Top 100 Directors

For Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Ran, Ikiru, High and Low, Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Hidden Fortress, Red Beard, Kagemusha, and Dersu Uzala

For Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, Lolita, and Spartacus

For Persona, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Fanny and Alexander, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, The Silence, Winter Light, Hour of the Wolf, and The Virgin Spring

For Mulholland Dr., Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Twin Peaks, Inland Empire, The Elephant Man, Lost Highway, Wild at Heart, and The Straight Story

For Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, Rear Window, Notorious, The Birds, Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Shadow of a Doubt, The Lady Vanishes, and The 39 Steps

For Un chien andalou, The Exterminating Angel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Los Olvidados, Belle de jour, Viridiana, L'age d'or, The Phantom of Liberty, That Obscure Object of Desire, and Land Without Bread

For Breathless, Pierrot le Fou, Contempt, Band of Outsiders, Vivre se vie, Goodbye to Langauge 3D, Weekend, and Histoire du Cinema

For Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, Double Indemnity, The Apartment, Ace in the Hole, Witness for the Prosecution, and One Two Three

For City Lights, The Great Dictator, Modern Times, The Gold Rush, Limelight, Monsieur Verdoux, and The Kid

For 8 1/2, La dolce vita, La strada, Nights of Cabiria, Amarcord, and I vitelonni

With Ethan Coen

For Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, No Country for Old Men, Inside Llewyn Davis, A Serious Man, Raising Arizona, and O Brother Where Art Thou

For Taxi Drive, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Hugo, Mean Streets, and The Departed

For There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master, and Inherent Vice

For Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, and The Wind Rises

For The Godfather: Part II, The Godfather, and Apocalypse Now

For Boyhood, Before Sunset, Before Sunrise, Before Midnight, Dazed and Confused, and Waking Life

For Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, and Django Unchained

For Stalker, Solaris, Andrei Rublev, Mirror, and The Sacrifice

For The Passion of Joan of Arc, Ordet, Vampyr, Day of Wrath, and Gertrud

For Annie Hall, Manhattan, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Zelig, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Midnight in Paris

With Emeric Pressburger

For The Red Shoes, A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, and Peeping Tom

For The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America, and For a Few Dollars More

For Moonrise Kingdom, The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rushmore, and The Grand Budapest Hotel

For Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Schindler's List, A.I., Saving Private Ryan, and E.T.

For Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, The Magnificent Ambersons, and The Lady from Shanghai

For Amour, Cache, Funny Games, and The White Ribbon

For The Searchers, Stagecoach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, The Grapes of Wrath, My Darling Clementine, and The Quiet Man

For The Rules of the Game, Grand Illusion, The River, and A Day in the Country

For Sansho the Bailiff, Ugetsu, and The Life of Oharu

For Fight Club, The Social Network, Se7en, Zodiac, and Gone Girl

For Harakiri, Kwaidan, and The Human Condition

For Last Year at Marienbad, Hiroshima mon amour, and Night and Fog

For L'avventura, Blow-Up, L'eclisse, and La Notte

For Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, The Pianist, Repulsion, and Knife in the Water

For Melancholia, Dogville, Breaking the Waves, and The Kingdom

For M, Metropolis, and the Testament of Dr. Mabuse

For Sherlock Jr., The General, Our Hospitality, and Seven Chances

For A Man Escaped, Au hasard Balthazar, Pickpocket, and Diary of a Country Priest

For Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love, Happy Together, and Days of Being Wild

For Blade Runner and Alien

For A Woman Under the Influence, Faces, Husbands, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

For Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas

For Pather Panchali, The Music Room, The World of Apu, and Aparajito

For The Lord of the Rings trilogy

For The 400 Blows and Jules and Jim

For Videodrome, A History of Violence, and The Fly

For Three Colors: Blue, Three Colors: Red, The Double Life of Veronique, and A Short Film About Killing

For Bringing Up Baby, Rio Bravo, \Red River, and His Girl Friday

For Tropical Malady, Syndromes and a Century, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, and Blissfully Yours

For The Tree of Life, Days of Heaven, and Badlands

For Sans soleil and La jetee

For Sunrise, Nosferatu, Tabu, and Faust

For Satantango, Werckmeister Harmonies, and The Turin Horse

For Her, Adaptation., and Being John Malkovich

For Children of Men, Y tu mama tambien, and Gravity

For Memento, The Dark Knight, and Inception

For Bigger Than Life, Johnny Guitar, Rebel Without a Cause, and In a Lonely Place

For Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Berlin Alexanderplatz, and In a Year of 13 Moons

For Bicycle Thieves and Umberto D.

For To Be or Not To Be, Trouble in Paradise, and The Shop Around the Corner

For Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain

For Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream, and The Wrestler

For Fantasia, Pinnocchio, and Dumbo

For Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Shaun of the Dead, Spaced, The World's End, and Hot Fuzz

For Brazil and Monty Python and the Holy Grail

For Only Lovers Left Alive, Down By Law, Dead Man, and Stranger Than Paradise

For Casablanca and Mildred Pierce

For Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, and Grizzly Man

For The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, and The Asphalt Jungle

For Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Brief Encounter

For The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille

For The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

For Close-Up, Certified Copy, and The Wind Will Carry Us

For Nashville and McCabe & Mrs. Miller

For WALL-E and Finding Nemo

For Voyage in Italy, Rome Open City, and Germany Year Zero

For Terminator 2, The Terminator, and Aliens

For Underground and Time of the Gypsies

For Tokyo Story, Late Spring, and Early Summer

For The Wages of Fear and Les diabolique

For Battleship Potemkin and Ivan the Terrible

For Duck Soup and Make Way for Tomorrow

For Starship Troopers and RoboCop

For Imitation of Life, Written on the Wind, and All That Heaven Allows

For Grave of the Fireflies and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

For Playtime, Mon oncle, and M. Hulot's Holiday

For The Princess Bridge, This Is Spinal Tap, and When Harry Met Sally

For One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus

For 12 Angry Men and Dog Day Afternoon

For The Thing and Halloween

For It's Such a Beautiful Day and Rejected

For For Love and Gold, Big Deal on Madonna Street, and The Great War

For The Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead

For Orpheus and Beauty and the Beast

For Back to the Future and Forrest Gump

For Elephant, Milk, and Good Will Hunting

For Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Life of Brian

For Birdman and Amores perros

For It's a Wonderful Life and It Happened One Night

For The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty