Empire (film Magazine) - Readers' Top Directors

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:

1. Steven Spielberg
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Martin Scorsese
4. Stanley Kubrick
5. Ridley Scott
6. Akira Kurosawa
7. Peter Jackson
8. Quentin Tarantino
9. Orson Welles
10. Woody Allen
11. Clint Eastwood
12. David Lean
13. The Coen brothers
14. James Cameron
15. Francis Ford Coppola
16. Oliver Stone
17. Sergio Leone
18. John Ford
19. Billy Wilder
20. Sam Peckinpah