Today is the day!
I waited to publicize my list until after I could influence anyone. I'm a firm believer in just making one's own list based on what you yourself feel needs to be on your list.
Here's mine:
1. David Cronenberg
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Michael Mann
4. Akira Kurosawa
5. Robert Bresson
6. Steven Soderbergh
7. Jean Renoir
8. Ridley Scott
9. Martin Scorsese
10. John Huston
11. Krysztof Kieslowski
12. William Keighley
13. Wong-Kar Wai
14. Bong Joon-ho
15. Francis Ford Coppola
16. John Woo
17. Andrej Wajda
18. Spike Lee
19. Quentin Tarantino
20. Nicholas Ray
21. Steven Speilberg
22. Terence Young
23. Sergio Leone
24. Atom Egoyan
25. Orsen Welles
26. Johnny To
27. Michael Curtiz
28. Wai-keung Lau
29. David Fincher
30. Claire Denis
31. Kim Ji-woon
32. Brian De Palma
33. George Miller
34. Chantal Akerman
35. William Freidkin
36. Coen brothers
37. Tsai Ming-Liang
38. Stanley Kubrick
39. Robert Wise
40. Edgar Wright
41. Jim Jarmusch
42. Andrew Stanton
43. Takashi Miike
44. Martin Campbell
45. Denis Villeneuve
46. Christopher Nolan
47. Chia -Lian Liu
48. Kaneto Shindo
49. Sam Pekinpah
50. John McTiernan