Robert Altman – 3 Women, The Long Goodbye, McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Paul Thomas Anderson – Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Punch-Drunk Love

Wes Anderson – The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Michelangelo Antonioni – La Notte, The Passenger, Blow-Up

Darren Aronofsky – Requiem For A Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan

Hal Ashby – Being There, Coming Home, Shampoo

Jacques Audiard – A Prophet, Dheepan, The Beat That My Heart Skipped

Noah Baumbach – The Squid And The Whale, Margot At the Wedding, Greenberg

Ingmar Bergman – Persona, Hour Of The Wolf, Through A Glass Darkly

Jane Campion – Bright Star, An Angel At My Table, The Piano

John Cassavetes – A Woman Under The Influence, Opening Night, Husbands

The Coen Brothers – The Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men, A Serious Man

Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather: Part II, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now

Sofia Coppola – Lost In Translation, Priscilla, The Virgin Suicides

David Cronenberg – A History Of Violence, Crash, Existenz

Cameron Crowe – Jerry Maguire, Vanilla Sky, Almost Famous

Clint Eastwood – Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven

Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Fox And His Friends, Ali: Fear Eats The Soul, Fear Of Fear

Federico Fellini – 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, Juliet Of The Spirits

David Fincher – The Game, Fight Club, Seven

Stephen Frears – High Fidelity, The Grifters, Dangerous Liaisons

William Friedkin – The Exorcist, The French Connection, Sorcerer

Terry Gilliam – Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Brazil, The Fisher King

Jonathan Glazer – Under The Skin, Birth, Sexy Beast

Curtis Hanson – Wonder Boys, L.A. Confidential, 8 Mile

Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo, Rear Window, Psycho

Ron Howard – A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Frost/Nixon

John Hughes – The Breakfast Club, Uncle Buck, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu – 21 Grams, Biutiful, Birdman

Jim Jarmusch – Broken Flowers, Paterson, Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai

Spike Jonze – Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Her

Aki Kaurismaki – Shadows In Paradise, Ariel, The Bohemian Life

Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange

Spike Lee – 25th Hour, He Got Game, Do The Right Thing

Richard Linklater – Before Sunset, A Scanner Darkly, Dazed And Confused

Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester By Sea, You Can Count On Me, Margaret

Sidney Lumet – The Verdict, Network, Dog Day Afternoon

David Lynch – Eraserhead, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive

Terrence Malick – Badlands, The Thin Red Line, The New World

Michael Mann – Heat, The Insider, Public Enemies

Bennett Miller – Moneyball, Capote, Foxcatcher

Anthony Minghella – The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, The English Patient

Hayao Miyazaki – Princess Mononoke, The Wind Rises, Spirited Away

Christopher Nolan – Memento, The Dark Knight, The Prestige

Alexander Payne – Sideways, About Schmidt, Election

Roman Polanski – Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby, The Pianist

David O. Russell – I Heart Huckabees, American Hustle, The Fighter

Oliver Stone – Nixon, JFK, Natural Born Killers

Martin Scorsese – Bringing Out The Dead, The Last Temptation Of Christ, Goodfellas

Ridley Scott – Gladiator, Blade Runner, Alien

Steven Soderbergh – Traffic, Out Of Sight, Sex, Lies And Videotape

Paolo Sorrentino – The Great Beauty, This Must Be The Place, Il divo

Steven Spielberg – Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan

Quentin Tarantino -Jackie Brown, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, Pulp Fiction

Andrei Tarkovsky – Solaris, Andrei Rublev, Stalker

Gus Van Sant – Good Will Hunting, My Own Private Idaho, Milk

Peter Weir – The Truman Show, Witness, Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World

Orson Welles – Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, F For Fake

Wim Wenders – Paris, Texas, Wings Of Desire, The American Friend