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Top 100 Directors of 21st Century (TSPDT)

Listed below are, according to TSPDT, the 100 most critically acclaimed filmmakers of the 21st Century (to date). To qualify for this top 100, each director (or directing team) needs to have a minimum of two films (from 2000 onwards) cited in ballots/lists that TSPDT has collated
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Wong Kar-Wai
Wong Kar-Wai
1
David Lynch
David Lynch
2
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
3
Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
4
Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke
5
Lucrecia Martel
Lucrecia Martel
6
Bong Joon-Ho
Bong Joon-Ho
7
Lars Von Trier
Lars Von Trier
8
Céline Sciamma
Céline Sciamma
9
Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki
10
Terrence Malick
Terrence Malick
11
Tsai Ming-Liang
Tsai Ming-Liang
12
Claire Denis
Claire Denis
13
Bela Tarr
Bela Tarr
14
Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater
15
Jia Zhangke
Jia Zhangke
16
Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron
17
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda
18
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan
19
Pedro Costa
Pedro Costa
20
Barry Jenkins
Barry Jenkins
21
Joel & Ethan Coen
Joel & Ethan Coen
22
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
23
Kelly Reichardt
Kelly Reichardt
24
Ang Lee
Ang Lee
25
Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar
26
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
27
Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson
28
Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry
29
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
30
David Fincher
David Fincher
31
Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen
32
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
33
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson
34
Jordan Peele
Jordan Peele
35
Hong Sang-Soo
Hong Sang-Soo
36
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
37
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola
38
Asghar Farhadi
Asghar Farhadi
39
Wang Bing
Wang Bing
40
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