Rank#, Director (# of Votes), Film with Most Votes(#)
1. Orson Welles (57) - Citizen Kane (43)
2. Jean Renoir (48) - The Rules of the Game (32)
3. Jean-Luc Godard (43) - Pierrot le fou (8)
4. Alfred Hitchcock (39) - Vertigo (18)
5. John Ford (36) - The Searchers (17)
6. Charles Chaplin (30.6) - City Lights (8)
7. Yasujito Ozu (28) - Tokyo Story (22)
7. Satyajit Ray (28) - Pather Panchali (15)
9. Carl T. Dreyer (27) - Passion of Joan of Arc (15)
10. Luis Bunuel (26)- L'Age d'Or (4)
10. Sergei Eisenstein (26) - Battleship Potemkin (15)
12. Akira Kurosawa (25) - The Seven Samurai (8)
13. Federico Fellini (23) - 8 1/2 (10)
13. Kenji Mizoguchi (23) - Ugetsu Monogatari (10)
13. Marcel Ophuls (23) - Letter from Unknown Woman(8)
16. Ingmar Bergman (22) - Wild Strawberries (8)
17. Andrei Tarkovsky (21) - Andrei Rublev (7)
18. Howard Hawks (20) - Rio Bravo (5)
19. D.W. Griffith (19) - Intolerance (7)
19. Stanley Kubrick (19) - 2001: A Space Odyssey (14)
21. Robert Bresson (18) - Pickpocket (6)
22. Michelangelo Antonioni (17) - L'Avventura (9)
22. Buster Keaton (17) - The General (9)
22. Fritz Lang (17) - M (5)
25. F.W. Murnau (16) - Sunrise (10)
25. Roberto Rossellini (16) - Paisa (7)
25. Jean Vigo (16) - L'Atalante (15)
28. Luchino Visconti (14) - La Terra Trema (3)
28. Billy Wilder (14) - Some Like It Hot (7)
30. Robert Altman (13) - Nashville (5)
30. Ernst Lubitsch (13) - Trouble in Paradise (5)
32. Martin Scorsese (12) - Raging Bull (8)
33. Francis Ford Coppola (11) - The Godfather (4)
34. Vittorio de Sica (10) - The Bicycle Thief (9)
34. Erich von Stroheim (10) - Greed (5)
36. Gene Kelley/Stanley Donen (9) Singin' in the Rain (9)
36. Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger (9) - Black Narcissus (5)
38. Francois Truffaut (8) - Jules et Jim (5)
39. Rainer Werner Fassbinder (7)
39. David Lean (7) - Brief Encounter (3)
39. Sergio Leone (7) - Once Upon a Time in the West (4)
39. Wim Wenders (7) - The Kings of the Road (4)
43. Theo Angelopoulos (6) - The Traveling Players (4)
43. Marcel Carne (6) - The Children of Paradise (6)
43. H. Jennings (6) - Listen to Britain (4)
43. Vincente Minnelli (6) - Meet me in St. Louis (3)
43. Piero Paolo Pasolini (6) - Accatone (3)
43. Sam Peckinpah (6)
43. Alain Resnais (6)
43. Raoul Walsh (6)
51. Bernado Bertoulucci (5) - The Conformist (3)
51. Louis Feuillade (5)
51. Claude Lanzmann (5) - Shoah (5)
51. Carol Reed (5) - The Third Man (5)
51. Josef von Sternberg (5) - Scarlet Empress (4)
51. Jacques Tati (5) - Playtime (3)
51. Jacques Tourneur (5) - Out of the Past (4)
51. Dziga Vertov (5) - The Man with a Movie Camera (5)
51. King Vidor (5) - The Crowd (5)
60. Terence Davies(4.5) - Distant Voices, Still Lives (3.5)
61. Chantal Akerman (4) - Jeanne Dielman (3)
61. Woody Allen (4)
61. Chen Kaige (4) - Yellow Earth (4)
61. Jean Cocteau (4)
61. Donald Cammell/Nicolas Roeg (4) - Performance (4)
61. Robert Flaherty (4)
61. Werner Herzog (4)
61. John Huston (4)
61. Charles Laughton (4) - The Night of the Hunter (4)
61. Leo McCarey (4)
61. Jean-Pierre Melville (4)
61. Douglas Sirk (4) - Imitation of Life (3)
73. Yong-Kyun Bae (3) - Why did Bodhi-Dharma Left for East?(3)
73. Stan Brakhage (3)
73. John Cassavetes (3)
73. David Cronenberg (3) - Dead Ringers (3)
73. George Cukor (3)
73. Maya Deren (3) - Meshes of Afternoon (3)
73. Chris Marker (3)
73. Xiaoxian Hou (3)
73. Fei Mu (3) - Spring in a Small Town (3)
73. Nagisa Oshima (3) - In the Realm of Senses (3)
73. Tom Powell (3) - Peeping Tom (3)
73. Nicholas Ray (3)
73. Jacques Rivette (3)
73. Eric Rohmer (3)
73. Ridley Scott (3)
73. Ousmane Sembene (3)
73. Victor Sjostrom (3) - The Wind (3)
73. Preston Sturges (3)
73. Andrej Wajda (3)
73. Yimou Zhang (3)
94. (2 votes)
Robert Aldrich, Tomas G. Alea, Kamal Amrohi, Richard Attenborough, Hector Babenco, Jacques Becker, Kathryn Bigelow, Frank Capra, Claude Chabrol, Michael Cimino, Souleymane Cisse, Michael Curtiz, Victor Fleming, Hollis Frampton, Terry Gilliam, Joris Ivens, Isaac Julien, Elia Kazan, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Joseph Losey, Forman Milos, Ermanno Olmi, Ulrike Ottinger, Serguei Paradjanov, Arthur Penn, Roman Polanski, Francesco Rosi, Jean Rouch, Yamanaka Sadao, Don Siegel, Michael Snow, Andy Warhol, Robert Zemeckis, Edward Yang
127.Cecil B. Demille (1.5 votes) |
