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Top Living Directors

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Average listal rating (1048 ratings) 8.7  
1. Martin Scorsese
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Average listal rating (839 ratings) 7.8  
2. Woody Allen
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Average listal rating (520 ratings) 8.4  
3. Joel Coen
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Average listal rating (1172 ratings) 8.5  
5. Clint Eastwood
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Average listal rating (334 ratings) 8.4  
6. Pedro Almodóvar
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Average listal rating (185 ratings) 8.7  
7. Werner Herzog
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Average listal rating (401 ratings) 7.6  
8. Brian De Palma
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Average listal rating (573 ratings) 8.6  
9. David Lynch
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Average listal rating (521 ratings) 8.2  
10. Roman Polanski
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Average listal rating (365 ratings) 7.8  
11. John Carpenter
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Average listal rating (1521 ratings) 8.3  
12. Quentin Tarantino
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Average listal rating (146 ratings) 8.4  
13. Michael Haneke
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Average listal rating (285 ratings) 7.9  
14. Lars von Trier
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Average listal rating (1351 ratings) 8.1  
15. Steven Spielberg
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Average listal rating (205 ratings) 7.9  
16. George A. Romero
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Average listal rating (445 ratings) 9.2  
17. Hayao Miyazaki
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Average listal rating (265 ratings) 7.7  
18. Michael Mann
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Average listal rating (832 ratings) 8.5  
19. Christopher Nolan
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Average listal rating (366 ratings) 8  
20. Guillermo del Toro
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Average listal rating (205 ratings) 7.7  
21. Alfonso Cuarón
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Average listal rating (368 ratings) 8.1  
22. David Cronenberg
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Average listal rating (140 ratings) 8.2  
23. Fernando Meirelles
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Average listal rating (122 ratings) 8.1  
25. Dario Argento
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Average listal rating (274 ratings) 8.4  
26. Paul Thomas Anderson
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Average listal rating (246 ratings) 8.3  
27. Jean-Luc Godard
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Average listal rating (102 ratings) 8.2  
28. Wim Wenders
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Average listal rating (1440 ratings) 8.3  
29. Tim Burton
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Average listal rating (37 ratings) 8.5  
30. Abbas Kiarostami
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Average listal rating (64 ratings) 8.3  
31. Alain Resnais
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Average listal rating (82 ratings) 7.8  
32. Walter Salles
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Average listal rating (231 ratings) 7.9  
33. Michel Gondry
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Average listal rating (326 ratings) 7.4  
34. Ang Lee
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Average listal rating (14 ratings) 8.5  
35. Majid Majidi
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Average listal rating (435 ratings) 8.3  
36. Darren Aronofsky
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Average listal rating (426 ratings) 7.2  
37. Sofia Coppola
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Average listal rating (221 ratings) 7.1  
38. Spike Lee
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Average listal rating (201 ratings) 8.2  
39. Jim Jarmusch
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Average listal rating (20 ratings) 7.6  
40. Juan José Campanella
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Average listal rating (26 ratings) 7.1  
41. Thomas Vinterberg
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Average listal rating (338 ratings) 7.5  
42. Gus Van Sant
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Average listal rating (2 ratings) 10  
43. Elia Suleiman
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Average listal rating (73 ratings) 6.9  
44. Don Bluth
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Average listal rating (223 ratings) 7.1  
45. Zack Snyder
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Average listal rating (75 ratings) 7.5  
46. Alejandro Amenábar
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Average listal rating (213 ratings) 7.5  
47. Richard Linklater
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Average listal rating (537 ratings) 7.2  
48. Sam Raimi
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Average listal rating (879 ratings) 7.7  
49. Peter Jackson
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Average listal rating (747 ratings) 8  
50. Ridley Scott
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*The names are in order of preference.

*This was originally a "Top 10" list, but I would leave too many directors out, and I couldn't live with it.

Who left the list:

*2009: No casualties.

*2010: Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Arthur Penn, Mario Monicelli and Blake Edwards.

*2011: Sidney Lumet.

*2012: Tony Scott.

See also: Top Deceased Directors

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