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MASTER DIRECTOR LIST (179 lists + 16 rev lists / Sept 9, 2008)

Rank Film Points L #1

#1 Alfred Hitchcock 539.5 81 16

#2 Stanley Kubrick 485.5 76 20

#3 Akira Kurosawa 400 65 10

#4 Orson Welles 399 63 11

#5 Ingmar Bergman 291.5 51 4

#6 Robert Bresson 269.5 43 6

#7 Martin Scorsese 232 35 1

#8 Yasujiro Ozu 218.5 31 3

#9 Federico Fellini 216.5 40 1

#10 Jean-Luc Godard 188.5 31 5

#11 Andrei Tarkovsky 184.5 31 4

#12 Carl Theodor Dreyer 143 23 1

#13 Luis Buñuel 141 24 3

#14 Jean Renoir 121 22 2

#15 Kenji Mizoguchi 115.5 17 3

#16 John Ford 113 23 -

#17 Billy Wilder 97.5 14 -

#18 Woody Allen 97 19 -

#19 F.W. Murnau 90.5 17 -

#20 Steven Spielberg 83.5 14 -

#21 Charles Chaplin 80.5 17 -

#22 David Lynch 77 15 1

#23 Michelangelo Antonioni 74.5 16 1

#24 Sergio Leone 74 13 -

#25 Howard Hawks 70.5 14 -

#26 Robert Altman 65.5 15 -

#27 Francis Ford Coppola 62 12 -

#28 Werner Herzog 61.5 16 1

#29 Michael Powell (3 votes w/ Emeric Pressberger) 59 10 1

#30 John Cassavetes 53.5 11 1

#31 Krzysztof Kieslowski 52 8 -

#32 Hayao Miyazaki 51.5 6 -

#33 Roberto Rossellini 49 8 1

#34 David Cronenberg 47.5 9 -

Fritz Lang 47.5 8 -

#36 David Lean 44.5 11 -

#37 Francois Truffaut 44 7 -

#38 Wong Kar-wai 42.5 12 -

#39 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 42 7 -

#40 Buster Keaton 40 8 -

#41 Abbas Kiarostami 37.5 7 -

#42 Sam Peckinpah 37 7 1

#43 Seijun Suzuki 36 6 1

#44 Jacques Tati 35.5 5 -

#45 Quentin Tarantino 34.5 9 -

#46 Stan Brakhage 32.5 6 1

#47 Joel & Ethan Coen 32 8 -

John Huston 32 8 -

Jean-Pierre Melville 32 4 1

#50 Douglas Sirk 31 6 -

#51 Ernst Lubitsch 29.5 7 -

#52 Sergei Eisenstein 28.5 5 -

#53 Paul Thomas Anderson 27 5 1

#54 Brian De Palma 25.5 5 -

#55 Elia Kazan 25 4 -

#56 Terrence Malick 22.5 4 -

Michael Mann 22.5 4 -

#58 Terry Gilliam 22 3 -

#59 Kinji Fukasaku 21.5 3 -

#60 Max Ophuls 20.5 3 -

#61 Roman Polanski 20.5 7 -

#62 Hou Hsiao-hsien 19.5 3 -

Jim Jarmusch 19.5 4 -

#64 Dario Argento 18.5 3 -

Mike Leigh 18.5 3 -

Satyajit Ray 18.5 3 -

#67 Nicholas Ray 18 3 -

Alain Resnais 17.5 3 -

#69 D.W. Griffith 16.5 3 -

#70 Hal Ashby 16 2 -

Tim Burton 16 4 1

#72 Jan Svankmajer 15.5 2 1

Takeshi Kitano 15 2 1

Josef von Sternberg 15 3 1

#75 Clint Eastwood 14.5 2 -

Chris Marker 14.5 3 -

Takashi Miike 14.5 3 -

#78 Michael Snow 14 2 -

#79 John Carpenter 13 3 -

Masaki Kobayashi 13 2 -

Jean Vigo 13 2 -

#82 William Friedkin 12.5 2 -

Luchino Visconti 12.5 3 -

#84 Pedro Almadovar 12 2 -

Preston Sturges 12 2 1

#86 Lars von Trier 11.5 5 -

