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Director Skills Progress Tracker

Target: 100 total directors

Existing in examples/ (20):

  1. Wong Kar-wai
  2. Akira Kurosawa
  3. Alfonso Cuarón
  4. Terrence Malick
  5. Coen Brothers
  6. Sofia Coppola
  7. Christopher Nolan
  8. David Lynch
  9. Hayao Miyazaki
  10. Quentin Tarantino
  11. Stanley Kubrick
  12. Wes Anderson
  13. Agnès Varda
  14. Frederick Wiseman
  15. F.W. Murnau
  16. Gus Van Sant
  17. Jean-Luc Godard
  18. John Cassavetes
  19. Orson Welles
  20. Werner Herzog

To create in directors/ (80):

Batch 1 — Classic & New Hollywood

  1. Alfred Hitchcock
  2. John Ford
  3. Howard Hawks
  4. Billy Wilder
  5. John Huston
  6. Sidney Lumet
  7. Martin Scorsese
  8. Steven Spielberg
  9. Francis Ford Coppola
  10. Brian De Palma

Batch 2 — American Masters

  1. David Fincher
  2. Paul Thomas Anderson
  3. Spike Lee
  4. Michael Mann
  5. James Cameron
  6. Ridley Scott
  7. Sam Peckinpah
  8. Denis Villeneuve
  9. Darren Aronofsky
  10. Richard Linklater

Batch 3 — Contemporary American

  1. Jordan Peele
  2. Barry Jenkins
  3. Greta Gerwig
  4. Ari Aster
  5. Robert Eggers
  6. Sean Baker
  7. Chloé Zhao
  8. Spike Jonze
  9. Charlie Kaufman
  10. Noah Baumbach

Batch 4 — Women Directors & Independents

  1. Kathryn Bigelow
  2. Jane Campion
  3. Kelly Reichardt
  4. Andrea Arnold
  5. Lynne Ramsay
  6. Claire Denis
  7. Céline Sciamma
  8. Todd Haynes
  9. Steve McQueen
  10. David Cronenberg

Batch 5 — Italian & Spanish Masters

  1. Federico Fellini
  2. Michelangelo Antonioni
  3. Roberto Rossellini
  4. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  5. Luchino Visconti
  6. Sergio Leone
  7. Pedro Almodóvar
  8. Alejandro González Iñárritu
  9. Guillermo del Toro
  10. Luis Buñuel

Batch 6 — European Masters

  1. Ingmar Bergman
  2. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  3. Robert Bresson
  4. Fritz Lang
  5. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  6. Wim Wenders
  7. Michael Haneke
  8. Lars von Trier
  9. Roy Andersson
  10. Jacques Tati

Batch 7 — Asian Masters

  1. Yasujirō Ozu
  2. Satyajit Ray
  3. Park Chan-wook
  4. Bong Joon-ho
  5. Hirokazu Kore-eda
  6. Edward Yang
  7. Hou Hsiao-hsien
  8. Zhang Yimou
  9. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  10. Abbas Kiarostami

Batch 8 — Final Group

  1. Andrei Tarkovsky
  2. Krzysztof Kieślowski
  3. Yorgos Lanthimos
  4. Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
  5. Mike Leigh
  6. Ken Loach
  7. George Miller
  8. Roman Polanski
  9. Terrence Davies
  10. Asghar Farhadi

Status: COMPLETE — 100/100

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