posted: 07.22.00
POV's 100 Years, 100 Original Directors
by POV.
We on the POV mailing list have compiled an account of directors that, good or bad, display a certain consistency in their work. Either through visual style, directing technique, or prevalent themes, these craftsmen manage to keep some artistry in the dangerously collaborative medium of filmmaking. The following is our list of One Hundred Original Directors, displayed in alphabetical order.

100 Years, 100 Original Directors

Pedro Almodóvar
Kenneth Anger
Robert Aldrich
Woody Allen
Robert Altman
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Theo Angelopoulos
Michelangelo Antonioni
Dario Argento
Mario Bava
Michael Bay
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Ingmar Bergman
Busby Berkeley
Budd Boetticher
Stan Brakhage
Catherine Breillat
Robert Bresson
Luis Buñuel
Tim Burton
Leos Carax
John Carpenter
John Cassavettes
Coen Brothers
Charles Chaplin
Shirley Clarke
Roger Corman
Brian DePalma
Carl Dreyer
Sergei Eisenstein
Atom Egoyan
Jean Eustache
Federico Fellini
David Fincher
John Ford
Terry Gilliam
Jean-luc Godard
D. W. Griffith
Yilmaz Guney
Hal Hartley
Howard Hawks
Alfred Hitchcock
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Shohei Imamura
Jim Jarmusch
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (and Marc Caro)
Lawrence Kasdan
Elia Kazan
Buster Keaton
Takeshi Kitano
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Fritz Lang
Spike Lee
Sergio Leone
Ernst Lubitsch
David Lynch
John McTiernan
Georges Méliès
Russ Meyer
Kenji Mizoguchi
Max Ophuls
Yasujiro Ozu
Sam Peckinpah
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Roman Polanski
Alex Proyas
Nicholas Ray
Jean Renoir
Arturo Ripstein
robert rodriguez
Alan Rudolph
John Sayles
Martin Scorsese
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott
Douglas Sirk
Kevin Smith
Steven Spielberg
Whit Stillman
Oliver Stone
Preston Sturges
Quentin Tarantino
Andrei Tarkovsky
Frank Tashlin
Francois Truffaut
Paul Verhoeven
Dziga Vertov
King Vidor
Jean Vigo
Thomas Vinterberg
Josef Von Sternberg
Wachowski Brothers
John Waters
Wim Wenders
Billy Wilder
Kar-wai Wong
John Woo
Ed Wood
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