Ben Affleck (Argo; The Town; Gone Baby Gone)

Woody Allen (Annie Hall; Manhattan; Hannah and Her Sisters)

Pedro Almodóvar (All About My Mother; Talk to Her; Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)

Robert Altman (MASH; Nashville; The Player)

Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; Quantum of Solace; Grand Budapest Hotel)

Chetan Anand (Neecha Nagar; Haqeeqat; Taxi Driver)

Lindsay Anderson (if....; O Lucky Man!; This Sporting Life)

Theo Angelopoulos (Eternity and a Day; The Travelling Players; Landscape in the Mist)

Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura; Blow-Up; Zabriskie Point)

Richard Attenborough (Gandhi; Cry Freedom; Chaplin)

Bille August (Pelle the Conqueror; The Best Intentions; Les Misérables)

John G. Avildsen (Rocky; Save the Tiger; The Karate Kid)

Sean Baker (The Florida Project; Red Rocket; Tangerine)

Warren Beatty (Reds; Heaven Can Wait; Dick Tracy)

Jacques Becker (Casque d'Or; Touchez Pas au Grisbi; Le Trou)

László Benedek (Death of a Salesman; The Wild One; Crisis)

Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer; Places in the Heart; Nobody's Fool)

Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor; The Conformist; Last Tango in Paris)

Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker; Zero Dark Thirty; Point Break)

John Boorman (Deliverance; Excalibur; Hope and Glory)

Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven; Bad Girl; Street Angel)

Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire; Trainspotting; 28 Days Later)

Robert Bresson (Diary of a Country Priest; Au Hasard Balthazar; A Man Escaped)

Alan Bridges (The Hireling; Age of Innocence; The Return of the Soldier)

James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment; Broadcast News; As Good as It Gets)

Luis Buñuel (Viridiana; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie; Belle de Jour)

James Cameron (Titanic; Avatar; Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

Jane Campion (The Piano; The Power of the Dog; Bright Star)

Marcel Camus (Black Orpheus; Orfeu; O Salário da Morte)

Laurent Cantet (The Class; Human Resources; Heading South)

Frank Capra (It's a Wonderful Life; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; It Happened One Night)

Leos Carax (Holy Motors; Mauvais Sang; The Lovers on the Bridge)

Jack Cardiff (Sons and Lovers; The Girl on the Motorcycle; The Crooked Sky)

Renato Castellani (Two Cents Worth of Hope; Under the Sun of Rome; My Son, the Hero)

Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep; Once Upon a Time in Anatolia; Distant)

Park Chan-wook (Oldboy; The Handmaiden; Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance)

Damien Chazelle (La La Land; Whiplash; First Man)

Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter; Heaven's Gate; Thunderbolt and Lightfoot)

René Clément (Forbidden Games; Is Paris Burning?; Purple Noon)

Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Wages of Fear; Diabolique; Le Corbeau)

Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men; Fargo; The Big Lebowski)

Joel Coen (No Country for Old Men; Fargo; The Big Lebowski)

Henri Colpi (Une aussi longue absence; The Code; Happy Anniversary)

Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather; Apocalypse Now; The Godfather Part II)

Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation; Marie Antoinette; The Virgin Suicides)

Brady Corbet (The Childhood of a Leader; Vox Lux; Funny Games)

Costa-Gavras (Z; Missing; The Confession)

Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves; The Postman; Open Range)

Jacques Cousteau (The Silent World; World Without Sun; Voyage to the Edge of the World)

Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity; Roma; "Children of Men)

George Cukor (My Fair Lady; The Philadelphia Story; Adam's Rib)

Michael Curtiz (Casablanca; The Adventures of Robin Hood; Yankee Doodle Dandy)

Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Rosetta; The Child; Two Days, One Night)

Luc Dardenne (Rosetta; The Child; Two Days, One Night)

Cecil B. DeMille (The Ten Commandments; Samson and Delilah; Cleopatra)

Jacques Demy (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; The Young Girls of Rochefort; Lola)

Jean Delannoy (The Hunchback of Notre Dame; La Symphonie Pastorale; Maigret Sets a Trap)

Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water; Pan's Labyrinth; Crimson Peak)

Vittorio De Sica (Bicycle Thieves; Miracle in Milan; Umberto D.)

Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs; Philadelphia; Stop Making Sense)

Edward Dmytryk (Crossfire; The Caine Mutiny; Murder, My Sweet)

Julia Ducournau (Titane; Raw; Junior)

Anselmo Duarte (Keeper of Promises; The Case of the Naves Brothers; O Pagador de Promessas)

Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven; Million Dollar Baby; Mystic River)

Amat Escalante (Heli; La Región Salvaje; Sangre)

Fridrikh Ermler (Fragment of an Empire; The Great Citizen; The Turning Point)

Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita; 8½; "Amarcord)

Emilio Fernández (María Candelaria; Flor Silvestre; The Pearl)

David Fincher (Seven; Fight Club; The Social Network)

Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind; The Wizard of Oz; Captains Courageous)

John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath; The Searchers; Stagecoach)

Miloš Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Amadeus; Hair)

Bob Fosse (Cabaret; All That Jazz; Star 80)

William Friedkin (The French Connection; The Exorcist; Sorcerer)

Tony Gatlif (Gadjo Dilo; Exils; Latcho Drom)

Pietro Germi (Divorce Italian Style; Seduced and Abandoned; Il ferroviere)

Mel Gibson (Braveheart; The Passion of the Christ; Hacksaw Ridge)

Miguel Gomes (Tabu; Arabian Nights; Our Beloved Month of August)

Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman; The Revenant; Babel)

Şerif Gören (Yol; Derman; The End of the Road)

Yılmaz Güney (Yol; Sürü; Umut)

Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon; Amour; Cache)

Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist; "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies; Redoubtable)

George Roy Hill (The Sting; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Slap Shot)

Arthur Hiller (Love Story; The Hospital; Silver Streak)

Bong Joon Ho (Parasite; Memories of Murder; Snowpiercer)

Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa; Washington Square; Mr. Jones)

Tom Hooper (The King's Speech; Les Misérables; The Danish Girl)

Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind; Apollo 13; Splash)

Hou Hsiao-Hsien (The Puppetmaster; Three Times; A City of Sadness)

Tran Anh Hung (The Scent of Green Papaya; Cyclo; Norwegian Wood)

John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; The African Queen; Prizzi's Honor)

Shōhei Imamura (The Ballad of Narayama; Black Rain; The Eel)

Bodil Ipsen (Afsporet; Red Meadows; Café Paradis)

Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; The Fellowship of the Ring; Heavenly Creatures)

Charles Jarrott (Anne of the Thousand Days; Mary, Queen of Scots; Lost Horizon)

Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine; Sacrifice; The Emperor and the Assassin)

Mathieu Kassovitz (La Haine; Gothika; Babylon A.D.)

Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront; A Streetcar Named Desire; East of Eden)

Abdellatif Kechiche (Blue Is the Warmest Color; The Secret of the Grain; Couscous)

Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry; Close-Up; Certified Copy)

Teinosuke Kinugasa (A Page of Madness; Jujiro; Gate of Hell)

Henry King (The Song of Bernadette; Twelve O'Clock High; Jesse James)

Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters; Like Father, Like Son; Still Walking)

Stanley Kramer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Inherit the Wind; Judgment at Nuremberg)

Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon; Seven Samurai; Ran)

Emir Kusturica (Underground; When Father Was Away on Business; Arizona Dream)

Daniel Kwan (Everything Everywhere All at Once; Swiss Army Man; The Death of Dick Long)

Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (Chronicle of the Years of Fire; Vent de sable; Le Clandestin)

Lau Lauritzen Jr. (Café Paradis; The Word; Støv på hjernen)

David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia; Doctor Zhivago; The Bridge on the River Kwai)

Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Life of Pi)

Mike Leigh (Secrets & Lies; Vera Drake; Naked)

Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman; Les Misérables; Live for Life)

Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night; Help!; The Three Musketeers)

Barry Levinson (Rain Man; Diner; Good Morning, Vietnam)

Leopold Lindtberg (The Last Chance; Four Days' Leave; Swiss Tour)

Richard Linklater (Boyhood; Dazed and Confused; Before Sunrise)

Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley; I, Daniel Blake; Kes)

Joshua Logan (South Pacific; Picnic; Bus Stop)

Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade; Mutiny on the Bounty; The Divine Lady)

Joseph Losey (The Go-Between; Eva; King & Country)

Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men; Network; Serpico)

David Lynch (Mulholland Drive; Blue Velvet; Eraserhead)

Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life; Badlands; Days of Heaven)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve; A Letter to Three Wives; Cleopatra)

Delbert Mann (Marty; Separate Tables; The Dark at the Top of the Stairs)

Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth; Going My Way; An Affair to Remember)

Sam Mendes (American Beauty; 1917; Skyfall)

Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay; Ma' Rosa; Serbis)

Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front; Of Mice and Men; Pork Chop Hill)

Bennett Miller (Capote; Moneyball; Foxcatcher)

