Top tier:Ingmar Bergman [pictured]
Stanley Kubrick
D.W. Griffith
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Robert Bresson
F.W. Murnau
Erich von Stroheim
Luis Buñuel
Federico Fellini
Alfred Hitchcock
Second tier:Éric Rohmer
Fritz Lang
Buster Keaton
Orson Welles
Alexander Dovzhenko [pictured]
Luchino Visconti
Jean-Luc Godard
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ernst Lubitsch
Abbas Kiarostami
Third tier:John Cassavetes
Agnès Varda
Andrey Tarkovsky
Andrzej Wajda
Wojciech Has
Michelangelo Antonioni
Alexander Sokurov
Paul Verhoeven [pictured, kissing the governor of California]
Béla Tarr
Michael Haneke
Lars von Trier
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Jim Jarmusch
Thierry Zeno
Brian De Palma
Hou Hsao-Hsien
Quentin Tarantino
Terrence Malick
David Cronenberg
I'll stop here, of course there's more, but... these are my favorite ones.
Jeremi is a PhD candidate in Films Studies and Slavic Languages and Literature at Yale University.