| Rank | Director | # of Votes | % of Votes |
| 1 | Alfred Hitchcock | 318 | 3.76% |
| 2 | Jean-Luc Godard | 232 | 2.74% |
| 3 | Orson Welles | 231 | 2.73% |
| 4 | Ozu Yasujirô | 189 | 2.23% |
| 5 | Jean Renoir | 179 | 2.12% |
| 6 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 158 | 1.87% |
| = | John Ford | 158 | 1.87% |
| 8 | Stanley Kubrick | 157 | 1.86% |
| 9 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 153 | 1.81% |
| 10 | Robert Bresson | 149 | 1.76% |
| 11 | Francis Ford Coppola | 145 | 1.71% |
| 12 | Ingmar Bergman | 143 | 1.69% |
| 13 | F. W. Murnau | 134 | 1.58% |
| 14 | Federico Fellini | 129 | 1.53% |
| 15 | Akira Kurosawa | 127 | 1.50% |
| 16 | Luis Buñuel | 114 | 1.35% |
| 17 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 110 | 1.30% |
| 18 | Charles Chaplin | 98 | 1.16% |
| 19 | Martin Scorsese | 97 | 1.15% |
| 20 | David Lynch | 92 | 1.09% |
| 21 | Fritz Lang | 91 | 1.08% |
| 22 | Sergei M Eisenstein | 88 | 1.04% |
| 23 | Mizoguchi Kenji | 85 | 1.00% |
| 24 | Howard Hawks | 84.5 | 1.00% |
| 25 | Roberto Rossellini | 83 | 0.98% |
| 26 | Billy Wilder | 77 | 0.91% |
| 27 | Dziga Vertov | 72 | 0.85% |
| 28 | Buster Keaton | 71.5 | 0.85% |
| 29 | Wong Kar Wai | 71 | 0.84% |
| 30 | Abbas Kiarostami | 65 | 0.77% |
| 31 | Jean Vigo | 63 | 0.74% |
| 32 | Chris Marker | 59.5 | 0.70% |
| 33 | Satyajit Ray | 56 | 0.66% |
| 34 | François Truffaut | 55 | 0.65% |
| 35 | Luchino Visconti | 53 | 0.63% |
| 36 | Béla Tarr | 52 | 0.61% |
| = | John Cassavetes | 52 | 0.61% |
| 38 | Terrence Malick | 48 | 0.57% |
| 39 | Alain Resnais | 47.5 | 0.56% |
| 40 | Ernst Lubitsch | 46 | 0.54% |
| = | Vittorio de Sica | 46 | 0.54% |
| 42 | Max Ophüls | 44 | 0.52% |
| 43 | Michael Powell | 42.5 | 0.50% |
| 44 | Emeric Pressburger | 41.5 | 0.49% |
| 45 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 40.18 | 0.48% |
| 46 | D.W. Griffith | 40 | 0.47% |
| 47 | Chantal Akerman | 39 | 0.46% |
| = | Claude Lanzmann | 39 | 0.46% |
| = | Woody Allen | 39 | 0.46% |
| 50 | Edward Yang | 38 | 0.45% |
| = | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 38 | 0.45% |
| = | Sergio Leone | 38 | 0.45% |
| 53 | David Lean | 37 | 0.44% |
| = | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 37 | 0.44% |
| 55 | Jacques Tati | 36 | 0.43% |
| = | Robert Altman | 36 | 0.43% |
| 57 | Roman Polanski | 35 | 0.41% |
| 58 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 33 | 0.39% |
| = | Jacques Rivette | 33 | 0.39% |
| 60 | Lars von Trier | 32.5 | 0.38% |
| 61 | Douglas Sirk | 32 | 0.38% |
| = | Vincente Minnelli | 32 | 0.38% |
| 63 | Nicholas Ray | 31 | 0.37% |
| = | Werner Herzog | 31 | 0.37% |
| 65 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 30 | 0.35% |
| = | Ridley Scott | 30 | 0.35% |
| 67 | Claire Denis | 29 | 0.34% |
| 68 | Nicolas Roeg | 28.5 | 0.34% |
| 69 | Erich von Stroheim | 28 | 0.33% |
| = | Víctor Erice | 28 | 0.33% |
| 71 | Marcel Carné | 27 | 0.32% |
| = | Steven Spielberg | 27 | 0.32% |
| 73 | Jean Eustache | 26 | 0.31% |
| = | Preston Sturges | 26 | 0.31% |
| 75 | Leo McCarey | 25 | 0.30% |
| = | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 25 | 0.30% |
| = | Sergei Parajanov | 25 | 0.30% |
| = | Wim Wenders | 25 | 0.30% |
| 79 | Stanley Donen | 24.5 | 0.29% |
| 80 | Carol Reed | 24 | 0.28% |
| = | Charles Laughton | 24 | 0.28% |
| = | Gene Kelly | 24 | 0.28% |
| = | Michael Haneke | 24 | 0.28% |
| = | Miyazaki Hayao | 24 | 0.28% |
| 85 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 23 | 0.27% |
| 86 | Jacques Demy | 23 | 0.27% |
| = | Sam Peckinpah | 23 | 0.27% |
| 88 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 22 | 0.26% |
