# List of directors associated with art film

The film directors in this list have made films that were deemed to be notable art films by prominent critics, film festivals, and/or by authors of books on the history of film.
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* C
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* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* Y
* Z
* References
* Further reading

## A

* Eduard Abalov
* Dodo Abashidze
* Vadim Abdrashitov
* Aktan Abdykalykov
* John Abraham
* Lenny Abrahamson
* Maren Ade
* Bas Jan Ader
* Percy Adlon
* Roland af Hällström
* Ashim Ahluwalia
* Eija-Liisa Ahtila
* Chantal Akerman
* Fatih Akin
* Grigori Aleksandrov
* Tomas Alfredson
* Adolfo Alix Jr.
* Khalik Allah
* Woody Allen
* Pedro Almodóvar
* Lisandro Alonso
* Usama Alshaibi
* Robert Altman
* Alejandro Amenábar
* Ana Lily Amirpour
* Laurie Anderson
* Lindsay Anderson
* Paul Thomas Anderson
* Wes Anderson
* Roy Andersson
* Theo Angelopoulos
* Kenneth Anger
* Urszula Antoniak
* Michelangelo Antonioni
* Shinji Aoyama
* Gregg Araki
* G. Aravindan
* Denys Arcand
* Cam Archer
* Jane Arden
* Dario Argento
* Artur Aristakisyan
* Morten Arnfred
* Andrea Arnold
* Martin Arnold
* Darren Aronofsky
* Grigori Aronov
* Fernando Arrabal
* Dinara Asanova
* Hal Ashby
* Don Askarian
* Walter D. Asmus
* Olivier Assayas
* Ari Aster
* Jacques Audiard
* Bille August
* Ilya Averbakh
* Nurith Aviv
* Gabriel Axel
* Richard Ayoade
* Hideaki Anno

## B

* Jamie Babbit
* Héctor Babenco
* Frédéric Back
* Emir Baigazin
* Bruce Baillie
* Sean Baker
* Ralph Bakshi
* Aleksei Balabanov
* Roman Balayan
* Robert Banks
* Scott Barley
* Siddiq Barmak
* Boris Barnet
* Matthew Barney
* Claude Barras
* Jiří Barta
* Šarūnas Bartas
* Svetlana Baskova
* Michal Bat-Adam
* Yevgeni Bauer
* Noah Baumbach
* Pina Bausch
* Henry Bean
* Xavier Beauvois
* Jean Becker
* Jean-Jacques Beineix
* Marco Bellocchio
* Rémy Belvaux
* Carmelo Bene
* James Benning
* Ingmar Bergman
* Wallace Berman
* Bernardo Bertolucci
* Luc Besson
* Frank Beyer
* Bi Gan
* Susanne Bier
* Kathryn Bigelow
* Stig Björkman
* David Blair
* Les Blair
* Bertrand Blier
* John G. Blystone
* Lidia Bobrova
* Hynek Bočan
* Sergei Bodrov
* Gábor Bódy
* Christoffer Boe
* Peter Bogdanovich
* Patrick Bokanowski
* Sergei Bondarchuk
* Bertrand Bonello
* Bong Joon-ho
* André Bonzel
* John Boorman
* Ole Bornedal
* Walerian Borowczyk
* Vladimir Bortko
* Stan Brakhage
* Kenneth Branagh
* Catherine Breillat
* Robert Bresson
* Vinko Brešan
* Matthew Bright
* Tricia Brock
* Lino Brocka
* Peter Brook
* James Broughton
* Clyde Bruckman
* Günter Brus
* Zbyněk Brynych
* Luis Buñuel
* Andrew Bujalski
* Charles Burnett
* Rama Burshtein
* Tim Burton
* Steve Buscemi
* Jayro Bustamante
* Brian Patrick Butler
* Rolan Bykov
* Yuri Bykov

