Peter Jackson (King Kong, Heavenly Creatures, Dead Alive, Lord of the Rings), Scorcese (Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Bringing Out the Dead, The Aviator, The Departed), The Coen brothers (True Grit, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men, Barton Fink, Big Lebowski, Fargo, Blood Simple), Fincher (Zodiac, Fight Club, Se7en, Alien 3, Panic Room, The Game), Spielberg (Munich, Schindler's List, A.I., E.T., Saving Private Ryan, The Color Purple, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, The Indiana Jones films), Tarantino (Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction), P. T. Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia), Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Legend, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, Hannibal), Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable, The Village), Lynch (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, The Straight Story, Twin Peaks: Firewalk with Me), Cronenberg (Spider, Videodrome, eXistenZ, The Fly), Polanski (The Fearless Vampire Killers, Rosemary's Baby, Death and the Maiden, The Pianist), John Hughes (Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Uncle Buck, Planes, Trains and Automobiles), John Carpenter (Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, Prince of Darkness, They Live, In the Mouth of Madness, Vampires), Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead trilogy, Darkman, A Simple Plan, The Gift, Spiderman trilogy), Woody Allen (Match Point, Annie Hall, Sleeper, Radio Days, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Shadows and Fog, Mighty Aphrodite, Sweet and Lowdown, Scoop), Tim Burton (Ed Wood, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Mars Attacks, Batman, Edward Scissorhands), Oliver Stone (JFK, Natural Born Killers, U Turn, ), Guillermo Del Toro (Mimic, Hellboy 1 & 2, The Devil's Backbone, Blade 2, Pan's Labyrinth)
Special mentions: De Palma, Sean Penn
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