Classic Era

Sir Alfred Hitchcock

Nouvelle Vogue

Jean-Luc Godard
Francois Truffaut

New Hollywood

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

Later years

Coen brothers
Clint Eastwood
John Hughes
Anders Thomas Jensen
David Lynch