## C

* Michael Cacoyannis
* Mike Cahill
* Robin Campillo
* Jane Campion
* António Campos
* Laurent Cantet
* Leos Carax
* Henning Carlsen
* Marcel Carné
* Heiner Carow
* Jean-Claude Carrière
* Shane Carruth
* Carlos Casas
* John Cassavetes
* Lucien Castaing-Taylor
* Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
* Liliana Cavani
* Nuri Bilge Ceylan
* Claude Chabrol
* Youssef Chahine
* Jack Chambers
* Charlie Chaplin
* Chen Kaige
* Lisa Cholodenko
* Sylvain Chomet
* Benjamin Christensen
* Grigory Chukhray
* Pavel Chukhray
* Věra Chytilová
* Derek Cianfrance
* Michael Cimino
* Souleymane Cissé
* Jean-Paul Civeyrac
* René Clair
* Larry Clark
* Alan Clarke
* Shirley Clarke
* René Clément
* Edward F. Cline
* Henri-Georges Clouzot
* Jean Cocteau
* Joel and Ethan Coen
* Isabel Coixet
* Bruce Conner
* Tony Conrad
* Francis Ford Coppola
* Sofia Coppola
* Anton Corbijn
* Alain Corneau
* Panos Cosmatos
* Pedro Costa
* Saverio Costanzo
* David Cronenberg
* John Crowley
* Alfonso Cuarón
* Jonás Cuarón
* Michael Cuesta
* Chris Cunningham

## D

* Stephen Daldry
* Mircea Daneliuc
* Georgiy Daneliya
* Serge Daney
* Dardenne brothers
* Hajir Darioush
* Buddhadeb Dasgupta
* Charlotte Dauphin
* Terence Davies
* Assi Dayan
* Rolf de Heer
* Storm de Hirsch
* Brian De Palma
* Vittorio De Sica
* Benoît Delépine
* François Delisle
* André Delvaux
* Zeki Demirkubuz
* Jacques Demy
* Claire Denis
* Maya Deren
* Virginie Despentes
* Arnaud Desplechin
* Michel Deville
* Mohamed Diab
* Diao Yinan
* Lav Diaz
* Tom DiCillo
* Vivienne Dick
* Walt Disney
* Audrey Diwan
* Xavier Dolan
* Andrew Dominik
* Gianmarco Donaggio
* Marian Dora
* Ziad Doueiri
* Bill Douglas
* Alexander Dovzhenko
* Robert Downey Sr.
* Srđan Dragojević
* Andreas Dresen
* Carl Theodor Dreyer
* Anselmo Duarte
* Fabrice Du Welz
* Marcel Duchamp
* Julia Ducournau
* Michaël Dudok de Wit
* Slatan Dudow
* Germaine Dulac
* Piotr Dumała
* Bruno Dumont
* Lena Dunham
* Jay Duplass
* Mark Duplass
* Marguerite Duras
* Guru Dutt
* Ava DuVernay
* Sergey Dvortsevoy
* Ivan Dykhovichny

## E

* Viking Eggeling
* Robert Eggers
* Atom Egoyan
* Fernando Eimbcke
* Sergei Eisenstein
* Ronit Elkabetz
* Shlomi Elkabetz
* Adam Elliot
* Morris Engel
* Ildikó Enyedi
* Jean Epstein
* Reha Erdem
* Anna Eriksson
* Víctor Erice
* Benedikt Erlingsson
* Pelin Esmer
* Jean Eustache
* Valie Export
* Richard Eyre

## F

* Zoltán Fábri
* Asghar Farhadi
* Harun Farocki
* Forugh Farrokhzad
* Rainer Werner Fassbinder
* Aleksey Fedorchenko
* Federico Fellini
* Abel Ferrara
* Marco Ferreri
* Louis Feuillade
* Todd Field
* Mike Figgis
* David Fincher
* Nora Fingscheidt
* Oskar Fischinger
* Mika’ela Fisher
* Benedek Fliegauf
* Ari Folman
* Frédéric Fonteyne
* John Ford
* Tom Ford
* Miloš Forman
* Mira Fornay
* Marc Forster
* Bob Fosse
* James Fotopoulos
* Michelangelo Frammartino
* Hollis Frampton
* Robert Frank
* John Frankenheimer
* Ron Fricke
* Gabríela Friðriksdóttir
* Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
* William Friedkin
* Su Friedrich
* Dmitrii Frolov
* Shozin Fukui
* Samuel Fuller

