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Criteria: These film editors were ranked according to their influence on cutting of films, the acclaim they received for their film editing, and, to a lesser degree, the greatness (influence, acclaim, popularity) of the films they cut.

Disclaimer: This list is strongly influenced by the Western canon of films. This means that in the broader scope of a global cinema certain regions may be underrepresented, among them Russia, India, China, Africa and Latin America.

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Sergei Eisenstein

1. Sergei Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin)
2. George Tomasini (Psycho)
3. Thelma Schoonmaker (Raging Bull)
4. Michael Kahn (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
5. Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai)
6. Dede Allen (Bonnie and Clyde)
7. D. W. Griffith, James & Rose Smith (Intolerance)
8. Barbara McLean (All About Eve)
9. Anne V. Coates (Lawrence of Arabia)
10. Margaret Booth (Mutiny on the Bounty)
11. Dorothy Spencer (Stagecoach)
12. Daniel Mandell (The Apartment)
13. Ralph Dawson (The Adventures of Robin Hood)
14. William H. Reynolds (The Godfather)
15. Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now)
16. Paul Hirsch (Star Wars)
17. Nino Baragli (The Gospel According to Saint Matthew)
18. Jack Murray (The Searchers)
19. Ralph E. Winters (The Pink Panther)
20. Verna Fields (Jaws)
21. Gerald B. Greenberg (The French Connection)
22. William Hornbeck (It's a Wonderful Life)
23. Gene Milford (On the Waterfront)
24. Elmo Williams (High Noon)
25. Richard Chew (Star Wars)
26. Blanche Sewell (The Wizard of Oz)
27. Eraldo Da Roma (Bicycle Thieves)
28. Cécile Decugis (Breathless)
29. Harold F. Kress (How the West Was Won)
30. William A. Lyon (From Here to Eternity)
31. Otho Lovering (Stagecoach)
32. William H. Ziegler (Strangers on a Train)
33. Marguerite Beaugé (Napoléon)
34. Yoshiyasu Hamamura (Tokyo Story)
35. Sam O'Steen (The Graduate)
36. Peter Zinner (The Godfather)
37. Warren Low (Now, Voyager)
38. Ruggero Mastroianni (Amarcord)
39. Leo Catozzo (8½)
40. Sally Menke (Pulp Fiction)
41. Ray Lovejoy (2001: A Space Odyssey)
42. Al Clark (The Awful Truth)
43. Richard Marks (Terms of Endearment)
44. Anne Bauchens (The Ten Commandments)
45. Fredric Steinkamp (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?)
46. Adrienne Fazan (Singin' in the Rain)
47. Joe Hutshing (JFK)
48. Pietro Scalia (Gladiator)
49. Alan Heim (All That Jazz)
50. Rudy Fehr (Prizzi's Honor)
51. Dulal Dutta (Pather Panchali)
52. Robert Wise (Citizen Kane)
53. Mario Serandrei (The Leopard)
54. Oscar Rosander (Wild Strawberies)
55. René Le Hénaff (Port of Shadows)
56. Louis Lombardo (The Wild Bunch)
57. Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall (The Social Network)
58. Gene Ruggiero (Ninotchka)
59. Gene Havlick (It Happened One Night)
60. Dziga Vertov & Yelizaveta Svilova (Man with a Movie Camera)
61. Robert W. Paul (Come Along, Do!)
62. Edwin S. Porter (The Great Train Robbery)
63. Georges Méliès (A Trip To the Moon)
64. James Williamson (The Big Swallow)
65. George Albert Smith (As Seen Through a Telescope)
66. Charles Chaplin (City Lights)
67. Luis Buñuel (Un Chien Andalou)
68. Marcia Lucas (Star Wars)
69. Claudine Bouché (Jules and Jim)
70. Marguerite Renoir (The Rules of the Game)
71. Lev Kuleshov (Kuleshov Effect)
72. Alexander Dovzhenko (Earth)
73. Arthur Schmidt (Back to the Future)
74. Gerry Hambling (Midnight Express)
75. William Goldenberg (Argo)
76. Carol Littleton (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
77. Margaret Sixel (Mad Max: Fury Road)
78. Esfir Shub (The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty)
79. Frederic Knudtson (Judgment at Nuremberg)
80. Michael Luciano (Kiss Me Deadly)
81. Conrad A. Nervig (King Solomon's Mines)
82. Daniel P. Hanley & Mike Hill (Apollo 13)
83. Richard A. Harris (Titanic)
84. Tom Rolf (Taxi Driver)
85. Frank P. Keller (Bullitt)
86. James E. Newcom & Hal C. Kern (Gone with the Wind)
87. Lee Smith (The Dark Knight)
88. Joel Cox (Unforgiven)
89. John Bloom (Gandhi)
90. George Amy (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
91. Lisa Fruchtman (The Right Stuff)
