1. Jean Renoir
2. Luis Bunuel
3. Kenji Mizoguchi
4. Orson Welles
   Akira Kurosawa
6. Fritz Lang
   Alfred Hitchcock
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. Stanley Kubrick
10.(tie)John Ford and Alain Resnais

Runners Up(no order): Godard, Ozu, Ophuls, Antonioni, Tarkovski, Herzog, Kiarostami, Hou, Murmau, Bresson.