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1	Wilder, Billy	D		W			P	32	1954	25
2	Shakespeare, William			W				59	1967	63
3	Bergman, Ingmar	D		W			P	31	1968	38
4	Kurosawa, Akira	D		W			P	26	1965	7
5	Truffaut, François	D	A	W			P	24	1970	15
6	Buñuel, Luis	D		W		M	P	21	1956	44
7	Fellini, Federico	D	A	W				22	1962	11
8	Huston, John	D	A	W	C		P	22	1947	64
9	Allen, Woody	D	A	W		M	P	37	1989	21
10	Kubrick, Stanley	D		W	C		P	10	1971	2
11	Renoir, Jean	D	A	W			P	23	1941	3
12	Hecht, Ben	D	A	W			P	32	1945	105
13	Coppola, Francis Ford	D	A	W		M	P	13	1976	6
14	Chaplin, Charles	D	A	W		M	P	35	1926	111
15	Lehman, Ernest			W			P	15	1964	62
16	Godard, Jean-Luc	D	A	W			P	29	1976	16
17	Welles, Orson	D	A	W			P	16	1960	1
18	Pinelli, Tullio			W				14	1961	11
19	Lucas, George	D	A	W			P	17	1993	22
20	Lang, Fritz	D	A	W			P	13	1936	27
21	Chandler, Raymond			W				8	1953	43
22	Zavattini, Cesare			W				17	1956	4
23	Dickens, Charles			W				23	1958	197
24	Marion, Frances			W				31	1926	421
25	Williams, Tennessee			W			P	12	1961	94
26	Lean, David	D		W			P	8	1952	197
27	Trumbo, Dalton	D	A	W				16	1955	221
28	Mankiewicz, Joseph L.	D		W			P	13	1946	40
29	Griffith, D.W.	D	A	W		M	P	23	1913	170
30	Lynch, David	D		W	C	M	P	9	1987	135
31	Scorsese, Martin	D	A	W			P	7	1990	28
32	Greene, Graham			W				16	1959	77
33	Gruault, Jean		A	W				12	1971	42
34	Mankiewicz, Herman J.			W			P	9	1934	1
35	Hammett, Dashiell			W				12	1945	64
36	Steinbeck, John		A	W				11	1952	91
37	Keaton, Buster	D	A	W			P	24	1924	100
38	Brooks, Mel	D	A	W		M	P	12	1980	164
39	King, Stephen			W				12	1997	305
40	Hemingway, Ernest			W				14	1949	372
41	Towne, Robert	D	A	W			P	9	1983	19
42	Wells, H.G.			W				15	1951	621
43	Mamet, David	D		W			P	19	1994	543
44	Faulkner, William			W				9	1953	226
45	Lee, Spike	D	A	W			P	9	1992	73
46	Hitchcock, Alfred	D	A	W			P	11	1930	105
47	Pinter, Harold	D	A	W				11	1977	514
48	Spielberg, Steven	D	A	W			P	5	1983	169
49	Tolstoy, Leo			W				11	1951	508
50	Coward, Noel	D	A	W		M	P	7	1938	203
51	Austen, Jane			W				11	1997	470
52	Haggis, Paul	D		W		M	P	7	2005	457
53	Fields, W.C.	D	A	W				9	1933	257
54	Maugham, W. Somerset			W				14	1941	654
55	Poe, Edgar Allan			W				16	1950	1101
56	Fairbanks, Douglas		A	W			P	12	1922	412
57	Silliphant, Stirling			W				9	1969	212
58	Simon, Neil			W				15	1974	1224
59	O'Neill, Eugene			W				10	1948	849
60	Beatty, Warren	D	A	W			P	5	1989	239
61	Capra, Frank	D	A	W			P	2	1936	51
62	Stevenson, Robert Louis			W				9	1942	666
63	Olivier, Laurence	D	A	W			P	2	1946	271
64	Lawrence, D.H.			W				6	1970	657
65	Hill, Walter	D		W			P	7	1981	566
66	Leonard, Elmore			W			P	8	1983	1210
67	Christie, Agatha			W				6	1971	860
68	Siodmak, Curt	D		W				7	1941	771
69	Hawks, Howard	D	A	W			P	6	1939	653
70	Clooney, George	D	A	W			P	4	2011	557
71	Crichton, Michael	D		W			P	8	1990	764
72	Zanuck, Darryl F.	D		W			P	8	1932	1560
73	Roach, Hal	D	A	W		M	P	8	1923	875
74	Kazan, Elia	D	A	W			P	2	1955	951
75	Wilde, Oscar			W				7	1959	1176
76	Thompson, Emma		A	W				2	1998	470
77	Selznick, David O.	D		W			P	3	1945	1110
78	Berlin, Irving		A	W		M		4	1940	1486
79	Gibson, Mel	D	A	W			P	2	2005	1277
80	Ford, John	D	A	W	C		P	5	1934	1299
81	Porter, Edwin S.	D		W	C		P	2	1903	1221
82	Grisham, John			W			P	6	1996	2162
83	Apatow, Judd	D		W			P	5	2008	2328
84	Zwick, Edward	D		W			P	4	2004	1474
85	Lewton, Val			W			P	2	1945	1503
86	Wexler, Haskell	D	A	W	C		P	1	1969	1388
87	Sennett, Mack	D	A	W			P	3	1912	2070
88	Freund, Karl	D	A	W	C			1	1927	1801
89	Nicholson, Jack	D	A	W			P	2	1967	2210
90	Duvall, Robert	D	A	W		M	P	2	1990	2043
91	Porter, Cole			W		M		1	1957	2124
92	Jolie, Angelina	D	A	W			P	2	2014	2342
93	Arbuckle, Roscoe 'Fatty'	D	A	W				3	1917	2567
94	Rodgers, Richard			W		M		1	1939	2224
95	Pacino, Al	D	A	W			P	1	1996	2476
96	Stothart, Herbert			W		M		1	1936	2519
97	Evans, Robert		A	W			P	1	2002	2562
98	DeMille, Cecil B.	D	A	W			P	1	1914	2567
99	Coutard, Raoul	D		W	C			1	1970	2612
99	Nykvist, Sven	D		W	C			1	1991	2612
100	Wyler, William	D	A	W			P	1	1944	2617
101	Harris, Richard	D	A	W				1	1971	2653
102	Winkler, Irwin	D		W			P	1	1991	2666
102	Poitier, Sidney	D	A	W				1	1968	2666
103	Close, Glenn		A	W			P	1	2011	2672

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