Blu-ray.com Community Top 25 Favorite DIRECTORS of All Time (Please Read First Post)

[MarkJ801]

I know we've done a ton of these top community lists, but here's one that might be a bit of a change up. This time we're going to do your all-time favorite directors!


How does it work? It's easy. You come up with a list of what you think are the best directors of all time. Based on how they place on your list, the person will receive a certain amount of points. The Top 20 directors on your list will be scored accordingly:

1. 15 Points
2. 14 Points
3. 13 Points
4. 12 Points
5. 11 Points
6. 10 Points
....
12. 4 Points
13. 3 Points
14. 2 Points
15. 1 Point

Every director placed after the 15th spot will also receive 1 point. So essentially, you only have to rank the Top 15 while putting the remaining 5 in no particular order.


RULES
1. This person can be any director from any country from any time. The only requirement is that they must be credited to have directed at least one feature-length film. Those who always work in pairs may be counted as one (such as Joel and Ethan Coen).

2. Please do not make multiple lists! I know as you see films people want to update their list and create a whole new list but that will make it to hard to tally the points. So when you want to add to or change your list, just edit your original list. You can edit your list all the way up to the deadline.

3. Your list can be more than 20, but only those first 20 will be counted. Please number your list. Do not put them at random/no specific order.

4. Since this is for fun and discussing films should be fun, be respectful of each other. If somebody has a director you think sucks at number 1, who cares? The point of the thread is to find out what the community as a whole thinks are the best.

5. Deadline: September 18, 2011 - 12am Pacific Time. That gives us just under one month to create a list which should be plenty of time. I wont take any lists after this. So make sure you get your list in before then.


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[*DrStrangelove*]

1.Stanley Kubrick (Dr Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining)
2.Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Casino)
3.Woody Allen (Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan)
4.Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona)
5.Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Resevior Dogs, Inglorious Basterds)
6.Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams, Amorres Perros, Babel)
7.Coen Bros (No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Fargo)
8.Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Punch Drunk Love)
9.Pedro Almodovar (Talk to Her, Bad Education, Volver)
10.Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Darjeeling Limited)
11.Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception, Memento)
12.Chan Wook Park (Old Boy, Lady Vengeance, Thirst)
13.David Fincher (Fight Club, Zodiac, The Social Network)
14.Jee-Woon Kim (A Bittersweet Life, I Saw the Devil, The Good The Bad The Weird)
15.Clint Eastwood (Mystic River, Changeling, Gran Torino)
16.Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream
17.Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan, Schindlers List, A.I.)
18.Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, 127 Hours)
19.Guy Ritchie (Rocknrolla, Snatch, Sherlock Holmes)
20.Tim Burton (Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice)

[Al_The_Strange]

01: James Cameron ("Titanic," "The Abyss," "T2")
02: Darren Aronofsky ("Requiem for a Dream," "Black Swan")
03: Stanley Kubrick ("A Clockwork Orange," "The Shining")
04: Christopher Nolan ("Inception," "Memento," "TDK")
05: Akira Kurosawa ("The Seven Samurai," "Yojimbo")
06: The Watchowskis ("The Matrix" Trilogy, "Bound")
07: Peter Jackson ("LOTR" Trilogy, "Dead Alive")
08: Zack Snyder ("Sucker Punch," "300," "Watchmen")
09: Michael Bay ("Transformers" Trilogy, "Armageddon")
10: Guillermo Del Toro ("Cronos," "Hellboy" I and II)
11: Quentin Tarantino ("Pulp Fiction," "Kill Bill" I and II)
12: Ridley Scott ("Blade Runner," "Gladiator")
13: Robert Zemeckis ("BTTF" Trilogy, "Romancing the Stone")
14: JJ Abrams ("Mission Impossible III," "Star Trek")
15: Stephen Spielberg ("Minority Report," "Indiana Jones" Quadrilogy)
16: Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away," "Nausicaa")
17: Len Wiseman ("Underworld," "Live Free or Die Hard")
18: David Fincher ("Fight Club," "The Social Network," "Se7en")
19: Tim Burton ("Beetlejuice," "Batman," "Alice in Wonderland")
20: Alfred Hitckcock ("Psycho," "Strangers on a Train," "Vertigo")
21: Paul Verhoeven ("RoboCop," "Total Recall," "Starship Troopers")
22: Luc Besson ("The Fifth Element," "Leon," "La Femme Nikita")
23: Alex Proyas ("Dark City," "I, Robot," "Knowing")
24: Tarsem ("The Cell," "The Fall")
25: John McTiernen ("Die Hard," "Predator")

