Best Current Directors

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Ongoing list of the best directors working today.

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Christopher Nolan (Memento, Inception, Interstellar, The Dark Knight)

Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Sicario, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049)

Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Kill Bill)

Steven Spielberg (Jaw, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, E.T.)

Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, Boyhood, School of Rock)

Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men, Gravity, Roma, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, The Wolf of Wall Street)

David Fincher (Se7en, The Game, Fight Club, Zodiac)

Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Babel, Birdman, The Revenant, 21 Grams)

Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, The Shape of Water, The Devil's Backbone )

Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon, Patriots Day, )

Christopher McQuarrie (Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation, Mission Impossible - Fallout, Jack Reacher, The Way of the Gun)

Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1917, The Road to Perdition, Skyfall )

Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, American Sniper )

Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Alien, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down )

Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther)

James Cameron (Terminator 2, Aliens, Avatar, Titanic)

Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan)

Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, 28 Days Later)

Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Baby Driver, Hot Fuzz)

Bryan Singer (Bohemian Rhapsody (kinda), X-Men, The Usual Suspects, Apt Pupil)

Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Ratatouille)

J.J. Abrams (Super 8, Star Trek, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Mission Impossible 3)

Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Knives Out)

Guy Ritchie (Snatch, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, The Gentlemen, RocknRolla)

Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, La La Land, First Man)

Matt Reeves (Let Me In, Cloverfield, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes)

Cary Joji Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation, Jane Eyre, No Time to Die)

James Mangold (Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma, Girl, Interrupted, Logan)

Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation)

Joss Whedon (Avengers, Serenity, Avengers: Age of Ultron)

Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us)

Taylor Sheridan (Wind River, Vile)

Bong Joon Ho (Memories of Murder, Mother, Parasite, Snowpiercer)

Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin, Green Room, Hold the Dark)

Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Punch Drunk Love, Magnolia, The Master)

Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Deborah Granik (Winter's Bone, Leave No Trace)

Coen Brothers (Fargo, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men)

Duncan Jones (Moon, The Source Code)

Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker, Strange Days )

Steve McQueen (Shame, 12 Years of Slave, Widows, )

Ava DuVernay (Selma, A Wrinkle in Time )

Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter, Midnight Special, Loving)

George Miller (The Road Warrior, Mad Max: Fury Road, Babe: Pig in the City, Happy Feet)

Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler, Roman J. Israel, Esq., Velvet Buzzsaw)

Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's 11, Out of Sight, Traffic, Erin Brockovich)

Jennifer Kent (The Babadook, The Nightingale)

Patty Jenkins (Monster, Wonder Woman)

Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Jojo Rabbit)

Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Lobster, Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Favourite)

Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Suspiria, A Bigger Splash)

Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

David Lowery (A Ghost Story, The Old Man & the Gun, Ain't Them Bodies Saints)

Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk, Moonlight)

Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice, The Other Guys, Step Brothers)

James Gray (We Own the Night, Two Lovers, The Lost City of Z, Ad Astra)

Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace, Black Mass, Hostiles)

Werner Herzog (Rescue Dawn, Bad Lieutenant, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done)

Doug Liman (Go, Swingers, The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow, )

Joe Wright (Atonement, Hanna, Darkest Hour, Pride & Prejudice)

Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing, 25th Hour, Malcolm X, Inside Man)

Noah Baumbach (Greenberg, The Squid and the Whale, Marriage Story)

Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird, Little Women)

Dee Rees (Mudbound)

Scott Frank (The Lookout, A Walk Among the Thombstones)

J.C. Chandor (Margin Call, All is Lost, A Most Violent Year, Triple Frontier)

Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentin, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Light Between Oceans)

Jaume Collet-Serra (Unknown, Non-Stop, Run All Night, The Shallows)

Jean-Mar Vallee (The Dallas Buyers Club, The Young Victoria, Wild, Demolition)

Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl, The Finest Hours, I, Tonya, Fright Night)

Adam Wingard (You're Next, The Guest, Blair Witch)

Ben Wheatley (Free Fire, High-Rise, Kill List)

Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin, You Were Never Really Here)

Morten Tyldum (Headhunters, The Imitation Game, Passengers)

Brad Anderson (Transsiberian, The Machinist, Beirut)

Robert Eggers (The VVitch, The Lighthouse)

Gareth Evans (The Raid, The Raid 2, Apostle)

Safdie Brothers (Good Time, Uncut Gems)

Joel Edgerton (The Gift, Boy Erased)

Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Life of Pi, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Lust Caustion)

Michael Mann (Thief, Collateral, The Last of the Mohicans, Heat)

Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche New York, Anomalisa)

Jim Jarmusch (Dea Man, Only Lovers Left Alive, Paterson, Mystery Train)

Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester By the Sea, You Can Count on Me, Margaret)

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Bronson Only God Forgives, Neon Demon)

Terrence Malick (Tree of Life, Badlands, Thin Red Line, Days of Heaven)

Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker, The Handmaiden, Lady Vengeance)

Jacques Audiard (The Sisters Brothers, Rust & Bone, A Prophet)

Michael Haneke (Funny Games, The White Ribbon, The Piano Teacher, Amour)

Pedro Almodóvar (All About My Mother, Pride & Glory, Volver, Talk to Her)

Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar)

Leigh Whannell (Upgrade, The Invisible Man)

Chad Stahelski (John Wick, John Wick: Chapter 2, John Wick: Chapter 3- Parabellum)

J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage, The Impossible, A Monster Calls, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom)

David O. Russell (Three Kings, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, I Heart Huckabees)

David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Stronger, Halloween)

David Michod (The Rover, Animal Kingdom, The King)

Tom McCarthy (Spotlight, Win Win, The Station Agent)

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