Akira Kurosawa, Andrzej Wajda, Sergiej Eisenstein, Federico Fellini, Luis Bunuel, Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polański, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Pedro Almodovar, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Michael Haneke, Peter Greenaway, Jane Campion, Jean Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mike Leigh, Woody Allen, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Emir Kusturica, Wim Wenders, Andriej Tarkowski, Carlos Saura, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jim Jarmush, Wong Kar-Wai, Costa Gavras, Francois Ozon, Clint Eastwood, Fritz Lang, Francis Ford Coppola, John Ford, Werner Herzog, Roberto Rossellini, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Vadim, Michael Winterbottom, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Darren Aronofsky, Terry Gilliam, Danny Boyle, Frank Darabont, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Sam Mendes, Gus Van Sant, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Theo Angeloupulos, Guy Maddin, Eric Rohmer, Giuseppe Tornatore, Sidney Lumet, Ki-duk Kim, Sam Peckinpah, Peter Weir, James Ivory, Wojciech Has, Paul Thomas Anderson, Bob Fosse, Paul Greengrass, Ang Lee, Alain Resnais, Tadeusz Konwicki, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Julie Taymor, Jonathan Demme, Nikita Michałkow, Michael Curtiz, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Paul Leni, Ken Loach, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lukas Moodysson, Oliver Stone, Kevin Smith, Guillermo del Toro, Milos Forman, Petr Zelenka, Frank Capra, Michael Mann, Robert Zemeckis, Bryan De Palma, Peter Jackson, George Lucas, Sam Raimi, Neil Jordan, Agnieszka Holland, David Fincher, Feliks Falk, Christopher Nolan, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Alejandro Amenabar, Francois Truffaut, Claude Lelouch, Charles Chaplin, Jean Renoir, Marek Koterski, Michael Cimino, Michel Gondry, Kenneth Brannagh, Atom Egoyan, Baz Luhrman, George Miller, Ulrich Seidl, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Richard Attenborough, Stephen Daldry, John Woo, Michael Cacoyannis - tu masz ponad 100 POWODÓW, dla których Columbus powinien być poza pierwszą setką.