- Luz Valdez
- Karina Alexander
- Avdotya Alexandrova
- Dhimitër Anagnosti
- Natalya Andrejchenko
- Siddiq Barmak
- Sergei Bondarchuk
- Frank Daniel — first foreigner to be accepted
- Aleksandr Fyodorov
- Leonid Gaidai
- Marina Goldovskaya
- Otar Iosseliani
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- Evgenii Kharitonov
- Pavel Khodnev
- Marlen Khutsiev
- Elem Klimov
- Andrei Konchalovsky
- Veniamin Kostitsin
- Alim Kouliev
- Eldar Kuliev
- Pavel Lebeshev
- Ilya Leutin
- Việt Linh
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- Vladimir Menshov
- Nikita Mikhalkov
- Kira Muratova
- Vladimir Nakhabtsev
- Elena Kartseva
- Anton Nefedov
- Roger Nevares
- Rashid Nugmanov
- Yuri Ozerov
- Sergei Parajanov
- Aleksandr Petrov
- Juris Podnieks
- Ilya Puzikov
- Eduard Rozovsky
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- Eldar Ryazanov
- Eldar Shengelaya
- Vladimir Shevelkov
- Vasily Shukshin
- Sjumandjaja
- Aleksandr Sokurov
- Sergey Solovyov
- Alexander Tananov
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Mikhail Vartanov
- Natalya Vavilova
- Konrad Wolf
- Shapi Kaziev
- Vytautas Žalakevičius
- Roman Zawadski
- Anders Banke
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