Every time I look for a list I must wade through the 50+ I've made so this will consolidate them. Each link takes you (or me) to a specific list.
List of Director Rankings
Abel Ferrara|Agnes Varda|Alfonso Cuaron|Akira Kurosawa|Alfred Hitchcock|Ang Lee|Billy Wilder|Bob Fosse|Bong Joon Ho|Brian De Palma|Buster Keaton|Charlie Kaufman|Christopher Nolan|Clint Eastwood|Coen Brothers|Danny Boyle|Darren Aronofsky|David Cronenberg|David Fincher|David Lynch|David O. Russell|Ernst Lubitsch|Francis Ford Coppola|Francois Truffaut|George Miller|Guillermo Del Toro|Hal Ashby|Hayao Miyazaki|Henry Selick|Howard Hawks||Hirokazu Kore-eda| James Cameron|Jane Campion|Jim Jarmusch| John Carpenter | John Ford|John Singleton|John Woo|Jonathan Demme|Kathryn Bigelow|Kelly Reichardt|M. Night Shyamalan||Martin Scorsese|Luis Buñuel|Mel Brooks|Michael Mann|Nora Ephron|Orson Welles|Park Chan Wook|Paul Thomas Anderson|Paul Verhoeven|Paul Schrader|Pedro Almodovar|Peter Jackson|Quentin Tarantino|Richard Linklater|Ridley Scott|Robert Altman|Robert Zemeckis|Roman Polanski|Sam Raimi|Sidney Lumet|Spike Lee|Stanley Kubrick|Steve McQueen|Steven Soderbergh|Steven Spielberg|Terrence Malick|Terry Gilliam|Tim Burton|Todd Haynes|Wachowski Sisters|Walter Hill|Werner…