Anthony Minghella (The English Patient; The Talented Mr. Ripley; Cold Mountain)

Vincente Minnelli (Gigi; An American in Paris; Meet Me in St. Louis)

Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 9/11; Bowling for Columbine; Roger & Me)

Nanni Moretti (The Son's Room; Caro Diario; Habemus Papam)

Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; Beyond the Hills; Graduation)

Paul Newman (Rachel, Rachel; The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds; Harry & Son)

Mike Nichols (The Graduate; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Working Girl)

Christopher Nolan (Inception; The Dark Knight; Oppenheimer)

Ermanno Olmi (The Tree of Wooden Clogs; Il Posto; Legend of the Holy Drinker)

Ruben Östlund (The Square; Force Majeure; Triangle of Sadness)

Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon; Taxi; This Is Not a Film)

Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida; Cold War; My Summer of Love)

Elio Petri (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion; The 10th Victim; A Quiet Place in the Country)

Maurice Pialat (Under the Sun of Satan; L'Enfance Nue; A Nos Amours)

Roman Polanski (Chinatown; The Pianist; Rosemary's Baby)

Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa; Tootsie; They Shoot Horses, Don't They?)

Otto Preminger (Laura; Anatomy of a Murder; The Man with the Golden Arm)

Robert Redford (Ordinary People; A River Runs Through It; Quiz Show)

Carol Reed (The Third Man; Oliver!; Odd Man Out)

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive; Bronson; Only God Forgives)

Carlos Reygadas (Silent Light; Post Tenebras Lux; Japón)

Tony Richardson (Tom Jones; The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner; A Taste of Honey)

Jerome Robbins (West Side Story; The King and I; Fiddler on the Roof)

Francesco Rosi (Salvatore Giuliano; The Mattei Affair; Christ Stopped at Eboli)

Robert Rossen (All the King's Men; The Hustler; Body and Soul)

Roberto Rossellini (Rome, Open City; Paisan; Germany, Year Zero)

Herbert Ross (Footloose; Steel Magnolias; The Turning Point)

Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond; The Rose; The River)

Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting; My Own Private Idaho; Elephant)

Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton; Papillon; Planet of the Apes)

Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once; Swiss Army Man; The Death of Dick Long)

John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy; Sunday Bloody Sunday; Marathon Man)

Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum; The Handmaid's Tale; Circle of Deceit)

Julian Schnabel (Diving Bell and the Butterfly; Basquiat; Before Night Falls)

Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas; Taxi Driver; Raging Bull)

Ben Sharpsteen (Dumbo; Pinocchio; Fantasia)

Alf Sjöberg (Miss Julie; Frenzy; The Road to Heaven)

Steven Soderbergh (Traffic; Erin Brockovich; Ocean's Eleven)

Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; Jaws)

George Stevens (A Place in the Sun; Giant; Shane)

Oliver Stone (Platoon; JFK; Born on the Fourth of July)

Barbra Streisand (Yentl; The Prince of Tides; The Mirror Has Two Faces)

Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction; Inglourious Basterds; Django Unchained)

Norman Taurog (Skippy; Boys Town; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)

Paolo Taviani (Padre Padrone; Caesar Must Die"; Good Morning Babylon)

Vittorio Taviani (Padre Padrone; Caesar Must Die; Good Morning Babylon)

Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark; Breaking the Waves; Melancholia)

Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall; Sibyl; Victoria)

Luchino Visconti (The Leopard; Death in Venice; Rocco and His Brothers)

King Vidor (The Big Parade; The Crowd; Duel in the Sun)

Andrzej Wajda (Man of Iron; Kanał; Ashes and Diamonds)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives; Cemetery of Splendour; Tropical Malady)

Orson Welles (Citizen Kane; The Magnificent Ambersons; Touch of Evil)

Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas; Wings of Desire; Buena Vista Social Club)

Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot; Sunset Boulevard; The Apartment)

Ted Wilde (Speedy; The Kid Brother; The Freshman)

Robert Wise (West Side Story; The Sound of Music; The Day the Earth Stood Still)

Wong Kar-Wai (In the Mood for Love; Chungking Express; 2046)

William Wyler (Ben-Hur; The Best Years of Our Lives; Roman Holiday)

Edward Yang (Yi Yi; A Brighter Summer Day; Taipei Story)

Peter Yates (Bullitt; Breaking Away; The Dresser)

Chloé Zhao (Nomadland; The Rider; Songs My Brothers Taught Me)

Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump; Back to the Future; Cast Away)

Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity; High Noon; A Man for All Seasons)

Edward Zwick (Glory; Blood Diamond; The Last Samurai)