Top 100 Directors with 3 of their best films attached. Including new entries & notable risers;
1) Alfred Hitchcock
(Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo)
2) Sidney Lumet
(Network, 12 Angry Men, The Verdict)
3) Stanley Kubrick
(2001, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket)
4) Akira Kurosawa
(Seven Samurai, Hidden Fortress, Ikiru)
5) Billy Wilder
(Ace in the Hole, Stalag 17, Double Indemnity)
6) The Coen Brothers
(Fargo, Miller's Crossing, The Big Lebowski)
7) Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
(Black Narcissus, A Matter of Life and Death, Peeping Tom)
8 )Francois Truffaut
(Tirez sur le pianiste, Stolen Kisses, Pocket Money)
9) David Fincher
(Fight Club, Se7en, Zodiac)
10) Pedro Almodovar
(Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Talk to Her, All About My Mother)
11) David Lynch
(Blue Velvet, Mullholland Drive, The Elephant Man)
12) Jean-Pierre Melville
(Bob le Flambeur; Léon Morin, Prêtre; Army of Shadows)
13) John Huston
(The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The African Queen)
14) Park Chan Wook
(Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Joint Security Area)
15) Ridley Scott
(Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator)
16) William Friedkin
(The Exorcist, The French Connection, To Live and Die in LA)
17) Francis Ford Coppola
(Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, The Conversation)
18) Ingmar Bergman
(Wild Strawberries, Winter Light, Persona)
19) Sam Fuller
(Shock Corridor, The Naked Kiss, Pickup on South Street, Forty Guns)
20) Steven Soderbergh
(Traffic, Out of Sight, Erin Brokovich)
21)Werner Herzog
(Aguirre, The Wrath Of God; Cobra Verde; Fitzcarraldo)
22) Mike Leigh
(Abigail's Party, Secrets & Lies, Another Year)
23) Luis Bunuel
(Viridiana, Belle de Jour, The Exterminating Angel)
24) Gus van Sant
(Drugstore Cowboy, Paranoid Park, Elephant)
25) David Lean
(Laurence of Arabia, Bridge over the River Kwai, Brief Encounter)
26) Michael Mann
(Last of the Mohicans, Manhunter, The Insider)
27) Steven Spielberg
(Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
28) Quentin Tarantino
(Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 2)
29) Roman Polanski
(Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Repulsion)
30) Howard Hawks
(Rio Bravo, His Girl Friday, Only Angels Have Wings)
31) Martin Scorcese
(Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, King of Comedy)
32) Alexander MacKendrick
(Sweet Smell Of Success, The Man in the White Suit, The Ladykillers)
33) John Ford
(The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Quiet Man, The Searchers)
34) John Carpenter
(The Thing, Halloween, Dark Star)
35) PT Anderson
(There Will Be Blood, Punch Drunk Love, Boogie Nights)
36) Wim Wenders
(Paris Texas, Wings of Desire, The American Friend)
37) Jules Dassin
(Brute Force, Night & the City, Rififi)
38) Jack Clayton
(The Innocents, Room At The Top, The Pumpkin Eater)
39) Danny Boyle
(28 Days Later, Sunshine, Slumdog Millionaire)
40) Spike Lee
(25th Hour, Do the Right Thing, She's Gotta Have It)
41) Luchino Visconti
(Rocco & his Brothers, The Leopard, Death In Venice)
42) Alfonso Cuaron
(Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Harry Potter 3)
43) Richard Linklater
(Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, School of Rock)
44) Michael Curtiz
(Captain Blood, Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood)
45) Terence Mallick
(Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line)
46) Orson Welles
(Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil)
47) James Cameron
(The Abyss, The Terminator, Terminator 2)
48) Woody Allen
(Annie Hall, Manhattan, Crimes And Misdemeanors)
49) Agnes Varda
(The Beaches of Agnes, Cleo à 5 de 7, Le Bonheur)
50) Michael Haneke
(Cache, The White Ribbon, Funny Games)
51) George Cukor
