BFI Top Ten Directors

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In 2002, the British Film Institute released the results of their poll of the Top 10 Film Directors in cinematic history.

The list was compiled in two separate lists after a widespread poll: the Top Ten Directors compiled by film directors and the second compiled by film critics. Both polls confirmed Orson Welles as the greatest film director of all time. Also Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Francis Ford Coppola, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Jean Renoir compare in both lists, although with different rankings.

[edit] Directors' Top 10

  1. Orson Welles
  2. Federico Fellini
  3. Akira Kurosawa
  4. Francis Ford Coppola
  5. Alfred Hitchcock
  6. Stanley Kubrick
  7. Billy Wilder
  8. Ingmar Bergman
  9. Martin Scorsese, David Lean, Jean Renoir

[edit] Critics' Top 10

  1. Orson Welles
  2. Alfred Hitchcock
  3. Jean-Luc Godard
  4. Jean Renoir
  5. Stanley Kubrick
  6. Akira Kurosawa
  7. Federico Fellini
  8. John Ford
  9. Sergei Eisenstein
  10. Francis Ford Coppola, Yasujiro Ozu

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