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MASTER DIRECTOR LIST (193 lists + 20 rev lists / Jun 23, 2009)

Rank Film Points L #1

#1 Alfred Hitchcock 571.5 88 16

#2 Stanley Kubrick 520.5 81 21

#3 Orson Welles 430 70 12

#4 Akira Kurosawa 427 68 11

#5 Ingmar Bergman 325.5 56 4

#6 Robert Bresson 283.5 45 6

#7 Martin Scorsese 252 39 2

#8 Federico Fellini 242.5 44 1

#9 Yasujiro Ozu 219.5 32 3

#10 Jean-Luc Godard 205.5 35 6

#11 Andrei Tarkovsky 194.5 32 5

#12 Luis Buñuel 161 27 3

#13 Carl Theodor Dreyer 145 24 1

#14 Kenji Mizoguchi 124.5 18 3

#15 Jean Renoir 121 22 2

#16 John Ford 115 24 -

#17 Woody Allen 108 21 -

#18 Billy Wilder 105.5 18 -

#19 F.W. Murnau 90.5 17 -

Steven Spielberg 90.5 15 -

#21 Charles Chaplin 88.5 18 -

#22 Howard Hawks 83.5 16 -

#23 Michelangelo Antonioni 79.5 17 1

#24 David Lynch 77 15 1

#25 Sergio Leone 74 13 -

#26 Michael Powell (5 votes w/ Emeric Pressberger) 72 12 1

#27 Robert Altman 71.5 16 -

#28 Francis Ford Coppola 65 14 -

#29 Werner Herzog 61.5 16 1

#30 John Cassavetes 53.5 11 1

#31 David Cronenberg 52.5 9 -

Rainer Werner Fassbinder 52 8 1

Krzysztof Kieslowski 52 8 -

#34 Fritz Lang 51.5 9 -

Hayao Miyazaki 51.5 6 -

#36 Roberto Rossellini 49 8 1

#37 David Lean 46.5 12 -

#38 Francois Truffaut 44 7 -

#39 Wong Kar-wai 42.5 12 -

#40 Buster Keaton 40 8 -

#41 Brian De Palma 39.5 7 -

Quentin Tarantino 39.5 10 -

#43 Abbas Kiarostami 38.5 8 -

#44 Sam Peckinpah 38 8 1

#45 Seijun Suzuki 36 6 1

#46 Stan Brakhage 35.5 7 1

Jacques Tati 35.5 5 -

#48 Douglas Sirk 34 7 -

#49 John Huston 33 8 1

#50 Joel & Ethan Coen 32 8 -

Jean-Pierre Melville 32 4 1

#52 Paul Thomas Anderson 31 6 1

#53 Max Ophuls 30.5 4 1

#54 Ernst Lubitsch 29.5 7 -

#55 Sergei Eisenstein 28.5 5 -

#56 Eric Rohmer 27.5 4 1

#57 Terrence Malick 26.5 5 -

#58 Elia Kazan 25 4 -

#59 Mike Leigh 22.5 4 -

Michael Mann 22.5 4 -

#61 Terry Gilliam 22 3 -

#62 Kinji Fukasaku 21.5 3 -

#63 Roman Polanski 20.5 7 -

#64 Hou Hsiao-hsien 19.5 3 -

Jim Jarmusch 19.5 4 -

#66 Preston Sturges 19 3 1

#67 Dario Argento 18.5 3 -

Satyajit Ray 18.5 3 -

#69 Nicholas Ray 18 3 -

#70 Alain Resnais 17.5 3 -

#71 D.W. Griffith 16.5 3 -

#72 Hal Ashby 16 2 -

Tim Burton 16 4 1

#74 Jan Svankmajer 15.5 2 1

$75 Takeshi Kitano 15 2 1

Josef von Sternberg 15 3 1

#77 Clint Eastwood 14.5 2 -

Chris Marker 14.5 3 -

Takashi Miike 14.5 3 -

Luchino Visconti 14.5 3 -

#81 John Carpenter 14 4 -

Michael Snow 14 2 -

#83 Marcel Carne 13 2 -

Masaki Kobayashi 13 2 -

Jean Vigo 13 2 -

#86 William Friedkin 12.5 2 -

#87 Pedro Almadovar 12 2 -

#88 Lars von Trier 11.5 5 -

