Country
|
Director
|
United Kingdom, United States
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
United States
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
Sweden
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
Japan
|
Yasujirô Ozu
|
Italy
|
Federico Fellini
|
United States
|
Martin Scorsese
|
United States
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
Soviet Union
|
Andrei Tarkovsky
|
United States
|
Orson Welles
|
United States
|
John Ford
|
Italy
|
Michelangelo Antonioni
|
Japan
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
France
|
François Truffaut
|
France
|
Jean Renoir
|
United States
|
Paul Thomas Anderson
|
France
|
Jean-Luc Godard
|
Germany, France, United States
|
Max Ophüls
|
United States
|
David Lynch
|
Denmark, France
|
Carl Theodor Dreyer
|
Italy, Spain, United States
|
Sergio Leone
|
Austria, Germany, United States
|
Fritz Lang
|
China
|
Wong Kar-Wai
|
Russia, Soviet Union
|
Sergei Eisenstein
|
United States
|
Terrence Malick
|
Germany, United States
|
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
|
Austria, United States
|
Josef von Sternberg
|
United States
|
Woody Allen
|
United States
|
Steven Spielberg
|
United States
|
Howard Hawks
|
United States
|
Ethan Coen
|
Joel Coen
|
Spain, France, Mexico
|
Luis Buñuel
|
Italy
|
Roberto Rossellini
|
United Kingdom
|
David Lean
|
United States
|
Robert Altman
|
United Kingdom
|
Michael Powell
|
Canada
|
David Cronenberg
|
United States
|
Jim Jarmusch
|
Poland, United States, France
|
Roman Polanski
|
Austria, United States
|
Billy Wilder
|
Italy
|
Vittorio De Sica
|
United States
|
David Fincher
|
Poland, France
|
Krzysztof Kieślowski
|
United States
|
Spike Lee
|
United States
|
Quentin Tarantino
|
India
|
Satyajit Ray
|
Russia, Soviet Union
|
Mikhail Kalatozov
|
United States
|
David Wark Griffith
|
Germany, United States
|
Werner Herzog
|
Japan
|
Shôhei Imamura
|
United Kingdom
|
Nicolas Roeg
|
Germany
|
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
|
Italy
|
Bernardo Bertolucci
|
United States
|
Michael Mann
|
Italy
|
Luchino Visconti
|
United States
|
Ridley Scott
|
Japan
|
Kenji Mizoguchi
|
Germany, United States
|
Douglas Sirk
|
United States
|
Sam Peckinpah
|
United Kingdom
|
Peter Greenaway
|
Mexico, United Kingdom, United States
|
Alfonso Cuarón
|
Denmark, United Kingdom
|
Lars von Trier
|
France
|
Robert Bresson
|
Belgium, France
|
Agnès Varda
|
United States
|
Brian De Palma
|
United States
|
Wes Anderson
|
France
|
Jean-Pierre Melville
|
France
|
Jacques Tati
|
United States, United Kingdom
|
Terry Gilliam
|
France
|
Jacques Demy
|
Hungary
|
Béla Tarr
|
United States
|
Sidney Lumet
|
Germany, Austria, France
|
Michael Haneke
|
United States
|
Buster Keaton
|
United States
|
Alan J. Pakula
|
Austria, United States
|
Erich von Stroheim
|
United States
|
John Cassavetes
|
United States
|
Nicholas Ray
|
Canada, United States
|
James Cameron
|
United States
|
Clint Eastwood
|
United Kingdom, United States
|
Charlie Chaplin
|
United States
|
Sofia Coppola
|
Italy, United States
|
Frank Capra
|
Belgium
|
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
|
Luc Dardenne
|
United States
|
George Cukor
|
Austria, United States
|
Otto Preminger
|
United States
|
Richard Linklater
|
United States
|
Steven Soderbergh
|
Germany, United States
|
William Wyler
|
United States
|
Oliver Stone
|
United States
|
Darren Aronofsky
|
Germany
|
Wim Wenders
|
China
|
Zhang Yimou
|
United States
|
Preston Sturges
|
United States
|
Jonathan Demme
|
Spain
|
Pedro Almodóvar
|
United States
|
Mike Nichols
|
United States
|
Vincente Minnelli
|
Germany, United States
|
Ernst Lubitsch
|
Japan
|
Hayao Miyazaki
|
United States
|
John Carpenter
|
Thailand
|
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
|
United States
|
John Huston
|
United States
|
Bob Fosse
|
United States
|
Raoul Walsh
|
Mexico, United States
|
Alejandro González Iñárritu
|
Austria
|
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
|
Czech Republic, United States
|
Miloš Forman
|
United States
|
William Friedkin
|
United Kingdom, United States
|
Christopher Nolan
|
United States
|
Elia Kazan
|
Taiwan
|
Hou Hsiao-hsien
|
Hungary, United States
|
Michael Curtiz
|
Italy
|
Dario Argento
|
United States
|
Samuel Fuller
|
New Zealand
|
Peter Jackson
|
United Kingdom
|
James Whale
|
United States
|
King Vidor
|
United Kingdom
|
Carol Reed
|
United States
|
Victor Fleming
|
United States
|
Robert Zemeckis
|
United States
|
George Lucas
