2. Orson Welles - Touch of Evil (1958) - 4th seen
3. Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon (1975) - 11th seen
4. Federico Fellini - 8½ (1963) - 1st seen
5. Jean-Luc Godard - Vivre sa vie (1962) - 3rd seen
6. Francis Ford Coppola
7. Akira Kurosawa - High and Low (1963) - 3rd seen
8. Jean Renoir - A Day in the Country (1936) - 3rd seen
9. Ingmar Bergman - Through a Glass Darkly (1961) - 4th seen
10. John Ford - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - 2nd seen
11. Yasujirō Ozu - Tokyo Story (1953) - 2nd seen
12. Martin Scorsese - Silence (2016) - 15th seen
13. Andrei Tarkovsky - Ivan's Childhood (1962) - 1st seen
14. Luis Buñuel - That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) - 1st seen
15. Charles Chaplin - The Circus (1928) - 2nd seen
16. Carl Th. Dreyer - Vampyr (1932) - 3rd seen
17. Robert Bresson - Diary of a Country Priest (1951) - 1st seen
18. Billy Wilder - Some Like It Hot (1959) - 3rd seen
19. F.W. Murnau - The Haunted Castle (1921) - 6th seen
20. Michelangelo Antonioni - L'avventura (1960) - 1st seen
21. Fritz Lang
22. Howard Hawks - Bringing Up Baby (1938) - 2nd seen
23. Sergei Eisenstein
24. François Truffaut - Jules and Jim (1962) - 3rd seen
25. Kenji Mizoguchi - Ugetsu (1953) - 1st seen
26. Roberto Rossellini - Journey to Italy (1954) - 1st seen
27. Steven Spielberg - Bridge of Spies (2015) - 18th seen
28. David Lean - Brief Encounter (1945) - 2nd seen
29. David Lynch - Lost Highway (1997) - 4th seen
30. Vittorio De Sica
31. Woody Allen - Magic in the Moonlight (2014) - 10th seen
32. Alain Resnais
33. Luchino Visconti
34. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger - Black Narcissus (1947) - 2nd seen
35. Jean Vigo - Zero for Conduct (1933) - 2nd seen
36. Sergio Leone - A Fistful of Dollars (1964) - 3rd seen
37. Satyajit Ray
38. John Cassavetes - Shadows (1959) - 2nd seen
39. Wong Kar-wai - 2046 (2004) - 8th seen
40. Ernst Lubitsch - To Be or Not to Be (1942) - 3rd seen
41. Roman Polanski - Repulsion (1965) - 2nd seen
42. Max Ophüls
43. D.W. Griffith
44. Abbas Kiarostami - Ten (2002) - 1st seen
45. Robert Altman - Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) - 5th seen
46. Ridley Scott - Prometheus (2012) - 6th seen
47. Werner Herzog - Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) - 3rd seen
48. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
49. Dziga Vertov
50. Buster Keaton - College (1927) - 3rd seen
51. Chris Marker
52. Krzysztof Kieślowski - The Scar (1976) - 3rd seen
53. Hou Hsiao-hsien - Cute Girl (1980) - 1st seen
54. Edward Yang
55. Jacques Tati - Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953) - 2nd seen
56. John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 2nd seen
57. Terrence Malick - Badlands (1973) - 5th seen
58. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
59. Pier Paolo Pasolini
60. Bernardo Bertolucci - The Conformist (1970) - 1st seen
61. Sam Peckinpah
62. Michael Curtiz
63. Frank Capra
64. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - Hail, Caesar! (2016) - 17th seen
65. Victor Fleming - Gone with the Wind (1939) - 2nd seen
66. Marcel Carné
67. Carol Reed
68. Preston Sturges
69. Vincente Minnelli - Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) - 1st seen
70. Quentin Tarantino - Jackie Brown (1997) - 5th seen
71. Nicholas Ray - In a Lonely Place (1950) - 1st seen
72. Béla Tarr - Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) - 1st seen
73. Wim Wenders
74. Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth (1937) - 1st seen
75. Erich von Stroheim - Blind Husbands (1919) - 1st seen
76. Douglas Sirk
77. Claude Lanzmann
78. Chantal Akerman - Almayer's Folly (2011) - 1st seen
79. Theo Angelopoulos
80. Nicolas Roeg
81. Jean-Pierre Melville - Le Samouraï (1967) - 1st seen
82. Eric Rohmer - The Collector (1967) - 1st seen
83. Lars von Trier
84. Gillo Pontecorvo - The Battle of Algiers (1966) - 1st seen
85. Elia Kazan
86. Jacques Rivette - Out 1 (1971) - 1st seen
87. Josef von Sternberg - Blonde Venus (1932) - 1st seen
88. David Cronenberg - Videodrome (1983) - 3rd seen
89. Miloš Forman
90. George Cukor
91. Hayao Miyazaki - Porco Rosso (1992) - 3rd seen
92. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
93. Jacques Demy - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) - 1st seen
94. Jacques Tourneur - Out of the Past (1947) - 1st seen
95. William Wyler
96. Victor Erice
97. Michael Haneke
98. Sidney Lumet
99. James Cameron - Titanic (1997) - 4th seen
100. Mikio Naruse
101. Jean Eustache
102. Clint Eastwood - Jersey Boys (2014) - 9th seen
103. Brian De Palma
104. Claire Denis - Trouble Every Day (2001) - 2nd seen
105. Robert Flaherty
106. Spike Lee - Do the Right Thing (1989) - 2nd seen
107. Paul Thomas Anderson - Junun (2015) - 8th seen
108. George Lucas
109. Pedro Almodóvar - Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) - 1st seen
110. Ken Loach
111. King Vidor
112. Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet - The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) - 1st seen
