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	1		Wilder, Billy		D		W			P	31		1953		27
	2		Shakespeare, William				W				57		1966		50
	3		Bergman, Ingmar		D		W			P	31		1968		46
	4		Kurosawa, Akira		D		W			P	26		1965		9
	5		Buñuel, Luis		D		W		M	P	21		1956		45
	6		Truffaut, François		D	A	W			P	24		1970		18
	7		Fellini, Federico		D	A	W				22		1962		22
	8		Huston, John		D	A	W	C		P	22		1947		56
	9		Allen, Woody		D	A	W		M	P	34		1987		11
	10		Kubrick, Stanley		D		W	C		P	10		1971		5
	11		Coppola, Francis Ford		D		W		M	P	13		1976		3
	12		Hecht, Ben		D	A	W			P	31		1946		110
	13		Renoir, Jean		D	A	W			P	23		1941		6
	14		Lehman, Ernest				W			P	15		1964		70
	15		Chaplin, Charles		D	A	W		M	P	35		1926		128
	16		Godard, Jean-Luc		D	A	W			P	29		1976		21
	17		Pinelli, Tullio				W				14		1961		22
	18		Welles, Orson		D	A	W			P	14		1957		1
	19		Lucas, George		D	A	W			P	13		1986		16
	20		Lang, Fritz		D	A	W			P	13		1936		26
	21		Chandler, Raymond				W				8		1953		42
	22		Zavattini, Cesare				W				17		1956		2
	23		Scorsese, Martin		D	A	W			P	6		1986		25
	24		Mankiewicz, Joseph L.		D		W			P	12		1946		31
	25		Williams, Tennessee				W			P	12		1961		85
	26		Lean, David		D		W			P	8		1952		236
	27		Dickens, Charles				W				21		1957		236
	28		Gruault, Jean			A	W				12		1971		44
	29		Greene, Graham				W				16		1959		79
	30		Trumbo, Dalton		D	A	W				16		1955		244
	31		Lynch, David		D		W	C	M	P	9		1987		151
	32		Hammett, Dashiell				W				12		1945		56
	33		Mankiewicz, Herman J.				W			P	9		1934		1
	34		Steinbeck, John			A	W				11		1952		97
	35		Keaton, Buster		D	A	W			P	24		1924		103
	36		Marion, Frances				W				28		1926		394
	37		Griffith, D.W.		D	A	W		M	P	22		1914		158
	38		Brooks, Mel		D	A	W		M	P	12		1980		156
	39		Mamet, David		D		W			P	19		1994		564
	40		King, Stephen				W				10		1991		295
	41		Towne, Robert		D	A	W			P	9		1983		14
	42		Faulkner, William				W				9		1953		203
	43		Hemingway, Ernest				W				14		1949		397
	44		Lee, Spike		D	A	W			P	9		1992		68
	45		Spielberg, Steven		D	A	W			P	5		1983		142
	46		Pinter, Harold		D	A	W				11		1977		569
	47		Haggis, Paul		D		W		M	P	7		2005		382
	48		Wells, H.G.				W				14		1946		678
	49		Hitchcock, Alfred		D		W			P	9		1931		110
	50		Tolstoy, Leo				W				10		1953		532
	51		Fields, W.C.		D	A	W				8		1934		252
	52		Coward, Noel		D	A	W		M	P	7		1939		251
	53		Austen, Jane				W				9		1992		443
	54		Poe, Edgar Allan				W				15		1950		1105
	55		Maugham, W. Somerset				W				14		1941		722
	56		Capra, Frank		D		W			P	2		1936		49
	57		Silliphant, Stirling				W				9		1969		197
	58		Beatty, Warren		D	A	W			P	4		1983		229
	59		O'Neill, Eugene				W				10		1948		880
	60		Fairbanks, Douglas			A	W			P	11		1922		418
	61		Simon, Neil				W				15		1974		985
	62		Olivier, Laurence		D	A	W			P	2		1946		316
	63		Leonard, Elmore				W			P	8		1983		1099
	64		Lawrence, D.H.				W				6		1970		746
	65		Hill, Walter		D		W			P	7		1981		527
	66		Stevenson, Robert Louis				W				8		1941		801
	67		Christie, Agatha				W				6		1963		878
	68		Hawks, Howard		D		W			P	6		1939		663
	69		Siodmak, Curt		D		W				7		1940		789
	70		Clooney, George		D	A	W			P	2		2008		466
	71		Thompson, Emma			A	W				2		1998		443
	72		Kazan, Elia		D	A	W			P	2		1955		1025
	73		Wilde, Oscar				W				7		1959		1284
	74		Crichton, Michael		D		W			P	8		1988		740
	75		Zanuck, Darryl F.		D		W			P	8		1932		1604
	76		Roach, Hal		D		W		M	P	6		1923		877
	77		Gibson, Mel		D	A	W			P	2		2005		1081
	78		Selznick, David O.		D		W			P	3		1945		1234
	79		Apatow, Judd		D		W			P	5		2008		2044
	80		Ford, John		D	A	W	C		P	4		1938		1138
	81		Zwick, Edward		D		W			P	4		2004		1238
	82		Berlin, Irving			A	W		M		4		1940		1846
	83		Wexler, Haskell		D	A	W	C		P	1		1969		1198
	84		Porter, Edwin S.		D		W	C		P	2		1903		1230
	85		Lewton, Val				W			P	2		1945		1684
	86		Duvall, Robert		D	A	W		M	P	2		1990		1854
	87		Freund, Karl		D	A	W	C			1		1927		1706
	88		Rodgers, Richard				W		M		1		1939		1880
	89		Grisham, John				W			P	6		1996		2225
	90		Sennett, Mack		D	A	W			P	3		1912		2157
	91		Porter, Cole				W		M		1		1957		2201
	92		Pacino, Al		D	A	W			P	1		1996		2225
	93		Stothart, Herbert				W		M		1		1936		2256
	94		Nicholson, Jack		D	A	W			P	2		1967		2280
	95		Arbuckle, Roscoe 'Fatty'		D	A	W				3		1917		2382
	96		Evans, Robert			A	W			P	1		2002		2283
	97		Coutard, Raoul		D		W	C			1		1970		2322
	97		Nykvist, Sven		D		W	C			1		1991		2322
	98		Wyler, William		D		W			P	1		1944		2326
	99		Harris, Richard		D	A	W				1		1971		2365
	99		Jolie, Angelina		D	A	W			P	1		2011		2365
	100		Winkler, Irwin		D		W			P	1		1991		2378
	100		Poitier, Sidney		D	A	W				1		1968		2378
	101		Close, Glenn			A	W			P	1		2011		2382
	102		DeMille, Cecil B.		D		W			P	1		1914		2402

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