George Lucas
Andrei Tarkovsky
Larisa Shepitko
Sergey Bondarchuk
Ingmar Bergman
Akira Kurosawa
Hayao Miyazaki
Nancy Meyers
Sergio Leone
Alfonso Cuarón
David Lean
Alfred Hitchcock
Ridley Scott
Denis Villeneuve
Terrence Malick
Christopher Nolan
These are the ones that come to mind. I especially really love Soviet/Russian cinema. It’s filled with so much beautiful visual cinematography. I think the three Soviet/Russian directors I mentioned reflect that strongly in their works.