I can come up with ten names, but no ranking.

Stanley Kubrick

Alfred Hitchcock

John Carpenter

Sam Raimi

Akira Kurosawa

Sam Peckinpah

Steven Spielberg

Francis Ford Coppola

Mel Brooks

Michael Curtiz


If I could extend this list.....

John Ford

Ingmar Bergman

Terry Gilliam

Fritz Lang

Coen Brothers

Wes Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson