11. Joel and Ethan Coen [26/4]
12. Denis Villeneuve [25/4]
13. Kelly Reichardt [23/4]
14. Greta Gerwig [22/4]
15. Yorgos Lanthimos [20/3]
16. Christopher Nolan [19/3]
17 (tie). Asghar Farhadi [18/3]
17 (tie). Jodie Mack [18/3]
17 (tie). Johnnie To [18/3]
20 (tie). Olivier Assayas [17/3]
20 (tie). Jordan Peele [17/3]
20 (tie). Frederick Wiseman [17/3]
23. Apichatpong Weerasethakul [16/3]
24. Bruno Dumont [15/2]
25. Abbas Kiarostami [14/3]
26. Bertrand Bonello [14/2]
27 (tie). Ryan Coogler [13/2]
27 (tie). Don Hertzfeldt [13/2]
27 (tie). Jia Zhang-ke [13/2]
30 (tie). Luca Guadagnino [12/2]
30 (tie). Christian Petzold [12/2]
30 (tie). S. Craig Zahler [12/2]
33. Steve McQueen [11/2]
34 (tie). Andrew Haigh [10/2]
34 (tie). Josh and Benny Safdie [10/2]
36. Jean-Luc Godard [9/2]
37 (tie). Wes Anderson [8/2]
37 (tie). Clint Eastwood [8/2]

The following directors received one vote apiece:
Khalik Allah
Pedro Almodovar
Sean Baker
Marco Bellocchio
Bi Gan
Kathryn Bigelow
Neil Breen
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Damien Chazelle
Sofia Coppola
Alfonso Cuaron
Adam Curtis
Terence Davies
Claire Denis
Ava DuVernay
Abbas Fahdel
Miguel Gomes
James Gray
Marielle Heller
Steve James
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Rian Johnson
Spike Lee
Julia Loktev
David Lowery
Nabwana IGG (Wakaliwood)
Ermanno Olmi
Jafar Panahi
Pawel Pawlikowski
Alex Ross Perry
Lynne Ramsay
Nicolas Winding Refn
Anthony and Joe Russo
Céline Sciamma
Lynn Shelton
Steven Soderbergh
Todd Solondz
Sion Sono
Paolo Sorrentino
Tsai Ming-liang
Lars von Trier
Taika Waititi
Naoko Yamada