With 13 votes:
John Cassavetes
With 12 votes:
Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker
With 10 votes:
Michelangelo Antonioni, Chantal Akerman
With 9 votes:
Claire Denis, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Abbas Kiarostami
With 8 votes:
Ingmar Bergman, Philippe Garrel, Yazujiro Ozu, Andrei Tarkovsky, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
With 7 votes:
Philippe Grandrieux , Werner Herzog, Tsai Ming-Liang
With 6 votes:
Luis Buñuel, Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Marguerite Duras, Jean Eustache, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Wong Kar-Wai, Sergei Paradjanov, Maurice Pialat, Bela Tarr, Koji Wakamatsu
With 5 votes:
Pedro Costa, Vera Chytilova, Víctor Erice, Michael Haneke, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir, Alain Resnais, Jacques Tourneur, Agnes Varda, Jean Vigo, Frans Zwartjes, Andrzej Zuwalski
With 4 votes:
Lisandro Alonso, Charlie Chaplin, Lav Díaz, Bruno Dumont, Forough Farrokhzad, Howard Hawks, Ken Jacobs, Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch, Ida Lupino, Mikio Naruse, Alexander Sokurov, Jean-Marie Straub and Danielle Huillet, Luchino Visconti, Glauber Rocha, Orson Welles, Max Ophuls, Jerry Lewis, John Gianvito, Nagisha Oshima, Barbara Loden
With 3 votes:
Bejamin Christensen, F.W. Murnau, Jonas Mekas, Harun Farocki, Jia Zhang-ke, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucci, Derek Jarman, Krzystof Kieslowski, Eric Rohmer, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Alexander Hammid, Sam Fuller, Todd Haynes, Monte Hellman, Abel Ferrara, Roberto Rossellini, Akira Kurosawa, Toshio Matsumoto, James Benning, Buster Keaton, Peter Tscherkassky, Nicholas Ray
With 2 votes:
Stanley Kubrick, Jean Rouch, The Dardenne Brothers, Gregg Araki, Charles Laughton, José Luis Guerin, Johan Grimonprez, Wang Bing, Kim Ki-Young, Theo Angelopoulos, Raul Ruiz, Sharunas Bartas, Dang Nhat Minh, Patrick Keiller, Alan Clarke, Ermanno Olmi, Kira Muratova, Darío Argento, Ritwak Ghatak, Alexander Kluge, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Hugo Santiago, Marlen Khutsiyev, Aleksandar Petrovic, Larissa Shepitko, Artavazd Pelechian, Mikhail Kalatozov, Sohrab Hahid-Saless, Ken Russell, Paul Verhoeven, Richard Serra, D.A. Pennebaker and Richard Leacock, Vilgot Sjoman, Wim Wenders, Ishmael Bernal, Vittorio de Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jiayin Liu, Roman Polanski, Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese, Lucrecia Martel, Aki Kaurismaki, Miguel Gomes, Robert Altman, Bill Douglas, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Akira Kurosawa, John Carpenter, Hong Sang-Soo, Peter Watkins, Catherine Breillat, Yoshishige Yoshida, Masao Adachi, Dusan Makavejev, Jane Campion, Francis Ford Coppola, Jacques Rivette, Leo McCarey, The Kuchar Brothers, Terence Malick, Seijun Suzuki, Martin Scorsese, Billy Wilder, Leos Carax, Pedro Almodovar, Gustav Deutsch, Gus Van Sant, Michael Snow