The List (Last Year's ranking in brackets. N/E = New Entry)
100. Jia Zhang Ke (N/E)
99. Satoshi Kon (58)
98. Michael Curtiz (N/E)
97. Peter Weir (70)
96. Edward Yang (57)
95. Lynne Ramsay (N/E)
94. Preston Sturges (72)
93. John Carpenter (91)
92. Kevin Smith (N/E)
91. Agnès Varda (71)
90. Rob Reiner (N/E)
89. Spike Lee (68)
88. The Maysles Brothers (N/E)
87. Kenji Mizoguchi (64)
86. Brad Bird (22)
85. Peter Greenaway (N/E)
84. Kathryn Bigelow (N/E)
83. Zhang Yimou (N/E)
82. Satyajit Ray (86)
81. Jane Campion (N/E)
80. Rian Johnson (N/E)
79. John Hughes (N/E)
78. Jim Jarmusch (80)
77. Wim Wenders (90)
76. Robert Bresson (42)
75. Luis Buñuel (N/E)
74. Andrew Stanton (60)
73. Peter Jackson (N/E)
72. Spike Jonze (84)
71. Edgar Wright (78)
70. Richard Linklater (93)
69. Ang Lee (100)
68. The Dardennes (64)
67. John Huston (N/E)
66. Jean-Pierre Jeunet (N/E)
65. Bong Joon-ho (N/E)
64. Alfonso Cuaron (50)
63. Milos Forman (53)
62. Mike Leigh (89)
61. Darren Aronofsky (46)
60. Guillermo del Toro (39)
59. Douglas Sirk (N/E)
58. Yasujiro Ozu (55)
57. Ridley Scott (29)
56. David Cronenberg (31)
55. Fritz Lang (N/E)
54. Buster Keaton (52)
53. Clint Eastwood (32)
52. Robert Altman (23)
51. Jean-Pierre Melville (48)
50. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (N/E)
49. Terry Gilliam (93)
48. Nicholas Ray (97)
47. Jean Renoir (41)
46. Roman Polanski (86)
45. Frederick Wiseman (40)
44. James Cameron (53)
43. F.W. Murnau (72)
42. Michel Gondry (20)
41. Michael Mann (91)
40. Park Chan-Wook (80)
39. Frank Capra (59)
38. Federico Fellini (44)
37. Claire Denis (62)
36. Jean-Luc Godard (35)
35. Francois Truffaut (36)
34. Hou Hsiao-Hsien (37)
33. David Lean (44)
32. Steven Soderbergh (34)
31. Gus van Sant (38)
30. John Ford (18)
29. Howard Hawks (19)
28. Sidney Lumet (60)
27. David Fincher (8)
26. Danny Boyle (46)
25. Charles Chaplin (27)
24. Powell & Pressburger (49)
23. Woody Allen (9)
22. Wes Anderson (30)
21. Pedro Almodovar (25)
20. Terence Malick (17)
19. David Lynch (28)
18. Krzysztof Kieslowski (14)
17. Paul Thomas Anderson (5)
16. Orson Welles (12)
15. Ingmar Bergman (21)
14. Steven Spielberg (7)
13. Christopher Nolan (33)
12. Francis Ford Coppola (15)
11. Wong Kar-Wai (10)
10. Martin Scorsese (6)
9. Werner Herzog (25)
8. Quentin Tarantino (24)
7. Hayao Miyazaki (13)
6. Billy Wilder (11)
5. Sergio Leone (16)
4. Stanley Kubrick (1)
3. The Coen Brothers (3)
2. Akira Kurosawa (4)
1. Alfred Hitchcock (2)
The entire spreadsheet can be found
here.
The scoring system was as follows:
Rank # 1 : 10 points
Ranks 2-10 : 9 points
Ranks 11-20: 7 points
Ranks 21-30: 6 points
Ranks 31-40: 4 points
Ranks 41-50: 2 points.
In case of a tie, the film with more number of votes wins. In cases where films have equal points and equal number of votes, the film with the lower average rank across ballots beats the other film.
Click on the director's picture for IMDB Links. Clicking on the name leads you to a Youtube link featuring a clip from one of the director's films.