| = | Michael Snow | 22 | 0.26% |
| 90 | Djibril Diop Mambéty | 21 | 0.25% |
| = | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 21 | 0.25% |
| 92 | Michael Curtiz | 20 | 0.24% |
| 93 | Naruse Mikio | 19 | 0.22% |
| = | Victor Fleming | 19 | 0.22% |
| 95 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 18 | 0.21% |
| = | Quentin Tarantino | 18 | 0.21% |
| 97 | Abel Gance | 17 | 0.20% |
| = | Agnès Varda | 17 | 0.20% |
| = | David Cronenberg | 17 | 0.20% |
| = | Eric Rohmer | 17 | 0.20% |
| = | John Huston | 17 | 0.20% |
| = | Ousmane Sembene | 17 | 0.20% |
| 103 | Danièle Huillet | 16 | 0.19% |
| = | Jacques Tourneur | 16 | 0.19% |
| = | Jean-Marie Straub | 16 | 0.19% |
| 106 | Andy Warhol | 15 | 0.18% |
| = | Stan Brakhage | 15 | 0.18% |
| 108 | Glauber Rocha | 14 | 0.17% |
| = | Josef von Sternberg | 14 | 0.17% |
| = | Paul Thomas Anderson | 14 | 0.17% |
| = | Pedro Almodóvar | 14 | 0.17% |
| = | Pedro Costa | 14 | 0.17% |
| = | Spike Lee | 14 | 0.17% |
| = | Terence Davies | 14 | 0.17% |
| 115 | Fei Mu | 13 | 0.15% |
| = | Maurice Pialat | 13 | 0.15% |
| = | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 13 | 0.15% |
| 118 | Clint Eastwood | 12 | 0.14% |
| = | Elem Klimov | 12 | 0.14% |
| = | Ritwik Ghatak | 12 | 0.14% |
| 121 | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | 11 | 0.13% |
| = | Alexander Mackendrick | 11 | 0.13% |
| = | Frantisek Vlácil | 11 | 0.13% |
| = | Georges Méliès | 11 | 0.13% |
| = | Jane Campion | 11 | 0.13% |
| = | Jia Zhang Ke | 11 | 0.13% |
| = | King Vidor | 11 | 0.13% |
| = | Otto Preminger | 11 | 0.13% |
| 129 | Ethan Coen | 10.5 | 0.12% |
| = | Humphrey Jennings | 10.5 | 0.12% |
| = | Joel Coen | 10.5 | 0.12% |
| 132 | George Lucas | 10 | 0.12% |
| = | Imamura Shohei | 10 | 0.12% |
| = | Manoel de Oliveira | 10 | 0.12% |
| = | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | 10 | 0.12% |
| = | Peter Kubelka | 10 | 0.12% |
| = | Robert Hamer | 10 | 0.12% |
| = | Wang Bing | 10 | 0.12% |
| = | William Wyler | 10 | 0.12% |
| 140 | Charles Burnett | 9 | 0.11% |
| = | Frank Capra | 9 | 0.11% |
| = | Guru Dutt | 9 | 0.11% |
| = | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 9 | 0.11% |
| = | King Hu | 9 | 0.11% |
| = | Lindsay Anderson | 9 | 0.11% |
| = | Louis Feuillade | 9 | 0.11% |
| = | Maya Deren | 9 | 0.11% |
| = | Mike Leigh | 9 | 0.11% |
| = | Monte Hellman | 9 | 0.11% |
| = | Raoul Walsh | 9 | 0.11% |
| = | Raúl Ruiz | 9 | 0.11% |
| = | Robert Beavers | 9 | 0.11% |
| = | Tobe Hooper | 9 | 0.11% |
| Rank | Director | # of Votes | % of Votes |
| 1 | Federico Fellini | 97 | 2.70% |
| 2 | Stanley Kubrick | 95 | 2.64% |
| 3 | Francis Ford Coppola | 82 | 2.28% |
| = | Ingmar Bergman | 82 | 2.28% |
| 5 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 81 | 2.25% |
| 6 | Jean-Luc Godard | 79.5 | 2.21% |
| 7 | Martin Scorsese | 75 | 2.09% |
| 8 | Alfred Hitchcock | 72 | 2.00% |
| 9 | Akira Kurosawa | 71 | 1.97% |
| 10 | Orson Welles | 68 | 1.89% |
| 11 | Robert Bresson | 65 | 1.81% |
| 12 | Ozu Yasujirô | 64 | 1.78% |
| 13 | Luis Buñuel | 63 | 1.75% |
| 14 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 55 | 1.53% |
| 15 | Charles Chaplin | 51 | 1.42% |
| 16 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 48 | 1.34% |
| 17 | Jean Renoir | 44 | 1.22% |
| 18 | John Cassavetes | 43 | 1.20% |
| 19 | Billy Wilder | 39 | 1.08% |
| 20 | François Truffaut | 37 | 1.03% |
| = | John Ford | 37 | 1.03% |
| 22 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 36 | 1.00% |
| 23 | Vittorio de Sica | 35 | 0.97% |
| 24 | Roberto Rossellini | 31 | 0.86% |
| 25 | David Lynch | 29 | 0.81% |
| = | F. W. Murnau | 29 | 0.81% |
