Top 50 Film directors in the world 2021, Know More About The Top Directers In The World
by C Hariharan
Updated Jan 10, 2022
Best Movie directors Of All Time
Top 50 film directors in the world 2021 are the question some might not have thought of because, in most of the movies, only the actors will show their face except some. Only in some films, the directors will make a guest appearance. From Hollywood to films of other languages, almost the Director remains in the same scenario. Here comes the list of Top 50 film Directors in the World 2021.
Top 50 Film Directors In The World 2021
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Director Name |
Movie Language |
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Christoper Nolan |
English |
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Rajkumar Hirani |
Hindi |
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Hayao Miyazaki |
Japanese |
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Asghar Farhadi |
Iranian |
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Sergio Leone |
Italian |
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David Fincher |
English |
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Frank Darabont |
English |
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Quentin Tarantino |
English |
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Emir Kusturica |
Serbian |
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Lilly Wachowski |
English |
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Lana Wachowski |
English |
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Denis Villeneuve |
French |
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Peter Jackson |
English |
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Stanley Kubrick |
English |
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Charles Chaplin |
English |
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Steve McQueen |
English |
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Upendra |
Kannada |
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Samuel Alexander Mendes |
English |
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Martin Charles Scorsese |
English |
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Darren Aronofsky |
English |
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Milos Forman |
Czech |
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Spike Jonze |
English |
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David Lynch |
English |
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Steven Spielberg |
English |
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Alfred Hitchcock |
English |
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George Walton Lucas, Jr. |
English |
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Ingmar Bergman |
Swedish |
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Federico Fellini |
Italian |
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James Cameron |
English |
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Danny Boyle |
English |
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Roman Polanski |
Polish |
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Ethan Coen |
English |
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Paul Thomas Anderson |
English |
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Robert Zemeckis |
English |
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Yavuz Turgul |
Turkish |
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu |
Mexican |
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James Gunn |
English |
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Zach Snyder |
English |
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Tim Burton |
English |
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Richard Stuart Linklater |
English |
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James Mangold |
English |
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Ridley Scott |
English |
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Guillermo Del Toro |
Mexican |
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Guy Ritchie |
English |
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Francis Lawrence |
Australian |
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Joss Wheden |
English |
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Akira Kurosawa |
Japanese |
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Bryan Singer |
English |
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Satyajit Ray |
Bengali |
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Roberto Benigni |
Italian |
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Top 10 Best Movie Directors in History
Though the Directors from the world, have different ideas, while directing a movie, yet some ideas of those Directors attract global audiences. Since Cinema does not have caste or race, it satisfies the expectations of audiences throughout the world. Here comes the list of Top 10 Best Movie Directors in History
1. Christoper Nolan
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Christopher Nolan is a movie producer, director, and screenwriter from British American ancestry. He made his debut with the movie Following(1998). His film Momento in 2000, gave him immense popularity globally. Later he worked with the movies like Insomnia, The Dark Knight Trilogy, and The Prestige. His movie Inception was chosen for eight Oscar nominations. After this, his movie Dunkirk in 2017 had been nominated for Academic Award under Best Picture and Best Director category. His film won awards in many categories. His film won 11 Academy awards and 36 nominations. He is the list of Awards won by his films on a bigger platform.
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Year |
Film |
Number of Awards |
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2008 |
Dark Knight Trilogy |
4 |
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2010 |
Inception |
7 |
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2014 |
Interstellar |
2 |
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2017 |
Dunkirk |
4 |
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2020 |
Tenant |
2 |
2. Rajkumar Hirani
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Rajkumar Hirani is an Indian producer, screenwriter, distributor, movie producer, and director from India. This Indian director had received several National awards from the Indian Government. He is the one to launch the Rajkumar Hirani Films to produce Hindi movies. His movies like Lage Raho Munnabhai, Munna bhai M.B.B.S, 3 idiots and PK have made the box- office records. His film Lage Raho Munnabhai won National Award under Best Popular film category, Best Dialogue, and Best Story.
3. Hayao Miyazaki
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Hayao Miyazaki is an author, director, screenwriter, producer, and animator from Japan. He is best known for his animated films, as a creator and storyteller. He is one of the best film directors in the world. At the Mainichi Film Awards, his movie The Castle of Cagliostro in 1979 had won the Ofuji Noburo Award. In 1989, his film KiKi’s Delivery Service received the Mainichi Film Award under the Best Animation Film category. He won 8 Kinema Awards, eight Tokyo Anime Awards, six Japan Academy Awards, five Annie Awards, and three Anime Grand Prix awards. The Government of Japan, gave him the title Person of Cultural Merit.