92. Paul Weatherwax (The Naked City)
93. John Dunning (Battleground)
94. Harry W. Gerstad (High Noon)
95. Conrad Buff (Titanic)
96. James Cameron (Titanic)
97. Françoise Bonnot (Z)
98. Owen Marks (Casablanca)
99. Arthur P. Schmidt (Some Like It Hot)
100. Bud S. Smith (The Exorcist)
101. Robert Swink (Roman Holiday)
102. Viola Lawrence (The Lady from Shanghai)
103. Terry Rawlings (Blade Runner)
104. Barry Malkin (The Godfather Part II)
105. Stephen Mirrione (Traffic)
106. Joe Walker (Arrival)
107. Charles Nelson (Picnic)
108. Robert C. Jones (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
109. Jim Clark (Marathon Man)
110. John Gilbert (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
111. Chris Dickens (Slumdog Millionaire)
112. Daniel Rezende (City of God)
113. Robert Simpson (The Grapes of Wrath)
114. Claire Simpson (Platoon)
115. Susan E. Morse (Manhattan)
116. William Chang (In the Mood for Love)
117. Ralph Rosenblum (Annie Hall)
118. Lyudmila Feyginova (Stalker)
119. Agnès Guillemot (Contempt)
120. Buster Keaton (Sherlock Jr.)
121. René Clair (Entr'acte)
122. Maya Deren (Meshes of the Afternoon)
123. Stan Brakhage (Dog Star Man)
124. Donn Cambern (Easy Rider)
125. Richard Francis-Bruce (The Shawshank Redemption)
126. Doane Harrison (The Lost Weekend)
127. Ralph Kemplen (The Day of the Jackal)
128. Antony Gibbs (Walkabout)
129. Anthony Harvey (Dr. Strangelove)
130. Frank J. Urioste (Die Hard)
131. Ferris Webster (The Manchurian Candidate)
132. Robert L. Wolfe (All the President's Men)
133. Pembroke J. Herring (Groundhog Day)
134. Hank Corwin (The Tree of Life)
135. Craig McKay (The Silence of the Lambs)
136. Christopher Rouse (The Bourne Ultimatum)
137. Joel & Ethan Coen (Fargo)
138. Franco Arcalli (The Conformist)
139. Dylan Tichenor (There Will Be Blood)
140. Gabriella Cristiani (The Last Emperor)
141. Philip W. Anderson (Giant)
142. Stuart Gilmore (Airport)
143. Oswald Hafenrichter (The Third Man)
144. Mark Goldblatt (The Terminator)
145. Peter R. Hunt (Goldfinger)
146. Richard Halsey (Rocky)
147. Jay Cassidy (Into the Wild)
148. Eda Warren (The General Died at Dawn)
149. Cotton Warburton (Mary Poppins)
150. Thom Noble (Thelma & Louise)
151. Robert J. Kern (National Velvet)
152. Robert Parrish (Body and Soul)
153. Steven Rosenblum (Glory)
154. William Steinkamp (The Fabulous Baker Boys)
155. Hal Ashby (In the Heat of the Night)
156. Stuart Baird (Superman)
157. Danford B. Greene (M*A*S*H)
158. Tim Squyres (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
159. John Jympson (A Hard Day's Night)
160. José Salcedo (Talk to Her)
161. Louis R. Loeffler (Anatomy of a Murder)
162. Abbas Kiarostami (Close-Up)
163. Jay Rabinowitz (Requiem for a Dream)
164. Jacques Witta (Three Colors: Red)
165. Tariq Anwar (American Beauty)
166. Bob Murawski (The Hurt Locker)
167. David Bretherton (Cabaret)
168. Reginald Mills (The Red Shoes)
169. Sheldon Kahn (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
170. Zach Staenberg (The Matrix)
171. Sandra Adair (Boyhood)
172. Bill Butler (A Clockwork Orange)
173. Lynzee Klingman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
174. Hugh S. Fowler (Patton)
175. Billy Weber (Days of Heaven)
176. Hervé de Luze (The Pianist)
177. Juliette Welfling (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
178. Edith Schlüssel (Ordet)
179. Suzanne Baron (Monsieur Hulot's Holiday)
180. Léonide Azar (Elevator to the Gallows)
181. Carlos Savage (Los Olvidados)
182. Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus (Aguirre, the Wrath of God)
183. Juliane Lorenz (The Marriage of Maria Braun)
184. Peter Przygodda (Wings of Desire)
185. Jean Ravel (La Jetee)
186. Yorgos Mavropsaridis (The Favorite)
187. David Brenner (Independence Day)
188. Frank Morriss (Duel)
189. Chris Lebenzon (Top Gun)
190. Jon Gregory (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
191. Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (The Banshees of Inisherin)
192. Hannes Nikel (Das Boot)
193. James Haygood (Fight Club)
194. Dody Dorn (Memento)
195. Tom Cross (La La Land)
196. Kevin Tent (Sideways)
197. Paul Rubell (The Insider)
198. Jill Bilcock (Moulin Rouge!)
199. Andrew Weisblum (Black Swan)
200. Hervé Schneid (Amélie)

