Readers' Top Directors
In June 2005, a poll of 10,000 readers was asked to name the greatest film director of all time. In a list of twenty directors, Steven Spielberg was granted the honour of greatest director, while the total list was:
- Steven Spielberg
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Martin Scorsese
- Stanley Kubrick
- Ridley Scott
- Akira Kurosawa
- Peter Jackson
- Quentin Tarantino
- Orson Welles
- Woody Allen
- Clint Eastwood
- David Lean
- The Coen brothers
- James Cameron
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Oliver Stone
- Sergio Leone
- John Ford
- Billy Wilder
- Sam Peckinpah
Read more about this topic: Empire (film magazine)
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