Franju already in there. Added William Lustig to round it out. Here's where we currently stand. Hoping to get to 500 before launching the ballot phase.
Ade, Maren
Akerman, Chantal
Aldrich, Robert
Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez
Allen, Woody
Almodovar, Pedro
Altman, Robert
Anderson, Lindsay
Anderson, Paul Thomas
Anderson, Wes
Andersson, Roy
Angelopoulos, Theo
Anger, Kenneth
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Arcand, Denys
Arden, Jane
Argento, Dario
Arnold, Martin
Ashby, Hal
Assayas, Olivier
Avery, Tex
Badham, John
Baker, Sean
Baxley, Craig R.
Becker, Jacques
Bergman, Ingmar
Berkeley, Busby
Berlanga, Luis García
Bertolucci, Bernardo
Bigelow, Kathryn
Bing, Wang
Blank, Les
Boetticher, Budd
Bogdanovich, Peter
Boorman, John
Borzage, Frank
Boyle, Danny
Brakhage, Stan
Breen, Neil
Bresson, Robert
Brooks, Mel
Browning, Tod
Brunel, Adrian
Bunuel, Luis
Burnett, Charles
Burton, Tim
Cameron, James
Campion, Jane
Capra, Frank
Carax, Leos
Carne, Marcel
Carpenter, John
Cassavetes, John
Chabrol, Claude
Chadha, Gurinder
Chan-wook Park
Chan, Jackie
Chaplin, Charles
Cheh, Chang
Chow, Stephen
Chytilova, Vera
Cimino, Michael
Clair, Rene
Clarke, Alan
Clooney, George
Clouzot, Henri-Georges
Cocteau, Jean
Coen, Joel & Ethan
Cohen, Jem
Cohen, Larry
Columbus, Chris
Conner, Bruce
Cooper, Merian C. & Ernest B. Schoedsack
Coppola, Francis Ford
Coppola, Sofia
Cornell, Joseph
Cosmatos, George P.
Costa, Pedro
Cronenberg, David
Cuarón, Alfonso
Cukor, George
Curtiz, Michael
Dante, Joe
Dardenne, Jean-Luc & Pierre
Dassin, Jules
Davies, Terence
De Palma, Brian
De Sica, Vittorio
Demme, Jonathan
Demy, Jacques
Denis, Claire
Deren, Maya
Desplechin, Arnaud
Donen, Stanley
Donner, Richard
Dovzhenko, Alexander
Downey Sr., Robert
Dreyer, Carl Theodor
Dulac, Germaine
Dumont, Bruno
Dupont, E.A.
Duras, Marguerite
Dutt, Guru
Duvivier, Julian
Dwan, Allan
Eastwood, Clint
Edwards, Blake
Eisenstein, Sergei
Erice, Victor
Eustache, Jean
Farhadi, Asghar
Farocki, Harun
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Fellini, Federico
Ferrara, Abel
Feuillade, Louis
Feyder, Jacques
Fincher, David
Flaherty, Robert
Fleming, Victor
Ford, John
Forman, Milos
Forsyth, Bill
Fosse, Bob
Franco, Jesus
Franju, Georges
Frankenheimer, John
Friedkin, William
Fukasaku Kinji
Fuller, Samuel
Gance, Abel
Garanina, Ideya
Garrel, Phillippe
Ghatak, Ritwik
Ghobadi, Bahman
Gilliam, Terry
Godard, Jean-Luc
Gondry, Michel
Gordon, Stuart
Gosha Hideo
Gray, James
Green, David Gordon
Greenaway, Peter
Gremillion, Jean
Griffith, D.W.
