The 100 Best Filmmakers

100 items • Updated 5/4/2026

The 100 best filmmakers (by my personal rating averages).

1		Yasujirō Ozu Writer
2		Hayao Miyazaki Animation Department
3		Terence Davies Writer
4		Akira Kurosawa Writer
5		Satoshi Kon Writer
6		Edward Yang Director
7		Jean Cocteau Writer
8		F.W. Murnau Director
9		Henri-Georges Clouzot Writer
10		Claire Denis Director
11		Masaki Kobayashi Director
12		Sergio Leone Second Unit or Assistant Director
13		Stanley Kubrick Writer
14		Kim Ki-duk Writer
15	👤	Shûji Terayama Writer
16		Elia Kazan Director
17		Satyajit Ray Writer
18		Carl Theodor Dreyer Writer
19		Kaige Chen Producer
20		Kenji Mizoguchi Director
21		Andrzej Wajda Director
22		René Clément Director
23		Luis Buñuel Writer
24		Jacques Becker Writer
25		Michelangelo Antonioni Writer
26		Mikhail Kalatozov Director
27		Asghar Farhadi Writer
28		Hsiao-Hsien Hou Producer
29		Miloš Forman Director
30		Lee Chang-dong Writer
31		Christopher Nolan Producer
32		Billy Wilder Writer
33		Jean-Pierre Melville Writer
34		Jean Eustache Editor
35		Marcel Ophüls Director
36		Kôji Wakamatsu Director
37		Fernando Meirelles Director
38		Kaneto Shindō Writer
39		Kon Ichikawa Director
40		Nicolas Winding Refn Writer
41		Alexander Mackendrick Writer
42		Glauber Rocha Director
43		Mikio Naruse Director
44	👤	Alan Clarke Director
45		Sam Wood Director
46		Kevin Macdonald Director
47		Park Chan-wook Producer
48		Fritz Lang Writer
49		Sam Mendes Producer
50		Quentin Tarantino Writer

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