top ten film directors
 

1 alfred hitchcock (rear window, vertigo, psycho)
2 stanley kubrick (2001 a space odyssey, clockwork orange, the shining)
3 steven speilberg (e.t, schindlers list, saving private ryan)
4 john ford (stagecoach, the grapes of wrath, the searchers)
5 david lean (bridge on the river kwai, lawrence of arabia, dr zhivago)
6 martin scorsese (taxi driver, raging bull, goodfellas)
7 david lynch (elephant man, blue velvet, mulholland drive)
8 francis ford coppella (godfather, godfather 2, apocolypse now)
9 sergio leone (the good the bad and the ugly, once upon a time in the west, once upon a time in america)
10 frank capra (it happened one night, mr smith goes to washington, it's a wonderful life)

1. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, Jackie Brown)
2. David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Zodiac)
3. Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, Memento, The Prestige)
4. Joel and Ethan Coen (Fargo, No Country For Old Men, Raising Arizona)
5. Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Raging Bull, The Departed, Gangs of New York)
6. James Cameron (Avatar, Aliens, Terminator 1 & 2, True Lies)
7. Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Blade Runner, Alien, Hannibal)
8. Oliver Stone (JFK, World Trade Centre, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July)
9. Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back To The Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
10. Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile)

Also mentions to Steven Soderburgh for Traffic and Erin Brockovich,
Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg.