Entertainment Weekly's 50 Greatest Directors of All Time [1996]

Entertainment: Movies Accolades

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23

1

Alfred Hitchcock

Filmmaker

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

18

2

Orson Welles

Actor

32.31% (21 of 65 votes)

16

3

John Ford

Filmmaker

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

41

4

Howard Hawks

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

14

5

Martin Scorsese

Filmmaker

37.50% (3 of 8 votes)

25

6

Akira Kurosawa

Filmmaker

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

26

7

Buster Keaton

Actor

5.56% (1 of 18 votes)

44

8

Ingmar Bergman

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

12

9

Frank Capra

Filmmaker

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

3

10

Federico Fellini

Filmmaker

100% (1 of 1 votes)

13

11

Steven Spielberg

Filmmaker

45.83% (44 of 96 votes)

31

12

Jean Renoir

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

19

13

John Huston

Filmmaker

32.00% (32 of 100 votes)

2

14

Luis Bunuel

Filmmaker

100% (1 of 1 votes)

6

15

D.W. Griffith

Filmmaker

88.89% (8 of 9 votes)

1

16

Ernst Lubitsch

Filmmaker

100% (1 of 1 votes)

4

17

Robert Altman

Filmmaker

100% (2 of 2 votes)

37

18

George Cukor

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

21

19

Woody Allen

Comedian

28.35% (74 of 261 votes)

36

20

Vincente Minnelli

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

10

22

Michael Powell (Director)

Filmmaker

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

11

23

Stanley Kubrick

Filmmaker

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

35

24

Billy Wilder

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 2 votes)

30

25

Satyajit Ray

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

15

26

Roman Polanski

Filmmaker

33.58% (45 of 134 votes)

7

27

Francois Truffaut

Filmmaker

83.33% (5 of 6 votes)

34

28

Preston Sturges

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

49

29

Sergei Eisenstein

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

17

30

Fritz Lang

Filmmaker

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

40

31

Jean-Luc Godard

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

38

32

Sam Peckinpah

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 2 votes)

48

33

F.W. Murnau

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

39

34

David Lean

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

32

35

Werner Herzog

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

28

36

Nicholas Ray

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

9

37

Josef Von Sternberg

Filmmaker

66.67% (4 of 6 votes)

46

38

Douglas Sirk

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

29

39

Max Ophuls

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

27

40

Louis Malle

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

42

41

Sergio Leone

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 5 votes)

43

42

Sidney Lumet

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

24

43

Oliver Stone

Filmmaker

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

47

44

Bernardo Bertolucci

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

45

45

Jonathan Demme

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

33

46

Jacques Tati

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 2 votes)

8

47

Otto Preminger

Filmmaker

75.00% (3 of 4 votes)

20

48

Spike Lee

Filmmaker

31.70% (71 of 224 votes)

5

49

Tim Burton

Filmmaker

100% (1 of 1 votes)

22

50

Jerry Lewis

Comedian

26.32% (10 of 38 votes)