List of film auteurs
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This is a list of filmmakers who have been described as an auteur.
- Lenny Abrahamson[1]
- Moussa Sene Absa[2]
- Tengiz Abuladze[3]
- Kunle Afolayan[4]
- Chantal Akerman[5]
- Fatih Akin[6]
- Robert Aldrich[7]
- Woody Allen[8]
- Pedro Almodóvar[9]
- Lisandro Alonso[10]
- Robert Altman[11]
- Alejandro Amenábar[12]
- Lindsay Anderson[13]
- Paul Thomas Anderson[14]
- Paul W. S. Anderson[15]
- Wes Anderson[16]
- Roy Andersson[17]
- Theo Angelopoulos[18]
- Kenneth Anger[19]
- Hideaki Anno[20]
- Michelangelo Antonioni[21]
- Gregg Araki[22]
- Denys Arcand[23]
- Dario Argento[24][25][26]
- Gillian Armstrong[27]
- Andrea Arnold[28]
- Darren Aronofsky[29]
- Dorothy Arzner[30]
- Hal Ashby[31]
- Olivier Assayas[32]
- Ari Aster[33]
- Héctor Babenco[34]
- Sean Baker[35]
- Ralph Bakshi[36]
- Noah Baumbach[37]
- Mario Bava[38]
- Michael Bay[39][40]
- Jacques Becker[41]
- Ingmar Bergman[42][43]
- Busby Berkeley[44]
- Bernardo Bertolucci[45]
- Luc Besson[46]
- Bahram Beyzai[47]
- Sanjay Leela Bhansali[48]
- Susanne Bier[49][50]
- Kathryn Bigelow[51][40]
- Alice Guy Blaché[52]
- Neill Blomkamp[53]
- Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck[54]
- Peter Bogdanovich[55]
- Bertrand Bonello[56][57][58]
- Bong Joon-ho[59]
- John Boorman[60]
- Frank Borzage[61]
- Danny Boyle[62]
- Stan Brakhage[63]
- Neil Breen[64]
- Catherine Breillat[65]
- Robert Bresson[66]
- Albert Brooks[67]
- Mel Brooks[68]
- Luis Buñuel[69]
- Charles Burnett[70]
- Tim Burton[71]
- James Cameron[72]
- Jane Campion[73]
- Frank Capra[74]
- Leos Carax[75]
- Marcel Carné[76]
- John Carpenter[77][40]
- John Cassavetes[78]
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan[79]
- Claude Chabrol[80]
- Gurinder Chadha[81][82]
- Charlie Chaplin[83]
- Damien Chazelle[84]
- Michael Cimino[85]
- Souleymane Cissé[86][87]
- René Clair[88]
- Alan Clarke[89]
- René Clément[90]
- Henri-Georges Clouzot[91]
- Jean Cocteau[92]
- Michaela Coel[93][94][95]
- Coen brothers[96]
- Ryan Coogler[97][98][99][100]
- Francis Ford Coppola[101]
- Sofia Coppola[102]
- Brady Corbet[103]
- Panos Cosmatos[104]
- Pedro Costa[105]
- Wes Craven[106]
- David Cronenberg[107]
- Alfonso Cuarón[108]
- George Cukor[109]
- Adam Curtis[110][111]
- Daniels (directors)[112]
- Lee Daniels[113]
- Joe Dante[114]
- Dardenne brothers[115]
- Jules Dassin[116]
- Terence Davies[117]
- Manoel de Oliveira[118]
- Brian De Palma[119]
- Vittorio De Sica[120]
- Josephine Decker[121]
- Guillermo del Toro[122]
- Cecil B. DeMille[123]
- Jonathan Demme[124]
- Jacques Demy[125]
- Claire Denis[126]
- Maya Deren[127]
- Arnaud Desplechin[128]
- Lav Diaz[129][130]
- Andrew Dominik[131][132]
- Stanley Donen[133]
- Alexander Dovzhenko[134]
- Julia Ducournau[135]
- Quentin Dupieux[136][137]
- Marguerite Duras[138]
- Clint Eastwood[139]
- Blake Edwards[140]
- Sergei Eisenstein[141]
- Robert Eggers[142]
- Atom Egoyan[143]
- Adam Elliot[144][145][146]
- Victor Erice[147]
- Asghar Farhadi[148]
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder[149]
- Federico Fellini[150]
- Abel Ferrara[151][152]
- Louis Feuillade[153]
- David Fincher[154]
- Robert J. Flaherty[155]
- John Ford[156]
- Miloš Forman[157]
- Bob Fosse[158]
- Jesús Franco[159]
- John Frankenheimer[160]
- William Friedkin[161]
- Lucio Fulci[162]
- Samuel Fuller[163]
- Bi Gan[164]
- Alex Garland[165]
- Philippe Garrel[166]
- Costa-Gavras[167]
- Haile Gerima[168]
- Alexei German[169][170]
