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. 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.
3. Mel Gibson

4. Akira Kurosawa

5. Charlie Chaplin

6. Clint Eastwood

7. Martin Scorsese

8. Bong Joon-ho

9. Ridley Scott

10. Wong Kar-wai

11. Anurag Kashyap

12. 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.
13. 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.
15. Ram Gopal Varma

16. Yasujirō Ozu

17. Ashok Mehta

18. 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.
19. Zhang Yimou

20. Ahmed Rashwan

21. 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".
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. Chen Kaige

25. 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."
26. Damien Dematra

27. David Yates

28. Johnnie To

29. Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen

30. 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.
31. Mani Ratnam

32. Riri Riza

33. Robert Zemeckis

34. Rohit Shetty

35. S.Shankar

36. Sanjay Leela Bhansali

37. Stephanie Okereke Linus

38. Tigmanshu Dhulia

39. Yousry Nasrallah

40. Youssef Chahine

41. Zoya Akhtar

42. A J Mintu

43. A.J. Kardar

44. A.R. Murugadoss

45. A.T.M. Shamsuzzaman

46. AN Alcaff

47. Aamir Khan

48. Abbas–Mustan

49. Abdolhossein Sepanta

50. Abdolreza Kahani

51. Abdul Jabbar Khan

52. Abdullah Oğuz

53. Abhinay Deo

54. Abolfazl Jalili

55. Abu Sayeed

56. Abu Shahed Emon

57. Adeyemi Afolayan

58. Adim Williams

59. Aditya Chopra

60. Adoor Gopalakrishnan

61. Adrian Lyne

62. Afia Nathaniel

63. Ahmad Abdalla

64. Ahmed Maher

65. Ahmed Nader Galal

66. Ai Weiwei

67. Aida El-Kashef

68. Ajab Gul

69. Akhtaruzzaman

70. Akihiko Shiota

71. Akin Omotoso

72. Akio Jissoji

73. Alamgir Kabir

74. Alan Bridges

75. Alan Mak

76. Alan Parker

77. Albert Finney

78. Alex Chandon

79. Alex Cox

80. Alex Proyas

81. Alexander Korda

82. Alexander Mackendrick

83. Alexis Kouros

84. Alfred Cheung

85. Ali Hatami

86. Ali Mosaffa

87. Ali Özgentürk

88. Alizeh Imtiaz

89. Alki David

90. Allen Fong

91. Alok Nembang

92. Aly Badrakhan

93. Amaka Igwe

94. Amal Ramsis

95. Ami Priyono

96. Amir Naderi

97. Amir Shahab Razavian

98. Amr Salama

99. Ananta Jalil

100. Andjar Asmara

101. Andrew Dosunmu

102. Andrew Lau

103. Andy Amadi Okoroafor

104. Andy Lau

105. Anees Bazmee

106. Ang Lee

107. Angga Dwimas Sasongko

108. Anil Budha Magar

109. Animesh Aich

110. Ann Hui

111. Anthony Onah

112. Anup Baral

113. Anurag Basu

114. Anwar Kemal Pasha

115. Anwar Wagdi

116. Aparna Sen

117. Arifin C. Noer

118. Arizal

119. Arpan Thapa

120. Arthur Penn

121. Aryo Danusiri

122. Ashiqur Rahman

123. Ashir Azeem

124. Ashutosh Gowarikar

125. Ashutosh Gowariker

126. Asim Raza

127. Asrul Sani

128. Atef El-Tayeb

129. Atıf Yılmaz

130. Ayo Makun

131. Ayten Amin

132. Azizur Rahman

133. Babak Payami

134. Baby Islam

135. Badal Rahman

136. Badar Munir

137. Bahman Farmanara

138. Bahman Ghobadi

139. Bahman Kiarostami

140. Bahram Beyzai

141. Bakhtiar Effendi

142. Bala

143. Bang Eun-jin

144. Barbet Schroeder

145. Basu Chatterjee

