1) Francis Ford Coppola
2) Stanley Kubrick
3) Martin Scorsese
4) Akira Kursowa
5) Roman Polanski
6) Ridley Scott
7) Joel and Ethan Coen
8) Darren Aronofsky
9) Guillermo Del Toro
10) Alfred Hitchcock (In terms of importance to the art of cinema hitchcock desrves to be much higher, however these are my personal favorites and those above him on the list have made more movies that i enjoy).