A rough thought so far would be:
1. Martin Scorsese
2 Francis Ford Coppola
3. Fritz Lang
4. Peter Weir
5. Stanley Kubrick
7. Fernando Meirelles
8. Sergio Leone
9. Alfred Hitchcock
10. D.W Griifith
That is in no particular order although Scorsese is my favourite, other favourites are Akira Kurosawa, Frank Darabont, David Fincher (I only like Fight Club and Se7en) and Alan Parker
I really do not like at all Quentin Tarantino, Jonathan Demme, Tony Scott, Ridley Scott
Forget Louis Malle and Claude Chabrol
In a particular order.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Fritz Lang
Orson Welles
Ingmar Bergman
Krzysztof Kieślowski
David Lean
Woody Allen
Akira Kurosawa
Jean Renoir
Martin Scorsese
Robert Bresson
Mikio Naruse
Yasujiro Ozu
Jean-Luc Godard
Jacques Tati
John Cassavetes
Orson Welles
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Joe Dante
Andrei Tarkovsky
in no particular order
Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese
John Ford
Orson Welles
Ingmar Bergman
John Huston
David Lean
Francis Ford Coppola
William Wyler
Stanley Kubrick
1. Welles
2. Tarkovsky
3. Bergman
4. Lang
5. Hitchcock
6. Lynch
7. Angelopoulos
8. Coppola
9. Kubrick
10. Kurosawa
Chaplin, Peckinpah, Bunuel, Scorsese, Wilder, Fellini, Polanski, Gilliam, Von Trier & Greenaway all nearly made it.
Black Irish
A rough seven at the moment:
- Robert Bresson
- Fritz Lang
- Jean Renoir
- Alain Resnais
- Jacques Rivette
- Joe Swanberg
- Tsai Ming-liang