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.

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