(thanks IMDb for the idea!)
Woody Allen - Diane Keaton in Annie Hall (1977)
Pedro Almodovar - Penelope Cruz in Volver (2006)
Robert Altman - Tim Robbins in The Player (1992)
Alejandro Amenabar - Nicole Kidman in The Others (2001)
P.T. Anderson - Tom Cruise in Magnolia (1999)
Tim Burton - Martin Landau in Ed Wood (1994) (still doesn't deserve that Oscar!)
James Cameron - Sigourney Weaver in Aliens (1986)
Jane Campion - Holly Hunter in The Piano (1993)
Frances Ford Coppola - Al Pacino in The Godfather Part II (1974)
Alfonso Cuaron - Clive Owen in Children of Men (2006)
Milos Forman - Jack Nicholson in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Stephen Frears - Glenn Close in Dangerous Liasions (1988)
Christopher Guest - Catherine O'Hara in For Your Consideration (2006)
Alfred Hitchcock - Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960)
Ron Howard - Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu - Adriana Barazza in Babel (2006)
Peter Jackson - Kate Winslet in Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Elia Kazan - Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Stanley Kubrick - Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Ang Lee - Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Mike Leigh - Imelda Staunton in Vera Drake (2004)
Richard Linklater - Julie Delpy in Before Sunset (2004)
Sidney Lumet - Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
David Lynch - Naomi Watts in Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Terrence Malick - Sissy Spacek in Badlands (1973)
Michael Mann - Russell Crowe in The Insider (1999)
Mike Nichols - Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Alexander Payne - Paul Giamatti in Sideways (2004)
Sydney Pollack - Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (1982)
Rob Reiner - Kathy Bates in Misery (1990)
Martin Scorsese - Robert DeNiro in Raging Bull (1980)
Ridley Scott - Russell Crowe in Gladiator (2000)
M. Night Shamaylan - Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense (1999)
Steven Spielberg - Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List (1993)
Quentin Tarantino - Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction (1994)
Gus van Sant - Nicole Kidman in To Die For (1995)
Peter Weir - Harrison Ford in Witness (1985)
Yeah, I know, I missed lots of directors...I'll have to go in and edit later...
