List of film directors by name

This is a list of motion picture and television directors.

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A

*Jim Abrahams
*Abiola Abrams
*J. J. Abrams
*Tengiz Abuladze
*Andrew Adamson
*Herbert Achternbusch
*Percy Adlon
*Alejandro Agresti
*Alexandre Aja
*Chantal Akerman
*Fatih Akin
*Moustapha Akkad
*Robert Aldrich
*Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
*Marc Allégret
*Yves Allégret
*Irwin Allen
*Lewis Allen
*Woody Allen
*Sherman Alexie
*Pedro Almodóvar
*Robert Altman
*Gianni Amelio
*Alejandro Amenábar
*Lindsay Anderson
*Mitch Anderson
*Paul Thomas Anderson
*Roy Andersson
*Wes Anderson
*Kostas Andritsos
*Theo Angelopoulos
*Kenneth Anger
*Jean-Jacques Annaud
*Threes Anna
*Hideaki Anno
*Arnold Antonin
*Juan Antonio Bayona
*Michelangelo Antonioni
*Judd Apatow
*Michael Apted
*Alfonso Arau
*Denys Arcand
*Jane Arden
*Asia Argento
*Dario Argento
*Gillian Armstrong
*Andrea Arnold
*Jack Arnold
*Darren Aronofsky
*Fernando Arrabal
*Miguel Arteta
*Dorothy Arzner
*Hal Ashby
*Anthony Asquith
*Carlos Atanes
*Richard Attenborough
*Jacques Audiard
*Bille August
*Claude Autant-Lara
*Roger Avary
*Pupi Avati
*Tex Avery
*John G. Avildsen
*Nabil Ayouch

B

*Hector Babenco
*Lloyd Bacon
*John Badham
*Bae Yong-Kyun
*King Baggot
*Roy Ward Baker
*Mohammad Bakri
*Ralph Bakshi
*Aleksei Balabanov
*Carroll Ballard
*Clive Barker
*Tom Barman
*Boris Barnet
*Matthew Barney
*Mario Bava
*Michael Bay
*Kidist Bayelegne
*Warren Beatty
*Jacques Becker
*Wolfgang Becker
*Jean-Jacques Beineix
*Marco Bellocchio
*Maria Luisa Bemberg
*László Benedek
*Shyam Benegal
*Roberto Benigni
*Robert Benton
*Bruce Beresford
*Ingmar Bergman
*Busby Berkeley
*Luis Garcia Berlanga
*Ishmael Bernal
*Curtis Bernhardt
*Claude Berri
*Bernardo Bertolucci
*Luc Besson
*Frank Beyer
*Susanne Bier
*Fabián Bielinsky
*Kathryn Bigelow
*Brad Bird
*Alice Guy-Blaché
*Nicola Black
*Alessandro Blasetti
*Bertrand Blier
*Don Bluth
*Budd Boetticher
*Peter Bogdanovich
*Richard Boleslawski
*Mauro Bolognini
*Fyodor Bondarchuk
*Sergei Bondarchuk
*Bong Joon-ho
*Jan De Bont
*John Boorman
*Frank Borzage
*John and Roy Boulting
*Danny Boyle
*Stan Brakhage
*Kenneth Branagh
*Catherine Breillat
*Robert Bresson
*Vinko Brešan
*Martin Brest
*Lino Brocka
*Peter Brook
*Albert Brooks
*James L. Brooks
*Mel Brooks
*Richard Brooks
*Nick Broomfield
*James Broughton
*Clarence Brown
*Tod Browning
*Detlev Buck
*Jan Bucquoy
*Andrew Bujalski
*Luis Buñuel
*Charles Burnett
*Edward Burns
*Tim Burton
*Jörg Buttgereit

