TSPDT’S current director pages are listed below. They have been grouped alphabetically, chronologically (by year of director’s birth), and by key production country. There will be more to come.
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Directors: Listed Chronologically (by Year of Birth)
1861 Georges Méliès
1873 Louis Feuillade / Alice Guy-Blaché / Robert Wiene
1875 D.W. Griffith
1879 Victor Sjöström
1880 Tod Browning
1881 Cecil B. DeMille
1884 Robert J. Flaherty
1885 Allan Dwan / Sacha Guitry / G.W. Pabst / Erich von Stroheim
1886 John Cromwell / Michael Curtiz / Henry King / John M. Stahl
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 John Brahm / William Dieterle
1894 Frank Borzage / Alexander Dovzhenko / John Ford / Jean Renoir / King Vidor / Josef von Sternberg
1895 Buster Keaton / Lewis Milestone
1896 Julien Duvivier / Howard Hawks / Leo McCarey / Dziga Vertov / William A. Wellman
1897 Dorothy Arzner / Frank Capra / Jean Epstein / Rouben Mamoulian / Douglas Sirk
1898 René Clair / Sergei Eisenstein / Henry Hathaway / Mitchell Leisen / Kenji Mizoguchi / Preston Sturges / Tomu Uchida
1899 George Cukor / Alfred Hitchcock
1900 Luis Buñuel / Mervyn LeRoy / Robert Siodmak
1901 Robert Bresson / Vittorio De Sica
1902 Boris Barnet / Max Ophüls / Emeric Pressburger / William Wyler
1903 Mikhail Kalatozov / Vincente Minnelli / Yasujiro Ozu / Hiroshi Shimizu
1904 Delmer Daves / John Farrow / Terence Fisher / George Stevens / Jacques Tourneur / Edgar G. Ulmer
1905 Mikio Naruse / Michael Powell / Otto Preminger / Jean Vigo
1906 Jacques Becker / Marcel Carné / Fei Mu / 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 / Robert Rossen
1909 Elia Kazan / Joseph Losey / Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1910 Akira Kurosawa / John Sturges
1911 Jules Dassin / Basil Dearden / Robert Hamer / Nicholas Ray / Charles Walters
1912 Michelangelo Antonioni / Richard Brooks / 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 / Marguerite Duras / Cy Endfield / Robert Wise
1915 Kon Ichikawa / Orson Welles
1916 Jack Arnold / Budd Boetticher / Richard Fleischer / Masaki Kobayashi / George Sidney
1917 Maya Deren / Jean-Pierre Melville / Jean Rouch
1918 Robert Aldrich / Ingmar Bergman / Ida Lupino
1919 Gillo Pontecorvo
1920 Federico Fellini / Richard Quine / Eric Rohmer
1921 Luis García Berlanga / George Roy Hill / Miklós Jancsó / Chris Marker / Satyajit Ray
1922 Blake Edwards / Jonas Mekas / Russ Meyer / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Arthur Penn / Alain Resnais / Francesco Rosi
1923 Lindsay Anderson / Chang Cheh / Ousmane Sembene / Seijun Suzuki
1924 Stanley Donen / Sidney Lumet / Yasuzo Masumura / Sergei Parajanov / Claude Sautet
1925 Robert Altman / Guru Dutt / Ritwik Ghatak / Claude Lanzmann / Sam Peckinpah / Maurice Pialat
1926 Mel Brooks / Youssef Chahine / Roger Corman / Shohei Imamura / Norman Jewison / Jerry Lewis / Albert Maysles / John Schlesinger / Andrzej Wajda
1927 Kenneth Anger / Bob Fosse / Ken Russell
1928 Marco Ferreri / Tomás Gutiérrez Alea / James Ivory / Stanley Kubrick / Alan J. Pakula / Nelson Pereira dos Santos / Tony Richardson / Jacques Rivette / Nicolas Roeg / Michael Snow / Agnès Varda / Andy Warhol
1929 Hal Ashby / John Cassavetes / Věra Chytilová / Monte Hellman / Alejandro Jodorowsky / Sergio Leone
1930 Claude Chabrol / Richard Donner / Clint Eastwood / John Frankenheimer / Kinji Fukasaku / Jean-Luc Godard / Frederick Wiseman
1931 Jacques Demy / David Maysles / Mike Nichols / Ermanno Olmi
