Directors

Directors who have shaped film as auteurs. For TV, the auteurs are usually the Producers.

This is not IMDB. Still, there are a number of film directors whose creativity, impact, and style are worthy of comment.

Also includes TV directors.

Please don't just add a name, unless you are about to do the article.

Directors:


 * Alexandre Aja
 * Woody Allen
 * Pedro Almodovar
 * Robert Altman
 * Paul Thomas Anderson
 * Paul W. S. Anderson
 * Wes Anderson
 * Kenneth Anger
 * Judd Apatow
 * Dario Argento
 * Darren Aronofsky
 * John August
 * Tex Avery
 * Frank Tashlin
 * Dan Aykroyd
 * Ralph Bakshi
 * Andrzej Bartkowiak
 * Michael Bay
 * Warren Beatty
 * Ingmar Bergman
 * Busby Berkeley
 * Luc Besson
 * Kathryn Bigelow
 * Brad Bird
 * Don Bluth
 * Sergei Bondarchuk
 * Danny Boyle
 * Catherine Breillat
 * James L. Brooks
 * Mel Brooks
 * Ken Burns
 * Tim Burton
 * Steve Buscemi
 * James Cameron
 * John Carpenter
 * Frank Capra
 * Charlie Chaplin
 * Joan Chen
 * Stephen Chow
 * Bob Clampett
 * Bob Clark
 * The Coen Brothers
 * Larry Cohen
 * Chris Columbus
 * Francis Ford Coppola
 * Sofia Coppola
 * Roger Corman
 * Wes Craven
 * David Cronenberg
 * Alfonso Cuaron
 * Georgi Danelia
 * Joe Dante
 * Guillermo del Toro
 * Cecil B. DeMille
 * Brian De Palma
 * Richard Donner
 * Clint Eastwood
 * Sergei Eisenstein
 * Atom Egoyan
 * Roland Emmerich
 * Jon Favreau
 * Federico Fellini
 * David Fincher
 * John Ford
 * Jonathan Frakes
 * Coleman Francis
 * Lucio Fulci
 * Terry Gilliam
 * Michel Gondry
 * Graeme Harper
 * Werner Herzog
 * Alfred Hitchcock
 * Tobe Hooper
 * Ron Howard
 * Hou Hsiao-Hsien
 * Hughes Brothers
 * John Hughes
 * John Huston
 * Peter Jackson
 * Jean Pierre Jeunet
 * Alejandro Jodorowsky
 * Joe Johnston
 * Chuck Jones
 * Mike Judge
 * Janusz Kaminski
 * Charlie Kaufman
 * Lloyd Kaufman
 * Buster Keaton
 * Takeshi Kitano
 * Satoshi Kon
 * Andrei Konchalovsky
 * John Kricfalusi
 * Stanley Kubrick
 * Akira Kurosawa
 * John Landis
 * Fritz Lang
 * Sergio Leone
 * Spike Lee
 * Jerry Lewis
 * Justin Lin
 * Richard Linklater
 * George Lucas
 * Sidney Lumet
 * Pavel Lungin
 * David Lynch
 * Terrence Malick
 * David Mamet
 * Michael Mann
 * Martin McDonagh
 * Dave McKean
 * Robert McKimson
 * Sam Mendes
 * Vladimir Menshov
 * Takashi Miike
 * Nikita Mikhalkov
 * Hayao Miyazaki
 * Kenji Mizoguchi
 * Michael Moore
 * Mike Newell
 * Mike Nichols
 * Christopher Nolan
 * Laurence Olivier
 * Mamoru Oshii
 * Yasujiro Ozu
 * Park Chan-wook
 * Oliver Stone
 * Trey Parker and Matt Stone
 * Alexander Payne
 * Sam Peckinpah
 * Tyler Perry
 * Wolfgang Petersen
 * Pixar Regulars
 * Bill Plympton
 * Roman Polanski
 * Sarah Polley
 * Sam Raimi
 * Robert Redford
 * Nicolas Winding Refn
 * Guy Ritchie
 * Robert Rodriguez
 * James Rolfe
 * Eli Roth
 * Ken Russell
 * John Sayles
 * Lone Scherfig
 * Joel Schumacher
 * Martin Scorsese
 * Ridley Scott
 * Seltzer and Friedberg
 * M. Night Shyamalan
 * Takashi Shimizu
 * Kevin Smith
 * Zack Snyder
 * Steven Soderbergh
 * Stephen Sommers
 * Barry Sonnenfeld
 * Steven Spielberg
 * Sylvester Stallone
 * Whit Stillman
 * Barbra Streisand
 * Preston Sturges
 * Jan Svankmajer
 * Quentin Tarantino
 * Andrei Tarkovsky
 * Jacques Tati
 * Sam Taylor Wood
 * Freddie Wong
 * Lars von Trier
 * Francois Truffaut
 * John Waters
 * Orson Welles
 * Joss Whedon
 * Billy Wilder
 * Michael Winner
 * Wong Kar-wai
 * John Woo
 * Ed Wood
 * Edgar Wright
 * Joe Wright
 * William Wyler
 * David Yates
 * Zhang Yimou
 * Robert Zemeckis
 * Rob Zombie