## G

* Savi Gabizon
* Vincent Gallo
* Nisha Ganatra
* Abel Gance
* Anand Gandhi
* Erik Gandini
* Rodrigo García
* Philippe Garrel
* Matteo Garrone
* Tony Gatlif
* Costa-Gavras
* Saša Gedeon
* Jean Genet
* Aleksei Alekseivich German
* Aleksei Yuryevich German
* Valeriya Gai Germanika
* Pietro Germi
* Greta Gerwig
* Ritwik Ghatak
* Bahman Ghobadi
* Goutam Ghose
* Rituparno Ghosh
* Terry Gilliam
* Milton Moses Ginsberg
* François Girard
* Amos Gitai
* Jonathan Glazer
* Crispin Glover
* Jean-Luc Godard
* Lana Gogoberidze
* Dana Goldberg
* Flora Gomes
* Miguel Gomes
* Rita Azevedo Gomes
* Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
* Michel Gondry
* Alejandro González Iñárritu
* Adoor Gopalakrishnan
* Hideo Gosha
* Philippe Grandrieux
* Debra Granik
* James Gray
* William Greaves
* David Gordon Green
* Eugène Green
* Peter Greenaway
* John Greyson
* D. W. Griffith
* Iveta Grófová
* Kristina Grozeva
* Luca Guadagnino
* José Luis Guerín
* Ciro Guerra
* Alain Guiraudie
* David Gurfinkel
* Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
* Amos Guttman
* Alice Guy-Blaché
* Patricio Guzmán

## H

* Alexandr Hackenschmied
* Andrew Haigh
* Szabolcs Hajdu
* Ryusuke Hamaguchi
* Dušan Hanák
* Michael Haneke
* Susumu Hani
* Mia Hansen-Løve
* Hal Hartley
* Wojciech Has
* Jessica Hausner
* Howard Hawks
* Todd Haynes
* Michel Hazanavicius
* Jalmari Helander
* Ladislav Helge
* Piero Heliczer
* Veit Helmer
* John Huston
* Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
* Don Hertzfeldt
* Juraj Herz
* Werner Herzog
* Tomer Heymann
* John Hillcoat
* Damien Hirst
* Alfred Hitchcock
* Joanna Hogg
* Agnieszka Holland
* Hong Sang-soo
* Christophe Honoré
* Harry Hook
* Dennis Hopper
* Mamoru Hosoda
* Hou Hsiao-hsien
* Hu Bo
* Ágnes Hranitzky
* Huang Jianxin
* Ann Hui
* Karim Hussain
* Eva Husson
* Zoltán Huszárik

## I

* Armando Iannucci
* Kon Ichikawa
* Yuri Ilyenko
* Im Kwon-taek
* Im Sang-soo
* Shōhei Imamura
* Hiroshi Inagaki
* Otar Iosseliani
* Gakuryū Ishii
* Katsuhito Ishii
* Teruo Ishii
* Isidore Isou
* Juzo Itami
* James Ivory
* Shunji Iwai

## J

* Ken Jacobs
* Peter Jackson
* Andrzej Jakimowski
* Juraj Jakubisko
* Miklós Jancsó
* Derek Jarman
* Jim Jarmusch
* Vojtěch Jasný
* Anders Thomas Jensen
* Jeffrey Jeturian
* Jean-Pierre Jeunet
* Norman Jewison
* Jia Zhangke
* Jaromil Jireš
* Akio Jissoji
* Alejandro Jodorowsky
* Roland Joffé
* Antti Jokinen
* G. B. Jones
* Terry Jones
* Spike Jonze
* Neil Jordan
* Nana Jorjadze
* Jon Jost
* Radu Jude
* Miranda July
* Pavel Juráček

