| Rank | Director | # of Votes | % of Votes | Top Film |
| 1 | Alfred Hitchcock | 390 | 3.24% | Vertigo (1958) |
| 2 | Jean-Luc Godard | 311.5 | 2.58% | Breathless (1960) |
| 3 | Orson Welles | 299 | 2.48% | Citizen Kane (1941) |
| 4 | Ozu Yasujirô | 253 | 2.10% | Tokyo Story (1953) |
| 5 | Stanley Kubrick | 252 | 2.09% | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
| 6 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 234 | 1.94% | Mirror (1974) |
| 7 | Francis Ford Coppola | 227 | 1.88% | Apocalypse Now (1979) |
| 8 | Federico Fellini | 226 | 1.87% | 8½ (1963) |
| 9 | Ingmar Bergman | 225 | 1.87% | Persona (1966) |
| 10 | Jean Renoir | 223 | 1.85% | Règle du jeu, La (1939) |
| 11 | Robert Bresson | 214 | 1.78% | Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) |
| 12 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 213 | 1.77% | Passion of Joan of Arc (1927) |
| 13 | Akira Kurosawa | 198 | 1.64% | Seven Samurai (1954) |
| 14 | John Ford | 195 | 1.62% | Searchers, The 91956) |
| 15 | Luis Buñuel | 177 | 1.47% | Viridiana (1961) |
| 16 | Martin Scorsese | 172 | 1.43% | Taxi Driver (1976) |
| 17 | F. W. Murnau | 163 | 1.35% | Sunrise (1927) |
| 18 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 158 | 1.31% | Avventura, L' (1960) |
| 19 | Charles Chaplin | 149 | 1.24% | City Lights (1931) |
| 20 | David Lynch | 121 | 1.00% | Mulholland Dr (2003) |
| 21 | Billy Wilder | 116 | 0.96% | Some Like It Hot (1959) |
| 22 | Roberto Rossellini | 114 | 0.95% | Journey to Italy (1954) |
| 23 | Fritz Lang | 113 | 0.94% | Metropolis (1927) |
| 24 | Mizoguchi Kenji | 108 | 0.90% | Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) |
| 25 | Sergei M Eisenstein | 103 | 0.85% | Battleship Potemkin (1925) |
| 26 | Howard Hawks | 96 | 0.80% | Rio Bravo (1958) |
| 27 | John Cassavetes | 95 | 0.79% | Woman Under the Influence, A (1974) |
| 28 | François Truffaut | 92 | 0.76% | 400 Blows, The (1959) |
| 29 | Abbas Kiarostami | 89 | 0.74% | Close-Up (1989) |
| = | Wong Kar Wai | 89 | 0.74% | In The Mood For Love (2000) |
| 31 | Jean Vigo | 87 | 0.72% | Atalante, L' (1934) |
| 32 | Buster Keaton | 84.5 | 0.70% | General, The (1926) |
| 33 | Dziga Vertov | 84 | 0.70% | Man with a Movie Camera (1929) |
| 34 | Vittorio de Sica | 81 | 0.67% | Bicycle Thieves, The (1948) |
| 35 | Chris Marker | 75 | 0.62% | Jetée, La (1962) |
| 36 | Luchino Visconti | 73 | 0.61% | Leopard, The (1963) |
| = | Satyajit Ray | 73 | 0.61% | Pather Panchali (1955) |
| = | Terrence Malick | 73 | 0.61% | Tree of Life, The (2010) |
| 39 | Alain Resnais | 69 | 0.57% | Last Year At Marienbad (1961) |
| 40 | Béla Tarr | 68 | 0.56% | Sátántangó (1994) |
| 41 | Woody Allen | 67 | 0.56% | Annie Hall (1977) |
| 42 | Sergio Leone | 66 | 0.55% | Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) |
| 43 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 65.18 | 0.54% | Fear Eats the Soul (1974) |
| 44 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 61 | 0.51% | Gospel According to St Matthew, The (1964) |
| 45 | Ernst Lubitsch | 59 | 0.49% | Trouble in Paradise (1932) |
| 46 | David Lean | 55 | 0.46% | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) |
| 47 | Lars von Trier | 54.5 | 0.45% | Breaking the Waves (1996) |
| 48 | Max Ophüls | 54 | 0.45% | Madame de… (1953) |
| = | Werner Herzog | 54 | 0.45% | Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972) |
| 50 | Jacques Tati | 53 | 0.44% | Playtime (1967) |
| = | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 53 | 0.44% | Three Colours: Blue (1993) |
| = | Roman Polanski | 53 | 0.44% | Chinatown (1974) |
| 53 | Michael Powell | 52.5 | 0.44% | Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) |