|
Mexico, United States
|
Guillermo del Toro
|
France, United States
|
Jacques Tourneur
|
United States
|
Arthur Penn
|
France, United States
|
Louis Malle
|
United States
|
George Stevens
|
France, United Kingdom, United States
|
René Clair
|
United Kingdom
|
Anthony Minghella
|
United States
|
Stanley Donen
|
United States
|
Michael Cimino
|
United States
|
George A. Romero
|
France
|
Marcel Carné
|
Italy
|
Pier Paolo Pasolini
|
United States
|
Paul Schrader
|
United Kingdom, United States
|
Sam Mendes
|
United States
|
Gus Van Sant
|
Iran
|
Abbas Kiarostami
|
United Kingdom
|
Terence Davies
|
United States
|
Tod Browning
|
United Kingdom
|
Mike Leigh
|
United States
|
Hal Ashby
|
France
|
Alain Resnais
|
United States
|
Todd Haynes
|
United Kingdom, United States
|
Lynne Ramsay
|
United States
|
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
Australia
|
George Miller
|
France
|
Éric Rohmer
|
New Zealand, Australia
|
Jane Campion
|
United States
|
Jules Dassin
|
United States
|
Robert WIse
|
United Kingdom
|
Joe Wright
|
United Kingdom, United States
|
John Schlesinger
|
United Kingdom
|
Ken Loach
|
United States
|
Cecil B. DeMille
|
France
|
Jean Cocteau
|
Australia
|
Baz Luhrmann
|
United States
|
Anthony Mann
|
France
|
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
|
France
|
Henri-Georges Clouzot
|
United States
|
Steve McQueen
|
United States
|
John Frankenheimer
|
United Kingdom, United States
|
John Boorman
|
Italian
|
Mario Bava
|
United States
|
Alexander Payne
|
China
|
John Woo
|
United States
|
Tim Burton
|
United States
|
James Ivory
|
Czech Republic, United States
|
Edgar G. Ulmer
|
United States
|
James Gray
|
Poland
|
Andrzej Wajda
|
United States
|
Noah Baumbach
|
United States
|
Don Siegel
|
United States
|
Robert Aldrich
|
United States
|
Frank Borzage
|
Taiwan, United States
|
Ang Lee
|
Sweden
|
Roy Andersson
|
Australia
|
Peter Weir
|
South Korea
|
Lee Chang-dong
|
France
|
Jean Vigo
|
United States
|
Spike Jonze
|
Taiwan
|
Edward Yang
|
United States
|
John McTiernan
|
United States
|
Warren Beatty
|
Japan
|
Satoshi Kon
|
Austria, United States, United Kingdom
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
United Kingdom, United States
|
Tony Richardson
|
China
|
Jia Zhangke
|
United States
|
Joseph Lewis
|
United States
|
John Sayles
|
United Kingdom
|
Danny Boyle
|
Romania
|
Cristian Mungiu
|
United States
|
Peter Bogdanovich
|
United States
|
Abel Ferrara
|
United States
|
Robert Rossen
|
United States
|
Kelly Reichardt
|
United States
|
Budd Boetticher
|
United States
|
Lilly Wachowski
|
Lana Wachowski
|
Finland
|
Aki Kaurismäki
|
Italy
|
Sergio Corbucci
|
New Zealand, Australia, United States
|
Andrew Dominik
|
Denmark, United States
|
Nicolas Winding Refn
|
Russia
|
Rouben Mamoulian
|
Poland
|
Paweł Pawlikowski
|
Greece, United Kingdom
|
Yorgos Lanthimos
|
France
|
Leos Carax
|
Japan
|
Masaki Kobayashi
|
Chile, France, Mexico
|
Alejandro Jodorowsky
|
United States
|
David O. Russell
|
United States
|
John Sturges
|
France
|
René Clément
|
Argentina, France
|
Gaspar Noé
|
United States
|
Damien Chazelle
|
United Kingdom, United States
|
Paul Greengrass
|
United States
|
Barry Levinson
|
United States
|
Ari Aster
|
Hungary
|
László Nemes
|
South Korea
|
Bong Joon-Ho
|
United States
|
Sidney Pollack
|
Canada, United States
|
Denis Villeneuve
|
South Korea
|
Park Chan-Wook
|
United States
|
Barry Jenkins
|
Netherlands, United States
|
Paul Verhoeven
|
United States
|
George Roy Hill
|
United States
|
Joshua Safdie
|
Benjamin Safdie
|
United Kingdom
|
Joanna Hogg
|
Italy
|
Paolo Sorrentino
|
Canada
|
Xavier Dolan
|
United States
|
Ryan Coogler
|
Italy
|
Luca Guadagnino
|
United Kingdom, United States
|
Jack Clayton
|
Russia, United States
|
Lewis Milestone
|
United States
|
Franklin J. Schaffner
|
United Kingdom
|
Jonathan Glazer
|
United Kingdom, United States
|
Edgar Wright
|
United States
|
Carroll Ballard
|
Germany, United States
|
Tom Tykwer
|
France
|
Claire Denis
|
Iran
|
Asghar Farhadi
|
United States
|
Lawrence Kasdan
|
United States
|
Kathryn Bigelow
|
United States
|
Rob Reiner
|
United Kingdom
|
Laurence Olivier
|
United States
|
Trey Edward Shults
|
United States
|
Greta Gerwig
|
United States
|
Robert Eggers
|
United States
|
Derek Cianfrance
|
United Kingdom, United States
|
Tom Hooper
|
United States
|
Bennett Miller
|
United States
|
Jeff Nichols
|
United States
|
Kenneth Lonergan
|
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