Directors

Algerian Film Directors

 * Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (Chronicle of the Years of Fire)

American Film Directors

 * Woody Allen (Annie Hall)
 * Robert Altman (Nashville)
 * Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia)
 * Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
 * Ramin Bahrani (Chop Shop)
 * Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha)
 * Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
 * Brad Bird (The Incredibles)
 * Les Blank (Always for Pleasure)
 * Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show)
 * Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep)
 * James Cameron (The Terminator)
 * Frank Capra (It's a Wonderful Life)
 * John Cassavetes (A Woman Under the Influence)
 * Ethan Coen (Fargo)
 * Joel Coen (Fargo)
 * Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now)
 * Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation)
 * Jules Dassin (Rififi)
 * Brian De Palma (Scarface)
 * Cecil B. DeMille (The Ten Commandments)
 * Pete Docter (Inside Out)
 * Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain)
 * Allan Dwan (Driftwood)
 * Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)
 * David Fincher (Seven)
 * John Ford (The Searchers)
 * Bob Fosse (All That Jazz)
 * John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate)
 * D. W. Griffith (The Birth of a Nation)
 * Howard Hawks (Bringing Up Baby)
 * John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
 * Steve James (Hoop Dreams)
 * Jim Jarmusch (Stranger than Paradise)
 * Rian Johnson (Looper)
 * Buster Keaton (The General)
 * Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey)
 * Charles Laughton (The Night of the Hunter)
 * Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing)
 * Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
 * Barbara Loden (Wanda)
 * David Lynch (Mulholland Drive)
 * Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life)
 * Bennett Miller (Moneyball)
 * Errol Morris (Gates of Heaven)
 * Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing)
 * Jordan Peele (Get Out)
 * D. A. Pennebaker (Dont Look Back)
 * Nicholas Ray (In a Lonely Place)
 * David O. Russell (American Hustle)
 * Paul Schrader (Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters)
 * Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull)
 * Steven Soderbergh (King of the Hill)
 * Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List)
 * Andrew Stanton (WALL-E)
 * George Stevens (Shane)
 * Preston Sturges (The Lady Eve)
 * Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
 * Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)
 * Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard)
 * Frederick Wiseman (Titicut Follies)
 * William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives)
 * Robert Zemeckis (Contact)

Argentine Film Directors

 * Lucrecia Martel (Zama)
 * Mario Soffici (Prisoners of the Earth)

Austrian Film Directors

 * Michael Haneke (Caché)
 * G. W. Pabst (Pandora's Box)

Belgian Film Directors

 * Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles)
 * Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Rosetta)
 * Luc Dardenne (Rosetta)

British Film Directors

 * Lindsay Anderson (If....)
 * Danny Boyle (28 Days Later)
 * Charlie Chaplin (City Lights)
 * Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives)
 * Paul Greengrass (United 93)
 * Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo)
 * Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir)
 * David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)
 * Mike Leigh (Secrets & Lies)
 * Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night)
 * Ken Loach (Kes)
 * Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight)
 * Michael Powell (A Matter of Life and Death)
 * Emeric Pressburger (A Matter of Life and Death)
 * Carol Reed (The Third Man)
 * Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now)
 * Ridley Scott (Blade Runner)
 * Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz)

Canadian Film Directors

 * David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises)
 * Xavier Dolan (Mommy)
 * Allan King (Warrendale)
 * Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg)

Chinese Film Directors

 * Fei Mu (Spring in a Small Town)
 * Hu Jinquan/King Hu (A Touch of Zen)
 * Jia Zhangke (A Touch of Sin)
 * Zhang Yuan (East Palace, West Palace)

Cuban Film Directors

 * Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Memories of Underdevelopment)
 * Humberto Solás (Lucía)

Czech Film Directors

 * Věra Chytilová (Daisies)
 * Miloš Forman (The Firemen's Ball)
 * Jaromil Jireš (The Joke)

Danish Film Directors

 * Gabriel Axel (Babette's Feast)
 * Carl Theodor Dreyer (The Passion of Joan of Arc)
 * Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive)
 * Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves)

Filipino Film Directors

 * Marilou Diaz Abaya (José Rizal)
 * Lamberto Avellana (Child of Sorrow)
 * Ishmael Bernal (Himala)
 * Lino Brocka (Manila in the Claws of Light)
 * Mike de Leon (Kisapmata)
 * Lav Diaz (Norte, the End of History)
 * Peque Gallaga (Oro, Plata, Mata)
 * Manuel Silos (Blessings of the Land)
 * Paul Soriano (Kid Kulafu)
 * Kidlat Tahimik (Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?)

