25 Most Influential Directors Of All-Time

MovieMaker is an American magazine focused on the art and business of making movies with a special emphasis on independent film. In 2002 the Magazine came up with a list of the Top 25 Film Directors of all-time. moviemaker.com

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. D. W. Griffith
3. Orson Welles
4. Jean-Luc Godard
5. John Ford
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Sergei Eisenstein
8. Charlie Chaplin
9. Federico Fellini
10. Steven Spielberg
11. Martin Scorsese
12. Akira Kurosawa
13. Ingmar Bergman
14. John Cassavetes
15. Billy Wilder
16. Jean Renoir
17. Francis Ford Coppola
18. Howard Hawks
19. Francois Truffaut
20. Buster Keaton
21. Fritz Lang
22. John Huston
23. Woody Allen
24. Luis Bunuel
25. Ernst Lubitsch

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