Directors

TSPDT’S current director pages are listed below. They have been grouped alphabetically, chronologically (year of director’s birth), and by country. There will be more to come.
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Directors listed chronologically (by year of birth)

1861 Georges Méliès
1875 D.W. Griffith
1879 Victor Sjöström
1880 Tod Browning
1881 Cecil B. DeMille
1884 Robert Flaherty
1885 Allan Dwan / Sacha Guitry / G.W. Pabst / Erich von Stroheim
1886 Michael Curtiz / Henry King / John Cromwell
1887 Raoul Walsh
1888 F.W. Murnau
1889 Charles Chaplin / Jean Cocteau / Carl Theodor Dreyer / Victor Fleming / Abel Gance / James Whale
1890 Clarence Brown / Fritz Lang
1892 Ernst Lubitsch
1893 William Dieterle
1894 Frank Borzage / John Ford / Jean Renoir / King Vidor / Josef von Sternberg
1895 Buster Keaton / Lewis Milestone
1896 Julien Duvivier / Howard Hawks / Leo McCarey / Dziga Vertov / William Wellman
1897 Frank Capra / Rouben Mamoulian / Douglas Sirk
1898 René Clair / Sergei Eisenstein / Henry Hathaway / Mitchell Leisen / Kenji Mizoguchi / Preston Sturges
1899 George Cukor / Alfred Hitchcock
1900 Luis Buñuel / Mervyn LeRoy / Robert Siodmak
1901 Robert Bresson / Vittorio De Sica
1902 Boris Barnet / Emeric Pressburger / Max Ophüls / William Wyler
1903 Vincente Minnelli / Yasujiro Ozu
1904 Delmer Daves / Terence Fisher / George Stevens / Jacques Tourneur / Edgar G. Ulmer
1905 Mikio Naruse / Michael Powell / Otto Preminger / Jean Vigo
1906 Jacques Becker / Marcel Carné / John Huston / Anthony Mann / Carol Reed / Roberto Rossellini / Luchino Visconti / Billy Wilder
1907 Henri-Georges Clouzot / Joseph H. Lewis / Jacques Tati / Fred Zinnemann
1908 Tex Avery / Edward Dmytryk / Phil Karlson / David Lean / Manoel de Oliveira
1909 Elia Kazan / Joseph Losey / Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1910 John Sturges / Akira Kurosawa
1911 Jules Dassin / Nicholas Ray
1912 Michelangelo Antonioni / Georges Franju / Samuel Fuller / Chuck Jones / Gene Kelly / Alexander Mackendrick / Don Siegel
1913 André de Toth / Mark Robson / Frank Tashlin
1914 Mario Bava / William Castle / Robert Wise
1915 Orson Welles
1916 Jack Arnold / Budd Boetticher / Richard Fleischer / George Sidney
1917 Maya Deren / Jean-Pierre Melville
1918 Robert Aldrich / Ingmar Bergman
1920 Federico Fellini / Eric Rohmer
1921 Luis García Berlanga / Miklós Jancsó / Chris Marker / Satyajit Ray
1922 Blake Edwards / Jonas Mekas / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Arthur Penn / Alain Resnais
1923 Ousmane Sembene / Seijun Suzuki
1924 Stanley Donen / Sidney Lumet
1925 Robert Altman / Claude Lanzmann / Sam Peckinpah / Maurice Pialat
1926 Roger Corman / Shohei Imamura / Jerry Lewis / Andrzej Wajda
1927 Kenneth Anger / Ken Russell
1928 Stanley Kubrick / Jacques Rivette / Nicolas Roeg / Agnès Varda / Michael Snow / Andy Warhol
1929 Hal Ashby / John Cassavetes / Monte Hellman / Alejandro Jodorowsky / Sergio Leone
1930 Claude Chabrol / Clint Eastwood / John Frankenheimer / Kinji Fukasaku / Jean-Luc Godard / Frederick Wiseman
1931 Jacques Demy / Mike Nichols / Ermanno Olmi
