List of film and television directors
This is a list of notable directors in motion picture and television arts.
A
- Dodo Abashidze
- George Abbott
- Jim Abrahams
- Abiola Abrams
- J. J. Abrams
- Ivan Abramson
- Hany Abu-Assad
- Tengiz Abuladze
- Herbert Achternbusch
- Andrew Adamson
- Maren Ade
- Carine Adler
- Percy Adlon
- John G. Adolfi
- Franklin Adreon
- Ben Affleck
- Alejandro Agresti
- Aqeel Ahmed
- Alexandre Aja
- Chantal Akerman
- Desiree Akhavan
- Fatih Akın
- Moustapha Akkad
- R. Kan Albay
- Barbara Albert
- Alan Alda
- Robert Aldrich
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
- Grigori Aleksandrov
- Victoria Aleksanyan
- Khalik Allah
- Marc Allégret
- Yves Allégret
- Elizabeth Allen
- Irwin Allen
- Lewis Allen
- Woody Allen
- Sherman Alexie
- Syed Ali Raza Usama
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Paul Almond
- Robert Altman
- Fede Álvarez
- Mathieu Amalric
- Ned Ambler
- Gianni Amelio
- Alejandro Amenábar
- Jon Amiel
- Ana Lily Amirpour
- Thom Andersen
- Lindsay Anderson
- Michael Anderson
- Mitch Anderson
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Paul W. S. Anderson
- Wes Anderson
- Brad Anderson
- Roy Andersson
- Metodi Andonov
- Raoul André
- Kostas Andritsos
- Theo Angelopoulos
- Kenneth Anger
- Threes Anna
- Ken Annakin
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Hideaki Anno
- Arnold Antonin
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Oscar Apfel
- Michael Apted
- Gregg Araki
- Alfonso Aráu
- Denys Arcand
- George Archainbaud
- Jane Arden
- Emile Ardolino
- Asia Argento
- Dario Argento
- Dionciel Armstrong
- Gillian Armstrong
- Andrea Arnold
- Jack Arnold
- Darren Aronofsky
- Fernando Arrabal
- Miguel Arteta
- Dorothy Arzner
- Hal Ashby
- John Mallory Asher
- Olivier Assayas
- Anthony Asquith
- Carlos Atanes
- Richard Attenborough
- David Attwood
- Jacques Audiard
- Jacqueline Audry
- John H. Auer
- Bille August
- Claude Autant-Lara
- Aram Avakian
- Roger Avary
- Pupi Avati
- Tex Avery
- John G. Avildsen
- Dan Aykroyd
- Nabil Ayouch
- Mary Ayubi
B
Ba–Bh
- Suresh Bhardwaj
- Héctor Babenco
- Lloyd Bacon
- Clarence G. Badger
- John Badham
- Bae Yong-Kyun
- Cindy Baer
- Prince Bagdasarian
- King Baggot
- Stuart Baird
- Roy Ward Baker
- Mohammad Bakri
- Ralph Bakshi
- Aleksei Balabanov
- Kailasam Balachander
- Carroll Ballard
- Charles Band
- Monty Banks
- Juan Antonio Bardem
- Richard L. Bare
- Chris Barfoot
- Sooraj R. Barjatya
- Clive Barker
- Reginald Barker
- Tom Barman
- Boris Barnet
- Matthew Barney
- Daniel Barnz
- Chuck Barris
- Drew Barrymore
- Lionel Barrymore
- Andrzej Bartkowiak
- Jason Bateman
- Paul Bartel
- Hall Bartlett
- Charles Barton
- Felix Basch
- Mario Bava
- Michael Bay
- Juan Antonio Bayona
- Warren Beatty
- William Beaudine
- Harry Beaumont
- Harold Becker
- Jacques Becker
- Josh Becker
- Wolfgang Becker
- Guy Norman Bee
- Ford Beebe
