7.93 avg 10 episodes 8.0 → 8.8
| # | Title | Rating | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alfred Hitchcock | 8.0 | 26 |
| 2 | Billy Wilder | 7.9 | 24 |
| 3 | William Wyler | 8.3 | 13 |
| 4 | Sam Peckinpah | 7.7 | 15 |
| 5 | Howard Hawks | 7.7 | 15 |
| 6 | Fritz Lang | 7.5 | 20 |
| 7 | Cecil B DeMille | 7.8 | 15 |
| 8 | George Cukor | 7.9 | 11 |
| 9 | Akira Kurosawa | 7.7 | 18 |
| 10 | Frank Capra | 8.8 | 13 |
7.88 avg 10 episodes 7.3 → 7.2
| # | Title | Rating | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanley Kubrick | 7.3 | 18 |
| 2 | David Lean | 8.9 | 11 |
| 3 | Michael Curtiz | 8.4 | 7 |
| 4 | John Ford | 7.6 | 11 |
| 5 | John Huston | 8.2 | 9 |
| 6 | Sergei Eisenstein | 7.8 | 9 |
| 7 | Federico Fellini | 7.7 | 11 |
| 8 | Elia Kazan | 7.8 | 11 |
| 9 | Fred Zinnemann | 7.9 | 8 |
| 10 | Vincente Minelli | 7.2 | 8 |
7.53 avg 10 episodes 7.5 → 8.4
| # | Title | Rating | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Sturges | 7.5 | 11 |
| 2 | Sidney Lumet | 7.8 | 11 |
| 3 | Don Siegel | 7.5 | 11 |
| 4 | Stanley Donen | 7.9 | 9 |
| 5 | George Stevens | 7.1 | 8 |
| 6 | John Frankenheimer | 7.5 | 11 |
| 7 | Robert Wise | 7.3 | 6 |
| 8 | Alan J. Pakula | 7.0 | 9 |
| 9 | Carol Reed | 7.3 | 9 |
| 10 | Sergio Leone | 8.4 | 12 |
7.62 avg 5 episodes 8.4 → 7.9
| # | Title | Rating | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sydney Pollack | 8.4 | 8 |
| 2 | Otto Preminger | 8.6 | 5 |
| 4 | Robert Altman | 6.6 | 5 |
| 6 | Peter Weir | 6.6 | 5 |
| 8 | Brian De Palma | 7.9 | 8 |
7.74 avg 10 episodes 8.1 → 7.7
| # | Title | Rating | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Francis Ford Coppola | 8.1 | 10 |
| 2 | Ridley Scott | 8.3 | 10 |
| 3 | Martin Scorsese | 8.6 | 11 |
| 4 | Oliver Stone | 7.5 | 8 |
| 5 | Nicolas Roeg | 7.1 | 7 |
| 6 | David Lynch | 7.3 | 10 |
| 7 | Preston Sturges | 8.5 | 6 |
| 8 | Mervyn LeRoy | 7.5 | 8 |
| 9 | James L. Brooks | 6.8 | 6 |
| 10 | Robert Aldrich | 7.7 | 7 |
7.29 avg 9 episodes 6.8 → 7.3
| # | Title | Rating | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spike Lee | 6.8 | 9 |
| 2 | Mike Nichols | 7.4 | 9 |
| 3 | Ron Howard | 7.3 | 10 |
| 4 | William Friedkin | 7.0 | 13 |
| 5 | Kathryn Bigelow | 7.3 | 10 |
| 6 | Quentin Tarantino | 8.2 | 16 |
| 7 | J Lee Thompson | 7.1 | 8 |
| 8 | Rob Reiner | 7.2 | 10 |
| 9 | Stephen Frears | 7.3 | 10 |
6.84 avg 10 episodes 6.6 → 6.5
| # | Title | Rating | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steven Spielberg | 6.6 | 7 |
| 2 | The Coen Brothers | 7.5 | 6 |
| 3 | Wes Anderson | 6.4 | 8 |
| 4 | John Singleton | 6.8 | 5 |
| 5 | Jonathan Demme | 7.0 | 6 |
| 6 | Christopher Nolan | 7.4 | 7 |
| 7 | Nora Ephron | 6.8 | 5 |
| 8 | Antoine Fuqua | 6.2 | 5 |
| 9 | Barry Levinson | 7.2 | 5 |
| 10 | Alexander Payne | 6.5 | 6 |