- Greta Gerwig[171]
- Ritwik Ghatak[172][173]
- Terry Gilliam[174]
- Sidney Gilliat[175]
- Vince Gilligan[176]
- Jonathan Glazer[177]
- Jean-Luc Godard[178]
- Michel Gondry[179]
- Philippe Grandrieux[180]
- James Gray[181]
- Peter Greenaway[182]
- Jean Grémillon[183][184][185]
- D. W. Griffith[186]
- Luca Guadagnino[187]
- Guan Hu[188]
- Michael Haneke[189]
- Hal Hartley[190]
- Howard Hawks[191]
- Todd Haynes[192]
- Monte Hellman[193]
- Oliver Hermanus[194]
- Don Hertzfeldt[195]
- Werner Herzog[196]
- Walter Hill[197]
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Joanna Hogg[198]
- Agnieszka Holland[199]
- Med Hondo[87]
- Hong Sang-soo[200]
- Hou Hsiao-hsien[201]
- John Hughes[202]
- John Huston[203]
- Hu Bo[204]
- King Hu[205]
- Kon Ichikawa[206]
- Alex de la Iglesia[207][208]
- Shohei Imamura[209]
- Alejandro González Iñárritu[210]
- Shunji Iwai[211]
- Peter Jackson[212]
- Miklós Jancsó[213]
- Derek Jarman[214]
- Jim Jarmusch[215][216]
- Barry Jenkins[217]
- Anders Thomas Jensen[218][219]
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet[220]
- Jia Zhangke[221]
- Alejandro Jodorowsky[222]
- Rian Johnson[223]
- Chuck Jones[224]
- Spike Jonze[225]
- Mikhail Kalatozov[226]
- Anurag Kashyap[6]
- Charlie Kaufman[227]
- Aki Kaurismäki[228]
- Elia Kazan[229]
- Buster Keaton[230]
- Tunde Kelani[4]
- Marlen Khutsiev[231][232]
- Abbas Kiarostami[233]
- Krzysztof Kieslowski[234]
- Kim Ki-duk[235]
- Takeshi Kitano[236]
- Elem Klimov[237][238]
- Masaki Kobayashi[239]
- Satoshi Kon[240]
- Hirokazu Kore-eda[241]
- Stanley Kubrick[242]
- Akira Kurosawa[243]
- Emir Kusturica[244]
- Stanley Kwan[245]
- John Landis[246]
- Fritz Lang[247]
- Yorgos Lanthimos[248]
- Claude Lanzmann[249]
- John Lasseter[250]
- Frank Launder[175]
- David Lean[251]
- Ang Lee[252]
- Spike Lee[253]
- Mike Leigh[254]
- Sergio Leone[255]
- Jerry Lewis[256]
- Joseph H. Lewis[257]
- Richard Linklater[258]
- Ken Loach[259]
- Phil Lord and Christopher Miller[260]
- Chuck Lorre[261]
- Joseph Losey[262]
- Lou Ye[263]
- David Lowery (director)[264]
- Ernst Lubitsch[265]
- George Lucas[266]
- Baz Luhrmann[267]
- Sidney Lumet[268]
- David Lynch[269]
- Guy Maddin[270]
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf[271]
- Terrence Malick[272]
- Louis Malle[273]
- Djibril Diop Mambéty[2]
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz[274]
- Anthony Mann[275]
- Michael Mann[276][40]
- Lucrecia Martel[277]
- Chris Marker[278]
- Sergio Martino[279]
- Elaine May[280]
- Albert and David Maysles[281]
- Leo McCarey[282]
- Steve McQueen[283]
- Adam McKay[284]
- Jonas Mekas[285]
- Georges Méliès[286]
- Sam Mendes[287][288]
- Jean-Pierre Melville[289]
- Russ Meyer[290]
- Nancy Meyers[291]
- Takashi Miike[292]
- George Miller[293]
- Mike Mills[294]
- Vincente Minnelli[295]
- Hayao Miyazaki[296]
- Kenji Mizoguchi[297]
- Mario Monicelli[298]
- João César Monteiro[299]
- Lukas Moodysson[300]
- Michael Moore[301]
- Nanni Moretti[302]
- Errol Morris[303]
- Cristian Mungiu[6]
- Kira Muratova[304][305]
- F. W. Murnau[306]
- Amir Naderi[307]
- Mikio Naruse[308]
- Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor[309]
- Jeff Nichols[310]
- Mike Nichols[311]
- Gaspar Noé[312]
- Christopher Nolan[313]
- Nobuhiko Obayashi[314]
- Ermanno Olmi[315]
- Max Ophüls[316]
- Nagisa Ōshima[317]
- Ruben Östlund[318][319][320]
- François Ozon[321]
- Yasujirō Ozu[322]
- G.W. Pabst[323]
- Alan J. Pakula[324]
- Marcel Pagnol[325]
- Jafar Panahi[326]
- Sergei Parajanov[327][328]