- Hans Behrendt
- Jean-Jacques Beineix
- Monta Bell
- Marco Bellocchio
- Jerry Belson
- Maria Luisa Bemberg
- Jack Bender
- László Benedek
- Shyam Benegal
- Roberto Benigni
- Richard Benjamin
- Spencer Gordon Bennet
- Robert Benton
- Bruce Beresford
- Andrew Bergman
- Ingmar Bergman
- Busby Berkeley
- Luis Garcia Berlanga
- Marc Berlin
- Andrea Berloff
- Paul Bern
- Ishmael Bernal
- Curtis Bernhardt
- Claude Berri
- John Berry
- Arthur Berthelet
- André Berthomieu
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Luc Besson
- Frank Beyer
- Bharathiraja
Bi–Bz
- John Biddle
- Fabián Bielinsky
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Tony Bill
- Anna Biller
- Peter Billingsley
- Bruce Bilson
- Brad Bird
- Bill Bixby
- Alice Guy-Blaché
- Herbert Blaché
- Nicola Black
- Shane Black
- George Blair
- Alessandro Blasetti
- Bertrand Blier
- Neill Blomkamp
- Don Bluth
- John G. Blystone
- Eugeniusz Bodo
- Carl Boese
- Budd Boetticher
- Paul Bogart
- Peter Bogdanovich
- José Bohr
- Michel Boisrond
- Patrick Bokanowski
- Richard Boleslawski
- Uwe Boll
- Mauro Bolognini
- Fyodor Bondarchuk
- Sergei Bondarchuk
- Bong Joon-ho
- John Boorman
- Walerian Borowczyk
- Frank Borzage
- John and Roy Boulting
- Lucien Bourjeily
- David Bowers
- Danny Boyle
- Charles Brabin
- Robert N. Bradbury
- John Brahm
- Stan Brakhage
- A.V. Bramble
- Kenneth Branagh
- Tinto Brass
- Catherine Breillat
- Herbert Brenon
- Robert Bresson
- Martin Brest
- Vinko Brešan
- Howard Bretherton
- Sean Bridgers
- James Bridges
- Steven Brill
- Philippe de Broca
- Lino Brocka
- Peter Brook
- Albert Brooks
- James L. Brooks
- Mel Brooks
- Richard Brooks
- Nick Broomfield
- Simon Bross
- James Broughton
- Otto Brower
- Clarence Brown
- Harry Joe Brown
- Rowland Brown
- Tod Browning
- Adrian Brunel
- Nick Bruno
- Chris Buck
- Detlev Buck
- Tom Buckingham
- Steve Buscemi
- Harold S. Bucquet
- Jan Bucquoy
- Danny Buday
- John Carl Buechler
- Luis Buñuel
- Charles Burnett
- Edward Burns
- Tim Burstall
- Tim Burton
- Alexander Butler
- David Butler
- Robert Butler
- Jörg Buttgereit
- Edward Buzzell
- Bobby Razak
C
- Christy Cabanne
- Michael Cacoyannis
- Israel Adrián Caetano
- Nicolas Cage
- James Cagney
- Mike Cahill
- Edward L. Cahn
- James Cameron
- Donald Cammell
- Joe Camp
- Juan José Campanella
- Colin Campbell
- Martin Campbell
- Jane Campion
- Danny Cannon
- Dyan Cannon
- Graham Cantwell
- Albert Capellani
- Frank Capra
- Luigi Capuano
- Leos Carax
- Marcel Carné
- Marc Caro
- Niki Caro
- John Carpenter
- Thomas Carr
- Enrique Carreras
- John Paddy Carstairs
- Chris Carter
- D. J. Caruso
- John Cassavetes
- Nick Cassavetes
- P. J. Castellaneta
- William Castle
- Torre Catalano
- Michael Caton-Jones
- Peter Cattaneo
- Alberto Cavalcanti
- Liliana Cavani
- André Cayatte
- Ralph Ceder
- Jeff Celentano
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Claude Chabrol
- Gurinder Chadha
