Absolute Favorites

Paul Thomas Anderson
Joel Coen
Werner Herzog
Jim Jarmusch
Stanley Kubrick
David Lynch
Errol Morris
Quentin Tarantino
Lars Von Trier

Favorites

Woody Allen
Tommy Burton
Frank Capra
Louis C.K.
Walt Disney
Tom Green
Christopher Guest
Peter Jackson
Mike Judge
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Sergio Leone
George Lucas
Bill Melendez
Paul Morrissey
Trey Parker
Sam Raimi
Robert Rodriguez
George A. Romero
John Patrick Shanley
Rusty Spell
Steven Spielberg
Liam Lynch
David Wain
Joss Whedon
Edgar Wright
Caveh Zahedi

Likeable

Jim Abrahams
James Algar
Robert Altman
Dario Argento
Wes Anderson
Judd Apatow
Michael Apted
Jules Bass
Roberto Benigni
Ingmar Bergman
Danny Boyle
Steven Brill
Albert Brooks
Tim Burton
James Cameron
John Carpenter
Francis Ford Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Wes Craven
Joe Dante
Richard Donner
Peter Farrelly
Federico Fellini
Jeff Feuerzeig
David Fincher
Milos Forman
Stephen Frears
Clyde Geronimi
Jonathan Glazer
Alfred Hitchcock
Tobe Hooper
Kenny Hotz
Ron Howard
John Hughes
James Ivory
Wilfred Jackson
Buster Keaton
Jack Kinney
Neil LaBute
John Landis
Ang Lee
Richard Lester
Jerry Lewis
Doug Liman
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Richard Linklater
Jonathan Lynn
Sidney Lumet
Hamilton Luske
Albert Maysles
David Maysles
McG
Lukas Moodysson
Michael Moore
Paul Newman
Gaspar Noé
Christopher Nolan
Claude Nuridsany
Sam Peckinpah
D.A. Pennebaker
Marie Perennou
Harold Pinter
Sarah Polley
Prince
Harold Ramis
Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Leni Riefenstahl
Carl Reiner
Rob Reiner
Ivan Reitman
Spencer Rice
Thomas Riedelsheimer
Martin Scorsese
Ridley Scott
Chris Smith
Todd Solondz
Tom Stoppard
David Sutherland
Betty Thomas
Billy Bob Thornton
Gus Van Sant
John Waters
Orson Welles
James Whale
Billy Wilder
John Woo
Edward D. Wood, Jr.
Robert Zemeckis
David Zucker
Jerry Zucker
Terry Zwigoff

