Lijst van filmregisseurs
Hieronder volgt een alfabetische lijst met bekende Nederlandse, Vlaamse en internationale filmregisseurs. Tussen haakjes staan enkele van hun bekendste films.

A 
 Hany Abu-Assad (Het 14e kippetje)
 Carine Adler (Under the Skin)
 Ben Affleck (Gone Baby Gone, The Town, Argo)
 Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles)
 Fatih Akın (Gegen die Wand, Auf der anderen Seite)
 Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen, Autumn Leaves)
 Woody Allen (Annie Hall, Manhattan, Match Point)
 Pedro Almodóvar (Todo sobre mi madre, Hable con ella, Volver)
 Nathalie Alonso Casale (Figner, the End of a Silent Century, Memory of the Unknown)
 Henk Alsem (Op hoop van zegen, De Jantjes)
 Robert Altman (M*A*S*H, The Player, Gosford Park)
 Raja Amari (Dowaha)
 Alejandro Amenábar (Tesis, Abre los ojos)
 Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, Phantom Thread)
 Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel)
 Theo Angelopoulos (The Hunters, Ulysses, Landschap in de mist)
 Ken Annakin (Battle of the Bulge, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, The Story of Robin Hood)
 Jean-Jacques Annaud (Seven Years in Tibet, L'Amant, Enemy at the Gates)
 Michelangelo Antonioni (The Passenger, Blow-Up)
 Judd Apatow (The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, The King of Staten Island)
 Michael Apted (Up Series, Amazing Grace, Nell)
 Dario Argento (Il gatto a nove code, Profondo rosso, Suspiria)
 Patricia Ariza (Antígona)
 Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler)
 Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude, Being There)
 Anthony Asquith (Pygmalion, The Millionairess)
 Carlos Atanes (FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions, PROXIMA)
 Richard Attenborough (A Bridge Too Far, Gandhi, Cry Freedom)
 Jacques Audiard (Un prophète, De rouille et d'os)
 John G. Avildsen (Rocky, The Karate Kid)

B 
 Vincent Bal (Minoes)
 Nic Balthazar (Ben X)
 Rakhshan Bani-Etemad (The Blue-Veiled)
 Enzo Barboni (Lo chiamavano Trinità)
 Kasper Barfoed (De verloren schat van de Tempelridders)
 Tom Barman (Any Way the Wind Blows)
 Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Marriage Story)
 Michael Bay (Bad Boys, Transformers)
 Warren Beatty (Reds, Dick Tracy)
 Roberto Benigni (La vita è bella)
 Bruce Beresford (Tender Mercies, Driving Miss Daisy)
 Peter Berg (The Kingdom)
 Ingmar Bergman (Såsom i en spegel, Fanny och Alexander)
 Claude Berri (Manon des sources, Ensemble, c'est tout)
 Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris, Novecento, The Last Emperor)
 Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Léon, Le grand bleu)
 Susanne Bier (Efter brylluppet, Hævnen)
 Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty)
 Maurits Binger (Mottige Janus, Het geheim van het slot Arco, Amerikaansche meisjes)
 Bertrand Blier (Trop belle pour toi)
 Don Bluth (Anastasia, Platvoet en zijn vriendjes)
 Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show)
 Jan de Bont (Speed, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Twister)
 Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Snowpiercer, Parasite)
 Serge Bourguignon (Le sourire)
 Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later..., Slumdog Millionaire)
 Nouchka van Brakel (Aletta Jacobs: Het hoogste streven, Een vrouw als Eva)
 Kenneth Branagh (Much Ado About Nothing, Belfast)
 Stephan Brenninkmeijer (De stilte van het naderen)
 Robert Bresson (Au hasard Balthazar, L'Argent)
 Edwin Brienen (Antifilm, Lena will es endlich wissen)
 Jean-Claude Brisseau (Noce blanche)
 James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, As Good as It Gets)
 Mel Brooks (Robin Hood: Men in Tights, The Producers)
 Ytzen Brusse (Parlevinkers)
 Jan Bucquoy (Camping Cosmos)
 Luis Buñuel (Le Fantôme de la liberté, Un chien andalou)
 Tim Burton (Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood)
 John Bush (Vajra Sky Over Tibet)

