A list Compiled by Bill Mousoulis in 2003. Mousoulis is an award-winning Greek-Australian film director, with approximately 100 films to his name. He is also the founder of the online film journal Senses of Cinema in 1999, and the founder of the film co-operative Melbourne Super 8 Film Group in 1985.
1. Roberto Rossellini
2. Robert Bresson
3. Jean-Luc Godard
4. Frank Borzage
5. Chantal Akerman
6. Pier Paolo Pasolini
7. Jean Renoir
8. Michelangelo Antonioni
9. Yasujiro Ozu
10. Wong Kar-wai
11. Eric Rohmer
12. John Cassavetes
13. Luis Buñuel
14. Carl Theodor Dreyer
15. Frank Capra
16. Abbas Kiarostami
17. Jean Eustache
18. Claude Chabrol
19. Theo Angelopoulos
20. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
21. Jacques Rivette
22. Orson Welles
23. John Ford
24. Alfred Hitchcock
25. Jacques Demy
26. Alan Clarke
27. Andrei Tarkovsky
28. Ingmar Bergman
29. Michael Haneke
30. Jacques Tati
31. Max Ophüls
32. Mike Leigh
33. Ken Loach
34. Martin Scorsese
35. Jean-Marie Straub
36. Charles Chaplin
37. Philippe Garrel
38. R. W. Fassbinder
39. Tony Gatlif
40. Jerry Lewis
41. Chris Marker
42. Jon Jost
43. F. W. Murnau .
44. Ermanno Olmi
45. Kenji Mizoguchi
46. Vittorio De Sica
47. Jean Vigo
48. Agnes Varda.
49. D. W. Griffith
50. Wim Wenders