List of directors associated with art film

The film directors in this list have made films that were deemed to be notable art films by prominent critics, film festivals, and/or by authors of books on the history of cinema.

*Woody Allen
*Wes Anderson (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*Fatih Akin (Audience Award at the European Film Awards)
*Pedro Almodovar (Academy award and Goya award winner).
*Robert Altman (Academy Award winner or Nominee) is a major influence on the development of the hyperlink movie.
*Paul Thomas Anderson (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*Theo Angelopoulos
*Michelangelo Antonioni (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*Darren Aronofsky (Independent Spirit Award Winner)
*Park Chan-Wook (Cannes Film Festival Winner)
*Ingmar Bergman (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*Bernardo Bertolucci (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*Caleb Botton
*Luis Buñuel (Won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival)
*John Cassavetes
*Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Grand Jury Prize at Cannes)
*The Coen brothers
*Francis Ford Coppola (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*David Cronenberg
*The Dardenne brothers
*Carl Theodor Dreyer
*Bruno Dumont
*Sameer puri
*Atom Egoyan
*Sergei Eisenstein Russian Award Stalin Prizewinner
*Rainer Werner Fassbinder
*Federico Fellini (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*Mike Figgis (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*Morgan J. Freeman (Sundance Film Festival winner)
*Vincent Gallo
*Jean Luc Godard
*David Gordon Green (Sundance Film Festival Winner)
*Peter Greenaway
*Paul Greengrass (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*Michael Haneke
*Werner Herzog (Alfred P. Sloan Prize: Sundance Film Festival)
*Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Nominee at Cannes Film Festival)
*Agnieszka Holland (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*Peter Jackson (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*Lodge Kerrigan

*Abbas Kiarostami (Palme d'Or, Cannes Festival)
*Krzysztof Kieslowski (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*Takeshi Kitano (Takeshi's Castle)
*Eric Leiser
*Harmony Korine
*Akira Kurosawa (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*Stanley Kubrick (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*Emir Kusturica (Cannes Film Festival Winner)
*Fritz Lang
*Ang Lee (Academy Award winner)
*Sergio Leone
*David Lynch (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*Majid Majidi (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Cannes Film Festival Winner)
*Terrence Malick
*Kenji Mizoguchi
*F.W. Murnau
*Christopher Nolan (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
*Rob Nilsson (Cannes Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival Winner)
*Nagisa Oshima (Best Director winner at the Cannes Film Festival)
*Yasujiro Ozu
*Pier Paolo Pasolini
*Roman Polanski (Academy Award winner, Palme d'Or winner)
*Sergei Parajanov
*Satyajit Ray (Academy Honorary Award)
*Alain Resnais
*Martin Scorsese (Academy Award winner, Palme d'Or winner)
*Mrinal Sen (Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters) the highest honor conferred by France
*Gus Van Sant (Academy Award winner or Nominee)
* Daryush Shokof
*Steven Soderbergh (Academy Award winner or Nominee) systematically defined and applied the basic rules of hyperlink cinema
*Kim Ki-duk
*Alexander Sokurov, Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences Nika Award
*Andrei Tarkovsky is an influential Russian filmmaker of the post-war Soviet era. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film]
*André Téchiné (Best Director winner at the Cannes Film Festival)
*Lars von Trier
*François Truffaut
*Tsai Ming-liang (Venice Film Festival winner)
*Tom Tykwer
*Orson Welles
*Andrzej Wajda (Academy Award winner, Palme d'Or winner)
*Wong Kar-wai, (Best Director at Cannes Film Festival and Hong Kong Film Awards)
*Krzysztof Zanussi (Golden Lion winner at the Venice Film Festival)
*Andrey Zvyagintsev {Golden Lion winner at Venice Film Festival)