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.
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Directors: Listed Chronologically (by Year of Birth)
(Year of death is listed in brackets)
1861 Georges Méliès (1938)
1873 Louis Feuillade (1925) / Alice Guy-Blaché (1968) / Robert Wiene (1938)
1875 D.W. Griffith (1948)
1879 Victor Sjöström (1960)
1880 Tod Browning (1962)
1881 Cecil B. DeMille (1959)
1884 Robert J. Flaherty (1951)
1885 Allan Dwan (1981) / Sacha Guitry (1957) / G.W. Pabst (1967) / Erich von Stroheim (1957)
1886 John Cromwell (1979) / Michael Curtiz (1962) / Henry King (1982) / John M. Stahl (1950)
1887 Raoul Walsh (1980)
1888 F.W. Murnau (1931)
1889 Charles Chaplin (1977) / Jean Cocteau (1963) / Carl Theodor Dreyer (1968) / Victor Fleming (1949) / Abel Gance (1981) / James Whale (1957)
1890 Clarence Brown (1987) / Fritz Lang (1976)
1892 Ernst Lubitsch (1947)
1893 John Brahm (1982) / William Dieterle (1972)
1894 Frank Borzage (1962) / Alexander Dovzhenko (1956) / John Ford (1973) / Jean Renoir (1979) / King Vidor (1982) / Josef von Sternberg (1969)
1895 Buster Keaton (1966) / Lewis Milestone (1980)
1896 Julien Duvivier (1967) / Howard Hawks (1977) / Leo McCarey (1969) / Dziga Vertov (1954) / William A. Wellman (1975)
1897 Dorothy Arzner (1979) / Frank Capra (1991) / Jean Epstein (1953) / Rouben Mamoulian (1987) / Douglas Sirk (1987)
1898 René Clair (1981) / Sergei Eisenstein (1948) / Henry Hathaway (1985) / Mitchell Leisen (1972) / Kenji Mizoguchi (1956) / Preston Sturges (1950) / Tomu Uchida (1970)
1899 George Cukor (1983) / Alfred Hitchcock (1980)
1900 Luis Buñuel (1983) / Mervyn LeRoy (1987) / Robert Siodmak (1973)
1901 Robert Bresson (1999) / Vittorio De Sica (1974)
1902 Boris Barnet (1965) / Max Ophüls (1957) / Emeric Pressburger (1988) / William Wyler (1981)
1903 Mikhail Kalatozov (1973) / Vincente Minnelli (1986) / Yasujiro Ozu (1963) / Hiroshi Shimizu (1966)
1904 Delmer Daves (1977) / John Farrow (1963) / Terence Fisher (1980) / George Stevens (1975) / Jacques Tourneur (1977) / Edgar G. Ulmer (1972)
1905 Mikio Naruse (1969) / Michael Powell (1990) / Otto Preminger (1986) / Jean Vigo (1934)
1906 Jacques Becker (1960) / Marcel Carné (1996) / Fei Mu (1951) / John Huston (1987) / Anthony Mann (1967) / Carol Reed (1976) / Roberto Rossellini (1977) / Luchino Visconti (1976) / Billy Wilder (2002)
1907 Henri-Georges Clouzot (1977) / Joseph H. Lewis (2000) / Jacques Tati (1982) / Fred Zinnemann (1997)
1908 Tex Avery (1980) / Edward Dmytryk (1999) / Phil Karlson (1985) / David Lean (1991) / Manoel de Oliveira (2015) / Robert Rossen (1966)
1909 Elia Kazan (2003) / Joseph Losey (1984) / Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1993)
1910 Akira Kurosawa (1998) / John Sturges (1992)
1911 Jules Dassin (2008) / Basil Dearden (1971) / Robert Hamer (1963) / Nicholas Ray (1979) / Charles Walters (1982)
1912 Michelangelo Antonioni (2007) / Richard Brooks (1992) / Georges Franju (1987) / Samuel Fuller (1997) / Chuck Jones (2002) / Gene Kelly (1996) / Alexander Mackendrick (1993) / Don Siegel (1991)
1913 André de Toth (2002) / Mark Robson (1978) / Frank Tashlin (1972)
1914 Mario Bava (1980) / William Castle (1977) / Marguerite Duras (1996) / Cy Endfield (1995) / Robert Wise (2005)
1915 Kon Ichikawa (2008) / Orson Welles (1985)
1916 Jack Arnold (1992) / Budd Boetticher (2001) / Richard Fleischer (2006) / Masaki Kobayashi (1996) / Dino Risi (2008) / George Sidney (2002)
