The position change in comparison to last year’s list is in brackets to the side. It should be noted these do not take into account 2024 releases.
We are currently in the process of updating the site’s listings. This has taken longer than expected, so we’re publishing the list like this and will make the changes to the general lists and pages ASAP.
- Alfred Hitchcock (=)
- Ingmar Bergman (=)
- Akira Kurosawa (=)
- Martin Scorsese (=)
- Luis Bunuel (=)
- Jean-Luc Godard (=)
- Stanley Kubrick (+1)
- John Ford (-1)
- Yasujiro Ozu (=)
- Steven Spielberg (+1)
- Charlie Chaplin (+2)
- Howard Hawks (-2)
- Jean Renoir (-1)
- Billy Wilder (+5)
- Robert Bresson (-1)
- Fritz Lang (+1)
- David Lynch (+1)
- Michael Powell (-3)
- Federico Fellini (-3)
- Andrei Tarkovsky (=)
- Orson Welles (=)
- Roberto Rossellini (+1)
- Buster Keaton (+16)
- Coen Brothers (-2)
- Kenji Mizoguchi (=)
- Abbas Kiarostami (+1)
- Ernst Lubitsch (+2)
- Carl Theodor Dreyer (-4)
- Hayao Miyazaki (+3)
- Michelangelo Antonioni (-2)
- Satyajit Ray (-5)
- Paul Thomas Anderson (-2)
- Quentin Tarantino (=)
- Luchino Visconti (+6)
- John Cassavetes (-1)
- Woody Allen (-5)
- Francis Ford Coppola (=)
- John Huston (+6)
- F.W. Murnau (-3)
- Christopher Nolan (+12)
- Werner Herzog (+6)
- Terrence Malick (-1)
- Sergei Eisenstein (-5)
- David Lean (+2)
- Agnes Varda (-3)
- William Wyler (+7)
- Hou Hsiao-hsien (+1)
- Wong Kar-wai (-13)
- Francois Truffaut (-6)
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (=)
- Wim Wenders (+3)
- Krzysztof Kieslowski (-7)
- Sergio Leone (-2)
- Michael Haneke (+1)
- Roman Polanski (+3)
- David Fincher (+6)
- Max Ophuls (-1)
- Frank Capra (+7)
- Alain Resnais (+2)
- Robert Altman (-3)
- Ridley Scott (-2)
- Apichatpong Weerathakul (+2)
- Preston Sturges (+3)
- Michael Curtiz (+6)
- Eric Rohmer (+4)
- Lars von Trier (-6)
- Vittorio De Sica (+6)
- Nicholas Ray (-1)
- Jean-Pierre Melville (+10)
- Sidney Lumet (+2)
- Edward Yang (+3)
- Vincente Minnelli (-1)
- D.W. Griffith (-24)
- James Cameron (+3)
- Richard Linklater (+3)
- Clint Eastwood (-13)
- Elia Kazan (+5)
- David Cronenberg (-10)
- Bela Tarr (-4)
- Jacques Rivette (+3)
- Wes Anderson (-1)
- Chantal Akerman (+6)
- Leo McCarey (-7)
- Josef von Sternberg (=)
- Hirokazu Koreeda (+24)
- George Cukor (-5)
- Brian De Palma (+4)
- Alfonso Cuaron (+4)
- Bernardo Bertolucci (+7)
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (-3)
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz (+2)
- Theo Angelopoulos (-2)
- Jacques Tourneur (-4)
- Tsai Ming-liang (=)
- Spike Lee (-10)
- Rob Reiner (+3)
- Douglas Sirk (+4)
- Claire Denis (+2)
- Pedro Almodovar (-1)
- Mikio Naruse (-14)
- Peter Jackson (+2)
- Bong Joon-ho (+9)
- Jim Jarmusch (-6)
- Victor Erice (+16)
- Nicolas Roeg (-3)
- Milos Forman (+4)
- John Carpenter (+5)
- Jacques Tati (-3)
- Chris Marker (-14)
- Marcel Carne (-6)
- Jean Vigo (+14)
- Jacques Demy (-4)
- Robert Zemeckis (+21)
- Raoul Walsh (+9)
- Lucrecia Martel (+18)
- Sam Peckinpah (-10)
- George Stevens (+5)
- Henri-Georges Clouzot (+6)
- Ang Lee (-1)
- Robert Wise (-13)
- Victor Fleming (-2)
- Stanley Donen (-6)
- King Vidor (-6)
- Louis Malle (-11)
- Zhang Yimou (-4)
- Mike Leigh (+3)
- Erich von Strohei (-12)
- Denis Villeneuve (-2)
- Masaki Kobayashi (-15)
- Todd Haynes (+25)
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan (=)
- Carol Reed (+4)
- Otto Preminger (+2)
- William Friedkin (+13)
- Terry Gilliam (-3)
- Jane Campion (-8)
- Celine Sciamma (+53)
- Lee Chang-dong (=)
- Victor Sjostrom (-9)
- Pedro Costa (-13)
- Park Chan-wook (+4)
- James Whale (=)
- Mikhail Kalatozov (-3)
- Peter Bogdanovich (+5)
- Michael Mann (-1)
- Peter Weir (+16)
- Steve McQueen (+11)
- Gus Van Sant (-7)
- George Miller (+1)
- George A. Romero (+2)
- Dardenne Brothers (+2)
- Tim Burton (+4)
- Michael Cimino (+1)
- Emir Kusturica (-11)
- Fred Zinnemann (+2)
- Robert Flaherty (+18)
