008	419	USA	English
178	Yates, Peter	6	1976	453	USA	English
179	Van Sant, Gus	12	1998	702	USA	English
180	Mann, Delbert	8	1959	265	USA	English
181	Miyazaki, Hayao	8	1998	223	Japan	Japanese
182	Vigo, Jean	2	1933	109	France	French
183	Nolan, Christopher	9	2006	631	USA	English
184	Algar, James	11	1954	271	USA	English
185	Schaffner, Franklin J.	7	1969	287	USA	English
186	McLeod, Norman Z.	9	1936	433	USA	English
187	Tavernier, Bertrand	13	1992	666	France	French
188	Crichton, Charles	6	1956	300	UK	English
189	Cromwell, John	16	1941	657	USA	English
190	von Stroheim, Erich	8	1923	232	USA	English
191	Aleksandrov, Grigori	6	1933	76	Soviet Union	Russian
192	Loach, Ken	19	1991	439	UK	English
193	Pabst, Georg Wilhelm	9	1931	240	Germany	German
194	Olivier, Laurence	5	1954	264	UK	English
195	Siodmak, Robert	11	1945	359	USA	English

196	Litvak, Anatole	16	1944	590	USA	English
197	Robson, Mark	18	1954	1155	USA	English
198	Gilliam, Terry	11	1993	511	UK	English
199	Riefenstahl, Leni	4	1935	431	Germany	German
200	Benton, Robert	6	1984	252	USA	English
201	Schoedsack, Ernest B.	7	1935	59	USA	English
202	Verhoeven, Paul	8	1988	704	Netherlands	Dutch
203	Linklater, Richard	16	2003	629	USA	English
204	Hanson, Curtis	4	2001	52	USA	English
205	Howard, Ron	11	1997	591	USA	English
206	Anderson, Lindsay	5	1973	288	UK	English
207	Cuarón, Alfonso	5	2003	132	USA	Spanish
208	Pasolini, Pier Paolo	9	1966	166	Italy	Italian
209	Jordan, Neil	9	1998	285	UK	English
210	Parker, Alan	11	1985	914	USA	English
211	Fleischer, Richard	15	1963	1260	USA	English
212	Sayles, John	15	1992	817	USA	English
213	Mendes, Sam	7	2007	119	USA	English
214	Asquith, Anthony	15	1944	466	UK	English
215	Demy, Jacques	8	1970	313	France	French
215	Jeunet, Jean-Pierre	5	2000	227	France	French
216	Miller, George	10	1992	589	Australia	English
217	Boyle, Danny	7	2004	388	UK	English
218	Apted, Michael	18	1990	552	UK	English
219	Berri, Claude	5	1985	378	France	French
220	Carpenter, John	10	1984	376	USA	English
221	Jonze, Spike	4	2005	262	USA	English
222	Dearden, Basil	10	1955	601	UK	English
223	Lang, Walter	14	1949	826	USA	English
224	Romero, George A.	8	1989	278	USA	English
225	Korda, Alexander	7	1935	441	UK	English
226	Korda, Zoltan	10	1942	441	UK	English
227	Leisen, Mitchell	15	1940	780	USA	English
228	Beresford, Bruce	10	1990	728	Australia	English
229	Rivette, Jacques	11	1985	380	France	French
230	Burton, Tim	14	1999	1065	USA	English
231	Cooper, Merian C.	4	1934	59	USA	English
232	Lloyd, Frank	14	1928	302	USA	English
233	Rafelson, Bob	8	1979	156	USA	English
234	Browning, Tod	8	1930	395	USA	English
235	Russell, David O.	8	2005	583	USA	English
236	Ferguson, Norman	3	1942	318	USA	English
237	Jarmusch, Jim	7	1994	558	USA	English
238	Lasseter, John	7	1997	273	USA	English
239	Neame, Ronald	12	1964	800	UK	English
240	Flaherty, Robert J.	7	1935	603	USA	English
241	Leonard, Robert Z.	10	1933	753	USA	English
242	Mazursky, Paul	11	1978	968	USA	English
243	Stevenson, Robert	15	1955	471	USA	English
244	Satterfield, Paul	2	1941	271	USA	English
245	Koster, Henry	11	1949	1080	USA	English
246	Newell, Mike	8	1996	659	UK	English
247	Campion, Jane	9	1991	145	Australia	English
248	Sidney, George	18	1954	1390	USA	English
249	Costa-Gavras	7	1974	267	France	French
