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

[QuasidodoJr]

1. Frank Capra
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. David Lean
4. John Carpenter
5. Steven Spielberg
6. Ridley Scott
7. The Coen Brothers
8. Guillermo Del Toro
9. Edward Zwick
10. Clint Eastwood
11. Danny Boyle
12. Akira Kurosawa
13. Francois Truffaut
14. Tony Scott
15. Cameron Crowe

[jvince]

These guys for sure (in parenthesis are their works that I like). The rest I'll have to think about for a while.

1. Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Minority Report, Munich, A.I. Artificial Intelligence)
2. Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Rushmore, Fantastic Mr. Fox)
3. Christopher Nolan (Inception, Memento, The Dark Knight, Insomnia, The Prestige, Following, Batman Begins)
4. Richard Linklater (The School of Rock, Before Sunset, Before Sunrise, Dazed and Confused, Bad News Bears)
5. Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad, Mon Oncle d'Amérique, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Providence)

6. David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Zodiac, Fight Club, Se7en, Panic Room, The Social Network)
7. Kim Ji-woon (I Saw the Devil, A Bittersweet Life, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, A Tale of Two Sisters)
8. Rob Reiner (Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, Flipped)
9. Bong Joon-ho (Memories of Murder, Mother, The Host)
10. Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist, The Green Mile)

[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!!!

[Travis]

1. Francis Ford Coppola
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Steven Spielberg
4. Sergio Leone
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Ridley Scott
8. Brian De Palma
9. John Carpenter
10. Roman Polanski
11. Oliver Stone
12. Joel and Ethan Cohen
13. Robert Zemeckis
14. Ron Howard
15. John Hughes
    
    Last 10 in alphabetical order
16. Ang Lee
17. Brad Bird
18. Christopher Nolan
19. Clint Eastwood
20. David Fincher
21. Harold Ramis
22. Luc Besson
23. Sam Mendes
24. Sam Peckinpah
25. Sidney Lumet

[GLipeBlu]

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Steven Spielberg
3. Alfred Hitchcock
4. David Lean
5. Akira Kurasowa
6. Francis Ford Coppola
7. Sam Peckinpah
8. Quentin Tarantino
9. The Coen Bros.
10. Martin Scorcese
11. Robert Altman
12. James Cameron
13. Hayoa Miyazaki
14. Paul Verhoeven
15. Guillermo Del Toro
16. Darren Aronofsky
17. Ridley Scott
18. Wes Anderson
19. Peter Weir
20. Paul Thomas Anderson
21. Ingmar Bergman
22. David Fincher
23. Brad Bird
24. Edgar Wright
25. George Lucas

[LukeJudkins]

Everyone who has putted PTA in their list.... come and collect your hugs from me!

[DarthMarino]

01. Quentin Tarantino
02. Stanley Kubrick
03. James Cameron
04. Paul Thomas Anderson
05. Tim Burton
06. Martin Scorsese
07. Steven Spielberg
08. Sergio Leone
09. Paul Verhoeven
10. John Carpenter
11. Oliver Stone
12. Robert Zemeckis
13. George Lucas
14. John Lasseter
15. David Fincher

[MarkJ801]

So the deadline has past, but I'm not going to tally the votes until Friday, so feel free to post/edit your lists until then.

[master_8ball]

This was really tough to order.

1. David Cronenberg
2. Quentin Tarantino
3. Terry Gilliam
4. George A. Romero
5. Peter Jackson
6. Sam Raimi
7. Takashi Miike
8. Steven Spielberg
9. Judd Apatow
10. John Carpenter
11. Robert Rodriguez
12. Joel and Ethan Coen
13. Ridley Scott
14. Oliver Stone
15. Stanley Kubrick
16. Francis Ford Coppola
17. Guillermo Del Toro
18. Darren Aronofsky
19. Christopher Nolan
20. David Fincher
21. Tim Burton
22. Dario Argento
23. David Lynch
24. James Cameron
25. Paul Verhoeven

[scraptor]

1. Lean
2. Malick
3. Spielberg
4. Sturges
5. Fincher
6. Hitchcock
7. Kurosawa
8. Lubitsch
9. Mann
10. Nolan
11. Zemeckis
12. Cukor
13. Hawks
14. Cronenberg
15. Capra

[Flatnate]

Well if you didn't talley the votes I'll throw mine in!
Hope its not too late.

1. Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator)
2. Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, the Departed)
3. David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)
4. Francis Ford Coppola (Apocolypse Now, Dracula, The Godfather)
5. Cristopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, The Prestige, Inception)
6. Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)
7. Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Ran, Yojimbo, Rashomon)
8. J.J Abrams (Super 8, Star Trek)
9. David Fincher (The Social Network, Fight Club, Seven)
10. Guillermo Del Toro (Chronos, Pan's Labyrinth, Mimic)
11. Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away)
12. Terry Gilliam (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
13. Stanley Kubrick (2001 Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket)
14. Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)
15. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds)
16. Joel & Ethan Coen (True Grit, The Big Lebowski)
17. Edward Zwick (Defiance, The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall)
18. Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Rushmore, Fantastic Mr. Fox)
19. Mel Brooks (Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles)
20. Guy Ritchie (Rocknrolla, Snatch, Sherlock Holmes)

[AnubisNefer]

1. Ridley Scott
2. Christopher Nolan
3. Matthew Vaugh
4. Guy Ritchie
5. Darren Aronofsky
6. Chan Wook Park
7. Martin Scorcese
8. Quentin Tarantino
9. Tony Scott
10. Steven Spielberg
11. Gaspar Noe
12. Joel and Ethan Coen
13. Peter Jackson
14. James Cameron
15. Akira Kurosawa

Hmm, if i look at my top 4, they are all english

[MarkJ801]

Originally Posted by Flatnate

Well if you didn't talley the votes I'll throw mine in!
Hope its not too late.

Yeah no problem. I'm just going to start the tallying right now! Results will be tomorrow or Sunday.

[Blu Myers]

Carpenter
Fincher
Tarantino
Kubrick
Nolan
Spielberg
Cameron
R. Scott

[the new scum]

ack! for some reason I thought I had another week. Well, if it's not too late, here's my list:

1. Park Chan-Wook
2. Darron Aronofsky
3. Kim Jee-Woon
4. Christopher Nolan
5. Akira Kurosawa
6. David Fincher
7. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
8. Coen Brothers
9. Inarritu
10. Kim Ki-duk
11. Wong Kar-Wai
12. Zhang Yimou
13. Alfonso Cuaron
14. Hayao Miyazaki
15. Guillermo Del Toro
16. PT Anderson
17. Bong Joon-Ho
18. Na Hong-Jin
19. Danny Boyle
20. FF Coppola
21. Terry Gilliam
22. David Cronenberg
23. Cameron Crowe
24. Martin Scorcese
25. Ridley Scott

[notops]

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Steven Spielberg
4. Alfred Hitchcock
5. Akira Kurosawa
6. Joel & Ethan Coen
7. Brian De Palma
8. Peter Jackson
9. James Cameron
10. Robert Zemeckis
11. Quentin Tarantino
12. John Carpenter
13. Richard Donner
14. Terry Gilliam
15. David Fincher