6. Richard Linklater, Before Midnight [73/13]
7. Shane Carruth,
Upstream Color [73/11]
8. Johnnie To, Drug War [71/12]
9. Abbas Kiarostami, Like Someone in Love [55/9]
10.
Paolo Sorrentino, The Great Beauty [49/8]
11. Terrence Malick, To the Wonder [42/7]
12. Andrew Bujalski,
Computer Chess [34/6]
13. Harmony Korine, Spring Breakers [29/5]
14. Claire Denis, Bastards [28/4]
15.
J.C. Chandor, All Is Lost [21/4]
16. Abdellatif Kechiche, Blue Is the Warmest Color [20/4]
17 (tie). Joshua
Oppenheimer, Cynthia Cynn, and Anonymous, The Act of Killing [20/3]
17 (tie). Wong Kar-wai, The Grandmaster [20/3]
19.
Alexander Payne, Nebraska [19/3]
20 (tie). Xavier Dolan, Laurence Anyways [18/3]
20 (tie). Edgar Wright,
The World’s End [18/3]
22. Alain Resnais, You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet [17/3]
23 (tie).
Asghar Farhadi, The Past [16/3]
23 (tie). Jeff Nichols, Mud [16/3]
25. Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips
[15/3]
26 (tie). Hayao Miyazaki, The World’s End [13/2]
26 (tie). Nicolas Winding Refn, Only God
Forgives [13/2]
26 (tie). David O. Russell, American Hustle [13/2]
26 (tie). Steven Soderbergh, Side Effects
[13/2]
30 (tie). Cristian Mungiu, Beyond the Hills [12/2]
30 (tie). Matias Piņeiro, Viola [12/2]
32
(tie). Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine [11/2]
32 (tie). Haifaa Al-Mansour, Wadjda [11/2]
34. Jia Zhang-ke, A
Touch of Sin [9/2]
35 (tie). Jem Cohen, Museum Hours [8/2]
35 (tie). Rob Zombie, The Lords of Salem [8/2]
