List the Good, Active, Blockbuster Auteur Directors

[DA_Champion]

For the purpose of this thread, I define a "Good, Active, Blockbuster Auteur Directors" as:

A director who has directed who has directed at least two good blockbusters (100M+ budgets) since 2000, which are part of separate franchises, and who are auteurs and not just managers. Please do not contaminate the threads with directors who don't follow these criteria unless you have a legitimate argument against the criteria and you write out said legitimate argument.

So ...

Christopher Nolan: Inception, The Dark Knight, possibly Interstellar which I'm watching in a few days.
Steven Spielberg: AI Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, War of the Worlds
Andrew Stanton: Finding Nemo, Wall-E, John Carter
Ang Lee: The Hulk, Life of Pi
Alfonso Cuaron: Harry Potter 3, Children of Men, Gravity
Zack Snyder: 300, Watchmen, Man of Steel

I'm missing a great many now, please fill in the list

 

[childeroland]

Brad Bird -- Mission Impossible 4, Ratatouille. (Incredibles budget was 92 mill)

 

[flickchick85]

Correction:

Alfonso Cuaron: Harry Potter 3, Children of Men, Gravity

He's my favorite of the bunch so I wanted to make sure you credit him with the correct (and much better, imo) installment.

And I'd also add my other fave -

Brad Bird: Ratatouille, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, probably Tomorrowland.

EDIT: ...aaand childeroland beat me to it. Oh well. He's worth mentioning twice.

 

[green]

For the purpose of this thread, I define a "Good, Active, Blockbuster Auteur Directors" as:

A director who has directed who has directed at least two good blockbusters (100M+ budgets) since 2000, which are part of separate franchises, and who are auteurs and not just managers. Please do not contaminate the threads with directors who don't follow these criteria unless you have a legitimate argument against the criteria and you write out said legitimate argument.

So ...

Christopher Nolan: Inception, The Dark Knight, possibly Interstellar which I'm watching in a few days.
Steven Spielberg: AI Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, War of the Worlds
Andrew Stanton: Finding Nemo, Wall-E, John Carter
Ang Lee: The Hulk, Life of Pi
Alfonso Cuaron: Harry Potter 3, Children of Men, Gravity
Zack Snyder: 300, Watchmen, Man of Steel

I'm missing a great many now, please fill in the list

Children of Men and 300 did not cost over 100 mill to make.

 

[Airwings]

What about Tim Burton?

 

[MrMaooz]

J.J. Abrams

-Mission: Impossible 3
-Star Trek
-Super 8
-Star Trek Into Darkness

 

[:eek:]

James Cameron deserves to be mentioned even if he only made one movie since 2000 (which is about to be changed since he's busy preparing the Avatar-sequels).

 

[Mysteryman]

Avatar was filmed in 2009 and it certainly was not Cameron's only film in the 21st century.

 

[Lord]

Why is Zack Snyder on the list? He's just a little above Michael Bay.

 

[:eek:]

Avatar was filmed in 2009 and it certainly was not Cameron's only film in the 21st century.

So far it is. Titanic came 1997.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Why is Zack Snyder on the list? He's just a little above Michael Bay.

We must be related

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Ang Lee
Alfonso Cuaron
Phil Lord/ Chris Miller
Guillermo Del Toro
Edgar Wright
Chris Nolan
Joss Whedon
Brad Bird
J.J Abrams
John Favreau

 

[DA_Champion]

Why is Zack Snyder on the list? He's just a little above Michael Bay.

Because he fulfils the criteria listed.

Do you think that Bay does?

 

[weezerspider]

Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan. Cuaron and Edgar Wright have been mentioned and both are awesome, but they don't fit the OP's criteria.