- Don Chaffey
- Aneesh Chaganty
- Youssef Chahine
- Fruit Chan
- Jackie Chan
- Peter Chan
- Charlie Chaplin
- Charley Chase
- Émile Chautard
- Michael Chaves
- Damien Chazelle
- Jeremiah S. Chechik
- Peter Chelsom
- Kaige Chen
- Pierre Chenal
- Pierre Chevalier
- Abigail Child
- Ching Siu-Tung
- Samson Chiu
- Tadeusz Chmielewski
- Lisa Cholodenko
- Yash Chopra
- Chor Yuen
- Stephen Chow
- Benjamin Christensen
- Roger Christian
- Christian-Jaque
- Rich Christiano
- Grigori Chukhrai
- Peter Chung
- Věra Chytilová
- Michael Cimino
- Claudio Cipelletti
- Souleymane Cissé
- René Clair
- Larry Clamage
- Bob Clark
- Larry Clark
- Shirley Clarke
- Jack Clayton
- William Clemens
- René Clément
- Ron Clements
- Elmer Clifton
- Edward F. Cline
- George Clooney
- Robert Clouse
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Enrico Cocozza
- Jean Cocteau
- Coen Brothers
- Larry Cohen
- Rob Cohen
- Keri Collins
- Lewis D. Collins
- Mary Collins
- Chris Columbus
- Luigi Comencini
- Bill Condon
- Bruce Conner
- Jack Conway
- Fielder Cook
- Josh Cooley
- Merian C. Cooper
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Sofia Coppola
- Frank Coraci
- Roger Corman
- Alain Corneau
- Joe Cornish
- Lloyd Corrigan
- Raiya Corsiglia
- Don Coscarelli
- George Pan Cosmatos
- Pedro Costa
- Costa-Gavras
- Kevin Costner
- Manny Coto
- T. Arthur Cottam
- Alex Cox
- Paul Cox
- William James Craft
- Wes Craven
- Charles Crichton
- Michael Crichton
- Jon Cring
- Donald Crisp
- Donald Crombie
- John Cromwell
- David Cronenberg
- Alan Crosland
- Matthew Crouch
- Cameron Crowe
- James Cruze
- Alfonso Cuarón
- George Cukor
- Irving Cummings
- James Cunningham
- Sean S. Cunningham
- Richard Curtis
- Michael Curtiz
- Paul Czinner
D
- Debarun Pal
- Joe D'Amato
- Diminas Dagogo
- John Dahl
- Georgi Daneliya
- Frank Daniel
- Lee Daniels
- Vladimir Danilevich
- Joe Dante
- Frank Darabont
- Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
- Jules Dassin
- Hayato Date
- Gary Dauberman
- Byambasuren Davaa
- Delmer Daves
- Alki David
- Terence Davies
- Andrew Davis
- Ossie Davis
- Tamra Davis
- J. Searle Dawley
- Robert Day
- Jonathan Dayton
- Drew Daywalt
- Basil Dean
- Basil Dearden
- Tiffanie DeBartolo
- Jan de Bont
- Philippe de Broca
- Fred de Cordova
- Albert de Courville
- Russell DeGrazier
- Rolf de Heer
- Alex de la Iglesia
- Jean Delannoy
- Bruce Dellis
- Greg DeLiso
- Hampton Del Ruth
- Roy Del Ruth
- Guillermo del Toro
- Cecil B. DeMille
- William C. deMille
- Jonathan Demme
- Ted Demme
- Jacques Demy
- Reginald Denham
- Robert De Niro
- Claire Denis
- Pen Densham
- Ruggero Deodato
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Brian De Palma
- Serge de Poligny
- Johnny Depp
- John Derek
- Maya Deren
- Scott Derrickson
- Giuseppe de Santis
- Vittorio De Sica
- Howard Deutch
- Michel Deville
- Danny DeVito
- David Dhavan
- Tom DiCillo
- Thorold Dickinson