## K

* Karel Kachyňa
* Ján Kadár
* Alexander Kaidanovsky
* Mikheil Kalatozishvili
* Mikhail Kalatozov
* Tom Kalin
* Vitali Kanevsky
* Semih Kaplanoğlu
* Dagur Kári
* Alex Karpovsky
* Dome Karukoski
* Shaji N. Karun
* Anurag Kashyap
* Mathieu Kassovitz
* Sunao Katabuchi
* Jacques Katmor
* Charlie Kaufman
* Mani Kaul
* Aki Kaurismäki
* Mika Kaurismäki
* Yoshiaki Kawajiri
* Jerzy Kawalerowicz
* Kihachirō Kawamoto
* Naomi Kawase
* Elia Kazan
* Buster Keaton
* Abdellatif Kechiche
* Dorota Kędzierzawska
* Patrick Keiller
* Fred Kelemen
* Jennifer Kent
* Richard Kern
* Amanda Kernell
* Lodge Kerrigan
* Gustave Kervern
* Aharon Keshales
* Rustam Khamdamov
* Mariam Khatchvani
* Nikolay Khomeriki
* Vladimir Khotinenko
* Marlen Khutsiev
* Abbas Kiarostami
* Krzysztof Kieślowski
* Kim Jee-woon
* Kim Ki-duk
* Kim Ki-duk
* Kim Ki-young
* Keisuke Kinoshita
* Teinosuke Kinugasa
* Dimitri Kirsanoff
* Takeshi Kitano
* William Klein
* Elem Klimov
* Elmar Klos
* Alexander Kluge
* Masaki Kobayashi
* Dorota Kobiela
* Eran Kolirin
* Jan Komasa
* Satoshi Kon
* Andrei Konchalovsky
* Jenni Konner
* Tadeusz Konwicki
* Hirokazu Kore-eda
* Harmony Korine
* John Korty
* Marek Koterski
* Alexander Kott
* Petri Kotwica
* Panos H. Koutras
* András Kovács
* Grigori Kozintsev
* Robert Kramer
* Andrei Kravchuk
* Jiří Krejčík
* Kurt Kren
* Grzegorz Królikiewicz
* Václav Krška
* Peter Kubelka
* Stanley Kubrick
* George Kuchar
* Lev Kuleshov
* Lev Kulidzhanov
* Dea Kulumbegashvili
* Kazuo Kuroki
* Akira Kurosawa
* Kiyoshi Kurosawa
* Justin Kurzel
* Emir Kusturica
* Kazimierz Kutz
* Stanley Kwan

## L

* Nadine Labaki
* Bruce LaBruce
* Edvin Laine
* René Laloux
* Albert Lamorisse
* Fritz Lang
* Yorgos Lanthimos
* Claude Lanzmann
* Nadav Lapid
* Pablo Larraín
* Charles Laughton
* Jean-Claude Lauzon
* Standish Lawder
* David Lean
* Patrice Leconte
* Ang Lee
* Lee Chang-dong
* Spike Lee
* Robin Lefevre
* Xavier Legrand
* C. S. Leigh
* Mike Leigh
* Sebastián Lelio
* Claude Lelouch
* Karl Lemieux
* Jan Lenica
* Sergio Leone
* Philippe Lesage
* Jørgen Leth
* Hagai Levi
* Don Levy
* Li Yang
* Jens Lien
* Tobias Lindholm
* Richard Linklater
* Michael Lindsay-Hogg
* Jody Lee Lipes
* Miguel Littín
* Renata Litvinova
* Carlo Lizzani
* Ken Loach
* Barbara Loden
* Ram Loevy
* Kenneth Lonergan
* Konstantin Lopushansky
* Joseph Losey
* Marie Losier
* Emil Loteanu
* Aku Louhimies
* Richard Lowenstein
* David Lowery
* Sergei Loznitsa
* Ernst Lubitsch
* Sidney Lumet
* Lumière brothers
* Pavel Lungin
* Ladj Ly
* Len Lye
* David Lynch

