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Directors on the way up — steady, sustained gains in attention rather than a single viral spike. Today's underrated, tomorrow's headline.

DirectorsGaining attentionUpdated dailyHow fame is measured

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#2	—	Alfred Hitchcock	United Kingdom	Directors	89.5	8.8
#5	—	Steven Spielberg	United States	Directors	88.1	48.8
#8	—	Federico Fellini	Italy	Directors	84.3	9.5
#11	—	Kevin James	United States	Directors	82.5	5.5
#17	—	Sergei Eisenstein	—	Directors	80.7	15.0
#19	—	Clint Eastwood	United States	Directors	80.5	21.2
#29	—	Tenka Hashimoto	Japan	Directors	78.6	25.0
#32	—	Ken Burns	United States	Directors	78.3	18.3
#38	—	Koo Kyo-hwan	South Korea	Directors	77.5	13.6
#40	—	Jenna Jameson	United States	Directors	77.1	4.5
#41	—	Dan Bongino	United States	Directors	77.0	15.0
#49	—	Nobuyuki Sakuma	Japan	Directors	76.2	5.4
#59	1	Fairuza Balk	United States	Directors	74.5	7.1
#60	1	Mohammad Emam	Egypt	Directors	74.5	5.8
#63	1	Shinobu Sakagami	Japan	Directors	74.1	15.0
#69	1	Saaya	Japan	Directors	73.4	13.2
#72	1	Katsuhiro Harada	Japan	Directors	73.2	15.0
#76	1	Amelia Dimoldenberg	United Kingdom	Directors	72.3	25.0
#81	1	Chris Sanders	United States	Directors	71.9	9.5
#82	1	Adrianne Curry	United States	Directors	71.9	15.0
#83	1	Neil Breen	United States	Directors	71.6	7.0
#86	1	Venkat Prabhu	India	Directors	71.3	6.2
#92	1	Spike Lee	United States	Directors	70.8	25.0
#93	1	Michael Brooks	United States	Directors	70.7	18.3
#94	1	Yuji Naka	Japan	Directors	70.5	16.7
#97	1	Lasse Gjertsen	Norway	Directors	70.4	25.0
#100	—	Kim Ji-woong	South Korea	Directors	70.3	8.3
#102	—	Christopher Rufo	United States	Directors	70.1	19.9
#105	—	IM Iyo Matsumoto	Japan	Directors	70.0	13.6
#109	—	Bharathiraja	India	Directors	69.5	10.0
#119	—	Ruby Day	United States	Directors	68.6	10.0
#121	—	Imtiaz Ali	India	Directors	68.6	17.6
#135	—	Cassie Jaye	United States	Directors	67.6	10.1
#139	—	Shane Hurlbut	United States	Directors	67.5	5.9
#140	—	Harvey Weinstein	United States	Directors	67.4	7.0
#141	—	Amar	—	Directors	67.3	11.5
#142	—	Andrey Zvyagintsev	—	Directors	67.3	10.7
#144	1	Sam Levinson	United States	Directors	67.1	17.6
#149	2	AG Alexey Gennadievich Krasovsky	—	Directors	66.8	7.6
#160	2	Elisapie	Canada	Directors	66.3	15.4
#173	2	EW Eriko Watanabe	Japan	Directors	65.8	25.0
#179	3	Wim Wenders	Germany	Directors	65.5	25.0
#180	3	Vittorio De Sica	Italy	Directors	65.5	8.2
#183	4	KS Kotori Shigemoto	Japan	Directors	65.5	16.7
#184	4	Paul Rudd	United States	Directors	65.4	6.6
#188	4	Anar Rzayev	—	Directors	65.1	5.7
#189	4	Milcho Manchevski	—	Directors	65.0	9.4
#195	5	Uwe Boll	Germany	Directors	64.8	25.0
#196	5	Robert Eggers	United States	Directors	64.8	25.0
#199	5	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy	Directors	64.5	15.8
#200	5	Bob Fosse	United States	Directors	64.4	21.4