Classic Era

Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Billy Wilder

Nouvelle Vogue

Jean-Luc Godard
Francois Truffaut

Scandinavian cinema

Wam & Vennerød
Anders Thomas Jensen
Ruben Östlund
Kristoffer Borgli

New Hollywood

Woody Allen
John Carpenter
Warren Beatty
Francis Ford Coppola
Brian De Palma
Walter Hill
Stanley Kubrick
Roman Polanski
Paul Schrader
Martin Scorsese

Later years

Coen brothers
Clint Eastwood
John Hughes
David Lynch
Adrian Lyne
M. Night Shyamalan