1 - 91 of 91 famous, important and notable directors ranked by their popularity on On This Day.
1. Clint Eastwood
2. Sidney Poitier
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Alfred Hitchcock
5. Federico Fellini
6. Alan Alda
7. John Ford
8. Noël Coward
9. Sylvester Stallone
10. Steven Spielberg
11. Akira Kurosawa
12. Christopher Nolan
13. Paul Gross
14. Mel Brooks
15. Penny Marshall
16. Mel Gibson
17. George Lucas
18. Martin Scorsese
19. Peter Jackson
20. Elizabeth Banks
21. James Cameron
22. Frank Capra
23. Stanley Tucci
24. Carl Reiner
25. J. J. Abrams
26. Cecil B. DeMille
27. Leni Riefenstahl
28. Victor Fleming
29. David Lean
30. Jerome Robbins
31. Orson Welles
32. Vinnette Carroll
33. Roman Polanski
34. Quentin Tarantino
35. Steven Soderbergh
36. Woody Allen
37. Frank Lloyd
38. Tim Burton
39. George Cukor
40. Andrei Tarkovsky
41. Bob Fosse
42. Richard Attenborough
43. Buster Keaton
44. Ingmar Bergman
45. D. W. Griffith
46. Bernardo Bertolucci
47. Dennis Hopper
48. Phoebe Waller-Bridge
49. Aamir Khan
50. Spike Lee
51. Greta Gerwig
52. Nora Ephron
53. Ivan Reitman
54. Robert Altman
55. William Wyler
56. Kenneth Branagh
57. Roberto Rossellini
58. Ridley Scott
59. John Carpenter
60. Sydney Pollack
61. Robert Rodriguez
62. Kathryn Bigelow
63. Peter Bogdanovich
64. Elia Kazan
65. Billy Bob Thornton
66. Oliver Stone
67. Chloé Zhao
68. Sam Mendes
69. Blake Edwards
70. Jean-Luc Godard
71. George A. Romero
72. Mike Nichols
73. Alfonso Cuarón
74. Philippe de Broca
75. Barry Levinson
76. Alan Ayckbourn
77. Jane Campion
78. Danny Boyle
79. Mack Sennett
80. Jill Soloway
81. David Fincher
82. Guillermo del Toro
83. Merian C. Cooper
84. Marc Webb
85. Wes Craven
86. Lee Daniels
87. Garry Marshall
88. Richard Linklater
89. Michael Bay
90. Joss Whedon
91. Sidney Lumet