- William Kennedy Dickson
- Carlos Diegues
- William Dieterle
- Helmut Dietl
- John Francis Dillon
- Lino DiSalvo
- Walt Disney
- Adriaan Ditvoorst
- Edward Dmytryk
- Pete Docter
- Jacques Doillon
- Michael Dolan
- Xavier Dolan
- Andrew Dominik
- Roger Donaldson
- Stanley Donen
- Richard Donner
- Mark Donskoi
- Robert Dornhelm
- Doris Dörrie
- Nelson Pereira dos Santos
- Gordon Douglas
- Aleksandr Dovzhenko
- B. E. Doxat-Pratt
- Oliver Drake
- Polly Draper
- Jean Dréville
- Ben Drew
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Marcel Duchamp
- Peter Duffell
- Troy Duffy
- Dennis Dugan
- Joshua Dugdale
- Bill Duke
- Bruno Dumont
- George Dunning
- Ewald André Dupont
- Momina Duraid
- Marguerite Duras
- Richard Dutcher
- Guru Dutt
- Ava DuVernay
- Julien Duvivier
- Allan Dwan
E
- B. Reeves Eason
- Clint Eastwood
- Uli Edel
- Blake Edwards
- Gareth Edwards
- Harry Edwards
- Shawn Efran
- Atom Egoyan
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Richard Elfman
- Stephan Elliott
- Robert Ellis
- Maurice Elvey
- John Emerson
- Roland Emmerich
- Cy Endfield
- John English
- Robert Enrico
- Ray Enright
- Ildikó Enyedi
- Nora Ephron
- Jean Epstein
- Víctor Erice
- Chester Erskine
- Juan Escobedo
- Jean Eustache
- Gareth Evans
- Marc Evans
- Valie Export
- Chris Eyre
- Richard Eyre
F
- Peter Faiman
- James Fargo
- Harun Farocki
- Asghar Farhadi
- Valerie Faris
- Farrelly brothers
- John Farrow
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Jon Favreau
- Fei Mu
- Henry Feinberg
- Paul Fejos
- Andrea Fellers
- Federico Fellini
- Emilio Fernández
- Abel Ferrara
- Marco Ferreri
- Giorgio Ferroni
- Louis Feuillade
- Jacques Feyder
- Sally Field
- Todd Field
- Mike Figgis
- David Fincher
- Will Finn
- Elvira Fischer
- Terence Fisher
- Dallas M. Fitzgerald
- George Fitzmaurice
- Robert J. Flaherty
- Gary Fleder
- Richard Fleischer
- Victor Fleming
- Benedek Fliegauf
- James Flood
- Robert Florey
- Emmett J. Flynn
- James Foley
- Jorge Fons
- Aleksander Ford
- Jeremy J. Ford
- John Ford
- Philip Ford
- Eugene Forde
- Miloš Forman
- Tom Forman
- Willi Forst
- Marc Forster
- Bill Forsyth
- Bob Fosse
- Jodie Foster
- Lilibet Foster
- Lewis R. Foster
- Norman Foster
- Wallace Fox
- Bryan Foy
- Jonathan Frakes
- Coleman Francis
- Jesús Franco
- Georges Franju
- Melvin Frank
- John Frankenheimer
- Sidney Franklin
- Harry L. Fraser
- James Frawley
- Stephen Frears
- Sydney Freeland
- Thornton Freeland
- Morgan Freeman
- Mark Freiburger
- Lloyd French
- Karl Freund
- Ron Fricke
- Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
- Jason Friedberg
- Lionel Friedberg
- William Friedkin
- Seymour Friedman
- Su Friedrich
- Soleil Moon Frye
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Lucio Fulci
- Sam Fuller
- Antoine Fuqua
- Sidney J. Furie
G
- Béla Gaál
- Leonid Gaidai
- Florian Gallenberger
- Alex Galvin
- Harry Gamboa Jr.
