| # | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Satyajit Ray | 28 | 1955 to 1991 | 7.9 | Ended |
| 2 | Akira Kurosawa | 26 | 1946 to 1993 | 7.8 | Ended |
| 3 | Yasujirō Ozu | 22 | 1933 to 1962 | 7.7 | Ended |
| 4 | William Wyler | 18 | 1940 to 1968 | 7.6 | Ended |
| 5 | Ingmar Bergman | 17 | 1950 to 1963 | 7.5 | Ended |
| 6 | Mani Ratnam | 16 | 1986 to 2007 | 8.0 | Ended |
| 7 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 16 | 1936 to 1956 | 7.5 | Ended |
| 8 | Martin Scorsese | 15 | 1999 to 2023 | 7.7 | Active |
| 9 | Priyadarshan | 15 | 1985 to 2000 | 7.9 | Ended |
| 10 | Luchino Visconti | 15 | 1943 to 1976 | 7.5 | Ended |
| 11 | Alfred Hitchcock | 14 | 1950 to 1964 | 7.7 | Ended |
| 12 | Yimou Zhang | 14 | 1988 to 2006 | 7.5 | Ended |
| 13 | Christopher Nolan | 13 | 1998 to 2026 | 8.2 | Active |
| 14 | Billy Wilder | 13 | 1948 to 1963 | 7.7 | Ended |
| 15 | Ertem Eğilmez | 13 | 1973 to 1977 | 8.3 | Ended |
| 16 | Ettore Scola | 13 | 1970 to 1990 | 7.4 | Ended |
| 17 | Hayao Miyazaki | 12 | 1979 to 2023 | 7.9 | Active |
| 18 | Frank Capra | 12 | 1934 to 1948 | 7.7 | Ended |
| 19 | S.S. Rajamouli | 12 | 2003 to 2025 | 7.7 | Active |
| 20 | Elia Kazan | 12 | 1949 to 1963 | 7.6 | Ended |
| 21 | Kinji Fukasaku | 12 | 1970 to 1976 | 7.3 | Ended |
| 22 | Errol Morris | 12 | 1978 to 2023 | 7.3 | Ended |
| 23 | Eldar Ryazanov | 12 | 1956 to 1991 | 7.6 | Ended |
| 24 | Stanley Kubrick | 11 | 1956 to 1999 | 8.1 | Ended |
| 25 | Miloš Forman | 11 | 1964 to 1999 | 7.5 | Ended |
