Best Directors

TOP RANKED FILMS OF TOP DIRECTORS

• Top Ranked Films of Abbas Kiarostami
• Top Ranked Films of Akira Kurosawa
• Top Ranked Films of Alain Resnais
• Top Ranked Films of Alfred Hitchcock
• Top Ranked Films of Andrey Tarkovskiy
• Top Ranked Films of Bernardo Bertolucci
• Top Ranked Films of Billy Wilder
• Top Ranked Films of Buster Keaton
• Top Ranked Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Top Ranked Films of Carol Reed
• Top Ranked Films of Charles Chaplin
• Top Ranked Films of Christopher Nolan
• Top Ranked Films of Clint Eastwood
• Top Ranked Films of Coen Brothers
• Top Ranked Films of D.W. Griffith
• Top Ranked Films of Danny Boyle
• Top Ranked Films of Darren Aronofsky
• Top Ranked Films of David Cronenberg
• Top Ranked Films of David Fincher
• Top Ranked Films of David Lean
• Top Ranked Films of David Lynch
• Top Ranked Films of Elia Kazan
• Top Ranked Films of F.W. Murnau
• Top Ranked Films of Federico Fellini
• Top Ranked Films of Francois Truffaut
• Top Ranked Films of Frank Capra
• Top Ranked Films of Fritz Lang
• Top Ranked Films of George Lucas
• Top Ranked Films of Hayao Miyazaki
• Top Ranked Films of Henri-Georges Clouzot
• Top Ranked Films of Howard Hawks
• Top Ranked Films of Ingmar Bergman
• Top Ranked Films of James Cameron
• Top Ranked Films of Jean Renoir
• Top Ranked Films of Jean-Luc Godard
• Top Ranked Films of Jean-Pierre Melville
• Top Ranked Films of John Cassavetes
• Top Ranked Films of John Ford
• Top Ranked Films of John Huston
• Top Ranked Films of John Lasseter
• Top Ranked Films of Jonathan Demme
• Top Ranked Films of Kenji Mizoguchi
• Top Ranked Films of Krszystof Kieslowski
• Top Ranked Films of Leo McCarey
• Top Ranked Films of Luchino Visconti
• Top Ranked Films of Luis Buñuel
• Top Ranked Films of Martin Scorsese
• Top Ranked Films of Max Ophüls
• Top Ranked Films of Michael Curtiz
• Top Ranked Films of Michael Powell
• Top Ranked Films of Michaelangelo Antonioni
• Top Ranked Films of Nicholas Ray
• Top Ranked Films of Nicolas Roeg
• Top Ranked Films of Paul Thomas Anderson
• Top Ranked Films of Pedro Almodovar
• Top Ranked Films of Peter Jackson
• Top Ranked Films of Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Top Ranked Films of Quentin Tarantino
• Top Ranked Films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Top Ranked Films of Ridley Scott
• Top Ranked Films of Rob Reiner
• Top Ranked Films of Robert Altman
• Top Ranked Films of Robert Bresson
• Top Ranked Films of Roberto Rossellini
• Top Ranked Films of Roman Polanski
• Top Ranked Films of Satyajit Ray
• Top Ranked Films of Sergei M. Eisenstein
• Top Ranked Films of Sergio Leone
• Top Ranked Films of Sidney Lumet
• Top Ranked Films of Stanley Kubrick
• Top Ranked Films of Steven Spielberg
• Top Ranked Films of Terry Gilliam
• Top Ranked Films of Victor Fleming
• Top Ranked Films of Vincente Minnelli
• Top Ranked Films of Vittorio De Sica
• Top Ranked Films of Werner Herzog
• Top Ranked Films of William Wyler
• Top Ranked Films of Wim Wenders
• Top Ranked Films of Wong Kar-Wai
• Top Ranked Films of Woody Allen
• Top Ranked Films of Yasujiro Ozu