1932 Milos Forman / Louis Malle / Nagisa Oshima / Carlos Saura / Andrei Tarkovsky / François Truffaut
1933 John Boorman / Stan Brakhage / Roman Polanski / Bob Rafelson / Jean-Marie Straub
1934 Sydney Pollack
1935 Woody Allen / Theo Angelopoulos
1936 Hollis Frampton / Danièle Huillet / Ken Loach
1937 Ridley Scott
1938 Paul Verhoeven
1939 Marco Bellocchio / Peter Bogdanovich / Francis Ford Coppola / Wes Craven / William Friedkin / Glauber Rocha
1940 Dario Argento / Brian De Palma / Victor Erice / Terry Gilliam / Abbas Kiarostami / George A. Romero
1941 Bernardo Bertolucci / Stephen Frears / Patricio Guzmán / Krzysztof Kieslowski / Hayao Miyazaki / Raúl Ruiz / Bertrand Tavernier
1942 Peter Greenaway / Michael Haneke / Werner Herzog / Walter Hill / Martin Scorsese
1943 Roy Andersson / David Cronenberg / Mike Leigh / Terrence Malick / Michael Mann / Alan Rudolph
1944 Charles Burnett / Jonathan Demme / George Lucas / Peter Weir
1945 Terence Davies / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / George Miller / Wim Wenders
1946 Joe Dante / Claire Denis / David Lynch / Paul Schrader / Oliver Stone / John Woo
1947 Hou Hsiao-hsien / Takeshi Kitano / Rob Reiner / Steven Spielberg / Edward Yang
1948 John Carpenter / Philippe Garrel / Errol Morris
1949 Pedro Almodóvar
1950 Chantal Akerman / John Landis / John Sayles / Tsui Hark
1951 Kathryn Bigelow / Jean-Pierre Dardenne / Abel Ferrara / Aleksandr Sokurov / Robert Zemeckis / Zhang Yimou
1952 Jacques Audiard / Gus Van Sant
1953 Jim Jarmusch
1954 James Cameron / Jane Campion / Joel Coen / Luc Dardenne / Ang Lee / Lee Chang-dong / Michael Moore
1955 Olivier Assayas / Béla Tarr / Johnnie To
1956 Danny Boyle / Guy Maddin / Lars von Trier / Wong Kar-wai
1957 Ethan Coen / Aki Kaurismäki / Spike Lee / Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Tsai Ming-liang
1958 Tim Burton
1959 Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Pedro Costa / Hal Hartley / Sam Raimi
1960 Leos Carax / Atom Egoyan / Hong Sang-soo / Richard Linklater / Takashi Miike / Jafar Panahi
1961 Alfonso Cuarón / Todd Haynes / Peter Jackson / Alexander Payne / Abderrahmane Sissako / Michael Winterbottom
1962 David Fincher / Hirokazu Koreeda / Kenneth Lonergan
1963 Michel Gondry / Alejandro González Iñárritu / Park Chan-wook / Steven Soderbergh / Quentin Tarantino
1964 Guillermo del Toro / Kelly Reichardt / Andrey Zvyagintsev
1965 Jonathan Glazer
1966 Lucrecia Martel
1967 François Ozon / Denis Villeneuve
1969 Wes Anderson / Darren Aronofsky / Noah Baumbach / Bong Joon-ho / James Gray / Spike Jonze / Steve McQueen / Lynne Ramsay
1970 Paul Thomas Anderson / Jia Zhangke / Christopher Nolan / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
1971 Sofia Coppola / Carlos Reygadas
1974 Edgar Wright
1976 Maren Ade
1980 Céline Sciamma
Directors listed by key production country

(Country of birth, if it differs, is listed in brackets)

Argentina Lucrecia Martel
Australia Jane Campion (New Zealand) / George Miller
Austria Michael Haneke (Germany)
Belgium Chantal Akerman / Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Brazil Glauber Rocha
