Directors

TSPDT’S current director pages are listed below. They have been grouped alphabetically, chronologically (by year of director’s birth), and by key production country. There will be more to come.
Directors: A-Z
A-Ki
Ko-Z
Directors: Listed Chronologically (by Year of Birth)
1861 Georges Méliès
1873 Louis Feuillade / Alice Guy-Blaché / Robert Wiene
1875
D.W. Griffith
1879 Victor Sjöström
1880 Tod Browning
1881 Cecil B. DeMille
1884 Robert Flaherty
1885 Allan Dwan / Sacha Guitry / G.W. Pabst / Erich von Stroheim
1886
Michael Curtiz / Henry King / John Cromwell
1887
Raoul Walsh
1888
F.W. Murnau
1889
Charles Chaplin / Jean Cocteau / Carl Theodor Dreyer / Victor Fleming / Abel Gance / James Whale
1890
Clarence Brown / Fritz Lang
1892
Ernst Lubitsch
1893
John Brahm / William Dieterle
1894
Frank Borzage / Alexander Dovzhenko / John Ford / Jean Renoir / King Vidor / Josef von Sternberg
1895 Buster Keaton / Lewis Milestone
1896
Julien Duvivier / Howard Hawks / Leo McCarey / Dziga Vertov / William Wellman
1897
Frank Capra / Rouben Mamoulian / Douglas Sirk
1898
René Clair / Sergei Eisenstein / Henry Hathaway / Mitchell Leisen / Kenji Mizoguchi / Preston Sturges / Tomu Uchida
1899
George Cukor / Alfred Hitchcock
1900
Luis Buñuel / Mervyn LeRoy / Robert Siodmak
1901
Robert Bresson / Vittorio De Sica
1902
Boris Barnet / Emeric Pressburger / Max Ophüls / William Wyler
1903
Mikhail Kalatozov / Vincente Minnelli / Yasujiro Ozu / Hiroshi Shimizu
1904
Delmer Daves / John Farrow / Terence Fisher / George Stevens / Jacques Tourneur / Edgar G. Ulmer
1905
Mikio Naruse / Michael Powell / Otto Preminger / Jean Vigo
1906
Jacques Becker / Marcel Carné / John Huston / Anthony Mann / Carol Reed / Roberto Rossellini / Luchino Visconti / Billy Wilder
1907
Henri-Georges Clouzot / Joseph H. Lewis / Jacques Tati / Fred Zinnemann
1908
Tex Avery / Edward Dmytryk / Phil Karlson / David Lean / Manoel de Oliveira
1909
Elia Kazan / Joseph Losey / Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1910
John Sturges / Akira Kurosawa
1911
Jules Dassin / Basil Dearden / Robert Hamer / Nicholas Ray / Charles Walters
1912
Michelangelo Antonioni / Richard Brooks / Georges Franju / Samuel Fuller / Chuck Jones / Gene Kelly / Alexander Mackendrick / Don Siegel
1913 André de Toth / Mark Robson / Frank Tashlin
1914
Mario Bava / William Castle / Marguerite Duras / Robert Wise
1915
Kon Ichikawa / Orson Welles
1916
Jack Arnold / Budd Boetticher / Richard Fleischer / George Sidney
1917
Maya Deren / Jean-Pierre Melville / Jean Rouch
1918
Robert Aldrich / Ingmar Bergman
1919
Gillo Pontecorvo
1920
Federico Fellini / Eric Rohmer
1921
Luis García Berlanga / Miklós Jancsó / Chris Marker / Satyajit Ray
1922
Blake Edwards / Jonas Mekas / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Arthur Penn / Alain Resnais / Francesco Rosi
1923 Lindsay Anderson / Ousmane Sembene / Seijun Suzuki
1924 Stanley Donen / Sidney Lumet / Yasuzo Masumura / Sergei Parajanov
1925
Robert Altman / Guru Dutt / Ritwik Ghatak / Claude Lanzmann / Sam Peckinpah / Maurice Pialat
1926 Mel Brooks / Roger Corman / Shohei Imamura / Norman Jewison / Jerry Lewis / John Schlesinger / Andrzej Wajda
1927 Kenneth Anger / Bob Fosse / Ken Russell
1928
Marco Ferreri / Stanley Kubrick / Alan J. Pakula / Jacques Rivette / Nicolas Roeg / Michael Snow / Agnès Varda / Andy Warhol
1929
Hal Ashby / John Cassavetes / Věra Chytilová / Monte Hellman / Alejandro Jodorowsky / Sergio Leone
1930
Claude Chabrol / Clint Eastwood / John Frankenheimer / Kinji Fukasaku / Jean-Luc Godard / Frederick Wiseman
1931
Jacques Demy / Mike Nichols / Ermanno Olmi
1932
Milos Forman / King Hu / Richard Lester / Louis Malle / Nagisa Oshima / Carlos Saura / Andrei Tarkovsky / François Truffaut
1933
