Top 10 Favorite Movie Directors

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Since we all love doing lists, I thought why not a list of your favorite directors? Post them below so we all can argue and debate. :o



Here's mine:

1. James Cameron
2. Steven Spielberg
3. Frank Darabont
4. Christopher Nolan
5. John Carpenter
6. Darren Aronofsky
7. Martin Scorsese
8. Tim Burton
9. Ridley Scott
10. Peter Jackson


My long ass honorable mentions:

David Fincher
Sam Raimi
Coen Brothers
Denis Villeneuve
Quentin Tarantino
Gore Verbinski
George A. Romero
Guillermo del Toro
David Lean
J.J. Abrams
Gareth Evans
Brad Bird
Joseph Kosinski
John McTiernan
Richard Linklater
Alfred Hitchcock
Mario Bava
 
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1. James Cameron
2. Christopher Nolan
3. Russo Brothers
4. Steven Spielberg
5. Ridley Scott
6. Brian Singer
7. Paul Verhoven
8. Peter Jackson
9. Richard Donner
10. John Carpenter
 
In alphabetical order:

Alfred Hitchcock
Christopher Nolan
David Fincher
Joel and Ethan Coen
Martin Scorsese
Orson Welles
Paul Thomas Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
Stanley Kubrick
Steven Spielberg
 
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in alphabetical order:

Alfred hitchcock
christopher nolan
david fincher
joel and ethan coen
quentin tarantino
martin scorsese
orson welles
paul thomas anderson
stanley kubrick
steven spielberg

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This will be a sausage fest but...

1. Scorsese
2. Kubrick
3. Coens
4. Kurosawa
5. Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Tarantino
7. David Fincher
8. Jim Jarmusch
9. David Cronenberg
10. Richard Linklater

In other words: I got a lot of pre-70s cinema to catch up on.
 
A very tough list to make.

My Top 10:

1. William Friedkin
2. John Carpenter
3. James Cameron
4. Brian De Palma
5. Ridley Scott
6. Michael Mann
7. Martin Scorsese
8. Kathryn Bigelow
9. Paul Thomas Anderson
10. Nicolas Winding Refn
 
Alex Garland
Jeff Wadlow
Martin McDonagh
Bong Joon-ho
Stephen Chow
Sam Raimi
Don Coscarelli
Yorgos Lanthimos
Edgar Wright
Alex Proyas

AHH can't do 10: Joe Carnahan, Timur Bekmambetov, Duncan Jones

In other words: I got a lot of pre-70s cinema to catch up on.
I got a lot of pre-before now cinema to catch up on.
 
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Top 10 (in no real order).

-Martin Scorsese.
-Alfred Hitchcock.
-David Fincher.
-Christopher Nolan.
-Akira Kurosawa.
-Wes Craven.
-Quentin Tarantino.
-James Cameron.
-The Coen Brothers.
-Steven Spielberg.

Honorable Mentions:

-Stanley Kubrick.
-John Carpenter.
-Denis Villeneuve.
-Michael Mann.
-Kathryn Bigelow.
-Alfonso Cuaron.
-Guillermo del Toro.
-Mario Bava.
-Dario Argento.
-John Woo.
 
I tend to like specific directors and so like a 'smaller' pool of works but here goes....

Based on the films I love more than any and who they were directed by...

1) Alfred Hitchcock (all time favourite)
2) Steven Spielberg (v close second)
3) John Carpenter (even closer third)
4) Powell & Pressburger
5) David Lean
6) Tim Burton
7) John Hughes
8) Christopher Nolan
9) Ridley Scott
10) Paul Thomas Anderson
 
No order:

Paul Verhoeven (Robocop)
Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill)
Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula)
David Lynch (Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire)
Tim Burton (Batman, Batman Returns)
The Wachowskis (The Matrix trilogy)
 
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1. John Carpenter
2. Steven Spielberg
3. Michael Mann

The above three each have two movies in my top 10 favorite films.

4. Christopher Nolan
5. James Cameron
6. Ridley Scott
7. Martin Scorsese
8. David Fincher
9. David Lynch
10. Stanley Kubrick

Honorable Mentions: Sam Raimi, Don Coscarelli, Clint Eastwood, Quentin Tarantino, Mel Gibson, Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, David Cronenberg, Kathryn Bigelow, The Coen Brothers, Guillermo Del Toro, William Friedkin, George Miller, Tim Burton, Rob Reiner, Edgar Wright, Frank Darabont, and Peter Jackson.

