View Poll Results: What is the Best Film Director ever?
Steven Spielberg
17
16.83%
Alfred Hitchcock
20
19.80%
George Lucas
2
1.98%
David Lean
6
5.94%
Martin Scorsese
5
4.95%
Clint Eastwood
3
2.97%
James Cameron
2
1.98%
Woody Allen
1
0.99%
Frank Capra
1
0.99%
Other
44
43.56%
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Who is the Best Director ever?
04-28-04, 04:23 PM
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What is the Best Director ever?
Simple question.
What is the Best Director of films ever?
Please don't take into account their other contributions to film, such as Producing, Editing or Special Effects. Just Directing.
What is the Best Director of films ever?
Please don't take into account their other contributions to film, such as Producing, Editing or Special Effects. Just Directing.
04-28-04, 04:43 PM
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...?...
...there are directors who specialize(d) (but not exclusively, by any means!) in suspense (e.g. Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Siodmak), others who specialized in dramas (e.g. John Cromwell, Douglas Sirk), still others who specialized in comedies (e.g. Blake Edwards, Billy Wilder), yet others who specialized in Westerns (e.g. John Ford, Sergio Leone), and on and on...
In other words: there is no single "Best Director of films ever" - period (imnsho, of course!).
(signed) One Who Is Constantly Astonished By The Various Totally Pointless "Polls" That Keep Popping Up On This Site With The Regularity Of Clockwork
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...there are directors who specialize(d) (but not exclusively, by any means!) in suspense (e.g. Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Siodmak), others who specialized in dramas (e.g. John Cromwell, Douglas Sirk), still others who specialized in comedies (e.g. Blake Edwards, Billy Wilder), yet others who specialized in Westerns (e.g. John Ford, Sergio Leone), and on and on...
In other words: there is no single "Best Director of films ever" - period (imnsho, of course!).
(signed) One Who Is Constantly Astonished By The Various Totally Pointless "Polls" That Keep Popping Up On This Site With The Regularity Of Clockwork
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04-28-04, 05:07 PM
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There really isn't any way to tell just who is the "best" director ever IMO, cuz it's more opinion than anything.However, if you want my opinion I'd say that Kubrick is the best.
04-28-04, 05:10 PM
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Dude... Where's your Stanley Kubrick polling option? Lucas, Eastwood, Allen, Cameron? And no Kurosawa or Kubrick option (or Wilder or etc)? That's just wrong... 
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04-28-04, 05:47 PM
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Originally posted by Johnny Zhivago
Dude... Where's your Stanley Kubrick polling option? Lucas, Eastwood, Allen, Cameron? And no Kurosawa or Kubrick option (or Wilder or etc)? That's just wrong...
Dude... Where's your Stanley Kubrick polling option? Lucas, Eastwood, Allen, Cameron? And no Kurosawa or Kubrick option (or Wilder or etc)? That's just wrong...
or Federico Fellini (Nights Of Cabiria), or Satyajit Ray (Apu Trilogy), or Sergei Bondarchuk (War And Peace),
or David Lean (The Bridge On The River Kwai), or ...
...oh, what's the use...!...
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04-28-04, 05:53 PM
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Why is Lucas, Cameron... and even Speilberg on this list to begin with?
Could've picked so many other directors in their place... ie. Fellini, Herzog, Bergman, Fassbiner, etc.
Could've picked so many other directors in their place... ie. Fellini, Herzog, Bergman, Fassbiner, etc.
04-28-04, 06:14 PM
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PS. Title of the thread should be "Who is the best...", not "What is the best..."
carry on...
edited to add that my vote goes to Kubrick.
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04-28-04, 06:19 PM
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George Lucas? 
Can't narrow it down to just one, but IMO it would be between Jean Renoir, John Ford, Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, or Jean-Luc Godard.
Can't narrow it down to just one, but IMO it would be between Jean Renoir, John Ford, Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, or Jean-Luc Godard.
04-28-04, 06:19 PM
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Ok, who voted for Eastwood? Could you please identify yourself so that I know not to take any recommendations from you in the future.
04-28-04, 06:22 PM
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Originally posted by QuiGonJosh
I didnt vote for Eastwood...but he's never made an outright bad movie...
I didnt vote for Eastwood...but he's never made an outright bad movie...
04-28-04, 08:15 PM
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Originally posted by QuiGonJosh
I didnt vote for Eastwood...but he's never made an outright bad movie...
I didnt vote for Eastwood...but he's never made an outright bad movie...
04-28-04, 08:16 PM
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Originally posted by RyoHazuki
Shame on you. Unless your list is filled with old foreign guys I must be forced to crap on you.
Shame on you. Unless your list is filled with old foreign guys I must be forced to crap on you.
I'm only somewhat snobish, not a total snob.
04-28-04, 09:29 PM
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Originally posted by purplechoe
This is coming from the biggest snob the this forum. It's funny, when you are being an ass by critisizing things it's ok, but not when others do it.
This is coming from the biggest snob the this forum. It's funny, when you are being an ass by critisizing things it's ok, but not when others do it.
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