1917 Maya Deren (1961) / Jean-Pierre Melville (1973) / Jean Rouch (2004)
1918 Robert Aldrich (1983) / Ingmar Bergman (2007) / Ida Lupino (1995)
1919 Gillo Pontecorvo (2006)
1920 Federico Fellini (1993) / Richard Quine (1989) / Eric Rohmer (2010)
1921 Luis García Berlanga (2010) / George Roy Hill (2002) / Miklós Jancsó (2014) / Chris Marker (2012) / Satyajit Ray (1992)
1922 Blake Edwards (2010) / Jonas Mekas (2019) / Russ Meyer (2004) / Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975) / Arthur Penn (2010) / Alain Resnais (2014) / Francesco Rosi (2015)
1923 Lindsay Anderson (1994) / Chang Cheh (2002) / Ousmane Sembene (2007) / Seijun Suzuki (2017)
1924 Stanley Donen (2019) / Sidney Lumet (2011) / Yasuzo Masumura (1986) / Sergei Parajanov (1990) / Claude Sautet (2000)
1925 Robert Altman (2006) / Guru Dutt (1964) / Ritwik Ghatak (1976) / Claude Lanzmann (2018) / Sam Peckinpah (1984) / Maurice Pialat (2003)
1926 Mel Brooks / Youssef Chahine (2008) / Roger Corman (2024) / Shohei Imamura (2006) / Norman Jewison (2024) / Jerry Lewis (2017) / Albert Maysles (2015) / John Schlesinger (2003) / Andrzej Wajda (2016)
1927 Kenneth Anger (2023) / Bob Fosse (1987) / Marcel Ophüls (2025) / Ken Russell (2011) / Hiroshi Teshigahara (2001)
1928 Marco Ferreri (1997) / Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (1996) / James Ivory / Stanley Kubrick (1999) / Alan J. Pakula (1998) / Nelson Pereira dos Santos (2018) / Tony Richardson (1991) / Jacques Rivette (2016) / Nicolas Roeg (2018) / Michael Snow (2023) / Agnès Varda (2019) / Andy Warhol (1987)
1929 Hal Ashby (1988) / John Cassavetes (1989) / Věra Chytilová (2014) / Monte Hellman (2021) / Alejandro Jodorowsky / Sergio Leone (1989)
1930 Claude Chabrol (2010) / Richard Donner (2021) / Clint Eastwood / John Frankenheimer (2002) / Jean-Luc Godard (2022) / Kinji Fukasaku (2003) / Frank Perry (1995) / Frederick Wiseman
1931 Jacques Demy (1990) / David Maysles (1987) / Mike Nichols (2014) / Ermanno Olmi (2018) / Ettore Scola (2016)
1932 Milos Forman (2018) / King Hu (1997) / Richard Lester / Dušan Makavejev (2019) / Louis Malle (1995) / Elaine May / Nagisa Oshima (2013) / Carlos Saura (2023) / Andrei Tarkovsky (1986) / François Truffaut (1984)
1933 John Boorman / Stan Brakhage (2003) / Costa-Gavras / Ken Jacobs (2025) / Elem Klimov (2003) / Roman Polanski / Bob Rafelson (2022) / Jean-Marie Straub (2022)
1934 Kira Muratova (2018) / Sydney Pollack (2008) / Jan Švankmajer
1935 Woody Allen / Theo Angelopoulos (2012) / Alan Clarke (1990) / William Friedkin (2023) / Isao Takahata (2018) / Peter Watkins (2025)
1936 Hollis Frampton (1984) / Dennis Hopper (2010) / Danièle Huillet (2006) / Ken Loach
1937 Ridley Scott
1938 Jean Eustache (1981) / Aleksei German (2013) / Larisa Shepitko (1979) / Jerzy Skolimowski / Paul Verhoeven
1939 Marco Bellocchio / Peter Bogdanovich (2022) / Michael Cimino (2016) / Francis Ford Coppola / Wes Craven (2015) / Glauber Rocha (1981)
1940 Dario Argento / Brian De Palma / Víctor Erice / Terry Gilliam / Abbas Kiarostami (2016) / George A. Romero (2017) / Andrzej Żuławski (2016)
1941 Bernardo Bertolucci (2018) / Stephen Frears / Patricio Guzmán / Krzysztof Kieslowski (1996) / Hayao Miyazaki / Raúl Ruiz (2011) / Bertrand Tavernier (2021)
1942 James Benning / Peter Greenaway / Michael Haneke / Werner Herzog / Walter Hill / Derek Jarman (1994) / Barry Levinson / Martin Scorsese