1932 Milos Forman / King Hu / Richard Lester / Dušan Makavejev / Louis Malle / Elaine May / Nagisa Oshima / Carlos Saura / Andrei Tarkovsky / François Truffaut
1933 John Boorman / Stan Brakhage / Ken Jacobs / Elem Klimov / Roman Polanski / Bob Rafelson / Jean-Marie Straub
1934 Kira Muratova / Sydney Pollack / Jan Švankmajer
1935 Woody Allen / Theo Angelopoulos / Isao Takahata / Peter Watkins
1936 Hollis Frampton / Danièle Huillet / Ken Loach
1937 Ridley Scott
1938 Jean Eustache / Aleksei German / Larisa Shepitko / Jerzy Skolimowski / Paul Verhoeven
1939 Marco Bellocchio / Peter Bogdanovich / Michael Cimino / Francis Ford Coppola / Wes Craven / William Friedkin / Glauber Rocha
1940 Dario Argento / Brian De Palma / Víctor Erice / Terry Gilliam / Abbas Kiarostami / George A. Romero / Andrzej Żuławski
1941 Bernardo Bertolucci / Stephen Frears / Patricio Guzmán / Krzysztof Kieslowski / Hayao Miyazaki / Raúl Ruiz / Bertrand Tavernier
1942 James Benning / Peter Greenaway / Michael Haneke / Werner Herzog / Walter Hill / Derek Jarman / Martin Scorsese
1943 Roy Andersson / David Cronenberg / Tobe Hooper / Mike Leigh / Terrence Malick / Michael Mann / Alan Rudolph
1944 Charles Burnett / Jonathan Demme / George Lucas / Alan Parker / Tony Scott / Peter Weir
1945 Terence Davies / Djibril Diop Mambéty / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / George Miller / Wim Wenders
1946 Joe Dante / Claire Denis / David Lynch / Paul Schrader / Oliver Stone / John Waters / John Woo
1947 Albert Brooks / Hou Hsiao-hsien / Ann Hui / Takeshi Kitano / David Mamet / Rob Reiner / Steven Spielberg / Edward Yang
1948 Catherine Breillat / John Carpenter / Philippe Garrel / Errol Morris
1949 Pedro Almodóvar
1950 Chantal Akerman / John Hughes / John Landis / John Sayles / Tsui Hark
1951 Kathryn Bigelow / Jean-Pierre Dardenne / Abel Ferrara / Aleksandr Sokurov / Robert Zemeckis / Zhang Yimou
1952 Jacques Audiard / Chen Kaige / Gus Van Sant
1953 Jim Jarmusch / Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Nanni Moretti / Raoul Peck
1954 James Cameron / Jane Campion / Joel Coen / Luc Dardenne / Ron Howard / Emir Kusturica / Ang Lee / Lee Chang-dong / Michael Moore
1955 Olivier Assayas / Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Béla Tarr / Johnnie To
1956 Danny Boyle / Guy Maddin / Giuseppe Tornatore / Lars von Trier / Wong Kar-wai
1957 Ethan Coen / Aki Kaurismäki / Spike Lee / Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Tsai Ming-liang
1958 Tim Burton / Lav Diaz / Bruno Dumont
1959 Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Pedro Costa / Hal Hartley / Sam Raimi / Todd Solondz
1960 Leos Carax / Atom Egoyan / Joanna Hogg / Hong Sang-soo / Kim Ki-duk / Richard Linklater / Takashi Miike / Jafar Panahi / Christian Petzold
1961 Andrea Arnold / 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 / Gaspar Noé / Park Chan-wook / Steven Soderbergh / Quentin Tarantino
1964 Guillermo del Toro / Kelly Reichardt / Andrey Zvyagintsev
1965 Jonathan Glazer / Lana Wachowski
1966 Lucrecia Martel
1967 François Ozon / Cristi Puiu / Denis Villeneuve / Lilly Wachowski / Wang Bing
1968 Pete Docter
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 / M. Night Shyamalan / Paolo Sorrentino / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
1971 Sofia Coppola / Luca Guadagnino / Carlos Reygadas
1972 Asghar Farhadi / Miguel Gomes
1973 Yorgos Lanthimos
1974 Edgar Wright
1976 Maren Ade
1977 Radu Jude
1978 Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Céline Sciamma
1979 Barry Jenkins / Jordan Peele
1981 Mia Hansen-Løve / Alice Rohrwacher
1873 Louis Feuillade / Alice Guy-Blaché / Robert Wiene
1875 D.W. Griffith
