100 Greatest Film Directors - by Moses

Directors

1.     Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut

       2.      Steven Spielberg – Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List
3.      Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, After Hours, Good Fellas, The Irishman

       4.      Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather 1 and 11, Apocalypse Now, The Rainmaker

       5.      John Singleton – Boyz in the Hood, Shaft, Rosewood 

       6.      Barry Levinson – The Natural, Diner, Good Morning Vietnam, Bugsy

       7.      John Landis – Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Coming to America, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Part 3, An American Werewolf in London

       8.      George Lucas – American Graffiti, Star Wars 1, 11, 111, 1V, V, V1, V11, V111, 1X

       9.      Quentin Tarantino - Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jango Unchained

       10.    Ron Howard – Nightshift, Apollo 13, De Vinci Code

       11.    Peter Jackson – Lord of the Rings (Trilogy), King Kong

       12.    Norman Jewison – Fiddler on the Roof, Moonstruck, Rollerball, The Hurricane, The Thomas Crown Affair, In the Heat of the Night

       13.    James Cameron – The Titanic, Aliens, Avatar (Trilogy), Terminator (Trilogy), Rambo (First Blood Part 2)
14.    Oliver Stone – Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Salvador, Born on the 4rth of July, The Doors

       15.    Tim Burton – Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlegeuse, Nightmare Before Christmas

       16.    Alfred Hitchcock – The Birds, Rear Window, Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest, the Man Who Knew Too Much, Rope

       17.    Rob Reiner – The Princess Bride, Sleepless in Seattle, Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally, This is Spinal Tap, A Few Good Men, Misery

       18.    David Fincher – The Fight Club, Zodiac, Seven, The Social Network

       19.    Richard Attenborough – Gandhi, Greystroke–The Legend of Tarzan, Jurassic Park, The Great Escape, Chaplin

       20.    Spike Lee – Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, He Got Game, Jungle Fever, Mo Better Blues, Crooklyn, Kobe Doin' Work 

       21.    Tommy Chong – Still Smokin’, Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie, (co-screenwriter for 'Up In Smoke')

       22.    Phil Alden Robinson (writer/director) - Field of Dreams, Freedom Song, The Sum of All Fears

       23.    Alan Parker – The Wall, Midnight Express, Mississippi Burning

       24.    Walter Hill – 48 Hours, The Warriors, Johnny Handsome

       25.    John Huston – Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Chinatown, Prizzi's Honor, Annie, The Unforgiven (the original), The Hobbit 

       26.    Robert Redford – A River Runs Through it, Ordinary People, The Horse Whisperer

       27.    David Lynch – The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Sleep, (directed the T.V show Twin Peaks)

       28.    George Roy Hill – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, Slapshot, The World According to Garp

       29.    Brian De Palma - Scarface, Carrie, The Untouchables, Mission Impossible, Wiseguys                        
30.    Ben Affleck  – Gone Baby Gone, Argo, (Good Will Hunting - co-screenwriter alongside Matt Damon)

       31.    Laurence and Andrew Wolchowski (writers/directors) – The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolution, 

       32.    Harold Ramis – Caddyshack, Groundhog Day, Analyze This, Analyze That, (co-wrote Ghostbusters and Stripes)

       33.    Peter Weir – Dead Poet Society, The Year of Living Dangerously, Witness, Mosquito Coast, The Truman Show

       34.    Richard Cronenberg - The Fly, Videodrome, Scanners, Shivers, Naked Lunch

       35.    Robert DeNiro (actor/director) - Bronx Tale, The Good Shephard.  (leading roles in; Taxi Driver and The Godfather 2)

       36.    Abel Ferrara - The Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, Body Snatchers

       37.    John Hughes – The Breakfast Club; Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

       38.    Jonathan Demme - Philadelphia, Silence of the Lambs, Innerspace                  
39.    Robert Zemeckis – Back to the Future (Trilogy), Romancing the Stone, Forrest Gump

