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  The 1,000 Greatest Films The Top 250 Directors  
  • Introduction  • The Top 500 Films  • The Full List  • The Top 250 Directors  • PDF Companion  • Links  
  The Top 500: •1-25  •26-50   •51-75   •76-100  •101-150  •151-200  •201-250  •251-300  •301-350  •351-400  •401-450  •451-500  
     
     
     
  • Listed below are, according to our calculations, the 250 most critically acclaimed filmmakers of all-time. For this update (and probably for beyond), we have expanded the list from 200 to 250.  
  • As per the 1,000 Greatest Films, this list has been compiled from a large resource of film lists. Additionally, also factored in are some 'Best Director' polls, as per those listed at the bottom of this page  
  • Alongside each director's name is the position each director held in January 2011's version.  
  • To qualify for this top 250, each director (or director team) needs to have a minimum of  two films cited in ballots/lists that we have collated.  
  • Please note that the number of films cited includes those films in the 1,000 Greatest.  
     
 
1

Orson Welles (1)  8 films in the 1,000 Greatest | 15 films cited  

2

Alfred Hitchcock (2) 13 films in the 1,000 Greatest | 39 films cited

3

Stanley Kubrick (3) 11 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 13 films cited  

4

Federico Fellini (4) 11 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 19 films cited

5

John Ford (5) 15 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 38 films cited  

6

Jean Renoir (6) 11 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 26 films cited

7

Akira Kurosawa (7) 11 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 24 films cited  

8

Francis Ford Coppola (8) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest | 14 films cited

9

Ingmar Bergman (9) 13 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 28 films cited  

10

Jean-Luc Godard (10) 14 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 37 films cited
11 Martin Scorsese (13) 9 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 24 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors   12

Charles Chaplin (11) 9 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 22 films cited
13 Billy Wilder (12) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 23 films cited   14 Luis Buρuel (14) 14 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 23 films cited
15 Howard Hawks (15) 11 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 28 films cited   16 Carl Dreyer (16) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited
17 Sergei Eisenstein (17) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited   18  F.W. Murnau (18) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 8 films cited
19 Yasujiro Ozu (19) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 23 films cited   20 Fritz Lang (20) 16 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 32 films cited
21 Andrei Tarkovsky (22) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited   22 Robert Bresson (21) 8 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 13 films cited
23 David Lean (23) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 14 films cited   24 Franηois Truffaut (24) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 21 films cited
25 Kenji Mizoguchi (25) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 19 films cited   26 Steven Spielberg (26) 8 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 20 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
27 Michelangelo Antonioni (28) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 15 films cited   28 Buster Keaton (27) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 14 films cited
29 Roberto Rossellini (29) 8 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 20 films cited   30 D.W. Griffith (30) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 28 films cited
31 Vittorio De Sica (31) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 11 films cited   32 Woody Allen (34) 8 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 27 films cited
33 Luchino Visconti (32) 9 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 14 films cited   34 Ernst Lubitsch (33) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 27 films cited
35 Max Ophόls (35) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 13 films cited   36 John Huston (36) 8 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 30 films cited
37 Roman Polanski (38) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 17 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors   38 Satyajit Ray (37) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 17 films cited
39 Robert Altman (40) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 26 films cited   40 Michael Powell Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (42) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 12 films cited | See also #91 entry for Michael Powell
41 Stanley Donen Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (39) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 3 films cited | See also #228 entry for Stanley Donen   42 Jean Vigo (41) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 3 films cited
43 Sergio Leone (43) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 6 films cited   44 Frank Capra (44) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 21 films cited
45 Michael Curtiz (45) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 24 films cited   46 Alain Resnais (46) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 20 films cited
47 Ridley Scott (48) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited   48 Sam Peckinpah (47) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 11 films cited
49 Preston Sturges (49) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited   50 Victor Fleming (50) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 12 films cited
             

 