Newish ones I'm enjoying so far: Denis Villeneuve, Taylor Sheridan, Ryan Coogler.
 
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1. David Lean.
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Akira Kurosawa
4. Frank Capra
5. Steven Spielberg
6. John Huston
7. Robert Wise
8. Billy Wilder
9. John Sturges
10. Peter Jackson.
 
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Paul Thomas Anderson
4. Quentin Tarantino
5. Martin Scorsese
6. Alfonso Cuaron
7. Steven Spielberg
8. James Cameron
9. Sergio Leone
10. Coen Brothers
 
Tough (I know there'll be some I've forgotten), but alphabetically,

Darren Aronofsky
Tim Burton
John Carpenter
Terry Gilliam
Alfred Hitchcock
David Lynch
Christopher Nolan
Ridley Scott
Steven Spielberg
Guillermo del Toro
 
1. Edward Yang -- (A Brighter Summer Day, Yi Yi, Taipei Story, Mahjong)

2. Hou Hsiao-Hsien -- (Millennium Mambo, the Taiwanese History trilogy, Three Times, Daughter of the Nile, Dust in the Wind)

3. Wong Kar-wai -- (the Informal Trilogy, Fallen Angels, Chungking Express)

4. Hayao Miyazaki -- (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, Castle of Cagliostro, My Neighbor Totoro)

5. Terrence Malick -- (Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, The Tree of Life)

6. Alfred Hitchcock -- (Shadow of a Doubt, The Lady Vanishes, North By Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window)

7. Tsai Ming-liang -- (Rebels of a Neon God, Goodbye Dragon Inn, What Time Is It There, Vive L'Amour, The Hole)

8. Isao Takahata -- (Only Yesterday, Grave of the Fireflies, The Tale of Princess Kaguya)

9. Francis For Coppola -- (Godfather I and II)

10. Stanley Kubrick -- (2001, Barry Lyndon)
 
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In no particular order and subject to change as this is just off the top of my head:

Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Spielberg
Sergio Leone
John Ford
Martin Scorsese
Jon Favreau
The Russo Bros.
David Fincher
Brian DePalma
Elia Kazan
 
Woody Allen
Richard Linklater
David Fincher
The Russos Brothers
George Miller
Tarantino
Christopher Nolan
Paul Thomas Anderson
Clint Eastwood

Martin Scorsese
James Cameron
Ron Howard
Spielberg
Michael Mann
Federico Fellini
 
Not listing them in any order at all, just listing the 10.

Steven Spielberg
John Carpenter
Christopher Nolan
Martin Scorsese
Tim Burton
Quentin Tarantino
Alfred Hitchcock
Peter Jackson
Wes Craven
Sam Raimi
 
In no particular order:

-Steven Spielberg
-Martin Scorsese
-Christopher Nolan
-Quentin Tarantino
-Alfred Hitchcock
-Billy Wilder
-Michael Curtiz
-Woody Allen
-Coen Brothers
-Wes Anderson

Plus because I didn't want to leave them off:

-John Ford
-Stanley Kubrick
-David Fincher
-Richard Linklater
-John Huston
 
1. Steven Spielberg
2. Christopher Nolan
3. Martin Scorsese
4. James Cameron
5. Alfred Hitchcock
 
In no order really ( I guess)

1. Stanley Kurbrick
2. Ralph Bakshi
3. Spike Lee
4. Mario Bava
5. Elia Kazan
6. Tex Avery
7. Charlie Chaplin
8. John Carpenter
9. Alfred Hitchcock
10. Martin Scorcese
 
In no order really ( I guess)

1. Stanley Kurbrick
2. Ralph Bakshi
3. Spike Lee
4. Mario Bava
5. Elia Kazan
6. Tex Avery
7. Charlie Chaplin
8. John Carpenter
9. Alfred Hitchcock
10. Martin Scorcese

I wanted to do Spike Lee because I LOVE Do The Right Thing and 25th hour so so so much.
 
Yeah,I loved those movies Spike Lee was the first Director I really followed.
 

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