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Top 100 Directors tagged #Screenwriting

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The most famous directors associated with Screenwriting 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	Charlie Chaplin	United Kingdom	Directors	99.0	10.0
#2	new	Salvador Dalí	Spain	Artists	97.8	10.0
#3	new	Thomas Edison	United States	Scientists	94.1	0.0
#4	new	Alfred Hitchcock	United Kingdom	Directors	89.5	8.8
#5	new	J. K. Rowling	United Kingdom	Directors	89.2	10.0
#6	new	Jackie Chan	United States	Actors	85.6	10.0
#7	new	Woody Allen	United States	Directors	84.6	0.6
#8	new	Federico Fellini	Italy	Directors	84.3	9.5
#9	new	Akira Kurosawa	Japan	Directors	83.2	0.8
#10	new	Robin Williams	United States	Actors	83.0	2.3
#11	new	Jay Leno	United States	Actors	81.7	2.4
#12	new	Francis Ford Coppola	United States	Directors	81.4	5.6
#13	new	Bruce Lee	United States	Directors	80.7	0.0
#14	new	Sergei Eisenstein	—	Directors	80.7	15.0
#15	new	Clint Eastwood	United States	Directors	80.5	21.2
#16	new	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden	Directors	79.4	0.0
#17	new	David Lynch	United States	Directors	79.3	0.2
#18	new	Stanley Kubrick	United States	Directors	79.0	0.0
#19	new	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	United States	Basketball Players	78.8	2.4
#20	new	Stephen King	United States	Directors	78.5	1.0
#21	new	Kevin Spacey	United States	Actors	78.4	0.4
#22	new	Robert De Niro	United States	Directors	77.2	1.5
#23	new	George Lucas	United States	Directors	76.7	2.1
#24	new	Martin Scorsese	United States	Directors	74.8	6.7
#25	new	Al Pacino	United States	Directors	74.5	0.0
#26	new	Orson Welles	United States	Directors	74.1	0.0
#27	new	George Clooney	United States	Directors	73.5	0.0
#28	new	Quentin Tarantino	United States	Directors	72.5	0.0
#29	new	Mel Gibson	United States	Directors	71.6	0.0
#30	new	James Cameron	Canada	Directors	71.2	0.0
#31	new	Roman Polanski	France	Directors	71.0	1.5
#32	new	Gary Cooper	United States	Actors	70.4	4.7
#33	new	Christopher Nolan British-American film director	United Kingdom	Directors	70.2	0.0
#34	new	James Stewart	United States	Business Professionals	70.0	10.3
#35	new	Peter Sellers	United Kingdom	Actors	69.8	0.0
#36	new	Harry Houdini	—	Actors	69.7	10.7
#37	new	Louis de Funès	France	Comedians	69.3	6.6
#38	new	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan	Directors	69.3	0.0
#39	new	Robert Duvall	United States	Actors	69.1	13.8
#40	new	Dolph Lundgren	Sweden	Scientists	68.5	4.6
#41	new	Charlton Heston	United States	Actors	68.4	5.5
#42	new	Emma Thompson	United Kingdom	Actors	68.2	10.0
#43	new	Susan Sontag	United States	Writers	68.0	10.0
#44	new	Sally Field	United States	Directors	68.0	0.0
#45	new	Warren Beatty	United States	Actors	68.0	8.2
#46	new	E. T. A. Hoffmann	Germany	Musicians	67.9	19.9
#47	new	Leni Riefenstahl	Germany	Directors	67.8	4.3
#48	new	Mary Pickford	Canada	Directors	67.5	1.8
#49	new	Harvey Weinstein	United States	Directors	67.4	7.0
#50	new	Elia Kazan	United States	Directors	67.2	3.6
#51	new	Kirk Douglas	United States	Directors	67.1	0.0
#52	new	Stan Lee	United States	Directors	66.6	0.1
#53	new	Willem Dafoe	United States	Actors	66.5	3.8
#54	new	Andrei Tarkovsky	—	Directors	66.5	0.0
#55	new	Gene Kelly	United States	Actors	66.1	5.6
#56	new	Tim Burton	United States	Directors	66.0	0.0
#57	new	Lars von Trier	—	Directors	66.0	10.0
#58	new	Jean-Luc Godard	France	Directors	65.7	0.0
#59	new	Kurt Russell	United States	Actors	65.7	0.0
#60	new	Sergio Leone	Italy	Directors	65.7	2.5
#61	new	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain	Directors	65.6	0.0
#62	new	Wim Wenders	Germany	Directors	65.5	25.0
#63	new	Vittorio De Sica	Italy	Directors	65.5	8.2
#64	new	Danny DeVito	United States	Comedians	65.5	1.7
#65	new	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Italy	Directors	65.5	0.0
#66	new	Peter Handke	Austria	Writers	65.3	1.8
#67	new	Thor Heyerdahl	Norway	Scientists	65.3	3.8
#68	new	Laurence Olivier	United Kingdom	Actors	65.1	0.0
#69	new	Miloš Forman	United States	Directors	65.0	2.3
#70	new	John Ford	United States	Directors	64.9	1.6
#71	new	Luis Buñuel	Spain	Directors	64.7	0.0
#72	new	Robert Mitchum	United States	Actors	64.6	22.1
#73	new	Bryan Cranston	United States	Writers	64.5	0.0
#74	new	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy	Directors	64.5	15.8
#75	new	Peter Ustinov	United Kingdom	Actors	64.4	1.6
#76	new	Audie Murphy	United States	Business Professionals	64.4	10.7
#77	new	Jerry Lewis	United States	Comedians	64.2	1.2
#78	new	Carlo Goldoni	Italy	Writers	64.1	0.0
#79	new	Tilda Swinton	United Kingdom	Actors	63.9	2.1
#80	new	Bernardo Bertolucci	Italy	Directors	63.8	1.3
#81	new	Roberto Benigni	Italy	Directors	63.7	0.3
#82	new	Tom Selleck	United States	Actors	63.5	1.4
#83	new	Oliver Stone	United States	Directors	63.5	0.0
#84	new	Stephen Hillenburg	United States	Directors	63.4	0.9
#85	new	Burt Lancaster	United States	Directors	63.3	0.4
#86	new	Harold Lloyd	United States	Actors	63.0	11.3
#87	new	Cecil B. DeMille	United States	Directors	62.9	1.8
#88	new	Peter Fonda	United States	Actors	62.8	3.7
#89	new	Frank Capra	Italy	Directors	62.7	0.9
#90	new	Ken Loach	United Kingdom	Directors	62.5	15.0
#91	new	Luc Besson	France	Directors	62.5	0.0
#92	new	Bud Spencer	Italy	Comedians	62.5	2.3
#93	new	Friedrich Dürrenmatt	Switzerland	Writers	62.4	0.6
#94	new	Christopher Walken	United States	Actors	62.4	0.0
#95	new	Vanessa Redgrave	United Kingdom	Writers	62.3	1.2
#96	new	Jean Renoir	France	Directors	62.3	10.0
#97	new	Michel Piccoli	France	Actors	62.2	3.6
#98	new	William Wyler	United States	Writers	62.1	10.4
#99	new	Terence Hill	Italy	Directors	62.1	0.9
#100	new	David Carradine	United States	Actors	62.0	0.2