MovieMan89 Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 I feel like to accurately judge a director you should have seen at least 5 of their films, and there's definitely not 100 directors I've seen that many of their movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riczhang Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 (edited) My list which will be done by tonight: [*]Michael Haneke [*]Alfred Hitchcock [*]D. W. Griffith [*]Lewis Milestone [*]Abel Gance [*]Orson Welles [*]Francis Ford Coppola [*]Alain Resnais [*]Milos Forman [*]David Lean [*]Billy Wilder [*]Jean Renoir [*]Marcel Carné [*]Stanley Kubrick [*]Laurence Olivier [*]Sergio Leone [*]Woody Allen [*]Federico Fellini [*]Jean Luc-Godard [*]Michael Curtiz [*]F. W. Murnau [*]Paul Thomas Anderson [*]Krzysztof Kieślowski [*]Fritz Lang [*]François Truffat [*]Terrence Malick [*]Joseph L. Mankiewicz [*]Erich von Stroheim [*]William Wyler [*]Martin Scorsese [*]Sidney Lumet [*]Joel and Ethan Coen [*]Stephen Frears [*]Sergei Eisenstein [*]Pedro Almadovar [*]Mike Nichols [*]Paolo Sorrentino [*]Steven Spielberg [*]Yasujirō Ozu [*]Victor Fleming [*]Ang Lee [*]Roman Polanski [*]James Ivory [*]Luchino Visconti [*]Bernardo Bertolucci [*]Sydney Pollack [*]Michael Cimino [*]Charlie Chaplin [*]Andrew Haigh [*]Raymond Bernard [*]Xavier Dolan [*]Oliver Stone [*]Ridley Scott [*]Stanley Kramer [*]David Lynch [*]Frank Capra [*]Spike Jonze [*]Wong Kar-wai [*]William Friedkin [*]Clint Eastwood [*]Kenneth Branagh [*]Pier Paolo Pasolini [*]Ingmar Bergman [*]George Lucas [*]Asghar Farhadi [*]Sam Mendes [*]Alfonso Cuaron [*]John Ford [*]Julian Schnabel [*]Peter R. Hunt [*]Paddy Considine [*]Cecil B. DeMille (He`s ranked here cus of Greatest Show on Earth) [*]Ron Howard [*]David Fincher [*]Danny Boyle [*]Akira Kurosawa [*]Carlos Reygadas [*]Peter Jackson [*]Richard Linklater [*]John Madden [*]Lynn Ramsay [*]Michelangelo Antonioni [*]Abbas Kiarostami [*]Sergei Bondarchuk [*]Johnathan Demme [*]Hugh Hudson [*]Anthony Harvey [*]Terrence Young [*]Vittorio De Sica [*]Baz Luhrmann [*]Robert Altman [*]Robert Benton [*]Sylvain Chomet [*]Quentin Tarantino [*]Roberto Rosselini [*]Alexander Payne [*]Alan J. Pakula [*]John Huston [*]Bob Fosse [*]Terry Gilliam Edited January 31, 2014 by riczhang 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kvikk Lunsj Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Just sent out reminders to members who said they were going to post a list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emirazza Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Many lists posted here, are laughable & ridiculous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainJackSparrow Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 1. Ridley Scott2. Steven Spielberg3. John Carpenter4. Roland Emmerich5. Michael Bay6. Wes Craven7. Alfred Hitchcock 8. Peter Jackson9. James Cameron10. David Fincher11. Gore Verbinksi12. Del Toro13. Richard Donner14. Stanley Kubrick15. Sylvester Stallone16. Jon Favreu 17. Joe Johnston18. Mel Brooks19. Ron Howard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Directors (using scoring guide, in alpha order) 1. Alfred Hitchcock#2-3 Akira Kurosawa David Lean#4-10 Howard Hawks Sergio Leone Sidney Lumet Michael Mann Hayao Miyazaki Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg#11-20 Alfonso Cuaron Joel & Ethan Coen Francis Ford Coppola Federico Fellini John Huston Elia Kazan Stanley Kubrick Quentin Tarantino Peter Weir Fred Zinnemann#21-50 Paul Thomas Anderson Darren Aronofsky Ingmar Bergman Kathryn Bigelow Kenneth Branagh Mel Brooks James Cameron Frank Capra Michael Curtiz Frank Darabont Andrew Dominik Clint Eastwood David Fincher John Ford Milos Forman William Friedkin Terry Gilliam Peter Jackson Stanley Kramer Spike Lee Christopher Nolan Roman Polanski Sydney Pollack Otto Preminger Carol Reed Steven Soderbergh Oliver Stone John Sturges Orson Welles Billy Wilder#51-75 Ben Affleck Woody Allen Robert Altman Wes Anderson Brad Bird Danny Boyle Tim Burton John Frankenheimer Paul Greengrass George Roy Hill Ron Howard Rian Johnson Spike Jonze Ang Lee Fernando Meirelles Sam Mendes Mike