- Park Chan-wook[329]
- Nick Park[330]
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone[331]
- Pier Paolo Pasolini[332]
- Alexander Payne[333]
- Jordan Peele[334]
- Sam Peckinpah[335]
- Arthur Penn[336]
- Alex Ross Perry[337]
- Christian Petzold[338][339][340]
- Maurice Pialat[341]
- Roman Polanski[342]
- Sydney Pollack[343]
- Sarah Polley[344]
- Sally Potter[345]
- Michael Powell[346]
- Otto Preminger[347]
- Cristi Puiu[6]
- Brothers Quay[348]
- Bob Rafelson[349]
- Sam Raimi[40]
- Lynne Ramsay[350]
- Mani Ratnam[351][352]
- Nicholas Ray[353]
- Satyajit Ray[354]
- Carol Reed[355]
- Nicolas Winding Refn[356]
- Kelly Reichardt[357][358]
- Jason Reitman[359]
- Jean Renoir[360]
- Alain Resnais[361]
- Matt Reeves[362]
- Carlos Reygadas[6]
- Tony Richardson[363]
- Leni Riefenstahl[364]
- Jacques Rivette[365]
- Glauber Rocha[366]
- Nicolas Roeg[367]
- Éric Rohmer[368]
- Alice Rohrwacher[369][370][371]
- George A. Romero[372]
- Roberto Rossellini[373]
- Raúl Ruiz[374]
- Björn Runge[375]
- Ken Russell[376]
- David O. Russell[377]
- Safdie brothers[378]
- Walter Salles[379]
- Isabel Sandoval[380][381]
- John Sayles[382]
- John Schlesinger[383]
- Julian Schnabel[384]
- Paul Schrader[385]
- Céline Sciamma[386]
- Martin Scorsese[387]
- Ridley Scott[388]
- Tony Scott[389][390]
- Ousmane Sembène[391]
- Albert Serra[392][393]
- Sohrab Shahid-Saless
- Will Sharpe[394]
- Lynn Shelton[395]
- Larisa Shepitko[396]
- Jane Schoenbrun[397]
- Daryush Shokof[398]
- Trey Edward Shults[399]
- M. Night Shyamalan[400]
- Don Siegel[401]
- Tarsem Singh[402][403]
- Douglas Sirk[404]
- Abderrahmane Sissako[6]
- Victor Sjöström[405]
- Kevin Smith[406]
- Michael Snow[407]
- Zack Snyder[408][409]
- Steven Soderbergh[410][40]
- Alexander Sokurov[411]
- Todd Solondz[412]
- Sion Sono[413]
- Aaron Sorkin[414]
- Paolo Sorrentino[415]
- Steven Spielberg[416]
- George Stevens[417]
- Oliver Stone[418]
- Straub–Huillet[419]
- Barbra Streisand[420]
- John Sturges[421]
- Preston Sturges[422]
- Elia Suleiman[423][424]
- Seijun Suzuki[425]
- Jan Švankmajer[426]
- Isao Takahata[427]
- Quentin Tarantino[428]
- Andrei Tarkovsky[429]
- Béla Tarr[430]
- Frank Tashlin[431]
- Jacques Tati[432]
- Bertrand Tavernier[433]
- Julie Taymor[434]
- Johnnie To[435]
- Jacques Tourneur[436]
- Jeff Tremaine[437]
- Joachim Trier[438][439]
- François Truffaut[440]
- Tsai Ming-liang[441]
- Tsui Hark[442][443][444]
- Shinya Tsukamoto[445]
- Edgar G. Ulmer[446]
- Gus Van Sant[447]
- Agnès Varda[448]
- Paul Verhoeven[449]
- Dziga Vertov[450]
- King Vidor[451]
- Jean Vigo[452]
- Denis Villeneuve[453]
- Thomas Vinterberg[454]
- Luchino Visconti[455]
- Josef von Sternberg[456]
- Erich von Stroheim[457]
- Lars von Trier[458]
- The Wachowskis[459]
- Andrzej Wajda[460]
- Raoul Walsh[461]
- Wang Bing[462]
- Vincent Ward[463]
- Alex van Warmerdam[464][465]
- John Waters[466]
- Lois Weber[467]
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul[468]
- Peter Weir[469]
- Orson Welles[470]
- William A. Wellman[471]
- Wim Wenders[472]
- Lina Wertmüller[473]
- James Whale[474]
- Billy Wilder[475]
- Michael Winterbottom[476]
- Tommy Wiseau[477]
- Frederick Wiseman[478]
- Wong Kar-wai[479]
- John Woo[480]
- Edgar Wright[481]
- Joe Wright[482]
- Edward Yang[483]
- Robert Zemeckis[484]
- Zhang Yimou[485]
- Chloe Zhao[486]
- Rob Zombie[487]
- Andrzej Żuławski[488]
- Valerio Zurlini[489][490]
- Andrey Zvyagintsev[491]
- Terry Zwigoff[492]
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