| 27 | Sergio Leone | 28 | 0.78% |
| = | Woody Allen | 28 | 0.78% |
| 29 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 25 | 0.70% |
| = | Terrence Malick | 25 | 0.70% |
| 31 | Abbas Kiarostami | 24 | 0.67% |
| = | Jean Vigo | 24 | 0.67% |
| 33 | Michael Haneke | 23 | 0.64% |
| = | Mizoguchi Kenji | 23 | 0.64% |
| = | Werner Herzog | 23 | 0.64% |
| 36 | Fritz Lang | 22 | 0.61% |
| = | Lars von Trier | 22 | 0.61% |
| 38 | Alain Resnais | 21.5 | 0.60% |
| 39 | Luchino Visconti | 20 | 0.56% |
| 40 | David Lean | 18 | 0.50% |
| = | Roman Polanski | 18 | 0.50% |
| = | Wong Kar Wai | 18 | 0.50% |
| 43 | Jacques Tati | 17 | 0.47% |
| = | Satyajit Ray | 17 | 0.47% |
| = | Steven Spielberg | 17 | 0.47% |
| 46 | Béla Tarr | 16 | 0.45% |
| = | Bernardo Bertolucci | 16 | 0.45% |
| = | Gillo Pontecorvo | 16 | 0.45% |
| = | Paul Thomas Anderson | 16 | 0.45% |
| 50 | Chris Marker | 15.5 | 0.43% |
| 51 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 15 | 0.42% |
| = | Charles Laughton | 15 | 0.42% |
| = | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 15 | 0.42% |
| = | Milos Forman | 15 | 0.42% |
| = | Sergei M Eisenstein | 15 | 0.42% |
| 56 | Elem Klimov | 14 | 0.39% |
| = | Ken Loach | 14 | 0.39% |
| = | Nicolas Roeg | 14 | 0.39% |
| 59 | Buster Keaton | 13 | 0.36% |
| = | Ernst Lubitsch | 13 | 0.36% |
| = | Jean-Pierre Melville | 13 | 0.36% |
| = | Ridley Scott | 13 | 0.36% |
| 63 | Claire Denis | 12 | 0.33% |
| = | Dziga Vertov | 12 | 0.33% |
| = | Mikhail Kalatozov | 12 | 0.33% |
| = | Quentin Tarantino | 12 | 0.33% |
| = | Zhang Yimou | 12 | 0.33% |
| 68 | Howard Hawks | 11.5 | 0.32% |
| = | Jean Eustache | 11.5 | 0.32% |
| 70 | Chantal Akerman | 11 | 0.31% |
| = | Claude Lanzmann | 11 | 0.31% |
| = | Jim Jarmusch | 11 | 0.31% |
| = | Sam Peckinpah | 11 | 0.31% |
| = | Sidney Lumet | 11 | 0.31% |
| = | Wim Wenders | 11 | 0.31% |
| 76 | Edward Yang | 10 | 0.28% |
| = | Eric Rohmer | 10 | 0.28% |
| = | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 10 | 0.28% |
| = | Max Ophüls | 10 | 0.28% |
| = | Michael Powell | 10 | 0.28% |
| = | Peter Weir | 10 | 0.28% |
| = | Robert Altman | 10 | 0.28% |
| = | Roy Andersson | 10 | 0.28% |
| 84 | John Huston | 9 | 0.25% |
| = | Maurice Pialat | 9 | 0.25% |
| = | Michael Cimino | 9 | 0.25% |
| = | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 9 | 0.25% |
| = | Tsai Ming-Liang | 9 | 0.25% |
| 89 | Carol Reed | 8 | 0.22% |
| = | Frank Capra | 8 | 0.22% |
| = | Marcel Carné | 8 | 0.22% |
| = | Víctor Erice | 8 | 0.22% |
| 93 | Ethan Coen | 7.5 | 0.21% |
| = | Joel Coen | 7.5 | 0.21% |
| 95 | Elia Kazan | 7 | 0.19% |
| = | Emeric Pressburger | 7 | 0.19% |
| = | Emir Kusturica | 7 | 0.19% |
| = | Frederick Wiseman | 7 | 0.19% |
| = | Glauber Rocha | 7 | 0.19% |
| = | Gus van Sant | 7 | 0.19% |
| = | Jane Campion | 7 | 0.19% |
| = | Nicholas Ray | 7 | 0.19% |
| = | Ousmane Sembene | 7 | 0.19% |
| = | Stan Brakhage | 7 | 0.19% |
| 105 | Andy Warhol | 6.5 | 0.18% |
| 106 | Bob Rafelson | 6 | 0.17% |
| = | Brian De Palma | 6 | 0.17% |
| = | David Cronenberg | 6 | 0.17% |
| = | Djibril Diop Mambéty | 6 | 0.17% |
| = | George Roy Hill | 6 | 0.17% |
| = | Jacques Demy | 6 | 0.17% |
| = | Louis Malle | 6 | 0.17% |
| = | Mike Leigh | 6 | 0.17% |
| = | Miyazaki Hayao | 6 | 0.17% |
| = | Pedro Almodóvar | 6 | 0.17% |
| = | Ritwik Ghatak | 6 | 0.17% |
| = | Robert J. Flaherty | 6 | 0.17% |
| = | Teshigahara Hiroshi | 6 | 0.17% |
| = | Thomas Vinterberg | 6 | 0.17% |
| = | William Friedkin | 6 | 0.17% |
| 121 | Stanley Donen | 5.5 | 0.15% |