             
51 Bernardo Bertolucci (51) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 14 films cited   52 Carol Reed (53) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 11 films cited
53 David Lynch (54) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 11 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors   54 John Cassavetes (52) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited
55 Werner Herzog (56) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 20 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors   56 Marcel Carnι (55) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 8 films cited
57 Vincente Minnelli (58) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 23 films cited   58 Elia Kazan (61) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 15 films cited
59 George Cukor (59) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 29 films cited   60 Erich von Stroheim (57) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 5 films cited
61 Leo McCarey (60) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 15 films cited   62 Josef von Sternberg (62) 8 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 17 films cited
63 Nicholas Ray (63) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 16 films cited   64 Rainer Werner Fassbinder (65) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 22 films cited
65 Jacques Tati (64) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited   66 Douglas Sirk (66) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 13 films cited
67 Pier Paolo Pasolini (68) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 13 films cited   68 Joseph L. Mankiewicz (67) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 15 films cited
69 Krzysztof Kieslowski (69) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 11 films cited   70 Joel Coen Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (71) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 12 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
71 Terrence Malick (70) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 5 films cited   72 Abbas Kiarostami (73) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 15 films cited
73 William Wyler (72) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 24 films cited   74 Wong Kar-wai (75) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 8 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
75 Jacques Tourneur (74) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 17 films cited   76 Quentin Tarantino (76) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
77 Wim Wenders (80) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 15 films cited   78 Clint Eastwood (78) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 23 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
79 David Cronenberg (82) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 17 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors   80 Chris Marker (77) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited
81 Milos Forman (79) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited   82 King Vidor (81) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 22 films cited
83 Eric Rohmer (83) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 22 films cited   84 Sidney Lumet (93) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 25 films cited
85 Jacques Rivette (84) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 17 films cited   86 Jean-Pierre Melville (86) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited
87 Hou Hsiao-hsien (85) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 14 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors   88 Nicolas Roeg (88) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 8 films cited
89 Jean Cocteau (87) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 6 films cited   90 George Lucas (90) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited
91 Michael Powell Michael Powell (89) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 6 films cited | See also #40 entry for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger   92 George A. Romero (95) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited
93 Gillo Pontecorvo (94) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 4 films cited   94 Brian De Palma (92) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 18 films cited
95 James Cameron (91) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 8 films cited   96 Raoul Walsh (96) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 31 films cited
97 Jacques Demy (97) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited   98 Otto Preminger (98) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 24 films cited
99 William Friedkin (100) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited   100 Robert Flaherty (101) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 4 films cited
             

 

             
101 James Whale (102) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited   102 Hal Ashby (113) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited
103 Alexander Dovzhenko (99) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited   104 Terry Gilliam (111) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited
105 Dziga Vertov (108) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 4 films cited   106 Samuel Fuller (109) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 20 films cited
107 Henri-Georges Clouzot (103) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 8 films cited   108 Andrzej Wajda (106) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 13 films cited
109 Spike Lee (112) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited   110 Renι Clair (104) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 18 films cited
111 Chantal Akerman (110) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 12 films cited   112 George Stevens (107) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 15 films cited
113 Abel Gance (105) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited   114 Arthur Penn (114) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited
115 John Carpenter (116) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 13 films cited   116 Peter Weir (117) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 12 films cited
117 Theo Angelopoulos (115) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 11 films cited   118 Alexander Mackendrick (122) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited
119 Hayao Miyazaki (124) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors   120 Lars von Trier (118) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 8 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
121 Anthony Mann (121) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 18 films cited   122 Glauber Rocha (119) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 5 films cited
123 Mike Nichols (133) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 13 films cited   124 Pedro Almodσvar (125) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 13 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
125 Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack (123) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 2 films cited   126 Robert Aldrich (127) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 19 films cited
127 John Boorman (130) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 13 films cited   128 Jim Jarmusch (129) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 8 films cited
129 Jane Campion (120) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 8 films cited   130 G.W. Pabst (128) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited
131 Stan Brakhage (126) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 25 films cited   132 Don Siegel (132) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 16 films cited
133 Paul Thomas Anderson (135) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 5 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors   134 Tod Browning (131) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited
135 Mike Leigh (151) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 15 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors   136 Robert Wise (138) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 14 films cited
137 Edward Yang (136) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 6 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors   138 Tim Burton (141) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 13 films cited
139 Michael Cimino (134) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 4 films cited   140 Ken Loach (145) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 14 films cited
141 Nagisa Oshima (148) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 12 films cited   142 Rob Reiner (144) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 8 films cited
143 Fred Zinnemann (142) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 13 films cited   144 Mikio Naruse (137) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 14 films cited
145 Peter Bogdanovich (152) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited   146 Louis Malle (154) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 15 films cited
147 Michael Mann (140) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited   148 Bob Fosse (139) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 5 films cited
149 Victor Erice (143) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 4 films cited   150 Zhang Yimou (157) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 11 films cited
             

 

