In order (if you can)
Vittorio De Sica, Robert Bresson, Frank Capra, Luchino Visconti, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, John Cassavetes, Ingmar Bergman, John Huston, Akira Kurosawa, Elia Kazan, Robert Altman, Billy Wilder, Aki Kaurismaki, William Wyler, Paul Mazursky, Sidney Lumet, Abbas Kiarostami, Stanley Kubrick
In no order:
Paul Thomas Andeson
Stanley Kubrick
Masaki Kobayashi
Ingmar Bergman
Bong Joon Ho
Martin Scorsese
David Fincher
James Cameron
Spike Jonze
Denis Villeneuve
Jean-Pierre Melville
Costa-Gavras
Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorsese
to name a few
Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, Federico Fellini, Woody Allen, Akira Kurosawa, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Pedro Almodóvar, William Wyler, Francis Ford Coppola, Billy Wilder, Jean-Luc Godard, Wes Anderson, the Coens, Tim Burton, Robert Altman
sharethis is roughly in order, i suppose.
the coens
todd solondz
werner herzog
yorgos lanthimos
don hertzfeldt
pt anderson
guy maddin
asghar farhadi
bergman
fellini
tarkovsky
sion sono
buneul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
whit stilman
kiarostami
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Hal Ashby was a favorite of mine I left out.
shareJohn Carpenter
Martin Scorsese
Sidney Lumet
Steve Spielberg
Oliver Stone
Ron Howard
James Cameron
Joe Dante
Brian De Palma