# Director Skills Progress Tracker

## Target: 100 total directors

## Existing in examples/ (20):
1. Wong Kar-wai
2. Akira Kurosawa
3. Alfonso Cuarón
4. Terrence Malick
5. Coen Brothers
6. Sofia Coppola
7. Christopher Nolan
8. David Lynch
9. Hayao Miyazaki
10. Quentin Tarantino
11. Stanley Kubrick
12. Wes Anderson
13. Agnès Varda
14. Frederick Wiseman
15. F.W. Murnau
16. Gus Van Sant
17. Jean-Luc Godard
18. John Cassavetes
19. Orson Welles
20. Werner Herzog

## To create in directors/ (80):
### Batch 1 — Classic & New Hollywood
21. Alfred Hitchcock
22. John Ford
23. Howard Hawks
24. Billy Wilder
25. John Huston
26. Sidney Lumet
27. Martin Scorsese
28. Steven Spielberg
29. Francis Ford Coppola
30. Brian De Palma

### Batch 2 — American Masters
31. David Fincher
32. Paul Thomas Anderson
33. Spike Lee
34. Michael Mann
35. James Cameron
36. Ridley Scott
37. Sam Peckinpah
38. Denis Villeneuve
39. Darren Aronofsky
40. Richard Linklater

### Batch 3 — Contemporary American
41. Jordan Peele
42. Barry Jenkins
43. Greta Gerwig
44. Ari Aster
45. Robert Eggers
46. Sean Baker
47. Chloé Zhao
48. Spike Jonze
49. Charlie Kaufman
50. Noah Baumbach

### Batch 4 — Women Directors & Independents
51. Kathryn Bigelow
52. Jane Campion
53. Kelly Reichardt
54. Andrea Arnold
55. Lynne Ramsay
56. Claire Denis
57. Céline Sciamma
58. Todd Haynes
59. Steve McQueen
60. David Cronenberg

### Batch 5 — Italian & Spanish Masters
61. Federico Fellini
62. Michelangelo Antonioni
63. Roberto Rossellini
64. Pier Paolo Pasolini
65. Luchino Visconti
66. Sergio Leone
67. Pedro Almodóvar
68. Alejandro González Iñárritu
69. Guillermo del Toro
70. Luis Buñuel

### Batch 6 — European Masters
71. Ingmar Bergman
72. Carl Theodor Dreyer
73. Robert Bresson
74. Fritz Lang
75. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
76. Wim Wenders
77. Michael Haneke
78. Lars von Trier
79. Roy Andersson
80. Jacques Tati

### Batch 7 — Asian Masters
81. Yasujirō Ozu
82. Satyajit Ray
83. Park Chan-wook
84. Bong Joon-ho
85. Hirokazu Kore-eda
86. Edward Yang
87. Hou Hsiao-hsien
88. Zhang Yimou
89. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
90. Abbas Kiarostami

### Batch 8 — Final Group
91. Andrei Tarkovsky
92. Krzysztof Kieślowski
93. Yorgos Lanthimos
94. Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
95. Mike Leigh
96. Ken Loach
97. George Miller
98. Roman Polanski
99. Terrence Davies
100. Asghar Farhadi

## Status: COMPLETE — 100/100

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