1879 Victor Sjöström
1880 Tod Browning
1881 Cecil B. DeMille
1884 Robert J. Flaherty
1885 Allan Dwan / Sacha Guitry / G.W. Pabst / Erich von Stroheim
1886 John Cromwell / Michael Curtiz / Henry King / John M. Stahl
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 John Brahm / William Dieterle
1894 Frank Borzage / Alexander Dovzhenko / John Ford / Jean Renoir / King Vidor / Josef von Sternberg
1895 Buster Keaton / Lewis Milestone
1896 Julien Duvivier / Howard Hawks / Leo McCarey / Dziga Vertov / William A. Wellman
1897 Dorothy Arzner / Frank Capra / Jean Epstein / Rouben Mamoulian / Douglas Sirk
1898 René Clair / Sergei Eisenstein / Henry Hathaway / Mitchell Leisen / Kenji Mizoguchi / Preston Sturges / Tomu Uchida
1899 George Cukor / Alfred Hitchcock
1900 Luis Buñuel / Mervyn LeRoy / Robert Siodmak
1901 Robert Bresson / Vittorio De Sica
1902 Boris Barnet / Max Ophüls / Emeric Pressburger / William Wyler
1903 Mikhail Kalatozov / Vincente Minnelli / Yasujiro Ozu / Hiroshi Shimizu
1904 Delmer Daves / John Farrow / Terence Fisher / George Stevens / Jacques Tourneur / Edgar G. Ulmer
1905 Mikio Naruse / Michael Powell / Otto Preminger / Jean Vigo
1906 Jacques Becker / Marcel Carné / Fei Mu / 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 / Robert Rossen
1909 Elia Kazan / Joseph Losey / Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1910 Akira Kurosawa / John Sturges
1911 Jules Dassin / Basil Dearden / Robert Hamer / Nicholas Ray / Charles Walters
1912 Michelangelo Antonioni / Richard Brooks / 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 / Marguerite Duras / Cy Endfield / Robert Wise
1915 Kon Ichikawa / Orson Welles
1916 Jack Arnold / Budd Boetticher / Richard Fleischer / Masaki Kobayashi / George Sidney
1917 Maya Deren / Jean-Pierre Melville / Jean Rouch
1918 Robert Aldrich / Ingmar Bergman / Ida Lupino
1919 Gillo Pontecorvo
1920 Federico Fellini / Richard Quine / Eric Rohmer
1921 Luis García Berlanga / George Roy Hill / Miklós Jancsó / Chris Marker / Satyajit Ray
1922 Blake Edwards / Jonas Mekas / Russ Meyer / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Arthur Penn / Alain Resnais / Francesco Rosi
1923 Lindsay Anderson / Chang Cheh / Ousmane Sembene / Seijun Suzuki
1924 Stanley Donen / Sidney Lumet / Yasuzo Masumura / Sergei Parajanov / Claude Sautet
1925 Robert Altman / Guru Dutt / Ritwik Ghatak / Claude Lanzmann / Sam Peckinpah / Maurice Pialat
1926 Mel Brooks / Youssef Chahine / Roger Corman / Shohei Imamura / Norman Jewison / Jerry Lewis / Albert Maysles / John Schlesinger / Andrzej Wajda
1927 Kenneth Anger / Bob Fosse / Ken Russell
1928 Marco Ferreri / Tomás Gutiérrez Alea / James Ivory / Stanley Kubrick / Alan J. Pakula / Nelson Pereira dos Santos / Tony Richardson / Jacques Rivette / Nicolas Roeg / Michael Snow / Agnès Varda / Andy Warhol
1929 Hal Ashby / John Cassavetes / Věra Chytilová / Monte Hellman / Alejandro Jodorowsky / Sergio Leone
1930 Claude Chabrol / Richard Donner / Clint Eastwood / John Frankenheimer / Kinji Fukasaku / Jean-Luc Godard / Frederick Wiseman
1931 Jacques Demy / David Maysles / Mike Nichols / Ermanno Olmi
1932 Milos Forman / King Hu / Richard Lester / Dušan Makavejev / Louis Malle / Elaine May / Nagisa Oshima / Carlos Saura / Andrei Tarkovsky / François Truffaut
1933 John Boorman / Stan Brakhage / Ken Jacobs / Elem Klimov / Roman Polanski / Bob Rafelson / Jean-Marie Straub
1934 Kira Muratova / Sydney Pollack / Jan Švankmajer
1935 Woody Allen / Theo Angelopoulos / Isao Takahata / Peter Watkins
1936 Hollis Frampton / Danièle Huillet / Ken Loach
1937 Ridley Scott
