(IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)
1. Billy Wilder
2. Orson Welles
3. Joel Coen
4. John Ford
5. Robert Siodmak
6. Werner Herzog
7. Steven Spielburg
8. Sam Peckinpah
9. Jaquees Tourneur
10. Francis Ford Coppola
11. Martin Scorcese
12. Fritz Lang
13. George Stevens
14. Alfred Hitchcock
15. Robert Wise
16. Samuel Fuller
17. Stanley Kubrick
18. Howard Hawks
19. Preston Sturges
20. Nicholas Ray
21. Michael Powell
22. Roman Polanski
23. Peter Bogdanovich
24. Hal Ashby
25 Alan J Pakula
26. Anthony Mann
27. Ernest Lubitsch
28. Sergio Leone
29. David Lean
30. Elia Kazan
31. Jim Jarmusch
32. John Huston
33. John Frankenheimer
34. Michael Curtiz
35. George Cukor
36. Frank Capra
37. Tim Burton
38. John Boorman
39. Robert Aldrich
40. Woody Allen
41. Charles Laughton
42. Jules Dassin
43. James Whale
44 Tod Browning
45. David Lynch
46. William Castle
47. William Wyler
48. Clint Eastwood
49. Peter Jackson
50. Richard Brooks
51. Richard Rush
52. Terrence Malick