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A
Master
Antonioni, Michelangelo
(1912-2007)
- The Lady Without Camelias (1953)
- L’avventura (1960)
- La notte (1961)
- Red Desert (1964)
- Blow Up (1966)
- Zabriskie Point (1970)
- The Passenger (1975)
Master
Anderson, Paul Thomas
(1970-)
- Hard Eight (1996)*
- Boogie Nights (1997)
- Magnolia (1999)
- Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
- There Will Be Blood (2007)
- The Master (2012)
- Inherent Vice (2014)
- Junun (2015)
- Phantom Thread (2017)
- Licorice Pizza (2021)
- One Battle After Another (2025)
Master
Akerman, Chantal
(1950-2015)
- One Day Pina Asked (1983)
- Letters Home (1986)
- Almayer’s Folly (2011)
- No Home Movie (2015)
Master
Almodovar, Pedro
(1949-)
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
- Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)
- All About My Mother (1999)
- Volver (2006)
- Broken Embraces (2009)
- The Skin I Live In (2011)
- Julieta (2016)
- Pain & Glory (2019)
- Parallel Mothers (2021)
- The Room Next Door (2024)
Master
Allen, Woody
(1935-)
- Bananas (1971)
- Sleeper (1973)
- Love and Death (1975)
- Annie Hall (1977)
- Manhattan (1979)
- Stardust Memories (1980)
- The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
- Radio Days (1987)
- Match Point (2005)
- Cassandra’s Dream (2007)
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
- Whatever Works (2009)
- Midnight in Paris (2011)
- To Rome with Love (2012)
- Blue Jasmine (2013)
Great Director
Andersson, Roy
(1943-)
- A Swedish Love Story (1970)
- Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
- You, the Living (2007)
- A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
- About Endlessness (2019)
Great Director
Assayas, Olivier
(1955-)
- Disorder (1986)
- Irma Vep (1996)
- Demonlover (2002)
- Clean (2004)
- Boarding Gate (2007)
- Something in the Air (2012)
- Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
- Personal Shopper (2016)
- Non-Fiction (2018)
- Wasp Network (2019)
Great Director
Arnold, Andrea
(1961-)
- Red Road (2006)
- Fish Tank (2009)
- American Honey (2016)
- Cow (2021)
Great Director
Audiard, Jacques
(1952-)
- Rust and Bone (2012)
- Dheepan (2015)
- The Sisters Brothers (2018)
- Emilia Perez (2024)
Great Director
Aronofsky, Darren
(1969-)
- Pi (1998)
- Requiem for a Dream (2000)
- The Wrestler (2008)
- Black Swan (2010)
- Noah (2014)
- Mother! (2017)
- The Whale (2022)
- Caught Stealing (2025)*
Great Director
Anderson, Wes
(1969-)
- Bottle Rocket (1996)
- Rushmore (1998)
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
- The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
- Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
- Isle of Dogs (2018)
- The French Dispatch (2021)
- Asteroid City (2023)
- Phoenician Scheme, The (2025)
Director-to-Follow
Akin, Fatih
(1973-)
- Short Sharp Shock (1998)
- Head-On (2004)
- Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)
- The Edge of Heaven (2007)
- Soul Kitchen (2009)
- The Cut (2014)
- In the Fade (2017)
- The Golden Glove (2019)
Director-to-Follow
Aster, Ari
(1986-)
- Hereditary (2018)
- Midsommar (2019)
- Beau Is Afraid (2023)
- Eddington (2025)
Director-to-Follow
Abrams, J.J.