1938 Jean Eustache / Aleksei German / Larisa Shepitko / Jerzy Skolimowski / Paul Verhoeven
1939 Marco Bellocchio / Peter Bogdanovich / Michael Cimino / Francis Ford Coppola / Wes Craven / William Friedkin / Glauber Rocha
1940 Dario Argento / Brian De Palma / Víctor Erice / Terry Gilliam / Abbas Kiarostami / George A. Romero / Andrzej Żuławski
1941 Bernardo Bertolucci / Stephen Frears / Patricio Guzmán / Krzysztof Kieslowski / Hayao Miyazaki / Raúl Ruiz / Bertrand Tavernier
1942 James Benning / Peter Greenaway / Michael Haneke / Werner Herzog / Walter Hill / Derek Jarman / Martin Scorsese
1943 Roy Andersson / David Cronenberg / Tobe Hooper / Mike Leigh / Terrence Malick / Michael Mann / Alan Rudolph
1944 Charles Burnett / Jonathan Demme / George Lucas / Alan Parker / Tony Scott / Peter Weir
1945 Terence Davies / Djibril Diop Mambéty / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / George Miller / Wim Wenders
1946 Joe Dante / Claire Denis / David Lynch / Paul Schrader / Oliver Stone / John Waters / John Woo
1947 Albert Brooks / Hou Hsiao-hsien / Ann Hui / Takeshi Kitano / David Mamet / Rob Reiner / Steven Spielberg / Edward Yang
1948 Catherine Breillat / John Carpenter / Philippe Garrel / Errol Morris
1949 Pedro Almodóvar
1950 Chantal Akerman / John Hughes / John Landis / John Sayles / Tsui Hark
1951 Kathryn Bigelow / Jean-Pierre Dardenne / Abel Ferrara / Aleksandr Sokurov / Robert Zemeckis / Zhang Yimou
1952 Jacques Audiard / Chen Kaige / Gus Van Sant
1953 Jim Jarmusch / Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Nanni Moretti / Raoul Peck
1954 James Cameron / Jane Campion / Joel Coen / Luc Dardenne / Ron Howard / Emir Kusturica / Ang Lee / Lee Chang-dong / Michael Moore
1955 Olivier Assayas / Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Béla Tarr / Johnnie To
1956 Danny Boyle / Guy Maddin / Giuseppe Tornatore / Lars von Trier / Wong Kar-wai
1957 Ethan Coen / Aki Kaurismäki / Spike Lee / Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Tsai Ming-liang
1958 Tim Burton / Lav Diaz / Bruno Dumont
1959 Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Pedro Costa / Hal Hartley / Sam Raimi / Todd Solondz
1960 Leos Carax / Atom Egoyan / Joanna Hogg / Hong Sang-soo / Kim Ki-duk / Richard Linklater / Takashi Miike / Jafar Panahi / Christian Petzold
1961 Andrea Arnold / 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 / Gaspar Noé / Park Chan-wook / Steven Soderbergh / Quentin Tarantino
1964 Guillermo del Toro / Kelly Reichardt / Andrey Zvyagintsev
1965 Jonathan Glazer / Lana Wachowski
1966 Lucrecia Martel
1967 François Ozon / Cristi Puiu / Denis Villeneuve / Lilly Wachowski / Wang Bing
1968 Pete Docter
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 / M. Night Shyamalan / Paolo Sorrentino / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
1971 Sofia Coppola / Luca Guadagnino / Carlos Reygadas
1972 Asghar Farhadi / Miguel Gomes
1973 Yorgos Lanthimos
1974 Edgar Wright
1976 Maren Ade
1977 Radu Jude
1978 Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Céline Sciamma
1979 Barry Jenkins / Jordan Peele
1981 Mia Hansen-Løve / Alice Rohrwacher
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 Nelson Pereira dos Santos / Glauber Rocha
Canada David Cronenberg / Atom Egoyan (Egypt) / Guy Maddin / Michael Snow / Denis Villeneuve
Chile Patricio Guzmán
China Chen Kaige / Fei Mu / Jia Zhangke / Zhang Yimou
Cuba Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Czechoslovakia Věra Chytilová / Jan Švankmajer
Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer / Lars von Trier
Egypt Youssef Chahine
