List of directors
From Academic Kids
This is a list of motion picture and television directors.
Alan Smithee is a fictional name used to give credit as the director of films that the original director has disowned.
Contents: Top - 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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A
- Tengis Abuladze
- Joe Ahearne
- Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
- Percy Adlon
- Chantal Akerman
- Robert Aldrich
- Marc Allégret
- Yves Allégret
- Irwin Allen
- Woody Allen
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Robert Altman
- Julius Amedume
- Alejandro Amenábar
- Lindsay Anderson
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Theo Angelopoulos
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Michael Apted
- Alfonso Arau
- Jozef Arkusz
- Dario Argento
- Gillian Armstrong
- Jack Arnold
- Darren Aronofsky
- Dorothy Arzner
- Hal Ashby
- Anthony Asquith
- Richard Attenborough
- Bille August
- Tex Avery
- John G. Avildsen
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B
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Ba-Bi
- Biju Viswanath
- Hector Babenco
- Lloyd Bacon
- John Badham
- King Baggot
- Boris Barnet
- Tom Barman
- Charles T. Barton
- Evgenij Bauer
- Michael Bay
- Warren Beatty
- Marco Bellocchio
- László Benedek
- Roberto Benigni
- Robert Benton
- Bruce Beresford
- Ingmar Bergman
- Busby Berkeley
- Edward Bernds
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Luc Besson
- Bharathan
- Fabián Bielinsky
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Bl-Bu
- Alice Guy-Blaché
- Alessandro Blasetti
- Bertrand Blier
- Keith Boak
- Budd Boetticher
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Francis Boggs
- John Boorman
- Frank Borzage
- John and Roy Boulting
- Danny Boyle
- Kenneth Branagh
- Catherine Breillat
- Robert Bresson
- Martin Brest
- Edwin Brienen
- Mel Brooks
- James L. Brooks
- Richard Brooks
- Clarence Brown
- Tod Browning
- Luis Buñuel
- Tim Burton
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C
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Ca-Ch
- Andy Cadiff
- James Cameron
- Martin Campbell
- Jane Campion
- Colin Cant
- Frank Capra
- Marcel Carné
- John Carpenter
- Rudolph Cartier
- John Cassavetes
- Nick Cassavetes
- Peter Cattaneo
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Claude Chabrol
- Charlie Chaplin
- Kaige Chen
- Samson Chiu
- Benjamin Christensen
- Roger Christian
- Al Christie
- Charles Christie
- Grigori Chukhrai
- Vĕra Chytilová
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Ci-Cr
- Michael Cimino
- Souleymane Cissé
- René Clair
- Bob Clark
- René Clément
- George Clooney
- Jean Cocteau
- Joel and Ethan Coen
- Chris Columbus
- Luigi Comencini
- Bill Condon
- Merian C. Cooper
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Sofia Coppola
- Roger Corman
- Don Coscarelli
- Kevin Costner
- Alex Cox
- Nathan "Karma" Cox
- John Cromwell
- David Cronenberg
- Alan Crosland
- Cameron Crowe
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Cu
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D
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Da-Di
- Frank Darabont
- Julie Dash
- Delmer Daves
- Terence Davies
- Andrew Davis
- Alex De La Iglesia
- Jan de Bont
- Joe De Grasse
- Jean Delannoy
- Brian De Palma
- Vittorio De Sica
- Guillermo Del Toro
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Jonathan Demme
- Ted Demme
- Jacques Demy
- Claire Denis
- Andre de Toth
- Howard Deutch
- Danny DeVito
- Dean Devlin
- William Dieterle
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Do-Dw
- Andrew Dominik
- Roger Donaldson
- Richard Donner
- Mark Donskoi
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Bill Duke
- Ewald André Dupont
- Richard Dutcher
- Julien Duvivier
- Allan Dwan
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E
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F
- Claude Faraldo
- John Farrow
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Federico Fellini
- Louis Feuillade
- Mike Figgis
