01.Sofia Coppola
Lost in Translation, The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette
02.Wong Kar-wai
Fallen Angels, As Tears Go By, Days of Being Wild
03.Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
04.Hsiao-hsien Hou
Millennium Mambo, Three Times, Goodbye South, Goodbye
05.Kenji Mizoguchi
Ugetsu Monogatari, Sansho the Bailiff , The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
06.Orson Welles
The Magnificent Ambersons, The Trial, Mr. Arkadin
07.Stanley Kubrick
Barry Lyndon, Lolita, The Killing
08.Billy Wilder
Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Sabrina
09.Kim Ki-duk
Time, 3-Iron, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
10.Wes Anderson
The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Rushmore
11.Satoshi Kon
Millennium Actress, Paprika, Perfect Blue
12.David Lynch
Lost Highway, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Mulholland Dr.
13.Steven Soderbergh
Traffic, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Out of Sight
14.Mamoru Oshii
Angel's Egg, Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer, Patlabor: The Movie 2
15.Sam Peckinpah
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Straw Dogs, Major Dundee
16.Akira Kurosawa
Ran, Kagemusha, Ikiru
17.Federico Fellini
La Dolce Vita, 8½, Vitelloni, I
18.Robert Altman
Short Cuts, A Prairie Home Companion, The Long Goodbye
19.Jean Renoir
The Rules of the Game, The Grand Illusion, The Lower Depths
20.John Huston
The Maltese Falcon, The Asphalt Jungle, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre