All directors who voted
The directors who voted in top ten poll were:
- Roy Andersson
- Theo Angelopoulos
- Denys Arcand
- George Armitage
- Gillian Armstrong
- Olivier Assayas
- Alexei Balabanov
- Harold Becker
- Bruce Beresford
- Andrew Bergman
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Stig Björkman
- Les Blair
- Jana Bokova
- John Boorman
- Catherine Breillat
- Nick Broomfield
- Danny Cannon
- Gurinder Chadha
- Yiwen Chen
- Vidhu Vinod Chopra
- Roger Corman
- Alex Cox
- Cameron Crowe
- John Dahl
- Joe Dante
- Terence Davies
- Ernest R. Dickerson
- Bryan Forbes
- Milos Forman
- Brian Gilbert
- Lewis Gilbert
- Jonathan Glazer
- Stuart Gordon
- Philip Haas
- Taylor Hackford
- Randa Haines
- Guy Hamilton
- Michael Haneke
- Mary Harron
- Scott Hicks
- Ann Hui
- Jim Jarmusch
- Norman Jewison
- Terry Jones
- Cédric Kahn
- Asif Kapadia
- Jonathan Kaplan
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Mika Kaurismäki
- Park Kiyong
- Bruce LaBruce
- Clara Law
- Richard Lester
- Richard Linklater
- Ken Loach
- Sidney Lumet
- Jonathan Lynn
- Jim McBride
- Kevin MacDonald
- Scott McGehee
- Gillies MacKinnon
- James Mangold
- Michael Mann
- Paul Mazursky
- Anurag Mehta
- Sam Mendes
- Nicholas Meyer
- Roger Michell
- Tanvir Mokammel
- Lukas Moodysson
- Errol Morris
- Paul Morrissey
- Shunichi Nagasaki
- Mira Nair
- Ronald Neame
- Mike Newell
- Pawel Pawlikowski
- Babak Payami
- Sydney Pollack
- Alex Proyas
- Yvonne Rainer
- Karel Reisz
- Tim Robbins
- George A. Romero
- Alan Rudolph
- Philip Saville
- Paul Schrader
- Barbet Schroeder
- Joel Schumacher
- Susan Seidelman
- Mrinal Sen
- Masahiro Shinoda
- David Siegel
- Digvijay Singh
- Santosh Sivan
- George Sluizer
- Iain Softley
- Wesley Strick
- Quentin Tarantino
- James Toback
- Jaco Van Dormael
- Gore Verbinski
- Paul Verhoeven
- Vincent Ward
- John Waters
- Geoffrey Wright
- Tian Zhuang-Zhuang
