Rank your Top 5 Favorite Directors!

[HHHLovesMovies]

I'm pretty sure this has been done a zillion times, but i feel it's time for an update....Don't ya think?

Rank your top five directors of all time. Post below. Have fun.

The List

1. QUENTIN TARANTINO
Was there any doubt? The most influential filmmaker of our generation and will go down as one of the best ever. Fav movies: Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, & Reservoir Dogs.

2. BRIAN DEPALMA
What can i say? He would definately be #1 if it weren't for the awesomeness that was Kill Bill! Fav flicks: Scarface (Greatest freakin' movie ever!), Carlito's Way, and Mission Impossible.

3. SAM REIMI
He's a cult favorite if there ever was one. The man knows how to make an entertaining movie in any genre. Fav flicks: Evil Dead 2, A Simple Plan, and Spider Man.

4. MARTIN SCORCESE
One of the all-time greats. The best to NEVER win an Oscar which is a cry against humanity to say. Fav flicks: Casino, GoodFellas, & Taxi Driver.

5. CAMERON CROWE
I feel this man is better as a writer, but he is still one of my favorite directors. Spawning of my favorite flicks ever: Almost Famoust

Honorable mentions to John Carpenter, Francis Ford Coppola, The Coens, Kevin Smith, John Hughes, Tim Burton & Roger Avary.

It should be of not that I have yet to see most of Kubrick's and Allen's work to make a more in-depth decision, hence, why they are left off the list....for now.

Have fun with this and I'd like to see your opinions on dis'.

[ilovemovies]

Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorsese
Cameron Crowe
Quentin Tarantino
Ed Zwick

[QUENTIN]

1.) Martin Scorsese (Best: Taxi Driver)
2.) Stanley Kubrick (Best: 2001: A Space Odyssey)
3.) Federico Fellini (Best: La Dolce Vita)
4.) Akira Kurosawa (Best: Nora Inu)
5.) Ingmar Bergman (Best: Persona)

These tremendous directors combined what I consider the greatest talents a director can have: a keen and distinct visual eye, precise camera movement, exceptional actor direction, and individual storytelling techniques, into the greatest cohesive wholes the screen has seen.

[fevers]

1. Stanley Kubrick
A Clockwork Orange - 10/10
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - 10/10
2001: A Space Odyssey - 10/10
Eyes Wide Shut - 9/10
The Shining - 9/10

2. François Truffaut
Quatre cents coups, Les (The 400 Blows) - 10/10
Jules et Jim - 10/10
À bout de souffle (Breathless) - 9/10

3. Wes Anderson
Rushmore - 10/10
The Royal Tenenbaums - 10/10
Bottle Rocket - 9/10

4. Akira Kurosawa
Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai) - 10/10
Ikiru - 10/10
Rashômon - 9/10
Yojimbo - 9/10
Ran - 8/10

5. Woody Allen
Annie Hall - 10/10
Manhattan - 9/10
Sleeper - 8/10

[MickeyKnox]

My Top 5 Directors:
1.Quentin Tarantino
2.Takashi Miike
3.Martin Scorsese
4.Stanley Kubrick
5.Sergio Leone

[QUENTIN]

Originally posted by fevers

François Truffaut
À bout de souffle (Breathless) - 9/10


Actually, although he had a hand in the making as a writer, A Bout de Souffle is a Jean-Luc Godard film.

[fevers]

Originally posted by QUENTIN
Actually, although he had a hand in the making as a writer, A Bout de Souffle is a Jean-Luc Godard film.

You're very correct, my bad. Still brilliant.

[syxxpac]

1) James Cameron

- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Aliens
- The Terminator

2) Steven Spielberg

- Jaws
- Saving Private Ryan
- Jurassic Park

3) Quentin Tarantino

- Pulp Fiction
- Reservoir Dogs
- Kill Bill

4) Martin Scorsese

- Goodfellas
- Taxi Driver
- Raging Bull

5) Francis Ford Coppola

- The Godfather
- The Godfather: Part II
- Apocalypse Now (theatrical version)

[Indy in IN]

#1 Steven Spielberg (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
#2 Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
#3 John Carpenter (Big Trouble in Little China)
#4 Tim Burton (Batman)
#5 John Huston (The Maltese Falcon)

[RogueSpear]

Top 5 Directors

01. John Carpenter
02. Frank Darabont
03. James Cameron
04. Steven Spielberg
05. Peter Jackson

[Trinity]