C

*Jeff Celentano
*Enrique Carreras
*Michael Cacoyannis
*Israel Adrián Caetano
*James Cameron
*Donald Cammell
*Juan José Campanella
*Martin Campbell
*Jane Campion
*Michael Cacoyannis
*Frank Capra
*Leos Carax
*Marcel Carné
*Niki Caro
*John Carpenter
*D.J. Caruso
*John Cassavetes
*Nick Cassavetes
*William Castle
*André Cayatte
*Nuri Bilge Ceylan
*Claude Chabrol
*Youssef Chahine
*Jackie Chan
*Charlie Chaplin
*Kaige Chen
*Abigail Child
*Samson Chiu
*Yash Chopra
*Chor Yuen
*Stephen Chow
*Benjamin Christensen
*Christian-Jaque
*Grigori Chukhrai
*Peter Chung
*Věra Chytilová
*Michael Cimino
*Souleymane Cissé
*René Clair
*Bob Clark
*Larry Clark
*Jack Clayton
*René Clément
*George Clooney
*Henri-Georges Clouzot
*Enrico Cocozza
*Jean Cocteau
*Coen Brothers
*Larry Cohen
*Keri Collins
*Mary Collins
*Chris Columbus
*Luigi Comencini
*Bill Condon
*Bruce Conner
*Jack Conway
*Merian C. Cooper
*Francis Ford Coppola
*Sofia Coppola
*Roger Corman
*Alain Corneau
*Don Coscarelli
*George Pan Cosmatos
*Pedro Costa
*Costa-Gavras
*Kevin Costner
*Alex Cox
*Paul Cox
*Wes Craven
*Charles Crichton
*Michael Crichton
*John Cromwell
*David Cronenberg
*Alan Crosland
*Cameron Crowe
*Alfonso Cuarón
*George Cukor
*Sean S. Cunningham
*Richard Curtis
*Michael Curtiz

D

*John Dahl
*Joe D'Amato
*Frank Daniel
*Joe Dante
*Frank Darabont
*Jules Dassin
*Byambasuren Davaa
*Delmer Daves
*Alki David
*Terence Davies
*Andrew Davis
*Tamra Davis
*Jonathan Dayton
*Philippe de Broca
*Rolf de Heer
*Alex De La Iglesia
*Jean Delannoy
*Roy Del Ruth
*Guillermo Del Toro
*Cecil B. DeMille
*Jonathan Demme
*Ted Demme
*Jacques Demy
*Claire Denis
*Ruggero Deodato
*Brian De Palma
*Maya Deren
*Scott Derrickson
*Giuseppe de Santis
*Vittorio De Sica
*Danny DeVito
*Michel Deville
*Carlos Diegues
*Walt Disney
*William Dieterle
*Djibril Diop Mambety
*Edward Dmytryk
*Jacques Doillon
*Andrew Dominik
*Roger Donaldson
*Stanley Donen
*Richard Donner
*Mark Donskoi
*Nelson Pereira dos Santos
*Aleksandr Dovzhenko
*Polly Draper
*Carl Theodor Dreyer
*Troy Duffy
*Dennis Dugan
*Bruno Dumont
*Ewald André Dupont
*Marguerite Duras
*Richard Dutcher
*Guru Dutt
*Julien Duvivier
*Igor Dymkov
*Allan Dwan

E

*Clint Eastwood
*Uli Edel
*Blake Edwards
*Atom Egoyan
*Sergei Eisenstein
*Richard Elfman
*Stephan Elliott
*Maurice Elvey
*Roland Emmerich
*Cy Endfield
*Robert Enrico
*Nora Ephron
*Jean Epstein
*Victor Erice
*Jean Eustache
*Marc Evans
*Chris Eyre
*Richard Eyre

F

*Peter Faiman
*Farrelly brothers
*John Farrow
*Rainer Werner Fassbinder
*Fei Mu
*Federico Fellini
*Emilio Fernandez
*Abel Ferrara
*Marco Ferreri
*Louis Feuillade
*Jacques Feyder
*Todd Field
*Mike Figgis
*David Fincher
*Terence Fisher
*Robert J. Flaherty
*Richard Fleischer
*Victor Fleming
*Benedek Fliegauf
*John Ford
*Miloš Forman
*Willi Forst
*Marc Forster
*Bill Forsyth
*Bob Fosse
*Eytan Fox
*Coleman Francis
*Jesús Franco
*Georges Franju
*John Frankenheimer
*Sidney Franklin
*Stephen Frears
*Mark Freiburger
*Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
*Lionel Friedberg
*William Friedkin
*Su Friedrich
*Kinji Fukasaku
*Lucio Fulci
*Sam Fuller
*Antoine Fuqua