Nichols Alan J. Pakula Chan-Wook Park Alexander Payne Wolfgang Petersen Ivan Reitman Ridley Scott Edgar Wright Edward Zwick 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 In the end there were far too many directors for me to get through, some I know at least several worthy ones were left off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riczhang Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 et j'ai fini. I definitely left off more people than I care to find out. If there's anyone super egregious i left off, just PM or post in this thread and scream at me. And also, anything past like the 60s is in no particular order. I gave up trying to rank at that point and anything post 20 is only in roughly the right place (give to take 2-3 places). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peludo Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 My list 1. Billy Wilder 2. Alfred Hitchcock 3. John Ford 4. Martin Scorsese 5. Steven Spielberg 6. Howard Hawks 7. Clint Eastwood 8. Stanley Kubrick 9. Francis Ford Coppola 10. Orson Welles 11. Quentin Tarantino 12. David Lean 13. Woody Allen 14. Federico Fellini 15. Luis Buñuel 16. Michael Curtiz 17. Akira Kurosawa 18. Hayao Miyazaki 19. George Cukor 20. William Wyler 21. Michael Mann 22. Christopher Nolan 23. Elia Kazan 24. Luchino Visconti 25. Fritz Lang 26. David Fincher 27. Tim Burton 28. Coen Brothers 29. François Truffaut 30. Walt Disney 31. Sidney Pollack 32. Luis García Berlanga 33. John Huston 34. Charles Chaplin 35. Pedro Almodóvar 36. Ridley Scott 37. Roman Polanski 38. Sidney Lumet 39. Ernst Lubitsch 40. Louis Malle 41. Joseph L. Mankiewicz 42. Terrence Malick 43. Peter Jackson 44. Alejandro Amenábar 45. Sam Mendes 46. Alfonso Cuarón 47. Leo McCarey 48. Paul Thomas Anderson 49. Sam Peckinpah 50. Alejandro González Iñárritu 51. Brian De Palma 52. George Roy Hill 53. Arthur Penn 54. Robert Altman 55. David Cronenberg 56. Michael Haneke 57. Andrew Stanton 58. Jean Renoir 59. Frank Capra 60. Mel Gibson 61. Jonathan Demme 62. Ang Lee 63. James Cameron 64. Vincente Minnelli 65. Sergio Leone 66. Alexander Payne 67. Ben Affleck 68. Brad Bird 69. Steven Soderbergh 70. Mel Brooks 71. Terry Gilliam 72. Costa-Gavras 73. Carlos Saura 74. Jean-Luc Godard 75. Milos Forman 76. Alan J. Pakula 77. George Clooney 78. J.J. Abrams 79. Peter Weir 80. George Lucas 81. Fred Zinnemann 82. Franklin J. Schaffner 83. Richard Donner 84. Ron Howard 85. Wes Anderson 86. Michael Cimino 87. Ingmar Bergman 88. Guillermo del Toro 89. Robert Zemeckis 90. Sam Wood 91. Paul Greengrass 92. Bryan Singer 93. Nicholas Ray 94. Oliver Stone 95. Bernardo Bertolucci 96. William Friedkin 97. Bob Fosse 98. Robert Redford 99. Neil Jordan100. Ivan Reitman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Its funny that old directors seem to get more praise on this site than newer directors, even if they aren't actually better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peludo Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Its funny that old directors seem to get more praise on this site than newer directors, even if they aren't actually better. In your opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted January 31, 2014 Author Share Posted January 31, 2014 youch, a few to update tonight, good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 In your opinion Well that's kind of a given seeing as I posted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 My list which will be done by tonight: [*]Michael Haneke [*]Alfred Hitchcock [*]D. W. Griffith [*]Lewis Milestone [*]Abel Gance [*]Orson Welles [*]Francis Ford Coppola [*]Alain Resnais [*]Milos Forman [*]David Lean [*]Billy Wilder [*]Jean Renoir [*]Marcel Carné [*]Stanley Kubrick [*]Laurence Olivier [*]Sergio Leone [*]Woody Allen [*]Federico Fellini [*]Jean Luc-Godard [*]Michael Curtiz [*]F. W. Murnau [*]Paul Thomas Anderson [*]Krzysztof Kieślowski [*]Fritz Lang [*]François Truffat [*]Terrence Malick [*]Joseph L. Mankiewicz [*]Erich von Stroheim [*]William Wyler [*]Martin Scorsese [*]Sidney Lumet [*]Joel and Ethan Coen [*]Stephen Frears [*]Sergei Eisenstein [*]Pedro Almadovar [*]Mike Nichols [*]Paolo Sorrentino [*]Steven Spielberg [*]Yasujirō Ozu [*]Victor Fleming [*]Ang Lee [*]Roman Polanski [*]James Ivory [*]Luchino Visconti [*]Bernardo Bertolucci [*]Sydney Pollack [*]Michael Cimino [*]Charlie Chaplin [*]Andrew Haigh [*]Raymond Bernard [*]Xavier Dolan [*]Oliver Stone [*]Ridley Scott [*]Stanley Kramer [*]David Lynch [*]Frank Capra [*]Spike Jonze [*]Wong Kar-wai [*]William Friedkin [*]Clint Eastwood [*]Kenneth Branagh [*]Pier Paolo Pasolini [*]Ingmar Bergman [*]George Lucas [*]Asghar Farhadi [*]Sam Mendes [*]Alfonso Cuaron [*]John Ford [*]Julian Schnabel [*]Peter R. Hunt [*]Paddy Considine [*]Cecil B. DeMille (He`s ranked here cus of Greatest Show on Earth) [*]Ron Howard [*]David Fincher [*]Danny Boyle [*]Akira Kurosawa [*]Carlos Reygadas [*]Peter Jackson [*]Richard Linklater [*]John Madden [*]Lynn Ramsay [*]Michelangelo Antonioni [*]Abbas Kiarostami [*]Sergei Bondarchuk [*]Johnathan Demme [*]Hugh Hudson [*]Anthony Harvey [*]Terrence Young [*]Vittorio De Sica [*]Baz Luhrmann [*]Robert Altman [*]Robert Benton [*]Sylvain Chomet [*]Quentin Tarantino [*]Roberto Rosselini [*]Alexander Payne [*]Alan J. Pakula [*]John Huston [*]Bob Fosse [*]Terry Gilliam Im sure the likes of Cameron and Nolan deserve to be higher on the list than these?? or even on the list. How could anyone claim Kenneth Branagh to be better when all he really has under his belt is Thor and Jack Ryan?? lol. Sam Mendes basically copied Nolans work on Skyfall, but nah he's better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted January 31, 2014 Author Share Posted January 31, 2014 20 lists! 350 different directors, 7.5 points needed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted January 31, 2014 Author Share Posted January 31, 2014 Its funny that old directors seem to get more praise on this site than newer directors, even if they aren't actually better. older directors get more attention on this site in the same way michelle bachmann is currently fucking sarah palin. it just ain't so. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Kenneth Branagh ... all he really has under his belt is Thor and Jack Ryan 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 haha I didn't realise he was the guy who made Hamlet and all that crap lol. I am ashamed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emirazza Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Directors (using scoring guide, in alpha order) 1. Alfred Hitchcock #2-3 Akira Kurosawa David Lean #4-10 Howard Hawks Sergio Leone Sidney Lumet Michael Mann Hayao Miyazaki Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg #11-20 Alfonso Cuaron Joel & Ethan Coen Francis Ford Coppola Federico Fellini John Huston Elia Kazan Stanley Kubrick Quentin Tarantino Peter Weir Fred Zinnemann #21-50 Paul Thomas Anderson Darren Aronofsky Ingmar Bergman Kathryn Bigelow Kenneth Branagh Mel Brooks James Cameron Frank Capra Michael Curtiz Frank Darabont Andrew Dominik Clint Eastwood David Fincher John Ford Milos Forman William Friedkin Terry Gilliam Peter Jackson Stanley Kramer Spike Lee Christopher Nolan Roman Polanski Sydney Pollack Otto Preminger Carol Reed Steven Soderbergh Oliver Stone John Sturges Orson Welles Billy Wilder #51-75 Ben Affleck Woody Allen Robert Altman Wes Anderson Brad Bird Danny Boyle Tim Burton John Frankenheimer Paul Greengrass George Roy Hill Ron Howard Rian Johnson Spike Jonze Ang Lee Fernando Meirelles Sam Mendes Mike Nichols Alan J. Pakula Chan-Wook Park Alexander Payne Wolfgang Petersen Ivan Reitman Ridley Scott Edgar Wright Edward Zwick Cuaron better than Kubrick? You must be a member of the Academy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 1. Ridley Scott 2. Steven Spielberg 3. John Carpenter 4. Roland Emmerich 5. Michael Bay 6. Wes Craven 7. Alfred Hitchcock 8. Peter Jackson 9. James Cameron 10. David Fincher 11. Gore Verbinksi 12. Del Toro 13. Richard Donner 14. Stanley Kubrick 15. Sylvester Stallone 16. Jon Favreu 17. Joe Johnston 18. Mel Brooks 19. Ron Howard Roland Emmerich and Michael Bay way above David Fincher and Stanley Kubrick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
