The List (Last Year's ranking in brackets. N/E = New Entry)
100 Kazan, Elia (N/E)
98 Coppola, Sofia (N/E)
98 del Toro, Guillermo (60)
97 Cocteau, Jean (N/E)
96 Breillat, Catherine (N/E)
95 Minnelli, Vincente (N/E)
94 Bigelow, Kathryn (84)
93 Tarr, Béla (N/E)
92 Sturges, Preston (94)
91 Sirk, Douglas (59)
90 To, Johnnie (N/E)
89 Kitano, Takeshi (N/E)
88 Bong, Joon-ho (65)
87 Reichardt, Kelly (N/E)
86 Gondry, Michel (42)
85 Gilliam, Terry (49)
84 Aronofsky, Darren (61)
83 Cuarón, Alfonso (64)
82 Cameron, James (44)
81 Johnson, Rian (80)
80 Borzage, Frank (N/E)
78 Maysles, David and Albert (88)
78 Tsai, Ming-liang (N/E)
76 Campion, Jane (81)
76 Gray, James (N/E)
75 Morris, Errol (N/E)
74 Jarmusch, Jim (78)
73 Rohmer, Eric (N/E)
72 Ramsay, Lynne (95)
71 Murnau, FW (43)
70 Park, Chan-wook (40)
69 Yang, Edward (96)
68 Lean, David (33)
65 Jonze, Spike (72)
65 Leigh, Mike (62)
65 Scott, Ridley (57)
64 von Trier, Lars (N/E)
63 Ray, Nicholas (48)
62 Lee, Spike (89)
60 De Palma, Brian (N/E)
60 Dreyer, Carl Theodor (N/E)
59 Cronenberg, David (56)
58 Ray, Satyajit (82)
57 Lang, Fritz (55)
56 Haneke, Michael (N/E)
55 Ozu, Yasujiro (58)
54 Altman, Robert (52)
52 Dardenne, Luc & Jean-Pierre (68)
52 Tarkovsky, Andrei (N/E)
51 Polanski, Roman (46)
50 Keaton, Buster (54)
49 Kiarostami, Abbas (N/E)
48 van Sant, Gus (31)
47 Fellini, Federico (38)
46 Truffaut, Francois (35)
45 Melville, Jean-Pierre (51)
44 Weerasethakul, Apichatpong (50)
43 Lumet, Sidney (28)
42 Varda, Agnès (91)
41 Soderbergh, Steven (32)
40 Capra, Frank (39)
39 Boyle, Danny (26)
38 Wiseman, Frederick (45)
37 Buñuel, Luis (75)
36 Hou, Hsiao-hsien (34)
35 Renoir, Jean (47)
34 Linklater, Richard (70)
33 Wenders, Wim (77)
32 Bresson, Robert (76)
31 Chaplin, Charles (25)
30 Mann, Michael (41)
29 Ford, John (30)
28 Powell, Michael & Emeric Pressburger (24)
27 Anderson, Wes (22)
26 Denis, Claire (37)
25 Nolan, Christopher (13)
24 Lynch, David (19)
23 Almodóvar, Pedro (21)
22 Bergman, Ingmar (15)
21 Hawks, Howard (29)
20 Godard, Jean-Luc (36)
19 Welles, Orson (16)
17 Fincher, David (27)
17 Miyazaki, Hayao (7)
16 Spielberg, Steven (14)
15 Coppola, Francis Ford (12)
14 Herzog, Werner (9)
13 Leone, Sergio (5)
12 Anderson, Paul Thomas (17)
11 Allen, Woody (23)
10 Wilder, Billy (6)
9 Scorsese, Martin (10)
8 Malick, Terrence (20)
7 Kieślowski, Krzystof (18)
6 Tarantino, Quentin ( 8 )
5 Wong, Kar Wai (11)
4 Kurosawa, Akira (2)
3 Coen, Joel & Ethan (3)
2 Hitchcock, Alfred (1)
1 Kubrick, Stanley (4)