Entertainment Weekly makes a list of 25 Greatest Working Directors, and we add 35 more.
(Thanks to Marshall for the find and the collating)
- David Fincher
- Christopher Nolan
- Steven Spielberg
- Martin Scorsese
- Darren Aronofsky
- Joel and Ethan Coen
- Quentin Tarantino
- Terrence Malick
- Clint Eastwood
- Pedro Almodovar
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Guillermo Del Toro
- Roman Polanski
- Danny Boyle
- Kathryn Bigelow
- David O. Russell
- David Lynch
- James Cameron
- Peter Jackson
- Edgar Wright
- Spike Lee
- J.J. Abrams
- Brad Bird
- Mike Leigh
- Wes Anderson
And 50 amazing names they neglected:
- Woody Allen
- Olivier Assayas
- Jacques Audiard
- Tim Burton
- Jane Campion
- Park Chan-wook
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Sofia Coppola
- David Cronenberg
- Cameron Crowe
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Stephen Daldry
- Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Brian De Palma
- Claire Denis
- Andrew Dominik
- Charles Ferguson
- Terry Gilliam
- Jean-Luc Godard
- David Gordon Green
- Paul Greengrass
- Michael Haneke
- Todd Haynes
- Werner Herzog
- Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Jim Jarmusch
- Spike Jonze
- Bong Joon-Ho
- Wong Kar-Wai
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Ang Lee
- Richard Linklater
- Michael Mann
- Sam Mendes
- Fernando Meirelles
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Errol Morris
- Gaspar Noe
- Alexander Payne
- Alain Resnais
- John Sayles
- Ridley Scott
- Steven Soderbergh
- Todd Solondz
- Andrew Stanton
- Agnès Varda
- Gus Van Sant
- Paul Verhoeven
- Oliver Stone
- Bela Tarr
- Lars von Trier
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Peter Weir
- Wim Wenders
- Joe Wright
- Zhang Yimou