       40.    Jonathan Lynn – My Cousin Vinny, The Distinguished Gentleman, Clue

       41.    John Carpenter – The Thing, The Fog, Halloween, Christine, Escape From New York

       42.    James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment, As Good As it Gets, Broadcast News

       43.    Roland Emmerich – Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, 2012

       44.    John Glen – For Your Eyes Only, Licence to Kill, The Living Daylights

       45.    Guy Hamilton – The Man With the Golden Gun, Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die, Goldfinger

       46.    Barbara Streisand – Yentl, The Way We Were, Nuts

       47.    Adrian Lyne – Fatal Attraction, Jacob’s Ladder, 9 1/2 Weeks, Flashdance, Indecent Proposal
48.   Mary Lambert - Pet Sematary, Pet Sematary 2, The Attic
49.   Ridley Scott - Alien, Bladerunner, Gladiator, Robin Hood, American Gangster
50.   Cecile B. DeMille  – The Ten Commandments (Two versions), Samson and Delilah, Cleopatra, Adam's Rib
51.   Robert Benton - Kramer versus Kramer, (also wrote the screenplays for 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'Superman')
52.   Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant
53.   Frank Darabont - The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, (was script doctor of 'Saving Private Ryan')
54.   Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter, Year of the Dragon, The Sicilian
55.   Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven, Heartbreak Ridge, Sudden Impact, Invictus, J. Edgar
56.   Roland Joffe - The Killing Fields, The Mission, City of Joy, Super Mario Brothers,
57.   Leonard Nimoy - Star Trek 3 (The Search For Spock), Star Trek 4 (The Voyage Home), Three Men and a Baby
58.   Sam Raimi - Spiderman, Spiderman 2, Spiderman 3
59.   Sam Mendez - American Beauty, Skyfall (James Bond) Spectre (James Bond), 1917
60.   Justin Lin - Fast and Furious, Fast Five, Fast and Furious 6, Star Trek Beyond   

       61.   Wolfgang Petersen – Das Boot, Outbreak, NeverEnding Story, Poseidon

       62.   Michael Moore – Roger and Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Fahrenheit 11/9, Canadian Bacon, Bowling for Columbine

       63.   Tom Hooper – Les Miserables, The King’s Speech, Cats, The Danish Girl

       64.   David Anspaugh – Hoosiers, Rudy, Fresh Horses, Swing Vote

       65.   Jim Sheridan – My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, The Boxer

       66.   Ivan Reitman – Meatballs, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2, Twins

       67.   Mel Gibson – Passion of the Christ, Braveheart, The Man Without a Face

       68.   John G. Avildsen – Rocky, The Karate Kid (Trilogy), Lean on Me

       69.   Sylvester Stallone – Rocky 2, Rocky 3, Rocky 4, Rocky Balboa, Rambo; Last Blood, The Expendables   

       70.   Luis Llosa Urquidi – The Specialist, Anaconda, Sniper

       71.   Steve Gordon – Arthur, (directed T.V shows Chico and the Man, and, Barney Miller)

       72.   Blake Edwards – The Pink Panther (including all sequels), The Party, Victor Victoria, Gunn, Peter Gunn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 10

       73.   Bob Fosse – Cabaret, Lenny, All That Jazz, (won countless Tony Awards as a playwright director)

       74.   Gus Van Sant – Drugstore Cowboy, Good Will Hunting, Psycho (remake)

       75.   Sean S. Cunningham – Friday the 13^th, A Stranger is Watching, Spring Break

       76.   Ted Kotcheff – The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, First Blood, Joshua Then and Now, Weekend at Birnie’s 

       77.   Steven Soderbergh – Sex, Lies, and Videotape; Erin Brockovich, Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, Ocean’s Thirteen

       78.   George Seaton – Miracle on 34rth Street, Diamond Horseshoe

       79.   Warren Beatty – Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Dick Tracy, Bulworth

       80.   Robert Aldrich – Sodom and Gomorrah, The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Yard, The Frisco Kid

       81.   Roman Polanski - Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Frantic, The Pianist, The Ghost Writer, Oliver Twist

       82.   Elia Kazan – Gentlemen’s Agreement, On the Waterfront, East of Eden, A Streetcar Named Desire, Baby Doll, America America

       83.   James Frawley – The Muppet Movie, (directed many T.V shows including ‘Magnum P.I’, ‘Cagney and Lacey’, ‘Law and Order’, ‘Chicago Hope’, ‘Ally McBeal’)

       84.   John McTiernan Jr. – Predator, Die Hard, The Hunt For Red October, Remakes of; The Thomas Crown Affair, and Rollerball

       85.   Peter Bogdanovich – Mask, To Sir with Love 2

       86.   Mike Nichols – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate, Silkwood

       87.   Jim Sharman – Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shock Treatment

       88.   Sidney Poitier - Stir Crazy, Ghost Dad, (played lead role in 'To Sir, With Love')

       89.   Michael Ritchie – The Bad News Bears, The Candidate

       90.   Penny Marshall – Awakenings, A League of Their Own, Big

       91.   Mark Rydell – On Golden Pond

       92.   Andrew Davis – The Fugitive, Under Siege, Above the Law

       93.   Phillip Noyce – Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Bone Collector

       94.   Richard Donner – Superman, Superman 2, Lethal Weapon (1-1V), Scrooged

       95.   Sydney Pollack – Tootsie, Absence of Malice, Out of Africa, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Firm, Sabrina

       96.   Carl Reiner – The Jerk, Summer School, Oh God!, All of Me

       97.   John Badham – War Games, Saturday Night Fever

       98.   Joel Schumacher – Cousins, The Lost Boys, Flatliners, The Client, A Time to Kill, Batman Forever, Phantom of the Opera

       99.   Ron Shelton – Bull Durham, White Men Can’t Jump, Cobb

       100. Mel Brooks – The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World Part One, Spaceballs