Finland Aki Kaurismäki
France Olivier Assayas / Jacques Audiard / Jacques Becker / Catherine Breillat / Robert Bresson / Leos Carax / Marcel Carné / Claude Chabrol / René Clair / Henri-Georges Clouzot / Jean Cocteau / Jacques Demy / Claire Denis / Bruno Dumont / Marguerite Duras (Vietnam) / Julien Duvivier / Jean Epstein (Poland) / Jean Eustache / Louis Feuillade / Georges Franju / Abel Gance / Philippe Garrel / Jean-Luc Godard / Sacha Guitry (Russia) / Mia Hansen-Løve / Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Claude Lanzmann / Louis Malle / Chris Marker / Georges Méliès / Jean-Pierre Melville / Gaspar Noé (Argentina) / Max Ophüls (Germany) / François Ozon / Raoul Peck (Haiti) / Maurice Pialat / Roman Polanski / Jean Renoir / Alain Resnais / Jacques Rivette / Eric Rohmer / Jean Rouch / Raúl Ruiz (Chile) / Claude Sautet / Céline Sciamma / Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet / Jacques Tati / Bertrand Tavernier / François Truffaut / Agnès Varda (Belgium) / Jean Vigo / Wang Bing (China) / Andrzej Żuławski (Poland)
Germany-West Germany Maren Ade / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Werner Herzog / F.W. Murnau / G.W. Pabst (Austria-Hungary) / Christian Petzold / Wim Wenders / Robert Wiene (Poland)
Greece Theo Angelopoulos
Hong Kong Chang Cheh (China) / King Hu (China) / Ann Hui (China) / Johnnie To / Tsui Hark (Vietnam) / Wong Kar-wai (China) / John Woo (China)
Hungary Miklós Jancsó / Béla Tarr
India Guru Dutt / Ritwik Ghatak (Bangladesh) / Satyajit Ray
Iran Asghar Farhadi / Abbas Kiarostami / Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Jafar Panahi
Italy Michelangelo Antonioni / Dario Argento / Mario Bava / Marco Bellocchio / Bernardo Bertolucci / Vittorio De Sica / Federico Fellini / Marco Ferreri / Luca Guadagnino / Sergio Leone / Nanni Moretti / Ermanno Olmi / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Gillo Pontecorvo / Alice Rohrwacher / Francesco Rosi / Roberto Rossellini / Paolo Sorrentino / Giuseppe Tornatore / Luchino Visconti
Japan Kinji Fukasaku / Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Kon Ichikawa / Shohei Imamura / Takeshi Kitano / Masaki Kobayashi / Hirokazu Koreeda / Akira Kurosawa / Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Yasuzo Masumura / Takashi Miike / Hayao Miyazaki / Kenji Mizoguchi / Mikio Naruse / Nagisa Oshima / Yasujiro Ozu / Hiroshi Shimizu / Seijun Suzuki / Isao Takahata / Tomu Uchida
Mauritania Abderrahmane Sissako
Mexico Luis Buñuel (Spain) / Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chile) / Carlos Reygadas
New Zealand Peter Jackson
Philippines Lav Diaz
Poland Krzysztof Kieslowski / Jerzy Skolimowski / Andrzej Wajda
Portugal Pedro Costa / Miguel Gomes / Manoel de Oliveira
Romania Radu Jude / Cristi Puiu
Russia-USSR Boris Barnet / Alexander Dovzhenko (Ukraine) / Sergei Eisenstein (Latvia) / Aleksei German / Mikhail Kalatozov (Georgia) / Elem Klimov / Sergei Parajanov (Georgia) / Larisa Shepitko (Ukraine) / Aleksandr Sokurov / Andrei Tarkovsky / Dziga Vertov (Poland) / Andrey Zvyagintsev
Senegal Djibril Diop Mambéty / Ousmane Sembene
South Korea Bong Joon-ho / Hong Sang-soo / Kim Ki-duk / Lee Chang-dong / Park Chan-wook
Spain Pedro Almodóvar / Víctor 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 Lindsay Anderson (India) / Andrea Arnold / John Boorman / Danny Boyle / Terence Davies / Basil Dearden / Cy Endfield (USA) / Terence Fisher / Stephen Frears / Jonathan Glazer / Peter Greenaway / Robert Hamer / Alfred Hitchcock / Joanna Hogg / Derek Jarman / Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece) / David Lean / Mike Leigh / Richard Lester (USA) / Ken Loach / Joseph Losey (USA) / Alexander Mackendrick (USA) / Steve McQueen / Michael Powell / Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (Hungary) / Lynne Ramsay / Carol Reed / Tony Richardson / Nicolas Roeg / Ken Russell / John Schlesinger / Peter Watkins / Michael Winterbottom / Edgar Wright