1. William Wyler
1. The Heiress
2. Wuthering Heights
3. Jezebel

2. Alfred Hitchcock
1. Rebecca
2. Notorious
3. North by Northwest

3. Woody Allen
1. Annie Hall
2. Manhattan
3. The Purple Rose of Cairo

4. Frank Capra
1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
2. It Happened One Night
3. Meet John Doe

5. Ernst Lubitsch
1. Ninotchka
2. To Be Or Not To Be
3. Trouble in Paradise

[Raoul Duke]

1. Quentin Tarantino
- Pulp Fiction
- Kill Bill Vol.1 & 2
- Reservoir Dogs

2. Martin Scorsese
- GoodFellas
- Casino
- Raging Bull

3. Joel Coen
- Raising Arizona
- The Hudsucker Proxy
- Fargo

4. Steven Spielberg
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Saving Private Ryan
- Jaws

5. Paul Thomas Anderson
- Punch-Drunk Love
- Boogie Nights
- Magnolia

[Pulp_Joker]

Top 5

1.Quentin Tarantino
2.Francis Ford Coppola
3.Martin Scorcese
4.The Coen Brothers
5.Kevin Smith

[Darth Dzikowski]

1. THE COEN BROTHERS
Blood Simple
Raising Arizona
Millers Crossing
Barton Fink
The Hudsucker Proxy
Fargo
The Big Lebowski
The Man Who Wasn't There
Intolerable Cruelty
The Ladykillers

2. QUENTIN TARANTINO
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Kill Bill Vol.1 & 2

3. WES ANDERSON
Bottle Rocket
Rushmore
The Royal Tenebaums

4. PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
Hard Eight/Sidney
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
Punch Drunk Love

5. DAVID FINCHER
Alien3
Se7en
The Game
Fight Club
Panic Room

My Apologies to Spielberg, Scorcese, Depalma, Coppola & Lucas, but it ain't the 70's or 80's anymore and quite frankly, to me, their works haven't translated well in recent years. More hits than misses. While this may not be a popular stance, it is mine.

[Begbie2004]

1. Quentin Tarantino
2. Martin Scorcese
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Sam Peckinpah
5. Kevin Smith


Steven Spielberg may be a money making director but he is far from being a great director. His greatest movie was probably Schindlers List and even in that the directing wasn't all too special. He totally killed Kubrick's legacy with A.I. and am I the only one who thinks E.T., Saving Private Ryan, and The Color Purple suck?

[Jimmy"The Gent"]

1. Martin Scorcese (Goodfellas)
2. The Cohen Brothers (The Big Lebowski)
3. Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill vol. 1)
4. Oliver Stone (The Doors or Platoon)
5. Tie - Stanley Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket)
- Kevin Smith (Mallrats)

Honorable Mention award: John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing)

[blankpage]

1. Steven Spielberg (Jaws)
2. Akira Kurosawa (Schinin no Samurai)
3. Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver)
4. François Truffaut (La Nuit Americané)
5. Woody Allen (Annie Hall)

[Tayzlor]

01. Stanley Kubrick
02. Wes Anderson
03. Martin Scorsese
04. The Coen Brothers
05. David Fincher

[T-1000]

1) James Cameron
2) Francis Ford Coppola
3) Ridley Scott
4) David Fincher
5) Quentin Tarantino

[zeppelin]

Originally posted by HHHLovesMovies
4. MARTIN SCORCESE
One of the all-time greats. The best to NEVER win an Oscar which is a cry against humanity to say.

Just making an observation...none of the 3 directors you ranked above him have won an Oscar either, so how is he the best to never win an Oscar?

Anyway...

1. Billy Wilder (Some Like it Hot)
2. Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai)
3. Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in the West)
4. Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas)
5. Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal)

Honorable mentions: Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin

[APzombie]

1. Steven Speilberg

2. Alfred Hitchcock

3. Martin Scorsese

4. Sergio Leone

5. Howard Hawks

[Joshmo]

Though I like the works of Hitch' and Kubrick..they aint in my top five...here is where movie purists call me and my ilk..knuckle dragging troglydites... :D

1. Quentin Tarantino
2. Martin Scorcese
3. Steven Spielberg..these 3 never change

4 Ridely Scott
5. Jim Cameron

4 & 5 interchange with P.T Anderson, Peter Jackson & The Cohens

Goddard & Suzuki are my advant gardes.... never warmed up to Ingmar

[Sigur509]

Tim Burton - Edward Sissorhands
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
P.T Anderson - Punch-Drunk Love
Wes Anderson - The Royal Tenenbaums
Kevin Smith - Chasing Amy

[krazy drako]

I've always been a bigger fan of the writing process than the directing process. Probably because I can't see things visually as well as others sometimes. Here is my crack at it.