1943 Roy Andersson / David Cronenberg / Tobe Hooper (2017) / Mike Leigh / Terrence Malick / Michael Mann / Alan Rudolph
1944 Charles Burnett / Jonathan Demme (2017) / George Lucas / Alan Parker (2020) / Tony Scott (2012) / Peter Weir
1945 Terence Davies (2023) / Djibril Diop Mambéty (1998) / Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1982) / George Miller / Wim Wenders
1946 Joe Dante / Claire Denis / David Lynch (2025) / Paul Schrader / Oliver Stone / John Waters / John Woo
1947 Albert Brooks / Hou Hsiao-hsien / Ann Hui / Takeshi Kitano / David Mamet / Rob Reiner (2025) / Steven Spielberg / Edward Yang (2007)
1948 Catherine Breillat / John Carpenter / Philippe Garrel / Errol Morris
1949 Pedro Almodóvar
1950 Chantal Akerman (2015) / John Hughes (2009) / John Landis / John Sayles / Tsui Hark
1951 Kathryn Bigelow / Jean-Pierre Dardenne / Abel Ferrara / Aleksandr Sokurov / Robert Zemeckis / Zhang Yimou
1952 Jacques Audiard / Chen Kaige / Gus Van Sant
1953 Jim Jarmusch / Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Nanni Moretti / Raoul Peck
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 (2026) / 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 / Pedro Costa / Lav Diaz / Bruno Dumont
1959 Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Hal Hartley / Sam Raimi / Todd Solondz
1960 Leos Carax / Arnaud Desplechin / Atom Egoyan / Joanna Hogg / Hong Sang-soo / Kim Ki-duk (2020) / 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 / M. Night Shyamalan / Paolo Sorrentino / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
1971 Sofia Coppola / Luca Guadagnino / Carlos Reygadas
1972 Asghar Farhadi / Miguel Gomes
1973 Yorgos Lanthimos
1974 Edgar Wright
1975 Albert Serra
1976 Maren Ade
1977 Radu Jude
1978 Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Céline Sciamma
1979 Barry Jenkins / Jordan Peele
1981 Mia Hansen-Løve / Alice Rohrwacher
1873 Louis Feuillade (1925) / Alice Guy-Blaché (1968) / Robert Wiene (1938)
1875 D.W. Griffith (1948)
1879 Victor Sjöström (1960)
1880 Tod Browning (1962)
1881 Cecil B. DeMille (1959)
1884 Robert J. Flaherty (1951)
1885 Allan Dwan (1981) / Sacha Guitry (1957) / G.W. Pabst (1967) / Erich von Stroheim (1957)
1886 John Cromwell (1979) / Michael Curtiz (1962) / Henry King (1982) / John M. Stahl (1950)
1887 Raoul Walsh (1980)
1888 F.W. Murnau (1931)
1889 Charles Chaplin (1977) / Jean Cocteau (1963) / Carl Theodor Dreyer (1968) / Victor Fleming (1949) / Abel Gance (1981) / James Whale (1957)
1890 Clarence Brown (1987) / Fritz Lang (1976)
1892 Ernst Lubitsch (1947)
1893 John Brahm (1982) / William Dieterle (1972)
1894 Frank Borzage (1962) / Alexander Dovzhenko (1956) / John Ford (1973) / Jean Renoir (1979) / King Vidor (1982) / Josef von Sternberg (1969)
1895 Buster Keaton (1966) / Lewis Milestone (1980)
1896 Julien Duvivier (1967) / Howard Hawks (1977) / Leo McCarey (1969) / Dziga Vertov (1954) / William A. Wellman (1975)
1897 Dorothy Arzner (1979) / Frank Capra (1991) / Jean Epstein (1953) / Rouben Mamoulian (1987) / Douglas Sirk (1987)
1898 René Clair (1981) / Sergei Eisenstein (1948) / Henry Hathaway (1985) / Mitchell Leisen (1972) / Kenji Mizoguchi (1956) / Preston Sturges (1950) / Tomu Uchida (1970)
1899 George Cukor (1983) / Alfred Hitchcock (1980)
1900 Luis Buñuel (1983) / Mervyn LeRoy (1987) / Robert Siodmak (1973)
