List of film and television directors
This is a list of motion picture and television directors.
Alan Smithee is a fictional name used to give credit as the director of films that the original director has disowned.
A
- Sidney Sasha Alexandera Chun
- Rolf Aamot
- Tengiz Abuladze
- Joe Ahearne
- Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
- Percy Adlon
- Babar Ahmed
- Chantal Akerman
- Robert Aldrich
- Marc Allégret
- Yves Allégret
- Irwin Allen
- Woody Allen
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Robert Altman
- Julius Amedume
- Alejandro Amenábar
- Lindsay Anderson
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Wes Anderson
- Robert André
- Theo Angelopoulos
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Michael Apted
- Moustapha Akkad
- Alfonso Arau
- Jozef Arkusz
- Asia Argento
- Dario Argento
- Jun Aristorenas
- Gillian Armstrong
- Jack Arnold
- Darren Aronofsky
- Marcos Arriaga
- Miguel Arteta
- Dorothy Arzner
- Hal Ashby
- Anthony Asquith
- Carlos Atanes
- Richard Attenborough
- Bille August
- Pupi Avati
- Roger Avary
- Tex Avery
- John G. Avildsen
- R.Kan Albay
B
- Hector Babenco
- Lloyd Bacon
- John Badham
- Bae Yong-Kyun
- King Baggot
- Tom Barman
- Steve Barron
- Lamberto Bava
- Mario Bava
- Michael Bay
- Warren Beatty
- William Bemister
- László Benedek
- Shyam Benegal
- Roberto Benigni
- Robert Benton
- Bruce Beresford
- Ingmar Bergman
- Busby Berkeley
- Ishmael Bernal
- Edward Bernds
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Luc Besson
- Bharathan
- Fabián Bielinsky
- Alice Guy-Blaché
- Tony Blackplait
- Alessandro Blasetti
- Bertrand Blier
- Keith Boak
- Budd Boetticher
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Francis Boggs
- John Boorman
- Frank Borzage
- John and Roy Boulting
- Darren Lynn Bousman
- Danny Boyle
- Marco Brambilla
- Kenneth Branagh
- Catherine Breillat
- Robert Bresson
- Vinko Brešan
- Martin Brest
- Edwin Brienen
- Lino Brocka
- Albert Brooks
- Mel Brooks
- James L. Brooks
- Richard Brooks
- Clarence Brown
- Tod Browning
- Luis Buñuel
- Tim Burton
C
- James Cameron
- Donald Cammell
- Martin Campbell
- Jane Campion
- Colin Cant
- Frank Capra
- Leos Carax
- Marcel Carné
- John Carpenter
- Rudolph Cartier
- John Cassavetes
- Nick Cassavetes
- Steve "Sven" Cavallari
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Claude Chabrol
- Charlie Chaplin
- Kaige Chen
- Samson Chiu
- Yash Chopra
- Benjamin Christensen
- Roger Christian
- Al Christie
- Charles Christie
- Grigori Chukhrai
- Michael Cimino
- Souleymane Cissé
- René Clair
- Bob Clark
- Larry Clark
- René Clément
- George Clooney
- Jean Cocteau
- Joel Coen
- Larry Cohen
- Chris Columbus
- Bill Condon
- Merian C. Cooper
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Sofia Coppola
- Roger Corman
- Don Coscarelli
- Ricardo Costa
- Costa-Gavras
- Kevin Costner
- Alex Cox
- Wes Craven
- David Cronenberg
- Alan Crosland
- Cameron Crowe
- Alfonso Cuarón
- George Cukor
- Michael Curtiz
D
- Joe D'Amato
- Joe Dante
- Frank Darabont
- Julie Dash
- Delmer Daves
- Terence Davies
- Andrew Davis
- Jonathan Dayton
- Alex De La Iglesia
- Jan de Bont
- Emile Degelin
- Joe De Grasse
- Jean Delannoy
- Brian De Palma
- Vittorio De Sica
- Guillermo Del Toro
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Jonathan Demme
- Ted Demme
- Jacques Demy
- Claire Denis
- Andre de Toth
- Danny DeVito
- Dean Devlin
- William Dieterle
- Andrew Dominik
- Roger Donaldson
- Richard Donner
- Robert Downey Sr.
