# List of film auteurs

This is a list of filmmakers who have been described as an auteur.
* Lenny Abrahamson
* Moussa Sene Absa
* Tengiz Abuladze
* Kunle Afolayan
* Chantal Akerman
* Fatih Akin
* Robert Aldrich
* Woody Allen
* Pedro Almodóvar
* Lisandro Alonso
* Robert Altman
* Alejandro Amenábar
* Lindsay Anderson
* Paul Thomas Anderson
* Paul W. S. Anderson
* Wes Anderson
* Roy Andersson
* Theo Angelopoulos
* Kenneth Anger
* Hideaki Anno
* Michelangelo Antonioni
* Gregg Araki
* Denys Arcand
* Dario Argento
* Gillian Armstrong
* Andrea Arnold
* Darren Aronofsky
* Dorothy Arzner
* Hal Ashby
* Olivier Assayas
* Ari Aster
* Héctor Babenco
* Sean Baker
* Ralph Bakshi
* Noah Baumbach
* Mario Bava
* Michael Bay
* Jacques Becker
* Ingmar Bergman
* Busby Berkeley
* Bernardo Bertolucci
* Luc Besson
* Bahram Beyzai
* Sanjay Leela Bhansali
* Susanne Bier
* Kathryn Bigelow
* Neill Blomkamp
* Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
* Peter Bogdanovich
* Bong Joon-ho
* John Boorman
* Frank Borzage
* Danny Boyle
* Stan Brakhage
* Neil Breen
* Catherine Breillat
* Robert Bresson
* Albert Brooks
* Mel Brooks
* Luis Buñuel
* Charles Burnett
* Tim Burton
* James Cameron
* Jane Campion
* Frank Capra
* Leos Carax
* Marcel Carné
* John Carpenter
* John Cassavetes
* Nuri Bilge Ceylan
* Claude Chabrol
* Gurinder Chadha
* Charlie Chaplin
* Damien Chazelle
* Michael Cimino
* Souleymane Cissé
* René Clair
* Alan Clarke
* René Clément
* Henri-Georges Clouzot
* Jean Cocteau
* Michaela Coel
* Coen brothers
* Francis Ford Coppola
* Sofia Coppola
* Brady Corbet
* Panos Cosmatos
* Pedro Costa
* Wes Craven
* David Cronenberg
* Alfonso Cuarón
* George Cukor
* Adam Curtis
* Michael Curtiz
* Daniels (directors)
* Lee Daniels
* Joe Dante
* Dardenne brothers
* Jules Dassin
* Terence Davies
* Manoel de Oliveira
* Brian De Palma
* Vittorio De Sica
* Josephine Decker
* Guillermo del Toro
* Cecil B. DeMille
* Jonathan Demme
* Jacques Demy
* Claire Denis
* Maya Deren
* Arnaud Desplechin
* Lav Diaz
* Xavier Dolan
* Andrew Dominik
* Stanley Donen
* Alexander Dovzhenko
* Julia Ducournau
* Quentin Dupieux
* Marguerite Duras
* Fred Durst
* Ava DuVernay
* Clint Eastwood
* Blake Edwards
* Sergei Eisenstein
* Robert Eggers
* Atom Egoyan
* Victor Erice
* Asghar Farhadi
* Farrelly brothers
* Rainer Werner Fassbinder
* Federico Fellini
* Emerald Fennell
* Abel Ferrara
* Louis Feuillade
* David Fincher
* Robert J. Flaherty
* Mike Flanagan
* John Ford
* Miloš Forman
* Bob Fosse
* Jesús Franco
* John Frankenheimer
* William Friedkin
* Lucio Fulci
* Samuel Fuller
* Alex Garland
* Philippe Garrel
* Costa-Gavras
* Haile Gerima
* Alexei German
* Greta Gerwig
* Ritwik Ghatak
* Terry Gilliam
* Sidney Gilliat
* Vince Gilligan
* Jean-Luc Godard
* Michel Gondry
* Philippe Grandrieux
* James Gray
* Peter Greenaway
* D. W. Griffith
* Michael Haneke
* Hal Hartley
* Howard Hawks
* Todd Haynes
* Monte Hellman
* Oliver Hermanus
* Werner Herzog
* Walter Hill
* Alfred Hitchcock
* Joanna Hogg
* Agnieszka Holland
* Med Hondo
* Hong Sang-soo
* Hou Hsiao-hsien
* John Hughes
* John Huston
* Hu Bo
* King Hu
* Kon Ichikawa
* Alex de la Iglesia
* Shohei Imamura
* Alejandro González Iñárritu
* Shunji Iwai
* Peter Jackson
* Miklós Jancsó
* Derek Jarman
* Jim Jarmusch
* Barry Jenkins
* Anders Thomas Jensen
* Jean-Pierre Jeunet
* Jia Zhangke
* Alejandro Jodorowsky
* Rian Johnson
* Chuck Jones
* Spike Jonze
* Mikhail Kalatozov
* Mindy Kaling
* Anurag Kashyap
* Charlie Kaufman
* Aki Kaurismäki
* Elia Kazan
* Buster Keaton
* Tunde Kelani
* Marlen Khutsiev
* Abbas Kiarostami
* Krzysztof Kieslowski
* Kim Ki-duk
* Takeshi Kitano
* Elem Klimov
* Johnny Knoxville
* Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
* Masaki Kobayashi
* Satoshi Kon
* Hirokazu Kore-eda
* Joseph Kosinski
* Stanley Kramer
* Stanley Kubrick
* Akira Kurosawa
* Emir Kusturica
* Stanley Kwan
* John Landis
* Fritz Lang
* Yorgos Lanthimos