#87 Frank Capra 11 3 -

Ritwik Ghatak 11 2 -

Peter Greenaway 11 2 -

Sogo Ishii 11 2 -

#91 Eric Rohmer 10.5 2 -

Peter Weir 10.5 2 -

#93 Robert Breer 10 2 -

Peter Brook 10 1 1

Nicholas Roeg 10 2 -

Erich von Stroheim 10 1 1

#97 Vittorio De Sica 9.5 2 -

George A. Romero 9.5 2 -

Don Siegel 9.5 2 -

Paul Verhoeven 9.5 2 -

#101 Andrew Dominik 9 1 -

Hal Hartley 9 2 -

Sergei Parajanov 9 1 -

Oliver Stone 9 2 -

John Woo 9 2 -

#106 Marlon Brando 8 1 -

Marcel Carne 8 1 -

Claire Denis 8 2 -

Giuseppe Tornatore 8 1 -

#110 Sam Fuller 7.5 1 -

#111 Robert Aldrich 7 2 -

George Cukor 7 1 -

Todd Haynes 7 1 -

Sydney Lumet 7 2 -

John Sayles 7 1 -

Zhang Yimou 7 2 -

#117 Chuck Jones 6.5 2 -

Anthony Mann 6.5 2 -

#119 Mel Brooks 6 1 -

Michael Haneke 6 1 -

Neil Jordan 6 1 -

Larry Jordan 6 1 -

Richard Kelly 6 1 -

Mikio Naruse 6 1 -

Mike Nichols 6 1 -

Alexander Payne 6 1 -

Jean Rollin 6 1 -

Frederick Wiseman 6 1 -

#129 Wes Anderson 5.5 1 -

Lino Brocka 5.5 1 -

Nick Broomfield 5.5 1 -

Charles Burnett 5.5 1 -

Claude Chabrol 5.5 1 -

Alan Clarke 5.5 1 -

Larry Cohen 5.5 1 -

Jules Dassin 5.5 1 -

Gerardo de Leon 5.5 1 -

Aleksandr Dovzhenko 5.5 1 -

Guru Dutt 5.5 1 -

Shohei Imamura 5.5 1 -

Phil Karlson 5.5 1 -

Kiyoshi Kurosawa 5.5 1 -

Ken Loach 5.5 1 -

Ida Lupino 5.5 1 -

Kenji Misumi 5.5 1 -

Nanni Moretti 5.5 1 -

Mario O'Hara 5.5 1 -

Mamoru Oshii 5.5 1 -

Isao Takahata 5.5 1 -

Shinya Tsukamoto 5.5 1 -

#151 Nick Gomez 5 1 -

Kim Ki-duk 5 1 -

Joseph L. Mankiewicz 5 1 -

The Maysles Brothers 5 1 -

Leni Riefenstahl 5 1 -

James Whale 5 1 -

#157 Bernardo Bertolucci 4 2 -

Henri-Georges Clouzot 4 1 -

Cameron Crowe 4 1 -

Ernie Gehr 4 1 -

Peter Kubelka 4 1 -

Pier Paolo Pasolini 4 2 -

Maurice Pialat 4 1 -

#165 Chantal Akerman 3 2 -

David Fincher 3 1 -

Richard Linklater 3 1 -

Ken Russell 3 1 -

Bela Tarr 3 2 -

#170 Terrence Davies 2 1 -

Kihachi Okamoto 2 1 -

Steven Soderbergh 2 1 -

Andrzej Wajda 2 1 -

John Waters 2 1 -

#175 Theo Angelopoulos 1 1 -

Robert Clampett 1 1 -

Jane Campion 1 1 -

Jean Cocteau 1 1 -

Atom Egoyan 1 1 -

Stephen Frears 1 1 -

Alejandro Jodorowsky 1 1 -

Albert Lewin 1 1 -

Errol Morris 1 1 -

Sidney Peterson 1 1 -

Amos Poe 1 1 -

Sam Raimi 1 1 -

Robert Rodriguez 1 1 -

Robert Wise 1 1 -

Directors that used to be on the list but have dropped off due to revised lists (and their highest chart position):

#168 Ousmane Sembene 1 1 -

L=How many lists each Director appears on #1=How many number one votes each Director recieves
how points are calculated
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