300 Greatest Movie Directors

On this 2018 Digital Dream Door list, these directors were ranked according to how much they'd influenced how films are made, as well as to the acclaim they've received specifically for their directorial technique, and the popularity of their output.

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RANK	DIRECTOR
1	Alfred Hitchcock
2	John Ford
3	Charles Chaplin
4	Akira Kurosawa
5	DW Griffith
6	Jean Renoir
7	Sergei Eisenstein
8	Orson Welles
9	Stanley Kubrick
10	George Melies
11	Luis Bunuel
12	Fritz Lang
13	Jean-Luc Godard
14	Federico Fellini
15	FW Murnau
16	Ingmar Bergman
17	Carl Theodor Dreyer
18	Howard Hawks
19	Yasujiro Ozu
20	Robert Bresson
21	Francois Truffaut
22	Martin Scorsese
23	Cecil B. DeMille
24	Satyajit Ray
25	Andrei Tarkovsky
26	Ernst Lubitsch
27	Steven Spielberg
28	Michelangelo Antonioni
29	John Cassavetes
30	Billy Wilder
31	Buster Keaton
32	Erich von Stroheim
33	Roberto Rossellini
34	Kenji Mizoguchi
35	Woody Allen
36	Robert Altman
37	David Lean
38	Abbas Kiarostami
39	Dziga Vertov
40	Frank Capra
41	Roman Polanski
42	Luchino Visconti
43	David Lynch
44	Jean Vigo
45	Stanley Donen
46	Hayao Miyazaki
47	Werner Herzog
48	Michael Powell
49	Quentin Tarantino
50	Joel & Ethan Coen
51	Francis Ford Coppola
52	Robert J. Flaherty
53	James Cameron
54	Spike Lee
55	Raoul Walsh
56	Bernardo Bertolucci
57	Sergio Leone
58	Ridley Scott
59	Vittorio De Sica
60	Douglas Sirk
61	Victor Sjostrom
62	Alexander Dovzhenko
63	Paul Thomas Anderson
64	Mario Bava
65	Nicholas Ray
66	Sam Peckinpah
67	John Carpenter
68	Wong Kar-Wai
69	Josef von Sternberg
70	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
71	Jean-Pierre Melville
72	Max Ophuls
73	Wes Anderson
74	Sidney Lumet
75	George A. Romero
76	Maurice Tourneur
77	Busby Berkeley
78	David Cronenberg
79	Jean Cocteau
80	John Huston
81	Samuel Fuller
82	Krzysztof Kieslowski
83	Louis Feuillade
84	Terrence Malick
85	Edwin S. Porter
86	Chantal Akerman
87	Alain Resnais
88	Michael Curtiz
89	Claude Chabrol
90	Maya Deren
91	Chuck Jones
92	Wim Wenders
93	Pier Paolo Pasolini
94	Stan Brakhage
95	Lars von Trier
96	Jacques Tati
97	Richard Linklater
98	Preston Sturges
99	Jim Jarmusch
100	Christopher Nolan