| 54 | Chantal Akerman | 50 | 0.41% | Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) |
| = | Claude Lanzmann | 50 | 0.41% | Shoah (1985) |
| 56 | Emeric Pressburger | 48.5 | 0.40% | Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) |
| 57 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 48 | 0.40% | Tropical Malady (2004) |
| = | Edward Yang | 48 | 0.40% | Brighter Summer Day, A (1991) |
| 59 | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 47 | 0.39% | City of Sadness, A (1989) |
| = | Michael Haneke | 47 | 0.39% | Hidden (2004) |
| 61 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 46 | 0.38% | Battle of Algiers, The (1966) |
| = | Robert Altman | 46 | 0.38% | Nashville (1975) |
| 63 | D.W. Griffith | 44 | 0.37% | Intolerance (1916) |
| = | Steven Spielberg | 44 | 0.37% | E.T. (1982) |
| 65 | Ridley Scott | 43 | 0.36% | Blade Runner (1982) |
| 66 | Nicolas Roeg | 42.5 | 0.35% | Don't Look Now (1973) |
| 67 | Claire Denis | 41 | 0.34% | Beau Travail (1998) |
| 68 | Charles Laughton | 39 | 0.32% | Night of the Hunter, The (1955) |
| 69 | Nicholas Ray | 38 | 0.32% | In a Lonely Place (1950) |
| 70 | Jean Eustache | 37.5 | 0.31% | Maman et la putain, La (1973) |
| 71 | Douglas Sirk | 36 | 0.30% | Imitation of Life (1959) |
| = | Víctor Erice | 36 | 0.30% | Spirit of the Beehive, The (1973) |
| = | Vincente Minnelli | 36 | 0.30% | Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) |
| = | Wim Wenders | 36 | 0.30% | Wings of Desire (1987) |
| 75 | Jacques Rivette | 35 | 0.29% | Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) |
| = | Jean-Pierre Melville | 35 | 0.29% | Samouraï, Le (1967) |
| = | Marcel Carné | 35 | 0.29% | enfants du paradis, Les (1945) |
| 78 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 34 | 0.28% | Conformist, The (1970) |
| = | Sam Peckinpah | 34 | 0.28% | Wild Bunch, The (1969) |
| 80 | Carol Reed | 32 | 0.27% | Third Man, The (1949) |
| 81 | Erich von Stroheim | 31 | 0.26% | Greed (1925) |
| = | Preston Sturges | 31 | 0.26% | Lady Eve, The (1941) |
| 83 | Leo McCarey | 30 | 0.25% | Duck Soup (1933) |
| = | Miyazaki Hayao | 30 | 0.25% | My Neighbour Totoro (1988) |
| = | Paul Thomas Anderson | 30 | 0.25% | There Will Be Blood (2007) |
| = | Quentin Tarantino | 30 | 0.25% | Pulp Fiction (1994) |
| = | Sergei Parajanov | 30 | 0.25% | Colour of Pomegranates, The (1968) |
| = | Stanley Donen | 30 | 0.25% | Singin' in the Rain (1951) |
| = | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 30 | 0.25% | Travelling Players, The (1975) |
| 90 | Jacques Demy | 29 | 0.24% | Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (1964) |
| 91 | Gene Kelly | 28.5 | 0.24% | Singin' in the Rain (1951) |
| 92 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 28 | 0.23% | Russian Ark (2002) |
| 93 | Djibril Diop Mambéty | 27 | 0.22% | Touki Bouki (1973) |
| = | Eric Rohmer | 27 | 0.22% | My Night with Maud (1969) |
| = | Michael Snow | 27 | 0.22% | Wavelength (1967) |
| 96 | Elem Klimov | 26 | 0.22% | Come And See (1985) |
| = | John Huston | 26 | 0.22% | Treasure of Sierra Madre, The (1947) |
| 98 | Michael Curtiz | 25 | 0.21% | Casablanca (1942) |
| 99 | Naruse Mikio | 24 | 0.20% | Floating Clouds (1955) |
| = | Ousmane Sembene | 24 | 0.20% | (tie) Black Girl (1965) and Xala (1974) |
| 101 | David Cronenberg | 23 | 0.19% | Videodrome (1983) |
| = | Milos Forman | 23 | 0.19% | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) |
| = | Victor Fleming | 23 | 0.19% | Wizard of Oz, The (1939) |
| 104 | Ken Loach | 22 | 0.18% | Kes (1969) |
| = | Maurice Pialat | 22 | 0.18% | A nos Amours (1983) |
| = | Stan Brakhage | 22 | 0.18% | Mothlight (1963) |
| 107 | Andy Warhol | 21.5 | 0.18% | Empire (1964) |
| 108 | Abel Gance | 21 | 0.17% | Napoleon (1927) |
