List of film directors
Some famous film directors:
A
- Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
- Robert Aldrich
- Woody Allen
- Pedro Almodovar
- Robert Altman
- Lindsay Anderson
- Theo Angelopoulos
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Alfonso Arau
- Darren Aronofsky
- Hal Ashby
- Anthony Asquith
- Richard Attenborough
- Bille August
- John Avildsen
B
- Lloyd Bacon
- Marco Bellocchio
- Warren Beatty
- Robert Benton
- Ingmar Bergman, Scandanavian master of gloom
- Busby Berkeley, famous for his elaborate, mechanical dance scenes in the musicals of the 1930s
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Luc Besson
- Alessandro Blasetti
- Bertrand Blier
- Peter Bogdanovich
- John Boorman
- Frank Borzage
- John and Roy Boulting
- Kenneth Branagh, also an actor
- Robert Bresson
- James L Brooks
- Mel Brooks
- Clarence Brown
- Tod Browning, Freaks (1934)
- Luis Bunuel
- Tim Burton
C
- James Cameron
- Jane Campion
- Frank Capra
- Marcel Carne
- John Carpenter
- John Cassavetes
- Claude Chabrol
- Charlie Chaplin
- Al Christie
- Charles Christie
- Michael Cimino
- Rene Clement
- Jean Cocteau
- Joel and Ethan Coen
- Luigi Comencini
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Roger Corman
- Kevin Costner
- Alex Cox
- John Cromwell
- David Cronenberg
- Alfonso Cuaron
- George Cukor
- Chris Cunningham
- Michael Curtiz
D
- Julie Dash
- Delmar Davies
- Joe De Grasse
- Brian De Palma, devotee of Alfred Hitchcock
- Vittorio De Sica
- Guillermo Del Toro
- Cecil B. DeMille, Biblical extravaganzas
- Jonathan Demme
- Ted Demme
- Jacques Demy
- Andre de Toth
- William Dieterle
- Mark Donskoi
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Julien Duvivier
- Allan Dwan
E
- Clint Eastwood
- Blake Edwards
- Atom Egoyan, Canadian with Armenian origin
- Sergei Eisenstein, Russian, theorist of montage and editing
F
- John Farrow
- Rainer Fassbinder
- Federico Fellini
- Louis Feuillade
- Mike Figgis
- David Fincher
- Terence Fisher
- Robert J. Flaherty
- Richard Fleischer
- Victor Fleming
- John Ford, westerns, many with John Wayne, Irish films
- Milos Forman
- Bob Fosse
- John Frankenheimer
- William Friedkin
G
- Pietro Germi
- Mel Gibson
- Lewis Gilbert
- Terry Gilliam
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Heinosuke Gosho
- Peter Greenaway
- Jean Gremillon
- D. W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation
- John Guillermin
H
- Hal Hartley
- Howard Hawks
- Monte Hellman
- Werner Herzog
- George Roy Hill
- Walter Hill
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Dennis Hopper
- Ron Howard
- John Hughes
- John Huston
I
J
K
- Wong Kar-wai
- Lawrence Kasdan
- Philip Kayfman
- Elia Kazan
- Buster Keaton
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Keisuke Kinoshita
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Zoltan Korda
- Stanley Kubrick
- Akira Kurosawa
L
- Neil LaBute
- Fritz Lang
- Walter Lang
- David Lean
- Patrice Leconte
- Ang Lee
- Spike Lee
- Mike Leigh
- Claude Lelouch
- Sergio Leone
- Richard Lester
- Barry Levnson
- Jerry Lewis
- Frank Lloyd
- Ken Loach
- Del Lord
- Ernst Lubitsch
- George Lucas
- Sydney Lumet
- David Lynch
M
- Louis Malle
- Joseph Leo Mankiewicz
- Anthony Mann
- Delbert Mann
- Sophie Marceau
- Chris Marker
- George Marshall
- Leo McCarey
- Sam Mendes
- Lewis Milestone
- John Milius
- George Miller
- Anthony Minghella
- Vincente Minnelli
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Nanni Moretti
- Russell Mulcahy
- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
N
- Gregory Nava
- Fred Niblo
- Andrew Niccol
- Mike Nichols, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Steve Norrington
O
P
- Alan J. Pakula
- Alan Parker
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Sam Peckinpah
- Arthur Penn
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Elio Petri
- Maurice Pialat
- Roman Polanski
- Sydney Pollack
- Michael Powell
- Otto Preminger
Q
R
- Nicholas Ray
- Satyajit Ray
- Robert Redford
- Carol Reed
- Carl Reiner
- Rob Reiner
- Jean Renoir
- Alain Resnais
- Tony Richardson
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Guy Ritchie
- Jacques Rivette
- Jerome Robbins
- Robert Rodriguez
- Nicolas Roeg
- Eric Rohmer
- George Romero
- Roberto Rossellini
- Ken Russell
S
- Gus Van Sant
- John Sayles
- Ettore Scola
- Franklin Schaffner
- John Schlesinger
- Joel Schumacher
- Martin Scorsese
- Ridley Scott
- Mack Sennett
- Don Siegel
- Robert Siodmak
- Douglas Sirk
- Kevin Smith
- Steven Soderbergh
- Steven Spielberg
- George Stevens
- Oliver Stone
- John Sturges
T
U
V
- Roger Vadim
- Luis Valdez
- Paul Verhoeven
- King Vidor
- Jean Vigo
- Thomas Vinterberg
- Luchino Visconti
- Erich von Stroheim
- Lars von Trier
W
- The Wachowski brothers
- Andrzej Wajda
- Vincent Ward
- Peter Weir
- Orson Welles, Citizen Kane
- Wim Wenders
- Lina Wertmueller
- James Whale
- Billy Wilder
- John Woo
- William Wyler