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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	16	1991	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	Marion, Frances			W				31	1926	421
24	Dickens, Charles			W				22	1955	197
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	220
28	Mankiewicz, Joseph L.	D		W			P	13	1946	40
29	Griffith, D.W.	D	A	W		M	P	23	1913	169
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	163
39	Hemingway, Ernest			W				14	1949	371
40	Towne, Robert	D	A	W			P	9	1983	19
41	King, Stephen			W				11	1995	304
42	Wells, H.G.			W				14	1946	620
43	Mamet, David	D		W			P	19	1994	542
44	Faulkner, William			W				9	1953	225
45	Lee, Spike	D	A	W			P	9	1992	73
46	Pinter, Harold	D	A	W				11	1977	513
47	Spielberg, Steven	D	A	W			P	5	1983	168
48	Hitchcock, Alfred	D	A	W			P	9	1931	105
49	Tolstoy, Leo			W				11	1951	507
50	Coward, Noel	D	A	W		M	P	7	1938	203
51	Haggis, Paul	D		W		M	P	7	2005	457
52	Fields, W.C.	D	A	W				9	1933	257
53	Austen, Jane			W				10	1994	470
54	Maugham, W. Somerset			W				14	1941	653
55	Poe, Edgar Allan			W				16	1950	1101
56	Fairbanks, Douglas		A	W			P	12	1922	412
57	Silliphant, Stirling			W				9	1969	211
58	Simon, Neil			W				15	1974	1222
59	O'Neill, Eugene			W				10	1948	847
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	656
65	Hill, Walter	D		W			P	7	1981	566
66	Leonard, Elmore			W			P	8	1983	1208
67	Christie, Agatha			W				6	1971	859
68	Siodmak, Curt	D		W				7	1941	769
69	Hawks, Howard	D	A	W			P	6	1939	652
70	Clooney, George	D	A	W			P	4	2011	556
71	Crichton, Michael	D		W			P	8	1990	762
72	Zanuck, Darryl F.	D		W			P	8	1932	1553
73	Kazan, Elia	D	A	W			P	2	1955	948
74	Roach, Hal	D	A	W		M	P	8	1923	874
75	Wilde, Oscar			W				7	1959	1174
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	1477
79	Gibson, Mel	D	A	W			P	2	2005	1272
80	Porter, Edwin S.	D		W	C		P	2	1903	1219
81	Ford, John	D	A	W	C		P	4	1938	1293
82	Grisham, John			W			P	6	1996	2143
83	Apatow, Judd	D		W			P	5	2008	2308
84	Zwick, Edward	D		W			P	4	2004	1465
85	Lewton, Val			W			P	2	1945	1494
86	Wexler, Haskell	D	A	W	C		P	1	1969	1379
87	Sennett, Mack	D	A	W			P	3	1912	2052
88	Freund, Karl	D	A	W	C			1	1927	1789
89	Nicholson, Jack	D	A	W			P	2	1967	2191
90	Duvall, Robert	D	A	W		M	P	2	1990	2027
91	Porter, Cole			W		M		1	1957	2105
92	Jolie, Angelina	D	A	W			P	2	2014	2321
93	Arbuckle, Roscoe 'Fatty'	D	A	W				3	1917	2544
94	Rodgers, Richard			W		M		1	1939	2204
95	Pacino, Al	D	A	W			P	1	1996	2454
96	Stothart, Herbert			W		M		1	1936	2496
97	Evans, Robert		A	W			P	1	2002	2539
98	DeMille, Cecil B.	D	A	W			P	1	1914	2544
99	Coutard, Raoul	D		W	C			1	1970	2590
99	Nykvist, Sven	D		W	C			1	1991	2590
100	Wyler, William	D	A	W			P	1	1944	2595
101	Harris, Richard	D	A	W				1	1971	2629
102	Winkler, Irwin	D		W			P	1	1991	2641
102	Poitier, Sidney	D	A	W				1	1968	2641
103	Close, Glenn		A	W			P	1	2011	2647

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