My submission-

Charles Chaplin
Francois Truffaut
Carl Theodore Dreyer
Alfred Hitchcock
Jean Renoir
Akira Kurosawa
Luis Bunuel
Seijun Suzuki
Igmar Bergman
Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorcesse
Abbas Kiastorami
David Cronenberg
Robert Bresson
Jean Cocteau
Lindsay Anderson
Roman Polanski
Werner Herzog
Fritz Lang
Terrence Fisher