- Abel Gance
- Christophe Gans
- Dennis Gansel
- Arline Gant
- Carla Garapedian
- Tay Garnett
- Philippe Garrel
- Matteo Garrone
- Harry Garson
- William Garwood
- Louis J. Gasnier
- Tony Gatlif
- Nils Gaup
- Roberto Gavaldón
- Barrie Gavin
- Jean Genet
- Giacomo Gentilomo
- Aleksei Yuryevich German
- Aleksei Alekseivich German
- Pietro Germi
- Clyde Geronimi
- Kurt Gerron
- Douchan Gersi
- Viktor Gertler
- Subhash Ghai
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Bahman Ghobadi
- Charles Giblyn
- Angela Gibson
- Mel Gibson
- Joaquin "Kino" Gil
- John Gilbert
- Lewis Gilbert
- David Giler
- Stuart Gillard
- Terry Gilliam
- Vince Gilligan
- John Gilling
- Arvid E. Gillstrom
- Marino Girolami
- Pavel Giroud
- Amos Gitai
- Stanka Gjurić
- Jonathan Glazer
- Peter Glenville
- James Glickenhaus
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Theo van Gogh
- Menahem Golan
- Bobcat Goldthwait
- Michel Gondry
- Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Leslie Goodwins
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan
- Michael Gordon
- Stuart Gordon
- Hideo Gosha
- Ryan Gosling
- Peter Gould
- Alfred Goulding
- Edmund Goulding
- Todd Graff
- William A. Graham
- Lee Grant
- F. Gary Gray
- Alfred E. Green
- David Gordon Green
- Guy Green
- Norm Green
- Pamela Green
- Tom Green
- Peter Greenaway
- Paul Greengrass
- Robert Greenwald
- Edwin Greenwood
- Robert Gregson
- Jean Grémillon
- Johannes Grenzfurthner
- John Greyson
- John Grierson
- D. W. Griffith
- Edward H. Griffith
- Murray Grigor
- Nick Grinde
- Christopher Guest
- Val Guest
- John Guillermin
- Fred Guiol
- Sacha Guitry
- Yilmaz Güney
- James Gunn
- Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
- Manish Gupta
- Stephen Gurewitz
- Sebastian Gutierrez
- Alice Guy-Blaché
- Patricio Guzmán
H
- Kamal Haasan
- Taylor Hackford
- Tala Hadid
- Lucile Hadžihalilović
- Piers Haggard
- Paul Haggis
- Larry Hagman
- Alexander Hall
- Lasse Hallström
- Victor Hugo Halperin
- Gary Halvorson
- Bent Hamer
- Robert Hamer
- Guy Hamilton
- Hamish Hamilton
- Victor Hanbury
- John D. Hancock
- Michael Haneke
- Tom Hanks
- Curtis Hanson
- Geir Hansteen Jörgensen
- Catherine Hardwicke
- Renny Harlin
- Mary Harron
- William S. Hart
- Hal Hartley
- Anthony Harvey
- Herk Harvey
- Jack Harvey
- Wojciech Has
- Henry Hathaway
- Howard Hawks
- Will Hay
- Salma Hayek
- David Hayman
- Todd Haynes
- Victor Heerman
- Stuart Heisler
- Brian Helgeland
- Marielle Heller
- Monte Hellman
- Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot
- Joseph Henabery
- Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Dell Henderson
- Frank Henenlotter
- Hobart Henley
- Brian Henson
- Jim Henson
- Perry Henzell
- Paula Heredia
- Stephen Herek
- Albert Herman
- William Blake Herron
- Michael Herz
- Werner Herzog
- Zako Heskiya
- Jared Hess
- Jerusha Hess
- Marianne Hettinger
- Jennifer Love Hewitt
- David Hewlett
- John Heys
- Scott Hicks
- Howard Higgin
- George Roy Hill
- George Hill
- Jack Hill
- Robert F. Hill
- Sinclair Hill
- Walter Hill
- Arthur Hiller
- Lambert Hillyer
- Anthony Himbs
- Art Hindle
- Ryūichi Hiroki
- Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Leslie S. Hiscott
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Godfrey Ho
- Ho Ping
- Gregory Hoblit
- Brent Hodge
- Mike Hodges
- Michael Hoffman
- Jack Hofsiss
- James P. Hogan
- P.J. Hogan
- Clive Holden
- Agnieszka Holland
- Savage Steve Holland
- Tonya Holly
- Ben Holmes
- Seth Holt
- Ishirō Honda
- Tobe Hooper
- Tom Hooper
- Stephen Hopkins
- Dennis Hopper
- James W. Horne
- Hou Hsiao-hsien
- John Hough
- Byron Howard
- David Howard
- Michael Howard
- Ron Howard
- William Howard
