Robert Aldrich
The list below is my "B" list of favorite filmmakers, which is more fully described on the main page.
Shinji Aoyama
Kenneth Anger
Tex Avery
Bruce Baillie
Budd Boetticher
Frank Borzage
Stan Brakhage
Robert Breer
Robert Bresson
Kyle Canterbury
Claude Chabrol
Jack Chambers
Chen Kaige
Robert Clampett
Larry Cohen
Bruce Conner
Joseph Cornell
George Cukor
Gail Currey
Andre de Toth
Alexander Dovzhenko
Carl Dreyer
Robert Edelstein
Blake Edwards
Sergei Eisenstein
Jean Epstein
Louis Feuillade
Robert Flaherty
John Ford
Hollis Frampton
Georges Franju
Samuel Fuller
Ernie Gehr
D. W. Griffith
Marcel Hanoun
Howard Hawks
Monte Hellman
Jerome Hill
Alfred Hitchcock
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Joris Ivens
Ken Jacobs
Chuck Jones
Larry Jordan
Buster Keaton
Ernie Kovacs
Peter Kubelka
George Landow [a.k.a. Owen Land]
Fritz Lang
Jerry Lewis
Joseph H. Lewis
Arthur Lipsett
Louis Lumière
Leo McCarey
Christopher Maclaine
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Anthony Mann
Michael Mann
Chris Marker
Gregory J. Markopoulos
Jonas Mekas
Georges Méliès
Vincente Minnelli
Kenji Mizoguchi
Robert Mulligan
F. W. Murnau
Mikio Naruse
Manoel de Oliveira
Pat O'Neill
Max Ophuls
Gerd Oswald
Sidney Peterson
Abraham Polonsky
Otto Preminger
Yvonne Rainer
Nicholas Ray
Ron Rice
Leni Riefenstahl
Jacques Rivette
Roberto Rossellini
Jean Rouch
Hiroshi Shimizu
Douglas Sirk
Harry Smith
Jack Smith
Michael Snow
Alexander Sokurov
Warren Sonbert
John M. Stahl
Straub/Huillet
Bela Tarr
Frank Tashlin
Jacques Tati
Johnnie To
Jacques Tourneur
Luis Trenker
Edgar G. Ulmer
King Vidor
Jean Vigo
Josef von Sternberg
Erich von Stroheim
Raoul Walsh
Andy Warhol
Joyce Wieland
Orson Welles
Chris Welsby
Paul Wendkos
Edward Yang
David Brooks
Luis Buñuel
Mario Camerini
Bob Cowan
Charles Dekeukeleire
Allan Dwan
Su Friedrich
Brian Frye
Abel Gance
Janie Geiser
Amos Gitai
Jean-Luc Godard
Sara Gomez
Susumu Hani
Curtis Harrington
Marcel L'Herbier
Werner Herzog
Hy Hirsh
Oliver Hockenhull
Jean-Isidore Isou
Miklós Jancsó
Abbas Kiarostami
Lewis Klahr
Lev Kuleshov
Claude Lanzmann
Charles Laughton
Richard Leacock
Maurice Lemaître
Alexander Mackendrick
Yasuzo Masumura
Yasujiro Ozu
Marcel Pagnol
Artavazd Peleshian
Jean Renoir
Arthur J. Ripley
Victor Seastrom
John Smith
Mauritz Stiller
Kidlat Tahimik
Dziga Vertov
Lars von Trier
Johan van der Keuken
Spencer Williams
Edward D. Wood, Jr.