G

*Leonid Gaidai
*Harry Gamboa, Jr.
*Abel Gance
*Carla Garapedian
*Tay Garnett
*Philippe Garrel
*William Garwood
*Louis J. Gasnier
*Tony Gatlif
*Nils Gaup
*Alexei German
*Pietro Germi
*Clyde Geronimi
*Subhash Ghai
*Ritwik Ghatak
*Bahman Ghobadi
*Mel Gibson
*Lewis Gilbert
*Terry Gilliam
*Pavel Giroud
*Amos Gitai
*Jonathan Glazer
*Theo van Gogh
*Jean-Luc Godard
*Menahem Golan
*Bobcat Goldthwait
*Michel Gondry
*Alejandro González Iñárritu
*Adoor Gopalakrishnan
*Stuart Gordon
*Hideo Gosha
*Edmund Goulding
*F. Gary Gray
*David Gordon Green
*Peter Greenaway
*Paul Greengrass
*John Grierson
*Jean Gremillon
*John Greyson
*D. W. Griffith
*Murray Grigor
*Val Guest
*John Guillermin
*Sacha Guitry
*Yilmaz Güney
*Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
*Alice Guy Blaché

H

*Taylor Hackford
*Tala Hadid
*Lucile Hadzihalilovic
*Piers Haggard
*Lasse Hallström
*Bent Hamer
*Michael Haneke
*Curtis Hanson
*Geir Hansteen Jörgensen
*Renny Harlin
*Jack Harris
*Mary Harron
*Hal Hartley
*Herk Harvey
*Henry Hathaway
*Howard Hawks
*Salma Hayek
*David Hayman
*Todd Haynes
*Brian Helgeland
*Monte Hellman
*Frank Henenlotter
*Jim Henson
*Perry Henzell
*Werner Herzog
*Jared Hess
*Jerusha Hess
*Scott Hicks
*Jack Hill
*George Roy Hill
*Walter Hill
*Arthur Hiller
*Art Hindle
*Ryuichi Hiroki
*Alfred Hitchcock
*Ho Ping
*Mike Hodges
*Michael Hoffman
*Jack Hofsiss
*Savage Steve Holland
*Agnieszka Holland
*Seth Holt
*Tobe Hooper
*Stephen Hopkins
*Dennis Hopper
*Hsiao-Hsien Hou
*Ron Howard
*Howard Hughes
*John Hughes
*Danièle Huillet
*John Huston
*Brian G. Hutton
*Peter Hyams
*Nicholas Hytner

I

*Kon Ichikawa
*Im Kwon-Taek
*Shôhei Imamura
*Hiroshi Inagaki
*Rex Ingram
*Juzo Itami
*Joris Ivens
*James Ivory

J

*Peter Jackson
*Sarah Jacobson
*Henry Jaglom
*Steve James
*Miklós Jancsó
*Jim Jarmusch
*Jang Jun-hwan
*Derek Jarman
*Jia Zhangke
*Jiang Wen
*Humphrey Jennings
*Risto Jarva
*Patty Jenkins
*Norman Jewison
*Jean-Pierre Jeunet
*Jia Zhangke
*Jaromil Jireš
*Phil Joanou
*Alejandro Jodorowsky
*Clark Johnson
*Joe Johnston
*Terry Jones
*Chuck Jones
*Spike Jonze
*Bong Joon-ho
*Neil Jordan
*Jon Jost
*Mike Judge
*Miranda July

K

*Karel Kachyňa
*Kamal
*Zacharias Kunuk
*Raj Kapoor
*Shekhar Kapur
*Pekka Karjalainen
*Roman Karmen
*Lawrence Kasdan
*Mithaq Kazimi
*Ras Kassa
*Mathieu Kassovitz
*Aaron Katz
*Lloyd Kaufman
*Philip Kaufman
*Aki Kaurismäki
*Mika Kaurismäki
*Helmut Käutner
*Jerzy Kawalerowicz
*Tony Kaye
*Elia Kazan
*Buster Keaton
*Gene Kelly
*Richard Kelly
*James Kerwin
*William Kennedy Dickson
*Abbas Kiarostami
*Krzysztof Kieślowski
*Kim Ki-duk
*Max W. Kimmich
*Henry King
*Teinosuke Kinugasa
*Ryuhei Kitamura
*Takeshi Kitano
*Elem Klimov
*Satoshi Kon
*Alexander Korda
*Zoltan Korda
*Hirokazu Koreeda
*Harmony Korine
*Baltasar Kormákur
*Henry Koster
*Jan Kounen
*Stanley Kramer
*Stanley Kubrick
*George Kuchar
*Roger Kumble
*Akira Kurosawa
*Kiyoshi Kurosawa
*Emir Kusturica
*Stanley Kwan

