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The Greatest Directors in Movie History

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List Criteria: Most important, culturally significant filmmakers of all time who deserve award recognition.

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  1. 1

    D. W. Griffith

    1875
    #68 on the ultimate list
  2. 2

    Michael Curtiz

    1886
    #90 on the ultimate list
  3. 3

    Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

    1888
    #48 on the ultimate list
  4. 4

    Charlie Chaplin

    1889
    #15 on the ultimate list
  5. 5

    James Whale

    1889
    #122 on the ultimate list
  6. 6

    Fritz Lang

    1890
    #19 on the ultimate list
  7. 7

    Jean Renoir

    1894
    #54 on the ultimate list
  8. 8

    John Ford

    1894
    #11 on the ultimate list
  9. 9

    Buster Keaton

    1895
    #37 on the ultimate list
  10. 10

    Howard Hawks

    1896
    #34 on the ultimate list
  11. 11

    Frank Capra

    1897
    #25 on the ultimate list
  12. 12

    Preston Sturges

    1898
    #47 on the ultimate list
  13. 13

    Sergei Eisenstein

    1898
    #50 on the ultimate list
  14. 14

    Alfred Hitchcock

    1899
    #2 on the ultimate list
  15. 15

    Luis Buñuel

    1900
    #66 on the ultimate list
  16. 16

    William Wyler

    1902
    #56 on the ultimate list
  17. 17

    Terence Fisher

    1904
    #157 on the ultimate list
  18. 18

    Michael Powell

    1905
    #199 on the ultimate list
  19. 19

    Billy Wilder

    1906
    #14 on the ultimate list
  20. 20

    Carol Reed

    1906
    #79 on the ultimate list
  21. 21

    John Huston

    1906
    #26 on the ultimate list
  22. 22

    David Lean

    1908
    #44 on the ultimate list
  23. 23

    Elia Kazan

    1909
    #70 on the ultimate list
  24. 24

    Akira Kurosawa

    1910
    #8 on the ultimate list
  25. 25

    George Seaton

    1911
    #102 on the ultimate list

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