4. Asghar Farhadi
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Asghar Farhadi is a film producer, screenwriter and Director from Iran. His films were mostly based on the humanity and the conditions of a family. He gave well praisable stories in his movies like About Elly, The Past, A Separation, Everybody Knows and A Hero. A number of times, he won the Best Foreign Film Oscar awards. In 2012, his film A Separation bagged the Academic award under Best Foreign-language Film. In 2017, his film The Salesman bagged the Academy Award under the Best Foreign Language Film category. Other than that, he also won Federica Fellini and Vittorio de Sica awards nearly four times.
5. Seorgio Leone
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Seorgio Leone was a screenwriter, producer, and movie director from Italy. In cinema history, he is known as the creator of the Spaghetti Western genre. His films are renowned for their very lengthy shots. In 1972, for his work in the movie “Duck,You Sucker”, he won the David Di Donatello . Later in 1984, for his direction in “Once Upon a Time in America”, he was nominated for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Award. In the same year, he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the same movie. After his death, in 2014 the Italy-USA foundation gave him the America Award.
6. David Fincher
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David Andrew Leo Fincher is a film director from America. A number of music videos, such as Vogue and Madonna's Express Yourself were introduced under his direction. He won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction for these music videos in 1990. He made his film debut in 1992, with the movie Alien 3. His films “The Game” and “Fight Club” gave him huge success. In 2002, his thriller movie Panic Room gave him a big return back.
7. Frank Darabont
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Frank Darabont is a screenwriter, film director and producer from America. His films went under nominations for a Golden Globe Award and three Academy Awards. The movies, “The Shawshank Redemption'', ”The Mist” and “ The Green Mile” came under his direction. He was the screenwriter for movies such as The “Blob”, “The Fly II” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors”.
8. Quentin Taratino
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Quentin Taratino is a film director, screenwriter, actor and producer from America. His film features dramatic violence,humour, unique storylines, and pop culture. With no doubt, he won many awards. His films were nominated for five Grammy and one Emmy award. He was regarded as the “single most influential director of his Generation” by the filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. He won two Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two BAFTA Awards. The “Reservoir Dogs”, “Jackie Brown”, “Kill Bill:Volume1”, “Kill Bill:Volume2”, ”The hateful eight” and “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood” are some of the notable films.
9. Emir Kusturica
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Emir Kusturica is an actor, filmmaker and musician from Serbia. He has won Palme d'Or two times. His films took part in the Cannes Film Festival nearly five times. He bagged the Best Director prize for Time of the Gypsies. Here comes the list for some awards he won for his movies.
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Year |
Movie name |
Awards |
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1981 |
Do You Remember Dolly Bell? |
Venice Film Festival four times |
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1985 |
When Father Was Away on Business |
Palm d’Or |
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1988 |
Time of the Gypsies |
Guldbagge Award for Best Foreign Film |
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1993 |
Arizona Dream |
Silver Berlin Bear |
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1998 |
Black Cat, White Cat |
Little Golden Lion at Venice Film festival, Silver Lion |
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2001 |
Super 8 Stories |
Silver Plague at CIFF |
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2004 |
Life is a miracle |
Cesar Award |
10. Lilly Wachowskis
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Lilly Wachowskis along with her sister, Lana Wachowskis have written and directed films in their career. In 1996, these sisters made their debut with Bound. In 1999, their movie “The Matrix” was a huge success. Following this, they directed “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions” in 2003. In 2005, they wrote and produced “V for Vendetta” after the “Matrix” series. Based on the Japanese anime series, they worked on the film “Speed racer”, which came out in 2008. In 2012, these successful Trans women jointly directed the film “Cloud Atlas”. The Jupiter Ascending and the Sense 8 were the other projects, in which they jointly worked.
Top 50 film directors in the world 2021 - FAQ
Christopher Nolan is the top most Director in the world.
Rajkumar Hirani is the best film Director in the Indian Cinema.
Frank Daramont directed the movie “The Mist” in 2007.
The film Director Quentino Taratino made the screenplay for the movie “Jackie Brown”.
David Fincher directed the film “The Game”.
Rajkumar Hirani directed five films in Hindi.
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