John Boorman / Stan Brakhage / Roman Polanski / Bob Rafelson / Jean-Marie Straub
1934 Jan Švankmajer / Sydney Pollack
1935
Woody Allen / Theo Angelopoulos / Peter Watkins
1936
Hollis Frampton / Danièle Huillet / Ken Loach
1937
Ridley Scott
1938
Jean Eustache / Aleksei German / Paul Verhoeven
1939
Marco Bellocchio / Peter Bogdanovich / Michael Cimino / Francis Ford Coppola / Wes Craven / William Friedkin / Glauber Rocha
1940
Dario Argento / Brian De Palma / Victor Erice / Terry Gilliam / Abbas Kiarostami / George A. Romero
1941
Bernardo Bertolucci / Stephen Frears / Patricio Guzmán / Krzysztof Kieslowski / Hayao Miyazaki / Raúl Ruiz / Bertrand Tavernier
1942
James Benning / Peter Greenaway / Michael Haneke / Werner Herzog / Walter Hill / Derek Jarman / Martin Scorsese
1943
Roy Andersson / David Cronenberg / Tobe Hooper / Mike Leigh / Terrence Malick / Michael Mann / Alan Rudolph
1944 Charles Burnett / Jonathan Demme / George Lucas / Alan Parker / Tony Scott / Peter Weir
1945
Terence Davies / Djibril Diop Mambéty / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / George Miller / Wim Wenders
1946
Joe Dante / Claire Denis / David Lynch / Paul Schrader / Oliver Stone / John Waters / John Woo
1947
Hou Hsiao-hsien / Ann Hui / Takeshi Kitano / David Mamet / Rob Reiner / Steven Spielberg / Edward Yang
1948
John Carpenter / Philippe Garrel / Errol Morris
1949
Pedro Almodóvar
1950
Chantal Akerman / John Landis / John Sayles / Tsui Hark / Zhang Yimou
1951
Kathryn Bigelow / Jean-Pierre Dardenne / Abel Ferrara / Aleksandr Sokurov / Robert Zemeckis
1952
Jacques Audiard / Chen Kaige / Gus Van Sant
1953
Jim Jarmusch / Jean-Pierre Jeunet
1954
James Cameron / Jane Campion / Joel Coen / Luc Dardenne / Ron Howard / Emir Kusturica / Ang Lee / Lee Chang-dong / Michael Moore
1955
Olivier Assayas / Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Béla Tarr / Johnnie To
1956
Danny Boyle / Guy Maddin / Giuseppe Tornatore / Lars von Trier / Wong Kar-wai
1957
Ethan Coen / Aki Kaurismäki / Spike Lee / Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Tsai Ming-liang
1958
Tim Burton / Lav Diaz
1959 Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Pedro Costa / Hal Hartley / Sam Raimi / Todd Solondz
1960
Leos Carax / Atom Egoyan / Joanna Hogg / Hong Sang-soo / Kim Ki-duk / Richard Linklater / Takashi Miike / Jafar Panahi
1961
Andrea Arnold / Alfonso Cuarón / Todd Haynes / Peter Jackson / Alexander Payne / Abderrahmane Sissako / Michael Winterbottom
1962
David Fincher / Hirokazu Koreeda / Kenneth Lonergan
1963
Michel Gondry / Alejandro González Iñárritu / Gaspar Noé / Park Chan-wook / Steven Soderbergh / Quentin Tarantino
1964
Guillermo del Toro / Kelly Reichardt / Andrey Zvyagintsev
1965 Jonathan Glazer / Lana Wachowski
1966 Lucrecia Martel
1967 François Ozon / Cristi Puiu / Denis Villeneuve / Lilly Wachowski / Wang Bing
1968 Pete Docter
1969
Wes Anderson / Darren Aronofsky / Noah Baumbach / Bong Joon-ho / James Gray / Spike Jonze / Steve McQueen / Lynne Ramsay
1970
Paul Thomas Anderson / Jia Zhangke / Christopher Nolan / Paolo Sorrentino / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
1971
Sofia Coppola / Carlos Reygadas
1972 Asghar Farhadi / Miguel Gomes
1973 Yorgos Lanthimos
1974 Edgar Wright
1976 Maren Ade
1978 Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Céline Sciamma
1979 Barry Jenkins / Jordan Peele
Directors: Listed by Key Production Country
(Country of birth, if it differs, is listed in brackets)
Argentina Lucrecia Martel
Australia
Jane Campion (New Zealand) / George Miller
Austria
Michael Haneke (Germany)
Belgium
Chantal Akerman / Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Brazil
Glauber Rocha
Canada
David Cronenberg / Atom Egoyan (Egypt) / Guy Maddin / Michael Snow / Denis Villeneuve
China
Chen Kaige / Jia Zhangke / Zhang Yimou
