| Rank | Director | # of Votes | % of Votes |
| 1 | Alfred Hitchcock | 322 | 3.38% |
| 2 | Orson Welles | 262 | 2.75% |
| 3 | Jean-Luc Godard | 252.25 | 2.65% |
| 4 | Stanley Kubrick | 220 | 2.31% |
| 5 | Ozu Yasujirô | 209 | 2.19% |
| 6 | Jean Renoir | 189 | 1.98% |
| 7 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 184 | 1.93% |
| = | Francis Ford Coppola | 184 | 1.93% |
| 9 | Federico Fellini | 183 | 1.92% |
| 10 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 178 | 1.87% |
| 11 | Robert Bresson | 177 | 1.86% |
| 12 | Ingmar Bergman | 176 | 1.85% |
| 13 | John Ford | 167 | 1.75% |
| 14 | Akira Kurosawa | 164 | 1.72% |
| 15 | Martin Scorsese | 154 | 1.62% |
| 16 | Luis Buñuel | 153 | 1.60% |
| 17 | F. W. Murnau | 133 | 1.39% |
| 18 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 128 | 1.34% |
| 19 | Charles Chaplin | 127 | 1.33% |
| 20 | Roberto Rossellini | 98 | 1.03% |
| 21 | Mizoguchi Kenji | 96 | 1.01% |
| 22 | David Lynch | 93 | 0.98% |
| = | Fritz Lang | 93 | 0.98% |
| 24 | Billy Wilder | 92 | 0.96% |
| 25 | Sergei M Eisenstein | 85 | 0.89% |
| 26 | Howard Hawks | 83 | 0.87% |
| 27 | John Cassavetes | 77 | 0.81% |
| 28 | François Truffaut | 75 | 0.79% |
| 29 | Buster Keaton | 71.5 | 0.75% |
| 30 | Vittorio de Sica | 67 | 0.70% |
| 31 | Jean Vigo | 65 | 0.68% |
| 32 | Dziga Vertov | 64 | 0.67% |
| 33 | Abbas Kiarostami | 62 | 0.65% |
| = | Satyajit Ray | 62 | 0.65% |
| 35 | Terrence Malick | 61 | 0.64% |
| 36 | Wong Kar Wai | 59 | 0.62% |
| 37 | Woody Allen | 58 | 0.61% |
| 38 | Luchino Visconti | 57 | 0.60% |
| 39 | Chris Marker | 56.5 | 0.59% |
| 40 | Sergio Leone | 55 | 0.58% |
| 41 | Béla Tarr | 51 | 0.53% |
| = | Ernst Lubitsch | 51 | 0.53% |
| 43 | Alain Resnais | 50.5 | 0.53% |
| 44 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 50.09 | 0.53% |
| 45 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 49 | 0.51% |
| 46 | Jacques Tati | 45 | 0.47% |
| 47 | Max Ophüls | 43 | 0.45% |
| = | Roman Polanski | 43 | 0.45% |
| 49 | Claude Lanzmann | 41 | 0.43% |
| = | D.W. Griffith | 41 | 0.43% |
| = | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 41 | 0.43% |
| = | Werner Herzog | 41 | 0.43% |
| 53 | Michael Powell | 40 | 0.42% |
| 54 | David Lean | 39 | 0.41% |
| = | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 39 | 0.41% |
| = | Robert Altman | 39 | 0.41% |
| 57 | Edward Yang | 36 | 0.38% |
| = | Emeric Pressburger | 36 | 0.38% |
| 59 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 34 | 0.36% |
| = | Lars von Trier | 34 | 0.36% |
| = | Steven Spielberg | 34 | 0.36% |
| 62 | Jean Eustache | 33.5 | 0.35% |
| 63 | Nicolas Roeg | 33 | 0.35% |
| 64 | Nicholas Ray | 32 | 0.34% |
| = | Sam Peckinpah | 32 | 0.34% |
| 66 | Charles Laughton | 31 | 0.33% |
| = | Gillo Pontecorvo | 31 | 0.33% |
| = | Jean-Pierre Melville | 31 | 0.33% |
| 69 | Chantal Akerman | 30 | 0.31% |
| = | Erich von Stroheim | 30 | 0.31% |
| = | Marcel Carné | 30 | 0.31% |
| = | Michael Haneke | 30 | 0.31% |
| = | Ridley Scott | 30 | 0.31% |
| 74 | Jacques Rivette | 29 | 0.30% |
| = | Vincente Minnelli | 29 | 0.30% |
| 76 | Leo McCarey | 27 | 0.28% |
| 77 | Víctor Erice | 26 | 0.27% |
| = | Wim Wenders | 26 | 0.27% |
| 79 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 25 | 0.26% |
| = | Carol Reed | 25 | 0.26% |
| = | John Huston | 25 | 0.26% |
| = | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 25 | 0.26% |
| 83 | Claire Denis | 24 | 0.25% |
| = | Paul Thomas Anderson | 24 | 0.25% |
| 85 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 23 | 0.24% |
| = | Sergei Parajanov | 23 | 0.24% |
| 87 | Douglas Sirk | 22 | 0.23% |
| = | Jacques Demy | 22 | 0.23% |
| = | Miyazaki Hayao | 22 | 0.23% |
| = | Preston Sturges | 22 | 0.23% |
| = | Quentin Tarantino | 22 | 0.23% |
| 92 | Michael Curtiz | 21 | 0.22% |
| = | Stan Brakhage | 21 | 0.22% |
| 94 | Stanley Donen | 20.5 | 0.21% |
| 95 | Michael Snow | 20 | 0.21% |