- King Hu
- L. Ron Hubbard
- Reginald Hudlin
- Hugh Hudson
- Howard Hughes
- John Hughes
- Ken Hughes
- Ann Hui
- Danièle Huillet
- H. Bruce Humberstone
- André Hunebelle
- Helen Hunt
- Lawrence Huntington
- Sam Hurwitz
- Waris Hussein
- John Huston
- Charles Hutchison
- Brian G. Hutton
- Willard Huyck
- Peter Hyams
- Nicholas Hytner
I
- Armando Iannucci
- Kon Ichikawa
- Im Kwon-Taek
- Shōhei Imamura
- Hiroshi Inagaki
- John Ince
- Ralph Ince
- Thomas H. Ince
- Rex Ingram
- Steve Ihnat
- Ciro Ippolito
- John Irvin
- George Irving
- Jūzō Itami
- Aleksandr Ivanovsky
- Joris Ivens
- James Ivory
J
- Jacques Jaccard
- Mick Jackson
- Peter Jackson
- Sarah Jacobson
- Henry Jaglom
- Wanda Jakubowska
- Alan James
- Steve James
- Miklós Jancsó
- Jang Joon-hwan
- Derek Jarman
- Jim Jarmusch
- Charles Jarrott
- Risto Jarva
- Leigh Jason
- Garth Jennings
- Humphrey Jennings
- Dallas Jenkins
- Patty Jenkins
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Norman Jewison
- Jia Zhangke
- Jiang Wen
- Jaromil Jireš
- Phil Joanou
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Mark Joffe
- Roland Joffé
- Clark Johnson
- Craig Johnson
- Lamont Johnson
- Mark Steven Johnson
- Nunnally Johnson
- Rian Johnson
- Joe Johnston
- Angelina Jolie
- Chuck Jones
- Duncan Jones
- F. Richard Jones
- Grover Jones
- Michael Jones
- Terry Jones
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Spike Jonze
- Neil Jordan
- Edward José
- Max Joseph
- Jon Jost
- Louis Jouvet
- Mike Judge
- Rupert Julian
- Miranda July
K
- Karel Kachyňa
- Jeremy Kagan
- Mauricio Kagel
- Mikhail Kalatozov
- Kamal
- Arunraja Kamaraj
- Sekhar Kammula
- Deborah Kampmeier
- Puttanna Kanagal
- Joseph Kane
- Garson Kanin
- D.W. Kann
- Jonathan Kaplan
- Raj Kapoor
- Shekhar Kapur
- Pekka Karjalainen
- Phil Karlson
- Roman Karmen
- Jason Kartalian
- Jake Kasdan
- Lawrence Kasdan
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Aaron Katz
- Lloyd Kaufman
- Philip Kaufman
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Mika Kaurismäki
- Helmut Käutner
- Jerzy Kawalerowicz
- Tony Kaye
- Elia Kazan
- Helmut Käutner
- Buster Keaton
- Abdellatif Kechiche
- William Keighley
- Frederick King Keller
- Harry Keller
- Michael Keller
- David Kellogg
- Gene Kelly
- Richard Kelly
- Gil Kenan
- Alex Kendrick
- Erle Kenton
- Robert Kerr
- Irvin Kershner
- James Kerwin
- Rhea Kewalramani
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Edward Killy
- Kim Jee-woon
- Kim Ki-duk
- Max Kimmich
- Anthony Kimmins
- Simon Kinberg
- Burton King
- Gary King
- George King
- Henry King
- Louis King
- Stephen King
- Keisuke Kinoshita
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Randal Kirk
- Lyudmil Kirkov
- Ryuhei Kitamura
- Takeshi Kitano
- Randal Kleiser
- Elem Klimov
- León Klimovsky
- Alexander Kluge
- Harley Knoles
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Kogonada
- Vincent Kok
- Henry Kolker
- Alexander Kolowrat
- Satoshi Kon
- Andrei Konchalovsky
- Tadeusz Konwicki
- Alexander Korda
- Zoltan Korda
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- Harmony Korine
- Caryl Korma
- Baltasar Kormákur
- John Korty
- Joseph Kosinski
- Henry Koster
- Ted Kotcheff
- Mariusz Kotowski
- Serguei Kouchnerov
- Nikos Koundouros
- Jan Kounen
- Aaron Kozak
- Ivan Kraljevic
- Stanley Kramer
- Kurt Kren
- Krishnan–Panju
- William Kronick
- Stanley Kubrick
- George Kuchar
- Lev Kuleshov
- Roger Kumble
- Zacharias Kunuk
- Akira Kurosawa
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Karyn Kusama
- Emir Kusturica
- Geir Ove Kvalheim
- Stanley Kwan
- Ken Kwapis
L
- John La Bouchardière
- Nadine Labaki
- Neil LaBute
- Gregory La Cava
- Harry Lachman