C 
 James Cameron (The Terminator, Titanic, Avatar)
 Martin Campbell (Casino Royale)
 Jane Campion (The Piano, The Power of the Dog)
 Frank Capra (It's a Wonderful Life)
 Christian Carion (Joyeux Noël)
 Niki Caro (Whale Rider)
 John Carpenter (Halloween, Village of the Damned)
 Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty)
 Alberto Cavalcanti (Rien que les heures)
 Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham, Bride & Prejudice)
 Jackie Chan (Police Story)
 Charlie Chaplin (The Great Dictator, Modern Times, The Kid)
 Larry Charles (Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan)
 Haroetjoen Chatsjatrjan (Taghi dzaynere)
 Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, La La Land, First Man)
 Joan Chen (Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl)
 Laurel Chiten (The Jew in the Lotus)
 Neten Chokling (Milarepa)
 Lu Chuan (Kekexili: Mountain Patrol)
 Larry Clark (Kids)
 George Clooney (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Good Night, and Good Luck)
 Jean Cocteau (La Belle et la Bête)
 Joel en Ethan Coen (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men)
 Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor)
 Chris Columbus (Home Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire)
 Stijn Coninx (Hector, Daens)
 Kerry Conran (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow)
 Gilles Coulier (Cargo)
 Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Rumble Fish, Apocalypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula)
 Sofia Coppola (The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation)
 Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves, Waterworld)
 Jean Counet
 Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream)
 David Cronenberg (The Fly, A Dangerous Method, A History of Violence)
 Cameron Crowe (Vanilla Sky, Almost Famous)
 Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men, Gravity, Roma)

D 
 Dai Wei (Ganglamedo, Once Upon a Time in Tibet)
 Joe D'Amato (Ator l'invincibile 2)
 Joe Dante (Gremlins, The 'Burbs)
 Khashyar Darvich (Dalai Lama Renaissance)
 Robin Davis (Ce cher Victor)
 Robbe De Hert (De Witte van Sichem, Blueberry Hill, Lijmen/Het been)
 Brian De Palma (Carrie, Scarface, The Untouchables,  Impossible)
 Emile Degelin (Si le vent te fait peur)
 Cecil B. DeMille (The Cheat, The Ten Commandments)
 Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs, The Manchurian Candidate, Philadelphia)
 Johnny Depp (The Brave)
 Danny Deprez (Science Fiction)
 Dominique Deruddere (Wait Until Spring, Bandini)
 Marc Didden (Brussels by Night)
 Mike van Diem (Karakter, Alaska)
 Saskia Diesing (Nena)
 Rasmus Dinesen (Duellen, United Colours of football)
 Adriaan Ditvoorst (Ik kom wat later naar Madra, De mantel der liefde)
 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Das Leben der Anderen)
 Alejandro Doria (Cien veces no debo)
 Oleksandr Dovzjenko (De aarde, Arsenaal)
 Joshua Dugdale (The Unwinking Gaze)
 Stanley Donen  (Charade, Arabesque)

E 
 Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino)
 Blake Edwards (Son of the Pink Panther)
 Atom Egoyan (Exotica)
 Sergej Eisenstein (Pantserkruiser Potjomkin, Ivan de Verschrikkelijke deel 1 & deel 2)
 Adil el Arbi (Patser, Bad Boys for Life)
 Sharelly Emanuelson (En Mi Pais)
 Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day)
 Geoffrey Enthoven (Vidange perdue, Hasta la vista)
 Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail)