My runner ups are (in no particular order):

[Show spoiler]
Robert Rodriguez ("Planet Terror," "Machete," "The Faculty")
Wolfgang Petersen ("The Perfect Storm," "Air Force One")
John Woo ("Red Cliff," "Hard Boiled," "Broken Arrow")
McG ("Charlie's Angels," "Terminator: Salvation")
Stephen Sommers ("The Mummy," "GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra," "Van Helsing")
John Carpenter ("Big Trouble in Little China," "Christine," "Halloween")
Yoshiaki Kawajiri ("The Ninja Scroll," "Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust")
Prachya Pinkaew ("Chocolate," "Ong Bak," "The Protector")
John Hughes ("Breakfast Club," "Planes Trains and Automobiles")
Mel Gibson ("Braveheart," "The Passion," "Apocalypto")
Sam Raimi ("Spiderman" Trilogy, "Evil Dead" Trilogy)
Duncan Jones ("Moon," "The Source Code")
Bryan Singer ("X-Men," "Valkyrie")

[ANDYBALLINA]

1, Steven Spielberg
2, John Carpenter
3, Quentin Tarantino
4, Danny Boyle
5, Peter Jackson
6, Ridley Scott
7, James Cameron
8, Guillermo Del Toro
9, Richard Donner
10, Fred Dekker
11, Dario Argento
12, Rob Reiner
13, Brian Trenchard-Smith
14, David Cronenberg
15, Alexandra Aja

[octagon]

01 Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity, The Apartment, Stalag 17)
02 Martin Scorsese (GoodFellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull)
03 Stanley Kubrick (Paths of Glory, The Killing, Dr Strangelove)
04 Roman Polanski (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, The Tenant)
05 Alfred Hitchcock (Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, Notorious)
06 Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, The Offence)
07 Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather I&II, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now)
08 Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Stray Dog)
09 John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The Asphalt Jungle, The Man Who Would Be King)
10 Joel & Ethan Coen (Fargo, No Country for Old Men, The Man Who Wasn't There)
11 Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis, The Woman in the Window)
12 Stephen Spielberg (Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, CE3K)
13 Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, The Stranger, The Lady from Shanghai)
14 John Ford (The Searchers, Mister Roberts, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)
15 Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in America, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)

Woody Allen
Otto Preminger
Clint Eastwood
Quentin Tarantino
William Friedkin

Ridley Scott
Howard Hawk
Jean-Pierre Melville
David Fincher
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

[Lepidopterous]

1. Darren Aronofsky
2. Satoshi Kon
3. Hayao Miyazaki
4. Danny Boyle
5. Akira Kurosawa
6. Alain Resnais
7. Chan-Wook Park
8. Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu
9. Quentin Tarantino
10. JJ Abrams
11. Ingmar Bergman
12. Wong Kar Wai
13. Guillermo Del Toro
14. Paul Thomas Anderson
15. Robert Rodriguez
16. Jean-Luc Godard
17. Pedro Almodovar
18. Zack Snyder
19. Joel and Ethan Coen
20. Stanley Kubrick

[LukeJudkins]

1. Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining)
2. Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Boogie Nights)
3. Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson, Pusher, Valhalla Rising)
4. Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, The Departed)
5. Frank Darabont (The Majestic, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile)
6. David Lynch (Elephant Man, Mullholland Dr, Twin Peaks: FWWM)
7. The Coen Brothers (Barton Fink, Burn After Reading, No Country for Old Men)
8. Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino, Changeling, Letters From Iwo Jima)
9. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Inglorious Basterds)
10. Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler, The Fountain, Requiem for a Dream)
11. Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Y Tu Mama Tambien)
12. David Fincher (Zodiac, The Social Network, Fight Club)
13. Christopher Nolan (Inception, Memento, The Prestige)
14. Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, 28 Days Later)
15. Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, Man on the Moon)
16. Michael Haneke (Caché, Funny Games, The White Ribbon)
17. Jee-woon Kim (I Saw the Devil, The Good The Bad The Weird, A Bittersweet Life)
18. Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Antichrist)
19. Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead)
20. Terrence Malick (Badlands, Days of Heaven, The New World)
21. Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, North by Northwest, Rear Window)
22. Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, Buitiful, Amores Perros)
23. Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World)
24. Steven Speilberg (Catch Me if You Can, The Terminal, Schindler's List)
25. Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Mimic)

[Foggy]

1) Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead)
2) Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey)
3) John Carpenter (The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York)
4) Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill: Vol 1)
5) Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Dark Knight, Inception)
6) David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, The Social Network)
7) Steven Spielberg (E.T, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park)
8) Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, The Godfather: Part 2)
9) Alfred Hitchcock (Rope, North by Northwest, Psycho)
10) Sam Raimi (Evil Dead 2, Spiderman 2, Army of Darkness)
11) Danny Boyle (127 Hours, 28 Days Later, Trainspotting)
12) Sergio Leone (Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)
13) JJ Abrams (Super 8, Star Trek, Mission Impossible 3
14) John McTiernan (Die Hard, Predator, Die Hard with a Vengeance)
15) Neill Blomkamp (District 9)
16) Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Wrestler)
17) The Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Fargo)
18) Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 300, Sucker Punch)
19) Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, Layer Cake, X-Men: First Class)
20) Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino, Mystic River, Unforgiven)
21) Quillermo Del Toro
22) James Cameron
23) Duncan Jones
24) Kinji Fukasaku
25) Chan Woo-Park

[leey]

1. Christopher Nolan
2. Zack Snyder
3. James Cameron
4. Darren Aronofsky
5. J.J. Abrams
6. David Yates
7. Quentin Tarantino
8. Peter Jackson
9. Danny Boyle
10. Terrence Malick
11. Ridley Scott
12. Martin Scorsese
13. David Fincher
14. Alfonso Cuaron
15. Matthew Vaughn

[fgomike]

1. Christopher Nolan
2. Michael Mann
3. Steven Spielberg
4. JJ Abrams
5. Peter Jackson
6. Bryan Singer
7. Ridley Scott
8. David Fincher
9. Martin Scorsese
10. Clint Eastwood
11. Coen Brothers
12. Frank Darabont
13. Quentin Tarentino
14. Matthew Vaughen
15. Sam Raimi
16. Sidney Lumet
17. John McTiernan
18. Kenneth Branagh
19. Ben Affleck
20. Oliver Stone

[HockeySlasher]

1. Steven Spielberg ("Saving Private Ryan" "Jaws" "Close Encounters of the Third Kind")
2. Christopher Nolan ("Batman Begins" "The Dark Knight" "The Prestige" "Inception")
3. Alfred Hitchcock ("Rear Window" "Vertigo" "North by Northwest")
4. Tony Scott ("Days of Thunder" "Top Gun" "Crimson Tide" "Spy Game" "Enemy of the State")
5. Bryan Singer ("X-Men" "X2: United")
6. Ridley Scott ("Alien" "Gladiator" "Black Hawk Down")
7. JJ Abrams ("Star Trek" "Mission: Impossible 3" "Super 8")
8. Clint Eastwood ("The Outlaw Josey Whales" "Unforgiven" "Flags of our Fathers" "Mystic River")
9. Irvin Kershner ("Never Say Never Again" "Empire Strikes Back")
10. Mel Brooks (("Spaceballs" "Young Frankenstein" "Blazing Saddles")

[kpkelley]

