Greatest Living Directors

Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarantino
Steven Spielberg
Francis Ford Coppola
Paul Thomas Anderson
Christopher Nolan
Tim Burton
Peter Jackson
Joel and Ethan Coen                                             
Sam Mendes
George Lucas
David Lynch
Hayao Miyazaki
Frank Darabont
Wes Anderson
Terrence Malick
M. Night Shyamalan
Oliver Stone
Bernardo Bertolucci
Clint Eastwood
David Fincher
Shane Meadows
Ken Loach
Ridley Scott
Spike Lee
Gus Van Sant
Lasse Hallström
Jean-Luc Goddard
Michael Mann
Brian De Palma
Danny Boyle
Ang Lee
Spike Jonze
Kathryn Bigelow
Robert Zemeckis
Darren Aronofsky
Zack Snyder
James Cameron
Guillermo del Toro
Richard Linklater
Pedro Almodóvar

Greatest Late Directors

Alfred Hitchcock
Howard Hawks
Stanley Kubrick
Orson Welles
Elia Kazan
Jean Renoir
Fritz Lang
Buster Keaton
John Cassavetes
Charlie Chaplin
Frank Capra
Federico Fellini
John Hughes
George Cukor
David Lean
Billy Wilder
Sergio Leone
Sergio Corbucci
Tony Scott
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cecil. B. DeMille
Vincente Minnelli
Ingmar Bergman
Sam Peckinpah
John Ford
Yasujirō Ozu
Otto Preminger
William Wyler
Arthur Penn
John Huston
Josef von Sternberg
Michael Curtiz
Raoul Walsh
D.W. Griffith
Robert Wise
Sidney Lumet
Howard Hughes
Carol Reed
Akira Kurosawa
Francois Truffaut
Sydney Pollack