F 
 Pierre Falardeau (Le Temps des bouffons)
 Bilall Fallah (Patser, Bad Boys for Life)
 Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Angst essen Seele auf)
 Jon Favreau (Iron Man)
 Federico Fellini (La dolce vita)
 David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club, The Social Network)
 John Ford (Stagecoach, The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath)
 Miloš Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Hair, Amadeus)
 Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace)
 Jennifer Fox (My Reincarnation)
 Mannus Franken (Regen)
 Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity)
 Theo Frenkel sr. (Het Wrak van de Noordzee, Aan boord van de Sabine)
 William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist)

G 
 Louis van Gasteren (Stranding)
 Han van Gelder (Paleontologie, Wijd en Zijd, Adventures in perception)
 Orhan Gencebay
 Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird, Little Women)
 Mel Gibson (Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ, Hacksaw Ridge)
 Jeremy Gilley (Peace One Day)
 Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
 Jean-Luc Godard (À bout de souffle, Le Mépris)
 Theo van Gogh (Hoe ik mijn moeder vermoordde, Submission, 06/05)
 Menahem Golan (Enter the Ninja)
 Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep)
 Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams, Babel, Birdman, The Revenant)
 Heinosuke Gosho (Kiiroi Karasu)
 James Gray (Little Odessa)
 Nick Gray (Escape from Tibet)
 Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, 8½ Women)
 Paul Greengrass (United 93, The Bourne Supremacy, Bloody Sunday)
 Yılmaz Güney

H 
 Bert Haanstra (Vroeger kon je lachen, Dokter Pulder zaait papavers)
 Paul Haggis (Crash)
 Lasse Hallström (Chocolat)
 John Halpern (Refuge)
 Josephine Hamming (War of the ants)
 Michael Haneke (La Pianiste, Das weiße Band)
 Yukari Hayashi (The Tibetan Book of the Dead)
 Fadil Hadžić (Službeni položaj)
 Willy van Hemert (Jenny)
 Guido Henderickx (S.)
 Hans Herbots (Windkracht 10: Koksijde Rescue)
 Werner Herzog (Aguirre, the Wrath of God)
 Luc de Heusch
 George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting)
 Arthur Hiller (Silver Streak)
 Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo)
 Heddy Honigmann (Dame la Mano, O Amor Natural)
 Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
 Tom Hooper (The King's Speech, Les Misérables, The Danish Girl)
 Herman van der Horst (Faja Lobbi)
 Ron Howard (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon)
 Sherwood Hu (Prince of the Himalayas)
 Waris Hussein (Sixth Happiness, Little Gloria... Happy at Last)
 John Huston (The Maltese Falcon)

I 
 Kon Ichikawa (Wagahai wa neko de aru)
 Shohei Imamura (Vengeance Is Mine, Unagi)
 Joris Ivens (Regen)
 James Ivory (The Remains of the Day , A Room with a View)

J 
 Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings, King Kong, The Hobbit)
 Derek Jarman (Caravaggio)
 Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers, Stranger Than Paradise)
 Charles Jarrott (The Boy in Blue)
 Fatima Jebli Ouazzani 
 Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk)
 Anders Thomas Jensen (Blinkende lygter, De grønne slagtere, Adams æbler)
 Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Alien 4: Resurrection)
 Norman Jewison (Jesus Christ Superstar, Moonstruck)
 Jia Zhangke (Still Life)
 Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields)
 Steven de Jong (De schippers van de Kameleon, De scheepsjongens van Bontekoe)
 Spike Jonze (Her)
 Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles)
 Mike Judge (Idiocracy, Office Space)
 Li Jun (Nongnu)