Notable

Pedro Almodóvar
Paul Almond
Alejandro Amenábar
Michelangelo Antonioni
Denys Arcand
Samuel Armstrong
Darren Aronofsky
J.L. Aronson
Richard Attenborough
John G. Avildsen
John Badham
Jeff Balsmeyer
Ralph Bakshi
Bryan Barber
Clive Barker
Michael Bay
Ford I. Beebe
Lucas Belvaux
Robert Benton
Joe Berlinger
Luc Besson
Dorothy Ann Blank
Les Blank
Michael Blieden
Jeffrey Blitz
Don Bluth
Peter Bogdanovich
John Boorman
Kenneth Branagh
Tod Browning
Luis Buñuel
Steve Buscemi
Marc Caro
Larry Charles
Stephen Chow
Bob Clampett
Bob Clark
Les Clark
George Clooney
Ethan Coen
Chris Columbus
Merian C. Cooper
Frank Coraci
Roger Corman
Bill Condon
Don Coscarelli
William Cottrell
Paul Cox
Richard Creedon
Michael Crichton
Richard Curtis
Michael Curtiz
John Dahl
Frank Darabont
Tamra Davis
David DeCoteau
Frederick de Cordova
Jonathan Demme
Ted Demme
Brian De Palma
Danny DeVito
Paul Dinello
Kathy Dougherty
Dennis Dugan
Laurence Dunmore
Clint Eastwood
Sergei Eisenstein
Roland Emmerich
Nora Ephron
Richard Eyre
Jon Favreau
Norman Ferguson
Mike Figgis
Richard Fleischer
Andrew Fleming
Victor Fleming
Dave Foley
Bob Fosse
Harve Foster
Friz Freleng
William Friedkin
Susan Froemke
Vincent Gallo
Jeff Garlin
Alex Gibney
Terry Gilliam
Bob Goldthwait
Michel Gondry
Josh Gordon
Keith Gordon
Joe Grant
Peter Greenaway
D.W. Griffith
Philip Haas
Mikael Håfström
Mark Hall
Lasse Hallström
David Hand
Jim Handley
Michael Haneke
Tom Hanks
Mary Harron
Herk Harvey
Byron Haskin
Albert Heath
Amy Heckerling
T. Hee
Graham Heid
Jim Henson
Michael Herz
Brian Herzlinger
George Hickenlooper
George Roy Hill
Savage Steve Holland
Dennis Hopper
Tim Hunter
Eric Idle
Paul Jay
Eugene Jarecki
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Norman Jewison
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Chuck Jones
David Jones
Terry Jones
Neil Jordan
Jake Kasdan
Lloyd Kaufman
Philip Kaufman
Aki Kaurismäki
Elia Kazan
Irvin Kershner
Ward Kimball
Randal Kleiser
David Koepp
Harmony Korine
Akira Kurosawa
Stanley Kramer
Michael Landon
Fritz Lang
Eric Larson
David Lean
Spike Lee
Mervyn LeRoy
Jørgen Leth
Barry Levinson
Joshua Logan
Joseph Losey
Todd Louiso
Baz Luhrmann
John Madden
Matt Maiellaro
Louis Malle
Jim Mallon
Michael Mann
Merrill de Maris
Frank Marshall
Penny Marshall
Bruce McCulloch
Adam McKay
Norman Z. McLeod
Sam Mendes
Russ Meyer
Frank Miller
Anthony Minghella
Sylvia Moberly-Holland
Harry Moses
Greg Mottola
F.W. Murnau
Ronald Neame
Leonard Nemoy
Mike Nichols
Steve Oedekerk
Frank Oz
Alan J. Pakula
Alexander Payne
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Perce Pearce
Larry Peerce
Arthur Penn
Jacques Perrin
Todd Phillips
Bill Plympton
Roman Polanski
Sally Potter
Michael Radford
Bob Rafelson
Carol Reed
Wolfgang Riethermann
Tony Richardson
W.D. Richter
Guy Ritchie
Tim Robbins
Bill Roberts
Mark Robson
Larry Roemer
Phil Roman
David O. Russell
Henry Selick
Fred Schepisi
John Schlesinger
Joel Schumacher
Steven Shainberg
Ben Sharpsteen
Ernest B. Shoedsack
Michael Showalter
David Silverman
Bryan Singer
Robert Siodmak
Kevin Smith
Michel Soavi
Steven Soderbergh
Barry Sonnenfeld
Will Speck
Penelope Spheeris
Robert Stevenson
Ben Stiller
Norman Stone
Oliver Stone
Charles Sturridge
Julie Taymor
François Truffaut
John Turteltaub
Tom Tykwer
Roger Vadim
Gore Verbinsky
Paul Verhoeven
Andy Wachowski
Larry Wachowski
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Peter Weir
Paul Weitz
Wim Wenders
Roland West
Dave Willis
Robert Wise
Terence Young
Franco Zeffirelli

Least Favorites

Michael Almereyda
Craig Brewer
Matthew Bright
David Cronenberg
Cameron Crowe
Spike Jonze
Richard Kelly
Damien Lichtenstein
Adrian Lyne
Jennifer Lynch
Guy Maddin
Ken Russell
M. Night Shyamalan
Scott Spiegel
Morgan Spurlock
Shinya Tsukamoto
Thomas Vinterberg
Rob Zombie

