Great Anime

I love lists since they cause debates and discoveries. Below are lists related to anime. I am a recent anime convert. I have been a fan of anime since my childhood but it was  only recently that I have come to appreciate the auteristic approach of anime directors. Foremost among the lists is the list of anime that I find great.

Great Anime   

• The Works of Miyazaki,Takahata and Studio Ghibli
• Miyazaki successors (the Superflat Generation)
• The Works of Satoshi Kon
• Hideaki Anno (Gunbuster and Evangelion)
• Makoto Shinkai's Voices from a Distant Star and 5cm per Second
• Mamoru Hosada's The Girl Who Leapt through Time
• Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
• Cowboy Bebop
• Blood: the Last Vampire
• Legend of Galactic Heroes

Recommended
(this lists popular anime that I'm on the fence whether they are already great or not, I immensely appreciated and enjoyed these anime) 

• Death Note
• Detriot Metal City
• Welcome to the NHK
• Aoi Bunkagu
• Sword of the Stranger
• Wings of Honneamise
• Haruhi Suzumiya
• Eve no Jikan
• Kara no Kyokai
• Fullmetal Alchemist

Notable
(this lists anime that have exceptional elements)

• Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal
• Final Fantasy Advent Children and Last Order
• Wicked City
• Otomo's  Akira amd Steamboy
• Oshii's Jin-Roh, Patlabor 2, Urusei Yatsura 2, Sky Crawlers
• Studio 4C (Tekon Kinkreet and Mind Game)
• FLCL
• Metropolis
• Serial Experiments Lain
• Samurai Champloo
• A Kite

Still to See
(below are anime that I still yet to watch)

Interesting Plots/Settings/etc

•     Serei no Moribito, Eden of the East
•     Planetes
•     Kino's Journey
•     Nodame Cantabile, Honey and Clover, Beck, Nana
•     Denno Coil
•     Genshiken
•     Ef
•     Hirugashi
•     Hetalia
•     Mushishi, Natsume, Mononoke  
•     Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
•     GTO

In Retrospect 
(some classics that I haven't watched or haven't watched completely)

• Vision of Escaflowne
• SDF Macross, Macross Plus OVA, Macross: Do You Remember Love? Macross Zero
• Space Battleship Yamato
• Mobile Suit Gundam
• Lupin III Part 1
• Lupin III Part 2 episodes of Miyazaki (145 and 155) and of Noboru Ishiguro (112, 118, 135, 142, 152)
• Nadia: Secret of Blue Water
• Pre-Ghibli works of Miyazaki and Takahata: Future Boy Conan, Sherlock Hound (3,4,5,9,10,11)

Popular

• Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
• Naruto
• Bleach
• One Piece
• Gurren Laggan
• Code Geass