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==The Greatest Directors of All Time==
[[File:Welles-Magnificent-Ambersons-Pub-A16.jpg|thumb|[[Orson Welles]] was selected as the greatest film director of all time by both critics and filmmakers.]]
This list was put together by assembling the directors of the individual films that the critics and the directors polled voted for. 2002 was the only year ''Sight & Sound'' compiled the list.

===Critics' Top Ten Poll===

====2002====
<ol>
<li value="1">[[Orson Welles]]</li>
<li value="2">[[Alfred Hitchcock]]</li>
<li value="3">[[Jean-Luc Godard]]</li>
<li value="4">[[Jean Renoir]]</li>
<li value="5">[[Stanley Kubrick]]</li>
<li value="6">[[Akira Kurosawa]]</li>
<li value="7">[[Federico Fellini]]</li>
<li value="8">[[John Ford]]</li>
<li value="9">[[Sergei Eisenstein]]</li>
<li value="10">[[Francis Ford Coppola]]</li>
<li value="10">[[Yasujiro Ozu]]</li>
</ol>
<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/critics-directors.html|title=BFI &#124; Sight & Sound &#124; Top Ten Poll 2002 – The Critics' Top Ten Directors|date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181654/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/critics-directors.html|archive-date=3 March 2016}}</ref>

===Directors' Top Ten Poll===

====2002====
<ol>
<li value="1">[[Orson Welles]]</li>
<li value="2">[[Federico Fellini]]</li>
<li value="3">[[Akira Kurosawa]]</li>
<li value="4">[[Francis Ford Coppola]]</li>
<li value="5">[[Alfred Hitchcock]]</li>
<li value="6">[[Stanley Kubrick]]</li>
<li value="7">[[Billy Wilder]]</li>
<li value="8">[[Ingmar Bergman]]</li>
<li value="9">[[David Lean]]</li>
<li value="9">[[Jean Renoir]]</li>
<li value="9">[[Martin Scorsese]]</li>
</ol>
<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/directors-directors.html|title=BFI &#124; Sight & Sound &#124; Top Ten Poll 2002 – The Directors' Top Ten Directors|date=13 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013231353/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/directors-directors.html|archive-date=13 October 2018}}</ref>