Others

Andrew Adamson
Alexandre Aja
Roger Allers
Allison Anders
Paul Anderson
Wendy Apple
Emile Ardolino
Walter D. Asmus
Olivier Assayas
Frédéric Auburtin
Fax Bahr
Bob Balaban
Tony Banrcroft
Charles Barton
Warren Beatty
Gabrielle Beaumont
Alan J.W. Bell
Timur Bekmambetov
Remy Belvaux
Bruce Beresford
Paul Mayeda Berges
Shari Springer Berman
Ted Berman
Jonathan Betuel
Stig Bjorkman
Perry Andelin Blake
Jamie Blanks
André Bonzel
Costa Botes
Gaetan Brizzi
Paul Brizzi
James L. Brooks
Angie Brown
Clyde Bruckman
Chris Buck
Nanette Burstein
Hendel Butoy
William Christy Cabanne
Danny Cannon
Steven Cantor
Shane Carruth
Hoite C. Caston
Gilbert Cates
Gurinder Chadha
Don Chaffey
Rebecca Chaiklin
Eric Chaikin
Christian Charles
John Cherry
Sylvain Chomet
Mark Christopher
Oxide Pang Chun
Larry Clark
Ron Clements
Jacques Cluzaud
Isabel Coixet
James F. Collier
Barry Cook
Brian Cook
Martha Coolidge
Robert Cormack
Michael Corrente
Bill Cosby
Allen Coulter
John Crowley
Gabor Csupo
Alfonso Cuarón
Sean S. Cunningham
Morton DaCosta
Damiano Damiani
Rod Daniel
Andrew Davis
Michael Davis
William Dear
Michel Debats
John de Bello
Dean DeBlois
Jan de Bont
Guillermo Del Toro
Judi Dench
Gérard Depardieu
Howard Deutch
Robinson Devor
Tom DiCillo
Jacques Doillon
Christopher Doyle
Stan Dragoti
Jim Drake
George Dunning
Thom Eberhardt
Atom Egoyan
Emilio Estevez
Harry Elfont
Stephan Elliot
David R. Ellis
Bill Elvin
Dick Emery
Peter Faiman
Scott Featherstone
Laurent Firode
Bill Fishman
Paul Flaherty
James Foley
Marc Forster
Marilyn Fox
David Frankel
James Frawley
Karl W. Freund
Samuel Fuller
Antoine Fuqua
Atsuko Fukushima
Sidney J. Furie
Mike Gabriel
Stephen Gaghan
Matthew Galkin
Joel Gallen
Andy Garcia
Charles Garrad
Louis J. Gasnier
Fred Gerber
Brian Gibson
Mel Gibson
Brian Gilbert
Jim Gillespie
Tony Gilroy
Michael Paul Girard
Francis Glebas
Paul Glickler
Eric Goldberg
Barak Goodman
Leslie Goodwins
Seth Gordon
Raja Gosnell
Carl Gottlieb
Michael Gottlieb
Bruce Gowers
F. Gary Gray
Paul Greengrass
Robert Greenwald
William Grefe
Davis Guggenheim
John Guillermin
James Gunn
Jon Gunn
Jeremy Haft
Curtis Hanson
Robin Hardy
Renny Harlin
Ed Harris
George Harrison
Bob Hathcock
John Hayes
Robert Heath
Brian Henson
Stephen Herek
Jared Hess
Peter Hewitt
Scott Hicks
Tim Hill
Walter Hill
Lambert Hillyer
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Damien Hirst
Gregory Hoblit
Mike Hodges
P.J. Hogan
Tom Holland
Nicole Holofcener
Peter Horton
John Hough
Albert Hughes
Allen Hughes
Enda Hughes
Pixote Hunt
Paul Hunter
Gary Hustwit
Peter Hyams
Nicholas Hytner
Jean-Pierre Isbouts
Neal Israel
Mick Jackson
Andrew Jarecki
Guy Jarry
Garth Jennings
Vicky Jenson
Mike Johnson
Patrick Johnson
Rian Johnson
Joe Johnston
Ollie Johnstone
Amy Jones
Rupert Julian
Milt Kahl
Jeff Kanew
Deborah Kaplan
Lawrence Kasdan
Tony Kaye
Erle C. Kenton
Alek Keshishian
Fritz Kiersch
Jonathan King
Alex Kirby
Dan Klores
Bernard Knowles
Bob Koherr
Barbara Kopple
Peter Kosminski
Henry Koster
Igor Kovalyov
Fran Rubel Kuzui
Richard LaGravenese
Mary Lambert
John Lasseter
Ray Lawrence
Chris Leavens
Reginald Le Borg
Daniel Lee
Rowland V. Lee
Robin Lefevre
Michael Lehmann
Larry Leichliter
Donovan Leitch
John Lennon
Brian Levant
Jay Levey
Shawn Levy
Robert Lieberman
Kevin Lima
Aaron Lipstadt
Steven Lisberger