L

*Nadine Labaki
*Neil LaBute
*Ringo Lam
*John Landis
*Fritz Lang
*Walter Lang
*Rémi Lange
*Claude Lanzmann
*Janez Lapajne
*David Lean
*Patrice Leconte
*Ang Lee
*Spike Lee
*Mike Leigh
*Danny Leiner
*Michael Lehmann
*Claude Lelouch
*Umberto Lenzi
*Sergio Leone
*Robert Lepage
*Mervyn LeRoy
*Richard Lester
*Barry Levinson
*Jerry Lewis
*Li Tie
*Li Yang
*Doug Liman
*Max Linder
*Willy Lindwer
*Richard Linklater
*Frank Lloyd
*Ken Loach
*Robert Longo
*Del Lord
*Lou Ye
*Ernst Lubitsch
*George Lucas
*Baz Luhrmann
*Sidney Lumet
*Leopold Lummerstorfer
*Ida Lupino
*Rod Lurie
*David Lynch
*Adrian Lyne
*Jonathan Lynn

M

*Kevin Macdonald
*Gustav Machaty
*Alexander Mackendrick
*David Mackenzie
*Gillies MacKinnon
*Guy Maddin
*Dusan Makavejev
*Mohsen Makhmalbaf
*William Malone
*Bam Margera
*Károly Makk
*Louis Malle
*Terrence Malick
*David Maloney
*Manakis brothers
*Milcho Manchevski
*Luis Mandoki
*Joseph Leo Mankiewicz
*Sandeep Marwah
*Anthony Mann
*Daniel Mann
*Delbert Mann
*Michael Mann
*Sophie Marceau
*José Mojica Marins
*Chris Marker
*Laïla Marrakchi
*Frank Marshall
*Garry Marshall
*George Marshall
*Neil Marshall
*Penny Marshall
*Marco Martins
*Nico Mastorakis
*Yasuzo Masumura
*Sean Mathias
*Leo McCarey
*Paul McGuigan
*John McKay
*Lucky McKee
*Norman McLaren
*John McTiernan
*Shane Meadows
*Sam Mendes
*Chris Menges
*Deepa Mehta
*Dariush Mehrjui
*Fernando Meirelles
*Georges Méliès
*Saul Metzstein
*Russ Meyer
*Leah Meyerhoff
*Oscar Micheaux
*Roger Michell
*Takashi Miike
*Lewis Milestone
*John Milius
*Frank Miller
*George Miller
*Kara Miller
*Vincente Minnelli
*Anthony Minghella
*John Cameron Mitchell
*Noël Mitrani
*Hayao Miyazaki
*Kenji Mizoguchi
*Cesar Montano
*Lukas Moodysson
*Alexander Moore
*Michael Moore
*Robert Moore
*Jacobo Morales
*Nanni Moretti
*Anders Morgenthaler
*Errol Morris
*Greg Mottola
*Allan Moyle
*Russell Mulcahy
*Robert Mulligan
*Geoff Murphy
*Ryan Murphy
*F. W. Murnau
*Daniel Myrick

N

*Amir Naderi
*Mira Nair
*Hideo Nakata
*Mikio Naruse
*Vincenzo Natali
*Gregory Nava
*Laura Neri
*Mike Newell
*Lionel Ngakane
*Fred Niblo
*Andrew Niccol
*Mike Nichols
*Jack Nicholson
*Rob Nilsson
*Marcus Nispel
*Gaspar Noé
*Christopher Nolan
*Syed Noor
*Matt Norman
*Jehane Noujaim
*Phillip Noyce
*Bruno Nuytten

