A Personal List · Music Video Edition
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The Greatest of All Time

The 20 greatest music video directors, ever.

A working ranking of the people who turned three minutes of pop into something we still rewatch — plus ten directors who are quietly making the next decade’s canon.

By Mark Pytlik · Updated continuously
All-Time Top 20

The canon.

Ranked, but with no claim to objectivity. Click any thumbnail to open the video on YouTube in a new tab.
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Up & Coming

Ten to watch.

Working directors whose visual language feels new, weird, or specifically of-this-moment.
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