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Top 20 Greatest Movie Directors of All Time

James Cameron

Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer

Ridley Scott

Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Visionary British filmmaker renowned for epic storytelling and striking visual worlds

Orson Welles

Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer

Steven Spielberg

Director

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE OMRI is an American filmmaker.

Victor Fleming

Director

an American film director

Quentin Tarantino

Film Director, Actor, Screenwriter

Woody Allen

Film Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Musician

American filmmaker whose neurotic humor and intellectual irony shaped modern urban cinema

Mel Gibson

Actor, Producer, Director

Mel Gibson is a famous Australian and American actor, director, screenwriter and producer.

Christopher Nolan

Screenwriter, Producer, Film Director

Clint Eastwood

Actor, Producer, Director

Legendary figure of Western cinema, iconic actor, director, and producer

Martin Scorsese

Film Director, Screenwriter

Stanley Tucci

Actor, Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer

Andrei Tarkovsky

Film Director, Screenwriter

Poetic Master of Time and Memory

David Fincher

Film Director

American filmmaker known for his dark, meticulous, and visually striking portrayals of human nature

Alfred Hitchcock

Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Federico Fellini

Screenwriter, Film Director, Producer

The Maestro of Dreams, Memory, and Spectacle

Ingmar Bergman

Film Director, Screenwriter

The Master of Existential Cinema

Akira Kurosawa

Director, Producer, Screenwriter

The Emperor of Cinema