O

*Kingsley Ogoro
*Izu Ojukwu
*Kihachi Okamoto
*Sidney Olcott
*Manoel de Oliveira
*Gunnar Olsson
*Max Ophüls
*Mamoru Oshi
*Nagisa Oshima
*Richard Oswald
*Katsuhiro Otomo
*Idrissa Ouedraogo
*Cheick Oumar Sissoko
*Frank Oz
*François Ozon
*Yasujiro Ozu

P

*Georg Wilhelm Pabst
*P. Padmarajan
*Alan J. Pakula
*György Pálfi
*Park Chan-Wook
*Sergei Parajanov
*Alan Parker
*Trey Parker
*Dean Parisot
*Reza Parsa
*Gabriel Pascal
*Goran Paskaljevic
*Pier Paolo Pasolini
*Ivan Passer
*Anand Patwardhan
*Alexander Payne
*Raoul Peck
*Sam Peckinpah
*Arthur Penn
*Sean Penn
*Ivan Perestiani
*Lester James Peries
*Léonce Perret
*Wolfgang Petersen
*Elio Petri
*Daniel Petrie
*Maurice Pialat
*Lucian Pintilie
*Puttanna Kanagal
*Roman Polanski
*Sydney Pollack
*Kay Pollak
*Ted Post
*Michael Powell
*Sally Potter
*Otto Preminger
*Emeric Pressburger
*Sarah Price
*Alex Proyas
*Vsevolod Pudovkin

Q

*Brothers Quay
*Richard Quine

R

*Michael Radford
*Bob Rafelson
*Sam Raimi
*Yvonne Rainer
*Harold Ramis
*Mani Ratnam
*Brett Ratner
*Nicholas Ray
*Satyajit Ray
*Rick Ray
*Eric Red
*Robert Redford
*Carol Reed
*Matt Reeves
*Nicolas Winding Refn
*Godfrey Reggio
*Carl Reiner
*Rob Reiner
*Karel Reisz
*Jean Renoir
*Alain Resnais
*Ivan Reitman
*Jason Reitman
*Carlos Reygadas
*John Rich
*Tony Richardson
*W. D. Richter
*Leni Riefenstahl
*Arturo Ripstein
*Guy Ritchie
*Martin Ritt
*Jacques Rivette
*Saeed Rizvi
*Jay Roach
*Alain Robbe-Grillet
*Jerome Robbins
*Tim Robbins
*Bruce Robinson
*Phil Alden Robinson
*Mark Robson
*Glauber Rocha
*João Pedro Rodrigues
*Robert Rodriguez
*John Roecker
*Nicolas Roeg
*Éric Rohmer
*George A. Romero
*Mikhail Romm
*Bernard Rose
*Stuart Rosenberg
*Rick Rosenthal
*Herbert Ross
*Robert Rossen
*Roberto Rossellini
*Eli Roth
*Patricia Rozema
*Pavel Ruminov
*David O. Russell
*Ken Russell
*Zbigniew Rybczyński
*Mark Rydell

*Bob Saget
*Walter Salles
*Shakti Samanta
*Richard C. Sarafian
*Claude Sautet
*Geoffrey Sax
*John Sayles
*John Scagliotti
*Ettore Scola
*Martin Scorsese
*Leigh Scott
*Ridley Scott
*Tony Scott
*Franklin Schaffner
*Frank Scheffer
*Fred Schepisi
*Kyle Schickner
*Thomas Schlamme
*John Schlesinger
*Volker Schlöndorff
*Julian Schnabel
*Renen Schorr
*Barbet Schroeder
*Werner Schroeter
*Joel Schumacher
*George Seaton
*Henry Selick
*Selvaraghavan
*Ousmane Sembene
*Mrinal Sen
*Mack Sennett
*Tom Shadyac
*Jim Sharman
*William Shatner
*Ron Shelton
*Larisa Shepitko
*Jim Sheridan
*Gary Sherman
*Cate Shortland
*M. Night Shyamalan
*George Sidney
*Don Siegel
*Yves Simoneau
*Bryan Singer
*Manmohan Singh
*Tarsem Singh
*John Singleton
*Robert Siodmak
*Douglas Sirk
*Victor Sjöström
*Jerzy Skolimowski
*Yannis Smaragdis
*Harry Smith
*Kevin Smith
*Adam Smoluk
*Michael Snow
*Michele Soavi
*Steven Soderbergh
*Todd Solondz
*Stephen Sommers
*Barry Sonnenfeld
*Shion Sono
*Aleksandr Sokurov
*Penelope Spheeris
*Steven Spielberg
*Alejandro Springall
*John M. Stahl
*Sylvester Stallone
*Ladislas Starevich
*Josef von Sternberg
*George Stevens
*Robert Stevenson
*Mauritz Stiller
*Whit Stillman
*Oliver Stone
*Jean-Marie Straub
*Barbra Streisand
*Erich von Stroheim
*John Sturges
*Preston Sturges
*Jan Švankmajer
*Sun Yu
*István Szabó
*Arne Sucksdorff
*Seijun Suzuki
*Jan Švankmajer
*Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
*Khady Sylla
*István Szabó