Ukraine Kira Muratova (Romania)
USA (A-B) Robert Aldrich / Woody Allen / Robert Altman / Paul Thomas Anderson / Wes Anderson / Kenneth Anger / Jack Arnold / Darren Aronofsky / Dorothy Arzner / Hal Ashby / Tex Avery / Noah Baumbach / James Benning / Kathryn Bigelow / Budd Boetticher / Peter Bogdanovich / Frank Borzage / John Brahm (Germany) / Stan Brakhage / Albert Brooks / Mel Brooks / Richard Brooks / 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) / Michael Cimino / 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) / Pete Docter / Stanley Donen / Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly / Richard Donner / Allan Dwan (Canada)
USA (E-G) Clint Eastwood / Blake Edwards / John Farrow (Australia) / Abel Ferrara / David Fincher / Robert J. Flaherty / Richard Fleischer / Victor Fleming / John Ford / Milos Forman (Czechoslovakia) / Bob Fosse / Hollis Frampton / John Frankenheimer / William Friedkin / Samuel Fuller / Terry Gilliam / Michel Gondry (France) / Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico) / James Gray / D.W. Griffith / Alice Guy-Blaché (France)
USA (H-L) Hal Hartley / Henry Hathaway / Howard Hawks / Todd Haynes / Monte Hellman / George Roy Hill / Walter Hill / Tobe Hooper / Ron Howard / John Hughes / John Huston / James Ivory / Ken Jacobs / Jim Jarmusch / Barry Jenkins / Norman Jewison (Canada) / 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 / Ida Lupino (England) / David Lynch
USA (M-R) Terrence Malick / David Mamet / Rouben Mamoulian (Georgia) / Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Anthony Mann / Michael Mann / Elaine May / Albert Maysles & David Maysles / Leo McCarey / Jonas Mekas (Lithuania) / Russ Meyer / Lewis Milestone (Moldova) / Vincente Minnelli / Michael Moore / Errol Morris / Mike Nichols (Germany) / Christopher Nolan (UK) / Alan J. Pakula / Alan Parker (UK) / Alexander Payne / Sam Peckinpah / Jordan Peele / Arthur Penn / Sydney Pollack / Otto Preminger (Austria-Hungary) / Richard Quine / Bob Rafelson / Sam Raimi / Nicholas Ray / Kelly Reichardt / Rob Reiner / Mark Robson (Canada) / George A. Romero / Robert Rossen / Alan Rudolph
USA (S-U) John Sayles / Paul Schrader / Martin Scorsese / Ridley Scott (UK) / Tony Scott (UK) / M. Night Shyamalan (India) / George Sidney / Don Siegel / Robert Siodmak (Germany) / Douglas Sirk (Germany) / Steven Soderbergh / Todd Solondz / Steven Spielberg / John M. Stahl (Azerbaijan) / 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) / Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski / Raoul Walsh / Charles Walters / Andy Warhol / John Waters / Peter Weir (Australia) / Orson Welles / William A. Wellman / James Whale (UK) / Billy Wilder (Austria-Hungary) / Robert Wise / Frederick Wiseman / William Wyler (Germany) / Robert Zemeckis / Fred Zinnemann (Austria-Hungary)
Yugoslavia Emir Kusturica (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Dušan Makavejev (Serbia)
Australia Jane Campion (New Zealand) / George Miller
Austria Michael Haneke (Germany)
Belgium Chantal Akerman / Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Brazil Nelson Pereira dos Santos / Glauber Rocha
Canada David Cronenberg / Atom Egoyan (Egypt) / Guy Maddin / Michael Snow / Denis Villeneuve
