Blu-ray.com Forum - Top Directors of All Time (vote)

[TajSamKojiJesam]

1) Yoshishige Yoshida
2) Stanley Kubrick
3) Michelangelo Antonioni
4) Masaki Kobayashi
5) Sergio Leone
6) Kôji Wakamatsu
7) Masahiro Shinoda
8) Hiroshi Teshigahara
9) Peter Greenaway
10) Shûji Terayama

[zman73]

1. Tarantino
2. Hitchcock
3. Scorcese
4. Wes Anderson
5. De Palma
6. Fincher
7. Kurosawa
8. Russ Meyers
9. Kubrick
10. Spielburg

Close
Coppola, Coen Brothers, PT Anderson, Zwigoff, Capra, Chaplin

[cinemaphile]

This is tough, because every time I think of a director to consider for my list because of some of their great films, I see how many duds they have made as well.

[jhan8185]

1. Martin Scorsese
2. Christopher Nolan
3. Oliver Stone
4. David Fincher
5. Stanley Kubrick
6. Ridley Scott
7. Francis Ford Coppola
8. Quentin Tarantino
9. Darren Aronofsky
10. Alejandro González Iñárritu

[Hucksta G]

1. Martin Scorsese
2. Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Darren Aronofsky
4. Cameron Crowe
5. Quentin Tarantino
6. David Lynch
7. David Fincher
8. Francis Ford Coppola
9. Stanley Kubrick
10. Alejandro González Iñárritu

Five Runners Up
The Coen Brothers
Christopher Nolan
Sam Mendes
Peter Jackson
Steven Spielberg

This is all based on the amount of films each director has in my top 250, before you go spewing over Cameron Crowe's placement haha

[Darth Marcus]

1. Steven Spielberg
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Martin Scorsese
4. Alfred Hitchcock
5. Christopher Nolan
6. David Fincher
7. Paul Thomas Anderson
8. Quentin Tarantino
9. John Ford
10. The Coen Brothers


Honorable Mentions:

Ridley Scott, Michael Mann, Wes Anderson, Sergio Leone, Danny Boyle, Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow, Edgar Wright, Denis Villeneuve

[DanTheMan]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

This is tough, because every time I think of a director to consider for my list because of some of their great films, I see how many duds they have made as well.

I ignore their shortcomings and skip right to their best work, tally them up, then decide if that body of work was inspirational enough to both me, and cinema as a whole to warrant a spot amongst the greatest.

[GLaDOS]

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Akira Kurosawa
4. Steven Spielberg
5. Quentin Tarantino
6. Martin Scorcese
7. David Lynch
8. David Fincher
9. James Cameron
10. Christopher Nolan

11. Francis Ford Coppola
12. Paul Thomas Anderson
13. Hayao Miyazaki
14. Coen Brothers
15. Ridley Scott
16. Satoshi Kon
17. Makoto Shinkai
18. Wong Kar-Wai
19. Andrei Tarkovsky
20. Alfonso Cuaron

21. Denis Villeneuve
22. Guillermo del Toro
23. Shinichiro Watanabe
24. Michael Mann
25. George Miller
26. Alejandro Gonzalez Inaritu
27. Paul Greengrass
28. Spike Jonze
29. Damien Chazelle
30. Brad Bird

[dunnbluray]

My Top 10 WIP

1. Hayao Miyazaki
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Sergio Leone
4. Martin Scorsese
5. Ridley Scott
6. Coen Brothers
7. Guy Ritchie
8. John Carpenter
9. Christopher Nolan
10. Mel Gibson

[Rodney-2187]

I try to think of who I would be most excited about having a new movie of theirs to go see.

[The Sovereign]

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. David Lynch
4. Francis Ford Coppola
5. Orson Welles
6. Federico Fellini
7. David Lean
8. Martin Scorsese
9. Preston Sturges
10. Joel & Ethan Coen

[Scottie]

Subject to change.

Basing my list on a number of factors: number of films I enjoy, directing style, vision, and reoccurring themes in all of their films.

01. Wong Kar-wai
02. Yasujirô Ozu
03. Hayao Miyazaki
04. Ingmar Bergman
05. Woody Allen
06. Stanley Kubrick
07. Alfred Hitchcock
08. Charlie Chaplin
09. Michael Mann
10. David Fincher

[Jasonic]

1. Hayao Miyazaki
2. Christopher Nolan
3. Steven Spielberg
4. Alfred Hitchcock
5. Akira Kurosawa
6. Bong Joon-ho
7. Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell
8. Kim Jee-woon
9. David Lean
10. Asghar Farhadi

Super tough to choose, as these were some of my other considerations. Got real hard after my 6th place.
Park Chan-wook
Mamoru Hosoda
Isao Takahata
David Fincher
Terence Malick
JJ Abrams
Martin Scorsese
Ridley Scott
Quentin Tarantino
Danny Boyle
Tim Burton

[Rich65]

1. Robert Wise
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Howard Hawks
4. Akira Kurosawa
5. Steven Spielberg
6. John Ford
7. Sergio Leone
8. Stanley Kubrick
9. Clint Eastwood
10. John Carpenter

[BluLamp]

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Nicolas Roeg
3. Robert Altman
4. Steven Spielberg
5. Ken Russell
6. Paul Verhoeven
7. Dario Argento
8. Jean Rollin
9. David Lynch
10. Takashi Miike

Narrowing it down to just 10 was rough, but then placing them in point order was surprisingly easy.

[lud]

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Sergio Leone
3. Akira Kurosawa
4. Coen brothers
5. Andrei Tarkovsky
6. Clint Eastwood
7. Quentin Tarantino
8. Martin Scorsese
9. Orson Welles
10. Giuseppe Tornatore

[Impossible]

Why bother, Christopher Nolan will win everybody knows that

[Darth Marcus]

Originally Posted by Impossible

Why bother, Christopher Nolan will win everybody knows that

Will he though? There are several lists posted so far where he's not even mentioned.

[Cremildo]

Judging by the lists so far, Hitchcock, Spielberg and Kubrick will give Nolan a run for his money.

[The Debts]

1. Ridley Scott.
2. Guillermo Del Toro.
3. Park Chan Wook.
4. David Cronenberg.
5. Clint Eastwood.
6. Coen Brothers.
7. Christopher Nolan.
8. Steven Spielberg.
9. Lars von Trier.
10. M. Night Shyamalan (thank God he got his groove back).