1. HOU HSIAO-HSIEN
2. ATOM EGOYAN
3. ALEKSANDR SOKUROV
4. ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
5. BELA TARR
6. JIA ZHANGKE
7. WONG KAR WAI
8. JEAN PIERRE and LUC DARDENNE
9. KEN LOACH
10.SAMIRA MAHKMALBAF

Runners Up (in random order):
Bahman Ghobadi, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jim Jarmusch, Laurent Cantet, Lars von Trier, Stanley Kwan, Edward Yang.
 