K 
 R. Kan Albay (Toothpick, The Flemish Vampire)
 Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff, The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
 Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront)
 Buster Keaton (Our Hospitality, Sherlock Jr.)
 Irvin Kershner (Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back)
 Johan van der Keuken (Amsterdam Global Village)
 Reema Khan (Koi Tujh Sa Kahan)
 Krzysztof Kieślowski (La double vie de Véronique, Trois couleurs: Bleu)
 Takeshi Kitano (Kikujiro)
 Cédric Klapisch (L'Auberge espagnole, Les poupées russes)
 Pavel Kloesjantsev (De maan, Mars)
 Ulrike Koch (Ässhäk, Tales from the Sahara)
 Alexander Graaf von Kolowrat-Krakowsky (Die Sklavenkönigin)
 Martin Koolhoven (Suzy Q, Het schnitzelparadijs)
 Pim Korver (March 6, 1987 (the salvage of the Herald of Free Enterprise))
 Bernard L. Kowalski (Krakatoa, East of Java)
 Jeroen Krabbé (The Discovery of Heaven, Left Luggage)
 Arnold Krøjgaard (Het verboden elftal)
 Mirjam Kubescha (Die Madonna von Vlatodon)
 Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket)
 Clemens Kuby (Das Alte Ladakh)
 Pieter Kuijpers (TBS, Van God Los)
 Harry Kümel (Monsieur Hawarden)
 Akira Kurosawa (The Hidden Fortress)
 Emir Kusturica (Underground)
 Sardono Waluyo Kusumo (Rembulan dan Matahari)
 Gurgon Kyap (Toutes ces belles promesses)

L 
 M.H. Laddé (Gestoorde hengelaar, Solser en Hesse)
 David Lammers (Langer licht)
 John Landis (Blues Brothers 2000)
 Fritz Lang (Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse)
 Giorgos Lanthimos (Kynodontas, The Lobster, The Favourite)
 Claude Lanzmann (Shoah)
 Hugo Latulippe (Ce qu'il reste de nous)
 Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)
 David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago)
 Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain, Life of Pi)
 Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing, BlacKkKlansman)
 Mike Leigh (Naked, Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake)
 Claude Lelouch (Les Uns et les Autres)
 Mickey Lemle (Compassion in Exile: The Life of the 14th Dalai Lama)
 Sanna Lenken (Min lilla syster)
 Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West)
 Jerry Lewis (The Bellboy, The Nutty Professor)
 Willy Lindwer (De laatste zeven maanden van Anne Frank)
 Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, School of Rock, Boyhood)
 Luis Llosa (Anaconda)
 Ken Loach (Kes, Ae Fond Kiss...)
 Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me, Margaret, Manchester by the Sea)
 Joseph Losey (Accident)
 George Lucas (THX 1138, American Graffiti, Star Wars)
 Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!, Romeo + Juliet)
 Joram Lürsen (Alles is Liefde)
 David Lynch (The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet)
 Adrian Lyne (Indecent Proposal, Fatal Attraction)

M 
 Dick Maas (De lift, Amsterdamned)
 Terrence Malick (Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life)
 Louis Malle (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)
 James Mangold (Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma)
 Michael Mann (Ali, Miami Vice)
 Ernst Marischka (Sissi)
 Garry Marshall (Runaway Bride)
 Rob Marshall (Chicago)
 Andrew Marton (Storm over Tibet)
 Thomas Mauch (Das kleine Fernsehspiel)
 Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent, The Visitor, Spotlight)
 Adam McKay (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The Big Short, Vice)
 Barrie McLean (The Tibetan Book of the Dead)
 Steve McQueen (Hunger, Shame, 12 Years a Slave)
 John McTiernan (Die Hard)
 Fernando Meirelles (Cidade de Deus, The Constant Gardener)
 Georges Méliès (Le voyage dans la lune)
 Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall, 1917)
 Jiří Menzel (Ostře sledované vlaky)
 Samuel Meyering (Rufus)
 Thierry Michel (Congo River)
 Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi The Killer)
 Lewis Milestone (Ocean's 11)
 George Miller (Mad Max, Happy Feet)
 Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)
 Kenji Mizoguchi
 Dominik Moll (Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien, Lemming)
 Lutz Mommartz (Tango durch Deutschland)
 Ruud Monster
 Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11)
 Hiroaki Mori (The Tibetan Book of the Dead)
 Koen Mortier (Ex Drummer)
 Rabih Mroué
 Nikita Michalkov (Oerga, Oetomljonnye solntsem)