1901 Robert Bresson (1999) / Vittorio De Sica (1974)
1902 Boris Barnet (1965) / Max Ophüls (1957) / Emeric Pressburger (1988) / William Wyler (1981)
1903 Mikhail Kalatozov (1973) / Vincente Minnelli (1986) / Yasujiro Ozu (1963) / Hiroshi Shimizu (1966)
1904 Delmer Daves (1977) / John Farrow (1963) / Terence Fisher (1980) / George Stevens (1975) / Jacques Tourneur (1977) / Edgar G. Ulmer (1972)
1905 Mikio Naruse (1969) / Michael Powell (1990) / Otto Preminger (1986) / Jean Vigo (1934)
1906 Jacques Becker (1960) / Marcel Carné (1996) / Fei Mu (1951) / John Huston (1987) / Anthony Mann (1967) / Carol Reed (1976) / Roberto Rossellini (1977) / Luchino Visconti (1976) / Billy Wilder (2002)
1907 Henri-Georges Clouzot (1977) / Joseph H. Lewis (2000) / Jacques Tati (1982) / Fred Zinnemann (1997)
1908 Tex Avery (1980) / Edward Dmytryk (1999) / Phil Karlson (1985) / David Lean (1991) / Manoel de Oliveira (2015) / Robert Rossen (1966)
1909 Elia Kazan (2003) / Joseph Losey (1984) / Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1993)
1910 Akira Kurosawa (1998) / John Sturges (1992)
1911 Jules Dassin (2008) / Basil Dearden (1971) / Robert Hamer (1963) / Nicholas Ray (1979) / Charles Walters (1982)
1912 Michelangelo Antonioni (2007) / Richard Brooks (1992) / Georges Franju (1987) / Samuel Fuller (1997) / Chuck Jones (2002) / Gene Kelly (1996) / Alexander Mackendrick (1993) / Don Siegel (1991)
1913 André de Toth (2002) / Mark Robson (1978) / Frank Tashlin (1972)
1914 Mario Bava (1980) / William Castle (1977) / Marguerite Duras (1996) / Cy Endfield (1995) / Robert Wise (2005)
1915 Kon Ichikawa (2008) / Orson Welles (1985)
1916 Jack Arnold (1992) / Budd Boetticher (2001) / Richard Fleischer (2006) / Masaki Kobayashi (1996) / Dino Risi (2008) / George Sidney (2002)
1917 Maya Deren (1961) / Jean-Pierre Melville (1973) / Jean Rouch (2004)
1918 Robert Aldrich (1983) / Ingmar Bergman (2007) / Ida Lupino (1995)
1919 Gillo Pontecorvo (2006)
1920 Federico Fellini (1993) / Richard Quine (1989) / Eric Rohmer (2010)
1921 Luis García Berlanga (2010) / George Roy Hill (2002) / Miklós Jancsó (2014) / Chris Marker (2012) / Satyajit Ray (1992)
1922 Blake Edwards (2010) / Jonas Mekas (2019) / Russ Meyer (2004) / Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975) / Arthur Penn (2010) / Alain Resnais (2014) / Francesco Rosi (2015)
1923 Lindsay Anderson (1994) / Chang Cheh (2002) / Ousmane Sembene (2007) / Seijun Suzuki (2017)
1924 Stanley Donen (2019) / Sidney Lumet (2011) / Yasuzo Masumura (1986) / Sergei Parajanov (1990) / Claude Sautet (2000)
1925 Robert Altman (2006) / Guru Dutt (1964) / Ritwik Ghatak (1976) / Claude Lanzmann (2018) / Sam Peckinpah (1984) / Maurice Pialat (2003)
1926 Mel Brooks / Youssef Chahine (2008) / Roger Corman (2024) / Shohei Imamura (2006) / Norman Jewison (2024) / Jerry Lewis (2017) / Albert Maysles (2015) / John Schlesinger (2003) / Andrzej Wajda (2016)
1927 Kenneth Anger (2023) / Bob Fosse (1987) / Marcel Ophüls (2025) / Ken Russell (2011) / Hiroshi Teshigahara (2001)
1928 Marco Ferreri (1997) / Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (1996) / James Ivory / Stanley Kubrick (1999) / Alan J. Pakula (1998) / Nelson Pereira dos Santos (2018) / Tony Richardson (1991) / Jacques Rivette (2016) / Nicolas Roeg (2018) / Michael Snow (2023) / Agnès Varda (2019) / Andy Warhol (1987)
1929 Hal Ashby (1988) / John Cassavetes (1989) / Věra Chytilová (2014) / Monte Hellman (2021) / Alejandro Jodorowsky / Sergio Leone (1989)
