Sorted by favourite directors and other respectable/admirable ones alike (but in no particular order whatsoever). Just going to list out the first few names that come to mind:
Richard Linklater
Spike Jonze
Sofia Coppola
Wes Anderson
Michel Gondry
Christopher Nolan
Damien Chazelle
Nicolas Winding Refn
Danny Boyle
Guy Ritchie
Edgar Wright
Paul Thomas Anderson
John Hughes
Darren Aronofsky
David Fincher
Tim Burton
Hayao Miyazaki
Quentin Tarantino
The Coen Brothers (Joel, Ethan)
Guillermo del Toro
Jean-Luc Godard
Francois Truffaut
Alain Resnais
Ingmar Bergman
Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock
Jean-Pierre Jeunet