Category
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
The most famous directors in the world right now — measured across search, news, Wikipedia, and social, and refreshed every day.
#1
99.0
Charlie Chaplin
Stable
#2
89.2
J. K. Rowling
Stable
#3
89.2
Walt Disney
Stable
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#4
88.8
Andy Warhol
Breakout
#5
88.1
Steven Spielberg
Breakout
#6
84.8
Alfred Hitchcock
Stable
#7
84.7
Woody Allen
Stable
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#8
83.1
Stanley Kubrick
Stable
#9
82.6
Akira Kurosawa
Stable
#10
82.5
Zach King
Stable
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#11
82.5
Kevin James
Rising
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#12
81.1
Bruce Lee
Stable
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#13
81.0
Francis Ford Coppola
Falling
#14
80.7
Sergei Eisenstein
Rising
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#15
80.6
Marjane Satrapi
Rising
#16
80.5
Clint Eastwood
Breakout
#17
80.4
Ajay Devgn
Stable
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#18
80.3
Mackenzie Ziegler
Stable
#19
80.1
Federico Fellini
Falling
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#20
80.0
Shane Dawson
Falling
#21
79.8
Bob Saget
Rising
#22
79.6
Sally Field
Falling
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#23
79.5
Ingmar Bergman
Stable
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#24
79.4
Sergio Pérez
Rising
#25
79.2
David Lynch
Stable
#26
78.5
George Lucas
Stable
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#27
78.1
Morgan Freeman
Rising
#28
77.7
Jim Morrison
Stable
#29
77.6
Freddie Wong
Rising
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#30
77.5
Stephen King
Stable
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#31
77.5
Casey Neistat
Falling
#32
77.0
Rob Zombie
Falling
#33
77.0
Banksy
Stable
#34
76.9
Orson Welles
Stable
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#35
76.8
Cate Blanchett
Stable
#36
76.4
Kevin Smith
Falling
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#37
75.4
Al Pacino
Stable
#38
75.2
Siti Nurhaliza
Falling
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#39
74.9
Satyajit Ray
Falling
#40
74.8
Yevgeny Ponasenkov
Falling
#41
74.7
Sarah Ferguson
Falling
#42
74.4
Martin Scorsese
Stable
#43
74.3
Quentin Tarantino
Stable
#44
73.5
George Clooney
Stable
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#45
73.4
Grzegorz Braun
Stable
#46
72.5
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Breakout
#47
72.0
Roman Polanski
Stable
#48
71.8
Jason Statham
Stable
#49
71.6
Mel Gibson
Stable
#50
71.5
Kevin Richardson
Stable
#51
71.3
Venkat Prabhu
Rising
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#52
71.2
James Cameron
Stable
#53
71.0
John Carpenter
Stable
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#54
71.0
Mélanie Laurent
Stable
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#55
71.0
Elena Pogrebizhskaia
Falling
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#56
70.9
Christopher Nolan
Falling
#57
70.8
Spike Lee
Breakout
#58
70.5
Bill Pullman
Stable
#59
70.3
Mary Magdalene
Falling
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#60
70.2
Burt Sugarman
Stable
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#61
70.1
Antonio Banderas
Rising
#62
70.0
Renata Litvinova
Stable
#63
69.5
Ridley Scott
Rising
#64
69.4
Renzo Arbore
Breakout
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#65
69.3
Pedro Almodóvar
Falling
#66
69.3
Hayao Miyazaki
Falling
#67
69.0
Timur Bekmambetov
Stable
#68
68.8
Daniel Auteuil
Falling
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#69
68.6
Nina Paley
Stable
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#70
68.4
Yoshiki Okamoto
Stable
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#71
68.3
Jemaine Clement
Breakout
#72
68.1
Lory Del Santo
Stable
#73
68.0
Chloé Zhao
Rising
#74
68.0
Chua Lam
Falling
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#75
67.9
François Truffaut
Stable
#76
67.7
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Stable
#77
67.5
Sergio Leone
Rising
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#78
67.4
Harvey Weinstein
Rising
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#79
67.3
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Rising
#80
67.2
Elia Kazan
Stable
#81
67.1
Kirk Douglas
Falling
#82
67.1
Caitlyn Jenner
Stable
#83
67.0
Mary Pickford
Falling
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#84
66.9
Peter Jackson
Falling
#85
66.8
Benedict Cumberbatch
Rising
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#86
66.8
Yorgos Lanthimos
Stable
#87
66.6
Stan Lee
Stable
#88
66.6
Sarah Daniels
Falling
#89
66.5
John Goodman
Falling
#90
66.5
Andrei Tarkovsky
Falling
#91
66.0
Tim Burton
Stable
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#92
66.0
Lars von Trier
Stable
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#93
65.9
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Falling
#94
65.8
Jean-Luc Godard
Falling
_(cropped).jpg?width=1200)
#95
65.7
Sion Sono
Stable
#96
65.5
Wim Wenders
Breakout
#97
65.5
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
Stable
#98
65.5
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Falling
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#99
65.4
Paul Rudd
Rising
#100
65.3
Leni Riefenstahl
Stable
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