Iran (Islamic Republic of)Daryush Shokof is an Iranian philosopher, artist, independent filmmaker and writer who lives in Germany. Daryush Shokof immigrated to the United States in 1979. In the 1980s he studied physics and mathematics. Furthermore, he graduated from the Film Academy New York. In 1981 he participated for the first time in an art exhibition. This took place in the New York gallery Gorky. In 1990 he shot his first experimental short film Angels Are Wired in Prague. After a few more short films, he made his debut film Seven Servants with Anthony Quinn. The film was nominated for the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival in 1996 and received awards at festivals such as Berlin, St. Petersburg, Toronto and Montreal. His film Venussian Tabutasco was founded in 2004 as part of the second Berlin Asia-Pacific Film Festival (BAPFF) premiered as a world premiere.
2. Lonzo Nzekwe

3. Kang Hyeong-cheol

4. Javad Shamaqdari

5. Alfred Hitchcock

United KingdomThroughout a career that lasted more than half a century, Hitchcock set up a distinctive and very recognizable cinematic style. It was innovative in the use of the camera to imitate the look of a person, thus forcing viewers to participate in a certain way of voyeurism, used frames to cause anxiety, fear or empathy and developed a novel way of film mount. Their stories are often starring fugitives from the law and their leading actresses are usually fair-haired. Many of his films feature plot twists in the outcome and disturbing plots that move around violence, murders and crime. Frequently, the mysteries that articulate the plots are nothing more than decoys that serve to advance the story but have no greater importance in the argument.
6. Mel Gibson

7. Akira Kurosawa

8. Charlie Chaplin

9. Clint Eastwood

10. Martin Scorsese

11. Bong Joon-ho

12. Ridley Scott

13. Wong Kar-wai

14. Anurag Kashyap

15. James Cameron

CanadaHe started his career in the film industry as a special effects technician and later triumphed as a screenwriter and director of the action and science fiction film The Terminator (1984). His popularity led him to be hired as a screenwriter and director of a larger budget project, Aliens: The Return (1986), and three years later he premiered The Abyss, an underwater odyssey. He continued to enjoy the favor of criticism and public with Terminator 2: the final judgment (1991), praised for its special effects. After directing the spy film True Lies (1994), Cameron embarked on his most ambitious and successful project so far, Titanic (1997), which became the film with the highest collection in history and for which he was nominated for three Oscar awards, for best film, best director and best editing.
16. Park Chan-wook

United StatesSpielberg is the director who has more films in the list of the 100 Best Films of All Time, made by the American Film Institute. He is considered one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.
18. Ram Gopal Varma

19. Yasujirō Ozu

20. Ashok Mehta

21. Stephen Chow

Hong KongHe began his career at the Shaw Brothers TVB actor school. Later he participated in the children's program 430 Shuttle, where he was the character called Black and White Vampire. Chow's latest films have begun to focus on action and special effects instead of verbal humor sequences, in order to appeal to a wider international audience. The film that launched him to international fame was Shaolin Soccer (2001), which made use of the CGI, and was directed by Chow himself. His next film was Kung Fu Hustle (2004), also directed by him, and in February 2005 he surpassed Siu lam juk kau as the film with the highest figures of cinema in Hong Kong.
22. Zhang Yimou

23. Ahmed Rashwan

24. John Carpenter

United StatesJohn Carpenter is an American director, writer, and composer born January 16, 1948 in Carthage, New York State. With a film career spanning nearly forty years, Carpenter has produced a number of horror and science fiction films that have gained international acclaim over the years. He directed his first feature film, Dark Star in 1974 when he was only 25 years old. He signed two years later an action film, Assault, before turning to another register with Halloween, the night masks: the horror. A genre that will quickly become his favorite genre. Released in 1978, Halloween meets a tremendous success, both critical and commercial. From then on, Carpenter's career was launched, and productions followed one another, Hollywood also opening its doors thanks to its new status of "profitable director".
25. Michael Mann

United StatesMichael Mann graduated in the UK, at London's International Film School. After seven years in England, he moved back to the United States where he started as a screenwriter for a few television series. He wrote episodes for Police Story and Starsky and Hutch, among others. Later he also stood behind the camera and in 1979 he directed the television film The Jericho Mile. His major debut came in 1981 with the crime film Thief starring James Caan. A few years later Mann made the horror film The Keep. Despite some big names in the actors, Gabriel Byrne and Ian McKellen, The Keep became a huge flop.
26. Michael Bay

