The directors most picked by critics
The 173 directors with 3 or more movies picked by the 15 critics' lists, starting with those who have the most.
- Steven Spielberg13 movies
- Alfred Hitchcock11 movies
- Ingmar Bergman10 movies
- Martin Scorsese10 movies
- Stanley Kubrick10 movies
- David Cronenberg9 movies
- Billy Wilder8 movies
- George Cukor8 movies
- Howard Hawks8 movies
- Joel Coen8 movies
- John Carpenter8 movies
- Michael Powell8 movies
- Werner Herzog8 movies
- Christopher Nolan7 movies
- Jean-Luc Godard7 movies
- John Ford7 movies
- Richard Linklater7 movies
- William Wyler7 movies
- Akira Kurosawa6 movies
- David Lynch6 movies
- Denis Villeneuve6 movies
- Emeric Pressburger6 movies
- Federico Fellini6 movies
- Frank Capra6 movies
- Hayao Miyazaki6 movies
- Luis Buñuel6 movies
- Paul Thomas Anderson6 movies
- Quentin Tarantino6 movies
- Ridley Scott6 movies
- Rob Reiner6 movies
- Robert Altman6 movies
- Robert Bresson6 movies
- Roman Polanski6 movies
- Sam Raimi6 movies
- Tim Burton6 movies
- Wes Anderson6 movies
- Wes Craven6 movies
- Woody Allen6 movies
- Abel Ferrara5 movies
- Alfonso Cuarón5 movies
- Buster Keaton5 movies
- Charlie Chaplin5 movies
- Dario Argento5 movies
- David Fincher5 movies
- David Lean5 movies
- Guillermo del Toro5 movies
- James Cameron5 movies
- Jean Renoir5 movies
- John Huston5 movies
- Kathryn Bigelow5 movies
- Leo McCarey5 movies
- Michael Apted5 movies
- Paul Verhoeven5 movies
- Peter Jackson5 movies
- Satyajit Ray5 movies
- Wong Kar-Wai5 movies
- Yasujirō Ozu5 movies
- Abbas Kiarostami4 movies
- Agnès Varda4 movies
- Andrei Tarkovsky4 movies
- Ang Lee4 movies
- Barry Levinson4 movies
- Blake Edwards4 movies
- Bong Joon-ho4 movies
- Brian De Palma4 movies
- Carl Theodor Dreyer4 movies
- D.W. Griffith4 movies
- Danny Boyle4 movies
- Edgar Wright4 movies
- Elia Kazan4 movies
- Ernst Lubitsch4 movies
- Ethan Coen4 movies
- F. W. Murnau4 movies
- Francis Ford Coppola4 movies
- François Truffaut4 movies
- George A. Romero4 movies
- George Lucas4 movies
- George Miller4 movies
- George Stevens4 movies
- Hal Ashby4 movies
- Jean-Pierre Melville4 movies
- Kenji Mizoguchi4 movies
- Krzysztof Kieślowski4 movies
- Mel Brooks4 movies
- Michelangelo Antonioni4 movies
- Mike Flanagan4 movies
- Miloš Forman4 movies
- Nicolas Winding Refn4 movies
- Norman Z. McLeod4 movies
- Orson Welles4 movies
- Pedro Almodóvar4 movies
- Peter Weir4 movies
- Philip Kaufman4 movies
- Preston Sturges4 movies
- Rian Johnson4 movies
- Robert Wise4 movies
- Robert Zemeckis4 movies
- Roberto Rossellini4 movies
- Sidney Lumet4 movies
- Terrence Malick4 movies
- Terry Gilliam4 movies
- Todd Haynes4 movies
- Vincente Minnelli4 movies
- Adrian Lyne3 movies
- Alain Resnais3 movies
- Alejandro Jodorowsky3 movies
- Alex Garland3 movies
- Anthony Russo3 movies
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul3 movies
- Ari Aster3 movies
- Bernardo Bertolucci3 movies
- Bob Clark3 movies
- Cameron Crowe3 movies
- Céline Sciamma3 movies
- Chantal Akerman3 movies
- Chuck Jones3 movies
- Claire Denis3 movies
- Clint Eastwood3 movies
- Damien Chazelle3 movies
- Darren Aronofsky3 movies
- Don Coscarelli3 movies
- Douglas Sirk3 movies
- Éric Rohmer3 movies
- Frank Darabont3 movies
- Fred Zinnemann3 movies
- Fritz Lang3 movies
- George Roy Hill3 movies
- Greta Gerwig3 movies
- Jacques Tati3 movies
- Jacques Tourneur3 movies
- James Gunn3 movies
- James Whale3 movies
- Jim Jarmusch3 movies
- Joe Dante3 movies
- Joe Russo3 movies
- John Hughes3 movies
- John Waters3 movies
- Jonathan Glazer3 movies
- Jordan Peele3 movies
- Julia Ducournau3 movies
- Kevin Smith3 movies
- Larry Cohen3 movies
- Louis Malle3 movies
- Luca Guadagnino3 movies
- Luchino Visconti3 movies
- Lucrecia Martel3 movies
- Lynne Ramsay3 movies
- Matt Reeves3 movies
- Michael Anderson3 movies
- Michael Curtiz3 movies
- Michael Haneke3 movies
- Mike Leigh3 movies
- Mike Nichols3 movies
- Nicholas Ray3 movies
- Nicolas Roeg3 movies
- Norman Jewison3 movies
- Ousmane Sembène3 movies
- Park Chan-wook3 movies
- Pete Docter3 movies
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder3 movies
- Ralph Bakshi3 movies
- Richard Donner3 movies
- Roland Emmerich3 movies
- Satoshi Kon3 movies
- Sergei Eisenstein3 movies
- Sergio Leone3 movies
- Spike Lee3 movies
- Stanley Kramer3 movies
- Sydney Pollack3 movies
- Terry Zwigoff3 movies
- Tobe Hooper3 movies
- Wim Wenders3 movies
- Zhang Yimou3 movies