John Lounsbery
Robert Luketic
Katía Lund
Kevin MacDonald
Alison Maclean
John Maggio
Albert Magnoli
Bianca Majolie
Kelly Makin
William Malone
David Mamet
James Mangold
Edwin L. Marin
Richard Marquand
Garry Marshall
Steven M. Martin
Joe May
Peter McCarthy
Thomas McCarthy
Paul McCartney
Vincent McEveety
Douglas McGrath
David McNally
John McNaughton
Connor McPherson
John McTiernan
Joshua Meador
Fernando Meirelles
George Melford
Jamie Meltzer
Alan Metter
David Michener
Steve Miner
Rob Minkoff
Bennett Miller
George Miller
David Mirkin
John Cameron Mitchell
Katie Mitchell
Michael Mitchell
Hayao Miyazaki
Patrick Montgomery
Philippe Mora
Rick Moranis
Larry Morey
Glen Morgan
William Morgan
Brett Morgen
Gabriele Muccino
Russell Mulcahy
Ray Muller
E. Elias Murhige
John Musker
Mark Mylod
Daniel Myrick
Takashi Nakamura
Hideo Nakata
Vincenzo Natali
Roy William Neill
Gary Nelson
Mike Newell
Charles A. Nichols
Dewey Nicks
Chris Noonan
Steve Norrington
Edward Norton
Phillip Noyce
Trevor Nunn
Damien O'Donnell
William Olsen
Katsuhiro Otomo
Danny Pang
Jerry Paris
Alan Parker
Jonathan Parker
John Pasquin
Byron Paul
Bill Paxton
Kimberly Peirce
Wolfgang Petersen
Daniel Petrie
Donald Petrie
Julian Petrillo
Mark Pellington
Arthur C. Pierce
Bruno Podalydès
Benoît Poelvoorde
Sydney Pollack
H.C. Potter
Paul Provenza
Robert Pulcini
Joe Pytka
Alan Rafkin
Steve Rash
Tina Rathborne
Brett Ratner
Billy Ray
Nicholas Ray
Robert Redford
Peyton Reed
Matt Reeves
Karel Reisz
Adam Resnik
Richard Rich
Dick Richard
Adam Rifkin
Michael Ritchie
Jay Roach
Jerome Robbins
Phil Alden Robinson
Alexandre Rockwell
Joachim Roenning
Mark Romanek
Nello Rosatti
Mickey Rose
Stuart Rosenberg
Eli Roth
Francis Roux
Patricia Rozema
Andy Ruben
Katt Shea Ruben
Henry Alex Rubin
Alan Rudolph
Chuck Russell
Bob Saget
Walter Salles, Jr.
Eduardo Sanches
Espen Sandberg
Chris Sanders
Arlene Sanford
Joseph Sargent
Victor Sarin
Paul Satterfield
Franklin J. Schaffner
Danny Schechter
Thomas Schlamme
Volker Schlöndorff
Oliver Schmitz
A.J. Schnack
Paul Schrader
Liev Schreiber
John Schultz
Michael Schultz
Robert Schwentke
Tony Scott
George Scribner
Peter Segal
Aaron Seltzer
Dominic Sena
Tom Shadyac
Dana Adam Shapiro
Jim Sharman
Ron Shelton
Jim Sheridan
George Sidney
Joan Micklin Silver
Gary Sinyor
Erik Skjoldbjærg
Bud Smith
Clive A. Smith
Webb Smith
Zack Snyder
Iain Softley
Andrew Solt
Stephen Sommers
Bob Spiers
Roger Spottiswoode
Ringo Starr
Todd Stephens
Art Stevens
Tim Story
Herbert L. Strock
Mel Stuart
Stephen Surjik
Edward Sutherland
Nobuhiro Suwa
Jan Svankmajer
David Swift
Jeannot Szwarc
Iwao Takamoto
Chris Talbott
Lewis Teague
Daniela Thomas
Dave Thomas
Frank Thomas
Brett Thompson
Johnny To
Norman Tokar
Jacques Tourneur
Robert Townsend
Gary Trousdale
Anand Tucker
John Turturro
Ron Underwood
Kinka Usher
Ari Vena
Norton Virgien
Fredrik von Krusenstjerna
George Waggner
Rupert Wainwright
Lucy Walker
Stuart Walker
Kieron J. Walsh
Vincent Ward
Hal P. Warren
Mark S. Waters
Peter Webber
Paul Wegener
Gary Weis
Robert Weiss
Alfred L. Werker
Simon West
Gregory Widen
Robert Wiene
Fred Wilcox
W. Lee Wilder
Kevin Williamson
Hugh Wilson
Brett Winn
Michael Winterbottom
James L. Wolcott
Wallace Wolodarsky
Geoff Wonfor
James Wong
Joe Wright
Norman Wright
David Yates
Charlotte Mitchell Zwerin
Edward Zwick