cannastop Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 I took at the 2012 Sight & Sound poll critics' list and made note of the movies directed by people who are still alive. The first one to come up was Jean-Luc Godard, then Francis Ford Coppola. Then come Wong Kar Wai, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Béla Tarr, Ridley Scott, Roman Polanski (yikes), Claire Denis, Víctor Erice, and Werner Herzog. Of these filmmakers, Wong Kar-wai is the youngest, born in 1958, followed closely by Béla Tarr, born in 1955. All of the others were born in the 40s or earlier. Of course, there's no accounting for taste. You could easily add filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, James Cameron, Hayao Miyazaki, Paul Thomas Anderson, Terrence Malick, The Coen Brothers, David Fincher, Alfonso Cuarón, Richard Linklater, Asghar Farhadi, Guillermo del Toro, George Miller, Charlie Kaufman, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Spike Lee, Pedro Almodóvar, Kenneth Lonergan, Ang Lee, Lars von Trier, Quentin Tarantino, Kathryn Bigelow, Todd Haynes, Jim Jarmusch, Cameron Crowe, Steve McQueen, Brad Bird, Andrew Stanton, or Pete Docter. I dunno. It's interesting at one time, how many masters of the art form are long passed, (Hitchcock, Welles, Fellini), but with a few titans still alive today, such as Jean-Luc Goddard, Francis Ford Coppola, Scorsese, Spielberg, etc. And it wasn't that long ago when Ingmar Bergman was alive (I remember hearing the news), or even Antonioni (they died on the same day). Of course I have a soft spot for certain directors here. I might rank Hayao Miyazaki a bit higher than most, for instance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatree Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 The Link is my personal favourite living filmmaker but i suppose it's more of a personal thing to me rather than any kind of objective advantage he has in talent or skill. I just love the way he makes movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Carpenter for amount he can do, Spielberg for influence and Tarantino for writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannastop Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 3 minutes ago, Panda said: Carpenter Can't believe I forgot John Carpenter. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 On 7/29/2019 at 8:50 PM, cannastop said: Can't believe I forgot John Carpenter. He's god tier to me 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Lynch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatree Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Richard Linklater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Marvel Fanboy Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 (edited) KEVIN THE MARVEL FEIGE Edited August 20, 2019 by firedeep 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealLyre Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 his name is Denis Villeneuve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harlequinade Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 Fincher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titanic2187 Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 How I define greatest filmmaker? 1. relatively consistent commercial success relative to their scale 2. consistently produce critical acclaimed films 3. Oscar/ award bodies darling 4. Fathom following And there are many many great filmmakers check the all criteria above. If i have to pick only one, I will pick Hayao Miyaozaki. My top 5 1. Hayao Miyaozaki 2. Steven Spielberg 3. Francis Cord Coppola 4. Martin Scoresese 5. Q. Tarantino 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Knight Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 They don’t say, “The Next Spielberg” for nothing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildfire Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Uwe Bol ....(slinks away laughing manically ) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMP Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 PTA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 Defining the greatest living filmmaker to me comes down to range, and no filmmaker's got range like Spielberg does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Atreides Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 raja gosnell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannastop Posted September 3, 2019 Author Share Posted September 3, 2019 3 hours ago, Eric! said: raja gosnell Home Alone 3 was my favorite movie when I was 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tawasal Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 If we are talking about box office and range then it must be Spielberg. If it’s just oscars than John Ford has the most. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 My case in point for Spielberg is Jurassic Park and Schindler's List in the same year. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnack Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Comparing Spielberg output to Star Wars first run's give some idea of the size of is success. Rank Title Studio Domestic gross 1 Jaws Universal $190,000,000 Rank Title Studio Domestic gross 1. Star Wars 20th Century Fox $221,280,994 Rank Title Distributor Gross 1. The Empire Strikes Back 20th Century Fox $209,398,025 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1. Raiders of the Lost Ark Paramount $212,222,025 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Universal $359,197,037 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1. Return of the Jedi 20th Century Fox $252,583,617 Close encounter 171m outside the USA in 1977 was not that smaller than Star Wars $190m accumulated by the end of 1978. Jurassic Park first run of 914m WW in 1993 was pretty much the same has Phantom Menace first run of 924.3m WW in 1999 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