1. Alex Proyas
2. Ridley Scott
3. Quentin Tarantino
4. The Coen brothers
5. Stanley Kubrick

[notchreturns]

Scorsese (Taxi Driver)
Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
Coen Bros (Fargo)
Allen (Annie Hall)
Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs)

[Hatfield]

This will be very similar to a lot of yours, but GD its true.

1. Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver)
2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
3. Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
4. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
5. Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch)


And for fun, 6-10

6. John Carpenter (The Thing)
7. Brian De Palma (Scarface)
8. Joel Coen (The Big Lebowski)
9. Oliver Stone (JFK)
10. David Lynch (Blue Velvet)

Yeah, something like that...

[Hucksta G]

1. Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas)
2. Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous)
3. Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy)
4. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather)
5. Peter Jackson (The Return of the King)

[Tagia_Romero]

1/ James Cameron
2/ Steven Spielberg
3/ Quentin Tarantino
4/ John Carpenter
5/ David Fincher

[Rick-James]

1. Quentin Tarantino
2. Martin Scorsese
3. John Carpenter
4. Steven Spielberg
5. Stanley Kubrick

[Hannibal21]

1. Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca)
2. Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey)
3. Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard)
4. Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries)
5. Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)

Honorable mentions: John Huston, Martin Scorsese, Francois Truffaut, Akira Kurosawa

[beejayss07]

1.) Kevin Smith
2.) Quentin Tarantino
3.) David Fincher
4.) Martin Scorsese
5.) Paul Thomas Anderson

[MinimalistCouch]

1. Akira Kurosawa
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Sergio Leone
4. Sam Peckinpah
5. Gus Van Sant

[Puck Bond]

1. Steven Spielberg
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Alfred Hitchcock
4. Martin Scorsese
5. Oliver Stone

[Ted Pikul]

"their works haven't translated well in recent years. More hits than misses. While this may not be a popular stance, it is mine."

That's how I feel about the Coens.

Every film since The Big Lebowski has got progressively worse.

The aptly named Intolerable Cruelty was particularly abysmal.

De Palma on the other hand is probably my favourite director. He has made some turkeys admittedly but on top form (Scarface, Carlito's Way, Snake Eyes) he's in a league of his own.

Runner up is John Carpenter. It's a tragedy he's seemingly semi-retired.

[Avid_Fan]

Hayao Miyazaki
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino
Peter Jackson
Paul Thomas Anderson

[agentsands]

Tim Burton
Tery Gilliam
Lasse Hallstrom
Alfred Hitchcock
Cameron Crowe

[Gollum]

1) Quentin Tarantino

- Pulp Fiction
- Kill Bill
- Reservoir Dogs

2) Stanley Kubrick

- A Clockwork Orange
- Full Metal Jacket
- Dr. Strangelove

3) Tim Burton

- Big Fish
- Ed Wood
- Edward Scissorhands

4) Martin Scorsese

- Goodfellas
- Taxi Driver
- Raging Bull

5) Wes Anderson

- Rushmore
- Bottle Rocket
- Royal Tenenbaums

[Ripper1888]

My Top Five directors and my top 3 films of theirs.

Alfred Hitchcock
Rebecca
Psycho
Rear Window

Stanley Kubrick
A Clockwork Orange
Dr.Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
The Shining

Dario Argento
Suspiria
Deep Red
Opera

Sam Raimi
Evil Dead trilogy
A Simple Plan
The Gift

Billy Wilder
Sunset Boulevard
Double Idemnity
The Fortune Cookie

[Arathon]

1.Peter Jackson
-LOTR Trilogy (Favourite: Return of the King)
-Heavenly Creatures

2.Steven Spielberg
-Saving Private Ryan
-Indiana Jones Trilogy. (Favourite: Raiders of the Lost Ark)
-ET:Extra Terrestrial
-Catch me if you can
-Minority Report
-Jaws
-Schlinder's List

3.Martin Scorcese
-Goodfellas
-Taxi Driver
-Raging Bull
-Casino

4.Quentin Tarantino
-Pulp Fiction

Number five is tough for me. It either has to be Robert Zemeckis, or James Cameron and Ridley Scott. So they're all tied at fifth.

5=.Robert Zemeckis
-Forrest Gump
-Back the Future
-Cast Away
-Who Framed Roger Rabbit

5=. James Cameron
-Terminator 1 & 2
-True Lies
-Aliens

5=.Ridley Scott
-Black Hawk Down
-Gladiator

[bjeggert82]

Here's my list of favorite directors, including the movies of their's that I love...


