وبسایت "TSPDT" در اتفاقی جالب 250 کارگردان تاریخ سینما را انتخاب کرد. نکته قابل توجه حضور عباس کیارستمی(40) و محسن مخملباف(239) در این لیست است. فهرست کامل به شرح زیر میباشد:
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Federico Fellini
5. Jean-Luc Godard
6. Francis Ford Coppola
7. Jean Renoir
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. John Ford
10. Akira Kurosawa
11. Yasujiro Ozu
12. Martin Scorsese
13. Luis Buñuel
14. Andrei Tarkovsky
15. Charles Chaplin
16. Billy Wilder
17. Robert Bresson
18. Carl Theodor Dreyer
19. F.W. Murnau
20. Michelangelo Antonioni
21. Howard Hawks
22. Fritz Lang
23. François Truffaut
24. Sergei Eisenstein
25. Steven Spielberg
26. Kenji Mizoguchi
27. Roberto Rossellini
28. David Lynch
29. Woody Allen
30. Luchino Visconti
31. David Lean
32. Vittorio De Sica
33. Alain Resnais
34. John Cassavetes
35. Roman Polanski
36. Sergio Leone
37. Ernst Lubitsch
38. Michael Powell
39. Wong Kar-wai
40. Abbas Kiarostami
41. Jean Vigo
42. Satyajit Ray
43. Ridley Scott
44. Robert Altman
45. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
46. Max Ophüls
47. Werner Herzog
48. Terrence Malick
49. Buster Keaton
50. D.W. Griffith
51. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
52. Pier Paolo Pasolini
53. Krzysztof Kieslowski
54. Hou Hsiao-hsien
55. John Huston
56. Jacques Tati
57. Dziga Vertov
58. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
59. Quentin Tarantino
60. Chris Marker
61. Michael Curtiz
62. Sam Peckinpah
63. Bernardo Bertolucci
64. Frank Capra
65. Edward Yang
66. Nicholas Ray
67. Vincente Minnelli
68. Wim Wenders
69. Leo McCarey
70. Victor Fleming
71. Preston Sturges
72. Carol Reed
73. Lars von Trier
74. Marcel Carné
75. Elia Kazan
76. Erich von Stroheim
77. Paul Thomas Anderson
78. Douglas Sirk
79. Milos Forman
80. David Cronenberg
81. Béla Tarr
82. Michael Haneke
83. Eric Rohmer
84. Chantal Akerman
85. Nicolas Roeg
86. Jean-Pierre Melville
87. Jacques Rivette
88. Hayao Miyazaki
89. Victor Erice
90. Clint Eastwood
91. Theo Angelopoulos
92. Gillo Pontecorvo
93. Josef von Sternberg
94. Brian De Palma
95. Claude Lanzmann
96. Jacques Tourneur
97. Pedro Almodóvar
98. George Cukor
99. Sidney Lumet
100. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
101. Jacques Demy
102. Glauber Rocha
103. James Cameron
104. William Wyler
105. Claire Denis
106. King Vidor
107. Spike Lee
108. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
109. John Carpenter
110. Jean Eustache
111. Ken Loach
112. Jim Jarmusch
113. George Lucas
114. Robert Flaherty
115. Agnès Varda
116. George A. Romero
117. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
118. Mikio Naruse
119. Michael Cimino
120. William Friedkin
121. Zhang Yimou
122. Jane Campion
123. Andrzej Wajda
124. Terry Gilliam
125. Ang Lee
126. Otto Preminger
127. Jean Cocteau
128. Hal Ashby
129. Mike Leigh
130. Raoul Walsh
131. Alexander Dovzhenko
132. David Fincher
133. Stan Brakhage
134. Michael Snow
135. Peter Weir
136. Rob Reiner
137. Maurice Pialat
138. Aleksandr Soucrov
139. Samuel Fuller
140. Robert Zemeckis
141. Richard Linklater
142. Alexander Mackendrick
143. Robert Aldrich
144. Robert Wise
145. Abel Gance
146. Henri-Georges Clouzot
147. Arthur Penn
148. Mike Nichols
149. Jia Zhangke
150. Nagisa Oshima
151. Sergei Parajanov
152. Michael Mann
153. Luis García Berlanga
154. James Whale
155. Elem Klimov
156. Tsai Ming-liang
157. Emir Kusturica
158. Gus Van Sant
159. Fei Mu
160. Ousmane Sembene
161. John Boorman
162. Louis Malle
163. Michael Powell
164. Wes Anderson
165. Errol Morris
166. Terence Davies
167. Anthony Mann
168. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
169. George Stevens
170. Andy Warhol
171. Tobe Hooper
172. Bob Fosse
173. Manoel de Oliveira
174. Tod Browning
175. Todd Haynes
176. Shohei Imamura
177. G.W. Pabst
178. Peter Bogdanovich
179. Tim Burton
180. Chen Kaige
181. Frederick Wiseman
182. Fred Zinnemann
183. Mikhail Kalatozov
184. Don Siegel
185. Georges Franju
186. Christopher Nolan
187. Joseph Losey
188. Peter Jackson
189. Ritwik Ghatak
190. Paul Verhoeven
191. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
192. Humphrey Jennings
193. Victor Sjöström
194. René Clair
195. David Hand
196. Robert Hamer
197. Jean Rouch
198. King Hu
199. Lindsay Anderson
200. Georges Méliès
201. John Schlesinger
202. Robert Wiene
203. Pedro Costa
204. Dario Argento
205. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
206. Michel Gondry
207. Harold Ramis
208. John Woo
209. Sydney Pollack
210. Oliver Stone
211. Frank Borzage
212. Aki Kaurismäki
213. Jonathan Demme
214. George Roy Hill
215. Charles Burnett
216. Djibril Diop Mambéty
217. Ken Russell
218. Claude Chabrol
219. Blake Edwards
220. Jacques Becker
221. Louis Feuillade
222. Mel Brooks
223. Leos Carax
224. Ermanno Olmi
225. Takeshi Kitano
226. George Miller
227. Nelson Pereira dos Santos
228. Francesco Rosi
229. Alfonso Cuarón
230. Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski
231. Peter Greenaway
232. Robert Mulligan
233. John Landis
234. Alan J. Pakula
235. Peter Watkins
236. Kathryn Bigelow
237. Monte Hellman (
238. Edgar G. Ulmer
239. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
240. Albert Maysles
241. Giuseppe Tornatore
242. Danny Boyle
243. Leni Riefenstahl
244. Guru Dutt
245. Jonas Mekas
246. Boris Barnet
247. Philippe Garrel
248. Irvin Kershner
249. Steven Soderbergh
250. Kenneth Anger