## M

* Gustav Machatý
* Jodie Mack
* Guy Maddin
* Kurt Maetzig
* Maïwenn
* Lech Majewski
* Majid Majidi
* Dušan Makavejev
* Hana Makhmalbaf
* Mohsen Makhmalbaf
* Samira Makhmalbaf
* Terrence Malick
* Louis Malle
* Djibril Diop Mambéty
* David Mamet
* Milcho Manchevski
* Joseph L. Mankiewicz
* Samuel Maoz
* Václav Marhoul
* Chris Marker
* Gregory Markopoulos
* Joshua Marston
* Lucrecia Martel
* Raya Martin
* Francesco Maselli
* Vladimir Maslov
* Yasuzo Masumura
* Yoshihiko Matsui
* Toshio Matsumoto
* Elaine May
* John Maybury
* Tom McCarthy
* John Michael McDonagh
* Martin McDonagh
* Ross McElwee
* Norman McLaren
* Conor McPherson
* Steve McQueen
* Julio Medem
* Aleksandr Medvedkin
* Dariush Mehrjui
* Ursula Meier
* Fernando Meirelles
* Jonas Mekas
* Georges Méliès
* Anna Melikian
* Jean-Pierre Melville
* Sam Mendes
* Brillante Mendoza
* Marie Menken
* Jiří Menzel
* E. Elias Merhige
* Natalya Merkulova
* Dmitry Meskhiev
* Márta Mészáros
* Radley Metzger
* Takashi Miike
* Nikita Mikhalkov
* Bennett Miller
* Aleksandr Mindadze
* Vincente Minnelli
* Kenji Misumi
* David Robert Mitchell
* John Cameron Mitchell
* Katie Mitchell
* Alexander Mitta
* Cătălin Mitulescu
* Gorō Miyazaki
* Hayao Miyazaki
* Kenji Mizoguchi
* Moshé Mizrahi
* Jean-Pierre Mocky
* Hans Petter Moland
* Mario Monicelli
* Ivor Montagu
* João César Monteiro
* Lukas Moodysson
* Michael Moore
* Tomm Moore
* Nanni Moretti
* Jon Moritsugu
* Bill Morrison
* Phil Morrison
* Paul Morrissey
* Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
* Granaz Moussavi
* Oren Moverman
* Otto Muehl
* Peter Mullan
* Matthias Müller
* Milagros Mumenthaler
* Kornél Mundruczó
* Cristian Mungiu
* Andrzej Munk
* Radu Muntean
* Kira Muratova
* F. W. Murnau

## N

* Na Hong-jin
* Amir Naderi
* Mira Nair
* Nobuo Nakagawa
* Pan Nalin
* Mikio Naruse
* Leonid Nechayev
* Jan Němec
* László Nemes
* Avi Nesher
* Jeff Nichols
* Mike Nichols
* Marysia Nikitiuk
* Elena Nikolaeva
* Nikos Nikolaidis
* Rob Nilsson
* Nonzee Nimibutr
* Mikko Niskanen
* Hermann Nitsch
* Gaspar Noé
* Michael Noer
* Christopher Nolan
* Tom Noonan
* Victor Nord
* Yuri Norstein
* Yrjö Norta
* Rashid Nugmanov

## O

* Nobuhiko Obayashi
* Damien O’Donnell
* Mr. Oizo
* Kihachi Okamoto
* Manoel de Oliveira
* Laurence Olivier
* Ermanno Olmi
* Gulshat Omarova
* David Ondříček
* Pat O'Neill
* Max Ophüls
* Niels Arden Oplev
* Ruth Orkin
* Mamoru Oshii
* Nagisa Ōshima
* Ruben Östlund
* Leonid Osyka
* Katsuhiro Otomo
* Ulrike Ottinger
* Idrissa Ouédraogo
* Veiko Õunpuu
* Giorgi Ovashvili
* François Ozon
* Ferzan Özpetek
* Yasujirō Ozu

## P

* G. W. Pabst
* Roberto Paci Dalò
* Alan J. Pakula
* Euzhan Palcy
* György Pálfi
* Jafar Panahi
* Gleb Panfilov
* Navot Papushado
* Sergei Parajanov
* Park Chan-wook
* Nick Park
* Alan Parker
* Goran Paskaljević
* Pier Paolo Pasolini
* Ivan Passer
* Živojin Pavlović
* Paweł Pawlikowski
* Alexander Payne
* Sam Peckinpah
* Jordan Peele
* Mário Peixoto
* Artavazd Peleshyan
* Arthur Penn
* Sean Penn
* Nicolás Pereda
* Nelson Pereira dos Santos
* Jesse Peretz
* Lester James Peries
* David Perlov
* Elio Petri
* Aleksandr Petrov
* Aleksandar Petrović
* Christian Petzold
* Maurice Pialat
* Franco Piavoli
* Lucian Pintilie
* Dan Pița
* Ihor Podolchak
* Oleg Pogodin
* Roman Polanski
* Gillo Pontecorvo
* Benoît Poelvoorde
* Corneliu Porumboiu
* Sally Potter
* Michael Powell
* Joel Potrykus
* Otto Preminger
* Emeric Pressburger
* Aleksandr Proshkin
* Yakov Protazanov
* Sarah Pucill
* Vsevolod Pudovkin
* Cristi Puiu