| = | Naruse Mikio | 20 | 0.21% |
| 97 | David Cronenberg | 19 | 0.20% |
| 98 | Elem Klimov | 19 | 0.20% |
| = | Eric Rohmer | 19 | 0.20% |
| = | Gene Kelly | 19 | 0.20% |
| = | Milos Forman | 19 | 0.20% |
| 102 | Abel Gance | 18 | 0.19% |
| = | Jacques Tourneur | 18 | 0.19% |
| = | Victor Fleming | 18 | 0.19% |
| 105 | Glauber Rocha | 17 | 0.18% |
| = | Maurice Pialat | 17 | 0.18% |
| 107 | Andy Warhol | 16 | 0.17% |
| = | Mikhail Kalatozov | 16 | 0.17% |
| = | Ousmane Sembene | 16 | 0.17% |
| 110 | Danièle Huillet | 15.5 | 0.16% |
| = | Ethan Coen | 15.5 | 0.16% |
| = | Jean-Marie Straub | 15.5 | 0.16% |
| = | Joel Coen | 15.5 | 0.16% |
| 114 | Frank Capra | 15 | 0.16% |
| = | Ken Loach | 15 | 0.16% |
| = | Ritwik Ghatak | 15 | 0.16% |
| 117 | Manoel de Oliveira | 14 | 0.15% |
| = | Spike Lee | 14 | 0.15% |
| = | Zhang Yimou | 14 | 0.15% |
| 120 | Fei Mu | 13 | 0.14% |
| = | Jim Jarmusch | 13 | 0.14% |
| = | Josef von Sternberg | 13 | 0.14% |
| = | King Vidor | 13 | 0.14% |
| = | Louis Malle | 13 | 0.14% |
| = | Michael Cimino | 13 | 0.14% |
| = | Pedro Almodóvar | 13 | 0.14% |
| = | Robert J. Flaherty | 13 | 0.14% |
| = | Terence Davies | 13 | 0.14% |
| 129 | Djibril Diop Mambéty | 12 | 0.13% |
| = | Mike Leigh | 12 | 0.13% |
| = | Pedro Costa | 12 | 0.13% |
| = | Peter Kubelka | 12 | 0.13% |
| = | Tsai Ming-Liang | 12 | 0.13% |
| 134 | Agnès Varda | 11 | 0.12% |
| = | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | 11 | 0.12% |
| = | Andrzej Wajda | 11 | 0.12% |
| = | Brian De Palma | 11 | 0.12% |
| = | Clint Eastwood | 11 | 0.12% |
| = | George Lucas | 11 | 0.12% |
| = | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 11 | 0.12% |
| = | Peter Weir | 11 | 0.12% |
| = | Robert Hamer | 11 | 0.12% |
| = | Sidney Lumet | 11 | 0.12% |
| = | Tobe Hooper | 11 | 0.12% |
| 145 | Bruce Baillie | 10 | 0.10% |
| = | Charles Burnett | 10 | 0.10% |
| = | Donald Cammell | 10 | 0.10% |
| = | Frederick Wiseman | 10 | 0.10% |
| = | Imamura Shohei | 10 | 0.10% |
| = | James Cameron | 10 | 0.10% |
| = | Jia Zhang Ke | 10 | 0.10% |
| = | John Carpenter | 10 | 0.10% |
| = | Otto Preminger | 10 | 0.10% |
| = | Raúl Ruiz | 10 | 0.10% |
| = | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 10 | 0.10% |
| = | William Wyler | 10 | 0.10% |
| Rank | Director | # of Votes | % of Votes |
| 1 | Alfred Hitchcock | 68 | 2.72% |
| 2 | Jean-Luc Godard | 59.25 | 2.37% |
| 3 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 56 | 2.24% |
| 4 | Ingmar Bergman | 49 | 1.96% |
| 5 | Ozu Yasujirô | 44 | 1.76% |
| 6 | Federico Fellini | 43 | 1.72% |
| = | Francis Ford Coppola | 43 | 1.72% |
| 8 | Orson Welles | 37 | 1.48% |
| = | Robert Bresson | 37 | 1.48% |
| 10 | Akira Kurosawa | 34 | 1.36% |
| = | Jean Renoir | 34 | 1.36% |
| 12 | Stanley Kubrick | 32 | 1.28% |
| 13 | F. W. Murnau | 30 | 1.20% |
| = | Michelangelo Antonioni | 30 | 1.20% |
| = | Wong Kar Wai | 30 | 1.20% |
| 16 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 29 | 1.16% |
| 17 | David Lynch | 28 | 1.12% |
| 18 | Abbas Kiarostami | 27 | 1.08% |
| = | John Ford | 27 | 1.08% |
| 20 | Billy Wilder | 24 | 0.96% |
| = | Luis Buñuel | 24 | 0.96% |
| 22 | Charles Chaplin | 22 | 0.88% |
| = | Jean Vigo | 22 | 0.88% |
| 24 | Lars von Trier | 20.5 | 0.82% |
| 25 | Chantal Akerman | 20 | 0.80% |
| = | Dziga Vertov | 20 | 0.80% |
| = | Fritz Lang | 20 | 0.80% |
| 28 | Alain Resnais | 18.5 | 0.74% |
| 29 | John Cassavetes | 18 | 0.72% |
| = | Martin Scorsese | 18 | 0.72% |
| = | Sergei M Eisenstein | 18 | 0.72% |
| 32 | Chris Marker | 17.5 | 0.70% |
| 33 | Béla Tarr | 17 | 0.68% |
| = | Claire Denis | 17 | 0.68% |
| = | François Truffaut | 17 | 0.68% |
| = | Michael Haneke | 17 | 0.68% |
| 37 | David Lean | 16 | 0.64% |
| = | Luchino Visconti | 16 | 0.64% |
| 39 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 15.09 | 0.60% |
| 40 | Djibril Diop Mambéty | 15 | 0.60% |