             
151 Michael Snow (146) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited   152 Oliver Stone (149) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 11 films cited
153 Ritwik Ghatak (147) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 6 films cited   154 Blake Edwards (156) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 17 films cited
155 David Hand (155) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 2 films cited   156 Robert Wiene (153) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 3 films cited
157 Bιla Tarr (161) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 4 films cited   158 Jean Eustache (150) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 4 films cited
159 Ben Sharpsteen (160) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 3 films cited   160 Robert Zemeckis (163) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 13 films cited
161 Leni Riefenstahl (170) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 3 films cited   162 Frank Borzage (158) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 19 films cited
163 John Schlesinger (167) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 12 films cited   164 Claude Lanzmann (159) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 3 films cited
165 Victor Sjφstrφm (165) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 6 films cited   166 Alan J. Pakula (---) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 6 films cited
167 Sam Wood (164) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited   168 Sydney Pollack (162) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited
169 Georges Franju (166) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 6 films cited   170 Peter Jackson (174) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 8 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
171 John Woo (176) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited   172 Joseph Losey (175) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 17 films cited
173 Tobe Hooper (181) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 4 films cited   174 Ousmane Sembene (179) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited
175 Michael Haneke (193) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors   176 Robert Hamer (196) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 4 films cited
177 Agnθs Varda (177) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 8 films cited   178 Andy Warhol (171) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 17 films cited
179 Ermanno Olmi (168) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 11 films cited   180 Charles Burnett (186) 2 filma in the 1,000 Greatest  | 5 films cited
181 Claude Chabrol (169) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 21 films cited   182 Paul Verhoeven (178) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited
183 Mel Brooks (185) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited   184 Robert Mulligan (173) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited
185 Francesco Rosi (172) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited   186 Dario Argento (192) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited
187 Claire Denis (189) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 11 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors   188 Shohei Imamura (180) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 11 films cited
189 Terence Davies (---) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 5 films cited   190 Kenneth Anger (191) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited
191 George Roy Hill (190) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 8 films cited   192 Richard Linklater (188) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
193 Ang Lee (---) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors   194 Gus Van Sant (---) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 12 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
195 William Wellman (194) 0 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 25 films cited   196 Emir Kusturica (182) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 6 films cited
197 Luis Garcνa Berlanga (183) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 5 films cited   198 Manoel de Oliveira (184) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 17 films cited
199 Ken Russell (---) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 15 films cited   200 Sam Raimi (---) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited
201 Rouben Mamoulian 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 12 films cited   202 Lewis Milestone 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 11 films cited
203 Edgar G. Ulmer (187) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 6 films cited   204 Humphrey Jennings 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 3 films cited
205 John Landis 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited   206 Georges Mιliθs 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited
207 Jacques Becker  (195) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 8 films cited   208 David Fincher 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 8 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
209 Giuseppe Tornatore (198) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 4 films cited   210 John Frankenheimer 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 13 films cited
211 Jonathan Demme 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 15 films cited   212 Jean-Marie Straub & Daniθle Huillet 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 17 films cited
213 Cecil B. DeMille  (200) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 21 films cited   214 Louis Feuillade (199) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited
215 John Sturges 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 9 films cited   216 Irvin Kershner 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 5 films cited
217 Sergei Parajanov (197) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 5 films cited   218 Todd Haynes 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
219 Monte Hellman 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 5 films cited   220 Guru Dutt 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 2 films cited
221 Lindsay Anderson 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 6 films cited   222 Chen Kaige 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 3 films cited
223 Bill Forsyth 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 5 films cited   224 Seijun Suzuki 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited
225 Aleksandr Sokurov 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 12 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors   226 Peter Greenaway 0 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited
227 Maya Deren 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 6 films cited   228 Stanley Donen 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 11 films cited | See also #41 entry for Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
229 Jerry Lewis 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited   230 Philip Kaufman 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited
231 Mikhail Kalatozov 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 4 films cited   232 Mark Sandrich 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited
233 George Miller 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 5 films cited   234 John Sayles 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 11 films cited
235 Richard Lester 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 12 films cited   236 Wes Anderson 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 6 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
237 Maurice Pialat 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited   238 John Hughes 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 5 films cited
239 Harold Ramis 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 5 films cited   240 Bob Rafelson 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited
241 Laurence Olivier 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 3 films cited   242 Frederick Wiseman 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 13 films cited
243 Sacha Guitry 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 16 films cited   244 Dennis Hopper 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 3 films cited
245 Renι Clιment 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 6 films cited   246 Takeshi Kitano 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 10 films cited
247 Vsevolod Pudovkin 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 4 films cited   248 Joseph H. Lewis 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited
249 Stephen Frears 0 films in the 1,000 Greatest  | 13 films cited | See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors   250 Robert Rossen 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest  | 7 films cited
             
 
 
         
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