Chile Patricio Guzmán
China Chen Kaige / Fei Mu / Jia Zhangke / Zhang Yimou
Cuba Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Czechoslovakia Věra Chytilová / Jan Švankmajer
Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer / Lars von Trier
Egypt Youssef Chahine
Finland Aki Kaurismäki
France Olivier Assayas / Jacques Audiard / Jacques Becker / Catherine Breillat / Robert Bresson / Leos Carax / Marcel Carné / Claude Chabrol / René Clair / Henri-Georges Clouzot / Jean Cocteau / Jacques Demy / Claire Denis / Bruno Dumont / Marguerite Duras (Vietnam) / Julien Duvivier / Jean Epstein (Poland) / Jean Eustache / Louis Feuillade / Georges Franju / Abel Gance / Philippe Garrel / Jean-Luc Godard / Sacha Guitry (Russia) / Mia Hansen-Løve / Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Claude Lanzmann / Louis Malle / Chris Marker / Georges Méliès / Jean-Pierre Melville / Gaspar Noé (Argentina) / Max Ophüls (Germany) / François Ozon / Raoul Peck (Haiti) / Maurice Pialat / Roman Polanski / Jean Renoir / Alain Resnais / Jacques Rivette / Eric Rohmer / Jean Rouch / Raúl Ruiz (Chile) / Claude Sautet / Céline Sciamma / Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet / Jacques Tati / Bertrand Tavernier / François Truffaut / Agnès Varda (Belgium) / Jean Vigo / Wang Bing (China) / Andrzej Żuławski (Poland)
Germany-West Germany Maren Ade / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Werner Herzog / F.W. Murnau / G.W. Pabst (Austria-Hungary) / Christian Petzold / Wim Wenders / Robert Wiene (Poland)
Greece Theo Angelopoulos
Hong Kong Chang Cheh (China) / King Hu (China) / Ann Hui (China) / Johnnie To / Tsui Hark (Vietnam) / Wong Kar-wai (China) / John Woo (China)
Hungary Miklós Jancsó / Béla Tarr
India Guru Dutt / Ritwik Ghatak (Bangladesh) / Satyajit Ray
Iran Asghar Farhadi / Abbas Kiarostami / Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Jafar Panahi
Italy Michelangelo Antonioni / Dario Argento / Mario Bava / Marco Bellocchio / Bernardo Bertolucci / Vittorio De Sica / Federico Fellini / Marco Ferreri / Luca Guadagnino / Sergio Leone / Nanni Moretti / Ermanno Olmi / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Gillo Pontecorvo / Alice Rohrwacher / Francesco Rosi / Roberto Rossellini / Paolo Sorrentino / Giuseppe Tornatore / Luchino Visconti
Japan Kinji Fukasaku / Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Kon Ichikawa / Shohei Imamura / Takeshi Kitano / Masaki Kobayashi / Hirokazu Koreeda / Akira Kurosawa / Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Yasuzo Masumura / Takashi Miike / Hayao Miyazaki / Kenji Mizoguchi / Mikio Naruse / Nagisa Oshima / Yasujiro Ozu / Hiroshi Shimizu / Seijun Suzuki / Isao Takahata / Tomu Uchida
Mauritania Abderrahmane Sissako
Mexico Luis Buñuel (Spain) / Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chile) / Carlos Reygadas
New Zealand Peter Jackson
Philippines Lav Diaz
Poland Krzysztof Kieslowski / Jerzy Skolimowski / Andrzej Wajda
Portugal Pedro Costa / Miguel Gomes / Manoel de Oliveira
Romania Radu Jude / Cristi Puiu
Russia-USSR Boris Barnet / Alexander Dovzhenko (Ukraine) / Sergei Eisenstein (Latvia) / Aleksei German / Mikhail Kalatozov (Georgia) / Elem Klimov / Sergei Parajanov (Georgia) / Larisa Shepitko (Ukraine) / Aleksandr Sokurov / Andrei Tarkovsky / Dziga Vertov (Poland) / Andrey Zvyagintsev
Senegal Djibril Diop Mambéty / Ousmane Sembene
South Korea Bong Joon-ho / Hong Sang-soo / Kim Ki-duk / Lee Chang-dong / Park Chan-wook