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Bill Duke
- Ewald André Dupont
- Marguerite Duras
- Richard Dutcher
- Julien Duvivier
- Allan Dwan
E
F
- John Farley
- John Farrow
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Jacques Feyder
- Federico Fellini
- Louis Feuillade
- Todd Field
- Mike Figgis
- David Fincher
- Terence Fisher
- Robert J. Flaherty
- Richard Fleischer
- Victor Fleming
- Benedek Fliegauf
- John Ford
- Miloš Forman
- Marc Forster
- Bob Fosse
- John Frankenheimer
- Stephen Frears
- William Friedkin
- Lucio Fulci
- Sam Fuller
- Antoine Fuqua
- Cally Furgesiin
- Kinji Fukasaku
G
- Eddie Garcia
- Mick Garris
- K. G. George
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Bahman Ghobadi
- Svein Olav Gjone
- Mel Gibson
- Lewis Gilbert
- Terry Gilliam
- Robert Gist
- Theo van Gogh
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Michel Gondry
- Girish Kasaravalli
- Girish Karnad
- Stuart Gordon
- Heinosuke Gosho
- F. Gary Gray
- John Greyson
- D. W. Griffith
- Val Guest
- John Guillermin
- Sacha Guitry
- Alice Guy Blaché
H
- Taylor Hackford
- Piers Haggard
- Lasse Hallström
- Bent Hamer
- Michael Haneke
- Curtis Hanson
- Geir Hansteen Jörgensen
- Renny Harlin
- Hal Hartley
- Henry Hathaway
- Howard Hawks
- Todd Haynes
- Brian Helgeland
- Monte Hellman
- Werner Herzog
- George Roy Hill
- Walter Hill
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Abbie Hoffman
- Jack Hofsiss
- Tobe Hooper
- Dennis Hopper
- Jim Horwitz
- Hsiao-Hsien Hou
- Ron Howard
- Howard Hughes
- John Hughes
- John Huston
- Brian G. Hutton
I
J
- Peter Jackson
- Sarah Jacobson
- Miklós Jancsó
- Jang Jun-hwan
- Derek Jarman
- Jim Jarmusch
- Patty Jenkins
- Norman Jewison
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Jaromil Jireš
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Clark Johnson
- G.B. Jones
- Spike Jonze
- Neil Jordan
- Miranda July
K
- Karel Kachyňa
- Raj Kapoor
- Pekka Karjalainen
- Roman Karmen
- Wong Kar-wai
- Lawrence Kasdan
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Spencer Katz
- Philip Kaufman
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Helmut Käutner
- Jerzy Kawalerowicz
- Tony Kaye
- Elia Kazan
- Buster Keaton
- David Kellogg
- Gene Kelly
- Richard Kelly
- James Kerwin
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Kim Ki-duk
- Henry King
- Stephen King
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Ryuhei Kitamura
- Takeshi Kitano
- Elem Klimov
- Alexander Korda
- Zoltan Korda
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- Harmony Korine
- Henry Koster
- Jan Kounen
- Stanley Kubrick
- George Kuchar
- Roger Kumble
- Akira Kurosawa
- Emir Kusturica
- Stanley Kwan
L
- Neil LaBute
- Benjamin Lamb
- John Landis
- Fritz Lang
- Walter Lang
- Rémi Lange
- Claude Lanzmann
- David Lean
- Patrice Leconte
- Ang Lee
- Spike Lee
- Mike Leigh
- Claude Lelouch
- Umberto Lenzi
- Sergio Leone
- Richard Lester
- Barry Levinson
- Jerry Lewis
- Ari Libsker
- Max Linder
- Willy Lindwer
- Richard Linklater
- Frank Lloyd
- Ken Loach
- Del Lord
- Ernst Lubitsch
- George Lucas
- Baz Luhrmann
- Sidney Lumet
- Leopold Lummerstorfer
- Ida Lupino
- Rod Lurie
- David Lynch
- Adrian Lyne
- Jonathan Lynn
M
- William Malone
- Bam Margera
- Guy Maddin
- Károly Makk
- Louis Malle
- Terrence Malick
- David Maloney
- Luis Mandoki
- Joseph Leo Mankiewicz
- Anthony Mann
- Delbert Mann
- Michael Mann
- Sophie Marceau
- Chris Marker
- George Marshall
- Marco Martins
- Leo McCarey
- Lucky McKee
- John McTiernan
- Sam Mendes
- Dariush Mehrjui
- Russ Meyer
- Oscar Micheaux
- Roger Michell
- Takashi Miike
- Lewis Milestone
- John Milius
- George Miller
- Anthony Minghella
- Bijan Mirbagheri
- Noël Mitrani
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Cesar Montano
- Michael Moore
- Robert Moore
- Jacobo Morales
- Nanni Moretti
- Russell Mulcahy
- Robert Mulligan
- F. W. Murnau
N
- Amir Naderi
- Mira Nair
- Gregory Nava
- Mike Newell
- Lionel Ngakane
- Fred Niblo
- Andrew Niccol
- Mike Nichols
- Jack Nicholson
- Marcus Nispel
- Gaspar Noé
- Christopher Nolan
- Jehane Noujaim
- Laura Neri
O
- Kihachi Okamoto
- Sidney Olcott
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Arthur Omar
- Max Ophüls
- Nagisa Oshima
- François Ozon
- Yasujiro Ozu
P
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
- P. Padmarajan
- Nam June Paik
- Alan J. Pakula
- Park Chan-Wook
- Alan Parker
- Reza Parsa
- Gabriel Pascal
- Joe Pasternak
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Anand Patwardhan
- Alexander Payne
- Sam Peckinpah
- Arthur Penn
- Sean Penn
- Dean Parisot
- Lester James Peries
- Léonce Perret
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Elio Petri
- Maurice Pialat
- Fernando Poe, Jr.