1. Charles Chaplin
2. David Lean
3. Cecille B. DeMille
4. Frank Capra
5. Kurosawa
6. Ingmar Bergman
7. Jean-Pierre Melville
8. Sergei Eisenstein
9. Victor Fleming
10. Federico Fellini
11. Fritz Lang
12. D.W. Griffith
13. Jean Renoir
14. Robert Bresson
15. Francis Ford Copolla
16. Hitchcock
17. John Huston
18. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
19. Stanley Kubrick
20. Steven Spielberg
21. Andrey Tarkovskiy
22. Francois Truffaut
23. Billy Wilder
24. Robert Wise
25. William Wyler

[csdot]

although for me favorite and best arent always the same thing (i enjoy b-movies that arent well made) i tried to find a happy medium and weigh the two sides of the coin evenly.
heres the what i came up with off the top of my head, it will probably change.
i didnt bother putting the last 10 in any sort of order since they are all the same score.
1. Stanley Kubrick (The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
2. Joel & Ethan Coen (Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski)
3. Alfred Hitchcock (Veritgo, Psycho, North by Northwest)
4. Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Casino)
5. John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China)
6. David Cronenberg (Videodrome, The Fly, Scanners)
7. Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Alien, Gladiator)
8. Sergio Leone (Dollars trilogy, Once Upon a Time in the West)
9. Steven Spielberg (Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark)
10. James Cameron (Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Aliens)
11. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Inglourious Basterd)
12. David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr., Wild at Heart)
13. Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Rashomon)
14. John McTiernan (Predator, Die Hard, Die Hard with a Vengeance)
15. Michael Mann (Manhunter, Heat, The Keep)
16. Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia)
17. Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Dark Knight, The Prestige)
18. Dario Argento (Tenebre, Suspiria, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage)
19. Kathryn Bigelow (Near Dark, Strange Days, Point Break)
20. Brian De Palma (The Untouchables, Blow Out, Body Double)
21. Luc Besson (Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element, La Femme Nikita)
22. David Fincher (Zodiac, The Game, The Social Network)
23. Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, Totall Recall, Starship Troopers)
24. Sam Raimi (Evil Dead trilogy, Spider-Man 2)
25. Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Blood and Black Lace, Five Dolls For an August Moon)

[Mahatma]

1.David Fincher
2.Stanley Kubrick
3.Aki Kaurismaki
4.David Lean
5.Martin Scorsese
6.Alfred Hitchcock
7.David Lynch
8.Alexander Payne
9.wim Wenders
10Francis Ford Coppola
11.Sam Raimi
12.William Friedkin
13.The Coen Brothers
14.John Carpenter
15.Wolfgang Peterson

[blueblueblue]

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Ingmar Bergman
3. Akira Kurosawa
4. Preston Sturges
5. Robert Bresson
6. Jean Pierre Melville
7. Woody Allen
8. Jean Renoir
9. Billy Wilder
10. Francois Truffaut
11. Abbas Kiarostami
12. Krystof Kieslowski
13. Eric Rohmer
14. Werner Herzog
15. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
16. Satyajit Ray
17. Alexander Mackendrick
18. Kon Ichikawa
19. Steven Soderbergh
20. Edward Yang

[charlieray1]

(No particular order after the top 6)

1) Alfred Hitchcock
2) Frank Capra
3) John Ford
4) Orson Welles
5) Steven Spielberg
6) James Whale
7) Francis Ford Coppolla
8) Billy Wilder
9) D.W. Griffith
10) Sam Raimi
11) Edgar Ulmer
12) Michael Curtiz
13) Richard Donner
14) Carl Dryer
15) F. W. Murnau

[SLeeK]

1) Paul Thomas Anderson
2) Martin Scorcese
3) David Fincher
4) Sydney Lumet
5) Christopher Nolan
6) Quentin Tarintino
7) Alejandro González Iñárritu
8) Stanley Kubrick
9) Clint Eastwood
10) Peter Weir
11) Coen Bros.
12) Francis Ford Coppola
13) James Cameron
14) David Cronenberg
15) Sergio Leone
16) Steven Speilberg
17) Frank Darabont
18) Alfred Hitchcock
19) Robert Zemickis
20) Ridley Scott
21) Ben Affleck
22) Alfonso Cuarón
23) Tim Burton
24) Jonathan Demme
25) Wes Anderson

