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Top 100 Directors tagged #Film Directing

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The most famous directors associated with Film Directing right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Donald Trump	United States	Politicians	99.0	29.7
#2	new	Marilyn Monroe	United States	Actors	91.4	25.9
#3	new	Steve Jobs	United States	Founders	90.3	21.8
#4	new	Thomas Edison	United States	Scientists	90.2	2.0
#5	new	Hillary Clinton	United States	Politicians	89.6	15.7
#6	new	John Lennon	United Kingdom	Musicians	89.3	10.3
#7	new	Walt Disney	United States	Directors	85.7	0.7
#8	new	Alfred Hitchcock	United Kingdom	Directors	85.5	8.8
#9	new	Steven Spielberg	United States	Directors	84.0	25.0
#10	new	Woody Allen	United States	Directors	82.9	1.7
#11	new	Ice Cube	United States	Musicians	82.3	4.9
#12	new	Federico Fellini	Italy	Directors	81.8	9.5
#13	new	Akira Kurosawa	Japan	Directors	81.1	0.8
#14	new	Robin Williams	United States	Actors	80.8	1.9
#15	new	Jackie Chan	United States	Actors	80.4	0.4
#16	new	Marlon Brando	United States	Actors	80.2	2.3
#17	new	Henrik Ibsen	Norway	Writers	79.3	0.0
#18	new	Sergei Eisenstein	—	Directors	79.3	15.0
#19	new	Francis Ford Coppola	United States	Directors	79.1	3.9
#20	new	Stanley Kubrick	United States	Directors	78.7	0.7
#21	new	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden	Directors	78.4	0.0
#22	new	Kevin Spacey	United States	Actors	78.0	0.7
#23	new	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	United States	Basketball Players	77.9	2.3
#24	new	Christopher Nolan British-American film director	United Kingdom	Directors	76.6	0.0
#25	new	George Lucas	United States	Directors	76.5	2.1
#26	new	Roman Polanski	France	Directors	74.5	9.0
#27	new	Martin Scorsese	United States	Directors	74.3	5.1
#28	new	Quentin Tarantino	United States	Directors	74.3	1.8
#29	new	Orson Welles	United States	Directors	74.1	0.0
#30	new	Richard Gere	United States	Actors	73.4	22.7
#31	new	Ridley Scott	United Kingdom	Directors	73.2	30.4
#32	new	Debbie Harry	United States	Musicians	73.0	2.3
#33	new	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan	Directors	71.7	2.6
#34	new	James Cameron	Canada	Directors	71.2	0.0
#35	new	Willem Dafoe	United States	Actors	70.6	4.5
#36	new	Margot Robbie Australian actor and producer	Australia	Actors	70.5	11.5
#37	new	Gary Cooper	United States	Actors	70.4	4.7
#38	new	Tim Burton	United States	Directors	70.3	13.0
#39	new	Buster Keaton	United States	Directors	70.1	12.3
#40	new	Peter Sellers	United Kingdom	Actors	69.8	0.0
#41	new	Harry Houdini	—	Actors	69.7	10.7
#42	new	Robert Duvall	United States	Actors	69.4	26.8
#43	new	Robert Redford	United States	Actors	69.4	3.5
#44	new	Alan Rickman	United Kingdom	Actors	69.3	10.5
#45	new	Gregory Peck	United States	Actors	68.7	3.0
#46	new	Louis de Funès	France	Actors	68.7	3.8
#47	new	Charlton Heston	United States	Actors	68.4	5.5
#48	new	Laurence Olivier	United Kingdom	Actors	68.3	4.8
#49	new	Andrei Tarkovsky	—	Directors	68.3	1.9
#50	new	E. T. A. Hoffmann	Germany	Writers	67.9	19.9
#51	new	Cary Grant	United States	Actors	67.9	1.9
#52	new	Sharon Stone	United States	Actors	67.7	1.7
#53	new	Alec Baldwin	United States	Actors	67.7	4.4
#54	new	François Truffaut	France	Directors	67.5	2.3
#55	new	Jacques Cousteau	France	Directors	67.5	1.0
#56	new	Peter Ustinov	United Kingdom	Actors	67.3	9.0
#57	new	Martin Sheen	United States	Actors	67.2	13.3
#58	new	Elia Kazan	United States	Directors	67.2	3.6
#59	new	Caitlyn Jenner	United States	Directors	67.1	4.3
#60	new	Leni Riefenstahl	Germany	Directors	67.0	2.7
#61	new	Warren Beatty	United States	Actors	67.0	8.7
#62	new	Danny DeVito	United States	Actors	66.9	3.7
#63	new	Sergio Leone	Italy	Directors	66.9	5.0
#64	new	Richard Burton	United Kingdom	Actors	66.8	5.2
#65	new	Angela Lansbury	United Kingdom	Actors	66.8	20.0
#66	new	Hugh Grant	United Kingdom	Actors	66.8	5.0
#67	new	Kurt Russell	United States	Actors	66.6	2.4
#68	new	Luc Besson	France	Directors	66.3	14.5
#69	new	Roger Moore	United Kingdom	Actors	66.0	0.0
#70	new	Lars von Trier	—	Directors	66.0	10.0
#71	new	Konstantin Stanislavski	—	Actors	65.8	15.0
#72	new	Jean-Luc Godard	France	Directors	65.7	0.0
#73	new	Ian McShane	United Kingdom	Actors	65.6	2.4
#74	new	James Caan	United States	Actors	65.6	16.0
#75	new	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain	Directors	65.6	0.0
#76	new	Wim Wenders	Germany	Directors	65.5	25.0
#77	new	Peter Handke	Austria	Writers	65.3	1.8
#78	new	Miloš Forman	United States	Directors	65.0	2.3
#79	new	John Ford	United States	Directors	64.9	1.6
#80	new	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy	Directors	64.8	25.7
#81	new	Robert Mitchum	United States	Actors	64.6	22.1
#82	new	Nick Nolte	United States	Actors	64.6	18.6
#83	new	Audie Murphy	United States	Actors	64.4	10.7
#84	new	Bryan Cranston	United States	Actors	64.4	0.2
#85	new	Dolph Lundgren	Sweden	Actors	64.3	0.0
#86	new	Martin Landau	United States	Actors	64.2	1.2
#87	new	Carlo Goldoni	Italy	Writers	64.1	0.0
#88	new	Takeshi Kitano	Japan	Directors	64.1	5.6
#89	new	Konrad Lorenz	Austria	Scientists	64.0	0.2
#90	new	Fritz Lang	Germany	Directors	64.0	7.8
#91	new	Bernardo Bertolucci	Italy	Directors	63.8	1.3
#92	new	David Carradine	United States	Actors	63.7	2.1
#93	new	Brian De Palma	United States	Directors	63.6	6.8
#94	new	Fernandel	France	Actors	63.6	11.0
#95	new	Tony Scott	United Kingdom	Directors	63.6	8.6
#96	new	Tom Selleck	United States	Actors	63.5	1.4
#97	new	Oliver Stone	United States	Directors	63.5	0.0
#98	new	Harvey Weinstein	United States	Directors	63.4	0.0
#99	new	Luchino Visconti	Italy	Directors	63.3	10.7
#100	new	Harold Lloyd	United States	Actors	63.0	11.3