| = | Glauber Rocha | 21 | 0.17% | Black God, White Devil (1964) |
| = | Jacques Tourneur | 21 | 0.17% | Out of the Past (1947) |
| 111 | Mikhail Kalatozov | 20 | 0.17% | I am Cuba (1964) |
| = | Pedro Almodóvar | 20 | 0.17% | All About My Mother (1999) |
| 113 | Agnès Varda | 19 | 0.16% | Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) |
| = | Spike Lee | 19 | 0.16% | Do The Right Thing (1989) |
| 115 | Danièle Huillet | 18.5 | 0.15% | Sicilia! (1998) |
| = | Jean-Marie Straub | 18.5 | 0.15% | Sicilia! (1998) |
| 117 | Ethan Coen | 18 | 0.15% | Big Lebowski, The (1998) |
| = | Jane Campion | 18 | 0.15% | Piano, The (1992) |
| = | Joel Coen | 18 | 0.15% | Big Lebowski, The (1998) |
| = | Ritwik Ghatak | 18 | 0.15% | Cloud-Capped Star, The (1960) |
| 121 | Frank Capra | 17 | 0.14% | It's a Wonderful Life (1947) |
| = | Josef von Sternberg | 17 | 0.14% | (tie) Saga of Anatahan, The (1953), Scarlet Empress, The (1934), and Shanghai Express (1932) |
| = | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 17 | 0.14% | Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) |
| = | Tsai Ming-Liang | 17 | 0.14% | Viva l'Amour (1994) |
| = | Zhang Yimou | 17 | 0.14% | Raise the Red Lantern (1991) |
| 126 | Fei Mu | 16 | 0.13% | Spring in a Small Town (1948) |
| = | Jim Jarmusch | 16 | 0.13% | Stranger than Paradise (1982) |
| = | Michael Cimino | 16 | 0.13% | Deer Hunter, The (1977) |
| = | Pedro Costa | 16 | 0.13% | Colossal Youth (2006) |
| 130 | Alexander Mackendrick | 15 | 0.12% | Sweet Smell of Success (1957) |
| = | Clint Eastwood | 15 | 0.12% | Unforgiven (1992) |
| = | Mike Leigh | 15 | 0.12% | Naked (1993) |
| = | Terence Davies | 15 | 0.12% | Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) |
| 134 | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | 14 | 0.12% | Earth (1930) |
| = | Elia Kazan | 14 | 0.12% | On The Waterfront (1954) |
| = | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 14 | 0.12% | All About Eve (1950) |
| = | Louis Malle | 14 | 0.12% | Au Revoir les enfants (1987) |
| = | Manoel de Oliveira | 14 | 0.12% | (tie) Abraham's Valley (1993) and Amor de Perdição (1978) |
| = | Peter Weir | 14 | 0.12% | Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975) |
| = | Robert J. Flaherty | 14 | 0.12% | Nanook of the North (1922) |
| = | Sidney Lumet | 14 | 0.12% | Dog Day Afternoon (1975) |
| = | William Wyler | 14 | 0.12% | Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) |
| 143 | Brian De Palma | 13 | 0.11% | Scarface (1983) |
| = | Frantisek Vlácil | 13 | 0.11% | Marketa Lazarová (1967) |
| = | Frederick Wiseman | 13 | 0.11% | Titicut Follies (1967) |
| = | George Lucas | 13 | 0.11% | Star Wars (1977) |
| = | Georges Méliès | 13 | 0.11% | Trip to the Moon, A (1902) |
| = | Imamura Shohei | 13 | 0.11% | (tie) Ballad of Narayama, The (1983), Insect Woman, The (1963), and Vengeance is Mine (1979) |
| = | Jean Cocteau | 13 | 0.11% | (tie) Belle et la Bete, La (1946) and Orphée (1950) |
| = | Jia Zhang Ke | 13 | 0.11% | Platform (2000) |
| = | King Vidor | 13 | 0.11% | Crowd, The (1928) |
| = | Peter Kubelka | 13 | 0.11% | (tie) Arnulf Rainer (1960) and Unsere Afrikareise (1961) |
| = | Robert Hamer | 13 | 0.11% | Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) |
| 154 | Andrzej Wajda | 12 | 0.10% | Ashes and Diamonds (1958) |
| = | Cristi Puiu | 12 | 0.10% | Death of Mr Lazarescu, The (2005) |
| = | Errol Morris | 12 | 0.10% | Thin Blue Line, The (1989) |
| = | Lucrecia Martel | 12 | 0.10% | (tie) Ciénaga, La (2001) and Headless Woman, The (2008) |
| = | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 12 | 0.10% | Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) |
| = | Raúl Ruiz | 12 | 0.10% | Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) |