Sean Baker (Anora)
Alan Baumgarten (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Reginald Beck (Henry V)
Samuel E. Beetley (The Longest Day)
David Blewitt (Ghostbusters)
Peter Boyle (The Hours)
Robin Campillo (The Class)
Frank Clarke (Blowup)
Henri Colpi (Hiroshima mon amour)
Scott Conrad (Rocky)
Douglas Crise (Babel)
Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)
Bob Ducsay (Knives Out)
Franco Fraticelli (Suspiria)
Kevin Greutert (Saw)
Walter Hannemann (Smokey and the Bandit)
Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop)
Tina Hirsch (Gremlins)
Kim Sang-bum (Oldboy)
Saar Klein (The Bourne Identity)
Jennifer Lame (Oppenheimer)
Raymond Lamy (Au hasard Balthazar)
Liao Ching-sung (A City of Sadness)
Pamela Martin (The Fighter)
Michael McCusker (Walk the Line)
Otto Meyer (The Talk of the Town)
Eve Newman (Two-Minute Warning)
Valdís Óskarsdóttir (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Simona Paggi (Life Is Beautiful)
Bill Pankow (The Untouchables)
Geraldine Peroni (Brokeback Mountain)
Hélène Plemiannikov (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie)
Robert Rodríguez (Sin City)
Ronald Sanders (The Fly)
Jamie Selkirk (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
Takeshi Seyama (Spirited Away)
Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape)
Crispin Struthers (Silver Linings Playbook)
Frank Sullivan (The Philadelphia Story)
Mary Sweeney (Mulholland Drive)
Walter A. Thompson (The Nun's Story)
Esfir Tobak (October: Ten Days That Shook the World)
Sherman Todd (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
Neil Travis (Dances with Wolves)
Dennis Virkler (The Fugitive)
Monika Willi (Tár)
John Wright (Speed)
Yang Jin-mo (Parasite)

I feel like Cecile Decugis should be higher, massive influence and a solid body of work as well.

Sure, suggestion for a new spot?

29, maybe?

Hah, I was thinking #30, just behind James & Rose Smith.

Moved Leo Catozzo down a bit as I am not sure if his technical innovations factor in influence criterion here. He did edit Fellini's biggest films but overall I think Mastroianni had been more prolific and acclaimed of an editor.

I could see Marguerite Bauge a bit higher due to significant influence as well. Maybe Robert Wise and Nino Baragli could be higher as well.