## Q

* Yair Qedar
* Brothers Quay

## R

* Ilmar Raag
* Vulo Radev
* Michael Radford
* Tomislav Radić
* Alfréd Radok
* Bob Rafelson
* Atiq Rahimi
* Lynne Ramsay
* Gitanjali Rao
* Simone Rapisarda Casanova
* Mark Rappaport
* Pen-ek Ratanaruang
* Man Ray
* Nicholas Ray
* Satyajit Ray
* Carol Reed
* Nicolas Winding Refn
* Godfrey Reggio
* Kelly Reichardt
* António Reis
* Charles Reisner
* Karel Reisz
* Jean Renoir
* Alain Resnais
* Carlos Reygadas
* Ron Rice
* Tony Richardson
* Hans Richter
* Philip Ridley
* Eran Riklis
* Diana Ringo
* Arturo Ripstein
* Dino Risi
* Ben Rivers
* Jacques Rivette
* Alain Robbe-Grillet
* Glauber Rocha
* João Pedro Rodrigues
* Nicolas Roeg
* Aleksandr Rogozhkin
* Éric Rohmer
* Alice Rohrwacher
* Mikhail Romm
* Abram Room
* Jean Rouch
* Jaime Rosales
* Francesco Rosi
* Roberto Rossellini
* Patricia Rozema
* Raúl Ruiz
* Pavel Ruminov
* Ben Russell
* David O. Russell
* Ken Russell
* Walter Ruttmann
* Zbigniew Rybczyński
* Boris Rytsarev

## S

* Mariya Saakyan
* Olli Saarela
* Randa Chahal Sabag
* Ira Sachs
* Safdie Brothers
* Leontine Sagan
* Walter Salles
* Ville Salminen
* Helma Sanders-Brahms
* Toivo Särkkä
* Wisit Sasanatieng
* Marjane Satrapi
* Carlos Saura
* Claude Sautet
* John Sayles
* Peter Schamoni
* Angela Schanelec
* Jerry Schatzberg
* Guilhad Emilio Schenker
* Frank Scheffer
* Fred Schepisi
* Lone Scherfig
* Suzanne Schiffman
* Sebastian Schipper
* John Schlesinger
* Volker Schlöndorff
* Jan Schmidt
* Julian Schnabel
* Evald Schorm
* Maria Schrader
* Paul Schrader
* Barbet Schroeder
* Werner Schroeter
* Uli M Schueppel
* Rudolf Schwarzkogler
* Mikhail Schweitzer
* Christian Schwochow
* Céline Sciamma
* Ettore Scola
* Martin Scorsese
* Sam Seder
* Edward Sedgwick
* Ulrich Seidl
* Ousmane Sembène
* Aparna Sen
* Ivan Sen
* Mrinal Sen
* Kirill Serebrennikov
* Albert Serra
* Dror Shaul
* Dawn Shadforth
* Sohrab Shahid-Saless
* Karen Shakhnazarov
* Tali Shalom Ezer
* Viktor Shamirov
* Laizy Shapiro
* Eldar Shengelaia
* Giorgi Shengelaia
* Richard Shepard
* Larisa Shepitko
* Kaneto Shindo
* Makoto Shinkai
* Masahiro Shinoda
* Cate Shortland
* Gennady Shpalikov
* Esfir Shub
* Vasily Shukshin
* Shyamaprasad
* Vasily Sigarev
* Slobodan Šijan
* Douglas Sirk
* Abderrahmane Sissako
* Ori Sivan
* Vilgot Sjöman
* Victor Sjöström
* Jerzy Skolimowski
* Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi
* Bohdan Sláma
* George Sluizer
* Wojciech Smarzowski
* Jack Smith
* John Smith
* Agnieszka Smoczyńska
* Michael Snow
* Steven Soderbergh
* Alexander Sokurov
* Peter Solan
* Fernando Solanas
* Humberto Solás
* Auraeus Solito
* Peter Sollett
* Todd Solondz
* Sergei Solovyov
* Sion Sono
* Ali Soozandeh
* Paolo Sorrentino
* Jane Spencer
* Jos Stelling
* Oliver Stone
* Straub–Huillet
* Peter Strickland
* Charles Sturridge
* Elia Suleiman
* Martin Šulík
* Nobuhiro Suwa
* Anocha Suwichakornpong
* Seijun Suzuki
* Jan Švankmajer
* Joe Swanberg
* Kris Swanberg
* Eric Swinderman
* Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
* Daniel Syrkin
* István Szabó
* Attila Szász
* János Szász
* Damián Szifron

