Top Ten Directors

10. Alfonso Cuaron

Notable Movies: Solo con Tu Pareja, A Little Princess, Great Expectations, Y tu Mama Tambien, Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men















9. Ron Howard

Notable Movies: Splash, Cocoon, Willow, Parenthood, Backdraft, The Paper, Apollo 13, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, The Da Vinci Code, Frost/Nixon, Angels and Demons
















8. Steven Soderbergh

Notable Movies: Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, The Good German, Ocean's Thirteen, Che, The Informant















7. Christopher Nolan

Notable Movies: Following, Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception















6. Oliver Stone

Notable Movies: Salvador, Platoon, Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, The Doors, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Nixon, Any Given Sunday, Alexander, W, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps











5. Ridley Scott

Notable Movies: Alien, Blade Runner, Legend, Black Rain, Thelma & Louise, GI Jane, Gladiator, Hannibal, Black Hawk Down, Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, A Good Year, American Gangster, Body of Lies, Robin Hood
















4. Francis Ford Copolla

Notable Movies: You're a Big Boy Now, Finian's Rainbow, The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II, Apocalpyse Now, One from the Heart, The Cotton Club, Peggy Sue Got Married, Tucker: The Man and his Dream, The Godfather Part III, Dracula
















3. Martin Scorcese

Notable Movies: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, After Hours, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island

















2. Clint Eastwood

Notable Movies: Unforgiven, The Bridges of Madison County, Space Cowboys, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Flags of our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Changeling, Gran Torino, Invictus, Hereafter
















1. Steven Spielberg

Notable Movies: Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1941, Raiders of the Lost Ark, ET the Extra Terrestrial, Twilight Zone, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, Always, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Hook, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Amistad, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, AI Artificial Intellegence, Catch Me if you Can, Minority Report, The Terminal, Munich, War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Lincoln