T

*Rachel Talalay
*Lee Tamahori
*Alain Tanner
*Danis Tanovic
*Andrei Tarkovsky
*Quentin Tarantino
*Bela Tarr
*Frank Tashlin
*Jacques Tati
*Norman Taurog
*Bertrand Tavernier
*Lewis Teague
*André Téchiné
*Julien Temple
*Andy Tennant
*J. Lee Thompson
*Richard Thorpe
*Tian Zhuangzhuang
*George Tillman, Jr.
*Johnnie To
*James Toback
*Giuseppe Tornatore
*André de Toth
*Jacques Tourneur
*Maurice Tourneur
*David Trainer
*Pablo Trapero
*Scott Treleaven
*Lars von Trier
*Jan Troell
*Margarethe von Trotta
*François Truffaut
*Ming-liang Tsai
*Tsui Hark
*Shinya Tsukamoto
*Jon Turteltaub
*Tom Tykwer

U

*Edgar G. Ulmer
*Ron Underwood
*Kinka Usher
*Peter Ustinov

V

*Roger Vadim
*Luis Valdez
*Mike van Diem
*Erik Van Looy
*Melvin Van Peebles
*Gus Van Sant
*Agnès Varda
*Ram Gopal Varma
*Gore Verbinski
*Paul Verhoeven
*Dziga Vertov
*Charles Vidor
*King Vidor
*Robert G. Vignola
*Jean Vigo
*Thomas Vinterberg
*Luchino Visconti
*Jurgen Vsych

W

*Wachowski brothers
*Michael Wadleigh
*Wai Ka-Fai
*Andrzej Wajda
*Randall Wallace
*Raoul Walsh
*James Wan
*Wan brothers
*Sam Wanamaker
*Wang Xiaoshuai
*Wang Quan'an
*Vincent Ward
*Andy Warhol
*Denzel Washington
*John Waters
*Peter Watkins
*Apichatpong Weerasethakul
*Peter Weir
*Chris Weitz
*Paul Weitz
*Orson Welles
*Wim Wenders
*Lina Wertmueller
*James Whale
*Bo Widerberg
*Michael Winterbottom
*Billy Wilder
*Adim Williams
*Richard Williams
*William Witney
*Henry Winkler
*Simon Wincer
*Michael Winner
*David Winning
*Michael Winterbottom
*Robert Wise
*Frederick Wiseman
*Len Wiseman
*Doris Wishman
*Kar-wai Wong
*John Woo
*Edward D. Wood, Jr.
*Sam Wood
*Edgar Wright
*William Wyler

X

*Xie Jin

Y

*Boaz Yakin
*Edward Yang
*Ruby Yang
*David Yates
*Peter Yates
*Yaky Yosha
*Yamada Youji
*Sun Yu
*Yuen Woo-ping
*Brian Yuzna

Z

*Krzysztof Zanussi
*Franco Zeffirelli
*Robert Zemeckis
*Zhang Yang
*Zhang Yimou
*Zhang Yuan
*Zheng Junli
*Maheen Zia
*Howard Zieff
*Zelimir Zilnik
*Fred Zinnemann
*Rob Zombie
*Erick Zonca
*Zucker brothers
*Andrzej Żuławski
*Edward Zwick
*Terry Zwigoff

ee also

* List of movies
* List of actors
* List of female directors
* List of documentaries
* List of Hollywood movie studios
* List of entertainers
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