| 122 | Aki Kaurismäki | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Aleksandr Sokurov | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Andrzej Wajda | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Asghar Farhadi | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Errol Morris | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Hal Ashby | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Jacques Becker | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Jacques Tourneur | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Jean Cocteau | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Jonas Mekas | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Leo McCarey | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Michael Curtiz | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Michael Snow | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Mike Nichols | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Nagisa Oshima | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Naruse Mikio | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Preston Sturges | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Sergei Parajanov | 5 | 0.14% |
| = | Spike Lee | 5 | 0.14% |
| 143 | Gene Kelly | 4.5 | 0.13% |
| = | Jean Rouch | 4.5 | 0.13% |
| 145 | Abel Gance | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Alan Clarke | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Alexander Mackendrick | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Arthur Penn | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Bob Fosse | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Bruce Baillie | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Costa-Gavras | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Cristi Puiu | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | D.W. Griffith | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | David Perlov | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Derek Jarman | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Douglas Sirk | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Godfrey Reggio | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Harmony Korine | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Jack Clayton | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | James Cameron | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Jean-Pierre Dardenne | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | John Carpenter | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Larisa Shepitko | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Lav Díaz | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Luc Dardenne | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Lucrecia Martel | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Luis García Berlanga | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Manoel de Oliveira | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Michael Mann | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Miklos Jancso | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Peter Bogdanovich | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Peter Watkins | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Raymond Depardon | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Rob Reiner | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Robert Kramer | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Sydney Pollack | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Tod Browning | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Victor Fleming | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | Vincente Minnelli | 4 | 0.11% |
| = | William Wyler | 4 | 0.11% |
| 185 | Joris Ivens | 3.5 | 0.10% |