- Edward Laemmle
- René Laloux
- Ringo Lam
- Charles Lamont
- Lew Landers
- John Landis
- Alejandro Landes
- Sidney Lanfield
- Fritz Lang
- Walter Lang
- Rémi Lange
- Doug Langway
- Claude Lanzmann
- Janez Lapajne
- Victoria Larimore
- John Lasseter
- Andrew Lau
- Jeffrey Lau
- Charles Laughton
- Mélanie Laurent
- Francis Lawrence
- Marc Lawrence
- J. F. Lawton
- Tracie Laymon
- David Lean
- Patrice Leconte
- D. Ross Lederman
- Ang Lee
- Jennifer Lee
- Lee Chang-dong
- Lee Cheol-ha
- Lee Lik-Chi
- Rowland V. Lee
- Spike Lee
- Michael Lehmann
- Henry Lehrman
- Julia Leigh
- Mike Leigh
- Danny Leiner
- Mitchell Leisen
- Logan Leistikow
- Claude Lelouch
- Michael Lembeck
- Umberto Lenzi
- Robert Z. Leonard
- Sergio Leone
- Robert Lepage
- Louis Le Prince
- Mervyn LeRoy
- George Lessey
- Mark L. Lester
- Richard Lester
- Louis Leterrier
- Jørgen Leth
- Brian Levant
- Henry Levin
- Barry Levinson
- Shawn Levy
- Herschell Gordon Lewis
- Jerry Lewis
- Joseph H. Lewis
- Li Han-Hsiang
- Lee Tit
- Li Yang
- Desiree Lim
- Doug Liman
- Max Linder
- Willy Lindwer
- Richard Linklater
- Miguel Littín
- Anatole Litvak
- Luis Llosa
- Frank Lloyd
- Lo Wei
- Ken Loach
- Barbara Loden
- Ulli Lommel
- Robert Longo
- Del Lord
- Joseph Losey
- Lou Ye
- Arthur Lubin
- Ernst Lubitsch
- George Lucas
- Wilfred Lucas
- Edward Ludwig
- Baz Luhrmann
- Sidney Lumet
- Leopold Lummerstorfer
- Ida Lupino
- Rod Lurie
- David Lynch
- Jennifer Lynch
- Liam Lynch
- Adrian Lyne
- Jonathan Lynn
M
Ma–Mc
- David MacDonald
- Kevin Macdonald
- Carl Macek
- Seth MacFarlane
- Gustav Machatý
- Willard Mack
- Alexander Mackendrick
- David Mackenzie
- Gillies MacKinnon
- Murdock MacQuarrie
- Guy Maddin
- Madonna
- Holger-Madsen
- Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau
- Barry Mahon
- Charles Maigne
- Norman Mailer
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Md–Mz
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- Nadeem Baig
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O
- Katharine O'Brien
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- Yasujirō Ozu
P
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
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- Pan Anzi
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Q
- Ayoub Qanir
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R
Ra–Re
- Peer Raben
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Rf–Rz
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S
Sa–Sh
- Sathish Kalathil
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- Til Schweiger
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Si–Sz
- George Sidney
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- Don Siegel
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- Adam Smoluk
- Michael Snow
- Zack Snyder
- Michele Soavi
- Steven Soderbergh
- Aleksandr Sokurov
- Frances-Anne Solomon
- Todd Solondz
- Stephen Sommers
- Barry Sonnenfeld
- Shion Sono
- Tressie Souders
- Jaap Speyer
- Penelope Spheeris
- Steven Spielberg
- Götz Spielmann
- Spierig brothers
- Roger Spottiswoode
- Jill Sprecher
- Alejandro Springall
- R. G. Springsteen
- John M. Stahl
- Sylvester Stallone
- Andrew Stanton
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- Steno
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- K. Subash
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- Sun Yu
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- Małgorzata Szumowska
T
- Tina Takemoto
- Rachel Talalay
- Patrick Tam
- Lee Tamahori
- Alain Tanner
- Danis Tanović
- Quentin Tarantino
- Andrei Tarkovsky
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- Richard Thorpe
- Tian Zhuangzhuang
