| Rank | Name | Favorite Film Directed By |
| 1 | Ingmar Bergman | Wild Strawberries |
| 2 | Steven Spielberg | Schindler’s List |
| 3 | Yasujiro Ozu | Late Spring |
| 4 | Satyajit Ray | The Apu Trilogy |
| 5 (tie) | Akira Kurosawa | Red Beard, Ikiru |
| 5 (tie) | Krzysztof Kieslowski | The 3 Colors Trilogy (Blue, White, Red) |
| 7 | D.W. Griffith | Broken Blossoms |
| 8 | Robert Altman | Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean McCabe & Mrs. Miller |
| 9 | Werner Herzog | Aguirre: Wrath of God |
| 10 | Cecil B. DeMille | The Ten Commandments |
| 11 | Alfred Hitchcock | Rear Window |
| 12 | Frank Capra | It’s a Wonderful Life |
| 13 | Stanley Kubrick | Dr. Strangelove – Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
| 14 | Francis Ford Coppola | Apocalypse Now |
| 15 | Hayao Miyazaki | Howl’s Moving Castle |
| 16 | Francois Truffaut | Jules et Jim |
| 17 | The Coen Brothers | Fargo |
| 18 | David Lean | Doctor Zhivago |
| 19 | Buster Keaton | The General |
| 20 | Sergei Eisenstein | Battleship Potempkin |