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Jim Abrahams
Tenghiz Abuladze
Maren Ade
Percy Adlon
Jonas Akerlund
Chantal Akerman
Farhan Akhtar
Zoya Akhtar
Fatih Akin
Robert Aldrich
Yves Allegret
Woody Allen
Michael Almereyda
Pedro Almodovar
Lisandro Alonso
Robert Altman
Rick Alverson
Gianni Amelio
Ana Amirpour
Anders Thomas Jensen
Brad Anderson
Lindsay Anderson
Michael Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Roy Andersson
Theodoros Angelopulos
Kenneth Anger
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michael Apted
Emile Ardolino
Daniel Sanchez Arevalo
Dario Argento
Jack Arnold
Darren Aronofsky
Hal Ashby
Anthony Asquith
Aditya Assarat
Olivier Assayas
Ari Aster
Richard Attenborough
Jacques Audiard
Jacqueline Audry
Claude Autant-Lara
John Avildsen
Lila Aviles
Hector Babenco
Lloyd Bacon
Peter Bacso
John Badham
Yong-Kyun Bae
Ramin Bahrani
Ralph Bakshi
Kantemir Balagov
Juan Bardem
Clive Barker
Boris Barnet
Rahi Barve
Ritesh Batra
Noah Baumbach
Mario Bava
Harold Becker
Jacques Becker
Wolfgang Becker
Marco Bellocchio
Remy Belvaux
Laszlo Benedek
Roberto Benigni
Bruce Beresford
Busby Berkeley
Ingmar Bergman
Luis Berlanga
Bernardo Bertolucci
Luc Besson
Bahram Beyzaie
Sanjay Bhansali
Bi Gan
Susanne Bier
Kathryn Bigelow
Shane Black
Alessandro Blasetti
Bernard Blier
Neill Blomkamp
Christoffer Boe
Budd Boetticher
Peter Bogdanovich
Bertrand Bonello
Joon-Ho Bong
John Boorman
Walerian Borowczyk
Frank Borzage
Danny Boyle
Kenneth Branagh
Janicza Bravo
Robert Bresson
Martin Brest
Mel Brooks
Richard Brooks
Tod Browning
Franco Brusati
Luis Bunuel
Neil Burger
Tim Burton
Mario Camerini
James Cameron
Donald Cammell
Jane Campion
Frank Capra
Leos Carax
Marcel Carne`
John Carney
Niki Caro
John Carpenter
Fabio Carpi
Emmanuele Carrere
Shane Carruth
John Cassavetes
Renato Castellani
Liliana Cavani
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Claude Chabrol
Gurinder Chadha
Benny Chan
Jeffrey Chandor
Cheh Chang
Charlie Chaplin
Basu Chatterjee
Paddy Chayefsky
Damien Chazelle
Peter Chelsom
Kaige Chen
Lisa Cholodenko
Sylvain Chomet
Benjamin Christensen
Jon Chu
Lee Isaac Chung
Vera Chytilova
Michael Cimino
Souleymane Cisse'
Rene` Clair
Larry Clark
Jack Clayton
Rene' Clement
Jean Cocteau
Joel Coen
Jem Cohen
Emile Cohl
Chris Columbus
Luigi Comencini
Kerry Conran
Ryan Coogler
Francis Ford Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Roger Corman
Pedro Costa
Costi Costa-Gravas
Kevin Costner
Alex Cox
Wes Craven
Michael Crichton
Charles Crichton
David Cronenberg
John Crowley
James Cruze
Alfonso Cuaron
George Cukor
Michael Curtiz
R.J. Cutler
John Dahl
Georgiy Daneliya
Joe Dante
Frank Darabont
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Nandita Das
Julie Dash
Delmer Daves
Terence Davies
Basil Dearden
Jan DeBont
Guillermo DelToro
Cecil DeMille
Jonathan Demme
Ted Demme
Jacques Demy
Claire Denis
Manuel DeOliveira
Brian Depalma
Jacques Deray
Giuseppe DeSantis
Vittorio Desica
Arnaud Desplechin
Lav Diaz
William Dieterle
Mati Diop
Walt Disney
Edward Dmytryk
Stanley Donen
Richard Donner
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Gordon Douglas
Aleksandr Dovzenko
Carl Dreyer
Julia Ducournau
Slatan Dudow
Germaine Dulac
Bruno Dumont
Julien Duvivier
