100 Greatest Movie Directors

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This list is a list of directors that have been judged by their originality and importance, as well as their ability to consistently make entertaining films and iconic pieces and cultural significance. -Bio.com Film Directors LeoMcCarey RobertWise JosephLMankiewicz IngmarBergman FrankCapra BlakeEdwards JohnFord GeorgeRoyHill HowardHawks FritzLang DavidLean EliaKazan GarsonKanin ChuckJones SidneyLumet SamPeckinpah MaxReinhardt PrestonSturges WilliamWyler BillyWilder FredZinneman LouisLumiere EdwinSPorter GeorgeStevens GeorgeCukor DWGriffith JohnHuston StanleyKubrick VincenteMinnelli VictorFleming AlfredHitchcock OttoPreminger FWMurnau OrsonWelles AkiroKurosawa DaltonTrumbo
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Alfred Hitchcock

Director | Psycho

Psycho

Stanley Kubrick

Director | 2001: A Space Odyssey

Dr. Strangelove

Akira Kurosawa

Writer | Kakushi-toride no san-akunin

Seven Samurai

Orson Welles

Actor | Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

Billy Wilder

Writer | The Apartment

Sunset Boulevard

Ingmar Bergman

Writer | Persona

Federico Fellini

Writer | Le notti di Cabiria

John Ford

Director | The Quiet Man

The Searchers

Frank Capra

Director | It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

Charles Chaplin

Writer | The Great Dictator

City Lights

David Lean

Director | Lawrence of Arabia

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Elia Kazan

Director | On the Waterfront

On the Waterfront

John Huston

Director | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The African Queen

Sidney Lumet

Director | 12 Angry Men

Network

D.W. Griffith

Director | Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

The Birth of a Nation

William Wyler

Director | The Best Years of Our Lives

Ben-Hur

Jean Renoir

Writer | La règle du jeu

George Cukor

Director | My Fair Lady

The Philadelphia Story

F.W. Murnau

Director | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Sunrise

Sam Peckinpah

Writer | The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch

Howard Hawks

Director | Rio Bravo

His Girl Friday

Jean Cocteau

Writer | La Belle et la Bête

Lois Weber

Director | Suspense

Hypocrites

Cecil B. DeMille

Producer | The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments

Edmund Goulding

Director | Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel

Yasujirô Ozu

Writer | Tôkyô monogatari

Buster Keaton

Actor | The General

Our Hospitality

George Roy Hill

Director | The Sting

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writer | All About Eve

All About Eve

Michael Curtiz

Director | Casablanca

Casablanca

Ernst Lubitsch

Director | To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be

Vincente Minnelli

Director | An American in Paris

An American in Paris

Ida Lupino

Actress | High Sierra

The Bigamist Replaces Harold Ramis

Robert Wise

Director | West Side Story

The Sound of Music

Blake Edwards

Writer | The Pink Panther Strikes Again

A Shot in the Dark Replaces John Carpenter

Fritz Lang

Actor | Le mépris

The Big Heat

William A. Wellman

Director | A Star Is Born

Wings Replaces Jean-Luc Godard

Otto Preminger

Director | Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder Replaces Arthur Penn

Mervyn LeRoy

Producer | The Wizard of Oz

Mister Roberts

Tod Browning

Director | The Unknown

Dracula Replaces Bernardo Bertolucci

James Whale

Director | The Invisible Man

Frankenstein Replaces Francois Truffaut

Stanley Kramer

Producer | Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgement at Nuremberg Replaces Terry Gilliam

Preston Sturges

Writer | Sullivan's Travels

Replaces Oliver Stone

Fred Zinnemann

Director | A Man for All Seasons

High Noon

George Stevens

Director | Giant

Giant Replaces John Schlesinger

Jules Dassin

Director | Du rififi chez les hommes

Brute Force

Clarence G. Badger

Director | Rangle River

It

Frank Borzage

Director | 7th Heaven

7th Heaven

Frank Lloyd

Director | Mutiny on the Bounty

Mutiny on the Bounty

Rex Ingram

Director | The Great Problem

Scaramouche

Ralph Ince

Director | Lincoln, the Lover

The Sea Wolf

Clarence Brown

Director | Anna Karenina

Anna Christie Replaces John Frankenheimer

Victor Fleming

Director | Gone with the Wind

Gone With the Wind

Edward Dmytryk

Director | The Caine Mutiny

The Caine Mutiny Replaces Michael Mann

Nicholas Ray

Director | Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause

King Vidor

Director | The Crowd

War and Peace Replaces Paul Thomas Anderson

Leo McCarey

Director | An Affair to Remember

An Affair to Remember Replaces Sergei Eisenstein

William Dieterle

Actor | Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage

The Life of Emile Zola Replaces Steven Soderbergh

Raoul Walsh

Director | The Roaring Twenties

White Heat Replaces Michael Cimino

Lewis Milestone

Director | All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

Garson Kanin

Writer | Pat and Mike

Adam's Rib

W.S. Van Dyke

Director | The Thin Man

The Thin Man

Harold F. Kress

Editor | The Towering Inferno

Mrs. Miniver

Harold S. Bucquet

Director | The Adventures of Tartu

Dragon Seed Replaces Roman Polanski

Sam Wood

Director | Goodbye, Mr. Chips

A Night at the Opera

Dorothy Arzner

Director | Christopher Strong

Dance Girl Dance

George Seaton

Writer | Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street

Steven Spielberg

Producer | Schindler's List

Schindler's List

Martin Scorsese

Director | Taxi Driver

Raging Bull

Francis Ford Coppola

Producer | Apocalypse Now

The Godfather

Sergio Leone

Writer | Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in the West

Ridley Scott

Producer | The Martian

Gladiator

Milos Forman

Director | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Bryan Singer

Director | X-Men

The Usual Suspects Replaces Luis Bunuel

Quentin Tarantino

Writer | Reservoir Dogs

Pulp Fiction

Anthony Minghella

Writer | The Talented Mr. Ripley

The English Patient Replaces Tim Burton

Christopher Nolan

Producer | Tenet

The Dark Knight trilogy Replaces Spike Lee

Robert Zemeckis

Writer | Back to the Future

Forrest Gump

Joel Coen

Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Fargo

Ethan Coen

Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Fargo

James Cameron

Writer | Avatar

Titanic

Clint Eastwood

Actor | Million Dollar Baby

Unforgiven

Jonathan Demme

Director | The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs

George Lucas

Writer | Star Wars

Star Wars

Sydney Pollack

Director | Tootsie

Tootsie

David Fincher

Director | Se7en

Seven

Norman Jewison

Director | Jesus Christ Superstar

In the Heat of the Night

Mike Nichols

Director | The Graduate

The Graduate

Peter Jackson

Producer | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings

Richard Attenborough

Actor | Jurassic Park

Gandhi Replaces Werner Herzog

Sam Mendes

Producer | 1917

American Beauty Replaces Rob Reiner

Pete Docter

Writer | Up

Toy Story Replaces Brian De Palma

Curtis Hanson

Director | L.A. Confidential

L.A. Confidential Replaces Kenneth Branagh

Peter Bogdanovich

Director | The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show Replaces Mel Brooks

Frank Darabont

Writer | The Shawshank Redemption

The Green Mile

Gus Van Sant

Director | Elephant

Drugstore Cowboy

Alan J. Pakula

Producer | Sophie's Choice

Sophie's Choice Replaces Pedro Almodovar

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Actor | Coney Island

The Moonshiners

David Lynch

Writer | Twin Peaks

Blue Velvet

Hal Needham

Director | Smokey and the Bandit

Smokey and the Bandit

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