Spain Pedro Almodóvar / Víctor 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 Lindsay Anderson (India) / Andrea Arnold / John Boorman / Danny Boyle / Terence Davies / Basil Dearden / Cy Endfield (USA) / Terence Fisher / Stephen Frears / Jonathan Glazer / Peter Greenaway / Robert Hamer / Alfred Hitchcock / Joanna Hogg / Derek Jarman / Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece) / David Lean / Mike Leigh / Richard Lester (USA) / Ken Loach / Joseph Losey (USA) / Alexander Mackendrick (USA) / Steve McQueen / Michael Powell / Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (Hungary) / Lynne Ramsay / Carol Reed / Tony Richardson / Nicolas Roeg / Ken Russell / John Schlesinger / Peter Watkins / Michael Winterbottom / Edgar Wright
Ukraine Kira Muratova (Romania)
USA (A-B) Robert Aldrich / Woody Allen / Robert Altman / Paul Thomas Anderson / Wes Anderson / Kenneth Anger / Jack Arnold / Darren Aronofsky / Dorothy Arzner / Hal Ashby / Tex Avery / Noah Baumbach / James Benning / Kathryn Bigelow / Budd Boetticher / Peter Bogdanovich / Frank Borzage / John Brahm (Germany) / Stan Brakhage / Albert Brooks / Mel Brooks / Richard Brooks / 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) / Michael Cimino / 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) / Pete Docter / Stanley Donen / Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly / Richard Donner / Allan Dwan (Canada)
USA (E-G) Clint Eastwood / Blake Edwards / John Farrow (Australia) / Abel Ferrara / David Fincher / Robert J. Flaherty / Richard Fleischer / Victor Fleming / John Ford / Milos Forman (Czechoslovakia) / Bob Fosse / Hollis Frampton / John Frankenheimer / William Friedkin / Samuel Fuller / Terry Gilliam / Michel Gondry (France) / Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico) / James Gray / D.W. Griffith / Alice Guy-Blaché (France)
USA (H-L) Hal Hartley / Henry Hathaway / Howard Hawks / Todd Haynes / Monte Hellman / George Roy Hill / Walter Hill / Tobe Hooper / Ron Howard / John Hughes / John Huston / James Ivory / Ken Jacobs / Jim Jarmusch / Barry Jenkins / Norman Jewison (Canada) / 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 / Ida Lupino (England) / David Lynch
USA (M-R) Terrence Malick / David Mamet / Rouben Mamoulian (Georgia) / Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Anthony Mann / Michael Mann / Elaine May / Albert Maysles & David Maysles / Leo McCarey / Jonas Mekas (Lithuania) / Russ Meyer / Lewis Milestone (Moldova) / Vincente Minnelli / Michael Moore / Errol Morris / Mike Nichols (Germany) / Christopher Nolan (UK) / Alan J. Pakula / Alan Parker (UK) / Alexander Payne / Sam Peckinpah / Jordan Peele / Arthur Penn / Sydney Pollack / Otto Preminger (Austria-Hungary) / Richard Quine / Bob Rafelson / Sam Raimi / Nicholas Ray / Kelly Reichardt / Rob Reiner / Mark Robson (Canada) / George A. Romero / Robert Rossen / Alan Rudolph
USA (S-U) John Sayles / Paul Schrader / Martin Scorsese / Ridley Scott (UK) / Tony Scott (UK) / M. Night Shyamalan (India) / George Sidney / Don Siegel / Robert Siodmak (Germany) / Douglas Sirk (Germany) / Steven Soderbergh / Todd Solondz / Steven Spielberg / John M. Stahl (Azerbaijan) / 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) / Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski / Raoul Walsh / Charles Walters / Andy Warhol / John Waters / Peter Weir (Australia) / Orson Welles / William A. Wellman / James Whale (UK) / Billy Wilder (Austria-Hungary) / Robert Wise / Frederick Wiseman / William Wyler (Germany) / Robert Zemeckis / Fred Zinnemann (Austria-Hungary)
Yugoslavia Emir Kusturica (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Dušan Makavejev (Serbia)