Canada David Cronenberg / Atom Egoyan (Egypt) / Guy Maddin / Michael Snow / Denis Villeneuve
China Jia Zhangke / Zhang Yimou
Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer / Lars von Trier
Finland Aki Kaurismäki
France Olivier Assayas / Jacques Audiard / Jacques Becker / Robert Bresson / Leos Carax / Marcel Carné / Claude Chabrol / René Clair / Henri-Georges Clouzot / Jean Cocteau / Jacques Demy / Claire Denis / Julien Duvivier / Georges Franju / Abel Gance / Philippe Garrel / Jean-Luc Godard / Sacha Guitry (Russia) / Patricio Guzmán (Chile) / Claude Lanzmann / Louis Malle / Chris Marker / Georges Méliès / Jean-Pierre Melville / Max Ophüls (Germany) / François Ozon / Maurice Pialat / Roman Polanski / Jean Renoir / Alain Resnais / Jacques Rivette / Eric Rohmer / Raúl Ruiz (Chile) / Céline Sciamma / Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet / Jacques Tati / Bertrand Tavernier / François Truffaut / Agnès Varda (Belgium) / Jean Vigo
Germany / West Germany Maren Ade / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Werner Herzog / F.W. Murnau / G.W. Pabst (Austria-Hungary) / Wim Wenders
Greece Theo Angelopoulos
Hong Kong Wong Kar-wai (China) / Johnnie To / Tsui Hark (Vietnam) / John Woo (China)
Hungary Miklós Jancsó / Béla Tarr
India Satyajit Ray
Iran Abbas Kiarostami / Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Jafar Panahi
Italy Michelangelo Antonioni / Dario Argento / Mario Bava / Marco Bellocchio / Bernardo Bertolucci / Vittorio De Sica / Federico Fellini / Sergio Leone / Ermanno Olmi / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Roberto Rossellini / Luchino Visconti
Japan Kinji Fukasaku / Shohei Imamura / Takeshi Kitano / Hirokazu Koreeda / Akira Kurosawa / Takashi Miike / Hayao Miyazaki / Kenji Mizoguchi / Mikio Naruse / Nagisa Oshima / Yasujiro Ozu / Seijun Suzuki
Mauritania Abderrahmane Sissako
Mexico Luis Buñuel (Spain) / Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chile) / Carlos Reygadas
New Zealand Peter Jackson
Poland Krzysztof Kieslowski / Andrzej Wajda
Portugal Pedro Costa / Manoel de Oliveira
Russia / USSR Boris Barnet / Sergei Eisenstein (Latvia) / Aleksandr Sokurov / Andrei Tarkovsky / Dziga Vertov (Poland) / Andrey Zvyagintsev
Senegal Ousmane Sembene
South Korea Bong Joon-ho / Hong Sang-soo / Lee Chang-dong / Park Chan-wook
Spain Pedro Almodóvar / Victor Erice / Luis García Berlanga / Carlos Saura
Sweden Roy Andersson / Ingmar Bergman / Victor Sjöström
Taiwan Hou Hsiao-hsien (China) / Tsai Ming-liang (Malaysia) / Edward Yang (China)
Thailand Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Turkey Nuri Bilge Ceylan
UK John Boorman / Danny Boyle / Terence Davies / Terence Fisher / Stephen Frears / Jonathan Glazer / Peter Greenaway / David Lean / Mike Leigh / Ken Loach / Joseph Losey (USA) / Alexander Mackendrick (USA) / Steve McQueen / Michael Powell / Michael Powell (UK) & Emeric Pressburger (Hungary) / Lynne Ramsay / Carol Reed / Nicolas Roeg / Ken Russell / Michael Winterbottom / Edgar Wright
