Despite how long this comment is about to be, I'm pretty excited to see how this turns out. Bracket A Hal Ashby Carol Reed -abstain- Noah Baumbach Peter Bogdonavich Mike Nichols Ishiro Honda Peter Yates Fritz Lang Julien Duvivier Claire Denis -abstain- -abstain- Albert Maysles Cecile B DeMille Roman Polanski Frank Capra David Fincher Michael Cimino Paul Schrader Ernst Lubitsch Jacques Rivette Steve McQueen -abstain- Andrew Haigh -abstain- -abstain- -abstain- Jane Campion -abstain- Philip Kaufman John Frankenheimer -abstain- Marcel Carne -abstain- Steven Soderbergh Barbette Schroeder Danny Boyle Milos Forman Carl Theodor Dreyer Alex Cox Otto Preminger -abstain- Rainer Werner Fassbinder Roberto Rossellini Ismail Merchant Paolo Sorrentino Anthony Mann Haskell Wexler Michelangelo Antonioni Federico Fellini Seijun Suzuki Abdellatif Kechiche Guillermo Del Toro John Cassavetes Wes Anderson Terry Gilliam David Gordon Green -abstain- Spike Jonze Ang Lee Louise Malle (in a surprisingly tough first round matchup) Stanley Donnen Stan Brakhage Whit Stillman Jim Jarmusch Alfonso Cuaron Coen Bros Lasse Halstrom -abstain- Lynne Ramsey -abstain- David Mamet -abstain- Jean-Pierre Melville -abstain- -abstain- Paul Verhoeven -abstain- -abstain- -abstain- Bracket B Preston Sturges Lars Von Trier (In another tough first round bout) -abstain- -abstain- Robert Bresson Bob Fosse Errol Morris Stanley Kubrick -abstain- Kazuo Mori Jacques Demy -abstain- Rene Claire Godfrey Reggio Juan Antonio Bardem Paul Morrissey Charlie Chaplin Lawrence Kasdan Georges Franju Jacques Tati Alain Resnais Andrej Wajda Martin Scorcese Bob Rafelson Chris Marker Robert Altman John Ford -abstain- Nicholas Roeg John Lurie Ted Wilde Henri-Georges Clouzot -abstain- -abstain- David Cronenberg John Huston Catherine Breillat Marcel Camus Max Ophuls Dennis Hopper Gus Van Sant Satyajit Ray -abstain- Akira Kurosawa Pier Paolo Pasolini Eric Rohmer -abstain- -abstain- -abstain- Peter Weir Terry Jones Robert M Young Richard Lester Douglas Sirk Sidney Lumet Pierre Etaix -abstain- Hollis Frampton Allen King Todd Solondz Krzysztof Kieslowski -abstain- Edgar Morin Jean Cocteau -abstain- John Schlesinger Rob Reiner -abstain- -abstain- -abstain- -abstain- Nicholas Ray Alfred Hitchcock Brian DePalma Samuel Fuller -abstain- Sam Peckinpah -abstain- -abstain- Orson Welles D.A. Pennebaker

That was so much more exhausting than I expected.