The 250 Best Directors of All-Time

The 250 Best Directors of All-Time

1. Alfred Hitchcock

2. Stanley Kubrick

3. Ingmar Bergman

4. Yasujirô Ozu

5. Federico Fellini

6. Martin Scorsese

7. Francis Ford Coppola

8. Andrei Tarkovsky

9. Orson Welles

10. John Ford

11. Michelangelo Antonioni

12. Akira Kurosawa

13. François Truffaut

14. Jean Renoir

15. Paul Thomas Anderson

16. Jean-Luc Godard

17. Max Ophüls

18. David Lynch

19. Carl Theodor Dreyer

20. Sergio Leone

21. Fritz Lang

22. Kar-Wai Wong

23. Sergei Eisenstein

24. Terrence Malick

25. F.W. Murnau

26. Joseph von Sternberg

27. Woody Allen

28. Steven Spielberg

29. Howard Hawks

30. The Coen Brothers

31. Luis Bunuel

32. Roberto Rossellini

33. David Lean

34. Robert Altman

35. Michael Powell

36. David Cronenberg

37. Jim Jarmusch

38. Roman Polanski

39. Billy Wilder

40.Vittorio De Sica

41. David Fincher

42. Krzysztof Kieslowski

43. Spike Lee

44. Quentin Tarantino

45. Satyajit Ray

46. Mikhail Kalatozov

47. D.W. Griffith

48. Werner Herzog

49. Shôhei Imamura

50. Nicolas Roeg

51. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

52. Bernardo Bertolucci

53. Michael Mann

54. Luchino Visconti

55. Ridley Scott

56. Kenji Mizoguchi

57. Douglas Sirk

58. Sam Peckinpah

59. Peter Greenaway

60. Alfonso Cuarón

61. Lars von Trier

62. Robert Bresson

63. Agnes Varda

64. Brian De Palma

65. Wes Anderson

66. Jean-Pierre Melville

67. Jacques Tati

68. Terry Gilliam

69. Jacques Demy

70. Bela Tarr

71. Sidney Lumet

72. Michael Haneke

73. Buster Keaton

74. Alan Pakula

75. Erich von Stroheim

76. John Cassavetes

77. Nicholas Ray

78. James Cameron

79. Clint Eastwood

80. Charlie Chaplin

81. Sofia Coppola

82. Frank Capra

83. The Dardenne Brothers

84. George Cukor

85. Otto Preminger

86. Richard Linklater

87. Steven Soderbergh

88. William Wyler

89. Oliver Stone

90. Darren Aronofsky

91. Wim Wenders

92. Yimou Zhang

93. Preston Sturges

94. Jonathan Demme

95. Pedro Almodovar

96. Mike Nichols

97. Vincente Minnelli

98. Ernst Lubitsch

99. Hayao Miyazaki

100. John Carpenter

101. Apichatpong Weerasethakul

102. John Huston

103. Bob Fosse

104. Raoul Walsh

105. Alejandro G. Iñárritu

106. G.W. Pabst

107. Milos Forman

108. William Friedkin

109. Christopher Nolan

110. Elia Kazan

111. Hsiao-Hsien Hou

112. Michael Curtiz

113. Dario Argento

114. Samuel Fuller

115. Peter Jackson

116. James Whale

117. King Vidor

118. Carol Reed

119. Victor Fleming

120. Robert Zemeckis

121. George Lucas

122. Guillermo del Toro

123. Jacques Tourneur

124. Arthur Penn

125. Louis Malle

126. George Stevens

127. René Clair

128. Anthony Minghella

129. Stanley Donen

130. Michael Cimino

131. George Romero

132. Marcel Carné

133. Pier Paolo Pasolini

134. Paul Schrader

135. Sam Mendes

136. Gus Van Sant

137. Abbas Kiarostami

138. Terence Davies

139. Tod Browning

140. Mike Leigh

141. Hal Ashby

142. Alain Resnais

143. Todd Haynes

144. Lynne Ramsay

145. Joseph Mankiewicz

146. George Miller

147. Eric Rohmer

148. Jane Campion

149. Jules Dassin

150. Robert Wise

151. Joe Wright

152. John Schlesinger

153. Ken Loach

154. Cecil B. DeMille

155. Jean Cocteau

156. Baz Luhrmann

157. Anthony Mann

158. Jean-Pierre Jeunet

159. Henri-Georges Clouzot

160. Steve McQueen

161. John Frankenheimer

162. John Boorman

163. Mario Bava

164. Alexander Payne

165. John Woo

166. Tim Burton

167. James Ivory

168. Edgar Ulmer

169. James Gray

170. Andrzej Wajda

171. Noah Baumbach

172. Don Siegel

173. Robert Aldrich

174. Frank Borzage

175. Ang Lee

176. Roy Andersson

177. Peter Weir

178. Chang-dong Lee

179. Jean Vigo

180. Spike Jonze

181. Edward Yang

182. John McTiernan

183. Warren Beatty

184. Satoshi Kon

185. Fred Zinnemann

186. Tony Richardson

187. Zhangke Jia

188. Joseph Lewis

189. John Sayles

190. Danny Boyle

191. Cristian Mungiu

192. Peter Bogdanovich

193. Abel Ferrara

194. Robert Rossen

195. Kelly Reichardt

196. Budd Boetticher

197. The Wachowskis’

198. Aki Kaurismäki

199. Sergio Corbucci

200. Andrew Dominik

201. Nicolas Winding Refn

202. Rouben Mamoulian

203. Pawel Pawlikowski

204. Yorgos Lanthimos

205. Leos Carax

206. Masaki Kobayashi

207. Alejandro Jodorowsky

208. David O. Russell

209. John Sturges

210. René Clément

211. Gaspar Noé

212. Damien Chazelle

213. Paul Greengrass

214. Barry Levinson

215. Ari Aster

216. László Nemes

217. Bong Joon Ho

218. Sydney Pollack

219. Denis Villeneuve

220. Chan-wook Park

221. Barry Jenkins

222. Paul Verhoeven

223. George Roy Hill

224. The Safdie Brothers

225. Joanna Hogg

226. Paolo Sorrentino

227. Xavier Dolan

228. Ryan Coogler

229. Luca Guadagnino

230. Jack Clayton

231. Lewis Milestone

232. Franklin Schaffner

233. Jonathan Glazer

234. Edgar Wright

235. Carroll Ballard

236. Tom Tykwer

237. Claire Denis

238. Asghar Farhadi

239. Lawrence Kasdan

240. Kathryn Bigelow

241. Rob Reiner

242. Laurence Olivier

243. Trey Edward Shults

244. Greta Gerwig

245. Robert Eggers

246. Derek Cianfrance

247. Tom Hooper

248. Bennett Miller

249. Jeff Nichols

250. Kenneth Lonergan