Best Directors of All-Time

1001 items • Updated 12/4/2025

1		Alfred Hitchcock Director
2		Steven Spielberg Producer
3		Orson Welles Actor
4		Akira Kurosawa Writer
5		D.W. Griffith Director
6		Jean-Luc Godard Director
7		John Ford Director
8		Ingmar Bergman Writer
9		Sergei Eisenstein Director
10		William Wyler Director
11		Robert Bresson Writer
12		Robert Altman Director
13		Howard Hawks Director
14		Luis Buñuel Writer
15		Billy Wilder Writer
16		Satyajit Ray Writer
17		Woody Allen Writer
18		Kenji Mizoguchi Director
19		Federico Fellini Writer
20		Rainer Werner Fassbinder Writer
21		Fritz Lang Writer
22		Carl Theodor Dreyer Writer
23		Martin Scorsese Producer
24		François Truffaut Writer
25		Quentin Tarantino Writer
26		Yasujirō Ozu Writer
27		Jean Renoir Writer
28		Louis Malle Director
29		Blake Edwards Writer
30		Éric Rohmer Director
31		George Cukor Director
32		Sidney Lumet Director
33		John Cassavetes Actor
34		Vittorio De Sica Actor
35		John Huston Actor
36		Stanley Kubrick Writer
37		Spike Lee Director
38		Vincente Minnelli Director
39		Michael Curtiz Director
40		Otto Preminger Director
41		Mervyn LeRoy Director
42		Clint Eastwood Actor
43		Elia Kazan Director
44		David Lean Director
45		Frank Capra Director
46		Roberto Rossellini Writer
47		Ernst Lubitsch Director
48		Masaki Kobayashi Director
49		Michelangelo Antonioni Writer
50		Samuel Fuller Production Department

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