Clint Eastwood
Blake Edwards
Robert Eggers
Atom Egoyan
Sergej Eisenstein
Judit Elek
Roland Emmerich
Jean Epstein
Deniz Gamze Erguven
Victor Erice
Jean Eustache
Zoltan Fabri
Coralie Fargeat
Asghar Farhadi
Peter & Bobby Farrelly
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Federico Fellini
Abel Ferrara
Marco Ferreri
Jacques Feyder
Louis Feuillade
Todd Field
Mike Figgis
Kleber Mendonca Filho
David Fincher
Terence Fisher
Robert Flaherty
Gary Fleder
Victor Fleming
Per Fly
James Foley
Ari Folman
Richard Fleischer
Peter Fleischmann
John Ford
Tom Ford
Milos Forman
Bob Fosse
George Franju
Carl Franklin
John Frankenheimer
Stephen Frears
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Karl Freund
William Friedkin
Robert Fuest
Chris Fuller
Samuel Fuller
Antoine Fuqua
Sidney Furie
Abel Gance
Rodrigo Garcia
Alex Garland
Philippe Garrel
Aleksei German
Pietro Germi
Matteo Garrone
Greta Gerwig
Terry Gilliam
Tony Gilroy
Marco-Tullio Giordana
Paul Michael Glaser
Jonathan Glazer
Jean-Luc Godard
Miguel Gomes
Michel Gondry
Heinosuke Gosho
James Gray
William Greaves
Peter Greenaway
Jean Gremillon
John Grierson
Tom Gries
David Griffith
Valeska Grisebach
Karl Grune
Ciro Guerra
Ruy Guerra
Val Guest
Yilmaz Guney
Xiaolu Guo
Frant Gwo

Taylor Hackford
Grimur Hakonarson
Victor Halperin
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Robert Hamer
Michael Haneke
Mia Hansen-Love
Curtis Hanson
Tsui Hark
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Curtis Harrington
Mary Harron
Hal Hartley
Wojciech Has
Henry Hathaway
Reinhard Hauff
Howard Hawks
Todd Haynes
Amy Heckerling
Monte Hellman
Werner Herzog
George Roy Hill
Walter Hill
Rajkumar Hirani
Alfred Hitchcock
David Hogan
Paul John Hogan
Matthew Ryan Hoge
Joanna Hogg
Agnieszka Holland
Tom Holland
Ishiro Honda
Sang-soo Hong
Tobe Hooper
Dennis Hopper
Mamoru Hosoda
Ron Howard
Jan Hrebejk
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Li-Pao Hsueh
Bo Hu
King Hu
John Hughes
Ann Hui
Tran Anh Hung
John Huston
Peter Hyams
Kon Ichikawa
Shohei Imamura
Alejandro Inarritu
Thomas Ince
Otar Iosseliani
Joris Ivens
James Ivory
Peter Jackson
Benoit Jacquot
Miklos Jancso
Jim Jarmusch
Barry Jenkins
Humphrey Jennings
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Norman Jewison
Prakash Jha
Zhangke Jia
Wen Jiang
Jaromil Jires
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Duncan Jones
Spike Jonze
Neil Jordan
Jeethu Joseph
Radu Jude
Miranda July
Michail Kalatozov
Sekhar Kammula
Rajat Kapoor
Shekhar Kapur
Phil Karlson
Lawrence Kasdan
Anurag Kashyap
Mathieu Kassovitz
Leonard Kastle
Charlie Kaufman
Mani Kaul
Aki Kaurismaki
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Tony Kaye
Elia Kazan
Buster Keaton
Abdellatif Kechiche
Abbas Kiarostami
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Ki-Duk Kim
Henry King
Keisuke Kinoshita
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Takeshi Kitano
Elem Klimov
Steve Kloves
Alexander Kluge
Masaki Kobayashi
Andras Kovacs
Andrej Konchalovsky
Satoshi Kon
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Harmony Korine
Grigorij Kozincev
Stanley Kramer
Zacharias Kunuk
Stanley Kubrick
Lev Kulesov
Akira Kurosawa
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Emir Kusturica
