Greatest Film Directors of All Time, Ranked

Filmmakers whose work shaped cinema, from Hitchcock and Kurosawa to Kubrick, Spielberg and Nolan. Ranked from curators' lists.

Ranked from 5 lists by 5 curators

1. Stanley Kubrick Person
2. Steven Spielberg Person
3. Quentin Tarantino Person
4. Christopher Nolan Person
5. Akira Kurosawa Person
6. Alfred Hitchcock Person
7. Martin Scorsese Person
8. Francis Ford Coppola Person
9. Federico Fellini Person
10. Orson Welles Person
11. Wong Kar-wai Person
12. Billy Wilder Person
13. Ingmar Bergman Person
14. Hayao Miyazaki Person
15. Satyajit Ray Person
16. Wes Anderson Person
17. Krzysztof Kieślowski Person
18. Bong Joon-ho Person
19. Pedro Almodóvar Person
20. Agnès Varda Person
21. Yasujirō Ozu Person

The lists behind it

• Films that made me want to go there by Zoe Laurent
• The ones I rewatch by Riya Menon
• Directors With a Signature (my ranking) by Tolga Yavuz
• Directors With a Signature (Deniz's take) by Deniz Aydın
• Directors With a Signature by Ada Kaya

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