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)

[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

[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

[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")

[animefan77]

1) Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Ran, Yojimbo, Rashomon)
2) Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, ET, Jaws)
3) Alfred Hitchcock (North by Northwest, Vertigo, Psycho)
4) Stanley Kubrick (2001, Clockwork Orange, Shining, Full Metal Jacket)
5) Christopher Nolan (Dark Knight, Inception, Memento)
6) James Cameron (Terminator, T2, Aliens, Abyss, Titanic)
7) Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Alien, Gladiator)
8) John Woo (The Killer, A Better Tomorrow, Hard Boiled)
9) Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill)
10) Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull)
11) Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings, King Kong)
12) David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, Social Network)
13) Michael Mann (Heat, Insider, Last of the Mohicans)
14) Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile)
15) Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally, Few Good Men, Stand By Me, Princess Bride)
16) Chan-Wook Park (Oldboy, Lady Vengeance, Thirst)
17) Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, 28 Days Later)
18) Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather, Apocalypse Now)
19) David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge on the River Kwai)
20) Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men, Big Lebowski, True Grit)
21) Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Contact)
22) John McTiernan (Die Hard, Predator, 13th Warrior)
23) Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy)
24) Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Desperado, Machete)
25) Mel Gibson (Braveheart, Apocalypto, Passion of the Christ)

[Drewza89]

1. David Cronenberg
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. David Lynch
4. Joel & Ethan Coen
5. Stanley Kubrick
6. Billy Wilder
7. Michael Mann
8. John Carpenter
9. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Peter Weir
11. Ridley Scott
12. Martin Scorsese
13. Oliver Stone
14. Steven Spielberg
15. Robert Zemeckis
16. Walter Hill
17. Clint Eastwood
18. James Cameron
19. Christopher Nolan
20. John Frankenheimer
21. Quentin Tarantino
22. Roman Polanski
23. Fritz Lang
24. Tim Burton
25. John Woo

Other Favorites:

• Sidney Lumet
• Darren Aronofsky
• David Lean
• Peter Jackson
• Brian DePalma
• Terrence Malick
• Terry Gilliam
• Duncan Jones
• Wes Anderson
• Sergio Leone
• Paul Verhoeven
• Frank Darabont
• Guillermo del Toro
• George A. Romero
• William Friedkin
• Michael Cimino
• Milos Forman

[ArrestedDevelopment]

1. Christopher Nolan (Inception, The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, The Prestige, Memento, Insomnia)
2. David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, Zodiac, The Social Network, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
3. Darren Aronofsky (Requiem For a Dream, Black Swan, The Fountain, Pi)
4. Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Casino, The Departed, Taxi Driver, Gangs of New York, Shutter Island)
5. Steven Spielberg (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Minority Report, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Catch Me if You Can, Saving Private Ryan, War of the Worlds, Schindler's List)
6. Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window, Psycho, North by Northwest, Vertigo)
7. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2)
8. Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining)
9. Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III, Forrest Gump, Contact)
10. Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, King Kong)
11. Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile)
12. Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski (The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions)
12. James Cameron (Terminator 2: Judgement Day, The Terminator, Aliens, Avatar)
13. Danny Boyle (Sunshine, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours)
14. J.J. Abrams (Star Trek, Mission: Impossible III)
15. George Lucas (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones)
16. Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Alien)

Also edited my list and added some fav flicks from each director. It's too hard to choose only 3 movies for each.

[Haikira]

01: Danny Boyle (Sunshine, Shallow Grave, 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire)
02: John Carpenter (The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Halloween, Escape from New York)
03: David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
04: Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill: Vol. 1)
05: Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down)
06: Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, The Departed, Casino)
07: Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby , Unforgiven, Gran Torino, Letters from Iwo Jima)
08: Chan-Wook Park (Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, JSA: Joint Security Area, Lady Vengeance)
09: Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Frighteners)
10: Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Schindler's List)
11: Jee-woon Kim (I Saw the Devil, A Bittersweet Life, The Good, The Bad, The Weird, A Tale Of Two Sisters)
12: Stanley Kubrick (The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey)
13: Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight)
14: Ethan & Joel Coen (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men)
15: Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code)
16: James Cameron (The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2, Avatar)
17: Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom)
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[MarkJ801]

1. Quentin Tarantino
2. Joel and Ethan Coen
3. David Fincher
4. Tim Burton
5. Wes Anderson
6. Peter Jackson
7. Christopher Nolan
8. Steven Spielberg
9. Judd Apatow
10. Martin Scorsese
11. Darren Aronofsky
12. Wes Craven
13. John Hughes
14. Stanley Kubrick
15. Francis Ford Coppola
16. Danny Boyle
17. Richard Kelly
18. James Cameron
19. Duncan Jones
20. JJ Abrams

[*DrStrangelove*]

I edited mine and added my favorite 3 films of each as well.

[thelittleprince]

1. Scorsese
2. De Palma
3. Hitchcock
4. Spielberg
5. Kurosawa
6. Kubrick
7. Tarantino
8. Wilder
9. Polanski
10. Francis Ford Coppola
11. Coen Bros
13. Cronenberg
14. Lynch
15. Tim Burton
16. Ridley Scott
17. James Cameron
18. Peter Jackson
19. Robert Zemeckis
20. Milos Forman

[broganreynik]

My faves, with my favorite film of theirs in parenthesis:
1. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
2. Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York)
3. Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski)
4. Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)
5. Stanley Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket)
6. Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in the West)
7. Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
8. John Hillcoat (The Proposition)
9. Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line)
10. Sidney Lumet (Serpico)
11. David Fincher (Seven)
12. Duncan Jones (Moon)
13. Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn)
14. Frank Darabont (The Mist)
15. Brian De Palma (Scarface)
Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now)
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
Christopher Nolan (Memento)
Terry Gilliam (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Sam Raimi (Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn)

[MarkJ801]

We're up to 43 lists! There's about two weeks now to get in your lists or make edits to your posted list.

[bingtau]

1) Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai/Ran

2) Darren Aronofsky - Requiem for a Dream/The Fountain

3) Paul Thomas Anderson - Hard Eight/Magnolia

4) Jean Pierre Melville - Le Samourai/Bob Le Flambeur

5) Stanley Kubrick - 2001/The Shining

6) Chan Wook Park - Vengence Trilogy

7) Joon Bong Ho - Memories of Murder/The Host

8) Steven Soderberg - Traffic/Che

9) Takashi Miike - Audition/Ichi the Killer

10) Dante Lam - The Beast Stalker/The Stool Pigeon

11) Johnnie To - Fulltime Killer/Exiled

12) Michael Mann - Manhunter/Heat

13) Mel Gibson - Braveheart/Apocalypto

14) Wong Kar Wai - Chungking Express/Fallen Angels

15) Alejandro Gonzalez Innuratu - Amores Perros/Babel

Kim Ki Duk - 3Iron/The Bow

Gasper Noe - Irreversible/Enter the Void

Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver/Raging Bull

Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window/Vertigo

Wes Anderson - Rushmore/Tennebaums

Stephen Chow - Shaolin Soccer/Kung Fu Hustle

David Fincher

Danny Boyle

Coen Brothers

Andrew Lau

List would've been way different 5 to 6 years ago but this is who's hot and legendary to me currently!!!