Sims Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Nolan would probably be in my top 25 or 30 but I'm tempted to keep him off my list completely as a way of ensuring he's not #1. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 I don't think there's any possible way Nolan could be number one. There are enough people here who like him but not nearly enough to have him number one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 I don't think I can do a top 100, mainly because once I get past a certain number, it would all be pretty much a guess in terms of rank. I'll try for 50, but can't guarantee it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 nolan would easily be in my top 50, and i don't intend to do any silly strategic voting. but do whatever you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Oh this thread/listing is gonna be good 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 I don't think I can do a top 100, mainly because once I get past a certain number, it would all be pretty much a guess in terms of rank. I'll try for 50, but can't guarantee it. btw like the top 100 movies you don't have to rank directors within each scoring group, because they all get the same points. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 (edited) So my top directors list will not have many directors before 1970 as I haven't seen enough films before then. I also might have a few more horror directors than most as I think that is the hardest genre to master. Here we go:(not in order yet) 1) Spielberg 2) Cameron 3) Scorsese 4) John Hughes 5) Michael Bay 6) Oliver Stone 7) Alan Parker 8) Wes Craven 9) The Coens 10) John Carpenter 11) Alfred Hitchcock 12) Victor Fleming 13) Francis Ford Coppola 14) Stallone 15) Ben Affleck 16) Clint Eastwood 17) Roman Polanski 18) Rob Reiner 19) Frank Darabont 20) Robert Zemekis 21) Ridley Scott 22) Michael Mann 23) Tony Scott 24) Felinni 25) Mel Gibson 26) Paul Greengrass 27) Ron Howard 28) Peter Jackson 29) Christopher Nolan 30) George Lucas 31) Barry Levinson 32) Frank Marshall 33) John McTiernan 34) Mark Pellington 35) Sam Raimi 36) Tobe Hooper 37) Ivan Reitman 38) Bryan Singer 39) John Singleton 40) Steven Soderbergh 41) Quentin Tarantino 42) John Ford 43) John Carpenter 44) John Turtletaub 45) Ed Zwick 46) Gore Verbinski 47) Wachowskis 48) John G. Avildsen 49) David Fincher 50) Don Siegel 51) William Friedkin 52) Penny Marshal 53) Lawrence Kasdan 54) Dario Argento 55) Woody Allen 56) Tim Burton 57) Joss Whedon 58) Lucio Fulci 59) Sam Peckinpah 60) Sidney Lumet 61) Alan J. Pakula 62) Stanley Kubrick 63) Jonathan Demme 64) Brian DePalma 65) Harold Ramis 66) Bob Clark 67) Cameron Crowe 68) Amy Heckerling 69) Luc Besson 70) Kevin Smith 71) Zack Snyder 72) Stuart Rosenberg 73) David Lean 74) Paul Verhoeven 75) Peter Weir 76) Ingmar Bergman 77) David Cronenberg 78) Ang Lee 79) John Landis 80) Cecil B. DeMille 91) John Landis 92) Kathryn Bigelow 93) Sydney Pollack 94) Chris Columbus 95) John Woo 96) Charlie Chaplin 97) Andrew Davis 98) George A. Romero 99) Joe Dante 100) Sam Mendes 101) Wolfgang Reitherman Edited January 5, 2014 by Christmas baumer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goffe Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 1 Christopher Nolan 2 Gore Verbinski 3 Wachowski Brothers 4 Sam Raimi 5 Alfonso Cuaron6 J.J. Abrams 7 Matthew Vaughn8 Peter Jackson 9 Steven Spielberg 10 Zack Snyder 11 Brad Bird 12 Robert Zemeckis 13 Ridley Scott 14 Quentin Tarantino15 Duncan Jones16 James Mangold 17 Andrew Stanton18 Bryan Singer 19 Tim Burton 20 Andrew Adamson 21 Guillermo del Toro 22 Pete Docter 23 George Miller 24 Matt Reeves25 Edgar Wright26 Ron Howard27 Lee Unkrich28 Francis Lawrence29 Jonathan Dayton 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 FYC: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 @goffe - is that final? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 FYC: i haven't seen a peckinpah yet. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 i haven't seen a peckinpah yet. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 (edited) 1 Martin Scorsese 2 Steven Spielberg 3 James Cameron 4 Quentin Tarantino 5 Christopher Nolan 6 Danny Boyle 7 David Fincher 8 Stanley Kubrick 9 Francis Ford Coppola 10 David Lean 11 Robert Zemeckis 12 Billy Wilder 13 Frank Capra 14 Peter Jackson 15 Ron Clements/John Musker 16 Alfred Hitchcock 17 Hayao Miyazaki 18 Sidney Lumet 19 Darren Aronofsky 20 Ben Affleck 21 Victor Fleming 22 Frank Darabont 23 Charlie Chaplin 24 Sergio Leone 25 John Hughes 26 Wolfgang Peterson 27 Sam Mendes 28 Alfonso Cuaron 29 Michael Curtiz 30 Harold Ramis 31 David O. Russell 32 David Yates 33 Richard Linklater 34 Peter Weir 35 Ang Lee 36 John Huston 37 Fritz Lang 38 Michel Gondry 39 John Lasseter 40 Terry Jones 41 Akira Kurosawa 42 Carol Reed 43 Ridley Scott 44 Chan-Wook Park 45 Edgar Wright 46 Terry Gilliam 47 Tim Burton 48 Mel Gibson 49 Ron Howard 50 Milos Forman 51 Woody Allen 52 Jonathan Demme 53 Fernando Meirelles 54 Orson Welles 55 Zhang Yimou 56 Brian de Palma 57 David Lynch 58 Rob Reiner 59 Paul Greengrass 60 Paul Thomas Anderson 61 Clint Eastwood 62 Ethan Coen/Joel Coen 63 Michael Mann 64 John McTiernan 65 Steven Soderbergh 66 George Lucas 67 Irvin Kershner 68 Sam Raimi 69 Gus van Sant 70 Stephen Frears 71 Oliver Stone 72 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 73 Richard Donner 74 Guillermo del Toro 75 Robert Rodriguez 76 Gavin O'Connor 77 Chris Columbus 78 Roman Polanski 79 Andrew Adamson 80 Tony Scott 81 Tony Kaye 82 Luc Besson 83 Martin Campbell 84 Kathryn Bigelow 85 Bryan Singer 86 Kenneth Branagh 87 Jean-Marc Vallee 88 Joe Johnston 89 Spike Jonze 90 Andy/Lana Wachowski 91 Nicolas Winding Refn 92 Matthew Vaughn 93 Rob Minkoff 94 Paul Verhoeven 95 Gore Verbinski 96 Giuseppe Tornatore 97 Terry George 98 James Mangold 99 Jay Roach 100 Roberto Benigni Edited January 5, 2014 by tribefan695 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 (edited) Aight, good Christ, here's mine. Anything past 50 or so is fairly arbitrary. I weighted it heavily towards directors whose movies I love, not who I necessarily think are the 100 most important, and I skipped directors if I felt I simply hadn't seen enough of their oeuvre to make a solid decision. Looking over the list, I really need to see more foreign films. (revised) 1. Akira Kurosawa 2. Steven Spielberg 3. Martin Scorsese 4. David Lean 5. Stanley Kubrick 6. James Cameron 7. the Coens 8. Francis Ford Coppola 9. Alfred Hitchcock 10. Sergio Leone 11. Andrei Tarkovsky 12. Sergei Eisenstein 13. David Lynch 14. Billy Wilder 15. Clint Eastwood 16. John Huston 17. Howard Hawks 18. Christopher Nolan 19. Fritz Lang 20. Orson Welles 21. John Ford 22. Roman Polanksi 23. Ingmar Bergman 24. David Fincher 25. Peter Weir 26. Terry Gilliam 27. Quentin Tarantino 28. Ridley Scott 29. Peter Jackson 30. Alfonso Cuaron 31. John Carpenter 32. Sam Peckinpah 33. David Cronenberg 34. Paul Verhoeven 35. Sidney Lumet 36. Steven Soderbergh 37. Michael Mann 38. Tim Burton 39. Robert Zemeckis 40. Werner Herzog 41. Ang Lee 42. Milos Forman 43. Robert Altman 44. Errol Morris 45. P.T. Anderson 46. Brad Bird 47. Danny Boyle 48. Oliver Stone 49. Guillermo del Toro 50. Brian De Palma 51. Darren Aronofsky 52. John Sayles 53. William Friedkin 54. Philip Kaufman 55. John Landis 56. Elia Kazan 57. Wes Anderson 58. Paul Greengrass 59. George Lucas 60. Cecil B. De Mille 61. Woody Allen 62. Spike Jonze 63. Spike Lee 64. the Wachowskis 65. Kathryn Bigelow 66. George Roy Hill 67. Jonathan Demme 68. Mel Gibson 69. Sam Raimi 70. George Miller 71. Alexander Payne 72. Wolfgang Peterson 73. John Woo 74. Sidney Pollack 75. John Frankenheimer 76. Andrew Stanton 77. Charlie Chaplin 78. Powell & Pressburger 79. John Sturges 80. Kenneth Branagh 81. Robert Wise 82. Richard Donner 83. Rob Reiner 84. Ron Howard 85. David O. Russell 86. Sam Mendes 87. J.J. Abrams 88. Barry Levinson 89. John Milius 90. Walter Hill 91. Stephen Frears 92. Joe Dante 93. Mel Brooks 94. Michael Curtiz 95. Baz Luhrmann 96. John Hughes 97. William Wyler 98. Gore Verbinski 99. Curtis Hanson 100. Peter Yates Edited January 8, 2014 by Telemachos 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 (edited) you've added john huston and howard hawks twice tele Edited January 5, 2014 by lisa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vc2002 Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Man just thinking about making a top100 list gives me a headache. I probably will never have much to tribute in this top10 top50 top100 threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 you've added john huston and howard hawks twice tele Just pretend that the higher rating examples of each are Park Chan Wook and Bong Joon ho and everybody will be happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 well with two lists (walt disney and telemachos) we've already got 147 directors represented. woohoo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 FYC: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 @baumer - can you tell me when yours are in order? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