1930 Claude Chabrol (2010) / Richard Donner (2021) / Clint Eastwood / John Frankenheimer (2002) / Jean-Luc Godard (2022) / Kinji Fukasaku (2003) / Frank Perry (1995) / Frederick Wiseman
1931 Jacques Demy (1990) / David Maysles (1987) / Mike Nichols (2014) / Ermanno Olmi (2018) / Ettore Scola (2016)
1932 Milos Forman (2018) / King Hu (1997) / Richard Lester / Dušan Makavejev (2019) / Louis Malle (1995) / Elaine May / Nagisa Oshima (2013) / Carlos Saura (2023) / Andrei Tarkovsky (1986) / François Truffaut (1984)
1933 John Boorman / Stan Brakhage (2003) / Costa-Gavras / Ken Jacobs (2025) / Elem Klimov (2003) / Roman Polanski / Bob Rafelson (2022) / Jean-Marie Straub (2022)
1934 Kira Muratova (2018) / Sydney Pollack (2008) / Jan Švankmajer
1935 Woody Allen / Theo Angelopoulos (2012) / Alan Clarke (1990) / William Friedkin (2023) / Isao Takahata (2018) / Peter Watkins (2025)
1936 Hollis Frampton (1984) / Dennis Hopper (2010) / Danièle Huillet (2006) / Ken Loach
1937 Ridley Scott
1938 Jean Eustache (1981) / Aleksei German (2013) / Larisa Shepitko (1979) / Jerzy Skolimowski / Paul Verhoeven
1939 Marco Bellocchio / Peter Bogdanovich (2022) / Michael Cimino (2016) / Francis Ford Coppola / Wes Craven (2015) / Glauber Rocha (1981)
1940 Dario Argento / Brian De Palma / Víctor Erice / Terry Gilliam / Abbas Kiarostami (2016) / George A. Romero (2017) / Andrzej Żuławski (2016)
1941 Bernardo Bertolucci (2018) / Stephen Frears / Patricio Guzmán / Krzysztof Kieslowski (1996) / Hayao Miyazaki / Raúl Ruiz (2011) / Bertrand Tavernier (2021)
1942 James Benning / Peter Greenaway / Michael Haneke / Werner Herzog / Walter Hill / Derek Jarman (1994) / Barry Levinson / Martin Scorsese
1943 Roy Andersson / David Cronenberg / Tobe Hooper (2017) / Mike Leigh / Terrence Malick / Michael Mann / Alan Rudolph
1944 Charles Burnett / Jonathan Demme (2017) / George Lucas / Alan Parker (2020) / Tony Scott (2012) / Peter Weir
1945 Terence Davies (2023) / Djibril Diop Mambéty (1998) / Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1982) / George Miller / Wim Wenders
1946 Joe Dante / Claire Denis / David Lynch (2025) / Paul Schrader / Oliver Stone / John Waters / John Woo
1947 Albert Brooks / Hou Hsiao-hsien / Ann Hui / Takeshi Kitano / David Mamet / Rob Reiner (2025) / Steven Spielberg / Edward Yang (2007)
1948 Catherine Breillat / John Carpenter / Philippe Garrel / Errol Morris
1949 Pedro Almodóvar
1950 Chantal Akerman (2015) / John Hughes (2009) / John Landis / John Sayles / Tsui Hark
1951 Kathryn Bigelow / Jean-Pierre Dardenne / Abel Ferrara / Aleksandr Sokurov / Robert Zemeckis / Zhang Yimou
1952 Jacques Audiard / Chen Kaige / Gus Van Sant
1953 Jim Jarmusch / Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Nanni Moretti / Raoul Peck
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 (2026) / 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 / Pedro Costa / Lav Diaz / Bruno Dumont
1959 Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Hal Hartley / Sam Raimi / Todd Solondz
1960 Leos Carax / Arnaud Desplechin / Atom Egoyan / Joanna Hogg / Hong Sang-soo / Kim Ki-duk (2020) / 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 / M. Night Shyamalan / Paolo Sorrentino / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
1971 Sofia Coppola / Luca Guadagnino / Carlos Reygadas
1972 Asghar Farhadi / Miguel Gomes
