Lawrence Kasdan on Dr. Strangelove
Neil Labute on Mike Nichols's Carnal Knowledge
Jean-Marc Vallée on Miloš Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
JC Chandor on Do the Right Thing
Miguel Arteta on The King of Comedy
M. Night Shyamalan on Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show
Barry Sonnenfeld on Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye
Julian Schnabel on Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull
David O. Russell on Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein
Spike Jonze on Carroll Ballard's The Black Stallion
Bennett Miller on Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon
Paul Thomas Anderson on John Huston's Treasure of the Sierra Madre
James L. Brooks on William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives
William Friedkin on Orson Welles's Citizen Kane
Stephen Frears on Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious
Alejandro González Iñárritu on Ikira Kurosawa’s Ikiru
Bill Condon on The Talented Mr. Ripley
Noah Baumbach on François Truffaut’s Jules and Jim
Milos Foreman on Vittorio De Sica’s charming Miracle in Milan
Darren Aronofsky on Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo
Errol Morris on Douglas Sirk’s The Tarnished Angels
Marc Forster on Alan J. Pakula’s The Parallax View
Mike Nichols on The Graduate
Clint Eastwood on Unforgiven
Vince Gilligan on Breaking Bad
Roland Joffé on The Killing Fields
Barry Sonnenfeld on Men in Black
Rob Marshall on Chicago
Gore Verbinski on Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Jay Roach on Goldmember
Alan Ball on Six Feet Under
Jean-Marc Vallée on Big Little Lies
Errol Morris on The Thin Blue Line
Catherine Hardwicke on Lords of Dogtown
Lisa Cholodenko on The Kids Are All Right