Edit: Perhaps some more experimental film editors could be on the list, Maya Deren, Luis Bunuel and Jean Ravel (La Jetee) come to mind.

Also Francoise Bonnot seems like she could be a bit higher.

Wanna take a shot at the preliminarily update?

ManPerson wrote: Tue Dec 23, 2025 2:36 pm Edit: Perhaps some more experimental film editors could be on the list, Maya Deren, Luis Bunuel and Jean Ravel (La Jetee) come to mind.

Stan Brakhage another one I overlooked.

1. Sergei Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin)
2. George Tomasini (Psycho)
3. Thelma Schoonmaker (Raging Bull)
4. Michael Kahn (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
5. Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai)
6. Dede Allen (Bonnie and Clyde)
7. D. W. Griffith (The Birth of a Nation)
8. Barbara McLean (All About Eve)
9. Anne V. Coates (Lawrence of Arabia)
10. Margaret Booth (Mutiny on the Bounty)
11. Dorothy Spencer (Stagecoach)
12. Daniel Mandell (The Apartment)
13. Ralph Dawson (The Adventures of Robin Hood)
14. William H. Reynolds (The Godfather)
15. Walter Murch (The English Patient)
16. Paul Hirsch (Star Wars)
17. Nino Baragli (The Gospel According to Saint Matthew)
18. Jack Murray (The Searchers)
19. Ralph E. Winters (The Pink Panther)
20. Verna Fields (Jaws)
21. Gerald B. Greenberg (The French Connection)
22. William Hornbeck (It's a Wonderful Life)
23. Gene Milford (On the Waterfront)
24. Elmo Williams (High Noon)
25. Richard Chew (Star Wars)
26. Blanche Sewell (The Wizard of Oz)
27. Eraldo Da Roma (Bicycle Thieves)
28. James & Rose Smith (Intolerance)
29. Cécile Decugis (Breathless)
30. Harold F. Kress (How the West Was Won)
31. William A. Lyon (From Here to Eternity)
32. Otho Lovering (Stagecoach)
33. William H. Ziegler (Strangers on a Train)
34. Marguerite Beaugé (Napoléon)
35. Yoshiyasu Hamamura (Tokyo Story)
36. Sam O'Steen (The Graduate)
37. Peter Zinner (The Godfather)
38. Warren Low (Now, Voyager)
39. Ruggero Mastroianni (Amarcord)
40. Leo Catozzo (8½)
41. Sally Menke (Pulp Fiction)
42. Ray Lovejoy (2001: A Space Odyssey)
43. Al Clark (The Awful Truth)
44. Richard Marks (Terms of Endearment)
45. Anne Bauchens (The Ten Commandments)
46. Fredric Steinkamp (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?)
47. Adrienne Fazan (Singin' in the Rain)
48. Joe Hutshing (JFK)
49. Pietro Scalia (Gladiator)
50. Alan Heim (All That Jazz)
51. Rudy Fehr (Prizzi's Honor)
52. Dulal Dutta (Pather Panchali)
53. Robert Wise (Citizen Kane)
54. Mario Serandrei (The Leopard)
55. Oscar Rosander (Wild Strawberies)
56. René Le Hénaff (Port of Shadows)
57. Louis Lombardo (The Wild Bunch)
58. Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall (The Social Network)
59. Gene Ruggiero (Ninotchka)
60. Gene Havlick (It Happened One Night)
61. Dziga Vertov & Yelizaveta Svilova (Man with a Movie Camera)
62. Robert W. Paul (Come Along, Do!)
63. Edwin S. Porter (The Great Train Robbery)
64. Georges Melies (A Trip To the Moon)
65. James Williamson (The Big Swallow)
66. George Albert Smith (As Seen Through a Telescope)
67. Charles Chaplin (City Lights)
68. Luis Bunuel (Un Chien Andalou)
69. Marcia Lucas (Star Wars)
70. Claudine Bouché (Jules and Jim)
71. Marguerite Renoir (The Rules of the Game)
72. Lev Kuleshov (Kuleshov Effect)
73. Alexander Dovzhenko (Earth)
74. Arthur Schmidt (Back to the Future)
75. Gerry Hambling (Midnight Express)
76. William Goldenberg (Argo)
77. Carol Littleton (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
78. Margaret Sixel (Mad Max: Fury Road)
79. Esfir Shub (The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty)
80. Frederic Knudtson (Judgment at Nuremberg)
81. Michael Luciano (Kiss Me Deadly)
82. Conrad A. Nervig (King Solomon's Mines)
83. Daniel P. Hanley & Mike Hill (Apollo 13)
84. Richard A. Harris (Titanic)
85. Tom Rolf (Taxi Driver)
86. Frank P. Keller (Bullitt)
87. James E. Newcom & Hal C. Kern (Gone with the Wind)
88. Lee Smith (The Dark Knight)
89. Joel Cox (Unforgiven)
90. John Bloom (Gandhi)
91. George Amy (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
92. Lisa Fruchtman (The Right Stuff)
93. Paul Weatherwax (The Naked City)
94. John Dunning (Battleground)
95. Harry W. Gerstad (High Noon)
96. Conrad Buff (Titanic)
97. James Cameron (Titanic)
98. Françoise Bonnot (Z)
99. Owen Marks (Casablanca)
100. Arthur P. Schmidt (Some Like It Hot)
101. Bud S. Smith (The Exorcist)
102. Robert Swink (Roman Holiday)
103. Viola Lawrence (The Lady from Shanghai)
104. Terry Rawlings (Blade Runner)
105. Barry Malkin (The Godfather Part II)
106. Stephen Mirrione (Traffic)
107. Joe Walker (Arrival)
108. Charles Nelson (Picnic)
109. Robert C. Jones (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
110. Jim Clark (Marathon Man)
111. John Gilbert (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
112. Chris Dickens (Slumdog Millionaire)
113. Daniel Rezende (City of God)
114. Robert Simpson (The Grapes of Wrath)
115. Claire Simpson (Platoon)
116. Susan E. Morse (Manhattan)
117. William Chang (In the Mood for Love)
118. Ralph Rosenblum (Annie Hall)
119. Lyudmila Feyginova (Stalker)
120. Agnès Guillemot (Contempt)
121. Rene Clair (Entr'acte)
122. Maya Deren (Meshes of the Afternoon)
123. Stan Brakhage (Dog Star Man)
124. Donn Cambern (Easy Rider)
125. Richard Francis-Bruce (The Shawshank Redemption)
126. Doane Harrison (The Lost Weekend)
127. Ralph Kemplen (The Day of the Jackal)
128. Antony Gibbs (Walkabout)
129. Anthony Harvey (Dr. Strangelove)
130. Frank J. Urioste (Die Hard)
131. Ferris Webster (The Manchurian Candidate)
132. Robert L. Wolfe (All the President's Men)
133. Pembroke J. Herring (Groundhog Day)
134. Hank Corwin (The Tree of Life)
135. Craig McKay (The Silence of the Lambs)
136. Christopher Rouse (The Bourne Ultimatum)
137. Joel & Ethan Coen (Fargo)
138. Franco Arcalli (The Conformist)
139. Dylan Tichenor (There Will Be Blood)
140. Gabriella Cristiani (The Last Emperor)
141. Philip W. Anderson (Giant)
142. Stuart Gilmore (Airport)
143. Oswald Hafenrichter (The Third Man)
144. Mark Goldblatt (The Terminator)
145. Peter R. Hunt (Goldfinger)
146. Richard Halsey (Rocky)
147. Jay Cassidy (Into the Wild)
148. Eda Warren (The General Died at Dawn)
149. Cotton Warburton (Mary Poppins)
150. Thom Noble (Thelma & Louise)
151. Robert J. Kern (National Velvet)
152. Robert Parrish (Body and Soul)
153. Steven Rosenblum (Glory)
154. William Steinkamp (The Fabulous Baker Boys)
155. Hal Ashby (In the Heat of the Night)
156. Stuart Baird (Superman)
157. Danford B. Greene (M*A*S*H)
158. Tim Squyres (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
159. John Jympson (A Hard Day's Night)
160. José Salcedo (Talk to Her)
161. Louis R. Loeffler (Anatomy of a Murder)
162. Abbas Kiarostami (Close-Up)
163. Jay Rabinowitz (Requiem for a Dream)
164. Jacques Witta (Three Colors: Red)
165. Tariq Anwar (American Beauty)
166. Bob Murawski (The Hurt Locker)
167. David Bretherton (Cabaret)
168. Sheldon Kahn (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
169. Zach Staenberg (The Matrix)
170. Sandra Adair (Boyhood)
171. Bill Butler (A Clockwork Orange)
172. Lynzee Klingman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
173. Hugh S. Fowler (Patton)
174. Billy Weber (Days of Heaven)
175. Hervé de Luze (The Pianist)
176. Juliette Welfling (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
177. Edith Schlüssel (Ordet)
178. Suzanne Baron (Monsieur Hulot's Holiday)
179. Léonide Azar (Elevator to the Gallows)
180. Carlos Savage (Los Olvidados)
181. Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus (Aguirre, the Wrath of God)
182. Juliane Lorenz (The Marriage of Maria Braun)
183. Peter Przygodda (Wings of Desire)
184. Jean Ravel (La Jetee)
185. Yorgos Mavropsaridis (The Favorite)
186. David Brenner (Independence Day)
187. Frank Morriss (Duel)
188. Chris Lebenzon (Top Gun)
189. Jon Gregory (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
190. Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (The Banshees of Inisherin)
191. Hannes Nikel (Das Boot)
191. James Haygood (Fight Club)
192. Dody Dorn (Memento)
193. Tom Cross (La La Land)
194. Kevin Tent (Sideways)
195. Paul Rubell (The Insider)
197. Jill Bilcock (Moulin Rouge!)
198. Andrew Weisblum (Black Swan)
199. Hervé Schneid (Amélie)
200. Frank Clarke (Blowup)
Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)
David Blewitt (Ghostbusters)
Yang Jin-mo (Parasite)
Jennifer Lame (Oppenheimer)
Michael McCusker (Walk the Line)
Samuel E. Beetley (The Longest Day)
John Wright (Speed)
Saar Klein (The Bourne Identity)

