The Best Movie Directors of All Time

The Best Movie Directors of All Time

This should not be a popularity contest or a trendy one. It's like an achievement award. One cannot just say someone is a greatest director by one movie or an Oscar, but rather, from how many movies that have been awesome they have made. Having read several sites that have arbitarily listed current directors like Coens or Nolan merely because one or more movies were good, doesn't make them the best ever. Also they appear to be all men in this list, but there are probably some great women directions I cannot think us just not.

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Francis Ford Coppela
4. Orson Welles
5. Ingmar Bergman
6. Charlie Chaplin
7. Oliver Stone
8. John Ford
9. Stanley Kubrick
10. Fritz Lang
11. Hayao Miyasaki
12. Billy Wilder
13. Ridley Scott
14. Brian DePalma
15. Buster Keaton
16. Steven Spielberg
17. Woody Allen
18. Akira Kurosawa
19. Roman Polanski
20. Mike Nichols
21. Cecil B. DeMille
22. David Lynch
23. George R. Romero
24. Mel Brooks
25. Robert Altman
26. Jean Luc Godard
27. Frederico Fallini
28. Howard Hawks
29. John Huston
30. D. W. Griffith
31. Frank Capra
32. Peter Jackson
33. Christopher Nolan
34. Ron Howard
35. James Cameron
36. Quentin Tarantino
37. Robert Rodriquez
38. Guillermo Del Toro
39. Sam Raimi
40. Alphonso Cuaron
41. Clint Eastwood
42. Harrison Ford
43. Joel Coen
44. Ethan Coen
45. John Waters
46. Robert Zemekis
47. Michael Kurtiz
48. William Wyler
49. John Cassavetes
50. David Lean
51. Terrence Malik
52. Sam Peckinpah
53. Eila Kazan
54. George Cukor
55. Otto Preminger
56. Arthur Penn
57. Preston Sturges
58. Joseph Mankeiwizch
59. Ernest Lubitsch
60. George Lucas
61. Spike Lee
63. Dan Ackroyd

Also many of these directors are still living but some of the unusual names are dead. I haven't seen all of the movies they have directed and might be missing something.