Directors Index
Sorted by number of works in the Canon.
Alfred Hitchcock
10
Films
Stanley Kubrick
9
Films
Akira Kurosawa
8
Films
Charles Chaplin
7
Films
Billy Wilder
7
Films
Ingmar Bergman
7
Films
Orson Welles
6
Films
Luis Buñuel
6
Films
Martin Scorsese
6
Films
Quentin Tarantino
6
Films
John Ford
6
Films
Federico Fellini
6
Films
Roman Polanski
5
Films
Howard Hawks
5
Films
Wim Wenders
5
Films
Ethan Coen
5
Films
John Huston
5
Films
David Lynch
5
Films
Joel Coen
5
Films
Fritz Lang
4
Films
David Lean
4
Films
Robert Bresson
4
Films
François Truffaut
4
Films
Werner Herzog
4
Films
Steven Spielberg
4
Films
Christopher Nolan
4
Films
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
4
Films
Ernst Lubitsch
4
Films
Jean Renoir
4
Films
Andrei Tarkovsky
4
Films
Francis Ford Coppola
4
Films
Michael Powell
4
Films
Elia Kazan
4
Films
Luchino Visconti
4
Films
Woody Allen
4
Films
Jean-Luc Godard
4
Films
Marcel Carné
3
Films
Yasujirô Ozu
3
Films
Mario Monicelli
3
Films
Pier Paolo Pasolini
3
Films
Paul Thomas Anderson
3
Films
Spike Jonze
3
Films
Wes Anderson
3
Films
Frank Capra
3
Films
Emeric Pressburger
3
Films
George Stevens
3
Films
Robert Aldrich
3
Films
Sidney Lumet
3
Films
Michelangelo Antonioni
3
Films
Robert Altman
3
Films
William Wyler
3
Films
Roberto Rossellini
3
Films
Vittorio De Sica
3
Films
Jacques Tati
3
Films
Kenji Mizoguchi
3
Films
Satyajit Ray
3
Films
Sergio Leone
3
Films
Bernardo Bertolucci
3
Films
Ridley Scott
3
Films
Thomas Vinterberg
3
Films
Buster Keaton
3
Films
Sergei M. Eisenstein
3
Films
Carl Theodor Dreyer
3
Films
Michael Curtiz
2
Films
Raoul Walsh
2
Films
Francesco Rosi
2
Films
George Roy Hill
2
Films
Hal Ashby
2
Films
Theodoros Angelopoulos
2
Films
Oliver Stone
2
Films
Giuseppe Tornatore
2
Films
Krzysztof Kieslowski
2
Films
Tim Burton
2
Films
Peter Weir
2
Films
Alejandro González Iñárritu
2
Films
Steve McQueen
2
Films
Michael Haneke
2
Films
Alexander Payne
2
Films
Martin McDonagh
2
Films
Denis Villeneuve
2
Films
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
2
Films
Kaneto Shindô
2
Films
Jean-Pierre Melville
2
Films
Robert J. Flaherty
2
Films
George Cukor
2
Films
Jacques Tourneur
2
Films
Robert Siodmak
2
Films
Robert Wise
2
Films
Stanley Donen
2
Films
Henri-Georges Clouzot
2
Films
Louis Malle
2
Films
Alain Resnais
2
Films
Dino Risi
2
Films
Arthur Penn
2
Films
George Lucas
2
Films
John Cassavetes
2
Films
John Carpenter
2
Films
George Miller
2
Films
David Cronenberg
2
Films
Jim Jarmusch
2
Films
Spike Lee
2
Films
Yimou Zhang
2
Films
David Fincher
2
Films
Hayao Miyazaki
2
Films
Damien Chazelle
2
Films
Victor Fleming
2
Films
Preston Sturges
2
Films
Max Ophüls
2
Films
Nicholas Ray
2
Films
Fred Zinnemann
2
Films
Blake Edwards
2
Films
Mike Nichols
2
Films
Milos Forman
2
Films
Terrence Malick
2
Films
Terry Gilliam
2
Films
Frank Darabont
2
Films
Béla Tarr
2
Films
Abbas Kiarostami
2
Films
Takeshi Kitano
2
Films
Pedro Almodóvar
2
Films
Darren Aronofsky
2
Films
Kim Ki-Duk
2
Films
Alfonso Cuarón
2
Films
Richard Linklater
2
Films
Hirokazu Kore'eda
2
Films
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
2
Films
Jacques Becker
2
Films
Park Chan-wook
2
Films
James Whale
2
Films
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
2
Films
David Wark Griffith
2
Films
Josef von Sternberg
2
Films
Sam Wood
1
Films
Mervyn LeRoy
1
Films
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
1
Films
Ágnes Hranitzky
1
Films
Cristian Mungiu
1
Films
Yorgos Lanthimos
1
Films
Edward Yang
1
Films
Mamoru Oshii
1
Films
Abel Gance
1
Films
Robert Wiene
1
Films
Robert Eggers
1
Films
Merian C. Cooper
1
Films
Chloé Zhao
1
Films
Yôjirô Takita
1
Films
Nicole Newnham
1
Films
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
1
Films
Paolo Sorrentino
1
Films
James Algar
1
Films
Jean Cocteau
1
Films
Charles Vidor
1
Films
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1
Films
Jerome Robbins
1
Films
Robert Mulligan
1
Films
Richard Lester
1
Films
Peter Glenville
1
Films
Russ Meyer
1
Films
John Schlesinger
1
Films
Dennis Hopper
1
Films
Eric Rohmer
1
Films
Elio Petri
1
Films
Bob Rafelson