Czechoslovakia
Věra Chytilová / Jan Švankmajer
Denmark
Carl Theodor Dreyer / Lars von Trier
Finland
Aki Kaurismäki
France
Olivier Assayas / Jacques Audiard / Jacques Becker / Robert Bresson / Leos Carax / Marcel Carné / Claude Chabrol / René Clair / Henri-Georges Clouzot / Jean Cocteau / Jacques Demy / Claire Denis / Marguerite Duras (Vietnam) / Julien Duvivier / Jean Eustache / Louis Feuillade / Georges Franju / Abel Gance / Philippe Garrel / Jean-Luc Godard / Sacha Guitry (Russia) / Patricio Guzmán (Chile) / Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Claude Lanzmann / Louis Malle / Chris Marker / Georges Méliès / Jean-Pierre Melville / Gaspar Noé (Argentina) / Max Ophüls (Germany) / François Ozon / Maurice Pialat / Roman Polanski / Jean Renoir / Alain Resnais / Jacques Rivette / Eric Rohmer / Jean Rouch / Raúl Ruiz (Chile) / Céline Sciamma / Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet / Jacques Tati / Bertrand Tavernier / François Truffaut / Agnès Varda (Belgium) / Jean Vigo / Wang Bing (China)
Germany-West Germany
Maren Ade / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Werner Herzog / F.W. Murnau / G.W. Pabst (Austria-Hungary) / Wim Wenders / Robert Wiene (Poland)
Greece
Theo Angelopoulos / Yorgos Lanthimos
Hong Kong
King Hu (China) / Ann Hui (China) / Johnnie To / Tsui Hark (Vietnam) / Wong Kar-wai (China) / John Woo (China)
Hungary
Miklós Jancsó / Béla Tarr
India
Guru Dutt / Ritwik Ghatak (Bangladesh) / Satyajit Ray
Iran
Asghar Farhadi / Abbas Kiarostami / Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Jafar Panahi
Italy
Michelangelo Antonioni / Dario Argento / Mario Bava / Marco Bellocchio / Bernardo Bertolucci / Vittorio De Sica / Federico Fellini / Marco Ferreri / Sergio Leone / Ermanno Olmi / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Gillo Pontecorvo / Francesco Rosi / Roberto Rossellini / Paolo Sorrentino / Giuseppe Tornatore / Luchino Visconti
Japan
Kinji Fukasaku / Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Kon Ichikawa / Shohei Imamura / Takeshi Kitano / Hirokazu Koreeda / Akira Kurosawa / Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Yasuzo Masumura / Takashi Miike / Hayao Miyazaki / Kenji Mizoguchi / Mikio Naruse / Nagisa Oshima / Yasujiro Ozu / Hiroshi Shimizu / Seijun Suzuki / Tomu Uchida
Mauritania
Abderrahmane Sissako
Mexico
Luis Buñuel (Spain) / Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chile) / Carlos Reygadas
New Zealand
Peter Jackson
Philippines
Lav Diaz
Poland
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Andrzej Wajda
Portugal
Pedro Costa / Miguel Gomes / Manoel de Oliveira
Romania
Cristi Puiu
Russia-USSR
Boris Barnet / Alexander Dovzhenko (Ukraine) / Sergei Eisenstein (Latvia) / Aleksei German / Mikhail Kalatozov (Georgia) / Sergei Parajanov (Georgia) / Aleksandr Sokurov / Andrei Tarkovsky / Dziga Vertov (Poland) / Andrey Zvyagintsev
Senegal
Djibril Diop Mambéty / Ousmane Sembene
South Korea
Bong Joon-ho / Hong Sang-soo / Kim Ki-duk / Lee Chang-dong / Park Chan-wook
Spain
Pedro Almodóvar / Victor Erice / Luis García Berlanga / Carlos Saura
Sweden
Roy Andersson / Ingmar Bergman / Victor Sjöström
Taiwan
Hou Hsiao-hsien (China) / Tsai Ming-liang (Malaysia) / Edward Yang (China)
Thailand
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Turkey
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
UK
Lindsay Anderson (India) / Andrea Arnold / John Boorman / Danny Boyle / Terence Davies / Basil Dearden / Terence Fisher / Stephen Frears / Jonathan Glazer / Peter Greenaway / Robert Hamer / Joanna Hogg / Derek Jarman / David Lean / Mike Leigh / Richard Lester (USA) / Ken Loach / Joseph Losey (USA) / Alexander Mackendrick (USA) / Steve McQueen / Michael Powell / Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (Hungary) / Lynne Ramsay / Carol Reed / Nicolas Roeg / Ken Russell / John Schlesinger / Peter Watkins / Michael Winterbottom / Edgar Wright