Marcel L'Herbier
Nadine Labaki
Neil Labute
Ringo Lam
Mary Lambert
John Landis
Fritz Lang
Harry Langdon
Yorgos Lanthimos
Nadav Lapid
Norman McLaren
Alberto Lattuada
Charles Laughton
Stan Laurel
Jean-Claude Lauzon
Caroline Leaf
David Lean
Patrice Leconte
Ang Lee
Chang-dong Lee
Spike Lee
Michael Lehmann
Sergio Leone
Mike Leigh
Claude Lelouch
Paul Leni
Mervyn Leroy
Richard Lester
Barry Levinson
Jerry Lewis
Val Lewton
Jens Lien
Doug Liman
Max Linder
Richard Linklater
Steven Lisberger
Chia-Liang Liu
Anatole Litvak
Harold Lloyd
Ken Loach
Kenneth Lonergan
Robert Longo
Joseph Losey
David Lowery
Sergei Loznitsa
Ernst Lubitsch
George Lucas
Baz Luhrmann
Sidney Lumet
Rod Lurie
Patrick Lussier
Len Lye
David Lynch
Adrian Lyne
Jonathan Lynn
Alexander Mackendrick
Sharon Maguire
Majid Majidi
Dusan Makavejev
Terence Malick
Louis Malle
Djibril Diop Mambety
David Mamet
Rouben Mamoulian
James Mangold
Joseph Mankiewicz
Anthony Mann
Delbert Mann
Michael Mann
John Maringouin
Chris Marker,
Garry Marshall
George Marshall
Marx Brothers
Gabriel Mascaro
Rudolph Mate
Carl Mayer
Paul Mazursky
Leo McCarey
Adam McKay
Winsor McKay
Christopher McQuarrie
Steve McQueen
James McTeigue
John McTiernan
Fernando Meirelles
Georges Melies
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jiri Menzel
Russ Meyer
Takashi Miike
Kirill Mikhanovsky
John Milius
Nikita Mikhalkov
Lewis Milestone
George Miller
Anthony Minghella
Vincent Minnelli
David Mirkin
Saeed Mirza
David Robert Mitchell
Hayao Miyazaki
Kenji Mizoguchi
Gustaf Molander
Mario Monicelli
Jocelyn Moorhouse
Vikramaditya Motwane
Robert Mulligan
Kornel Mundruczo
Andrzej Munk
Lucia Murat
Friedrich Murnau
Shannon Murphy
Daniel Myrick
Lee Myung-Se
Hong-jin Na
Ko Nakahira
Hideo Nakata
Gerardo Naranjo
Mikio Naruse
Ronald Neame
Jean Negulesco
Tim Blake Nelson
Jan Nemec
Laszlo Nemes
Mike Newell
Mike Nichols
Andrew Niccol
Govind Nihalani
Gaspar Noe
Christopher Nolan
Yuri Norstein
Philip Noyce
Garin Nugroho
Ermanno Olmi
Max Ophuls
Mamoru Oshii
Nagisa Oshima
Francois Ozon
Ferzan Ozpetek
Yasujiro Ozu

Georg Pabst
Alan Pakula
Gyorgy Palfi
Jafar Panahi
Sergej Parajanov/ Paradzanov
Chan-wook Park
Alan Parker
Goran Paskaljevic
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Giovanni Pastrone
Pawel Pawlikowski
Alexander Payne
Jordan Peele
Kimberly Peirce
Sam Peckinpah
Ratanaruang Pen-ek
Arthur Penn
Alex Perry
Frank Perry
Wolfgang Petersen
Elio Petri
Daniel Petrie
Donald Petrie
Christian Petzold
Maurice Pialat
Sidney Poitier
Roman Polanski
Sidney Pollack
Abraham Polonsky
Aleksei Popogrebsky
Edwin Porter
Cornelio Porumboiu
Ted Post
Henry Potter
Michael Powell
Otto Preminger
Jakov Protazanov
Alex Proyas
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Cristi Puiu
Richard Quine
Bob Rafelson
Yuli Raizman
Sam Raimi
Srisaila Sri Rajamouli
Harold Ramis
Lynne Ramsay
Mani Ratnam
Brett Ratner
Nicholas Ray
Satyajit Ray
Carol Reed
Kelly Reichardt
Carl Reiner
Rob Reiner
Karel Reisz
Ivan Reitman
Jean Renoir
John Requa and Glenn Ficarra
Alain Resnais
Carlos Reygadas
Kevin Reynolds
Tony Richardson
Wolf Rilla
Arturo Ripstein
Dino Risi
Guy Ritchie
Martin Ritt
Jacques Rivette
Jay Roach
Arthur Robinson
Phil Alden Robinson
Mark Robson
Glauber Rocha