United StatesBay, known for directing and producing action films big budget cut characterized by rapid and extensive use of special effects, often including explosions. Bay began his career in the film industry with George Lucas when he was fifteen, presenting the storyboards of Raiders of the Lost Ark, who thought "they were going to be terrible". His opinion changed after seeing him at the cinema and he was so impressed by the experience that he decided to become a film director. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1986, specializing in English and film.
27. Ron Howard

28. Chen Kaige

29. Coen Brothers

United StatesJoel David Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen, professionally known as the Coen brothers, are two American filmmakers who won four Oscars, two BAFTAs and one Golden Globe, among other recognitions. In a 2013 article for Entertainment Weekly, Darren Franich named the Coen brothers "the leading contemporary professionals" of both the western and the black movies. Robert C. Sickels added that directors' films "are deeply rooted in one or more traditional genres." Empire magazine wrote that the Coens "are a law unto themselves, dancing their own songs without being responsible to anyone except themselves." Critic Jonathan Romney of Sight and Sound described them as "the most purely ludic American filmmakers."
30. Damien Dematra

31. Danny Pang Phat

32. David Yates

33. Dibakar Banerjee

34. Gazi Mazharul Anwar

35. Hana Makhmalbaf

36. Harry Baweja

37. Jafar Panahi

38. Johnnie To

39. Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen

40. Lawrence Ah Mon

Hong KongLawrence Lau Kwok Cheong, better known as Lawrence Ah Mon, born in South Africa in 1949, educated and lived in Hong Kong, graduated from Diocesan Boys College and the University of Southern California Film Department. Native place in Shunde, Guangdong, is a Hong Kong famous movie director. He is an outstanding film director in Hong Kong and on both sides of the strait and is known as the originator of Hong Kong's realism.
41. Mani Ratnam