- Elem Klimov (+37)
- Asghar Farhadi (+3)
- G. W. Pabst (+5)
- Glauber Rocha (-9)
- Sergei Parajanov (+7)
- Hal Ashby (+4)
- Darren Aronofsky (-17)
- Andrzej Wajda (-27)
- Anthony Mann (+7)
- Shohei Imamura (+5)
- Paul Verhoeven (+54)
- Jean Cocteau (-3)
- Pete Docter (+41)
- Raul Ruiz (-22)
- Frank Borzage (-1)
- Frederick Wiseman (+28)
- Jia Zhangke (-13)
- Ken Loach (+6)
- Aleksandr Sokurov (-16)
- Mike Nichols (+1)
- Mario Monicelli (-38)
- Jean Eustache (+1)
- Leos Carax (+6)
- Dziga Vertov (+39)
- George Lucas (-3)
- Abel Gance (-7)
- Jules Dassin (-14)
- Peter Watkins (+20)
- Terence Davies (-2)
- Isao Takahata (-2)
- Bob Fosse (+2)
- Louis Feuillade (+27)
- Hideaki Anno (+38)
- Jonathan Demme (+15)
- Ermanno Olmi (+27)
- Leonid Gaidai (NEW)
- Jacques Becker (-12)
- Dario Argento (+12)
- Kelly Reichardt (+12)
- Satsohi Kon (-10)
- Ousmane Sembene (+23)
- Robert Aldrich (+1)
- Thomas Vinterberg (+4)
- Arthur Penn (-27)
- Maya Deren (+61)
- Barry Jenkins (+28)
- Stan Brakhage (NEW)
- King Hu (-37)
- Don Siegel (+7)
- Spike Jonze (-18)
- John Frankenheimer (+58)
- William A. Wellman (+8)
- Gillo Pontecorvo (+28)
- Oliver Stone (-15)
- Maurice Pialat (-20)
- Jonas Mekas (+14)
- Guillermo del Toro (-37)
- Samuel Fuller (-17)
- John Landis (-14)
- Mervyn LeRoy (-20)
- Jonathan Glazer (NEW)
- Wang Bing (-36)
- Alexander Payne (+53)
- Peter Greenaway (-57)
- Rene Clair (+46)
- Michael Snow (+11)
- Alejandro González Iñárritu (-25)
- Aki Kaurismaki (-37)
- Sam Mendes (-32)
- John Boorman (-4)
- Andrew Stanton (-16)
- Manoel de Oliveira (+12)
- Jordan Peele (NEW)
- Lav Diaz (NEW)
- Nagisa Oshima (+12)
- Mel Brooks (-23)
- Alexander Mackendrick (+6)
- Claude Lanzmann (+22)
- Djibril Diop Mambety (NEW)
- Ryusuke Hamaguchi (-1)
- Aleksandr Dovzhenko (+4)
- Julien Duvivier (-25)
- Brad Bird (-7)
- Charles Burnett (+38)
- Chen Kaige (+32)
- Kathryn Bigelow (-40)
- Taika Waititi (+1)
- Luis Garcia Berlanga (-27)
- Damien Chazelle (-17)
- Franklin J. Schaffner (+11)
- Stanley Kramer (+38)
- Sam Wood (NEW)
- Costa-Gavras (-2)
- Paul Schrader (+14)
- John Woo (-59)
- Ettore Scola (-38)
- Straub-Huillet (+17)
- Edgar Wright (-29)
- John McTiernan (-19)
- Errol Morris (-3)
- Chuck Jones (NEW)
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet (-24)
- Sydney Pollack (-28)
- Danny Boyle (-52)
- Lynne Ramsey (NEW)
- Frank Darabont (+14)
- George Roy Hill (-40)
- Tobe Hooper (-40)
- Sofia Coppola (-23)
- The Wachowskis (+27)
- Sion Sono (-17)
- Giuseppe Tornatore (-20)
- Alan J. Pakula (+15)
- Ron Howard (-18)
- Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (+15)
- Martin McDonagh (+24)
- Kon Ichikawa (-4)
- Kenneth Lonergan (-6)
- Hiroshi Teshigahara (+6)
- Nobuhiko Obayashi (NEW)
- Robert Hamer (-32)
- Kaneto Shindo (-3)
- Robert Rossen (-5)
- Larisa Shepitko (NEW)
- Blake Edwards (NEW)
- Sam Raimi (-22)
- John Hughes (NEW)
- Yorgos Lanthimos (NEW)
- Guru Dutt (+14)
- Jan Svankmajer (-20)
- Francesco Rosi (-7)
- Cristian Mungiu (-34)
- John Sturges (+9)
- Vera Chytilova (NEW)
- Michel Gondry (-14)
- David Hand (-29)
- Joshua Oppenheimer (-10)
- Takeshi Kitano (-45)
- Lee Unkrich (-8)
- Roy Andersson (NEW)
- Humphrey Jennings (-68)
- Rouben Mamoulian (+10)
- Joseph Losey (-28)
- Cristi Puiu (NEW)
Former Top 250 people not in Top 300
- Alejandro Jodorowsky (Place 313)
- Edouard Coutinho (Place 324)
New Additions to the Top 300
- Leonid Gaidai (Russia/USSR)
- Stan Brakhage (USA)
- Jonathan Glazer (UK)
- Jordan Peele (USA)
- Lav Diaz (Philippines)
- Djibril Diop Mambety (Senegal)
- Sam Wood (USA)
- Lynne Ramsay (UK)
- Nobuhiko Obayashi (Japan)
- Larisa Shepitko (Ukraine/USSR)
- Blake Edwards (USA)
- John Hughes (USA)
- Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece)
- Vera Chytilova (Czechia/Czechoslovakia)
- Roy Andersson (Sweden)
- Rouben Mamoulian (USA)
- Cristi Puiu (Romania)
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