1
Films
John G. Avildsen
1
Films
Paolo e Vittorio Taviani
1
Films
Michael Cimino
1
Films
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1
Films
John Landis
1
Films
Wolfgang Petersen
1
Films
Terry Jones
1
Films
Tengiz Abuladze
1
Films
Percy Adlon
1
Films
Mira Nair
1
Films
Peter Greenaway
1
Films
John Woo
1
Films
Jonathan Demme
1
Films
Ron Fricke
1
Films
Henry Selick
1
Films
Bryan Singer
1
Films
Mathieu Kassovitz
1
Films
Danny Boyle
1
Films
Mike Leigh
1
Films
Curtis Hanson
1
Films
Walter Salles
1
Films
Guy Ritchie
1
Films
Lars von Trier
1
Films
Fernando Meirelles
1
Films
Aki Kaurismäki
1
Films
Sofia Coppola
1
Films
Fatih Akin
1
Films
Guillermo del Toro
1
Films
Marjane Satrapi
1
Films
Neill Blomkamp
1
Films
Tom Hooper
1
Films
Asghar Farhadi
1
Films
Maren Ade
1
Films
Luca Guadagnino
1
Films
Ernest B. Schoedsack
1
Films
Jean Vigo
1
Films
Erich von Stroheim
1
Films
Edward Sedgwick
1
Films
Rouben Mamoulian
1
Films
Leo McCarey
1
Films
Sam Taylor
1
Films
Tomm Moore
1
Films
László Nemes
1
Films
William A. Wellman
1
Films
David Hand
1
Films
Bruce Weber
1
Films
Sian Heder
1
Films
Katsuhiro Ôtomo
1
Films
Céline Sciamma
1
Films
Alexander Mackendrick
1
Films
Masaki Kobayashi
1
Films
Leos Carax
1
Films
William A. Seiter
1
Films
Jonathan Glazer
1
Films
Lewis Milestone
1
Films
King Vidor
1
Films
Dziga Vertov
1
Films
Victor Sjöström
1
Films
Lloyd Bacon
1
Films
Ross Stewart
1
Films
Vincente Minelli
1
Films
René Clément
1
Films
Delmer Daves
1
Films
Carol Reed
1
Films
Robert Hamer
1
Films
Gene Kelly
1
Films
Charles Laughton
1
Films
Don Siegel
1
Films
Jack Arnold
1
Films
Otto Preminger
1
Films
Douglas Sirk
1
Films
Stanley Kramer
1
Films
John Frankenheimer
1
Films
John Sturges
1
Films
Hiroshi Teshigahara
1
Films
Gillo Pontecorvo
1
Films
Norman Jewison
1
Films
George A. Romero
1
Films
Anthony Harvey
1
Films
Sam Peckinpah
1
Films
Richard C. Sarafian
1
Films
Peter Bogdanovich
1
Films
John Boorman
1
Films
Alejandro Jodorowsky
1
Films
Franklin J. Schaffner
1
Films
William Friedkin
1
Films
Marco Ferreri
1
Films
Mel Brooks
1
Films
Alan J. Pakula
1
Films
Ermanno Olmi
1
Films
István Szabó
1
Films
Richard Attenborough
1
Films
Edgar Reitz
1
Films
Agnès Varda
1
Films
Elem Klimov
1
Films
Roland Joffé
1
Films
Tom Stoppard
1
Films
Luc Besson
1
Films
Jim Jarmush
1
Films
Sam Mendes
1
Films
Peter Jackson
1
Films
Katia Lund
1
Films
Wolfgang Becker
1
Films
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
1
Films
Sean Penn
1
Films
Takashi Miike
1
Films
Kleber Mendonça Filho
1
Films
Ken Loach
1
Films
Pawel Pawlikowski
1
Films
Noah Baumbach
1
Films
William Keighley
1
Films
Samuel Armstrong
1
Films
Vincent Minelli
1
Films
Camillo Mastrocinque
1
Films
Mario Bava
1
Films
Chris Marker
1
Films
Samuel Fuller
1
Films
Joseph Losey
1
Films
Guy Hamilton
1
Films
Marco Bellocchio
1
Films
Richard Brooks
1
Films
Sydney Pollack
1
Films
Bob Fosse
1
Films
Fernando Di Leo
1
Films
Jim Sharman
1
Films
Walter Hill
1
Films
Irvin Kershner
1
Films
Brian De Palma
1
Films
Robert Zemeckis
1
Films
Gianni Amelio
1
Films
Kaige Chen
1
Films
Kevin Smith
1
Films
Emir Kusturica
1
Films
Andrew Niccol
1
Films
Aleksandr Sokurov
1
Films
Tony Kaye
1
Films
Lana Wachowski
1
Films
Andy Wachowski
1
Films
Kar Wai Wong
1
Films
Sylvain Chomet
1
Films
Alejandro Amenábar
1
Films
Oliver Hirschbiegel
1
Films
Vincent Paronnaud
1
Films
Julian Schnabel
1
Films
Anton Corbijn
1
Films
Duncan Jones
1
Films
Jacques Audiard
1
Films
Nicolas Winding Refn
1
Films
Ciro Guerra
1
Films
Ildikó Enyedi
1
Films
Bong Joon Ho
1
Films
Fred C. Newmeyer
1
Films
James Lebrecht
1
Films
Edward Berger
1
Films
Chantal Akerman
1
Films
Xavier Dolan
1
Films
Georges Méliès
1
Films
Deniz Gamze Ergüven
1
Films
Justine Triet
1
Films
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
1
Films
Alexander Nanau
1
Films
Sergei Parajanov
1
Films
Luc Dardenne
1
Films
Eliza Hittman
1
Films
Stuart Rosenberg
1
Films
Laura Poitras
1
Films
Ari Folman
1
Films
Tod Browning
1
Films
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
1
Films
W. S. Van Dyke
1
Films
Mark Sandrich
1
Films
Marc Caro
1
Films