The Oscar-winning 'Shutter Island' director Martin Scorsese has been named the best living director in a new US magazine poll.

Imdb.com reports, the top 10 in the Paste magazine's top 50 list - are Joel and Ethan Coen, Steven Soderbergh, Paul Thomas Anderson, Woody Allen, Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch and Wong Kar-Wai.

Kathryn Bigelow, who became the first female to win a Best Director Oscar failed to make in the list.