(1968-)
- Mission: Impossible III (2006)
- Star Trek (2009)
- Super 8 (2011)
- Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
- Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015)
- Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
B
Legend
Bunuel, Luis
(1900-1983)
- Robinson Crusoe (1954)
- The Exterminating Angel (1962)
- Belle de jour (1967)
- The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
- That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Legend
Bergman, Ingmar
(1918-2007)
- Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
- Wild Strawberries (1957)
- The Seventh Seal (1957)
- The Virgin Spring (1960)
- Winter Light (1963)
- Persona (1966)
- Fårö Document (1970)
- Face to Face (1976)
- Autumn Sonata (1978)
Legend
Bresson, Robert
(1901-1999)
- Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
- A Man Escaped (1956)
- Pickpocket (1959)
- The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
- Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
- Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
- L’argent (1983)
Master
Benegal, Shyam
(1934-2024)
- Ankur (1974)
- Nishant (1975)
- Bhumika (1977)
- Mandi (1983)
- The Seventh Horse of the Sun (1992)
Great Director
Bellocchio, Marco
(1939-)
- China Is Near (1967)
- Leap into the Void (1980)
- Vincere (2009)
- Blood of My Blood (2015)
- Sweet Dreams (2016)
- The Traitor (2019)
- Marx Can Wait (2021)
Great Director
Boyle, Danny
(1956-)
- Shallow Grave (1994)
- 28 Days Later… (2002)
- Sunshine (2007)
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
- 127 Hours (2010)
- Trance (2013)
- Steve Jobs (2015)
- T2 Trainspotting (2017)
- 28 Years Later (2025)
Great Director
Bong, Joon-ho
(1969-)
- Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)
- Memories of Murder (2003)
- The Host (2006)
- Mother (2009)
- Snowpiercer (2013)
- Okja (2017)
- Parasite (2019)
- Mickey 17 (2025)
Great Director
Baumbach, Noah
(1969-)
- Kicking and Screaming (1995)
- The Squid and the Whale (2005)
- Greenberg (2010)
- Frances Ha (2012)
- While We’re Young (2014)
- The Meyerowitz Stories (2017)
- Marriage Story (2019)
Great Director
Bigelow, Kathryn
(1951-)
- Near Dark (1987)
- The Hurt Locker (2008)
- Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
- A House of Dynamite (2025)*
Great Director
Bonello, Bertrand
(1968-)
- Nocturama (2016)
- Zombi Child (2019)
- Coma (2022)
- The Beast (2023)
C
Master
Chabrol, Claude
(1930-2010)
- Les bonnes femmes (1960)
- Line of Demarcation (1966)
- Poulet au vinaigre (1985)
- Inspector Lavardin (1986)
- Masques (1987)
- Story of Women (1988)
- Torment (1994)
- La ceremonie (1995)
- The Swindle (1997)
- The Color of Lies (1999)
- Nightcap (2000)
Master
Cassavetes, John
(1929-1989)
- Shadows (1959)
- A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
- Opening Night (1977)
- Love Streams (1984)
Master
Ceylan, Nuri Bilge
(1959-)
- The Small Town (1997)
- Clouds of May (1999)
- Climates (2006)
- Three Monkeys (2008)
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
- Winter Sleep (2014)
- The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
- About Dry Grasses (2023)
Master
Coen, Joel & Ethan
(1954/1957-)
- Blood Simple (1984)
- Raising Arizona (1987)
- Miller’s Crossing (1990)
- Barton Fink (1991)
- Fargo (1996)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- No Country for Old Men (2007)
- Burn After Reading (2008)
- A Serious Man (2009)
- True Grit (2010)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
- Hail Caesar! (2016)
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
- The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021, Joel Coen)
Master
Cocteau, Jean
(1889-1963)
- The Blood of a Poet (1932)
- Beauty and the Beast (1946)
- Orpheus (1950)
Master
Coppola, Francis Ford
(1939-)
- Dementia 13 (1963)
- The Conversation (1974)
- The Godfather Part II (1974)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- One from the Heart (1982)
- Rumble Fish (1983)
- The Godfather: Part III (1990)
- Dracula (1992)
- Youth Without Youth (2007)
- Megalopolis (2024)
Master
Cronenberg, David
(1943-)
- Scanners (1981)
- Videodrome (1983)
- The Fly (1986)
- Crash (1996)
- Eastern Promises (2007)
- A Dangerous Method (2011)
- Maps to the Stars (2014)
- Crimes of the Future (2022)
- The Shrouds (2024)
Great Director
Cuaron, Alfonso
(1961-)
- A Little Princess (1995)
- Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
- Children of Men (2006)
- Gravity (2013)
- Roma (2018)
Great Director
Chahine, Youssef
(1926-2008)
- The Blazing Sun (1954)
- Cairo Station (1958)
- The Land (1969)
- The Return of the Prodigal Son (1976)
- Alexandria… Why? (1979)
- Destiny (1997)
Great Director
Cameron, James
(1954-)
- The Terminator (1984)
- Aliens (1986)
- The Abyss (1989)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Titanic (1997)
- Avatar (2009)
- Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Great Director
Chang, Cheh
(1923-2002)
- The One-Armed Swordsman (1967)
- The Boxer from Shantung (1972)
Director-to-Follow
Chazelle, Damien
(1985-)
- Whiplash (2014)
- La La Land (2016)
- First Man (2018)
- Babylon (2022)
Director-to-Follow
Chang, Tso-chi
(1961-)
- Darkness and Light (1999)
- Thanatos, Drunk (2015)
- Synapses (2019)
Director-to-Follow
Chen, Anthony
(1984-)
- Ilo Ilo (2013)
- Wet Season (2019)
- Drift (2023)
- The Breaking Ice (2023)
Director-to-Follow
Coppola, Sofia
(1971-)
- Somewhere (2010)
- The Bling Ring (2013)
- The Beguiled (2017)
- On the Rocks (2020)
Director-to-Follow
Cote, Denis
(1973-)
- Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (2013)
- Joy of Man’s Desiring (2014)
- Boris Without Beatrice (2016)
- Ghost Town Anthology (2019)
- That Kind of Summer (2022)
Eternality Tan 