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- Mihai Timofti
- Bruce Timm
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- Johnnie To
- James Toback
- Norman Tokar
- Jan Tománek
- Aad van Toor
- Giuseppe Tornatore
- Miguel Contreras Torres
- Ivan Tors
- André de Toth
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- Jacques Tourneur
- Maurice Tourneur
- Wendy Toye
- Josh Trank
- David Trainer
- Pablo Trapero
- Scott Treleaven
- Jeff Tremaine
- Joachim Trier
- Laurence Trimble
- Nadine Trintignant
- Jan Troell
- François Truffaut
- Ming-liang Tsai
- Peter Tscherkassky
- Tsui Hark
- Shinya Tsukamoto
- Stanley Tucci
- Jon Turteltaub
- Frank Tuttle
- David Twohy
- Chris Twomey
- Michael Tyburski
- Tom Tykwer
- George Tzavellas
U
- Edgar G. Ulmer
- Ron Underwood
- Upendra
- Urszula Urbaniak
- Kinka Usher
- Peter Ustinov
V
- Roger Vadim
- Ladislao Vajda
- Luis Valdez
- Mike Valerio
- W. S. Van Dyke
- Thurop Van Orman
- Vanelle
- Andre van Heerden
- Erik Van Looy
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Gus Van Sant
- Norman Thaddeus Vane
- Agnès Varda
- Ram Gopal Varma
- Marcel Varnel
- Petar B. Vasilev
- Matthew Vaughn
- Pam Veasey
- Perry N. Vekroff
- Gore Verbinski
- Paul Verhoeven
- Dziga Vertov
- Charles Vidor
- King Vidor
- Berthold Viertel
- Denis Villeneuve
- Robert G. Vignola
- Jean Vigo
- Vijayakrishnan
- Agusti Villaronga
- Thomas Vinterberg
- Luchino Visconti
- Biju Viswanath
- Kasinadhuni Viswanath
- Erik Voake
- Jean-Marc Vallée
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- Josef von Sternberg
- Erich von Stroheim
- Lars von Trier
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Bernard Vorhaus
- Slavko Vorkapić
- Kurt Voss
- Jürgen Vsych
W
- The Wachowskis
- Michael Wadleigh
- Wai Ka-Fai
- Andrzej Wajda
- Stuart Walker
- David Wall
- Randall Wallace
- Richard Wallace
- Tom Walls
- Raoul Walsh
- Charles Walters
- Wan brothers
- James Wan
- Sam Wanamaker
- Lulu Wang
- Wang Quan'an
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- Albert Ward
- David S. Ward
- Vincent Ward
- Ernest C. Warde
- Andy Warhol
- Denzel Washington
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- John Waters
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- Keenen Ivory Wayans
- Sean Weathers
- Kenneth Webb
- Marc Webb
- Millard Webb
- Lois Weber
- Chris Wedge
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- Paul Weitz
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- Lina Wertmüller
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- Simon West
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- Robert Wise
- Tommy Wiseau
- Frederick Wiseman
- Len Wiseman
- Doris Wishman
- Chester Withey
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- Wong Jing
- Wong Kar-wai
- John Woo
- Andrés Wood
- Ed Wood
- Sam Wood
- Arthur B. Woods
- John Griffith Wray
- Edgar Wright
- Mack V. Wright
- Rupert Wyatt
- William Wyler
X
- Xie Jin
Y
- Boaz Yakin
- Edward Yang
- Ruby Yang
- Jean Yarbrough
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- Hal Yates
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- Lev Yilmaz
- Wilson Yip
- Yaky Yosha
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- James Young
- Terence Young
- Yuen Woo-ping
- Brian Yuzna
- Yugander V. V.
Z
- Eduard Zahariev
- Krzysztof Zanussi
- Franco Zeffirelli
- Alfred Zeisler
- Frederic Zelnik
- Robert Zemeckis
- David Zennie
- Zhang Yang
- Zhang Yimou
- Zhang Yuan
- Zheng Junli
- Thierry Zéno
- Maheen Zia
- Howard Zieff
- Želimir Žilnik
- Lydia Zimmermann
- Fred Zinnemann
- Rob Zombie
- Erick Zonca
- Hisham Zreiq
- Zucker brothers
- Edward Zwick
- Terry Zwigoff
- Andrzej Żuławski
- Xawery Żuławski