| | Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain |
| | Anthony Minghella - The English Patient |
| | Barry Levinson - Rain Man |
| | Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor |
| | Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend |
| | Billy Wilder - The Apartment |
| | Bob Fosse - Cabaret |
| | Carol Reed - Oliver! |
| | Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby |
| | Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven |
| | David Lean - The Bridge On The River Kwai |
| | David Lean - Lawrence Of Arabia |
| | Delbert Mann - Marty |
| | Elia Kazan - Gentleman'S Agreement |
| | Elia Kazan - On The Waterfront |
| | Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part Ii |
| | Frank Borzage - 7th Heaven |
| | Frank Borzage - Bad Girl |
| | Frank Capra - It Happened One Night |
| | Frank Capra - Mr. Deeds Goes To Town |
| | Frank Capra - You Can'T Take It With You |
| | Frank Lloyd - Cavalcade |
| | Frank Lloyd - The Divine Lady |
| | Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton |
| | Fred Zinnemann - A Man For All Seasons |
| | Fred Zinnemann - From Here To Eternity |
| | George Cukor - My Fair Lady |
| | George Roy Hill - The Sting |
| | George Stevens - A Place In The Sun |
| | George Stevens - Giant |
| | James Cameron - Titanic |
| | James L. Brooks -Terms Of Endearment |
| | Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise - West Side Story |
| | John Ford - How Green Was My Valley |
| | John Ford - The Grapes Of Wrath |
| | John Ford - The Informer |
| | John Ford - The Quiet Man |
| | John G. Avildsen - Rocky |
| | John Huston - The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre |
| | John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy |
| | Jonathan Demme - The Silence Of The Lambs |
| | Joseph L. Mankiewicz - A Letter To Three Wives |
| | Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve |
| | Kevin Costner - Dances With Wolves |
| | Leo McCarey - Going My Way |
| | Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth |
| | Lewis Milestone - Two Arabian Knights |
| | Lewis Milestone - All Quiet On The Western Front |
| | Mel Gibson - Braveheart |
| | Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter |
| | Michael Curtiz - Casablanca |
| | Mike Nichols - The Graduate |
| | Milos Forman - One Flew Over The Cuckoo'S Nest |
| | Milos Forman - Amadeus |
| | Norman Taurog - Skippy |
| | Oliver Stone - Born On The Fourth Of July |
| | Oliver Stone - Platoon |
| | Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| | Richard Attenborough - Gandhi |
| | Robert Benton 2 - Kramer Vs. Kramer |
| | Robert Redford - Ordinary People |
| | Robert Wise - The Sound Of Music |
| | Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump |
| | Roman Polanski - The Pianist |
| | Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind |
| | Sam Mendes - American Beauty |
| | Steven Soderbergh - Traffic |
| | Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan |
| | Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List |
| | Sydney Pollack - Out Of Africa |
| | Tony Richardson - Tom Jones |
| | Victor Fleming - Gone With The Wind |
| | Vincente Minnelli - Gigi |
| | Warren Beatty - Reds |
| | William Friedkin - The French Connection |
| | William Wyler - Mrs. Miniver |
| | William Wyler - The Best Years Of Our Lives |
| | William Wyler - Ben Hur |
| | Woody Allen - Annie Hall |