The 40 Most Famous Filmmakers

Name the 42 most famous people, measured by number of Wikipedia languages, that are primarily known as filmmakers or directors.

does not include actors, writers or producers who also had success as directors, except if they are more famous for their directing work (judgements my own)

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Filmmaker	Nationality
Akira Kurosawa	Japanese
Alfred Hitchcock	British
Steven Spielberg	American
Ingmar Bergman	Swedish
Stanley Kubrick	American
Federico Fellini	Italian
Satyajit Ray	Indian
Sergei Eisenstein	Soviet
Woody Allen	American
George Lucas	American
Quentin Tarantino	American
James Cameron	Canadian
Christopher Nolan	British
Hayao Miyazaki	Japanese

Filmmaker	Nationality
Martin Scorsese	American
Roman Polanski	French/Polish
Peter Jackson	New Zealand
Francis Ford Coppola	American
Orson Welles	American
Tim Burton	American
Leni Riefenstahl	German
Andrei Tarkovsky	Soviet
Pedro Almodóvar	Spanish
Ridley Scott	British
François Truffaut	French
Sergio Leone	Italian
Bernardo Bertolucci	Italian
David Lynch	American

Filmmaker	Nationality
John Ford	American
Vittorio De Sica	Italian
Miloš Forman	Czech/American
Jean-Luc Godard	French/Swiss
D. W. Griffith	American
Ang Lee	Taiwanese
Georges Méliès	French
Luis Buñuel	Mexican/Spanish
Danny Boyle	British
Robert Zemeckis	American
Frank Capra	Italian/American
Michelangelo Antonioni	Italian
Elia Kazan	American
Fritz Lang	German

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