Who do you consider to be the top ten directors of all time?

1: Hitchcock
2: Leone
3: Kurosawa
4: Bergman
5: Malick
6: Godard
7: Kubrick
8: PT Anderson
9: Spielberg
10: Tarantino

The last one is admittedly a fan boy pick, but I don't care. I love his movies.

In no particular order:
1.Martin Scorsese
2.Francis Ford Coppola
3.Alfred Hitchcock
4 Michelangelo Antonioni
5 Federico Fellini
6.Wong Kar Wai
7.Takeshi Kitano
8.Quentin tarantino
9.Akira Kurosawa
10.David Lynch

1. Orson Welles
2. John Ford
3. Jacques Tati
4. Martin Scorsese
5. Carl Dreyer
6. Jean-Luc Godard
7. Jean Renoir
8. Stanley Kubrick
9. Fritz Lang
10. Erich von Stroheim

1. David Fincher
2. Clint Eastwood
3. Francis Ford Coppola
4. Stanley Kubrick
5. Tim Burton
6. Christopher Nolan
7. Quentin Tarantino
8. Krzysztof Kieślowski
9. Akira Kurosawa
10. Martin Scorsese

10 - Spike Lee (Underrated and hated coz he isnt afraid to express an opinion. Inside Man and Malcolm X were amazing. He still has a lot of potential)

9 - Orson Wells (If just for Citizen Kane, nothing else)

8 - Ridley Scott (Nuff said)

7 - Marc Foster (Nice visual style and knows how to tell a story ref Quantum of Solace and The Kite Runner)

6 - Andrew Niccol (Gattaca =One of the best films ever made.)

5 - Steven Soderbergh (Critically acclaimed but still underrated)

4 - Stephen Spielberg (Nuff said)

3 - Tim Burton for just having a unique visual style.

2 - Chris Nolan (I dont care if its fashionable to hate him, I havnt seen one film of his i disliked)

1 - David Fincher (Visionary director who knows how to make every shot in a movie just look slick. Plus his style influenced pretty much every other director since he first came on the scene.

I have to first of all say that I haven't watched many movies from before the 70's and there's still plenty of classics from the 70's and on I haven't seen yet either.
I probably watch too much new movies and my tastes are shaped thereafter.

In no particular order:

David Fincher
Quentin Tarantino
Guillermo Del Toro
Francis Ford Coppola
Sergio Leone
Ridley Scott
Sam Mendes (not because of Skyfall. Haven't even seen it yet)
Darren Aronofsky
Yimou Zhang
and even though I haven't seen many of his films yet, Alfred Hitchcock.

After having written this list I don't think it looks like I only watch new movies.
It's not like I have Michael Bay or McG on there.

That's not true. Empire Magazine has held 2 if not 3 polls in the past 10 years or so and it's never won that poll. It almost always ranks high though I'll give you that.

My top 11 Directors (in no particular order):

Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
Alfred Hitchcock
Orson Welles
Billy Wilder
Sergio Leone
Frederico Fellini
Paul Thomas Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
Joel Coen
Woody Allen

I can't leave one out.

I still have to discover some major foreign directors, so this list will probably look different 5 years from now.

No order

1) Kurosawa
2) Kubrick
3) Fellini
4) Scorsese
5) Coppola
6) Hitchcock
7) Bergman
8) Leone
9) Mizoguchi
10) Spielberg

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(no particular order)

Sidney Lumet
William Friedkin
Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Spielberg
John Ford
Martin Scorcese
Oliver Stone
Francis Ford Coppola
Clint Eastwood
Mel Brooks

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Bergman and Tarkovsky are good places to start.

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Do you mean John Ford?

Kubrick
Kazan
Capra
Huston
Altman
Wilder
Brooks
Lumet
Bergman
Ford

Which Brooks?

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10 is not enough:

1. Hirokazu Koreeda
2. Yasujiro Ozu
3. John Cassavetes
4. Satyajit Ray
5. Richard Linklater
6. Abbas Kiarostami
7. Michael Haneke
8. Masaki Kobayashi
9. Martin Scorsese
10. Ingmar Bergman
11. Zhang Yimou
12. William Wyler
13. Quentin Tarantino
14. Kim Ki Duk
15. Coens
16. Lars Von Trier
17. Takeshi Kitano
18. Tsai Ming Liang
19. Stanley Kubrick
20. Wong Kar Wai

1-10. Paul W.S. Anderson

Ten of my favourites who i've seen at least five movies from. Not necessarily my ten favourites, and there's plenty that 've seen less than five from who i love. In no particular order:

Martin Scorcese
Stanley Kubrick
Werner Herzog
Akira Kurosawa
Francis Ford Coppola
Alfred Htchcock
PTA
Billy Wilder
Alex Gibney (if documenraries count)
David Lynch

Mel most likely.

I hope not.

Going by the films I've seen in my life so far, and in no particular order:

Martin Scorsese
Joel / Ethan Coen
David Lynch
David Fincher
Clint Eastwood
Don Siegel
Sergio Leone
Sidney Lumet
Steven Spielberg
John Carpenter

I thought you'd have been a fan of Mel? Or do you mean there's another Brooks you prefer?