Who is on your 'Mount Rushmore' of Directors?

[Kane52630]

A question for everyone: What four directors do you consider your favorites? Directors who you consider as important and influential?

 

[Kane52630]

My current Mount Rushmore:

John Carpenter
James Cameron
Christopher Nolan
Steven Spielberg

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Billy Wilder


Spike Lee


Quentin Tarantino


And then the greatest of them all... Alfred Hitchcock


Honorable mentions to Fritz Lang, James Cameron, Brian DePalma and Jonathan Demme.

 

[Drizzle]

All Time Influential:

Alfred Hitchcock
Akira Kurosawa
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg

Personal Favorites:

Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorsese
Christopher Nolan
Quentin Tarantino (not a fan of him as a person but most of his movies are undeniably great)

 

[OrbOfConfusion]

All Time Influential:

Alfred Hitchcock
Akira Kurosawa
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg

Personal Favorites:

Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorsese
Christopher Nolan
Quentin Tarantino (not a fan of him as a person but most of his movies are undeniably great)

I can fully get behind those. Not sure how I'd include them since they're brothers, but I'd probably have the Coen Brothers on there somewhere. Maybe John Hughes or Damien Chazelle as potential options, too.

 

[Scarlet Spider]

James Cameron
John Carpenter
George Lucas
Steven Spielberg

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Based on importance and influence:
Hitchcock
Kubrick
Kurosawa
Spielberg

My personal favs:

 

[Zantera]

David Lynch, Sam Raimi and Christopher Nolan would make up 3 of the places. After that it's very tough because there's several I would want to name in the 4th spot. David Fincher, James Cameron, Denis Villeneuve, The Wachowskis or John Carpenter. I'd probably say Fincher right now but its close.

 

[Broseph44]

My personal Rushmore

Steven Spielberg
John Carpenter
Martin Scorsese
Christopher Nolan

 

[Boom]

All-time:
Akira Kurosawa
Alfred Hitchcock
John Ford
Steven Spielberg

Living directors only:
Christopher Nolan
David Fincher
Guillermo Del Toro
Steven Spielberg

 

[MarvelFan]

Hayao Miyazaki
Steven Spielberg
Christopher Nolan
Shinkai Makoto

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

In no particular order

Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Spielberg
John Carpenter
David Lynch

Hm to Nolan, Tarantino, Scorsese, and Raimi.

 

[Drizzle]

What's funny is, if you had asked me this 20 years ago Peter Jackson probably would have made it on my favorites list just from LOTR alone. But alas...

 

[Boom]

What's funny is, if you had asked me this 20 years ago Peter Jackson probably would have made it on my favorites list just from LOTR alone. But alas...

Really hope the guy's not permanently retired.

 

[Drizzle]

Really hope the guy's not permanently retired.

He seems to be way more comfortable doing documentaries. His post-LOTR film career went on a downward slide with the highest high being King Kong to the lowest low being The Battle of the Five Armies.

 

[Boom]

He seems to be way more comfortable doing documentaries. His post-LOTR film career went on a downward slide with the highest high being King Kong to the lowest low being The Battle of the Five Armies.

He recently said he has three feature film scripts in the works, so fingers crossed. He just needs to go back to basics like Burton did with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

You guys really love Spielberg.

 

[Zantera]

You guys really love Spielberg.

It's funny because I didn't consider Spielberg for mine. And yet he has some amazing films, two of which I would say are 5/5 (Jurassic Park and Jaws) and then a bunch of other great iconic classic films. But he also has such a huge filmography and there's probably half of it that I haven't seen or don't have an interest in seeing. He's a classic director but also one who is pretty versatile and for me that's both a strength and a weakness in this case.

I can definitely see why so many would put him on their lists though.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Will always be....

Spielberg
Hitchcock
Carpenter
Lean

 

[flickchick85]

Alfred Hitchcock
Fritz Lang
Akira Kurosawa
Steven Spielberg

If we did a separate Mount Rushmore for "Contemporary Directors" mine would look more like: Christopher Nolan, Alfonso Cuarón, Denis Villeneuve and David Fincher.

 

[Mandon Knight]

You guys really love Spielberg.

I think it maybe an 'age' thing. I'm 50, so his 70's/80's output defines my childhood and seeing that decade on the big screen was a blessing.

I think more than any other director, he emotionally 'gets me', maybe I'm biased yes, but to me, he's cinematic hierarchy.

 

[flickchick85]

Also, a lot of us grew up with summer blockbusters as our foundational films, and I'd argue the summer blockbuster as we know it wouldn't even exist without him, so it would feel weird to exclude him. He's so vital to the DNA of what we knew movies to be if we grew up from the late '70's-80's onward.

 

[Boom]

I'll defend Spielberg to the death. I love movies because of him. The first time watching the brachiosaurus scene in Jurassic Park was a religious experience.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

I remember my parents taking me to see Jaws. Fifty years on it's still one of my most vivid 'cinema memories'.

 

[Drizzle]

Some of the earliest non-Disney movies I remember watching were E.T. and Hook, and then Jurassic Park blew my mind a short time later. Spielberg's been infused in my life for as long as I can remember.