1. TERRY GILLIAM:
Brazil
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Fisher King
12 Monkeys
Time Bandits

2. AKIRA KUROSAWA:
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Throne of Blood
Sanjuro
Ikiru
High and Low
The Hidden Fortress
Rashomon
Red Beard
Ran

3. ALFRED HITCHCOCK:
Rebecca
Notorious
North by Northwest
Rear Window
Vertigo
Strangers on a Train
Spellbound
The Lady Vanishes
The 39 Steps
The Birds
Psycho
Rope
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

4. JOHN CARPENTER:
The Thing
Escape From New York
They Live
Big Trouble in Little China
In the Mouth of Madness
Ghosts of Mars
Assault on Precinct 13
Escape From L.A.
The Fog
Prince of Darkness
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Halloween

5. DAVID LEAN:
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Zhivago
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist

[Backstabba]

1. quentin Tarantino
- Pulp Fiction
- Resivour Dogs
- Kill bill 1 & 2

2. Ridley Scott
- Black Hawk Down
- Gladiator

3. The farelly brothers
- Stuck on you
- Theres something about mary
- Dumb and dumber

4.Tim Burton
-Big Fish
- Nightmare Before Christmas

5. Mel Gibson
- The passion of the christ
- Braveheart

[Scarface98.9]

1) Sergio Leone

The Man With No Name trilogy
Once Upon a Time in the West/America

2) Steven Spielberg

Saving Private Ryan
The Indiana Jones trilogy
Minority Report
ET
Jaws

3) Martin Scorsese

Goodfellas
Raging Bull
Casino
Mean Streets

4) Quentin Tarantino

Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill
Jackie Brown

5) Ridley Scott

Black Hawk Down
Gladiator
Thelma and Louise
Blade Runner
Alien

[therealjohng]

1. Ridley Scott
2. Akira Kurosawa
3. Quentin Tarantino
4. Peter Weir
5. Martin Scorsese

[bankholdup]

1. Martin Scorsese (best: Taxi Driver)
2. Charles Chaplin (best: Modern Times)
3. Billy Wilder (best: Some Like It Hot
4. François Truffaut (best: The 400 Blows)
5. Frank Capra (best: It Happened One Night)


runners-up: Sergio Leone, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg

[Gian-Sergio]

1.Sergio Leone(Once Upon A Time In America)
2.Quentin Tarantino(Kill Bill)
3.Akira Kurosawa(The Seven Samurai)
4.Martin Scorsese(Raging Bull)
5.Francis Ford-Coppola(The Godfather Part II)

[HHH123007]

Kevin Smith
Quentin Tarantino
Sam Mendes
The Coen Brothers
Paul Thomas Anderson

Not really "favorites", but more "I'll see anything by these people without question:.

[Sigur509]

1. Tim Burton

Edward Sissorhands - 10/10
The Nightmare Before Christmas - 9/10
Sleepy Hollow - 9/10
Big Fish - 9/10

2. Wes Anderson

The Royal Tenenbaums - 10/10
Rushmore - 10/10

3. Quentin Tarantino

Pulp Fiction - 10/10
Kill Bill Volume 2 - 9/10
Resivour Dogs - 8/10

4. Steven Spielberg

Jurassic Park - 10/10
The Terminal - 9.5/10
Minorty Report - 9/10
The Indiana Jones trilogy - 9/10

5. Spike Jonze

Adaptation - 10/10
Being John Malkovich - 10/10

[Tayzlor]

1. Stanley Kubrick

A Clockwork Orange - 10/10
2001: A Space Odyssey - 10/10
Dr. Strangelove - 10/10
Paths of Glory - 10/10
Spartacus - 9/10
The Shining - 9/10
Eyes Wide Shut - 9/10

2. Ingmar Bergman

The Seventh Seal - 10/10
Wild Strawberries - 10/10

3. Woody Allen

Annie Hall - 10/10
Manhattan - 10/10
Hannah And Her Sisters - 9/10

4. Francois Truffaut

The 400 Blows - 10/10
Jules et Jim - 10/10

5. Michelangelo Antonioni

Blowup - 10/10
L'Avventura - 10/10

6. Akira Kurosawa

Ikiru - 10/10
Seven Samurai - 10/10
Rashomon - 9/10

[Raging Bull080]

1. Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, The Color of Money, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York)


2. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, The Godfather Part 2, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now)


3. Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca, Notorious, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho)


4. Clint Eastwood (The Outlaw Josey Whales, Unforgiven, A Perfect World, Mystic River)


5. Steven Spielberg ( Jaws, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan)


6. Michael Mann ( Heat, The Insider, Collateral)


7. Oliver Stone ( Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK)


8. Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, both Kill Bills)



9. Elia Kazan (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, East of Eden, Splender in the Grass, The Last Tycoon)



10. David Lean (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia)


Honorable mention, Sam Mendes has directed only 2 films, and both are great movies.