- David Fincher
- Terence Fisher
- Robert J. Flaherty
- Richard Fleischer
- Victor Fleming
- John Ford
- Miloš Forman
- Bob Fosse
- John Frankenheimer
- Stephen Frears
- William Friedkin
- Sam Fuller
- Antoine Fuqua
- Kinji Fukasaku
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G
- Louis J. Gasnier
- K. G. George
- Pietro Germi
- Mel Gibson
- Lewis Gilbert
- Terry Gilliam
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Michel Gondry
- Heinosuke Gosho
- F. Gary Gray
- Peter Greenaway
- Jean Gremillon
- D. W. Griffith
- Val Guest
- John Guillermin
- Sacha Guitry
- Tomás Gutierrez Alea
- Alice Guy Blaché
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H
- Taylor Hackford
- Piers Haggard
- Lasse Hallström
- Bent Hamer
- Curtis Hanson
- Renny Harlin
- Hal Hartley
- Henry Hathaway
- Howard Hawks
- Brian Helgeland
- Monte Hellman
- Helmut Herbst
- John Herzfeld
- Werner Herzog
- George Roy Hill
- Walter Hill
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Dennis Hopper
- Hsiao-Hsien Hou
- Ron Howard
- Howard Hughes
- John Hughes
- John Huston
- Brian G. Hutton
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I
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J
- Peter Jackson
- Wanda Jakubowska
- Miklós Jancsó
- Derek Jarman
- Jim Jarmusch
- Patty Jenkins
- Norman Jewison
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Jaromil Jireš
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Clark Johnson
- Spike Jonze
- Neil Jordan
- Edward José
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K
- Karel Kachyňa
- Mihail Kalatozov
- Kevin Kangas
- Raj Kapoor
- Roman Karmen
- Lawrence Kasdan
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Philip Kaufman
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Helmut Käutner
- Jerzy Kawalerowicz
- Tony Kaye
- Elia Kazan
- Buster Keaton
- William Keighley
- Gene Kelly
- Richard Kelly
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Henry King
- Keisuke Kinoshita
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Ryuhei Kitamura
- Takeshi Kitano
- Gerhard Klein
- Elem Klimov
- Alexander Korda
- Zoltan Korda
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- Henry Koster
- Jan Kounen
- Stanley Kubrick
- George Kuchar
- Roger Kumble
- Akira Kurosawa
- Emir Kusturica
- Stanley Kwan
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L
- Neil LaBute
- John Landis
- Fritz Lang
- Walter Lang
- Claude Lanzmann
- David Lean
- Patrice Leconte
- Ang Lee
- Spike Lee
- Mike Leigh
- Claude Lelouch
- Sergio Leone
- Richard Lester
- Barry Levinson
- Jerry Lewis
- Max Linder
- Frank Lloyd
- Ken Loach
- Del Lord
- Ernst Lubitsch
- George Lucas
- Baz Luhrmann
- Sidney Lumet
- Leopold Lummerstorfer
- Ida Lupino
- Rod Lurie
- David Lynch
- Adrian Lyne
- Jonathan Lynn
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M
- Guy Maddin
- Károly Makk
- Louis Malle
- Terrence Malick
- David Maloney
- Luis Mandoki
- Joseph Leo Mankiewicz
- Anthony Mann
- Delbert Mann
- Michael Mann
- Sophie Marceau
- Chris Marker
- George Marshall
- Leo McCarey
- John McTiernan
- Sam Mendes
- Dariush Mehrjui
- Oscar Micheaux
- Roger Michell
- Takashi Miike
- Lewis Milestone
- John Milius
- George Miller
- Anthony Minghella
- Vincente Minnelli
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Jacobo Morales
- Nanni Moretti
- Michael Moore
- Russell Mulcahy
- Robert Mulligan
- F. W. Murnau
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N
- Marcus Nispel
- Mira Nair
- Gregory Nava
- Mike Newell
- Lionel Ngakane
- Fred Niblo
- Andrew Niccol
- Mike Nichols
- Jack Nicholson
- Gaspar Noé
- Christopher Nolan
- Steve Norrington
- Aaron Norris
- Jehane Noujaim
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O
- Arthur Omar
- Pat O'Connor
- Kihachi Okamoto
- Sidney Olcott
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Max Ophuls
- Nagisa Oshima
- François Ozon
- Yasujiro Ozu
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P
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
- P. Padmarajan
- Alan J. Pakula
- Alan Parker
