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TSPDT
TSPDT

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-Kin
Kit-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 J. Flaherty
1885 Allan Dwan / Sacha Guitry / G.W. Pabst / Erich von Stroheim
1886 Michael Curtiz / Henry King / John Cromwell / John M. Stahl
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 / Fei Mu / 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 / Robert Rossen
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 / Cy Endfield / 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 / George Roy Hill / Miklós Jancsó / Chris Marker / Satyajit Ray
1922 Blake Edwards / Jonas Mekas / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Arthur Penn / Alain Resnais / Francesco Rosi
1923 Lindsay Anderson / Chang Cheh / 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 / Youssef Chahine / Roger Corman / Shohei Imamura / Norman Jewison / Jerry Lewis / John Schlesinger / Andrzej Wajda
1927 Kenneth Anger / Bob Fosse / Ken Russell
1928 Marco Ferreri / Tomás Gutiérrez Alea / Stanley Kubrick / Alan J. Pakula / Tony Richardson / 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 / Richard Donner / 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 / Elaine May / Nagisa Oshima / Carlos Saura / Andrei Tarkovsky / François Truffaut
1933 John Boorman / Stan Brakhage / Ken Jacobs / Roman Polanski / Bob Rafelson / Jean-Marie Straub
1934 Kira Muratova / 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 / Larisa Shepitko / Jerzy Skolimowski / 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 Albert Brooks / Hou Hsiao-hsien / Ann Hui / Takeshi Kitano / David Mamet / Rob Reiner / Steven Spielberg / Edward Yang
1948 Catherine Breillat / 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 / Nanni Moretti
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 / Bruno Dumont
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 / Christian Petzold
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
1981 Mia Hansen-Løve
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
Chile Patricio Guzmán
China Chen Kaige / Fei Mu / Jia Zhangke / Zhang Yimou
Cuba Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Czechoslovakia Věra Chytilová / Jan Švankmajer
Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer / Lars von Trier
Egypt Youssef Chahine
Finland Aki Kaurismäki
France Olivier Assayas / Jacques Audiard / Jacques Becker / Catherine Breillat / Robert Bresson / Leos Carax / Marcel Carné / Claude Chabrol / René Clair / Henri-Georges Clouzot / Jean Cocteau / Jacques Demy / Claire Denis / Bruno Dumont / Marguerite Duras (Vietnam) / Julien Duvivier / Jean Eustache / Louis Feuillade / Georges Franju / Abel Gance / Philippe Garrel / Jean-Luc Godard / Sacha Guitry (Russia) / Mia Hansen-Løve / 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) / Christian Petzold / Wim Wenders / Robert Wiene (Poland)
Greece Theo Angelopoulos
Hong Kong Chang Cheh (China) / 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 / Nanni Moretti / 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) / Larisa Shepitko (Ukraine) / 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 / Cy Endfield (USA) / Terence Fisher / Stephen Frears / Jonathan Glazer / Peter Greenaway / Robert Hamer / Alfred Hitchcock / Joanna Hogg / Derek Jarman / Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece) / 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 / Tony Richardson / Nicolas Roeg / Ken Russell / John Schlesinger / Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland) / Peter Watkins / Michael Winterbottom / Edgar Wright
Ukraine Kira Muratova (Romania)
USA (A-B) Robert Aldrich / Woody Allen / Robert Altman / Paul Thomas Anderson / Wes 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 / Albert Brooks / 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 / Richard Donner / Allan Dwan (Canada)
USA (E-G) Clint Eastwood / Blake Edwards / John Farrow (Australia) / Abel Ferrara / David Fincher / Robert J. 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 / George Roy Hill / Walter Hill / Tobe Hooper / Ron Howard / John Huston / Ken Jacobs / 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 / Elaine May / 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 / Robert Rossen / 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 / John M. Stahl (Azerbaijan) / 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)