N 
 Pan Nalin (Samsara, Valley of Flowers)
 Martijn van Nellestijn (Sinterklaas en het Geheim van het Grote Boek, Sinterklaas en de Verdwenen Pakjesboot)
 Jelle Nesna (Carmen van het Noorden)
 Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Lord of War)
 Mike Nichols (Biloxi Blues, Working Girl)
 Hans Nieter (Seven Years in Tibet)
 Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Dark Knight, Inception)
 Khyentse Norbu (De cup, Travellers and Magicians)
 Nima Nourizadeh (Project X)
 Phillip Noyce (The Bone Collector, Rabbit-Proof Fence)

O 
 Paula van der Oest (Verborgen gebreken, Black Butterflies)
 Alexander Oey (Zandkastelen, De Terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein)
 Tim Oliehoek (Spion van Oranje, Vet Hard)
 Max Ophüls (Le Plaisir, Letter from an Unknown Woman)
 Nagisa Oshima (Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence)
 Mehrdad Oskouei
 François Ozon (8 femmes, Ricky)
 Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Monogatari)

P 
 José Padilha (Tropa de Elite)
 Alan J. Pakula (All the President's Men, Sophie's Choice)
 Alan Parker (Angela's Ashes, Evita, Angel Heart)
 Pim de la Parra (Jongens, jongens, wat een meid)
 Pier Paolo Pasolini (Medea, Het evangelie volgens Matteüs)
 George Patterson (Raid Into Tibet)
 Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida, Zimna wojna)
 Alexander Payne (About Schmidt, Sideways, The Descendants)
 Sam Peckinpah (Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia)
 Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us)
 Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde, Little Big Man)
 Tom Peosay (Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion)
 Maria Peters (De Tasjesdief, Kruimeltje, Pietje Bell, Afblijven)
 Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, Outbreak)
 Todd Phillips (Starsky & Hutch, The Hangover, Joker)
 Michel Piccoli (Train de nuit)
 Vsevolod Poedovkin (Storm over Azië)
 Roman Polański (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, The Pianist)
 Sydney Pollack (Tootsie, Out of Africa)
 Léa Pool (Lost and Delirious)
 Otto Preminger (Carmen Jones)
 François Prévost (Ce qu'il reste de nous)
 Prince (Under the Cherry Moon, Graffiti Bridge)
 Jos de Putter (Beyond the Game, Het is een schone dag geweest)

Q 
 Richard Quine (Bell, Book and Candle)
 Gene Quintano (Loaded Weapon 1)

R 
 Fons Rademakers (Makkers, staakt uw wild geraas, De aanslag)
 Jef Rademakers
 Lili Rademakers (Menuet, Dagboek van een oude dwaas)
 Géza von Radványi (Mädchen in Uniform)
 Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Spider-Man)
 Harold Ramis (Groundhog Day, Analyze This)
 Lenin el-Ramly
 Brett Ratner (X-Men: The Last Stand, Rush Hour)
 Kaushik Ray (On Life & Enlightenment)
 Rick Ray (10 Questions for the Dalai Lama)
 Silvestre Rebel (The streets movie)
 Robert Redford (Ordinary People, Quiz Show, The Horse Whisperer)
 Franz Reichle (Das Wissen vom Heilen)
 Peter Reijnders
 Rob Reiner (This Is Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally...)
 Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters, My Super Ex-Girlfriend)
 Edgar Reitz (Heimat 1, 2 en 3)
 Jean Renoir (La Règle du jeu, Le Crime de Monsieur Lange)
 Alain Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour)
 Tsering Rhitar (The Spirit Doesn't Come Anymore)
 Pierre Richard (Droit dans le mur)
 Leni Riefenstahl (Triumph des Willens)
 Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Sherlock Holmes, Aladdin)
 Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi, From Dusk Till Dawn, Sin City)
 Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth)
 Éric Rohmer (Pauline à la plage)
 Michaël R. Roskam (Rundskop, The Drop)
 Gary Ross (The Hunger Games)
 Roberto Rossellini (Il generale Della Rovere)
 David O. Russell (Three Kings, The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook)
 Ken Russell (Lisztomania)

