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M's Top 100 Directors (2021 Update)

These are the 100 director's I've seen the most movies of, in order. Spielberg is at top with a whopping 28 movies while Blake Edwards ranks at number 100 with 6. Have you seen any movies from these directors? Who is your most watched director?
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Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
1
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
2
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
3
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
4
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin
5
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder
6
Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks
7
Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott
8
Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman
9
Tim Burton
Tim Burton
10
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
11
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
12
The Coen Brothers
The Coen Brothers
13
Ron Howard
Ron Howard
14
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa
15
Robert Zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis
16
John Huston
John Huston
17
David Fincher
David Fincher
18
Eric Rohmer
Eric Rohmer
19
Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki
20
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick
21
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson
22
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
23
John Carpenter
John Carpenter
24
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan
25
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh
26
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski
27
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel
28
David Cronenberg
David Cronenberg
29
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
30
Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater
31
Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch
32
Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson
33
Lars Von Trier
Lars Von Trier
34
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders
35
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
36
Frank Capra
Frank Capra
37
Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch
38
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
39
Zhang Yimou
Zhang Yimou
40
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