Guest, Christopher
Guy-Blaché, Alice
Hamer, Robert
Hand, David
Haneke, Michael
Hark, Tsui
Has, Wojciech
Hathaway, Henry
Hawks, Howard
Haynes, Todd
Hellman, Monte
Hertzfeldt, Don
Herz, Juraj
Herz, Juraj
Herzog, Werner
Hill, George Roy
Hill, Walter
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hooper, Tobe
Hsiao-hsien, Hou
Hu, King
Hung, Sammo
Huston, John
Ichikawa Kon
Imamura Shōhei
Ishii Gakuryū
Jackson, Peter
Jarman, Derek
Jarmusch, Jim
Jenkins, Tamara
Jennings, Humphrey
Jires, Jaromil
Jodorowsky, Alejandro
Jones, Chuck
Jonze, Spike
Jutra, Claude
Kaige, Chen
Kalatozov, Mikhael
Kaufman, Charlie
Kaurismäki, Aki
Kazan, Elia
Keaton, Buster
Kelly, Richard
Kerrigan, Lodge
Kiarostami, Abbas
Kieslowski, Krzysztof
Kitano Takeshi
Klimov, Elem
Korda, Alexander
Korine, Harmony
Kovasznai, Gyorgy
Kubelka, Peter
Kubrick, Stanley
Kuchar, George & Mike
Kurosawa Akira
Kusturica, Emir
Landis, John
Lang, Fritz
Lanzmann, Claude
Lassetter, John
Laughton, Charles
Lean, David
Lee, Ang
Lee, Spike
Leigh, Mike
Leone, Sergio
Lester, Richard
Lewis, Herschell Gordon
Lewis, Jerry
Linklater, Richard
Loach, Ken
Lonergan, Kenneth
Lord, Del
Losey, Joseph
Lubitsch, Ernst
Lucas, George
Lumet, Sidney
Lupino, Ida
Lustig, William
Lynch, David
Mackendrick, Alexander
Maddin, Guy
Makhmalbaf, Mohsen
Malick, Terrence
Malle, Louis
Mambéty, Djibril Diop
Mamoulian, Rouben
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Mann, Anthony
Mann, Michael
Marker, Chris
May, Elaine
Maysles, Albert & David, and Charlotte Zwerin
Mazursky, Paul
McCarey, Leo
McG
McLaren, Norman
McTiernan, John
Medem, Julio
Melies, Georges
Melville, Jean-Pierre
Menzel, Jirí
Metzger, Radley
Meyer, Russ
Miller, George
Ming-liang, Tsai
Minnelli, Vincente
Miyazaki Hayao
Mizoguchi Kenji
Monteiro, João Cesar
Morissey, Paul
Morris, Errol
Mu, Fei
Mulligan, Robert
Mungiu, Cristian
Murnau, F.W.
Naruse Mikio
Negulesco, Jean
Nichols, Mike
Noé, Gaspar
Nolan, Christopher
Oliveira, Manoel de
Olmi, Ermanno
Ophüls, Marcel
Ophüls, Max
Ōshima Nagisa
Ozu Yasujirō
Pabst, G.W.
Painlevé, Jean
Paizs, John
Pakula, Alan J.
Panahi, Jafar
Parajanov, Sergei
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Peckinpah, Sam
Penn, Arthur
Pennebaker, D.A.
Pereira dos Santos, Nelson
Petzold, Christian
Pialat, Maurice
Polanski, Roman
Pollack, Sydney
Pontecorvo, Gillo
Potter, Sally
Powell, Michael & Emeric Pressburger
Preminger, Otto
Quay, Stephen & Timothy
Raimi, Sam
Ramis, Harold
Ray, Nicholas
Ray, Satyajit
Reed, Carol
Reichart, Kelly
Reiner, Rob
Renoir, Jean
Resnais, Alain
Richter, Hans
Riefenstahl, Leni
Rivette, Jacques
Rocha, Glauber
Roeg, Nicholas
Rohmer, Eric
Romero, George A.
Rosi, Francesco
Rossellini, Roberto
Rouch, Jean
Russell, Ken
Sandrich, Mark
Satoshi Kon
Saulnier, Jeremy
Scheffner, Philip
Schlesinger, John
Schrader, Paul
Scorsese, Martin
Scott, Ridley
Scott, Tony
Sembene, Ousmene
Shahid-Saless, Sohrab
Shepitko, Larisa
Siegel, Don
Sirk, Douglas
Sjöström, Victor
Snow, Michael
Soderbergh, Steven
Sokurov, Aleksandr
Solondz, Todd
Spheeris, Penelope
Spielberg, Steven
Stevens, George
Stillman, Whit
Stone, Oliver
Straub, Jean-Marie & Daniele Huillet
Strickland, Peter
Sturges, Preston
Suzuki Seijun
Svankmajer, Jan
Takahata Isao
Tarantino, Quentin
Tarkovsky, Andrei
Tarr, Bela
Tashlin, Frank
Tati, Jacques
Teshigahara Hiroshi
To, Johnnie
Tornatore, Giuseppe
Tourneur, Jacques
Tourneur, Maurice
Trecartin, Ryan
Troell, Jan
Truffaut, Francois
Tsukamoto Shin'ya
Ulmer, Edgar G.
Van Sant, Gus
Varda, Agnes
Verhoeven, Paul
Vertov, Dziga
Vidor, King
Vigo, Jean
Visconti, Luchino
Von Praunheim, Rosa
Von Sternberg, Josef
Von Stroheim, Erich
Von Trier, Lars
Wachowski, Lana & Lilly
Wajda, Andezej
Walsh, Raoul
Wang, Jimmy
Warhol, Andy
Waters, John
Watkins, Peter
Weber, Lois
Weerasethakul, Apichatpong
Weir, Peter
Welles, Orson
Wellman, William
Wenders, Wim
Whale, James
White, Jules
Wiene, Robert
Wilder, Billy
Winterbottom, Michael
Wise, Robert
Wiseman, Frederick
Wong Kar-wai
Woo, John
Wright, Edgar
Wyler, William
Yang, Edward
Yimou, Zhang
Zanussi, Krzysztof
Zemeckis, Robert
Zhangke Jia
Zinnemann, Fred
Zulawski, Andrzej
Zwigoff, Terry
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 November 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link