42. Riri Riza

43. Robert Zemeckis

44. Rohit Shetty

45. S.Shankar

46. Sanjay Leela Bhansali

47. Stephanie Okereke Linus

48. Tigmanshu Dhulia

49. Yousry Nasrallah

50. Youssef Chahine

51. Zoya Akhtar

52. A J Mintu

53. A.J. Kardar

54. A.R. Murugadoss

55. A.T.M. Shamsuzzaman

56. AN Alcaff

57. Aamir Khan

58. Abbas–Mustan

59. Abdolhossein Sepanta

60. Abdolreza Kahani

61. Abdul Jabbar Khan

62. Abdullah Oğuz

63. Abhinay Deo

64. Abolfazl Jalili

65. Abu Sayeed

66. Abu Shahed Emon

67. Adeyemi Afolayan

68. Adim Williams

69. Aditya Chopra

70. Adoor Gopalakrishnan

71. Adrian Lyne

72. Afia Nathaniel

73. Ahmad Abdalla

74. Ahmed Maher

75. Ahmed Nader Galal

76. Ai Weiwei

77. Aida El-Kashef

78. Ajab Gul

79. Akhtaruzzaman

80. Akihiko Shiota

81. Akin Omotoso

82. Akio Jissoji

83. Alamgir Kabir

84. Alan Bridges

85. Alan Mak

86. Alan Parker

87. Albert Finney

88. Alex Chandon

89. Alex Cox

90. Alex Proyas

91. Alexander Korda

92. Alexander Mackendrick

93. Alexis Kouros

94. Alfred Cheung

95. Ali Hatami

96. Ali Mosaffa

97. Ali Özgentürk

98. Alizeh Imtiaz

99. Alki David

100. Allen Fong

101. Alok Nembang

102. Aly Badrakhan

103. Amaka Igwe

104. Amal Ramsis

105. Ami Priyono

106. Amir Naderi

107. Amir Shahab Razavian

108. Amr Salama

109. Ananta Jalil

110. Andjar Asmara

111. Andrew Dosunmu

112. Andrew Lau

113. Andy Amadi Okoroafor

114. Andy Lau

115. Anees Bazmee

116. Ang Lee

117. Angga Dwimas Sasongko

118. Anil Budha Magar

119. Animesh Aich

120. Ann Hui

121. Anthony Onah

122. Anup Baral

123. Anurag Basu

124. Anwar Kemal Pasha

125. Anwar Wagdi

126. Aparna Sen

127. Arifin C. Noer

128. Arizal

129. Arpan Thapa

130. Arthur Penn

131. Aryo Danusiri

132. Ashiqur Rahman

133. Ashir Azeem

134. Ashutosh Gowarikar

135. Ashutosh Gowariker

136. Asim Raza

137. Asrul Sani

138. Atef El-Tayeb

139. Atıf Yılmaz

140. Ayo Makun

141. Ayten Amin

142. Azizur Rahman

143. Babak Payami

144. Baby Islam

145. Badal Rahman

146. Badar Munir

147. Bahman Farmanara

148. Bahman Ghobadi

149. Bahman Kiarostami

150. Bahram Beyzai

151. Bakhtiar Effendi

152. Bala

153. Bang Eun-jin

154. Barbet Schroeder

155. Basu Chatterjee

156. Behrouz Gharibpour

157. Benny Chan

158. Bharathan

159. Bhusan Dahal

160. Bikash Raj Acharya

161. Bill Douglas

162. Bill Forsyth

163. Billy Wilder

164. Bimal Roy

165. Binod Pradhan

166. Biyi Bandele

167. Branwen Okpako

168. Brian De Palma

169. Bruce Lee

170. Bu Wancang

171. Buddhadeb Dasgupta

172. Buster Keaton

173. Byun Young-joo

174. Bülent Oran

175. Cai Chusheng

176. Cai Shangjun

177. Carol Reed

178. Cecil B. DeMille

179. Cem Yılmaz

180. Charles Novia

181. Chashi Nazrul Islam

182. Cheng Bugao

183. Chetan Anand

184. Chico Ejiro

185. Chidananda Dasgupta

186. Chineze Anyaene

187. Ching Siu-tung

188. Choi Dong-hoon

189. Choo Chang-min

190. Christopher Doyle

191. Christopher Guinness

192. Clarence Fok

193. Corey Yuen

194. Cüneyt Arkın

195. D. Djajakusuma

196. D.W. Griffith

197. Dadasaheb Phalke

198. Daisuke Itō

199. Daniel Wu

200. Danny Boyle

201. Dante Lam

202. Daoud Abdel Sayed

203. Dariush Mehrjui

204. David Dhawan

205. David Fincher

206. David Lean

207. David Lynch

208. Dayahang Rai

209. Deddy Mizwar

210. Deepa Mehta

211. Deepa Shree Niraula

212. Deepak Raj Giri

213. Deepak Rauniyar

214. Deepak Rayamajhi

215. Dennis Law

216. Derek Jarman

217. Derek Yee

218. Derviş Zaim

219. Desmond Elliot

220. Dev Anand

221. Dickson Iroegbu

222. Dilip Rayamajhi

223. Dinesh D.C.

224. Dinesh Raut

225. Dinesh Sharma

226. Dipendra K. Khanal

227. Djamaluddin Malik

228. Donnie Yen

229. Duygu Sağıroğlu

230. Ebrahim Golestan

231. Ebrahim Hatamikia

232. Edward Yang

233. Ehtesham

234. Elia Kazan

235. Emem Isong

236. Emeric Pressburger

237. Emin Alper

238. Enamul Karim Nirjhar

239. Eric Tsang

240. Ernst Lubitsch

241. Eros Djarot

242. Ertem Eğilmez

243. Ezzel Dine Zulficar

244. Fahad Mustafa

245. Farid Shawqi

246. Farjad Nabi

247. Fatih Akin

248. Fatima Rushdi

249. Fatin Abdel Wahab

250. Fei Mu

251. Felix Chong

252. Femi Odugbemi

253. Feng Xiaogang

254. Ferzan Özpetek

255. Forough Farrokhzad

256. Frances-Anne Solomon

257. Francis Ford Coppola

258. Frank Capra

259. Frank Rajah Arase

260. Fritz Lang

261. Fruit Chan

262. Fuat Uzkınay

263. Funke Akindele

264. G. Aravindan

265. Garin Nugroho

266. Gauri Shinde

267. Gazi Rakayet

268. Genevieve Nnaji

269. George Cukor

270. George Lucas

271. Giasuddin Selim

272. Goldie Behl

273. Gordon Chan

274. Goutam Ghose

275. Govind Nihalani

276. Gu Changwei

277. Guru Dutt

278. H. Tjut Djalil

279. Haissam Hussain

280. Hala Khalil

281. Halit Refiğ

282. Hanny Saputra

283. Hanung Bramantyo

284. Happy Salma

285. Hari Bansha Acharya

286. Haseeb Hassan

287. Hassan Al Imam

288. Hassan Rana

289. Hassan Tariq

290. Hayao Miyazaki

291. He Jianjun

292. He Ping

293. Heinosuke Gosho

294. Hem Raj BC

295. Henry Barakat

296. Herwin Novianto

297. Hideo Gosha

298. Hideo Nakata

299. Hira Singh Khatri

300. Hirokazu Kore-eda










