Living Directors Whose Films I Would Definitely See or Most Likely See in Theaters

Directors whose new film I would see no matter what
Woody Allen
Pedro Almodóvar
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Dario Argento
Darren Aronofsky
Sean Baker
Noah Baumbach
Kathryn Bigelow
Joon-ho Bong
Catherine Breillat
Albert Brooks
Mel Brooks
Charles Burnett
Jane Campion
Leos Carax
John Carpenter
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Coen Brothers (Ethan and Joel)
Francis Ford Coppola
Sofia Coppola
David Cronenberg
Alfonso Cuarón
The Dardenne Brothers (Jean-Pierre and Luc)
Brian De Palma
Guillermo del Toro
Claire Denis
Clint Eastwood
David Fincher
Terry Gilliam
Jonathan Glazer
Christopher Guest
Michael Haneke
Todd Haynes
Werner Herzog
Nicole Holofcener
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Jim Jarmusch
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Charlie Kaufman
Harmony Korine
Chang-dong Lee
Spike Lee
Mike Leigh
Richard Linklater
Terrence Malick
Michael Mann
Elaine May
George Miller
Hayao Miyazaki
Errol Morris
Gaspar Noé
Christopher Nolan
Jafar Panahi
Chan-wook Park
Alexander Payne
Roman Polanski
Lynne Ramsay
Nicolas Winding Refn
Kelly Reichardt
David O. Russell
Hong Sang-soo
Paul Schrader
Martin Scorsese
Ridley Scott
Steven Soderbergh
Todd Solondz
Steven Spielberg
Whit Stillman
Oliver Stone
Quentin Tarantino
Béla Tarr
Ming-liang Tsai
Paul Verhoeven
Lars von Trier
John Waters
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Wim Wenders
Frederick Wiseman
Kar Wai Wong
John Woo
S. Craig Zahler
Andrey Zvyagintsev

Directors whose new film I would almost certainly see because I usually like their films and/or they almost always make good films, but if they made a film that got horrible reviews, I might not see it.
Roy Andersson
Andrea Arnold
Olivier Assayas
Ari Aster
Bertrand Bonello
Danny Boyle
Tim Burton
Louis C.K.
James Cameron
Damien Chazelle
Pedro Costa
Brandon Cronenberg
Andrew Dominik
Bruno Dumont
Robert Eggers
Asghar Farhadi
Abel Ferrara
Todd Field
Alex Garland
Costa-Gavras
Ricky Gervais
Greta Gerwig
Debra Granik
James Gray
Paul Greengrass
Luca Guadagnino
Andrew Haigh
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Mia Hansen-Løve
Walter Hill
Eliza Hittman
Joanna Hogg
James Ivory
Barry Jenkins
Kirsten Johnson
Spike Jonze
Radu Jude
Aki Kaurismäki
Hirokazu Koreeda
Yorgos Lanthimos
Ang Lee
Ken Loach
Kenneth Lonergan
David Lowery
Guy Maddin
David Mamet
Martin McDonagh
Steve McQueen
Bennett Miller
Michael Moore
Cristian Mungiu
Jeff Nichols
Alex Ross Perry
Christian Petzold
Sam Raimi
Dee Rees
Benny and Josh Safdie
John Sayles
Ulrich Seidl
Paolo Sorrentino
Joachim Trier
Gus Van Sant
Denis Villeneuve
Lana and Lilly Wachowski
Edgar Wright
Jia Zhangke
Terry Zwigoff