Finnish Film Directors

 * Aki Kaurismäki (The Match Factory Girl)

French Film Directors

 * Olivier Assayas (Carlos)
 * Robert Bresson (Au hasard Balthazar)
 * Claude Chabrol (La ceremonie)
 * Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville)
 * Jacques Demy (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
 * Pierre Étaix (Yoyo)
 * Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless)
 * Abdellatif Kechiche (Blue Is the Warmest Color)
 * Claude Lanzmann (Shoah)
 * Sarah Maldoror (Sambizanga)
 * Louis Malle (Elevator to the Gallows)
 * Chris Marker (Sans Soleil)
 * Leo McCarey (Duck Soup)
 * Georges Méliès (A Trip to the Moon)
 * Jean Pierre Melville (Bob le flambeur)
 * Marcel Pagnol (The Baker's Wife)
 * Nikos Papatakis (The Shepherds of Calamity)
 * Jean Renoir (The Rules of the Game)
 * Alain Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour)
 * Jacques Rivette (Celine and Julie Go Boating)
 * Éric Rohmer (La collectionneuse)
 * Jacques Tati (Playtime)
 * François Truffaut (The 400 Blows)
 * Agnès Varda (Cléo from 5 to 7)
 * Jean Vigo (L'Atalante)

German Film Directors

 * Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann)
 * Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul)
 * Werner Herzog (Aguirre: The Wrath of God)
 * Fritz Lang (Metropolis)
 * Ernst Lubitsch (Trouble in Paradise)
 * F. W. Murnau (Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans)
 * Max Ophüls (The Earrings of Madame de...)
 * Leni Riefenstahl (Triumph of the Will)
 * Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas)

Greek Film Directors

 * Theodoros Angelopoulos (The Travelling Players)
 * Costa-Gavras (Z)
 * Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth)

Hong Kong Film Directors

 * Wong Kar-wai (In the Mood for Love)
 * John Woo (The Killer)

Indian Film Directors

 * Ritwik Ghatak (The Cloud-Capped Star)
 * Satyajit Ray (Pather Panchali)
 * Uday Shankar (Kalpana)

Iranian Film Directors

 * Asghar Farhadi (A Separation)
 * Forough Farrokhzad (The House Is Black)
 * Abbas Kiarostami (Close-Up)
 * Majid Majidi (The Song of Sparrows)
 * Mohsen Makhmalbaf (A Moment of Innocence)
 * Jafar Panahi (This Is Not a Film)

Irish Film Directors

 * Tomm Moore (Song of the Sea)

Italian Film Directors

 * Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura)
 * Vittorio De Sica (Bicycle Thieves)
 * Federico Fellini (8½)
 * Ermanno Olmi (The Tree of Wooden Clogs)
 * Gillo Pontecorvo (The Battle of Algiers)
 * Roberto Rossellini (Journey to Italy)
 * Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty)
 * Luchino Visconti (The Leopard)

Ivorian Film Directors

 * Desiré Ecaré (Faces of Women)
 * Timité Bassori (The Woman with the Knife)

Japanese Film Directors

 * Masaki Kobayashi (Harakiri)
 * Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai)
 * Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away)
 * Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu)
 * Mikio Naruse (Floating Clouds)
 * Yasujirō Ozu (Tokyo Story)
 * Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill)
 * Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies)

Korean Film Directors

 * Bong Joon-ho (Parasite)
 * Kim Ki-young (The Housemaid)
 * Lee Chang-dong (Burning)
 * Park Chan-wook (Oldboy)

Malian Film Directors

 * Souleymane Cissé (Baara)
 * Abderrahmane Sissako (Timbuktu)

Mauritanian Film Directors

 * Med Hondo (Soleil Ô)

Mexican Film Directors

 * Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)
 * Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth)
 * Emilio Fernández (Enamorada)
 * Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel)

Polish Film Directors

 * Krzysztof Kieślowski (Three Colors: Blue)
 * Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida)
 * Roman Polanski (Chinatown)
 * Andrzej Wajda (Ashes and Diamonds)

Portuguese Film Directors

 * Pedro Costa (Colossal Youth)
 * Miguel Gomez (Tabu)

Romanian Film Directors

 * Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)
 * Cristi Puiu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu)

Russian/Soviet Film Directors

 * Sergei Bondarchuk (War and Peace)
 * Sergei Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin)
 * Aleksei Yuryevich German (Hard to Be a God)
 * Mikhail Kalatozov (The Cranes Are Flying)
 * Elem Klimov (Come and See)
 * Sergei Parajanov (The Color of Pomegranates)
 * Larisa Shepitko (The Ascent)
 * Andrei Tarkovsky (The Mirror)
 * Dziga Vertov (Man with a Movie Camera)
 * Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan)

Senegalese Film Directors

 * Djibril Diop Mambéty (Touki bouki)
 * Ousmane Sémbène (Moolaadé)

Spanish Film Directors

 * Pedro Almodóvar (All About My Mother)
 * Luis Buñuel (Un Chien Andalou)
 * Víctor Erice (The Spirit of the Beehive)

Swedish Film Directors

 * Ingmar Bergman (Persona)
 * Victor Sjöström (The Phantom Carriage)
 * Jan Troell (Here Is Your Life)

Taiwanese Film Directors

 * Hsiao-hsien Hou (A City of Sadness)
 * Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
 * Edward Yang (A Brighter Summer Day)

Thai Film Directors

 * Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives)

Turkish Film Directors

 * Lüfti Ö. Akad (Law of the Border)
 * Metin Erksan (Dry Summer)