## T

* Isao Takahata
* Alain Tanner
* Danis Tanović
* Sergey Taramaev
* Andrei Tarkovsky
* Béla Tarr
* Jacques Tati
* Sophie Tatischeff
* Bertrand Tavernier
* Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
* Julie Taymor
* André Téchiné
* Shūji Terayama
* Hiroshi Teshigahara
* Tian Zhuangzhuang
* Johnnie To
* Valery Todorovsky
* Giuseppe Tornatore
* Guillermo del Toro
* Tran Anh Hung
* Dušan Trančík
* Leonid Trauberg
* Monika Treut
* Joachim Trier
* Coralie Trinh Thi
* Jiří Trnka
* Jan Troell
* François Truffaut
* Tsai Ming-liang
* Athina Rachel Tsangari
* Peter Tscherkassky
* Dito Tsintsadze
* Shinya Tsukamoto
* Teuvo Tulio
* Nikita Tyagunov
* Tom Tykwer

## U

* Alexei Uchitel
* Ekachai Uekrongtham
* Štefan Uher
* Zaza Urushadze

## V

* Karel Vachek
* Petr Václav
* Petar Valchanov
* Jean-Marc Vallée
* Jaco Van Dormael
* Theo van Gogh
* Felix van Groeningen
* Philippe Van Leeuw
* Gus Van Sant
* Alex van Warmerdam
* Agnès Varda
* Valentyn Vasyanovych
* Paul Vecchiali
* Alexander Veledinsky
* Paul Verhoeven
* Mircea Veroiu
* Dziga Vertov
* Lorenzo Vigas
* Jean Vigo
* Drahomíra Vihanová
* Agustí Villaronga
* Denis Villeneuve
* Thomas Vinterberg
* Bill Viola
* Eriprando Visconti
* Luchino Visconti
* František Vláčil
* Josef von Sternberg
* Erich von Stroheim
* Lars von Trier
* Margarethe von Trotta
* Ivan Vyrypaev

## W

* Michael Wadleigh
* Cynthia Wade
* Taika Waititi
* Andrzej Wajda
* Kōji Wakamatsu
* Wang Bing
* Wayne Wang
* Wang Xiaoshuai
* Andy Warhol
* John Waters
* Peter Watkins
* Lois Weber
* Apichatpong Weerasethakul
* Peter Weibel
* Claudia Weill
* Peter Weir
* Jiří Weiss
* Hugh Welchman
* Orson Welles
* Wim Wenders
* Ben Wheatley
* Robert Wiene
* Eduardo Williams
* Michael Winterbottom
* Wong Kar-wai

## Y

* Yoji Yamada
* Edward Yang
* Yeon Sang-ho
* Yoshishige Yoshida
* Masaaki Yuasa
* Yevgeny Yufit

## Z

* Lordan Zafranović
* Caveh Zahedi
* S. Craig Zahler
* Mark Zakharov
* Krzysztof Zanussi
* Jasmila Žbanić
* Nick Zedd
* Franco Zeffirelli
* Benh Zeitlin
* Petr Zelenka
* Karel Zeman
* Thierry Zéno
* Zhang Yimou
* Chloé Zhao
* Lydia Zimmermann
* Uri Zohar
* David Zonana
* Andrzej Żuławski
* Valerio Zurlini
* Alyona Zvantsova
* Andrey Zvyagintsev
* Terry Zwigoff