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1	Wilder, Billy	D		W			P	32	1954	25
2	Shakespeare, William			W				60	1968	73
3	Bergman, Ingmar	D		W			P	31	1968	40
4	Kurosawa, Akira	D		W			P	26	1965	10
5	Truffaut, François	D	A	W			P	24	1970	19
6	Buñuel, Luis	D		W		M	P	21	1956	46
7	Fellini, Federico	D	A	W				22	1962	16
8	Huston, John	D	A	W	C		P	22	1947	57
9	Allen, Woody	D	A	W		M	P	37	1989	18
10	Kubrick, Stanley	D		W	C		P	10	1971	2
11	Renoir, Jean	D	A	W			P	23	1941	5
12	Hecht, Ben	D	A	W			P	32	1945	101
13	Coppola, Francis Ford	D	A	W		M	P	13	1976	4
14	Chaplin, Charles	D	A	W		M	P	35	1926	108
15	Lehman, Ernest			W			P	15	1964	56
16	Welles, Orson	D	A	W			P	16	1960	1
17	Godard, Jean-Luc	D	A	W			P	29	1976	20
18	Pinelli, Tullio			W				14	1961	16
19	Lucas, George	D	A	W			P	17	1993	21
20	Lang, Fritz	D	A	W			P	13	1936	32
21	Chandler, Raymond			W				8	1953	41
22	Zavattini, Cesare			W				17	1956	6
23	Dickens, Charles			W				23	1958	192
24	Marion, Frances			W				31	1926	418
25	Williams, Tennessee			W			P	12	1961	91
26	Lean, David	D		W			P	8	1952	192
27	Trumbo, Dalton	D	A	W				16	1955	216
28	Mankiewicz, Joseph L.	D		W			P	13	1946	37
29	Griffith, D.W.	D	A	W		M	P	23	1913	163
30	Lynch, David	D		W	C	M	P	9	1987	130
31	Scorsese, Martin	D	A	W			P	7	1990	27
32	Greene, Graham			W				16	1959	76
33	Mankiewicz, Herman J.			W			P	9	1934	1
34	Gruault, Jean		A	W				12	1971	44
35	Hammett, Dashiell			W				12	1945	57
36	Steinbeck, John		A	W				11	1952	88
37	Keaton, Buster	D	A	W			P	24	1924	96
38	Brooks, Mel	D	A	W		M	P	12	1980	154
39	King, Stephen			W				12	1997	300
40	Hemingway, Ernest			W				14	1949	371
41	Spielberg, Steven	D	A	W			P	6	1990	162
42	Towne, Robert	D	A	W			P	9	1983	15
43	Wells, H.G.			W				15	1951	617
44	Mamet, David	D		W			P	19	1994	538
45	Faulkner, William			W				9	1953	222
46	Lee, Spike	D	A	W			P	9	1992	69
47	Hitchcock, Alfred	D	A	W			P	11	1930	101
48	Pinter, Harold	D	A	W				11	1977	510
49	Tolstoy, Leo			W				11	1951	505
50	Coward, Noel	D	A	W		M	P	7	1938	197
51	Austen, Jane			W				11	1997	467
52	Haggis, Paul	D		W		M	P	7	2005	453
53	Fields, W.C.	D	A	W				9	1933	253
54	Maugham, W. Somerset			W				14	1941	652
55	Poe, Edgar Allan			W				16	1950	1103
56	Fairbanks, Douglas		A	W			P	12	1922	409
57	Silliphant, Stirling			W				9	1969	206
58	Simon, Neil			W				15	1974	1227
59	O'Neill, Eugene			W				10	1948	845
60	Beatty, Warren	D	A	W			P	5	1989	235
61	Capra, Frank	D	A	W			P	2	1936	45
62	Stevenson, Robert Louis			W				9	1942	665
63	Olivier, Laurence	D	A	W			P	2	1946	269
64	Lawrence, D.H.			W				6	1970	655
65	Hill, Walter	D		W			P	7	1981	563
66	Leonard, Elmore			W			P	8	1983	1213
67	Christie, Agatha			W				6	1971	856
68	Siodmak, Curt	D		W				7	1941	766
69	Hawks, Howard	D	A	W			P	6	1939	651
70	Clooney, George	D	A	W			P	4	2011	554
71	Crichton, Michael	D		W			P	8	1990	759
72	Zanuck, Darryl F.	D		W			P	8	1932	1564
73	Roach, Hal	D	A	W		M	P	8	1923	872
74	Kazan, Elia	D	A	W			P	2	1955	953
75	Wilde, Oscar			W				7	1959	1178
76	Thompson, Emma		A	W				2	1998	467
77	Selznick, David O.	D		W			P	3	1945	1112
78	Berlin, Irving		A	W		M		4	1940	1489
79	Gibson, Mel	D	A	W			P	2	2005	1278
80	Ford, John	D	A	W	C		P	5	1934	1301
81	Porter, Edwin S.	D		W	C		P	2	1903	1224
82	Grisham, John			W			P	6	1996	2177
83	Apatow, Judd	D		W			P	5	2008	2344
84	Zwick, Edward	D		W			P	4	2004	1477
85	Lewton, Val			W			P	2	1945	1506
86	Wexler, Haskell	D	A	W	C		P	1	1969	1388
87	Sennett, Mack	D	A	W			P	3	1912	2085
88	Freund, Karl	D	A	W	C			1	1927	1807
89	Nicholson, Jack	D	A	W			P	2	1967	2225
90	Duvall, Robert	D	A	W		M	P	2	1990	2058
91	Porter, Cole			W		M		1	1957	2140
92	Jolie, Angelina	D	A	W			P	2	2014	2358
93	Arbuckle, Roscoe 'Fatty'	D	A	W				3	1917	2586
94	Rodgers, Richard			W		M		1	1939	2238
95	Pacino, Al	D	A	W			P	1	1996	2494
96	Stothart, Herbert			W		M		1	1936	2538
97	Evans, Robert		A	W			P	1	2002	2581
98	DeMille, Cecil B.	D	A	W			P	1	1914	2586
99	Coutard, Raoul	D		W	C			1	1970	2632
99	Nykvist, Sven	D		W	C			1	1991	2632
100	Wyler, William	D	A	W			P	1	1944	2637
101	Harris, Richard	D	A	W				1	1971	2673
102	Winkler, Irwin	D		W			P	1	1991	2686
102	Poitier, Sidney	D	A	W				1	1968	2686
103	Close, Glenn		A	W			P	1	2011	2693

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