* Claude Lanzmann
* John Lasseter
* Frank Launder
* David Lean
* Ang Lee
* Spike Lee
* Mike Leigh
* Sergio Leone
* Herschell Gordon Lewis
* Jerry Lewis
* Joseph H. Lewis
* Richard Linklater
* Ken Loach
* Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
* Chuck Lorre
* Joseph Losey
* Lou Ye
* David Lowery (director)
* Ernst Lubitsch
* George Lucas
* Baz Luhrmann
* Sidney Lumet
* David Lynch
* Guy Maddin
* Mohsen Makhmalbaf
* Terrence Malick
* Louis Malle
* Djibril Diop Mambéty
* Joseph L. Mankiewicz
* Anthony Mann
* Michael Mann
* Lucrecia Martel
* Chris Marker
* Sergio Martino
* Elaine May
* Albert and David Maysles
* Leo McCarey
* Steve McQueen
* Adam McKay
* Jonas Mekas
* Georges Méliès
* Sam Mendes
* Jean-Pierre Melville
* Russ Meyer
* Nancy Meyers
* Takashi Miike
* George Miller
* Mike Mills
* Vincente Minnelli
* David Robert Mitchell
* Hayao Miyazaki
* Kenji Mizoguchi
* Mario Monicelli
* João César Monteiro
* Lukas Moodysson
* Michael Moore
* Nanni Moretti
* Errol Morris
* Cristian Mungiu
* Kira Muratova
* F. W. Murnau
* Ryan Murphy
* Amir Naderi
* Mikio Naruse
* Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor
* Jeff Nichols
* Mike Nichols
* Gaspar Noé
* Christopher Nolan
* Nobuhiko Obayashi
* Ermanno Olmi
* Max Ophüls
* Nagisa Ōshima
* François Ozon
* Yasujirō Ozu
* G.W. Pabst
* Alan J. Pakula
* Marcel Pagnol
* Jafar Panahi
* Sergei Parajanov
* Park Chan-wook
* Nick Park
* Trey Parker and Matt Stone
* Pier Paolo Pasolini
* Alexander Payne
* Jordan Peele
* Sam Peckinpah
* Arthur Penn
* Alex Ross Perry
* Maurice Pialat
* Roman Polanski
* Sydney Pollack
* Sarah Polley
* Sally Potter
* Michael Powell
* Otto Preminger
* Cristi Puiu
* Brothers Quay
* Bob Rafelson
* Sam Raimi
* S.S. Rajamouli
* Lynne Ramsay
* Mani Ratnam
* Nicholas Ray
* Satyajit Ray
* Carol Reed
* Nicolas Winding Refn
* Kelly Reichardt
* Jason Reitman
* Jean Renoir
* Alain Resnais
* Matt Reeves
* Carlos Reygadas
* Tony Richardson
* Leni Riefenstahl
* Jacques Rivette
* Glauber Rocha
* Nicolas Roeg
* Éric Rohmer
* George A. Romero
* Roberto Rossellini
* Raúl Ruiz
* Björn Runge
* Ken Russell
* David O. Russell
* Safdie brothers
* Walter Salles
* Adam Sandler
* Isabel Sandoval
* John Sayles
* Franklin J. Schaffner
* John Schlesinger
* Julian Schnabel
* Paul Schrader
* Céline Sciamma
* Martin Scorsese
* Ridley Scott
* Tony Scott
* Ousmane Sembène
* Albert Serra
* Sohrab Shahid-Saless
* Will Sharpe
* Lynn Shelton
* Larisa Shepitko
* Daryush Shokof
* Trey Edward Shults
* M. Night Shyamalan
* Don Siegel
* Tarsem Singh
* Douglas Sirk
* Abderrahmane Sissako
* Victor Sjöström
* Kevin Smith
* Michael Snow
* Zack Snyder
* Steven Soderbergh
* Alexander Sokurov
* Todd Solondz
* Sion Sono
* Aaron Sorkin
* Paolo Sorrentino
* Steven Spielberg
* George Stevens
* Oliver Stone
* Straub–Huillet
* John Sturges
* Preston Sturges
* Elia Suleiman
* Seijun Suzuki
* Jan Švankmajer
* Isao Takahata
* Quentin Tarantino
* Andrei Tarkovsky
* Béla Tarr
* Frank Tashlin
* Jacques Tati
* Bertrand Tavernier
* Julie Taymor
* Johnnie To
* Jacques Tourneur
* Jeff Tremaine
* Joachim Trier
* François Truffaut
* Tsai Ming-liang
* Shinya Tsukamoto
* Edgar G. Ulmer
* Gus Van Sant
* Agnès Varda
* Paul Verhoeven
* Dziga Vertov
* King Vidor
* Jean Vigo
* Denis Villeneuve
* Thomas Vinterberg
* Luchino Visconti
* Josef von Sternberg
* Erich von Stroheim
* Lars von Trier
* The Wachowskis
* Taika Waititi
* Andrzej Wajda
* Raoul Walsh
* Wang Bing
* Vincent Ward
* Alex van Warmerdam
* John Waters
* Lois Weber
* Apichatpong Weerasethakul
* Peter Weir
* Orson Welles
* William A. Wellman
* Wim Wenders
* Lina Wertmüller
* James Whale
* Billy Wilder
* Michael Winterbottom
* Robert Wise
* Tommy Wiseau
* Frederick Wiseman
* Wong Kar-wai
* John Woo
* Edgar Wright
* Joe Wright
* William Wyler
* Edward Yang
* Robert Zemeckis
* Zhang Yimou
* Fred Zinnemann
* Rob Zombie
* Andrzej Żuławski
* Andrey Zvyagintsev
* Terry Zwigoff