- Joe Pasternak
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Alexander Payne
- Sam Peckinpah
- Arthur Penn
- Sean Penn
- Dean Parisot
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Elio Petri
- Maurice Pialat
- Roman Polanski
- Sydney Pollack
- Kay Pollak
- Michael Powell
- Otto Preminger
- Anand Patwardhan
- Vsevolod Pudovkin
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Q
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R
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Ra-Ri
- Bob Rafelson
- Sam Raimi
- Harold Ramis
- Brett Ratner
- Rand Ravich
- Nicholas Ray
- Satyajit Ray
- Robert Redford
- Carol Reed
- Carl Reiner
- Rob Reiner
- Ivan Reitman
- Karel Reisz
- Jean Renoir
- Alain Resnais
- Tony Richardson
- Tom Ricketts
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Suman Rimal
- Guy Ritchie
- Martin Ritt
- Jacques Rivette
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Ro-Ry
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Jerome Robbins
- Jerry Robbins
- Mark Robson
- Robert Rodriguez
- Nicolas Roeg
- Eric Rohmer
- George Romero
- Stuart Rosenberg
- Herbert Ross
- Robert Rossen
- Roberto Rossellini
- Patricia Rozema
- Ken Russell
- Zbig Rybczynski
- Mark Rydell
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S
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Sa-Sj
- Gus Van Sant
- Claude Sautet
- Geoffrey Sax
- John Sayles
- Ettore Scola
- Ridley Scott
- Tony Scott
- Franklin Schaffner
- Fred Schepisi
- John Schlesinger
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Joel Schumacher
- Reinhold Schünzel
- Martin Scorsese
- George Seaton
- Peter Segal
- David O. Selznick
- Mack Sennett
- M. Night Shyamalan
- Don Siegel
- Bryan Singer
- Robert Siodmak
- Douglas Sirk
- Victor Sjöström
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Sm-St
- Kevin Smith
- Steven Soderbergh
- Barry Sonnenfeld
- Shion Sono
- Steven Spielberg
- John M. Stahl
- Sylvester Stallone
- Ladislas Starevich
- George Stevens
- Robert Stevenson
- Mauritz Stiller
- Oliver Stone
- Erich von Stroheim
- John Sturges
- Arne Sucksdorff
- Seijun Suzuki
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T
- Alain Tanner
- Danis Tanovic
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Quentin Tarantino
- Jacques Tati
- Norman Taurog
- Bertrand Tavernier
- John Lee Thompson
- George Tillman Jr.
- Jacques Tourneur
- Maurice Tourneur
- Lars von Trier
- Francois Truffaut
- Ming-liang Tsai
- Tom Tykwer
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U
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V
- Roger Vadim
- Luis Valdez
- Erik Van Looy
- Agnès Varda
- Gore Verbinski
- Paul Verhoeven
- King Vidor
- Jean Vigo
- Thomas Vinterberg
- Luchino Visconti
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W
- Wachowski brothers
- Andrzej Wajda
- Randall Wallace
- Raoul Walsh
- Vincent Ward
- Denzel Washington
- John Waters
- Peter Weir
- Chris Weitz
- Paul Weitz
- Orson Welles
- Wim Wenders
- Lina Wertmueller
- James Whale
- Bo Widerberg
- Billy Wilder
- Henry Winkler
- Michael Winner
- Franz Winzentsen
- Robert Wise
- Kar-wai Wong
- John Woo
- Ed Wood
- William Wyler
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X
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Y
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Z
- Steven F. Zambo
- Krzysztof Zanussi
- Robert Zemeckis
- Fred Zinnemann
- Zucker brothers
- Andrzej Zulawski
- Edward Zwick
- Terry Zwigoff
- Zhang Yimou
See Also: List of movies - List of actors - List of directors - List of female directors - List of documentaries - List of Hollywood movie studios - List of entertainers - List of people by occupationbg:Списък на режисьори da:Film- og tv-instruktører de:Liste der Filmregisseure es:Lista de directores de cine eo:Reĝisoroj fr:Réalisateurs et réalisatrices hr:Popis filmskih redatelja lb:Lëscht vu Filmregisseuren hu:Filmrendezők listája nl:Lijst van filmregisseurs ja:映画監督一覧 no:Liste over filmregissører pt:Lista de diretores sl:Seznam filmskih režiserjev sv:Lista över filmregissörer zh:导演列表
