- Alfred Hitchcock
- Ingmar Bergman
- Akira Kurosawa
- Martin Scorsese
- Luis Bunuel
- Jean-Luc Godard
- John Ford
- Stanley Kubrick
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Howard Hawks
- Steven Spielberg
- Jean Renoir
- Charles Chaplin
- Robert Bresson
- Michael Powell
- Federico Fellini
- Fritz Lang
- David Lynch
- Billy Wilder
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Orson Welles
- Coen Brothers
- Roberto Rossellini
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Satyajit Ray
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Woody Allen
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Quentin Tarantino
- John Cassavetes
- Wong Kar-wai
- F. W. Murnau
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Buster Keaton
- Luchino Visconti
- Terrence Malick
- Agnes Varda
- Francois Truffaut
- John Huston
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- David Lean
- Werner Herzog
- Hou Hsiao-hsien
- D. W. Griffith
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Sergio Leone
- Christopher Nolan
- William Wyler
- Wim Wenders
- Michael Haneke
- Max Ophuls
- Robert Altman
- Roman Polanski
- Ridley Scott
- Lars von Trier
- Alain Resnais
- David Fincher
- Clint Eastwood
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Frank Capra
- Preston Sturges
- Nicholas Ray
- David Cronenberg
- Eric Rohmer
- Michael Curtiz
- Vincente Minnelli
- Sidney Lumet
- Vittorio De Sica
- Edward Yang
- Bela Tarr
- Leo McCarey
- James Cameron
- Richard Linklater
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Wes Anderson
- George Cukor
- Elia Kazan
- Jacques Rivette
- Josef von Sternberg
- Spike Lee
- Mikio Naruse
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Chantal Akerman
- Jacques Tourneur
- Theo Angelopoulos
- Brian De Palma
- Alfonso Cuaron
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Tsai Ming-liang
- Chris Marker
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Jim Jarmusch
- Pedro Almodovar
- Rob Reiner
- Claire Denis
- Douglas Sirk
- Nicolas Roeg
- Peter Jackson
- Marcel Carne
- Jacques Tati
- Sam Peckinpah
- Robert Wise
- Jacques Demy
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- Milos Forman
- Bong Joon-ho
- John Carpenter
- Louis Malle
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Erich Von Stroheim
- Stanley Donen
- King Vidor
- Ang Lee
- Victor Fleming
- Victor Erice
- Zhang Yimou
- George Stevens
- Raoul Walsh
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Jean Vigo
- Denis Villeneuve
- Pedro Costa
- Jane Campion
- Mike Leigh
- Victor Sjostrom
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Terry Gilliam
- Lucrecia Martel
- Robert Zemeckis
- Otto Preminger
- Carol Reed
- Andrzej Wajda
- Lee Chang-dong
- Mario Monicelli
- Mikhail Kalatazov
- Gus Van Sant
- James Whale
- Emir Kusturica
- Michael Mann
- Park Chan-wook
- Darren Aronofsky
- William Friedkin
- Raul Ruiz
- Peter Bogdanovich
- George Miller
- Glauber Rocha
- George A. Romero
- Dardenne Brothers
- Michael Cimino
- Todd Haynes
- Tim Burton
- Fred Zinnemann
- Steve McQueen
- Aleksandr Sokurov
- Jia Zhangke
- Asghar Farhadi
- Peter Weir
- Peter Greenaway
- G. W. Pabst
- Jean Cocteau
- Hal Ashby
- King Hu
- Sergei Parajanov
- Jules Dassin
- Frank Borzage
- Shohei Imamura
- Anthony Mann
- Arthur Penn
- Robert Flaherty
- Abel Gance
- Guillermo Del Toro
- Mike Nichols
- George Lucas
- Jean Eustache
- Ken Loach
- Jacques Becker
- Wang Bing
- Terence Davies
- Isao Takahata
- Leos Carax
- Satoshi Kon
- Aki Kaurismaki
- Spike Jonze
- Bob Fosse
- Celine Sciamma
- Maurice Pialat
- John Woo
- Sam Mendes
- Elem Klimov
- Oliver Stone
- Mervyn LeRoy
- Samuel Fuller
- Alejandro G. Inarritu
- Robert Aldrich
- Frederick Wiseman
- John Landis
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Thomas Vinterberg
- Peter Watkins
- Jonathan Demme
- Dario Argento
- Kelly Reichardt
- Danny Boyle
- Mel Brooks
- Pete Docter
- Andrew Stanton
- Don Siegel
- Julien Duvivier
- Ettore Scola
- Louis Feuillade
- William A. Wellman
- Luis Garcia Berlanga
- Ermanno Olmi
- Dziga Vertov
- Ousmane Sembene
- Paul Verhoeven
- John Boorman
- George Roy Hill
- Tobe Hooper
- Edgar Wright
- Jonas Mekas
- Hideaki Anno
- Damien Chazelle
- Humphrey Jennings
- Barry Jenkins
- Sydney Pollack
- Brad Bird
- Michael Snow
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- John McTiernan
- Gillo Pontecorvo
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Alexander Mackendrick
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Alexander Dovzhenko
- Sofia Coppola
- Nagisa Oshima
- Taika Waititi
- Robert Hamer
- Eduardo Coutinho
- Costa-Gavras
- Giuseppe Tornatore
- Takeshi Kitano
- Sion Sono
The 250 Best Directors of All-Time