S 
 Jérôme Salle (Largo Winch)
 Walter Salles (Diarios de motocicleta)
 Ritu Sarin (Dreaming Lhasa)
 Tatsuo Satō (Martian Successor Nadesico)
 Luc Schädler (Angry Monk)
 Ine Schenkkan (Vroeger is dood, Jan Rap en z'n maat)
 John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy)
 Volker Schlöndorff (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum)
 Daniel Schmid (Beresina oder die letzten Tage der Schweiz)
 Paul Schneider (Dance 'Til Dawn)
 Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Affliction)
 Dave Schram (Timboektoe, Radeloos)
 Werner Schroeter (Palermo oder Wolfsburg)
 Joel Schumacher (8MM, Batman Forever)
 Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, The Aviator, The Departed)
 Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator)
 Tony Scott (Top Gun, True Romance)
 Mack Sennett
 Orlow Seunke (De smaak van water, Pervola, sporen in de sneeuw, Pim)
 Jonne Severijn (Come-Back)
 Delphine Seyrig (Sois belle et tais-toi)
 Kumar Shahani
 Vincent Sherman
 Daryush Shokof
 Sun Shuyun
 M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs)
 Vittorio De Sica (Ladri di biciclette)
 Brad Silberling (Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, 10 Items or Less)
 David Silverman (The Simpsons Movie)
 Frank Sinatra (None But the Brave)
 Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, X-Men)
 Cheick Oumar Sissoko (Guimba, un tyrant, une époque, La Genèse, Battù)
 Sirppa Sivori-Asp
 Victor Sjöström (De voerman des doods, The Wind)
 George Sluizer (De Lage Landen, Spoorloos, The Vanishing)
 Kevin Smith
 Alan Smithee
 Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Ocean's Eleven)
 Aleksandr Sokoerov (Russian Ark, Faust)
 Stephen Sommers (The Mummy Returns)
 Tenzin Sönam
 Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black)
 Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
 Steven Spielberg (Jaws, E.T., Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan)
 Lita Stantic (Cordero de Dios)
 Peter Stein (Klassen Feind)
 Jos Stelling
 Robert Stevenhagen (The Tale of Despereaux)
 Oliver Stone (Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers)
 Tad Stones (Aladdin en de Dievenkoning)
 Henri Storck
 Tim Story (Fantastic Four)
 Barbra Streisand
 Leslie Streit
 Erich von Stroheim
 Shireen Strooker (Een zwoele zomeravond)
 Caroline Strubbe (Lost Persons Area)
 Elia Suleiman
 Sun Zhou (Zhou Yu's Train)
 István Szabó (Bizalom)

T 
 Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds)
 Arya Tariverdi (It's raining cats & dogs, Pentaphyllon, Bewogenstilleven, Emergo, Soesterkwartier)
 Andrej Tarkovski (De spiegel, Solaris)
 Jacques Tati (Mon oncle, Les Vacances de monsieur Hulot)
 Norman Taurog (Living It Up, Live a Little, Love a Little)
 Paolo Taviani (La masseria delle allodole, Padre padrone)
 Vittorio Taviani (La masseria delle allodole, Padre padrone)
 Eddy Terstall (Simon, SEXtet)
 Lowell Thomas
 Lowell Thomas jr.
 Richard Thorpe (Ten Thousand Bedrooms, Jailhouse Rock)
 Guido Thys (Tanghi Argentini)
 Guy Lee Thys
 Guillermo del Toro (El laberinto del fauno, The Shape of Water)
 André de Toth (House of Wax, Pitfall)
 Victor Tourjansky (I battelieri del Volga)
 Walter Tournier (Los escondites del sol)
 Graham Townsley
 Patrice Toye (Rosie)
 Carmel Travers
 Joachim Trier (Oslo, 31. august, Verdens verste menneske)
 Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves)
 Fien Troch (Een ander zijn geluk)
 Margarethe von Trotta
 François Truffaut (La Nuit américaine)
 Namgyal Dündul Tsarong
 Pema Tseden (The Silent Holy Stones)
 Dick Tuinder (Afscheid van de maan)
 Tom Tykwer (Lola rennt)
 Giuseppe Tornatore (Nuovo cinema Paradiso)

