Your top 10 directors?

These are just my top ten favorites. I can't pretend to be qualified enough to make a list of the ten 'Best' or 'Greatest' directors, because I have generational and geographical biases.

Here are my ten favorites. The list is in roughly-chronological order.

Alfred Hitchcock
Orson Welles
Billy Wilder
Sergio Leone
Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
David Fincher
Quentin Tarantino
Paul Thomas Anderson

Honorable mentions: Frank Capra, John Huston, Howard Hawks, Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen

I won't order them but here are 10 of my favourites!

Steven Spielberg
Alfred Hitchcock
Billy Wilder
Sergio Leone
Charlie Chaplin
David Fincher
Christopher Nolan
Michael Curtiz
Clint Eastwood
Martin Scorsese

Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese
Billy Wilder
Ingmar Bergman
David Fincher
Akira Kurosawa
Wes Anderson
Christopher Nolan
Michael Curtiz
Sidney Lumet

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1) Orson Welles
2) Andrei Tarkovsky
3) Alfred Hitchcock
4) Carl Theodor Dreyer
5) Federico Fellini
6) Jean Renoir
7) Michelangelo Antonioni
8) Yasujiro Ozu
9) Stanley Kubrick
10) Akira Kurosawa
11) Robert Bresson
12) Jean Luc-Godard
13) Abbas Kiarostami
14) Kenji Mizoguchi
15) Fritz Lang
16) Ingmar Bergman
17) Terrence Malick
18) Alain Resnais
19) Jacques Rivette
20) Edward Yang
21) Satyajit Ray
22) Howard Hawks
23) Chris Marker
24) Eric Von Stroheim
25) Hou Hsiao-Hsein

1. Mario Bava
2. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
3. Dario Argento
4. Terence Malick
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. Ingmar Bergman
7. Andrei Tarkovsky
8. Jane Campion
9. Nicolas Roeg
10.Kieslowski

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Steven Spielberg
3. Alfred Hitchcock
4. Billy Wilder
5. Oliver Stone
6. Ridley Scott
7. Michael Powell
8. James Cameron
9. Paul Verhoeven
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