The Greatest Filmmakers of All Time

Based on the ranking of the greatest films of all time in this site, the following list of the greatest filmmakers of all time has been made. The points have been counted from the greatest films (in red color) and the higher the film, the more points given, but the greater films (in green) and the great films (in blue) have been counted as well, to differentiate among the filmmakers whose career has been prolific and the directors who have made only one greatest film.

*Ranking*	*Points*	*Filmmaker*	*For the Films*
1	*315 + 2G*	*Charles Chaplin*	*The Kid/The Gold Rush /* *The Circus/ City lights/Modern Times/The Great Dictator***
2	*188 + 2G +5 B*	*Ingmar Bergman*	*Persona/The Seventh Seal/ Wild Strawberries/* *The Virgin Spring/ Through a Glass Darkly/ Winter Light/* *Shame/* *The Passion of Anna/* *Cries and Whispers/* *Fanny and Alexander/ Saraband*
3	*177 + 1 B*	*D.W.Griffith*	*The Birth of a Nation/ Intolerance/* *America*
4	*141*	*Victor Fleming*	*The wizard of Oz/Gone with the Wind***
5	*134 + 2G*	*John Ford*	*The informer/ Stagecoach/The Grapes of Wrath/ How* Green was my Valley**
6	*117 + 1B*	*Michel Powell*	*The life and Death of Colonel* *Blimp* *The Red Shoes* *Peeping Tom*
7	*114 + 1G + 1B*	*John Huston*	*The Treasure of Sierra Madre The African Queen* *The man who would be King* *Moby Dick*
8	*114 + 1G*	*William Wyler*	*The Best Years of Our Lives* *Roman Holiday* *Wuthering* *Heights*
9	*112 + 4B*	*Sydney Lumet*	*12 Angry Men* *Serpico* *Dog* *Day Afternoon Network* *The* *Verdict A Stranger* *Among Us Night falls on* *Manhattan*
10	*108 + 1G*	*Billy Wilder*	*Double Indemnity Some Like* *It Hot* *The Apartment*
11	*107 + 1G + 3B*	*Elia Kazan*	*Gentleman’s agreement* *A Streetcar Named Desire* *On the waterfront* *Rebel Without a Cause* *Splendor in the grass America America*
12	*100 + 1 G + 1 B*	*Sergei Eisenstein*	*Battleship Potemkin* *Strike* *Alexander Nevsky*
13	*99 + 1G*	*Dziga Vertov*	*Man with a movie camera* *Three songs about Lenin*
14	*98 + 1G + 1B*	*Fritz Lang*	*Harariki* *Metropolis* M
15	*97 +3G + 1B*	*Vittorio De Sica*	*Bicycle Thieves* *Umberto D. Two Women* *Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow* *The Garden of the Finzi-Continis*
16	*96 + 4 G + 1B*	*Akira Kurosawa*	*Rashomon* *Ikiru* *Seven Samurai Yojimbo Dersu Uzala* Dreams**
17	*97 + 1G + 3B*	*Francis Ford Coppola*	*Godfather Part II/I Apocalypse Now* *The Cotton Club* *The Godfather Part III* *Jack The Rainmaker*
18	*94 + 2G*	*Mikhail Kalatozov*	*The Cranes are flying* *The Unsent Letter* *I am Cuba*
19	*93 + 3G*	*Andrei Tarkovsky*	*Ivan’s Childhood* *Andrei Rublev Mirror Nostalghia*
20	*92 + 4 G +3B*	*Federico Fellini*	*The White Sheik* *La Strada* *Nights of Cabiria* *La Dolce Vita* *8 1/2* *Fellini’s Satyricon Roma Amarcord*
21	*90 + 1 G + 2B*	*Sergio Leone*	*For a Fistful of Dollars The Good,The Bad and The Ugly* *Once Upon a Time in The West* *Once Upon a Time in America*
22	*79 + 7 G + 2B*	*Luis Bunuel*	*Un Chien Andalou* *(Andalusian Dog)* *L’Age* *d’Or Land without bread* *Los Olvidados* *Viridiana* *Belle de Jour* *Tristana* *The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie The Phantom of Liberty The Obscure Object of Desire*
23	*78 + 9B*	*Steven Spielberg*	*Jaws* *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* *Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark* *E.T.* *Empire of the Sun* *Schindler’s List* Jurassic Park Amistad Saving private Ryan A.I. (Artificial Intelligence War Horse Lincoln
24	*75 + 1G + 1B*	*Jean Renoir*	*Nana* *La Grand Illusion* *The Rules of the Game*
25	*72 + 1G*	*Marcel Carne*	*Le Jour se leve* *Children of Paradise*
26	*65 + 2B*	*Orson Welles*	*Citizen Kane* *Macbeth Othello*
27	*61 + 2G*	*Roberto Rossellini*	*Rome, Open City* *Germany Year Zero Il generale Della Rovere*
28	*45 +1 G+ 4B*	*Michelangelo Antonioni*	*L’Avventura* *La Notte L’Eclisse* *Red Desert* *Blow-up The Passenger*
29	*43 + 1G+ 2B*	*Robert Wise*	*The Day the Earth Stood Still* *West Side Story* *The Sound of Music*
30	*40 + 6 G + 9B*	*Martin Scorsese*	*Mean Streets* *Alice doesn’t live here anymore* *Taxi Driver* *New York, New York* *Raging Bull* *The King of Comedy* *After Hours The Last Temptation of Christ Goodfellas* *Cape Fear The Age of Innocence* *Gangs of New York* *The Aviator* The Departed Shutter Island Hugo The Wolf of Wall Street
31	*36 + 2G*	*Costa-Gavras*	Z *State of Siege* *Missing*
32	*37 + 1B*	*Sam Peckinpah*	*Straw dogs* *Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia*

33	*25 + 4G + 3B*	*Stanley Kubrick*	*Paths of Glory* *Spartacus* *Lolita Dr.Strangelove* *2001: A Space Odyssey The Shinning* *Full Metal Jacket* *Eyes Wide Shut*
34	*27+ 2B*	*Alan J. Pakula*	*All the President’s Men* *Sophie’s Choice* *Klute*
35	*24 + 1G + 1B*	*Giuseppe Tornatore*	*Cinema Paradiso* *The Legend of 1900* *Malena*
36	*23 + 4B*	*Pedro Almodovar*	*Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown* *All About My Mother Volver* *Broken Embraces Julieta*
37	*21+ 1G + 2B*	*Robert Zemeckis*	*Back to the Future* *Forest Gump* *Contact* *Cast Away*
38	*19 + 1B*	*Roberto Benigni*	*Life is Beautiful* *Pinocchio*
39	*18 + 1G + 1B*	*Majid Majidi*	*Children of Heaven* *Baran* *Muhammad: The Messenger of God*
40	*17 + 1G + 1B*	*Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu*	*Amores perros (1/3)/ 21 Grams (1/3)/Babel(1/3)* *Birdman* *The Revenant*
41	*15 + 4 G + 6B*	*Mohsen Makhmalbaf*	*Boycott The Peddler The Cyclist* *Marriage of the Blessed Once Upon a Time, Cinema Hello Cinema* *Gabbeh* *Kandahar* *Sex & Philosophy The Gardner The President*
42	*12 + 1 G + 2B*	*Samira Makhmalbaf*	*The Apple* *Blackboards At Five in the afternoon* Two Legged Horse**
43	*5 + 3B*	*Mohammad Rasoulof*	*Iron Island* *The White Meadows* *Goodbye (Be Omid-e Didar) A man of integrity*

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