U 
 Marc van Uchelen
 Peter Ustinov

V 
 Roger Vadim
 Éric Valli
 Jaco Van Dormael (Toto le héros, Le Huitième Jour, Mr. Nobody)
 Rob Van Eyck (The Afterman)
 Pieter Van Hees (Linkeroever, Dirty Mind)
 Joël Vanhoebrouck
 Erik Van Looy (De zaak Alzheimer, Loft)
 Hilde Van Mieghem (De kus, Dennis van Rita, Smoorverliefd)
 Leeuw van Moerkerken (Dimitri's Raam)
 Hans Van Nuffel (Adem)
 Frank Van Passel (Manneken Pis, Het varken van Madonna)
 Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Elephant)
 Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, Kick-Ass)
 Jean van de Velde (De kleine blonde dood, All Stars)
 Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean)
 Ben Verbong (Het meisje met het rode haar, De kassière)
 Roland Verhavert (Pallieter)
 Jan Verheyen (Team Spirit, Dossier K., Zot van A.)
 Pieter Verhoeff
 Paul Verhoeven (Turks fruit, Basic Instinct, Zwartboek)
 Ritchie Vermeire
 Wim Verstappen
 Guus Verstraete jr.
 Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Sicario, Arrival)
 Thomas Vinterberg (Festen, Jagten, Druk)
 Luchino Visconti (Rocco e i suoi fratelli, Il gattopardo)
 Julien Vrebos (Le Bal Masqué)
 Edwin de Vries

W 
 Paul Wagner
 Andrzej Wajda (De man van ijzer, De man van marmer)
 Lucy Walker
 Ping Wang
 Wayne Wang
 Döndrub Wangchen
 Alex van Warmerdam (De jurk, Borgman)
 John Waters (Cry-Baby, Serial Mom)
 Robert D. Webb (Love Me Tender)
 Peter Weir (Witness, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show)
 Frans Weisz
 Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, Chimes at Midnight)
 Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas)
 Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot, Avanti!, Sunset Boulevard)
 Robert Wise (The Sound of Music, West Side Story, The Day the Earth Stood Still)
 Martin Witz
 Wong Kar-Wai (2046, My Blueberry Nights)
 John Woo (Face/Off, Mission: Impossible II)
 Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)
 Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice, Atonement, Hanna)

X 
 Feng Xiaoning (Red River Valley)
 Jin Xie (Opiumoorlog)

Y 
 David Yates (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)
 Atıf Yılmaz
 Li Yin (The Knot)
 Bud Yorkin (Inspector Clouseau)
 Yuen Biao (A Kid from Tibet)
 Zhang Yimou (House of Flying Daggers, Curse of the Golden Flower)

Z 
 Zarganar
 Zhou chengzhou
 Franco Zeffirelli (Tea with Mussolini)
 Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Cast Away)
 Chloé Zhao (The Rider, Nomadland)
 Fred Zinnemann (High Noon, The Day of the Jackal)
 Tian Zhuangzhuang (The Horse Thief, Delamu, De blauwe vlieger)

Zie ook 
 Lijst van Belgische filmregisseurs

 
Filmregisseurs
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