USA (A-B)
Robert Aldrich / Woody Allen / Robert Altman / Paul Thomas AndersonWes Anderson / Kenneth Anger / Jack Arnold / Darren Aronofsky / Hal Ashby / Tex Avery / Noah Baumbach / James Benning / Kathryn Bigelow / Budd Boetticher / Peter Bogdanovich / Frank Borzage / John Brahm (Germany) / Stan Brakhage / Mel Brooks / Richard Brooks / Clarence Brown / Tod Browning / Charles Burnett / Tim Burton
USA (C-D)
James Cameron (Canada) / Frank Capra (Italy) / John Carpenter / John Cassavetes / William Castle / Charles Chaplin (UK) / Michael Cimino / Joel Coen & Ethan Coen / Francis Ford Coppola / Sofia Coppola / Roger Corman / Wes Craven / John Cromwell / Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico) / George Cukor / Michael Curtiz (Hungary) / Joe Dante / Jules Dassin / Delmer Daves / Brian De Palma / André de Toth (Hungary) / Guillermo del Toro (Mexico) / Cecil B. DeMille / Jonathan Demme / Maya Deren (Ukraine) / William Dieterle (Germany) / Edward Dmytryk (Canada) / Pete Docter / Stanley Donen / Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly / Allan Dwan (Canada)
USA (E-G)
Clint Eastwood / Blake Edwards / John Farrow (Australia) / Abel Ferrara / David Fincher / Robert Flaherty / Richard Fleischer / Victor Fleming / John Ford / Milos Forman (Czechoslovakia) / Bob Fosse / Hollis Frampton / John Frankenheimer / William Friedkin / Samuel Fuller / Terry Gilliam / Michel Gondry (France) / Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico) / D.W. Griffith / James Gray / Alice Guy-Blaché (France)
USA (H-L)
Hal Hartley / Henry Hathaway / Howard Hawks / Todd Haynes / Monte Hellman / Walter Hill / Alfred Hitchcock (UK) / Tobe Hooper / Ron Howard / John Huston / Jim Jarmusch / Barry Jenkins / Norman Jewison (Canada) / Chuck Jones / Spike Jonze / Phil Karlson / Elia Kazan (Turkey) / Buster Keaton / Henry King / Stanley Kubrick / John Landis / Fritz Lang (Austria) / Ang Lee (Taiwan) / Spike Lee / Mitchell Leisen / Mervyn LeRoy / Jerry Lewis / Joseph H. Lewis / Richard Linklater / Kenneth Lonergan / Ernst Lubitsch (Germany) / George Lucas / Sidney Lumet / David Lynch
USA (M-R)
Terrence Malick / David Mamet / Rouben Mamoulian (Georgia) / Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Anthony Mann / Michael Mann / Leo McCarey / Jonas Mekas (Lithuania) / Lewis Milestone (Moldova) / Vincente Minnelli / Michael Moore / Errol Morris / Mike Nichols (Germany) / Christopher Nolan (UK) / Alan J. Pakula / Alan Parker (UK) / Alexander Payne / Sam Peckinpah / Jordan Peele / Arthur Penn / Sydney Pollack / Otto Preminger (Austria-Hungary) / Sam Raimi / Bob Rafelson / Nicholas Ray / Kelly Reichardt / Rob Reiner / Mark Robson (Canada) / George A. Romero / Alan Rudolph
USA (S-U)
John Sayles / Paul Schrader / Martin Scorsese / Ridley Scott (UK) / Tony Scott (UK) / George Sidney / Don Siegel / Robert Siodmak (Germany) / Douglas Sirk (Germany) / Steven Soderbergh / Todd Solondz / Steven Spielberg / George Stevens / Oliver Stone / John Sturges / Preston Sturges / Quentin Tarantino / Frank Tashlin / Jacques Tourneur (France) / Edgar G. Ulmer (Austria-Hungary)
USA (V-Z)
Gus Van Sant / Paul Verhoeven (Netherlands) / King Vidor / Josef von Sternberg (Austria) / Erich von Stroheim (Austria) / Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski / Raoul Walsh / Charles Walters / Andy Warhol / John Waters / Peter Weir (Australia) / Orson Welles / William Wellman / James Whale (UK) / Billy Wilder (Austria-Hungary) / Robert Wise / Frederick Wiseman / William Wyler (Germany) / Robert Zemeckis / Fred Zinnemann (Austria-Hungary)
Yugoslavia
Emir Kusturica (Bosnia and Herzegovina)