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The Greatest Film Directors of All Time

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  1. 1
    1946
    #4 on the ultimate list
    best known works: E.T., Jaws, Jurassic Park, the Indiana Jones Series, Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan.
  2. 2
    1899
    #1 on the ultimate list
    best known works: Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, Rear Window
  3. 3
    1928
    #2 on the ultimate list
    best known works: 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut
  4. 4
    1942
    #3 on the ultimate list
    best known works: Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Departed.
  5. 5
    1939
    #5 on the ultimate list
    best known works: The Godfather Trilogy and Apocalypse Now
  6. 6
    1933
    #22 on the ultimate list
    best known works: Chinatown and The Pianist
  7. 7
    1946
    #21 on the ultimate list
    best known works: Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and The Elephant Man
  8. 8
    1940
    #55 on the ultimate list
    best known works: Scarface, The Untouchables and Carlito's Way
  9. 9
    1963
    #6 on the ultimate list
    best known works: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill vol. 1 & 2 and Inglorious Bastards.
  10. 10
    1957
    #64 on the ultimate list
    best known works: Do The Right Thing, Malcom X, Jungle Fever and The 25th Hour.
  11. 11
    1920
    #32 on the ultimate list
    best known works: 8 1/2
  12. 12
    1881
    #82 on the ultimate list
    best known works: The Ten Commandments
  13. 13
    1894
    #16 on the ultimate list
  14. 14
    1929
    #14 on the ultimate list
    best known works: The Dollars Trilogy
  15. 15
    1943
    #40 on the ultimate list
    best known works: The Thin Red Line, Days Of Heaven and Tree Of Life.
  16. 16
    1930
    #19 on the ultimate list
    best known works: Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River.
  17. 17
    1944
    #94 on the ultimate list
    best known works: The Star Wars Saga and American Graffiti.
  18. 18
    1958
    #26 on the ultimate list
    best known works: Beetlejuice, Batman, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Alice In Wonderland
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    1954
    #31 on the ultimate list
    best known works: The Terminator 1 and 2, Aliens, Titanic and Avatar
  20. 20
    1937
    #11 on the ultimate list
    best known works: Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Hannibal and American Gangster.
  21. 21
    1935
    #15 on the ultimate list
    best known works: Annie Hall, Manhattan, Midnight In Paris,
  22. 22
    1946
    #58 on the ultimate list
    best known works: Platoon, Born On The Fourth Of July, Natural Born Killers, JFK, and Wallstreet.
  23. 23

    Joel and Ethan Coen

    #97 on the ultimate list
    best known works: Fargo, No Country For Old Men, Raising Arizona, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Big Lebowski, True Grit and Blood Simple.
  24. 24
    1970
    #10 on the ultimate list
    best known works: Memento, Insomnia, The Prestige, The Dark Knight and Inception.
  25. 25
    1961
    #20 on the ultimate list
    best known works: The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy and King Kong

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  1. Lons
    The Greatest Film Directors of All Time at 3/22/2012 11:57 AM
    Kudos on ranking De Palma so high. That guy is massively underrated. Some good international/classic director picks, too, though I'd add John Huston, Orson Welles, Michaelangelo Antonioni and Bergman were it my list.

    (One note: You seem to have Alan Silvestri - a composer - listed in place of Robert Zemeckis, who directed "Roger Rabbit," "Back to the Future" and others.)

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