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Top Directors
The directors behind the films people argue about — auteurs, blockbuster architects, and the festival darlings everyone's suddenly quoting. 3,909 tracked, sorted by the attention they pull across search, Wikipedia, the news cycle, and social platforms, recalculated every day.
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Most famous living
The most famous directors in the world right now — measured across search, news, Wikipedia, and social, and refreshed every day.
#1
89.2
J. K. Rowling
Stable
#2
88.1
Steven Spielberg
Breakout
#3
84.6
Woody Allen
Falling
#4
82.5
Zach King
Falling
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#5
82.5
Kevin James
Rising
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#6
82.2
Casey Neistat
Stable
#7
82.1
Christopher Nolan
British-American film director
Legacy
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#8
81.4
Francis Ford Coppola
Stable
#9
81.2
Zerocalcare
Stable
#10
80.5
Clint Eastwood
Rising
#11
80.4
Ajay Devgn
Stable
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#12
80.3
Mackenzie Ziegler
Stable
#13
79.9
Kai Asakura
Falling
#14
79.8
Rob Zombie
Stable
#15
79.5
Natsuki Hanae
Stable
#16
78.6
Tenka Hashimoto
Breakout
#17
78.6
Freddie Wong
Stable
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#18
78.5
Stephen King
Stable
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#19
78.3
Ken Burns
Breakout
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#20
78.1
Morgan Freeman
Stable
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#21
78.1
Sergio Pérez
Falling
#22
78.0
Shane Dawson
Falling
#23
77.7
Puri Jagannadh
Falling
#24
77.5
Koo Kyo-hwan
Rising
#25
77.2
Robert De Niro
Stable
#26
77.1
Jenna Jameson
Rising
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#27
77.0
Dan Bongino
Rising
#28
76.9
Michael Bolton
Stable
#29
76.7
George Lucas
Falling
#30
76.5
Vivienne Medrano
Falling
#31
76.5
David Byrne
Stable
#32
76.4
Kevin Smith
Stable
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#33
76.3
Saima Raina
Falling
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#34
76.2
Yuzuru Hanyū
Stable
#35
76.2
Nobuyuki Sakuma
Rising
#36
76.1
Michael Moore
Stable
#37
76.1
Banksy
Falling
#38
75.2
Siti Nurhaliza
Falling
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#39
75.0
Cate Blanchett
Stable
#40
74.9
Robert Herjavec
Stable
#41
74.8
Martin Scorsese
Stable
#42
74.8
Yevgeny Ponasenkov
Falling
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#43
74.5
Al Pacino
Falling
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#44
74.5
Fairuza Balk
Rising
#45
74.5
Mohammad Emam
Rising
#46
74.2
Alan Melikdjanian
Stable
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#47
74.2
Toshio Okada
Stable
#48
74.1
Shinobu Sakagami
Breakout
#49
74.0
Sarah Ferguson
Falling
#50
73.8
Butch Hartman
Falling
#51
73.7
Bassem Youssef
Stable
#52
73.5
George Clooney
Stable
#53
73.4
Saaya
Rising
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#54
73.4
Grzegorz Braun
Stable
#55
73.2
Katsuhiro Harada
Breakout
#56
72.5
Quentin Tarantino
Falling
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#57
72.3
Amelia Dimoldenberg
Breakout
#58
72.3
Laverne Cox
Falling
#59
72.2
Don Bluth
Stable
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#60
72.1
James Patterson
Stable
#61
71.9
Namewee
Falling
#62
71.9
Chris Sanders
Rising
#63
71.9
Adrianne Curry
Breakout
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#64
71.6
Neil Breen
Rising
#65
71.6
Mel Gibson
Stable
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#66
71.5
Mélanie Laurent
Stable
#67
71.3
Venkat Prabhu
Rising
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#68
71.2
James Cameron
Stable
#69
71.0
John Carpenter
Stable
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#70
71.0
Elena Pogrebizhskaia
Stable
#71
71.0
Roman Polanski
Stable
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#72
70.8
Andrey Kurpatov
Stable
#73
70.8
Spike Lee
Breakout
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#74
70.5
Yuji Naka
Breakout
#75
70.5
Bill Pullman
Stable
#76
70.5
Jason Statham
Stable
#77
70.4
Lasse Gjertsen
Breakout
#78
70.4
Kevin Richardson
Stable
#79
70.3
Kim Ji-woong
Rising
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