1973 Yorgos Lanthimos
1974 Edgar Wright
1975 Albert Serra
1976 Maren Ade
1977 Radu Jude
1978 Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Céline Sciamma
1979 Barry Jenkins / Jordan Peele
1981 Mia Hansen-Løve / Alice Rohrwacher
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 Nelson Pereira dos Santos / 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 (A-L) Olivier Assayas / Jacques Audiard / Jacques Becker / Catherine Breillat / Robert Bresson / Leos Carax / Marcel Carné / Claude Chabrol / René Clair / Henri-Georges Clouzot / Jean Cocteau / Costa-Gavras (Greece) / Jacques Demy / Claire Denis / Arnaud Desplechin / Bruno Dumont / Marguerite Duras (Vietnam) / Julien Duvivier / Jean Epstein (Poland) / Jean Eustache / Louis Feuillade / Georges Franju / Abel Gance / Philippe Garrel / Jean-Luc Godard / Sacha Guitry (Russia) / Mia Hansen-Løve / Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Claude Lanzmann
France (M-Z) Louis Malle / Chris Marker / Georges Méliès / Jean-Pierre Melville / Gaspar Noé (Argentina) / Marcel Ophüls (Germany) / Max Ophüls (Germany) / François Ozon / Raoul Peck (Haiti) / Maurice Pialat / Roman Polanski / Jean Renoir / Alain Resnais / Jacques Rivette / Eric Rohmer / Jean Rouch / Raúl Ruiz (Chile) / Claude Sautet / Céline Sciamma / Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet / Jacques Tati / Bertrand Tavernier / François Truffaut / Agnès Varda (Belgium) / Jean Vigo / Wang Bing (China) / Andrzej Żuławski (Poland)
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 / Luca Guadagnino / Sergio Leone / Nanni Moretti / Ermanno Olmi / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Gillo Pontecorvo / Dino Risi / Alice Rohrwacher / Francesco Rosi / Roberto Rossellini / Ettore Scola / Paolo Sorrentino / Giuseppe Tornatore / Luchino Visconti
Japan Kinji Fukasaku / Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Kon Ichikawa / Shohei Imamura / Takeshi Kitano / Masaki Kobayashi / Hirokazu Koreeda / Akira Kurosawa / Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Yasuzo Masumura / Takashi Miike / Hayao Miyazaki / Kenji Mizoguchi / Mikio Naruse / Nagisa Oshima / Yasujiro Ozu / Hiroshi Shimizu / Seijun Suzuki / Isao Takahata / Hiroshi Teshigahara / Tomu Uchida
Mauritania Abderrahmane Sissako
Mexico Luis Buñuel (Spain) / Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chile) / Carlos Reygadas
New Zealand Peter Jackson
Philippines Lav Diaz
Poland Krzysztof Kieslowski / Jerzy Skolimowski / Andrzej Wajda
Portugal Pedro Costa / Miguel Gomes / Manoel de Oliveira
Romania Radu Jude / Cristi Puiu
Russia-USSR Boris Barnet / Alexander Dovzhenko (Ukraine) / Sergei Eisenstein (Latvia) / Aleksei German / Mikhail Kalatozov (Georgia) / Elem Klimov / 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 / Víctor Erice / Luis García Berlanga / Carlos Saura / Albert Serra
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
Ukraine Kira Muratova (Romania)
United Kingdom (A-L) Lindsay Anderson (India) / Andrea Arnold / John Boorman / Danny Boyle / Alan Clarke / 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)
United Kingdom (M-Z) Alexander Mackendrick (USA) / Steve McQueen / Michael Powell / Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (Hungary) / Lynne Ramsay / Carol Reed / Tony Richardson / Nicolas Roeg / Ken Russell / John Schlesinger / Peter Watkins / Michael Winterbottom / Edgar Wright
