stanley kubrick, coen bros, quentin tarantino, todd field, paul thomas andersen, darren arronofsky, alfonso cuarón, chris nolan.

In no particular order.

Alfred Hitchc0ck
Stanley Kubrick
Jan Švankmajer
Tim Burton
Frederico Fellini
David Lynch
Ed Wood
Hayao Miyazaki
Quentin Tarantino
Guillermo del Toro

Kind of disappointed by all the Tarantino lovers here. I never understood why that guy gets so much respect.

1:steven king
2:steven spielberg
3:clint eastwood
4:alfred Hitchc o c k
5:francis ford coppola
6:david lynch
7:hayao miyazaki
8;errol morris
9:woody allen
10:stanely kubrick

1. Coen Bros.
2. Tarantino

If Wes Anderson had done a few more movies I'd give him alot more attention.

Judd Apatow never fails to make me laugh as well.

Conan: Ed Wood, The Coen Brothers, Robert Wiene, Robert Florey, Harold P. Warren, Steven Spielberg, Fritz Lang, J.J. Abrams, Quintin Tarantino

Clint Eastwood
Francis Ford Coppolla
Gus Van Sant
Sergio Leone
Martin Scorsese
Takeshi Kitano

my pick:

Cameron Crowe
Martin Scorsese
Christopher Nolan
David Fincher
Danny Boyle
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu
Tarantino
Roman Polanski
Alfonso Cuaron
Terry Gilliam

ranking:-

Fritz Lang
Jean-Pierre Melville
Ridley Scott
Terry Gilliam
Park Chon-Wok
Chris Nolan
Spielberg
Jorg Buttgereit
Russell Mulcahy
Ken Russell

Kevin Smith
Sidney Lumet
William Friedkin
Coen Brothers
Wes Anderson
Terry Gilliam
Steven Speilberg
John Landis (Pre 1990)
James Cameron (Pre Titanic)
David Lynch