Jeremi Szaniawski's Greatest Directors

Top tier:
Ingmar Bergman [pictured]
Stanley Kubrick
D.W. Griffith
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Robert Bresson
F.W. Murnau
Erich von Stroheim
Luis Buñuel
Federico Fellini
Alfred Hitchcock

Second tier:
Éric Rohmer
Fritz Lang
Buster Keaton
Orson Welles
Alexander Dovzhenko
Luchino Visconti
Jean-Luc Godard
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ernst Lubitsch
Abbas Kiarostami

Third tier:
John Cassavetes
Agnès Varda
Andrey Tarkovsky
Andrzej Wajda
Wojciech Has
Michelangelo Antonioni
Alexander Sokurov
Paul Verhoeven
Béla Tarr
Michael Haneke
Lars von Trier
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Jim Jarmusch
Thierry Zeno
Brian De Palma
Hou Hsao-Hsien
Quentin Tarantino
Terrence Malick
David Cronenberg

I'll stop here, of course there's more, but... these are my favorite ones.

Jeremi is a PhD candidate in Films Studies and Slavic Languages and Literature at Yale University.