USA (A-B) Robert Aldrich / Woody Allen / Robert Altman / Paul Thomas Anderson / Wes Anderson / Kenneth Anger / Jack Arnold / Darren Aronofsky / Dorothy Arzner / 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) 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)
USA (D) 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) / James Gray / D.W. Griffith / Alice Guy-Blaché (France)
USA (H-J) Hal Hartley / Henry Hathaway / Howard Hawks / Todd Haynes / Monte Hellman / George Roy Hill / Walter Hill / Tobe Hooper / Dennis Hopper / Ron Howard / John Hughes / John Huston / James Ivory / Ken Jacobs / Jim Jarmusch / Barry Jenkins / Norman Jewison (Canada) / Chuck Jones / Spike Jonze
USA (K-L) 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 / Barry Levinson / Jerry Lewis / Joseph H. Lewis / Richard Linklater / Kenneth Lonergan / Ernst Lubitsch (Germany) / George Lucas / Sidney Lumet / Ida Lupino (England) / David Lynch
USA (M) Terrence Malick / David Mamet / Rouben Mamoulian (Georgia) / Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Anthony Mann / Michael Mann / Elaine May / Albert Maysles & David Maysles / Leo McCarey / Jonas Mekas (Lithuania) / Russ Meyer / Lewis Milestone (Moldova) / Vincente Minnelli / Michael Moore / Errol Morris
USA (N-R) Mike Nichols (Germany) / Christopher Nolan (UK) / Alan J. Pakula / Alan Parker (UK) / Alexander Payne / Sam Peckinpah / Jordan Peele / Arthur Penn / Frank Perry / Sydney Pollack / Otto Preminger (Austria-Hungary) / Richard Quine / Bob Rafelson / Sam Raimi / 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) / M. Night Shyamalan (India) / 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 A. 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), Dušan Makavejev (Serbia)
Australia Jane Campion (New Zealand) / George Miller
Austria Michael Haneke (Germany)
Belgium Chantal Akerman / Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Brazil Nelson Pereira dos Santos / 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 (A-L) Olivier Assayas / Jacques Audiard / Jacques Becker / Catherine Breillat / Robert Bresson / Leos Carax / Marcel Carné / Claude Chabrol / René Clair / Henri-Georges Clouzot / Jean Cocteau / Costa-Gavras (Greece) / Jacques Demy / Claire Denis / Arnaud Desplechin / Bruno Dumont / Marguerite Duras (Vietnam) / Julien Duvivier / Jean Epstein (Poland) / Jean Eustache / Louis Feuillade / Georges Franju / Abel Gance / Philippe Garrel / Jean-Luc Godard / Sacha Guitry (Russia) / Mia Hansen-Løve / Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Claude Lanzmann
France (M-Z) Louis Malle / Chris Marker / Georges Méliès / Jean-Pierre Melville / Gaspar Noé (Argentina) / Marcel Ophüls (Germany) / Max Ophüls (Germany) / François Ozon / Raoul Peck (Haiti) / Maurice Pialat / Roman Polanski / Jean Renoir / Alain Resnais / Jacques Rivette / Eric Rohmer / Jean Rouch / Raúl Ruiz (Chile) / Claude Sautet / Céline Sciamma / Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet / Jacques Tati / Bertrand Tavernier / François Truffaut / Agnès Varda (Belgium) / Jean Vigo / Wang Bing (China) / Andrzej Żuławski (Poland)
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 / Luca Guadagnino / Sergio Leone / Nanni Moretti / Ermanno Olmi / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Gillo Pontecorvo / Dino Risi / Alice Rohrwacher / Francesco Rosi / Roberto Rossellini / Ettore Scola / Paolo Sorrentino / Giuseppe Tornatore / Luchino Visconti
