"They Shoot Pictures": top 100 Directors
Submitted by kenji on Wed, 02/02/2005 - 12:34
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- 1 Orson Welles (1)
- 2 Alfred Hitchcock (2)
- 3 Federico Fellini (4)
- 4 Akira Kurosawa (3)
- 5 Jean-Luc Godard (5)
- 6 Jean Renoir (6)
- 7 John Ford (8)
- 8 Stanley Kubrick (7)
- 9 Ingmar Bergman (9)
- 10 Francis Ford Coppola (10)
- 11 Luis Buñuel (11)
- 12 Charles Chaplin (12)
- 13 Robert Bresson (13)
- 14 Kenji Mizoguchi (15)
- 15 Martin Scorsese (14)
- 16 Billy Wilder (16)
- 17 Yasujiro Ozu (23)
- 18 Carl Dreyer (17)
- 19 Sergei Eisenstein (20)
- 20 Fritz Lang (18)
- 21 François Truffaut (22)
- 22 Howard Hawks (21)
- 23 Andrei Tarkovsky (19)
- 24 F.W. Murnau (24)
- 25 Michelangelo Antonioni (25)
- 26 Satyajit Ray (29)
- 27 Buster Keaton (26)
- 28 Roberto Rossellini (27)
- 29 David Lean (28)
- 30 D.W. Griffith (31)
- 31 Luchino Visconti (30)
- 32 Vittorio De Sica (32)
- 33 John Huston (33)
- 34 Alain Resnais (36)
- 35 Max Ophuls (38)
- 36 Ernst Lubitsch (35)
- 37 Robert Altman (34)
- 38 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (39)
- 39 Bernardo Bertolucci (40)
- 40 Krszystof Kieslowski (42)
- 41 R.W. Fassbinder (45)
- 42 Steven Spielberg (37)
- 43 Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (41)
- 44 Woody Allen (46)
- 45 Frank Capra (48)
- 46 Roman Polanski (44)
- 47 Jean Vigo (50)
- 48 Pier Paolo Pasolini (49)
- 49 Stan Brakhage (52)
- 50 John Cassavetes (47)
- 51 David Lynch (43)
- 52 King Vidor (56)
- 53 Carol Reed (51)
- 54 Elia Kazan (62)
- 55 Marcel Carné (54)
- 56 Werner Herzog (55)
- 57 Leo McCarey (59)
- 58 Abbas Kiarostami (57)
- 59 Sam Peckinpah (58)
- 60 Vincente Minnelli (60)
- 61 Sergio Leone (61)
- 62 Douglas Sirk (65)
- 63 Joseph L. Mankiewicz (64)
- 64 Otto Preminger (70)
- 65 Nicholas Ray (68)
- 66 Jacques Tati (67)
- 67 Ridley Scott (53)
- 68 Josef Von Sternberg (69)
- 69 Michael Curtiz (63)
- 70 Preston Sturges (71)
- 71 Wim Wenders (66)
- 72 Eric Rohmer (72)
- 73 George Cukor (73)
- 74 Raoul Walsh (74)
- 75 Victor Fleming (76)
- 76 Shohei Imamura (81)
- 77 Chantal Akerman (79)
- 78 Jacques Rivette (77)
- 79 Sidney Lumet (78)
- 80 Jean-Pierre Melville (80)
- 81 Jacques Demy (82)
- 82 David Cronenberg (75)
- 83 Milos Forman (86)
- 84 William Wyler (84)
- 85 Nicolas Roeg (85)
- 86 Joel Coen (83)
- 87 Jacques Tourneur (90)
- 88 Andrzej Wajda (88)
- 89 Erich Von Stroheim (87)
- 90 Wong Kar-Wai (92)
- 91 Jean Cocteau (91)
- 92 Theo Angelopoulos (95)
- 93 Arthur Penn (--)
- 94 Francesco Rosi (97)
- 95 Louis Malle (96)
- 96 Anthony Mann (93)
- 97 Hou Hsiao-Hsien (--)
- 98 George Stevens (--)
- 99 H.G. Clouzot (98)
- 100 Ritwik Ghatak (--)
"They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?" website has ongoing lists of the top directors and 1,000 films according to a range of international polls since the late 80's (which obviously disadvantges recent directors)
This is the list of 100 directors as at the end of last year. Previous positions in brackets.