Nicholas Roeg
Eric Rohmer
Alice Rohrwacher
George Romero
Michail Romm
Abram Room
Stuart Rosenberg
Tatia Rosenthal
Francesco Rosi
Gary Ross
Roberto Rossellini
Robert Rossen
Joseph Ruben
Raoul Ruiz
Alonso Ruizpalacios
Josef Rusnak
David Russell
Ken Russell
Ira Sachs
Benny & Josh Safdie
Gene Saks
Walter Salles
Ake Sandgren
Rajkumar Santoshi
Joseph Sargent
Wisit Sasanatieng
Carlos Saura
Claude Sautet
John Sayles
Franklin Schaffner
Jerry Schatzberg
Fred Schepisi
Sebastian Schipper
John Schlesinger
Volker Schloendorff
Julian Schnabel
Ernst Schoedsack
Evald Schorm
Joel Schumaker
Celine Sciamma
Ettore Scola
Martin Scorsese
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott
Paul Schrader
Barbet Schroeder
Werner Schroeter
Susan Seidelman
Mrinal Sen
Kumar Shahani
Jim Sharman
Giorgi Shengelaia
Kanetu Shindo
Masahiro Shinoda
Night Shyamalan
George Sidney
Don Siegel
Elliot Silverstein
Bryan Singer
John Singleton
Robert Siodmak
Shoojit Sircar
Douglas Sirk
Abderrahmane Sissako
Santosh Siva
Aif Sjoberg
Vilgot Sjoman
Victor Sjostrom
Erik Skjoldbjaerg
Jerzy Skolimowski
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
Kevin Smith
Steven Soderbergh
Aleksandr Sokurov
Barry Sonnenfeld
Sion Sono
Alberto Sordi
Paolo Sorrentino
Penelope Spheeris
Steven Spielberg
Roger Spottiswoode
John Stahl
Andrew Stanton
Vladislav Starevich
Josef von Sternberg
George Stevens
Scott Stewart
Ben Stiller
Mauritz Stiller
Oliver Stone
Paul Strand
Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet
Eric von Stroheim
John Sturges
Preston Sturges
Eliseo Subiela
Vasilis Suksin
Jan Svankmajer
Hans Jurgen Syderberg
Istvan Szabo
Isao Takahata
Lee Tamahori
Quentin Tarantino
Andrej Tarkovsky
Bela Tarr
Frank Tashlin
Jacques Tati
Bertrand Tavernier
Paolo e Vittorio Taviani
Lewis Teague
Andre Techine
Julian Temple
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Osamu Tezuka
Jack Lee Thompson
Nitesh Tiwari
Giuseppe Tornatore
Toto`
Jacques Tourneur
Johnnie To
Joachim Trier
Jan Troell
Fernando Trueba
Francois Truffaut
Douglas Trumbull
Ming-Liang Tsai
Derek Tsang
Jiri Trnka
Jon Turteltaub
David Twoshy
Tom Tykwer
Edgar Ulmer
Roger Vadim
Rudolph Valentino
Krishna Vamsi
Gus VanSant
Agnes Varda
Ram Varma
Paul Vecchiali
Gore Verbinski
Paul Verhoeven
Dziga Vertov
King Vidor
Nacho Vigalondo
Lorenzo Vigas
Jean Vigo
Paolo Villaggio
Denis Villeneuve
Thomas Vinterberg
Luchino Visconti
Frantisek Vlacil
Eskil Vogt
Lars Von Trier
Wachowski Brothers
Andrzej Wajda
Raoul Walsh
Charles Walters
Lulu Wang
Patrick Wang
Wayne Wang
Xiaoshuai Wang
Andy Warhol
John Waters
Peter Watkins
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Paul Wegener
John Grant Weil
Peter Weir
Orson Welles
William Wellman
Wim Wenders
Lina Wertmuller
James Whale
Robert Wiene
Olivia Wilde
Billy Wilder
Tod Williams
Michael Winner
Michael Winterbottom
Robert Wise
Kar-Wai Wong
John Woo
Edgar Wright
William Wyler
Edward Yang
Peter Yates
Sang-ho Yeon
Liang Ying
Woo-ping Yuen
Craig Zahler
Luigi Zampa
Krzysztos Zanussi
Cesare Zavattini
Karel Zeman
Robert Zemeckis
Yimou Zhang
Chloe Zhao
Fred Zinnemann
Jerry Zucker
Ramon Zuercher
Andrzej Zulawski
Andrej Zvjagintsev
Edward Zwick
Terry Zwigoff


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