TSPDT’s Top 10 Directors By Decade

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Top 10 Directors of the 2010s
1. Terrence Malick
2. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
3. Asghar Farhadi
4. Lars von Trier
5. Joshua Oppenheimer
6. Paul Thomas Anderson
7. Richard Linklater
8. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
9. Michael Haneke
10. Patricio Guzmán

Top 10 Directors of the 2000s
1. Wong Kar-wai
2. David Lynch
3. Michael Haneke
4. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
5. Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Jia Zhangke
7. Ang Lee
8. Hayao Miyazaki
9. Lars von Trier
10. Michel Gondry

Top 10 Directors of the 1990s
1. Abbas Kiarostami
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Quentin Tarantino
4. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
5. Wong Kar-wai
6. Krzysztof Kieslowski
7. Jean-Luc Godard
8. Claire Denis
9. Jane Campion
10. Edward Yang

Top 10 Directors of the 1980s
1. Martin Scorsese
2. Ridley Scott
3. Steven Spielberg
4. David Lynch
5. Ingmar Bergman
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Woody Allen
8. Hou Hsiao-hsien
9. Wim Wenders
10. Krzysztof Kieslowski

Top 10 Directors of the 1970s
1. Francis Ford Coppola
2. Andrei Tarkovsky
3. Martin Scorsese
4. Stanley Kubrick
5. Robert Altman
6. Woody Allen
7. John Cassavetes
8. Bernardo Bertolucci
9. Roman Polanski
10. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Top 10 Directors of the 1960s
1. Jean-Luc Godard
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Federico Fellini
4. Michelangelo Antonioni
5. Ingmar Bergman
6. Alfred Hitchcock
7. Luis Buñuel
8. Robert Bresson
9. Andrei Tarkovsky
10. Sergio Leone

Top 10 Directors of the 1950s
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Akira Kurosawa
3. Yasujiro Ozu
4. Billy Wilder
5. John Ford
6. Kenji Mizoguchi
7. Ingmar Bergman
8. Robert Bresson
9. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
10. Satyajit Ray

Top 10 Directors of the 1940s
1. Orson Welles
2. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
3. Vittorio De Sica
4. John Ford
5. Michael Curtiz
6. Howard Hawks
7. Roberto Rossellini
8. Carol Reed
9. Preston Sturges
10. Ernst Lubitsch

Top 10 Directors of the 1930s
1. Jean Renoir
2. Charles Chaplin
3. Jean Vigo
4. Victor Fleming
5. Fritz Lang
6. Howard Hawks
7. Leo McCarey
8. Ernst Lubitsch
9. John Ford
10. Luis Buñuel

Top 10 Directors of the 1920s
1. F.W. Murnau
2. Sergei Eisenstein
3. Carl Theodor Dreyer
4. Buster Keaton
5. Dziga Vertov
6. Charles Chaplin
7. Fritz Lang
8. Erich von Stroheim
9. King Vidor
10. Abel Gance

Edited by thethinredline, 23 January 2020 - 08:04 AM.