USA (A-B) Robert Aldrich / Woody Allen / Robert Altman / Paul Thomas Anderson / Wes Anderson / Kenneth Anger / Jack Arnold / Darren Aronofsky / Hal Ashby / Tex Avery / Noah Baumbach / Kathryn Bigelow / Budd Boetticher / Peter Bogdanovich / Frank Borzage / Stan Brakhage / Clarence Brown / Tod Browning / Charles Burnett / Tim Burton
USA (C-D) James Cameron (Canada) / Frank Capra (Italy) / John Carpenter / John Cassavetes / William Castle / Charles Chaplin (UK) / Joel Coen & Ethan Coen / Francis Ford Coppola / Sofia Coppola / Roger Corman / Wes Craven / John Cromwell / Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico) / George Cukor / Michael Curtiz (Hungary) / Joe Dante / Jules Dassin / Delmer Daves / Brian De Palma / André de Toth (Hungary) / Guillermo del Toro (Mexico) / Cecil B. DeMille / Jonathan Demme / Maya Deren (Ukraine) / William Dieterle (Germany) / Edward Dmytryk (Canada) / Stanley Donen / Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly / Allan Dwan (Canada)
USA (E-G) Clint Eastwood / Blake Edwards / Abel Ferrara / David Fincher / Robert Flaherty / Richard Fleischer / Victor Fleming / John Ford / Milos Forman (Czechoslovakia) / Hollis Frampton / John Frankenheimer / William Friedkin / Samuel Fuller / Terry Gilliam / Michel Gondry (France) / Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico) / D.W. Griffith / James Gray
USA (H-L) Hal Hartley / Henry Hathaway / Howard Hawks / Todd Haynes / Monte Hellman / Walter Hill / Alfred Hitchcock (UK) / John Huston / Jim Jarmusch / Chuck Jones / Spike Jonze / Phil Karlson / Elia Kazan (Turkey) / Buster Keaton / Henry King / Stanley Kubrick / John Landis / Fritz Lang (Austria) / Ang Lee (Taiwan) / Spike Lee / Mitchell Leisen / Mervyn LeRoy / Jerry Lewis / Joseph H. Lewis / Richard Linklater / Kenneth Lonergan / Ernst Lubitsch (Germany) / George Lucas / Sidney Lumet / David Lynch
USA (M-R) Terrence Malick / Rouben Mamoulian (Georgia) / Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Anthony Mann / Michael Mann / Leo McCarey / Jonas Mekas (Lithuania) / Lewis Milestone (Moldova) / Vincente Minnelli / Michael Moore / Errol Morris / Mike Nichols (Germany) / Christopher Nolan (UK) / Alexander Payne / Sam Peckinpah / Arthur Penn / Sydney Pollack / Otto Preminger (Austria-Hungary) / Sam Raimi / Bob Rafelson / Nicholas Ray / Kelly Reichardt / Rob Reiner / Mark Robson (Canada) / George A. Romero / Alan Rudolph
USA (S-U) John Sayles / Paul Schrader / Martin Scorsese / Ridley Scott (UK) / George Sidney / Don Siegel / Robert Siodmak (Germany) / Douglas Sirk (Germany) / Steven Soderbergh / Steven Spielberg / George Stevens / Oliver Stone / John Sturges / Preston Sturges / Quentin Tarantino / Frank Tashlin / Jacques Tourneur (France) / Edgar G. Ulmer (Austria-Hungary)
USA (V-Z) Gus Van Sant / Paul Verhoeven (Netherlands) / King Vidor / Josef von Sternberg (Austria) / Erich von Stroheim (Austria) / Raoul Walsh / Andy Warhol / Peter Weir (Australia) / Orson Welles / William Wellman / James Whale (UK) / Billy Wilder (Austria-Hungary) / Robert Wise / Frederick Wiseman / William Wyler (Germany) / Robert Zemeckis / Fred Zinnemann (Austria-HungaryJonas Mekas)