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The Greatest Film Directors of All Time

This is a list of the best film directors of all-time.
The list is formed with the directors whose films are awarded in the important international festivals or movie awards or who were picked by the cinema critics.
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Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
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Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
2
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
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Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky
4
Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman
5
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
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Carl Theodor Dreyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
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Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick
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Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa
10
Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson
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Orson Welles
Orson Welles
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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Yasujirō Ozu
Yasujirō Ozu
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Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir
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Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
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Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica
18
David Lynch
David Lynch
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Jean Vigo
Jean Vigo
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Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
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François Truffaut
François Truffaut
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David Lean
David Lean
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John Ford
John Ford
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Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang
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Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov
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Kenji Mizoguchi
Kenji Mizoguchi
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Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel
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Gillo Pontecorvo
Gillo Pontecorvo
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Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami
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Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati
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Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone
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Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray
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Claude Lanzmann
Claude Lanzmann
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Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
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Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen
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Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton
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Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Roberto Rosselini
Roberto Rosselini
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