20 Greatest Directors of All-Time

01) Steven Spielberg

FILMS:
Duel, The Sugarland Express, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1941, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom, The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, Always, Hook, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal

02) Billy Wilder

FILMS:
Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, The Emperor Waltz, A Foreign Affair, Sunset Blvd, Stalag 17, Sabrina, The Seven Year Itch, The Spirit of St. Louis, Love In the Afternoon, Witness for the Prosecution, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Irma la Douce, Kiss Me Stupid, The Fortune Cookie, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Avanti, The Front Page, Fedora, Buddy Buddy

03) Alfred Hitchcock

FILMS:
Blackmail, Juno & The Paycock, The 39 Steps, Secret Agent, Sabotage, The Lady Vanishes, Jamaica Inn, Rebecca, Foreign Correspondent, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Suspicion, Saboteur, Shadow of A Doubt, Lifeboat, Spellbound, Notorious, The Paradine Case, Rope, Stage Fright, Strangers On A Train, I Confess, Dial M for Murder, Vertigo, To Catch A Thief, The Trouble With Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Wrong Man, Vertigo, North By Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Torn Curtain, Frenzy, Family Plot

04) John Ford

FILMS:
The Informer, Stagecoach, Young Mr. Lincoln, Drums Along the Mohawk, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Battle of Midway, My Darling Clementine, The Fugitive, 3 Godfathers, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, What Price Glory, Mister Roberts, The Searchers, Korea, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, How the West Was Won, Donovan’s Reef, Young Cassidy, Vietnam Vietnam

05) William Wyler

FILMS:
Thunder Riders, A House DividedDodsworth, Come and Get It, Jezebel, Wuthering Heights, Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives, Thunderbolt, Detective Story, Roman Holiday, The Desperate Hours, The Big Country, Ben Hur, The Collector, How to Steal A Million, Funny Girl, The Liberation of L.B. Jones

06) Frank Capra

FILMS:
Platinum Blonde, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, You Can’t Take It With You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Arsenic & Old Lace, It’s A Wonderful Life, State of the Union, Here Comes the Groom, A Hole In the Head, Pocketful of Miracles

07) Stanley Kubrick

FILMS:
Killer’s Kiss, The Killing, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut

08) David Lean

FILMS:
Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Madeleine, The Sound Barrier, Summertime, The Bridge On the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan’s Daughter, A Passage to India

09) Martin Scorsese

FILMS:
Mean Streets, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, The Last Waltz, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, The Color of Money, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence, Casino, Bringing Out the Dead, Gangs of New York, The Aviator

10) Sidney Lumet

FILMS:
12 Angry Men, All the King’s Men, The Iceman Cometh, Rashomon, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Fail-Safe, The Hill, The Sea Gull, The Anderson Tapes, Serpico, Murder On the Orient Express, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, The Wiz, Prince of the City, Deathtrap, The Verdict, The Morning After, Running On Empty

11) John Huston

FILMS:
The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Key Largo, The Asphalt Jungle, The Red Badge of Courage, The African Queen, Moulin Rouge, Moby Dick, A Farewell to Arms, The Unforgiven, The Night of the Iguana, Casino Royale, The Man Who Would Be King, Phobia, Annie, Prizzi’s Honor, The Dead

12) Francis Ford Coppola

FILMS:
Dementia 13, Finian’s Rainbow, The Rain People, The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, One from the Heart, The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, The Cotton Club, Peggy Sue Got Married, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, The Godfather Part III, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Rainmaker

13) Mike Nichols

FILMS:
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate, Catch-22, The Gin Game, Silkwood, Biloxi Blues, Working Girl, Postcards from the Edge, Wolf, The Birdcage, Primary Colors, Wit, Angels In America, Closer

14) Fred Zinneman

FILMS:
A Way In the Wilderness, The Forbidden Passage, Kid Glove Killer, Act of Violence, High Noon, The Member of the Wedding, From Here to Eternity, Oklahoma, A Hatful of Rain, The Nun’s Story, The Sundowners, Behold A Pale Horse, A Man for All Seasons, The Day of the Jackal, Julia, Five Days One Summer

15) Milos Forman

FILMS:
I Miss Sonia Henie, Taking Off, Visions of Eight, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Hair, Ragtime, Amadeus, Valmont, The People Vs. Larry Flynt, Man On the Moon

16) Victor Fleming

FILMS:
The Virginian, Treasure Island, Reckless, The Farmer Takes A Wife, The Good Earth, Captains Courageous, Test Pilot, The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, Tortilla Flat, A Guy Named Joe, Adventure, Joan or Arc

17) George Stevens

FILMS:
Annie Oakley, A Damsel In Distress, Gunga Din, Woman of the Year, The Talk of the Town, The More the Merrier, That Justice Be Done, I Remember Mama, A Place In the Sun, Something to Live For, Shane, Giant, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Only Game In Town

18) Elia Kazan

FILMS:
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Boomerang, Gentleman’s Agreement, Panic In the Streets, A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, East of Eden, A Face In the Crowd, Splendor In the Grass, The Arrangement, The Visitors, The Last Tycoon

19) George Cukor

FILMS:
Romeo & Juliet, Camille, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam’s Rib, Born Yesterday, The Marrying Kind, A Star Is Born, Something’s Got to Give, My Fair Lady, Rich & Famous

20) Michael Curtiz

FILMS:
Noah’s Ark, Mammy, Kid Galahad, Angels With Dirty Faces, The Sea Hawk, The Sea Wolf, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Casablanca, Jim Thorpe - All American, The Jazz Singer, The Best Things In Life Are Free, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn