Kathryn Bigelow
The only woman to win the Oscar for Best Director — The Hurt Locker beat Avatar for Best Picture in 2010 and made the strongest case for female directors in a category that still barely includes them.
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Martin Scorsese
#2Directors — Flushing, Queens, New York · 1967–present
The greatest living filmmaker — a 50-year run that includes Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Departed, and Killers of the Flower Moon. The master of crime and guilt in American cinema.
Quentin Tarantino
#3Directors — Knoxville, Tennessee · 1992–present
The most influential director of the past 30 years — Pulp Fiction's nonlinear structure rewired pop cinema, and every subsequent film has been its own genre exercise in mastery.