Top 10 Directors

[renner]

1. Billy Wilder (One, Two, Three; Some Like It Hot; Ace in the Hole; Double Indemnity)
2. Alfred Hitchcock (Notorious; North By Northwest; Rear Window)
3. Steven Spielberg (Minority Report; Jaws; Schindler's List)
4. Ernst Lubitsch (Ninotchka; To Be Or Not To Be)
5. Woody Allen (Manhattan; Annie Hall; Matchpoint)
6. Pedro Almodovar (La mala educacion; Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios)
7. Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby; Mystic River)
8. Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels; The Palm Beach Story)
9. Frank Capra (It happened one night; Mr Smith goes to Washington; Lost Horizon)
10. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange; The Shining; The Killing)

[Ricky]

My favourite Directors list as follows:

1.) David Fincher
2.)Alfonso Cuarón
3.) George A. Romero
4.) Danny Bolye- Sunshine
5.)Spike Lee
6.)The Coen Brothers
7.)Stanley Kubrick

[PigsnieLite]

My Best Directors of All Time (shifts sometimes, but this is pretty close):

1. Akira Kurosawa - YOJIMBO, THRONE OF BLOOD, IKIRU depresses me)
2. Ang Lee - Underrated versatile director: SENSE & SENSIBILITY, CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
3. Zhang Yimou - TO LIVE, HERO
4. Kenji Mizoguchi - SANSHO THE BAILIFF, UGETSU
5. Ridley Scott - GLADIATOR, ALIEN
6. William Wyler - WUTHERING HEIGHTS, THE HEIRESS
7. Yasujiro Ozu - TOKYO STORY, FLOATING WEEDS
8. Guillermo Del Toro - PAN'S LABYRINTH, HELLBOY
9. Hiyao Miyazaki - SPIRITED AWAY, PONYO
10. David Lean - BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

[Deaf_Null]

In no particular order:

- Stanley Kubrick
- Coen Brothers
- Martin Scorsese
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Clint Eastwood
- Sergio Leone
- David Cronenberg
- Lars von Trier
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Michael Haneke

[WeShouldHaveShotguns]

It is so hard to choose! Being that these days, with the crap-o-la actors Hollywood is spitting out right and left, I follow the directors (and writers) of the films more than the people who star in them. Here are my favorite directors in order, and yes I am aware of my odd taste. Haha.


1. Mel Brooks (Blazzing Saddles, Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein)
2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
3. Guillermo del Toro (El laberinto del fauno [Pan's Labyrinth], Hellboy)
4. Troy Duffy (The Boondock Saints)
5. Stephen Sommers (The Mummy)
6. Joss Whedon (Serenity, Firefly)
7. Peter Lord and Nick Park (Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit)
8. John McTiernan (Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October)
9. Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, From Dusk Till Dawn)
10. John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)

[PigsnieLite]

I only like Guillermo Del Toro and Robert Rodriguez.

[JohnBoy1313]

1.Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
2.George Romero (dead series)
3.Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Taxi Driver)
4.George Lucas (star wars/thx)
5.Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski)
6.Kevin Smith (Clerks 1&2, Dogma)
7.Judd Apatow (Knocked Up/40 year old Virgin
8.Stevin Spielberg (Indiana Jones/Jaws)
9.Robert Rodririguez (From Dusk Till Dawn/Planet Terror/Sin City)
10.Zack Snyder (300/Watchmen/Dawn of the Dead)

Honorable Mentions
Christopher Nolen (The Dark Knight/Momento)
Stanley Kubrik (Dr. Strangelove/Clockwork orange)
Mel Brooks (spaceballs/young Frankenstien

[Dog Star Man]

1. Stanley Kubrick --- 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Akira Kurosawa --- Ikiru
3. Ingmar Bergman --- The Seventh Seal
4. Stan Brakhage --- Black Ice
5. Michelangelo Antonioni --- L'Avventura
6. Robert Bresson --- Au Hasard Balthazar
7. Maya Deren --- A Study in Choreography for the Camera
8. Federico Fellini --- 8 1/2
9. Alfred Hitchcock --- Rear Window
10. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger --- The Tales of Hoffmann

I want to go ahead and do five more, (which is still pretty limiting).

11. Satyajit Ray --- Pather Panchali
12. Jean-Pierre Melville --- Le Samourai
13. John Ford --- The Searchers
14. Charles Chaplin --- City Lights
15. Martin Scorsese --- Raging Bull

Though a very constricting list. Those are my top 10, (and 15).

[jonnyhiboy!]

Originally Posted by JohnBoy1313

1.Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
2.George Romero (dead series)
3.Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Taxi Driver)
4.George Lucas (star wars/thx)
5.Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski)
6.Kevin Smith (Clerks 1&2, Dogma)
7.Judd Apatow (Knocked Up/40 year old Virgin
8.Stevin Spielberg (Indiana Jones/Jaws)
9.Robert Rodririguez (From Dusk Till Dawn/Planet Terror/Sin City)
10.Zack Snyder (300/Watchmen/Dawn of the Dead)

Honorable Mentions
Christopher Nolen (The Dark Knight/Momento)
Stanley Kubrik (Dr. Strangelove/Clockwork orange)
Mel Brooks (spaceballs/young Frankenstien

Mostly great ones there, but come on Watchmen was absolute garbage. All shitty dialogue and barely any action, i dunno how anyone can like this. I'm assuming you only liked it cause you read the graphic novel cause i can't think of another reaosn why someone would IMO like a shit movie.

[JohnBoy1313]

Originally Posted by jonnyhiboy!

Mostly great ones there, but come on Watchmen was absolute garbage. All shitty dialogue and barely any action, i dunno how anyone can like this. I'm assuming you only liked it cause you read the graphic novel cause i can't think of another reaosn why someone would IMO like a shit movie.

Yes indeed i do love the comic, and honestly, the movie did let me down a little, but the reason Snyder is included in my list is 300 and Dawn of the Dead