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Great Directors (Updated: December 2012)
Darren Aronofsky
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Stephen Daldry
Alejandro Amenabar
Brad Bird
Duncan Jones
Joss Whedon
Ben Affleck
Bennett Miller
Andrew Niccol
Andrew Dominik
Neill Blomkamp
Edgar Wright
Jason Reitman
Matthew Vaughn
Joon-ho Bong
Frank Darabont
Bryan Singer
Rian Johnson
Alexander Payne
John Hillcoat
Andrei Tarkovsky
Gregory Hoblit
Sam Mendes
Alex Proyas
Gary Ross
Andrew Stanton
David O. Russell
Mikael Hafstrom
J.J. Abrams
Stephen Chow
George Lucas
Jon Favreau
Kim Ji-woon
Guillermo del Toro
Michael Gondry
James Mangold
Barry Sonnenfeld
Kathryn Bigelow
Adrian Lyne
Henry Selick
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cameron Crowe
James Cameron
Terrence Malick
Paul Thomas Anderson
Christopher Nolan
Danny Boyle
Gore Verbinski
Alfonso Cuaron
Mel Brooks
Sergio Leone
John McTiernan
Alan J. Pakula
Alan Parker
Arthur Penn
Ang Lee
George Roy Hill
Michael Haneke
Bernardo Bertolucci
Chan-wook Park
Anthony Minghella
David Yates
Alexander Mackendrick
Hideo Nakata
Michael Mann
M. Night Shyamalan
Kevin Smith
Wes Anderson
Jim Sheridan
David Lynch
Quentin Tarantino
Gus Van Sant
John Hughes
Guy Ritchie
Hayao Miyazaki
Marc Forster
Harold Ramis
Edward Zwick
David Fincher
George Miller
John Ford
Richard Attenborough
Brian De Palma
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
John Carpenter
Frank Capra
Steven Soderbergh
Elia Kazan
Francis Ford Coppola
Mike Nichols
Oliver Stone
Wes Craven
John Huston
Richard Donner
Roman Polanski
Peter Weir
Spike Lee
John Landis
Tony Scott
Paul Verhoeven
John Woo
Robert Zemeckis
Sidney Pollack
Dario Argento
Barry Levinson
Terry Gilliam
Sam Raimi
Stanley Kubrick
Peter Jackson
Jonathan Demme
Norman Jewison
Howard Hawks
David Lean
Joel and Ethan Coen
Sidney Lumet
David Cronenberg
Tim Burton
Franklin J. Schaffner
Robert Aldrich
Robert Altman
Ridley Scott
Ron Howard
Woody Allen
Fritz Lang
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Rob Reiner
Kenneth Branagh
Milos Forman
Luc Besson
Wong Kar-Wai
Jean-Pierre Melville
Orson Welles
Cecil B. DeMille
Henri-Georges Clouzot
F. W. Murnau
Jim Jarmusch
William Wyler
Yasujiro Ozu
Werner Herzog
Wim Wenders
Francois Truffaut
George A. Romero
Ingmar Bergman
Stanley Kramer
Robert Wise
Luis Bunuel
Sam Peckinpah
Federico Fellini
Alfred Hitchcock
Akira Kurosawa
Billy Wilder
Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorsese
Clint Eastwood