Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, La Strada, Juliet of the Spirits, Amarcord, Nights of Cabiria)
Ingmar Bergman (WIld Strawberries, Fanny Och Alexander, The Seventh seal)
Stanley Kubrick (2001, A clockwork orange, The Shining)
Robert Altman (Nashville, Shortcuts, MASH)
Frank Capra (Bitter tea of General Yen, It's A wonderful life, Mr. Smith goes to Washington)
P.T. Anderson (Magnolia, There will be blood, Punch Drunk Love)
Luis Bunuel (Exterminating angels, Un Chien ANdalou, The discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie)
F.W. Murnau (Faust, Sunrise, The Last Laugh)
Akira Kurosawa (7 Samurai, Ran, Yojimbo)
Yasijiro Ozu (Tokyo Story, Ohayo, floating weeds)
Jean Cocteau (Beauty and the beast, Blood of a poet, Orpheus)
Richard LInklater (Waking Life, Before Sunset, Before Sunrise)
Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, F for Fake)
Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris, Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors)
Jean - Luc Goddard (Breathless, Week-end, Cleo from 9 to 7)
The Coen Brothers (No Country for old men, True Grit, Fargo)
Andrei Tarkovski (Stalker, Andrei Rublyov, Solyaris)
John Huston ( The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Terrence Malick (The tree of life, Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line)
Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo, Rear window, Psycho, North by Northwest)
Isao Takahata (My neighbors the Yamatas, Grave of the fireflies)
Sergio Leone (Once upon a time in the west, Once upon a time in america)
David lynch (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet)
Truffaut ( The 400 Blows, Day for Night, Pocket Money)
John Ford (Stagecoach, How green was my valley, The Searchers)
David Lean (Great Expectations, Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Michael Powell (Peeping tom, Black Narcissus)
Kim ki-duk (Spring summer fall winter.. and spring again, The Bow, Time)
Bong Joon-ho (Gwoemul, Madeo, Tokyo!)
William Wyler (The Best Years of Our LIves, Ben-Hur, Roman Holiday)
Howard Hawkes (Bringing up Baby, Rio Bravo, His Girl Friday)
Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch)
Arthur Penn (The Miracle Maker, Bonnie and Clyde)
Keislowski (The Three colors trilogy, The Decalogue)
Kar Wai Wong (In the Mood For Love, CHungking Express, Fallen Angels)
Sergei Eisenstein ( Battleship Potemkin, Ivan the terrible trilogy)
Billy Wilder (Some like it hot, The Apartment, Sunset Blvd.)
Raul Ruiz (Three lives and only one death, Mysteries of Lisbon)
Jean Renior (The Rules of the game, La Grande Illusion)
Bresson ( Au Hasard balthazar, Pickpocket)
Hmmm... Too many good ones.
I guess I don't have a favorite.