1. Danny Boyle
Best: 28 Days Later
Trainspotting
Sunshine
Slumdog Millionaire
127 Hours
Most Anticipated: Trance
2. Steven Spielberg
Best: Minority Report
Jurassic Park
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Amistad
Most Anticipated: The Adventures of TinTin
3. Christopher Nolan
Best: Memento
The Prestige
Inception
The Dark Knight
Most Anticipated: The Dark Knight Rises
4. Hayao Miyazaki
Best: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Spirited Away
My Neighbor Totoro
Princess Mononoke
Most Anticipated: Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess
5. Andrea Arnold
Best: Fish Tank
Red Road
Wasp
Dog
Most Anticipated: Wuthering Heights
6. Richard Linklater
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Waking Life
A Scanner Darkly
Fast Food Nation
Most Anticipated: SubUrbia
7. Mike Leigh
Best: Another Year
Vera Drake
Naked
Secrets & Lies
High Hopes
Most Anticipated: All or Nothing
8. Edgar Wright
Best: Hot Fuzz
Shaun of the Dead
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Most Anticipated: The World's End
9. David Fincher
Best: The Social Network
Panic Room
Se7en
Zodiac
Most Anticipated: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
10. Martin McDonagh
Best: In Bruges
Six Shooter
Most Anticipated: Seven Psychopaths
11. Kevin Smith
Best: Chasing Amy
Clerks 2
Clerks
Dogma
Red State
Most Anticipated: Hit Somebody
12. M. Night Shyamalan
Best: Unbreakable
The Sixth Sense
The Village
The Happening
Most Anticipated: One Thousand A.E.
13. Alfonso Cuaron
Best: Children of Men
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Most Anticipated: Gravity
14. Joe Wright
Best: Atonement
Hanna
Pride and Prejudice
Most Anticipated: The Soloist
15. Gaspar Noé
Best: Irreversible
Enter The Void
We CINECAST! Alone
Most Anticipated: The Golden Suicides
16. Tomas Alfredsson
Best: Let The Right One In
Most Anticipated: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
17. Jason Reitman
Best: Juno
Up In The Air
Thank You For Smoking
Most Anticipated: Young Adult
18. Akira Kurosawa
Best: Ran
High and Low
Dreams
Ikiru
Most Anticipated: The Bad Sleep Well
19. Denys Arcand
Best: The Barbarian Invasions
The Decline of the American Empire
The Age of Ignorance
Jesus of Montreal
Most Anticipated: Joyeux Calvaire
20. Morgan Spurlock
Best: Super Size Me
30 Days
POM Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden
Most Anticipated: Comic-Con Episode Four: A Fan's Hope
21. Hirokazu Koreeda
Best: After Life
Still Walking
Air Doll
Most Anticipated: I Wish
22. John Cameron Mitchell
Best: Shortbus
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Rabbit Hole
Most Anticipated: Lady Grey London
23. Gurinder Chadha
Best: Bend It Like Beckham
Bride and Prejudice
Most Anticipated: It's A Wonderful Afterlife
24. Makato Shinkai
Best: 5 Centimeters Per Second
Voices on a Distant Star
Most Anticipated: Children Who Chase Lost Voices From Deep Below
25. Stanley Kubrick
Best: A Clockwork Orange
Full Metal Jacket
Spartacus
Dr. Strangelove
The Killing
Most Anticipated: Barry Lyndon
26. Matt Stone and Trey Parker
Best: Team America: World Police
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Most Anticipated: The Book of Mormon
27. Joel and Ethan Coen
Best: O Brother Where Art Thou
The Man Who Wasn't There
Miller's Crossing
A Serious Man
True Grit
Most Anticipated: The Hudsucker Proxy
28. Frederick Wiseman
Best: State Legislature
Near Death
La Danse
High School
Most Anticipated: Crazy Horse
29. Baz Luhrmann
Best: Moulin Rouge
Romeo and Juliet
Most Anticipated: The Great Gatsby
30. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Best: Amelie
Micmacs
A Very Long Engagement
Delicatessen
Most Anticipated: Alien: Resurrection
31. Debra Granik
Best: Winter's Bone
Down To The Bone
Most Anticipated: Pippi Longstocking
32. Billy Wilder
Best: The Apartment
Stalag 17
Some Like It Hot
Witness For The Prosecution
Most Anticipated: The Lost Weekend
33. Alfred Hitchcock
Best: Rear Window
Strangers on a Train
Rope
Psycho
Most Anticipated: Shadow of a Doubt
34. Charles Chaplin
Best: Modern Times
City Lights
The Kid
Most Anticipated: Monsieur Verdoux
35. Mel Brooks
Best: Spaceballs
Blazing Saddles
History of the World Part I
Robin Hood Men In Tights
Young Frankenstein
Most Anticipated: Life Stinks
36. Robert Altman
Best: Gosford Park
A Prairie Home Companion
Most Anticipated: Nashville
37. Quentin Tarantino
Best: Inglourious Basterds
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill
Most Anticipated: Django Unchained
38. Curtis Hanson
Best: L.A. Confidential
8 Mile
Wonder Boys
In Her Shoes
Most Anticipated: Too Big To Fail
39. Steven Soderbergh
Best: The Girlfriend Experience
Ocean's Eleven
Bubble
Traffic
Most Anticipated: Contagion
40. Guillermo del Toro
Best: Pan's Labyrinth
The Devil's Backbone
Most Anticipated: Pacific Rim
41. Tom Tykwer
Best: Perfume: Story of a Murderer
Run Lola Run
Most Anticipated: 3
42. Rob Reiner
Best: The Princess Bride
When Harry Met Sally
This Is Spinal Tap
The American President
Misery
Most Anticipated: Ghosts of Mississippi
43. Kim Ki-Duk
Best: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
The Bow
3-Iron
Most Anticipated: Breath
44. Pedro Almadovar
Best: All About My Mother
Volver
Talk To Her
Most Anticipated: The Skin I Live In
45. Ashutosh Gowariker
Best: Swades
Lagaan
Most Anticipated: Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey
46. Martin Scorsese
Best: The Departed
Kundun
Shutter Island
The Aviator
Gangs of New York
Most Anticipated: Hugo
47. Spike Lee
Best: Do The Right Thing
Inside Man
Malcolm X
When The Levees Broke
Most Anticipated: Oldboy
48. Sidney Lumet
Best: 12 Angry Men
Network
Fail-Safe
Most Anticipated: Equus
49. Neil Jordan
Best: Breakfast on Pluto
The Crying Game
Ondine
Interview With The Vampire
Michael Collins
Most Anticipated: Byzantium
50. Lukas Moodysson
Best: CINECAST!ing Amal
Together
Most Anticipated: Mammoth
51. Matthew Vaughn
Best: Kick-Ass
X-Men: First Class
Stardust
Layer Cake
Most Anticipated: Kick-Ass 2
52. Tim Burton
Best: Big Fish
Mars Attacks!
Vincent
Beetlejuice
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Most Anticipated: Dark Shadows
53. Gus Van Sant
Best: Good Will Hunting
Elephant
Milk
Most Anticipated: My Own Private Idaho
54. The Wachowskis
Best: The Matrix
Most Anticipated: Cloud Atlas
55. Nicole Kassell
Best: The Woodsman
Most Anticipated: A Little Bit of Heaven
56. Peter Greenaway
Best: The Baby of Macon
The Pillow Book
The Draughtsman's Contract
Drowning By Numbers
Most Anticipated: Prospero's Books
57. David Hamilton
Best: Laura, Shadows of a Summer
Tendres Cousines
Most Anticipated: Hildegard Knef und ihre Lieder
58. Kim Ji-Woon
Best: The Bittersweet Life
The Good, The Bad, The Weird
Most Anticipated: The Last Stand
59. Deepa Mehta
Best: Earth
Fire
Most Anticipated: Heaven on Earth
60. Woody Allen
Best: Match Point
Whatever Works
Stardust Memories
Most Anticipated: Midnight In Paris
61. Michael Moore
Best: Bowling For Columbine
Sicko
The Awful Truth
Fahrenheit 9/11
Most Anticipated: Canadian Bacon
62. Judd Apatow
Best: The 40 Year Old Virgin
Knocked Up
Funny People
Most Anticipated: This Is Forty