RANK	DIRECTOR
101	Abel Gance
102	Pedro Almodovar
103	Roger Corman
104	Lois Weber
105	Louis Malle
106	George Cukor
107	William Wyler
108	Hou Hsiao-Hsien
109	Vsevolod Pudovkin
110	Elia Kazan
111	King Vidor
112	Dario Argento
113	Cecil Hepworth
114	Winsor McCay
115	Andrzej Wajda
116	Zhang Yimou
117	Louis & Auguste Lumiere
118	James Whale
119	Clint Eastwood
120	Todd Haynes
121	Chris Marker
122	Agnes Varda
123	Vincente Minnelli
124	Tod Browning
125	William KL Dickson
126	Robert Wise
127	Anthony Mann
128	David Fincher
129	Michael Haneke
130	J. Stuart Blackton
131	Kenneth Anger
132	Mike Leigh
133	Claire Denis
134	Frank Borzage
135	GW Pabst
136	Milos Forman
137	Brian De Palma
138	Fred Niblo
139	Mike Nichols
140	Arthur Penn
141	John Frankenheimer
142	Rene Clair
143	Gus Van Sant
144	George Miller
145	Danny Boyle
146	Marcel Carne
147	Don Siegel
148	Leni Riefenstahl
149	Sidney Olcott
150	Walt Disney
151	Charles Burnett
152	Jack Arnold
153	Jacques Rivette
154	John Woo
155	Tim Burton
156	Chen Kaige
157	Otto Preminger
158	Ken Loach
159	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
160	John Lasseter
161	Gordon Parks
162	Tex Avery
163	Bela Tarr
164	Terry Gilliam
165	Ang Lee
166	Steven Soderbergh
167	Fred Zinnemann
168	Mack Sennett
169	Theo Angelopoulos
170	Eric Rohmer
171	Mauritz Stiller
172	Nagisa Oshima
173	Jean Rouch
174	Jia Zhangke
175	John Hughes
176	Peter Weir
177	William Friedkin
178	Robert Zemeckis
179	Alfonso Cuaron
180	Carol Reed
181	Jacques Demy
182	Leo McCarey
183	Peter Jackson
184	DA Pennebaker
185	Sam Raimi
186	George Lucas
187	George Stevens
188	Ousmane Sembene
189	Mel Brooks
190	Rouben Mamoulian
191	Kathryn Bigelow
192	Robert Aldrich
193	Errol Morris
194	Michael Mann
195	Ishiro Honda
196	Boris Barnet
197	Paul Verhoeven
198	Nicolas Roeg
199	Henri-Georges Clouzot
200	John Waters

RANK	DIRECTOR
201	William A. Wellman
202	Lindsay Anderson
203	Oliver Stone
204	Andy Warhol & Paul Morrissey
205	Richard Lester
206	Alejandro Jodorowsky
207	William Castle
208	Edward Yang
209	Ida Lupino
210	Jacques Becker
211	Jane Campion
212	Stephen Frears
213	Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
214	Mario Monicelli
215	Sergei Parajanov
216	Rob Reiner
217	Paul Greengrass
218	Takeshi Kitano
219	Alice Guy-Blache
220	Henry King
221	Glauber Rocha
222	Ken Russell
223	Apichatpong Weerasethakul
224	Budd Boetticher
225	Albert & David Maysles
226	Jules Dassin
227	John Landis
228	John Boorman
229	Aki Kaurismaki
230	Kevin Smith
231	Mervyn LeRoy
232	Oscar Micheaux
233	Hal Ashby
234	John Sayles
235	Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
236	Robert Siodmak
237	Richard Donner
238	Anthony Asquith
239	Mikio Naruse
240	Lev Kuleshov
241	Nuri Bilge Ceylan
242	Peter Bogdanovich
243	Ralph Bakshi
244	Tsai Ming-Liang
245	Joseph Losey
246	John Schlesinger
247	Peter Watkins
248	Darren Aronofsky
249	Wes Craven
250	Allan Dwan
251	Alexander Sokurov
252	Georges Franju
253	Russ Meyer
254	Walter Hill
255	Joris Ivens
256	Jan Svankmajer
257	Alexander Mackendrick
258	Frederick Wiseman
259	Yevgeni Bauer
260	Robert Rodriguez
261	Pedro Costa
262	Alexander Payne
263	Mohsen Makhmalbaf
264	Julien Duvivier
265	Manoel de Oliveira
266	Yuriy Norshteyn
267	Dorothy Arzner
268	Blake Edwards
269	Olivier Assayas
270	Sydney Pollack
271	Raj Kapoor
272	Luis Garcia Berlanga
273	Edgar G. Ulmer
274	Emir Kusturica
275	Guillermo del Toro
276	Costa-Gavras
277	Guy Maddin
278	Morris Engel
279	Jerry Lewis
280	Alan J. Pakula
281	Sadao Yamanaka
282	Herschell Gordon Lewis
283	Dave Fleischer
284	James Ivory
285	Jonathan Demme
286	Terence Davies
287	Kon Ichikawa
288	Bong Joon-Ho
289	Peter Greenaway
290	Victor Fleming
291	David O. Russell
292	Bob Clampett
293	Clarence Brown
294	Jacques Tourneur
295	Claude Lanzmann
296	Michael Cimino
297	Sofia Coppola
298	Lasse Hallstrom
299	Miklos Jancso
300	Henry Hathaway

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