David Fincher
  | Se7en | 1995 |
| The Game | 1997 |
| Fight Club | 1999 |
Elia Kazan
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | 1945 |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 |
| Gentleman's Agreement | 1947 |
| East of Eden | 1955 |
| On the Waterfront | 1954 |
| Splendor in the Grass | 1961 |
| Viva Zapata! | 1952 |
James Cameron
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 |
| Titanic | 1997 |
| Aliens | 1986 |
| The Terminator | 1984 |
| True Lies | 1994 |
Yimou Zhang
| Raise the Red Lantern | 1992 |
| The Road Home | 2000 |
| Ju Dou (with Fengliang Yang) | 1990 |
| Red Sorghum | 1987 |
| To Live | 1994 |
| The Story of Qiu Ju | 1993 |
| Not One Less | 1999 |
| Shanghai Triad | 1995 |
Edward Zwick
| Glory | 1989 |
| Courage Under Fire | 1996 |
| Legends of the Fall | 1994 |
| The Siege | 1998 |
George Stevens
| A Place in the Sun | 1951 |
| The Talk of the Town | 1942 |
| Penny Serenade | 1941 |
| The Diary of Anne Frank | 1959 |
| Gunga Din | 1939 |
| Woman of the Year | 1942 |
| The More the Merrier | 1943 |
| Shane | 1953 |
William Wyler
| Ben-Hur | 1959 |
| Friendly Persuasion | 1956 |
| How to Steal a Million | 1966 |
| Mrs. Miniver | 1942 |
| The Heiress | 1942 |
| The Desperate Hours | 1955 |
| Roman Holiday | 1953 |
| The Letter | 1940 |
| Jezebel | 1938 |
Mervyn LeRoy
| Waterloo Bridge | 1940 |
| Random Harvest | 1942 |
| They Won't Forget | 1937 |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | 1932 |
| Little Caesar | 1930 |
| Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | 1944 |
| Three on a Match | 1932 |
| Anthony Adverse | 1936 |
| The Gold Diggers of 1933 | 1933 |
Kaige Chen
| Farewell My Concubine | 1993 |
| The Emperor and the Assassin | 1999 |
| Yellow Earth | 1984 |
| Life on a String | 1991 |
Fred Zinnemann
| The Day of the Jackal | 1973 |
| A Man for All Seasons | 1966 |
| The Search | 1948 |
| From Here to Eternity | 1953 |
| Act of Violence | 1949 |
| The Sundowners | 1960 |
| The Nun's Story | 1959 |
| High Noon | 1952 |
Victor Fleming
| The Wizard of Oz | 1939 |
| Bombshell (uncredited) | 1933 |
| Captains Courageous | 1937 |
| Gone with the Wind | 1939 |
| Red Dust | 1932 |
George Seaton
| The Counterfeit Traitor | 1962 |
| Miracle on 34th Street | 1947 |
| The Country Girl | 1954 |
John Woo
| The Killer | 1989 |
| Face/Off | 1997 |
| Hard Boiled | 1992 |
| Broken Arrow | 1996 |
| Mission: Impossible II | 2000 |
| Hard Target | 1993 |
| Once a Thief | 1990 |
Vincente Minnelli
| An American in Paris | 1951 |
| The Band Wagon | 1953 |
| Some Came Running | 1958 |
| The Bad and the Beautiful | 1952 |
| Father of the Bride | 1950 |
| Lust for Life | 1956 |
| Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 |
| Gigi | 1958 |
Francis Ford Coppola
| The Godfather | 1972 |
| The Conversation | 1971 |
| The Godfather: Part II | 1974 |
| Apocalypse Now | 1979 |
| The Godfather: Part III | 1990 |
Mike Nichols
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 |
| The Graduate | 1967 |
| Primary Colors | 1998 |
| The Birdcage | 1996 |
| Catch-22 | 1970 |
Ang Lee
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 |
| Eat Drink Man Woman | 1994 |
| Sense and Sensibility | 1995 |
| The Ice Storm | 1997 |
Pedro Almod�var
| All About My Mother | 1999 |
| Talk to Her | 2002 |
| Live Flesh | 1997 |
| ��tame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!) | 1990 |
| Kika | 1993 |
Franklin J. Schaffner
| Patton | 1970 |
| The Best Man | 1964 |
| Planet of the Apes | 1968 |
| Papillon | 1973 |
Kenneth Branagh
| Hamlet | 1996 |
| Dead Again | 1991 |
| Much Ado About Nothing | 1993 |
| Henry V | 1989 |
Spike Lee
| Malcolm X | 1992 |
| Do the Right Thing | 1989 |
| Summer of Sam | 1999 |
Charles Chaplin
| Modern Times | 1936 |
| The Gold Rush | 1925 |
| City Lights | 1931 |
| The Great Dictator | 1940 |
Ron Howard
| Parenthood | 1989 |
| Apollo 13 | 1995 |
| A Beautiful Mind | 2001 |
| Ransom | 1996 |
| Backdraft | 1991 |
Alexander Mackendrick
| The Man in the White Suit | 1951 |
| Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 |
| The Ladykillers | 1955 |
Robert Wise
| The Sound of Music | 1965 |
| The Haunting | 1963 |
| West Side Story | 1961 |
| I Want to Live! | 1958 |
Martin Scorsese
| Gangs of New York | 2002 |
| The Age of Innocence | 1993 |
| Taxi Driver | 1976 |
| The Last Waltz | 1978 |
| Raging Bull | 1980 |
| Goodfellas | 1990 |
Steven Soderbergh
| Traffic | 2000 |
| Erin Brockovich | 2000 |
| Out of Sight | 1998 |
| Ocean's Eleven | 2001 |
Fran�ois Truffaut
| Day for Night | 1973 |
| Shoot the Pianist | 1960 |
| Two English Girls | 1971 |
| Stolen Kisses | 1968 |
| The 400 Blows | 1959 |
| Jules and Jim | 1961 |
| Bed and Board | 1970 |
Alan J. Pakula
| All the President's Men | 1976 |
| Presumed Innocent | 1990 |
| Sophie's Choice | 1982 |
| The Pelican Brief | 1993 |
Isao Takahata
| Only Yesterday | 1991 |
| Pom Poko | 1994 |
| Grave of the Fireflies | 1988 |
Krzysztof Kieslowski
| A Short Film About Love | 1988 |
| Three Colours: Red | 1994 |
| Three Colours: White | 1994 |
| The Double Life of Veronique | 1991 |
| A Short Film About Killing | 1988 |
| Three Colours: Blue | 1994 |
Fritz Lang
| Fury | 1936 |
| M | 1931 |
| Metropolis | 1927 |
| Man Hunt | 1941 |
| Siegfried | 1924 |
| The Woman in the Window | 1945 |
F.W. Murnau
| Fury | 1927 |
| Faust | 1926 |
| Nosferatu | 1922 |
Terry Gilliam
| Brazil | 1985 |
| Twelve Monkeys | 1995 |
| The Fisher King | 1991 |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1974 |
| Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | 1983 |
Irving Rapper
| Now, Voyager | 1942 |
| Rhapsody in Blue | 1945 |
| The Corn Is Green | 1945 |
Milos Forman
| Amadeus | 1984 |
| The People vs. Larry Flynt | 1996 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 |
| Man on the Moon | 1999 |