directors

[Sandcat2003]

No order:

Altman
PT Anderson
Hal Ashby
Coen Bros.
Frank Oz
Stephen Frears
Stanley Kubrick
Woody Allen
Gus van Sant
Kevin Costner (I know... people always think I am crazy)

Notably absent:

Scorsese (Great director, just not my taste)
Coppola (can't forgive him for the 80's and 90's)
Wilder (Oz took his place)
Kazan and Capra (hate their movies!!!)
Welles (I have only seen two of his movies)

Worth mentioning:

Alexander Payne, Bob Rafelson, David O. Russell, Aronofsky, Linklater, Curtis Hanson, Cameron (begrudgingly), Redford, Wyler, George Stevens, Mike Nicols

[Furious D]

In no particular order...

Stanley Kubrick
John Ford
Howard Hawkes
Sam Peckinpah
Early John Carpenter (been a bit off lately)
John Sturges
Akira Kurosawa
Peter Jackson
Early Francis Ford Coppola (been a bit off lately)
Martin Scorsese
Roger Corman (more inspirational than Kevin Costner)
Billy Wilder
James Cameron(needs to get off his ass & make another movie)
Roman Polanski (Chinatown one of the best films ever)
Orson Welles
Coen Bros.
Quentin Tarantino

[Sandcat2003]

John Sturges?.... do you mean Preston Sturges?

[Furious D]

Nope.

I mean John Sturges, director of such classics as THE MAGNIFICENT 7 & THE HOUR OF THE GUN. Hour of the Gun is about the dark side of Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday and is a forgotten treasure.

Jeesh. I forgot Sergio Leone, how silly of me.

[El Duderino Diablo]

Over ten and in no particular order:

Akira Kurosawa
Terry Gilliam
David Fincher
Kenji Misumi
Juzo Itami
Takashi Miike
Ringo Lam
Ching Siu Tung
John Woo (pre-Hollywood)
Joel Coen
Sergio Leone
Darin Aronofsky
Terry Zwigoff
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Martin Scorsese
Sam Raimi
Hal Hartley
John Carpenter
Monte Hellman
Guillermo Del Toro
Peter Jackson
Richard Linklater
John Boorman
James Cameron
Jim Jarmusch
Bruce McDonald
Richard Lester

[Ricky Retardo]

Numba 1 with a bullet-John Waters

then, in random order...

Russ Meyer
Alejandro Jodoworsky
Tsui Hark
David Lynch
Quenton Taranteno
Robert Rodriguez
Terry Gilliam
Stuart Gordon
David Cronenberg