Sean Baker (Anora)
Alan Baumgarten (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Reginald Beck (Hamlet)
Robin Campillo (The Class)
Henri Colpi (Hiroshima mon amour)
Scott Conrad (Rocky)
Douglas Crise (Babel)
Franco Fraticelli (Suspiria)
Kevin Greutert (Saw)
Walter Hannemann (Smokey and the Bandit)
Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop)
Tina Hirsch (Gremlins)
Kim Sang-bum (Oldboy)
Raymond Lamy (Au hasard Balthazar)
Pamela Martin (The Fighter)
Otto Meyer (The Talk of the Town)
Eve Newman (Two-Minute Warning)
Valdís Óskarsdóttir (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Simona Paggi (Life Is Beautiful)
Bill Pankow (The Untouchables)
Geraldine Peroni (Brokeback Mountain)
Hélène Plemiannikov (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie)
Robert Rodríguez (Sin City)
Ronald Sanders (The Fly)
Jamie Selkirk (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
Takeshi Seyama (Spirited Away)
Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape)
Crispin Struthers (Silver Linings Playbook)
Frank Sullivan (The Philadelphia Story)
Walter A. Thompson (The Nun's Story)
Esfir Tobak (October: Ten Days That Shook the World)
Sherman Todd (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
Neil Travis (Dances with Wolves)
Dennis Virkler (The Fugitive)
Monika Willi (Tár)

Also, I was unsure on how to divide credit between D.W. Griffith and James & Rose Smith, maybe they should be combined?

Put the Man's revision of my list in the first post for now.

I am now thinking Reginald Mills should probably be somewhere in the top 200.

ManPerson wrote: Tue Dec 23, 2025 6:56 pm Also, I was unsure on how to divide credit between D.W. Griffith and James & Rose Smith, maybe they should be combined?

Yeah, upon further thoughts, we might as well combine them.

I support Mills addition.

Forgot Buster Keaton, think he might be main list-worthy here, inserted him right above René Clair for now.