[Belloche]

1. Sam Peckinpah
2. John Carpenter
3. Walter Hill
4. Terrence Malick
5. Sergio Leone
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Coen Brothers
8. Martin Scorsese
9. Stephen Speilberg
10. Frederico Fellini
11. Brian Depalma
12. David Cronenberg
13. Quentin Tarantino
14. Michael Mann
15. Terry Gilliam
16. William Friedkin
17. Dario Argento
18. George Romero
19. Tony Scott
20. Clint Eastwood

[Romulus]

Al, I loved the way you set your list up so I'm borrowing it.


01: Danny Boyle ("127 Hours," "Trainspotting," "28 Days Later")
02: Terrence Malick ("Days of Heaven," "The Thin Red Line," "The Tree of Life")
03: The Coen Brothers ("No Country for Old Men," "The Big Lebowski")
04: Francis Ford Coppola ("The Godfather," "Apocalypse Now")
05: Christopher Nolan ("The Dark Knight", "The Prestige", "Inception")
06: Stanley Kubrick ("2001: A Space Odyssey," "Dr. Strangelove," "The Shining")
07: Alfred Hitchcock ("Psycho," "Rear Window")
08: Darren Aronofsky ("The Wrestler," "The Fountain")
09: Bong Jo-hoon ("Memories of Murder", "Mother")
10: David Lean ("Dr. Zhivago," "Lawrence of Arabia")
11: Akira Kurosawa ("Seven Samurai," "High and Low")
12: Paul Thomas Andersen ("Magnolia," "There Will Be Blood")
13: Alfonso Cuaron ("Children of Men", "Y tu Mama Tambien")
14: David Fincher ("The Social Network", "Se7en")
15: Brad Anderson ("The Machinist," "Session 9"

My runner ups are (in alphabetical):

Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption," "The Green Mile")
Guillermo del Toro ("Pan's Labyrinth," "Cronos")
Clint Eastwood("Letters from Iwo Jima," "Mystic River")
Milos Forman ("Amadeus," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
Peter Jackson ("Lord of the Rings")
Sydney Lumet ("12 Angry Men," "Dog Day Afternoon")
Martin Scorsese ("Taxi Driver," "The Departed,")
Ridley Scott ("Black Hawk Down," "Blade Runner")
Steven Spielberg ("Schindler's List," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Jurassic Park")
Edgar Wright ("Hot Fuzz," "Shaun of the Dead")

[Jasonic]

1. Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro)
2. Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception, The Prestige)
3. Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Hook)
4. Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E, A Bug's Life)
5. Mamoru Hosoda (Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Digimon the Movie)
6. John Woo (Red Cliff, Reign of Assassins, Hard Boiled)
7. Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings Trilogy, King Kong)
8. Kirk Wise (Beauty and the Beast, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Spirited Away - US dubbing and production)
9. Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille, The Iron Giant)
10. Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale, Crest of Betrayal)
11. Martin Scorsese (The Departed, Shutter Island, Hugo)
12. Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Kagemusha, Ran)
13. Don Bluth (Secret of NIMH, Anastasia, Land Before Time)
14. Edward Zwick (Last Samurai, Blood Diamond, Glory)
15. Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday)
16. John Lasseter (Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Cars)
17. James Cameron (Avatar, Titanic, Terminator 2)
18. Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy, The Ring, Rango)
19. Alfred Hitchcook (North By Northwest, Psycho, Vertigo)
20. JJ Abrams (Super 8, Star Trek, MI3)
21. Ron Clements and John Musker (Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet)
22. Sam Raimi (Spider Man, Spider Man 2, The Evil Dead)
23. David Frankel (Marley and Me, Devil Wears Prada)
24. Takeshi Kitano (Kikujiro, Hana-bi, Violent Cop)
25. Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire, Vanilla Sky)