| 1 |  | Robert Bresson Writer | |
| 2 |  | YasujirĆ Ozu Writer | |
| 3 |  | Maya Deren Director | |
| 4 |  | Sergei Parajanov Director | |
| 5 |  | Andrei Tarkovsky Additional Crew | |
| 6 |  | Ingmar Bergman Writer | |
| 7 |  | Luis Buñuel Writer | |
| 8 |  | Federico Fellini Writer | |
| 9 |  | Michelangelo Antonioni Writer | |
| 10 |  | Jean Renoir Writer | |
| 11 |  | Ăric Rohmer Director | |
| 12 |  | Akira Kurosawa Writer | |
| 13 |  | Rainer Werner Fassbinder Writer | |
| 14 |  | Pier Paolo Pasolini Writer | |
| 15 |  | Carl Theodor Dreyer Writer | |
| 16 |  | Luchino Visconti Writer | |
| 17 |  | Abbas Kiarostami Writer | |
| 18 |  | Theodoros Angelopoulos Director | |
| 19 |  | Satyajit Ray Writer | |
| 20 |  | Hsiao-Hsien Hou Producer | |
| 21 |  | François Truffaut Writer | |
| 22 |  | Alfred Hitchcock Director | |
| 23 |  | Krzysztof Kieslowski Writer | |
| 24 |  | Michael Haneke Writer | |
| 25 |  | Wong Kar-Wai Director | |
| 26 |  | Aki KaurismÀki Producer | |
| 27 |  | Jim Jarmusch Director | |
| 28 |  | Vittorio De Sica Actor | |
| 29 |  | Stanley Kubrick Writer | |
| 30 |  | Martin Scorsese Producer | |
| 31 |  | David Lean Director | |
| 32 |  | Sergio Leone Second Unit or Assistant Director | |
| 33 |  | Mikio Naruse Director | |
| 34 |  | Hirokazu Koreeda Director | |
| 35 |  | Woody Allen Writer | |
| 36 |  | David Lynch Writer | |
| 37 |  | Francis Ford Coppola Producer | |
| 38 |  | Roman Polanski Director | |
| 39 |  | Ethan Coen Producer | |
| 40 |  | Joel Coen Producer | |
| 41 |  | Fritz Lang Writer | |
| 42 |  | Paul Thomas Anderson Director | |
| 43 |  | Pedro AlmodĂłvar Writer | |
| 44 |  | John Ford Director | |
| 45 |  | David Cronenberg Actor | |
| 46 |  | Sidney Lumet Director | |
| 47 |  | Elia Kazan Director | |
| 48 |  | Jafar Panahi Director | |
| 49 |  | Jean-Luc Godard Director | |
| 50 |  | Jean-Pierre Dardenne Producer | |