Directors: Spielberg, Fincher, Chan-wook Park, Miike Takashi, Aronofsky, Richard Kelley, Ridley Scott
Actor: Cillian Murphy
Actress: Jennifer Connelly, Monica Bellucci

Hey, at least that the most honest post in this thread.

These people (mostly) guarantee me forking over some cash.

Directors: David Lynch, Steven Spielberg, Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Johnny Depp, Bill Murray
Actresses: None

These people make me want to learn more about whatever film they are doing,although no guarantee on money spent:

Director: Cohen Brothers, Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton
Actor: Gary Oldman, Sean Bean, Topher Grace
Actresses: Jennifer Connely, Natalie Portman, Kate Winslet, Naomi Watts

Directors: Spielberg, Scorsese, Burton, Tarantino, Alexander Payne, Cameron Crowe, Ridley Scott

Actors: Depp, Cruise, Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks

Actresses: Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley, Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Connelly, Kate Winslet

It makes me happy to see Jennifer Connelly on numerous lists. :)

I'm just going with active performers, because folks like Jimmy Cagney haven't done much lately to get my interest.

Clint Eastwood
Edward Norton
Morgan Freeman
Johnny Depp
Denzel Washington
Kate Winslet
Jodie Foster
Jim Carrey
Martin Scorcese
Quentin Tarantino

How in the hell could I forget Edward Norton and Christopher Nolan :hairpull:?

Awesome to see Kate Winslet on so many lists :up:. I think she is the best actress going today.

There's a lot of directors from the past that would guarantee my interest (too many for me to keep up with), so I'll just stick with current director:

Cameron Crowe
Bob Zemeckis
Steven Spielberg
Hayao Miyazaki
Brad Bird

Not that I'm saying that there are no other good director besides them, but they're among the top of my list.

Quentin Tarantino and that's it. I don't mind buying everything he does because he has yet to disappoint me. Even though his portfolio is small, I'm 95% confident that I'll like whatever movie he makes in the future.

There's a lot of other great directors, actors, and actresses that peak my interest, but all have disappointed me at least once during their career (even if it was only a minor disappointment, it still counts).

I'm a huge Uma Thurman fan, but The Avengers sucked monkey toes. And so did she, in that monkey movie. I'm a big Pacino and De Niro fan, and young Bobby De Niro gave some of my favorite acting performances of all time. He's my favorite overall actor. But lately..... let me put this a "nice" way and just say that Pacino and Bobby didn't age gracefully like Jack Nicholson did.

Tarantino hasn't disappointed me yet, and so he would be the only one where I buy everything.

Streep every time.

Directors - David Lynch, PTA, Cronenberg, Wes Anderson, David Fincher, Scorcese (I will see anything they put out opening night)

Actors - Tom Cruise, Edward Norton, Peter Sarsgaard, Depp, and to a lesser extent Brad Pitt.

Actresses - Francis McDormand and maybe Natalie Portman.

Writers - Charlie Kaufman

Directors: Peter Jackson, Lucas, M. Night, Kevin Smith, Quentin

Actors: none. They're all idiots.

Anything by Christopher Nolan and M. Night will guarantee my arse in a theatre seat.

Director... unfortunately, all of my favorite directors are dead (Hitchcock) or retired (Bergman... except for Swedish TV). If I had to go with a current director I'd probably go with Oliver Stone or the Coen brothers.

Actor... Johnny Depp

Actress... Jodie Foster

Directors - Spielberg, Coens, Ridley Scott, Peter Weir
Actors - Crowe, Gibson, Depp
Actress - Blanchard

Christian Bale, Ewan MacGregor, Mark Wahlberg

Directors: Spielberg, Jackson, PTA, Fincher, Tarantino, Scorsese, maybe Zemeckis

Actors: none really except Cruise, with an explanation.

It's not that that I necessarily like to see Cruise's work, but he only does about one movie per year, and can pick whatever he wants to do. Of course he gets paid well, but I don't think he does things just for the money nowadays (except maybe the M:I sequels). So, if Cruise decides to do a film, it's probably going to be worth seeing.

Directors: PTA, Almodovar, Ozon, Majid Majidi, Noe, (add Mallick)
Actors: Day-Lewis, Garcia-Bernal, Sean Penn, Monica Bellucci :D

Directors: Woody Allen, PT Anderson, Spielberg, Tarantino, Scorsese, James Cameron

There are no actors that bring me to a movie... I really go for the director or if the movie looks interesting, no matter who's in it.

Directors I avoid: Oliver Stone, Chris Columbus, Joel Schumacher

Which do you think is hotter?

Director: Danny Boyle, John Woo
Actor: Ewan McGregor, Chow Yun Fat, Hugh Grant, Tony Leung
Actress: Natalie Portman

Holy thread bump Batman!

Can't say I pay too much attention to actors or actresses but I do make an effort to check out films directed by these guys:
Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher, Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino, Wong Kar-Wai, Alejandro Inarritu, Terence Malick, Alfonso Cuaron, Clint Eastwood, Joel & Ethan Coen, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Peter Weir, Jim Jarmusch, Tom Tykwer and Wes Anderson

Directors

David Fincher
PT Anderson
M. Night Shyamalan
The Coen Bros.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Tony Scott
Christopher Nolan
Peter Jackson
Wes Anderson
Edward Zwick
Steven Spielberg
Robert Zemeckis

Actors/Actresses

Brad Pitt
Anthony Hopkins
Daniel Day Lewis
Bill Murray
Ed Norton
Cate Blanchett
Kevin Spacey
Paul Giamatti
Morgan Freeman
Natalie Portman
Kate Winslet

Directors:

Andrei Tarkovsky... Ingmar Bergman... Steven Soderbergh... Takeshi Kitano... Tony Scott... Jean Pierre Melville... Akira Kurosawa.... Ridley Scott... Coen Brothers... Wes Anderson... Paul Thomas Anderson... Jacques Becker... John Huston... Terence Malick... Ryuhei Kitamura... (et al)


Actors:

Alain Delon... Tatsuya Nakadai... Takeshi Kitano... Jean Gabin... Andy Lau... Skellan Skarsgard... Tony Leung(little Tony)... Max Von Sydow... Clive Owen... Edward Norton... Tadanobu Asano... Marlon Brando... Christian Bale... Johnny Depp... Toshiro Mifune... Christopher Walken... Takashi Shimura... (et al)

The Best have all already been mentioned...

Here's mine anyway, not in any particular order:

Directors: Fincher, Spielberg, Scorsese, Welles, Hitchcock, Zemeckis, Ford, Lean, Ridley Scott, Barry Levinson, Oliver Stone, Kubrick, De Palma, Hawks, Coppola, James Cameron, Boorman, Loach, Peckinpah, Leone, Eastwood, Sam Mendes.

Actors: Brando, Depp, Cate Blanchett, Hanks, Hopkins, Pacino, DeNiro, Streep, Russell Crowe, Nicholson, Julianne Moore, Ralph Fiennes, Day-Lewis, DeCaprio, Kate Winslett, Kidman, Sarandon, Hackman, Washington, Liam Neeson, Matt Damon.