- Fernando Poe, Sr.
- Puttanna Kanagal
- Roman Polanski
- Sydney Pollack
- Kay Pollak
- Michael Powell
- Otto Preminger
- Emeric Pressburger
- Sarah Price
- Vsevolod Pudovkin
Q
R
- Bob Rafelson
- Sam Raimi
- Andrew Rakuljic
- Harold Ramis
- Mani Ratnam
- Brett Ratner
- Nicholas Ray
- Satyajit Ray
- Robert Redford
- Carol Reed
- Carl Reiner
- Rob Reiner
- António Reis
- Karel Reisz
- Jean Renoir
- Alain Resnais
- Ivan Reitman
- Ronwaldo Reyes
- Tony Richardson
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Guy Ritchie
- Martin Ritt
- Jacques Rivette
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Jerome Robbins
- Phil Alden Robinson
- Mark Robson
- Robert Rodriguez
- Nicolas Roeg
- Éric Rohmer
- George Romero
- Stuart Rosenberg
- Herbert Ross
- Robert Rossen
- Roberto Rossellini
- Patricia Rozema
- Ken Russell
- Zbigniew Rybczyński
- Mark Rydell
S
- Claude Sautet
- Geoffrey Sax
- John Sayles
- Ettore Scola
- Ridley Scott
- Tony Scott
- Franklin Schaffner
- Frank Scheffer
- Fred Schepisi
- John Schlesinger
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Joel Schumacher
- Martin Scorsese
- George Seaton
- David O. Selznick
- Mack Sennett
- M. Night Shyamalan
- Don Siegel
- Bryan Singer
- John Singleton
- Robert Siodmak
- Douglas Sirk
- Victor Sjöström
- Shakti Samanta
- Kevin Smith
- Steven Soderbergh
- Barry Sonnenfeld
- Shion Sono
- Steven Spielberg
- John M. Stahl
- Sylvester Stallone
- Ladislas Starevich
- George Stevens
- Robert Stevenson
- Mauritz Stiller
- Tom-Roger Storvik
- Oliver Stone
- Erich von Stroheim
- John Sturges
- Preston Sturges
- István Szabó
- Arne Sucksdorff
- Seijun Suzuki
- Mrinal Sen
- Partho Sen-Gupta
T
- Alain Tanner
- Danis Tanovic
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Quentin Tarantino
- Jacques Tati
- Norman Taurog
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Andy Tennant
- Lucy Thane
- Richard Thorpe
- Tian Zhuangzhuang
- George Tillman, Jr.
- Johnnie To
- Jacques Tourneur
- Maurice Tourneur
- Pablo Trapero
- Scott Treleaven
- Lars von Trier
- François Truffaut
- Ming-liang Tsai
- Tom Tykwer
U
V
- Roger Vadim
- Luis Valdez
- Erik Van Looy
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Gus Van Sant
- Agnès Varda
- Gore Verbinski
- Paul Verhoeven
- King Vidor
- Robert G. Vignola
- Jean Vigo
- Bill Viola
- Thomas Vinterberg
- Luchino Visconti
- Biju Viswanath
- Prasanna Vithanage
- Vinci Vogue Anzlovar
- Jürgen Vsych
W
- Wachowski brothers
- Andrzej Wajda
- Randall Wallace
- Raoul Walsh
- Anthony Walthers
- James Wan
- Sam Wanamaker
- Vincent Ward
- Denzel Washington
- John Waters
- Peter Weir
- Chris Weitz
- Paul Weitz
- Orson Welles
- Wim Wenders
- Lina Wertmueller
- James Whale
- Bo Widerberg
- Billy Wilder
- Henry Winkler
- Michael Winner
- David Winning
- Michael Winterbottom
- Robert Wise
- Kar-wai Wong
- John Woo
- Ed Wood
- William Wyler
X
Y
Z
- Steven F. Zambo
- Krzysztof Zanussi
- Robert Zemeckis
- Fred Zinnemann
- Zucker brothers
- Andrzej Zulawski
- Edward Zwick
- Terry Zwigoff
- Zhang Yimou