Japan Kinji Fukasaku / Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Kon Ichikawa / Shohei Imamura / Takeshi Kitano / Masaki Kobayashi / Hirokazu Koreeda / Akira Kurosawa / Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Yasuzo Masumura / Takashi Miike / Hayao Miyazaki / Kenji Mizoguchi / Mikio Naruse / Nagisa Oshima / Yasujiro Ozu / Hiroshi Shimizu / Seijun Suzuki / Isao Takahata / Hiroshi Teshigahara / Tomu Uchida
Mauritania Abderrahmane Sissako
Mexico Luis Buñuel (Spain) / Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chile) / Carlos Reygadas
New Zealand Peter Jackson
Philippines Lav Diaz
Poland Krzysztof Kieslowski / Jerzy Skolimowski / Andrzej Wajda
Portugal Pedro Costa / Miguel Gomes / Manoel de Oliveira
Romania Radu Jude / Cristi Puiu
Russia-USSR Boris Barnet / Alexander Dovzhenko (Ukraine) / Sergei Eisenstein (Latvia) / Aleksei German / Mikhail Kalatozov (Georgia) / Elem Klimov / 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 / Víctor Erice / Luis García Berlanga / Carlos Saura / Albert Serra
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
Ukraine Kira Muratova (Romania)
United Kingdom (A-L) Lindsay Anderson (India) / Andrea Arnold / John Boorman / Danny Boyle / Alan Clarke / 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)
United Kingdom (M-Z) Alexander Mackendrick (USA) / Steve McQueen / Michael Powell / Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (Hungary) / Lynne Ramsay / Carol Reed / Tony Richardson / Nicolas Roeg / Ken Russell / John Schlesinger / Peter Watkins / Michael Winterbottom / Edgar Wright
USA (A-B) Robert Aldrich / Woody Allen / Robert Altman / Paul Thomas Anderson / Wes Anderson / Kenneth Anger / Jack Arnold / Darren Aronofsky / Dorothy Arzner / 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) 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)
USA (D) 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) / James Gray / D.W. Griffith / Alice Guy-Blaché (France)
USA (H-J) Hal Hartley / Henry Hathaway / Howard Hawks / Todd Haynes / Monte Hellman / George Roy Hill / Walter Hill / Tobe Hooper / Dennis Hopper / Ron Howard / John Hughes / John Huston / James Ivory / Ken Jacobs / Jim Jarmusch / Barry Jenkins / Norman Jewison (Canada) / Chuck Jones / Spike Jonze
USA (K-L) 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 / Barry Levinson / Jerry Lewis / Joseph H. Lewis / Richard Linklater / Kenneth Lonergan / Ernst Lubitsch (Germany) / George Lucas / Sidney Lumet / Ida Lupino (England) / David Lynch
USA (M) Terrence Malick / David Mamet / Rouben Mamoulian (Georgia) / Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Anthony Mann / Michael Mann / Elaine May / Albert Maysles & David Maysles / Leo McCarey / Jonas Mekas (Lithuania) / Russ Meyer / Lewis Milestone (Moldova) / Vincente Minnelli / Michael Moore / Errol Morris
USA (N-R) Mike Nichols (Germany) / Christopher Nolan (UK) / Alan J. Pakula / Alan Parker (UK) / Alexander Payne / Sam Peckinpah / Jordan Peele / Arthur Penn / Frank Perry / Sydney Pollack / Otto Preminger (Austria-Hungary) / Richard Quine / Bob Rafelson / Sam Raimi / 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) / M. Night Shyamalan (India) / 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 A. 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), Dušan Makavejev (Serbia)