250	Kaufman, Philip	9	1983	353	USA	English
251	Attenborough, Richard	8	1982	383	UK	English
252	Brooks, James L.	5	1993	533	USA	English
253	Mulligan, Robert	10	1965	211	USA	English
254	Ross, Herbert	12	1976	1131	USA	English
255	Tornatore, Giuseppe	6	2001	193	Italy	Italian
256	Dardenne, Jean-Pierre	7	2005	876	Belgium	French
256	Dardenne, Luc	7	2005	876	Belgium	French
257	Clayton, Jack	6	1968	382	UK	English
258	Marshall, George	12	1943	514	USA	English
259	Varda, Agnès	8	1981	777	France	French
260	Morris, Errol	9	1998	654	USA	English
261	Egoyan, Atom	12	1997	415	Canada	English
262	Reisz, Karel	5	1970	363	UK	English
263	La Cava, Gregory	7	1932	370	USA	English
264	Daldry, Stephen	5	2007	602	USA	English
265	Cimino, Michael	3	1977	122	USA	English
266	Beatty, Warren	4	1986	229	USA	English
267	Kasdan, Lawrence	7	1991	519	USA	English
268	Gance, Abel	6	1929	261	France	French
269	Hamilton, Guy	8	1965	178	UK	English
270	Haynes, Todd	8	2000	526	USA	English
271	Chen, Kaige	7	1998	138	China	Mandarin
272	Rapper, Irving	7	1949	303	USA	English
273	Menzies, William Cameron	6	1941	441	UK	English
274	Redford, Robert	7	1994	420	USA	English
275	Bigelow, Kathryn	5	1998	342	USA	English
276	Geronimi, Clyde	11	1949	1441	USA	English
277	Schrader, Paul	9	1986	1034	USA	English
278	Singer, Bryan	8	2005	317	USA	English
279	Arcand, Denys	3	1992	435	Canada	French
280	Mann, Daniel	8	1960	911	USA	English
281	Moore, Michael	7	2003	816	USA	English
282	Zucker, Jerry	6	1985	277	USA	English
283	Anderson, Wes	7	2006	754	USA	English
284	Negulesco, Jean	14	1950	962	USA	English
285	Leconte, Patrice	9	1997	1126	France	French
286	Bruckman, Clyde	4	1929	110	USA	English
287	Badham, John	6	1983	195	USA	English
288	Ichikawa, Kon	8	1960	513	Japan	Japanese
289	Walters, Charles	12	1954	1058	USA	English
290	Unkrich, Lee	5	2005	791	USA	English
291	Zucker, David	5	1984	277	USA	English
292	Avildsen, John G.	5	1974	253	USA	English

293	Méliès, Georges	21	1903	1213	France	French
294	Zeffirelli, Franco	8	1978	638	Italy	English
295	Pontecorvo, Gillo	4	1962	116	Italy	French
296	Minghella, Anthony	4	2001	307	USA	English
297	Robbins, Jerome	1	1961	79	USA	English
298	Seaton, George	8	1956	752	USA	English
299	Erice, Víctor	2	1982	125	Spain	Spanish
300	Sjöström, Victor	9	1919	570	USA	English
301	Crowe, Cameron	4	1999	607	USA	English
302	Meirelles, Fernando	2	2003	154	USA	Portuguese
303	Franklin, Sidney	11	1931	546	USA	English
304	Duvivier, Julien	10	1939	729	France	French
305	Vidor, Charles	8	1948	582	USA	English
306	Menzel, Jirí	5	1985	197	Czechoslovakia	Czech
307	Mikhalkov, Nikita	8	1988	939	France	Russian
308	Aronofsky, Darren	6	2006	844	USA	English
309	Rosson, Arthur	2	1937	165	USA	English
310	Pagnol, Marcel	8	1937	765	France	French
311	Hallström, Lasse	11	1999	770	USA	English
312	Taylor, Sam	10	1926	854	USA	English
313	Luhrmann, Baz	4	2002	470	Australia	English
314	Boulting, John	5	1952	806	UK	English
314	Rosi, Francesco	9	1972	1314	Italy	Italian
315	Schlöndorff, Volker	8	1985	436	West Germany	German
316	Audiard, Jacques	6	2006	507	France	French
316	del Toro, Guillermo	8	2003	228	USA	Spanish
317	Vertov, Dziga	5	1928	171	Soviet Union	Russian
318	Solondz, Todd	6	2003	410	USA	English
319	Dovzhenko, Aleksandr	8	1936	350	Soviet Union	Russian
