My Top 200 Directors

200 items • Updated 1/12/2026

Thanks to a mathematical formula I use on Letterboxd here is my top 200 Directors for the purpose of the ICM Forums.

1		Bryan Singer Producer
2		Sam Raimi Producer
3		Chris Columbus Producer
4		James Cameron Writer
5		Roland Emmerich Writer
6		Peter Jackson Producer
7		Ron Howard Producer
8		Paul W.S. Anderson Writer
9		David Yates Director
10		Steven Spielberg Producer
11		M. Night Shyamalan Producer
12		James Wan Producer
13		Robert Zemeckis Producer
14		Alfred Hitchcock Director
15		Tony Scott Producer
16		David Zucker Producer
17		Andrew Adamson Producer
18		Wes Craven Writer
19		Russell Mulcahy Director
20		George Cukor Director
21		Mike Flanagan Director
22		Tim Burton Producer
23		Frank Darabont Writer
24		Stanley Kramer Producer
25		Jay Oliva Director
26		Jacques Doillon Director
27		Kaouther Ben Hania Director
28		Hayao Miyazaki Animation Department
29	👤	Clyde Geronimi Director
30	👤	Gerald Thomas Director
31		Nick Willing Writer
32		Wilfred Jackson Director
33		Victor Fleming Director
34		Paul Verhoeven Director
35		Brett Ratner Producer
36		Jean-Claude Brisseau Director
37		William Wyler Director
38		Craig R. Baxley Stunts
39		Paul Fenech Director
40		Lee Unkrich Additional Crew
41		Rob Cohen Producer
42		Lewis Gilbert Director
43		Gary Ross Writer
44		Abdellatif Kechiche Writer
45		Barry Levinson Producer
46		Jerry Paris Director
47		John Carpenter Music Department
48		Ernst Lubitsch Director
49		David Fincher Producer
50		Billy Wilder Writer

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