Top 20 Favorite Directors

All with at least two films in my top 100 and nothing below a 6/10 (yet):

Christopher Nolan
Quentin Tarantino
David Fincher
Steven Spielberg
James Cameron
The Coen Brothers
Ridley Scott
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Zemeckis
Nicholas Meyer
Andrew Adamson
Hayao Miyazaki
Brad Bird
Andrew Stanton
John Lasseter
Nick Park
Terry Jones
Pete Docter
Lee Unkrich
Rich Moore
Byron Howard
Dean DeBlois

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Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese
Billy Wilder
Ingmar Bergman
David Fincher
Akira Kurosawa
Sidney Lumet
Roman Polanski
Wes Anderson
Christopher Nolan
Coen Brothers
Brian De Palma
Stanley Kubrick
Howard Hawks
John Ford
Francois Truffaut
Alfonso Cuaron
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Steven Spielberg
James Cameron
Michael Curtiz
M. Night Shyamalan
Sam Raimi
James Wan
Terrence Malick




Louie, I think this the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Yours:

1. David Lynch - one of America's best
2. Sergio Leone - doesn't quite hold up as I get older
3. Martin Scorsese - another of America's best
4. Stanley Kubrick - not quite as hot on him as I used to be, but certainly a master
5. Paul Thomas Anderson - wouldn't be nearly this high for me, but certainly has potential to join the list
6. Alfred Hitchcock - never been a full-fledged fan but Vertigo is a top ten contender, and he has at least a few other great movies
7. Francis Ford Coppola - haven't seen enough to say really, but his famous ones are all incredibly well directed
8. Steven Spielberg - meh
9. Nicholas Winding Refn - some great stuff, another one like a
10. James Cameron - meh
11. John Ford - The Searchers might be my favorite American film and he certainly laid down the blueprint for a lot of my favorite Hollywood stuff, but his actual filmography as a whole doesn't strike exactly the right chord with me
12. David Cronenberg - great
13. Darren Aronofsky - decidedly mediocre
14. Billy Wilder - a bit bland but very competent to say the least
15. Brian De Palma - haven't really seen enough to say but not a huge fan
16. Paul Verhoeven - one of my favorites
17. Robert Altman - another of my favorites
18. Howard Hawks - top 5
19. Alejandro Inarritu - eh
20. The Coen Brothers - another of my favorites

Mine:

1. Naruse Mikio
2. Robert Bresson
3. Orson Welles
4. Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
5. Howard Hawks
6. Andrei Tarkovsky
7. Eric Rohmer
8. Raul Ruiz
9. Hong Sangsoo
10. Maurice Pialat
11. Josef von Sternberg
12. Mizoguchi Kenji
13. Jean Renoir
14. Raoul Walsh
15. Hou Hsiao-hsien
16. Chris Marker
17 Stan Brakahge
18. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
19. Oshima Nagisa
20. Werner Herzog
21. Dziga Vertov
22. Paul Verhoeven
23. Robert Altman
24. Anthony Mann
25. Werner Schroeter

1. Robert Bresson
2. Jean Renoir
3. Max Ophuls
4. Maurice Pialat
5. Kenji Mizoguchi
6. Alfred Hitchcock
7. Fritz Lang
8. Masaki Kobayashi
9. Michalangelo Antonioni
10. Werner Herzog

11. Jacques Tourneur
12. Orson Welles
13. Louis Malle
14. Marcel L'Herbier
15. Victor Sjöström
16. Josef von Sternberg
17. Luchino Visconti
18. Georg Wilhelm Pabst
19. Vincente Minnelli
20. Jean-Pierre Melville

21. David Cronenberg
22. Otto Preminger
23. Michael Powell
24. Ernst Lubitsch
25. Howard Hawks

atm that's it, but I am working on it.

Vittorio De Sica
Luchino Visconti
John Cassavetes
Ingmar Bergman
Robert Bresson
Frank Capra
John Huston
Ken Loach
Mike Leigh
Elia Kazan
Robert Altman
Aki Kaurismaki
William Wyler
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Federico Fellini
Akira Kurosawa
Sidney Lumet
Stanley Kubrick
Billy Wilder
Abbas Kiarostami

off top of head:

1. cuaron
2. kubrick
3. scorcese
4. coen bros
5. aronofsky