113. Jean Cocteau
114. Glauber Rocha
115. Aleksandr Sokurov
116. Stan Brakhage
117. Agnès Varda - Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) - 2nd seen
118. George A. Romero - Dawn of the Dead (1978) - 1st seen
119. Sergei Parajanov - Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) - 1st seen
120. Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Cemetery of Splendour (2015) - 8th seen
121. Abel Gance
122. Jim Jarmusch - Permanent Vacation (1980) - 1st seen
123. Zhang Yimou - Raise the Red Lantern (1991) - 1st seen
124. Alexander Dovzhenko
125. John Carpenter
126. Otto Preminger - Laura (1944) - 1st seen
127. Terry Gilliam
128. Michael Snow
129. Hal Ashby
130. Fei Mu
131. Alexander Mackendrick
132. William Friedkin - The Exorcist (1973) - 1st seen
133. Jane Campion - Sweetie (1989) - 1st seen
134. Michael Cimino
135. Elem Klimov
136. Henri-Georges Clouzot - Diabolique (1955) - 1st seen
137. Andy Warhol
138. Emir Kusturica
139. Peter Weir - The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) - 2nd seen
140. Andrzej Wajda
141. Michael Powell - The Edge of the World (1937) - 1st seen
142. Ang Lee
143. Nagisa Oshima
144. Errol Morris
145. Raoul Walsh
146. Mike Leigh
147. Frederick Wiseman
148. Samuel Fuller
149. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
150. Maurice Pialat - Van Gogh (1991) - 1st seen
151. Ousmane Sembene
152. Robert Wise - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - 4th seen
153. Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - 1st seen
154. Luis García Berlanga
155. Tsai Ming-liang - Vive l'Amour (1994) - 2nd seen
156. Louis Malle
157. James Whale
158. Michael Mann - Blackhat (2015) - 3rd seen
159. Robert Aldrich - Kiss Me Deadly (1955) - 1st seen
160. Mike Nichols - Carnal Knowledge (1971) - 2nd seen
161. Robert Zemeckis - The Walk (2015) - 8th seen
162. Mikhail Kalatozov
163. Rob Reiner
164. G.W. Pabst - Comradeship (1931) - 1st seen
165. King Hu
166. Ritwik Ghatak
167. John Boorman
168. Georges Méliès
169. Humphrey Jennings
170. Jia Zhangke - Platform (2000) - 1st seen
171. David Fincher - The Game (1997) - 8th seen
172. Anthony Mann
173. Manoel de Oliveira
174. Djibril Diop Mambéty - Touki Bouki (1973) - 1st seen
175. Maya Deren
176. George Stevens - Shane (1953) - 1st seen
177. Jean Rouch
178. Terence Davies
179. Chen Kaige
180. René Clair
181. Georges Franju
182. Tod Browning
183. Robert Wiene
184. Tobe Hooper - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) - 1st seen
185. Sydney Pollack
186. Shohei Imamura
187. Richard Linklater - Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) - 8th seen
188. Robert Hamer - Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - 1st seen
189. Joseph Losey
190. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne - The Son (2002) - 4th seen
191. Ben Sharpsteen
192. Peter Watkins
193. Bob Fosse
194. John Woo - The Killer (1989) - 1st seen
195. Paul Verhoeven - Total Recall (1990) - 1st seen
196. Peter Bogdanovich
197. Fred Zinnemann
198. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) - 1st seen
199. Lindsay Anderson
200. Leni Riefenstahl
201. Don Siegel - The Beguiled (1971) - 1st seen
202. Tim Burton
203. David Hand
204. Gus Van Sant
205. Blake Edwards
206. Frank Borzage
207. Ken Russell
208. Marcel Ophüls
209. Charles Burnett
210. Victor Sjöström - A Man There Was (1917) - 1st seen
211. Todd Haynes - Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987) - 1st seen
212. Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin
213. Harold Ramis
214. Oliver Stone
215. Ermanno Olmi
216. Peter Jackson - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) - 6th seen
217. George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - 1st seen
218. John Schlesinger
219. Robert Mulligan
220. Guru Dutt - Pyaasa (1957) - 1st seen
221. Aki Kaurismäki
222. Mel Brooks
223. Kenneth Anger
224. Dario Argento
225. Irvin Kershner
226. Guiseppe Tornatore
227. Peter Greenaway
228. Jonas Mekas - As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) - 1st seen
229. Monte Hellman
230. Pedro Costa - In Vanda's Room (2000) - 2nd seen
231. D.A. Pennebaker
232. Louis Feuillade
233. Jacques Becker - Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) - 1st seen
234. Jonathan Demme
235. Francesco Rosi
236. John Hughes
237. Jack Clayton
238. John Frankenheimer
239. Bob Rafelson
240. Masaki Kobayashi
241. Claude Chabrol - Les Cousins (1959) - 1st seen
242. Wes Anderson
243. Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski
244. Jerry Lewis
245. Jan Svankmajer
246. Alejandro Jodorowsky
247. Alan J. Pakula
248. Philip Kaufman
249. Rouben Mamoulian
250. John Lasseter
2016 additions:
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
John Landis
Christopher Nolan
Danny Boyle
Takeshi Kitano - Sonatine (1993) - 1st seen
2017 additions:
Michel Gondry
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Edgar G. Ulmer
Derek Jarman
Philippe Garrel - Le Révélateur (1968) - 2nd seen
Alfonso Cuarón - Children of Men (2006) - 3rd seen
Kathryn Bigelow
Wang Bing