(Adam's Rib, Pat and Mike, The Philadelphia Story)
52) Preston Sturges
(The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, Hail the Conquering Hero)
53) Hal Ashby
(The Last Detail, Being There, Harold & Maude)
54) Stephen Frears
(Dirty Pretty Things, The Grifters, High Fidelity)
55) Kathryn Bigelow
(Point Break, Near Dark, The Hurt Locker)
56) Paul Greengrass
(United 93, Bourne2&3)
57) Peter Jackson
(Lord of the Rings Trilogy)
58) Guillermo Del Toro
(The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, Cronos)
59) Atom Egoyan
(The Sweet Hereafter, Ararat, Felicia's Journey)
60) Rob Reiner
(This is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, A Few Good Men)
61) George Romero
(Night, Dawn and Day of the Dead)
62) Jacques Becker
(Casque d'or, Le trou, Tocuhez pas au grisbi)
63) Carol Reed
(The Third Man, Night Train To Munich, Our Man In Havana)
64) Sam Raimi
(Spiderman 2, Evil Dead 2, Drag Me To Hell)
65) Robert Altman
(Gosford Park, The Player, Nashville)
66) Alan Parker
(Midnight Express, Angel Heart, The Commitments)
67) Peter Weir
(The Year of Living Dangerously, Master and Commander, Dead Poets Society)
68) Jim Sheridan
(My Left Foot, In The Name of the Father, In America)
69) Christopher Nolan
(Insomnia, Memento, The Dark Knight)
70) David Cronenberg
(The Fly, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises)
71) Phillip Kaufman
(Invasion of the Body Snatchers{1978}, The Right Stuff, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being)
72) Spike Jonze
(Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Where The Wild Things Are, The Beastie Boys Videos)
73) Wes Craven
(Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, Red Eye)
74) Milos Foreman
(One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The People vs Larry Flynt)
75) Luc Besson
(The Fifth Element, Nikita, Leon)
76) Terry Jones
(Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, The Meaning of Life)
77) Vincente Minnelli
(The Bad and the Beautiful, Meet Me In St. Louis, An American In Paris)
78) Michael Winterbottom
(24 Hour Party People, A Cock & Bull Story, Welcome to Sarajevo)
79) Jason Reitman
(Thank You For Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air)
80) Cameron Crowe
(Say Anything, Singles, Jerry MacGuire)
81) Fred Zinnemann
(From Here to Eternity, High Noon, Day of the Jackal)
82) Stanley Donen
(Singin In The Rain, On The Town, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)
83) Ang Lee
(Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Ride with the Devil; Lust/ Caution)
84) Oliver Stone
(JFK, Platoon, Wall Street)
85) Tim Burton
(Beetle Juice, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks)
86) Clint Eastwood
(The Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven, Gran Torino)
87) Barry Levinson
(Diner, Tin Men, Bandits)
88) John Landis
(An American Werewolf In London, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places)
89) Johnathon Demme
(Something Wild, Silence of the Lambs, Rachel Getting Married)
90) Kevin Smith
(Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma)
91) Walter Hill
(48 Hours, Southern Comfort, Brewster's Millions)
92) Don Siegel
(Dirty Harry, Invasion of the Body Snatchers {1956}, Escape from Alcatraz)
93) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(All About Eve, Guys and Dolls, Cleopatra)
94) Bryan Singer
(The Usual Suspects, X-Men 2, Valkyrie)
95) Ron Shelton
(Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump, Tin Cup)
96) Jim Jarmusch
(Ghost Dog, Broken Flowers, Night on Earth)
97) Mike Figgis
(Stormy Monday, Internal Affairs, Leaving Las Vegas)
98) John Hughes
(Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes, Trains & Automobiles)
99) Mike Hodges
(Get Carter, Flash Gordon, Croupier)
100) John Sturges
(Bad Day at Black Rock, The Great Escape, The Eagle has Landed)