#89 Frank Capra 11 3 -

Ritwik Ghatak 11 2 -

Peter Greenaway 11 2 -

Sogo Ishii 11 2 -

#93 Peter Weir 10.5 2 -

#94 Robert Breer 10 2 -

Peter Brook 10 1 1

Nicholas Roeg 10 2 -

Erich von Stroheim 10 1 1

#98 Vittorio De Sica 9.5 2 -

George A. Romero 9.5 2 -

Don Siegel 9.5 2 -

Paul Verhoeven 9.5 2 -

#102 Andrew Dominik 9 1 -

Hal Hartley 9 2 -

Sergei Parajanov 9 1 -

Oliver Stone 9 2 -

John Woo 9 2 -

#107 Sam Fuller 8.5 2 -

Anthony Mann 8.5 3 -

#109 Marlon Brando 8 1 -

Claire Denis 8 2 -

Giuseppe Tornatore 8 1 -

#112 Robert Aldrich 7 2 -

George Cukor 7 1 -

Todd Haynes 7 1 -

Sydney Lumet 7 2 -

John Sayles 7 1 -

Zhang Yimou 7 2 -

#118 Chuck Jones 6.5 2 -

#119 Mel Brooks 6 1 -

Michael Haneke 6 1 -

Neil Jordan 6 1 -

Larry Jordan 6 1 -

Richard Kelly 6 1 -

Mikio Naruse 6 1 -

Mike Nichols 6 1 -

Alexander Payne 6 1 -

Jean Rollin 6 1 -

Frederick Wiseman 6 1 -

#129 Wes Anderson 5.5 1 -

Lino Brocka 5.5 1 -

Nick Broomfield 5.5 1 -

Charles Burnett 5.5 1 -

Claude Chabrol 5.5 1 -

Alan Clarke 5.5 1 -

Larry Cohen 5.5 1 -

Jules Dassin 5.5 1 -

Gerardo de Leon 5.5 1 -

Aleksandr Dovzhenko 5.5 1 -

Guru Dutt 5.5 1 -

Shohei Imamura 5.5 1 -

Phil Karlson 5.5 1 -

Kiyoshi Kurosawa 5.5 1 -

Ken Loach 5.5 1 -

Ida Lupino 5.5 1 -

Kenji Misumi 5.5 1 -

Nanni Moretti 5.5 1 -

Mario O'Hara 5.5 1 -

Mamoru Oshii 5.5 1 -

Isao Takahata 5.5 1 -

Shinya Tsukamoto 5.5 1 -

#151 Nick Gomez 5 1 -

Kim Ki-duk 5 1 -

Joseph L. Mankiewicz 5 1 -

The Maysles Brothers 5 1 -

Leni Riefenstahl 5 1 -

James Whale 5 1 -

#157 Bernardo Bertolucci 4 2 -

Henri-Georges Clouzot 4 1 -

Cameron Crowe 4 1 -

Ernie Gehr 4 1 -

Peter Kubelka 4 1 -

Pier Paolo Pasolini 4 2 -

Maurice Pialat 4 1 -

Gus Van Sant 4 1 -
#165 Chantal Akerman 3 2 -

David Fincher 3 1 -

Richard Linklater 3 1 -

Ken Russell 3 1 -

Bela Tarr 3 2 -

#170 Terrence Davies 2 1 -

Kihachi Okamoto 2 1 -

Steven Soderbergh 2 1 -

Andrzej Wajda 2 1 -

John Waters 2 1 -

#175 Theo Angelopoulos 1 1 -

Robert Clampett 1 1 -

Jane Campion 1 1 -

Jean Cocteau 1 1 -

Alfonso Cuaron 1 1 -

Atom Egoyan 1 1 -

Stephen Frears 1 1 -

Stuart Gordon 1 1 -

Alejandro Jodorowsky 1 1 -

Albert Lewin 1 1 -

Errol Morris 1 1 -

Sidney Peterson 1 1 -

Amos Poe 1 1 -

Sam Raimi 1 1 -

Robert Rodriguez 1 1 -

Robert Wise 1 1 -

Directors that used to be on the list but have dropped off due to revised lists (and their highest chart position):

#168 Ousmane Sembene 1 1 -

L=How many lists each Director appears on #1=How many number one votes each Director recieves
how points are calculated
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