The greatest director/actor combinations of all time

[ozziememz]

http://www.flicksandbits.com/2010/03/16/13-greatest-directoractor-duos-time/

Scorsese and Deniro have this for me, ^^pretty good list, there's been some great ones

Jim Sheridan / Daniel Day-Lewis
Sergio Leone / Clint Eastwood
Coen Brothers / Frances McDormand(she's so underated)
tarantino / jackson

 

[ImWithTeamConan]

Carpenter. Russell.


Win.

 

[Peyton Westlake]

Not sure if I agree with these all but putting a few out there :

Scorcese/DeNiro

Burton/Depp

 

[BLACK-SPIDEY]

Scott/Crowe

 

[The Joker]

Cameron/Schwarzenegger

 

[ross2287]

Lucas/Ford

 

[CBGB]

Leone/Eastwood
Tarantino/Jackson
Burton/Depp
Zemeckis/Hanks
Spielberg/Dreyfuss

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

rami/campbell

 

[Laderlappen]

Wilder/Lemmon
Kurosawa/Mifune

 

[Bim]

Some of my favorites:
- Francis Ford Coppola/Al Pacino
- Martin Scorsese / Leonardo DiCaprio
- Martin Scorsese / Robert DeNiro
- Tim Burton/Johnny Depp
- Ridley Scott/Russell Crowe
- Pedro Almodovar/Penelope Cruz
- Danny Boyle / Ewan McGregor

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

 

[Bunker]

De Niro/Scorsese easily.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

My favourite pairing is David Lean/Alec Guinness.

 

[childeroland]

Personal favs:

Ian Holmes/Atom Egoyan
Lean/O'Toole
Kurosawa/Mifune
Leone/Eastwood
Bergman/Von Syndow
Coppola/Pacino ""/DeNiro

 

[batman11]

Bay/LaBeouf

Spoiler

 

[The BatDude]

Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg

 

[Figs]

Carpenter. Russell.


Win.

This was my pic as well when I read the thread title. It's hard to say it's the greatest for anything but this team is my personal favorite.

 

[dude stannis]

The greatest is Scorcese/De Niro, easily.

My favourite is McTiernan/Willis. Sure they only worked together twice, but one is my all time favourite movie and the other is in my top 5.

Great combos:

Ridley Scott/Russell Crowe
Quentin Tarantino/Samuel L. Jackson
Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell
Martin Scorcese/Leonardo DiCaprio
Johnny Depp/Tim Burton

Can't believe no one mentioned Bale/Nolan yet!

 

[Kurosawa]

Kurosawa/Mifune
Leone/Eastwood
Burton/Depp
Carpenter/Russell
De Niro/Scorsese
All Iconic of course....

Here's one I love:

Brooks/Wilder

Any good director/actress combo come to mind offhand for anyone?

 

[ImWithTeamConan]

I was going to say Bale/Nolan was my second choice but I figured I'd get flamed for it.

IWTC fears the flames...

 

[Norman Bates]

Hitchcock/Stewart

 

[childeroland]

Kurosawa/Mifune


Any good director/actress combo come to mind offhand for anyone?

Bergman/Ullman
Zhang Yimou/ Gong Li
Hou Hsaio-Hsien/Qi Shu

 

[Laderlappen]

Allen/Keaton
Tarantino/Thurman

 

[The BatDude]

Tod Browning and Lon Chaney

 

[Evil Twin]

Kurosawa/Mifune
Scorsese/DeNiro
Ford/Wayne

Those are my top 3.

Beyond those

Hitchcock/Stewart
Hitchcock/Grant
Bergman/Von Sydow
Herzog/Kinski
Huston/Bogart
Cukor/Hepburn
Kurosawa/Shimura