ZFIMA2. [Present] Directors: Greatest Living Directors: An Overview

Directors Who Have Made 30+ Films

Alive, Still Directing and Making Good Movies: Robert Altman

Alive, Still Directing and Making OK Movies: Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman, Sidney Lumet

Alive, Still Directing and Making Bad Movies:

Alive and Not Directing: Blake Edwards

Directors Who Have Made 20+ Films

Alive, Still Directing and Making Good Movies: Steven Spielberg

Alive, Still Directing and Making OK Movies: Bruce Beresford, Brian De Palma, Clint Eastwood, John Frankenheimer, Norman Jewison, Eric Rohmer, Martin Scorsese, Peter Yates

Alive, Still Directing and Making Bad Movies: Ken Russell

Alive and Not Directing: Stanley Donen, Arthur Hiller, John Landis, Delbert Mann, Robert Mulligan, J. Lee Thompson, Billy Wilder, Robert Wise

Directors Who Have Made 10+ Films But Less Than 20

Alive, Still Directing and Making Good Movies: Pedro Almodóvar, Stephen Frears, Terry Gilliam, Lasse Hallström, Curtis Hanson, Ron Howard, David Lynch, Hayao Miyazaki, Sam Raimi, Steven Soderbergh, Peter Weir, Zhang Yimou

Alive, Still Directing and Making OK Movies: Michael Anderson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Bogdanovich, John Boorman, Tim Burton, Michael Cacoyannis, Francis Ford Coppola, Andrew Davis, Jonathan Demme, Mike Figgis, Milos Forman, William Friedkin, Hal Hartley, James Ivory, Neil Jordan, Spike Lee, Claude Lelouch, Barry Levinson, John McTiernan, Edouard Molinaro, Mike Nichols, Alan Parker, Roman Polanski, Sydney Pollack, Rob Reiner, Ivan Reitman, Nicolas Roeg, Mark Rydell, Fred Schepisi, John Schlesinger, Barbet Schroeder, Ridley Scott, Oliver Stone, Wim Wenders, Lina Wertmüller, John Woo, Franco Zeffirelli, Robert Zemeckis

Alive, Still Directing and Making Bad Movies: John G. Avildsen, Bob Clark

Alive and Not Directing: Richard Attenborough, Mel Brooks, Jules Dassin, George Roy Hill, Elia Kazan, Paul Mazursky, Ronald Neame, Arthur Penn, Stuart Rosenberg

Directors Who Have Made 5+ Films But Less Than 10 Films

Alive, Still Directing and Making Good Movies: Roberto Benigni, James Cameron, Patricia Cardoso, Joel Coen, Cameron Crowe, Stephen Daldry, Atom Egoyan, Peter Jackson, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Shekhar Kapur, John Lasseter, Ang Lee, Mike Leigh, John Madden, Michael Mann, Walter Salles, M. Night Shyamalan, Takeshi Kitano, István Szabó, Tom Tykwer, Lars von Trier, Wong Kar-Wai, Edward Yang

Alive, Still Directing and Making OK Movies: Luc Besson, Robert Benton, Claude Berri, Kenneth Branagh, Martin Brest, Jane Campion, Costa-Gavras, Hugh Hudson, Roland Joffé, Joe Johnston, Terry Jones, Mathieu Kassovitz, Philip Kaufman, George Lucas, Adrian Lyne, Wolfgang Petersen, Michael Radford, Harold Ramis, Brett Ratner, Robert Redford, Gus Van Sant, John Singleton, Kevin Smith, Barry Sonnenfeld, Giuseppe Tornatore, Jan Troell, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Edward Zwick

Alive, Still Directing and Making Bad Movies:

Alive and Not Directing: Jim Abrahams, Jack Cardiff, Michael Cimino, Anthony Harvey, John Hughes, Richard Rush

Directors Who Have Made Less Than 5 Films But More Than 1

Alive, Still Directing and Making Good Movies: Alejandro Amenábar, Brad Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, Alfonso Cuarón, David Fincher, Ray Lawrence, Doug Liman, Baz Luhrmann, Majid Majidi, Sam Mendes, Anthony Minghella, Lukas Moodysson, Christopher Nolan, Oliver Parker, Guy Ritchie, Quentin Tarantino, Thomas Vinterberg, The Wachowski Brothers, Chris and Paul Weitz, Terry Zwigoff

Alive, Still Directing and Making OK Movies: Hector Babenco, Danny Boyle, Peter Cattaneo, Kevin Costner, Frank Darabont, Scott Hicks, The Hughes Brothers, Jim Sheridan, Bryan Singer, Billy Bob Thornton

Alive, Still Directing and Making Bad Movies:

Alive and Not Directing: Warren Beatty, James L. Brooks, Mel Gibson, François Girard, Buck Henry, Terrence Malick, Chris Noonan, Gillo Pontecorvo, Tim Robbins, Barbra Streisand, Mike van Diem

Directors Who Have Made 1 Film

Alive, Still Directing and Making Good Movies: Brad Bird, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Spike Jonze, Richard Kelly, Kenneth Lonergan, Rob Marshall, Tony Kaye

Alive, Still Directing and Making OK Movies:

Alive, Still Directing and Making Bad Movies:

Alive and Not Directing: John Cameron Mitchell, Billy Morrissette