Bertz & Fischer 100 Greatest Directors List

A meta-list from zee German gentlemen:

1. Alfred Hitchcock

2. Stanley Kubrick

3. Steven Spielberg

4. Francis Ford Coppola

5. Martin Scorsese

6. Billy Wilder

7. Ridley Scott

8. Quentin Tarantino

9. Orson Welles

10. Akira Kurosawa

11. Charles Chaplin

12. Sergio Leone

13. Ingmar Bergman

14. James Cameron

15. David Lean

16. Federico Fellini

17. Roman Polanski

18. Howard Hawks

19. Victor Fleming

20. Jean-Luc Godard

21. John Ford

22. Fritz Lang

23. Joel and Ethan Coen

24. Michael Curtiz

25. Christopher Nolan

26. Frank Capra

27. Jean Renoir

28. John Huston

29. Woody Allen

30. George Lucas

31. Francois Truffaut

32. Milos Forman

33. David Fincher

34. Robert Zemeckis

35. Stanley Donen

36. Michelangelo Antonioni

37. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

38. Andrei Tarkovsky

39. George Cukor

40. Robert Altman

41. Robert Bresson

42. Carl Thedor Dreyer

43. David Lynch

44. Elia Kazan

45. Luis Bunuel

46. Peter Jackson

47. Yasujiro Ozu

48. Carol Reed

49. Rob Reiner

50. Clint Eastwood

51. Sam Peckinpah

52. Frank Darabont

53. Buster Keaton

54. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

55. Sidney Lumet

56. Sergei Eisenstein

57. William Wyler

58. Vittoria De Sica

59. Krzysztof Kieslowski

60. Andy and Larry Wachowski

61. Terry Jones

62. Jonathan Demme

63. Wong Kar-wai

64. Irvin Kershner

65. Satyajit Ray

66. Jean-Pierre Jeunet

67. Brian De Palma

68. Roberto Rossellini

69. Mike Nichols

70. Robert Wise

71. Jacques Tati

72. Ernst Lubitsch

73. Kenji Mizoguchi

74. Charles Laughton

75. Pedro Almodovar

76. Hayao Miyazaki

77. D.W. Griffith

78. Terrence Malick

79. Marcel Carne

80. John Lasseter

81. Curtis Hanson

82. Ang Lee

83. Michael Cimino

84. George Roy Hill

85. William Friedkin

86. Bernardo Bertolucci

87. John McTiernan

88. Vincente Minnelli

89. Leo McCarey

90. Fernando Meirelles

91. Luc Besson

92. Darren Aronofsky

93. Michael Powell

94. Terry Gilliam

95. Wim Wenders

96. Max Ophuls

97. John Carpenter

98. Nicholas Ray

99. Jean Vigo

100. Danny Boyle