Martin Scorsese is one of the great directors along with Ford, Ozu, Kurosawa, Renoir, Hitchcock, Fellini, Bergman, Herzog, Murnau, Kubrick, Dreyer, and Malick. He can direct not only a mafia masterpiece like Goodfellas, but a great period film about deep romantic pain like The Age of Innocence or a genius comedy like After Hours. These are the movies he called the greatest for the 2012 Sight and Sound poll.