Cuarón and Hitchcock and Scorsese, Oh My! The Greatest Directors Of All-Time

18. Woody Allen

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Woody Allen is one of the few directors who has successfully turned imitation into an art form. With an encyclopedic knowledge of film history and theory, Allen has used the discoveries and innovations of some of cinema’s greatest masters to come up with a conglomerate style of his very own. There is no director on this list who makes better movies about romantic relationships than Allen. Almost every film of his from Annie Hall and Manhattan to the more recent Blue Jasmine has a realistic quality that’s both funny and sad at the same time.