Basically, start from the year you were born till now! You do not have to do it all at once. You can always come back and "MODIFY" your original post.
Here's mine!
1978: Halloween - John Carpenter
1979: Phantasm - Don Coscarelli
1980: Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back - Irvin Kershner
1981: The Evil Dead - Sam Raimi
1982: The Thing - John Carpenter
1983: A Christmas Story - Bob Clark
1984: The Terminator - James Cameron
1985: The Goonies - Richard Donner
1986: Platoon - Oliver Stone
1987: Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick
1988: Die Hard - John McTiernan
1989: Glory - Edward Zwick
1990: Total Recall - Paul Verhoeven
1991: The Silence of the Lambs - Jonathan Demme
1992: Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarantino
1993: Dazed and Confused - Richard Linklater
1994: Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino
1995: Se7en - David Fincher
1996: Fargo - The Coen Brothers
1997: Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson
1998: The Big Lebowski - The Coen Brothers
1999: The Blair Witch Project - Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez
2000: Battle Royale - Kinji Fukasaku
2001: Freddy Got Fingered - Tom Green
2002: Gangs of New York - Martin Scorsese
2003: Oldboy - Park Chan-wook
2004: Hellboy - Guillermo del Toro
2005: Batman Begins - Christopher Nolan
2006: V for Vendetta - James McTeigue
2007: There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson
2008: The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan
2009: Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino
2010: Inception - Christopher Nolan
2011: Hobo with a Shotgun - Jason Eisener (So Far...)
Obviously, these are not set in stone, but overall? I think it's pretty close.