| = | Gillo Pontecorvo | 15 | 0.60% |
| = | Jane Campion | 15 | 0.60% |
| = | Roberto Rossellini | 15 | 0.60% |
| 44 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 14 | 0.56% |
| = | Douglas Sirk | 14 | 0.56% |
| = | Vittorio de Sica | 14 | 0.56% |
| 47 | Buster Keaton | 13 | 0.52% |
| = | Howard Hawks | 13 | 0.52% |
| = | Ridley Scott | 13 | 0.52% |
| = | Werner Herzog | 13 | 0.52% |
| 51 | Emeric Pressburger | 12.5 | 0.50% |
| = | Michael Powell | 12.5 | 0.50% |
| 53 | Edward Yang | 12 | 0.48% |
| = | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 12 | 0.48% |
| = | Mizoguchi Kenji | 12 | 0.48% |
| = | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 12 | 0.48% |
| = | Terrence Malick | 12 | 0.48% |
| 58 | Max Ophüls | 11 | 0.44% |
| = | Satyajit Ray | 11 | 0.44% |
| = | Sergio Leone | 11 | 0.44% |
| 61 | Roman Polanski | 10 | 0.40% |
| = | Steven Spielberg | 10 | 0.40% |
| = | Víctor Erice | 10 | 0.40% |
| = | Wim Wenders | 10 | 0.40% |
| 65 | Gene Kelly | 9.5 | 0.38% |
| = | Nicolas Roeg | 9.5 | 0.38% |
| = | Stanley Donen | 9.5 | 0.38% |
| 68 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 9 | 0.36% |
| = | Claude Lanzmann | 9 | 0.36% |
| = | Preston Sturges | 9 | 0.36% |
| = | Woody Allen | 9 | 0.36% |
| 72 | Agnès Varda | 8 | 0.32% |
| = | Charles Laughton | 8 | 0.32% |
| = | Eric Rohmer | 8 | 0.32% |
| = | Ernst Lubitsch | 8 | 0.32% |
| = | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 8 | 0.32% |
| = | Jacques Tati | 8 | 0.32% |
| = | Miyazaki Hayao | 8 | 0.32% |
| = | Ousmane Sembene | 8 | 0.32% |
| = | Quentin Tarantino | 8 | 0.32% |
| 81 | Carol Reed | 7 | 0.28% |
| = | Elem Klimov | 7 | 0.28% |
| = | Jacques Demy | 7 | 0.28% |
| = | Ken Loach | 7 | 0.28% |
| = | Michael Snow | 7 | 0.28% |
| = | Pedro Almodóvar | 7 | 0.28% |
| = | Robert Altman | 7 | 0.28% |
| = | Sergei Parajanov | 7 | 0.28% |
| = | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 7 | 0.28% |
| = | Vincente Minnelli | 7 | 0.28% |
| 91 | Alexander Mackendrick | 6 | 0.24% |
| = | Jacques Rivette | 6 | 0.24% |
| = | Jean Cocteau | 6 | 0.24% |
| = | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 6 | 0.24% |
| = | Lucrecia Martel | 6 | 0.24% |
| = | Marcel Ophüls | 6 | 0.24% |
| = | Maya Deren | 6 | 0.24% |
| = | Nicholas Ray | 6 | 0.24% |
| = | Paul Thomas Anderson | 6 | 0.24% |
| = | Thomas Vinterberg | 6 | 0.24% |
| 101 | Andy Warhol | 5.5 | 0.22% |
| 102 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 5 | 0.20% |
| = | Alexander Hammid | 5 | 0.20% |
| = | Ang Lee | 5 | 0.20% |
| = | Derek Jarman | 5 | 0.20% |
| = | Elia Kazan | 5 | 0.20% |
| = | Elia Suleiman | 5 | 0.20% |
| = | Gus van Sant | 5 | 0.20% |
| = | Marcel Carné | 5 | 0.20% |
| = | Maurice Pialat | 5 | 0.20% |
| = | Spike Lee | 5 | 0.20% |
| = | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 5 | 0.20% |
| = | Tsai Ming-Liang | 5 | 0.20% |
| = | Victor Fleming | 5 | 0.20% |
| 115 | Asghar Farhadi | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Barbara Loden | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Clint Eastwood | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Cristi Puiu | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | David Cronenberg | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Frantisek Vlácil | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | G W Pabst | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | George Cukor | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Georges Franju | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Georges Méliès | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Glauber Rocha | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | James Benning | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Jean Eustache | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Jean-Pierre Melville | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | John Woo | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Josef von Sternberg | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Kathryn Bigelow | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Kim Ki-Duk | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Michael Curtiz | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Mikhail Kalatozov | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Milos Forman | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Naruse Mikio | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Pedro Costa | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Philippe Garrel | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Rob Reiner | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Robert Wiene | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | Vera Chytilová | 4 | 0.16% |
| = | William Wyler | 4 | 0.16% |
| 143 | Abderrahmane Sissako | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Abel Gance | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Aki Kaurismäki | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Bob Fosse | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Bob Rafelson | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Chen Kaige | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | D.W. Griffith | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Danièle Huillet | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Darren Aronofsky | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | David Fincher | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Errol Morris | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Fei Mu | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Forough Farrokhzad | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Guru Dutt | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Harold Ramis | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Imamura Shohei | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Jacques Becker | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Jacques Tourneur | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Jan Svankmajer | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Jean-Marie Straub | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Jia Zhang Ke | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Jim Jarmusch | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | José Val del Omar | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Koreeda Hirokazu | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Larisa Shepitko | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Lav Díaz | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Leo McCarey | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Lindsay Anderson | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Marguerite Duras | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Maysles Brothers | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Michael Cimino | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Mike Leigh | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Monte Hellman | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Patricio Guzmán | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Peter Weir | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Robert Beavers | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Rouben Mamoulian | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Sally Potter | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Sidney Lumet | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Suzuki Seijun | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Ted Kotcheff | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Todd Haynes | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Yilmaz Güney | 3 | 0.12% |
| = | Yuri Norstein | 3 | 0.12% |
| 189 | Boris Barnet | 2.5 | 0.10% |
| = | Ethan Coen | 2.5 | 0.10% |
| = | Joel Coen | 2.5 | 0.10% |