146. Behrouz Gharibpour

147. Benny Chan

148. Bharathan

149. Bhusan Dahal

150. Bikash Raj Acharya

151. Bill Douglas

152. Bill Forsyth

153. Billy Wilder

154. Bimal Roy

155. Binod Pradhan

156. Biyi Bandele

157. Branwen Okpako

158. Brian De Palma

159. Bruce Lee

160. Bu Wancang

161. Buddhadeb Dasgupta

162. Buster Keaton

163. Byun Young-joo

164. Bülent Oran

165. Cai Chusheng

166. Cai Shangjun

167. Carol Reed

168. Cecil B. DeMille

169. Cem Yılmaz

170. Charles Novia

171. Chashi Nazrul Islam

172. Cheng Bugao

173. Chetan Anand

174. Chico Ejiro

175. Chidananda Dasgupta

176. Chineze Anyaene

177. Ching Siu-tung

178. Choi Dong-hoon

179. Choo Chang-min

180. Christopher Doyle

181. Christopher Guinness

182. Clarence Fok

183. Corey Yuen

184. Cüneyt Arkın

185. D. Djajakusuma

186. D.W. Griffith

187. Dadasaheb Phalke

188. Daisuke Itō

189. Daniel Wu

190. Danny Boyle

191. Dante Lam

192. Daoud Abdel Sayed

193. Dariush Mehrjui

194. David Dhawan

195. David Fincher

196. David Lean

197. David Lynch

198. Dayahang Rai

199. Deddy Mizwar

200. Deepa Mehta

201. Deepa Shree Niraula

202. Deepak Raj Giri

203. Deepak Rauniyar

204. Deepak Rayamajhi

205. Dennis Law

206. Derek Jarman

207. Derek Yee

208. Derviş Zaim

209. Desmond Elliot

210. Dev Anand

211. Dickson Iroegbu

212. Dilip Rayamajhi

213. Dinesh D.C.

214. Dinesh Raut

215. Dinesh Sharma

216. Dipendra K. Khanal

217. Djamaluddin Malik

218. Donnie Yen

219. Duygu Sağıroğlu

220. Ebrahim Golestan

221. Ebrahim Hatamikia

222. Edward Yang

223. Ehtesham

224. Elia Kazan

225. Emem Isong

226. Emeric Pressburger

227. Emin Alper

228. Enamul Karim Nirjhar

229. Eric Tsang

230. Ernst Lubitsch

231. Eros Djarot

232. Ertem Eğilmez

233. Ezzel Dine Zulficar

234. Fahad Mustafa

235. Farid Shawqi

236. Farjad Nabi

237. Fatih Akin

238. Fatima Rushdi

239. Fatin Abdel Wahab

240. Fei Mu

241. Felix Chong

242. Femi Odugbemi

243. Feng Xiaogang

244. Ferzan Özpetek

245. Forough Farrokhzad

246. Frances-Anne Solomon

247. Francis Ford Coppola

248. Frank Capra

249. Frank Rajah Arase

250. Fritz Lang

251. Fruit Chan

252. Fuat Uzkınay

253. Funke Akindele

254. G. Aravindan

255. Garin Nugroho

256. Gauri Shinde

257. Gazi Rakayet

258. Genevieve Nnaji

259. George Cukor

260. George Lucas

261. Giasuddin Selim

262. Goldie Behl

263. Gordon Chan

264. Goutam Ghose

265. Govind Nihalani

266. Gu Changwei

267. Guru Dutt

268. H. Tjut Djalil

269. Haissam Hussain

270. Hala Khalil

271. Halit Refiğ

272. Hanny Saputra

273. Hanung Bramantyo

274. Happy Salma

275. Hari Bansha Acharya

276. Haseeb Hassan

277. Hassan Al Imam

278. Hassan Rana

279. Hassan Tariq

280. Hayao Miyazaki

281. He Jianjun

282. He Ping

283. Heinosuke Gosho

284. Hem Raj BC

285. Henry Barakat

286. Herwin Novianto

287. Hideo Gosha

288. Hideo Nakata

289. Hira Singh Khatri

290. Hirokazu Kore-eda

291. Hiroshi Inagaki

292. Hiroshi Shimizu

293. Hiroshi Teshigahara

294. Hong Sangsoo

295. Howard Hawks

296. Hu Mei

297. Huang Jianxin

298. Hugh Hudson

299. Humayun Saeed

300. Hur Jin-ho
