Legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock has topped a poll naming the greatest directors of all time.

The Psycho director beat out competition from Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, in second and third places respectively, in the rundown of top filmmakers in British magazine Total Film.

Rounding out the top five are Howard Hawks and Francis Ford Coppola.

The Top 10 Greatest Directors Ever are:

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Steven Spielberg
4. Howard Hawks
5. Francis Ford Coppola
6. Orson Welles
7. Ingmar Bergman
8. Stanley Kubrick
9. Peter Jackson
10. David Fincher

(This news article provided by World Entertainment News Network)