320	Sedgwick, Edward	5	1936	520	USA	English
321	Gilbert, Lewis	9	1972	912	UK	English
322	Tashlin, Frank	15	1954	1236	USA	English
323	Jones, Terry	4	1981	580	UK	English
324	Laughton, Charles	2	1952	127	USA	English
325	Kershner, Irvin	6	1973	345	USA	English
326	Raimi, Sam	9	1998	1118	USA	English
327	Porter, Edwin S.	16	1905	1178	USA	English
328	Saura, Carlos	8	1982	569	Spain	Spanish
329	Petersen, Wolfgang	5	1995	281	West Germany	German
330	Hiller, Arthur	8	1970	970	USA	English
331	Landis, John	7	1980	811	USA	English
332	Salles, Walter	4	2002	463	France	Portuguese
333	Zwigoff, Terry	5	1998	457	USA	English
334	Greengrass, Paul	7	2008	965	USA	English
335	Schepisi, Fred	8	1991	821	Australia	English
336	Annakin, Ken	8	1957	807	USA	English
337	Kaurismäki, Aki	7	1997	1108	Finland	Finnish
338	Vinterberg, Thomas	2	2005	233	Denmark	Danish
339	Sheridan, Jim	5	1998	562	Ireland	English
340	Anderson, Michael	7	1964	703	USA	English
341	Forster, Marc	8	2005	727	USA	English
342	Ulmer, Edgar G.	4	1940	464	USA	English
343	Babenco, Hector	3	1985	411	Brazil	Portuguese
344	Madden, John	4	2002	349	USA	English
345	Hooper, Tom	5	2010	488	UK	English
346	Zwick, Edward	9	1998	870	USA	English
347	Yang, Edward	4	1993	366	Taiwan	Mandarin
348	Nair, Mira	6	2000	669	India	Hindi
349	Kinney, Jack	6	1943	348	USA	English
350	Greenaway, Peter	7	1990	1260	UK	English
351	Amelio, Gianni	8	2001	517	Italy	Italian
352	Abrahams, Jim	4	1983	277	USA	English
353	Taurog, Norman	14	1944	1725	USA	English
354	Szabó, István	6	1987	600	Hungary	Hungarian
355	Forbes, Bryan	9	1967	1427	UK	English
356	Hopper, Dennis	3	1973	209	USA	English
357	Stanton, Andrew	5	2007	791	USA	English
358	Forsyth, Bill	4	1983	686	UK	English
359	Russell, Ken	5	1973	711	UK	English
360	Newmeyer, Fred C.	8	1923	854	USA	English
361	Lund, Kátia	1	2002	154	Brazil	Portuguese
362	Lelouch, Claude	7	1982	1020	France	French
363	Garnett, Tay	10	1941	641	USA	English
364	Noyce, Phillip	7	1994	1085	Australia	English
365	Branagh, Kenneth	8	1998	842	UK	English
366	Berkeley, Busby	10	1941	1434	USA	English
367	Hudson, Hugh	2	1982	203	UK	English
368	Parajanov, Sergei	3	1974	634	Soviet Union	Ukrainian
369	Hill, Walter	10	1985	1583	USA	English
370	Reitman, Jason	4	2008	716	USA	English
371	Darabont, Frank	4	2000	298	USA	English
372	Ophüls, Marcel	3	1977	507	France	French
373	Gibson, Mel	3	2001	568	USA	English
374	Woo, John	5	1997	797	Hong Kong	Cantonese
375	Thorpe, Richard	7	1950	1413	USA	English
376	Glenville, Peter	6	1961	730	USA	English
377	Boleslawski, Richard	5	1933	680	USA	English
378	Maysles, Albert	4	1968	732	USA	English
379	Corman, Roger	8	1963	1294	USA	English
380	Hooper, Tobe	3	1980	738	USA	English
381	Joffé, Roland	2	1985	340	UK	English
382	Bird, Brad	5	2007	1238	USA	English
383	Hou, Hsiao-hsien	10	1994	1163	Taiwan	Mandarin
384	Horne, James W.	5	1931	794	USA	English
385	Ramis, Harold	5	1992	374	USA	English
386	Del Ruth, Roy	17	1937	1919	USA	English
386	Perry, Frank	8	1971	1548	USA	English
387	Maysles, David	3	1971	732	USA	English
388	Blier, Bertrand	6	1981	1136	France	French
389	Coppola, Sofia	4	2004	389	USA	English
389	Skolimowski, Jerzy	6	1991	712	UK	English
390	Donner, Richard	9	1989	787	UK	English
391	Brest, Martin	5	1983	997	USA	English

Directors (4,468 Most Notable)