Your Top 10 Favorite Directors
 

Name your top 10 favorite directors working today. Mine:

1) Ridley Scott
2) Tim Burton
3) Pedro Almodovar
4) Guillermo del Toro
5) Sam Raimi
6) Bryan Singer
7) Coen Brothers <===Edit: Spelled Coen wrong
8) David Fincher
9) Martin Scorcese
10) Ang Lee

Runners up: Alexander Payne and Guy Ritchie

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1. Marty Scorsese
2. Q. Tarantino
3. Coen Brothers
4. Chris Nolan
5. David Fincher
6. Speilberg
7. Capolla
8. Michael Mann
9. Ridley Scott
10. Wes Anderson

Re: Your Top 10 Favorite Directors
 

In no order.

1) Guillermo del Toro
2) Zack Snyder
3) Ridley Scott
4) Hayao Miyazaki
5) Steven Speilberg
6) Jon Favreau
7) Quentin Tarantino
8) Chris Nolan
9) Tim Burton
10) Brad Bird

Re: Your Top 10 Favorite Directors
 

not in order:

Scorcese
Park Chan-wook
P. Jackson
James Cameron
Spielberg
Tarantino
Coppola
Fincher
Nolan
Luc Besson

Re: Your Top 10 Favorite Directors
 

[QUOTE=scott1598;9612598]http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/...directors.html

That thread is living and dead. I wanted to focus on living.

Re: Your Top 10 Favorite Directors
 

In no particular order

PT Anderson
Cohen Brothers
David Fincher
Sam Raimi
Rian Johnson
Peter Jackson
Guillermo Del Toro
Clint Eastwood
Quentin Tarantino
Werner Herzog

Re: Your Top 10 Favorite Directors
 

Living directors?

Coen Bros.
Quentin Tarantino
Pedro Almodovar
Chan Wook-Park
Martin Scorsese
Christopher Nolan
John Lasseter
Wong Kar-Wai
David Lynch
Terry Gilliam

In no order, and this list will change in probably 30 seconds.

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Living directors? That cuts it down quite a bit. Let's see:

Hayao Miyazaki
John Woo
Walter Hill
Quentin Tarantino
Satoshi Kon
Mamoru Oshii
Rintaro
Tsui Hark
Yuen Wo Ping
Lau Kar Leung

15 years ago, I would have put down Scorsese, Oliver Stone, and Spike Lee. But the train done left the station on those cats long ago. I'm shaky on Woo and Hill since neither has done anything worthwhile in a long time, but I had to put some "Hollywood" directors on the list, didn't I? Aside from Tarantino, who's getting shakier and shakier with each new release, too.

In fact, none of these cats has made a decent film in the last five years and most haven't made one in the last 10-to-15 years!

But I can't put the director of PUNISHER WAR ZONE down because she's only made one film that I've seen. You gotta do more than that to get on a favorite directors list.

Favorite non-living directors (although their films will always live on), just to keep it real:

John Ford
Orson Welles
Akira Kurosawa
Yasujiro Ozu
Chang Cheh
Ishiro Honda
Robert Aldrich
Sam Peckinpah
Sergio Leone
Anthony Mann

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Clint Eastwood
Martin Scorsese
Christopher Nolan
David Fincher
Ridley Scott
Coen Brothers
Edward Zwick
Steven Spielberg
John Carpenter
Oliver Stone

In no order

If it was all-time directors I would have to include: Hitchcock, Welles, Huston, Leone, Kurosawa, and Ford and knock six of the above off my list.

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No order.

Steven Spielburg
Tim Burton
James Cameron
Peter Jackson
Christopher Nolan
Henry Selick
John Lasseter
David Fincher
Hayao Miyazaki
Ridley Scott

No list is complete without Spielburg, Cameron, Jackson and Nolan.

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John Carpenter
David Lynch
David Cronenberg
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino
Guillermo del Toro
Coen Bros.
Martin Scorsese
Zack Snyder
P.T. Anderson

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Hayao Miyazaki
Emir Kusturica
Terry Gilliam
Ridley Scott
Steven Speilberg
Darren Aaronofsky
Sam Raimi
Julio Medem
Paul Verhoven

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No order

Martin Scorsese
Darren Aronofsky
Hayao Miyazaki
Brad Bird
David Lynch
Coen Brothers
Paul Thomas Anderson
Guillermo Del Toro
Michael Mann
Werner Herzog

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My 10 favorite living directors, with the added rule that they must have made at least one film that I have loved since 2000:

1. Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Joel and Ethan Coen
3. Alfonso Cuarón
4. Hayao Miyazaki
5. David Fincher
6. Wong Kar-wai
7. Darren Aronofsky
8. Spike Jonze
9. Edgar Wright
10. Brad Bird

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Working today:

Takashi Miike
Quentin Tarantino
Craig Brewer
Toshiaki Toyoda
Edgar Wright
Gaspar Noé
Paul Thomas Anderson
Joe Carnahan
Johnnie To
Alejandro González Iñárritu

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Not necessarily in any order:

Robert Zemeckis
Clint Eastwood
Ridley Scott
Christopher Nolan
Steven Spielberg
Cameron Crowe
Spike Jonze
Martin Campbell
James Cameron
Peter Jackson

Re: Your Top 10 Favorite Directors
 

David Cronenberg
James Cameron
Riddley Scott
Kim Ki-duk
Bong Joon-ho
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Mamoru Oshii
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Takeshi Kitano
Yoji Yamada

hm

Steven Spielberg
Walter Hill
Bob Clark
Coen Brothers
Shinichiro Watanabe
Satoshi Kon
Miike Takashi
Seijun Suzuki
Park Chan-wook
Kim Ji-woon
Pen-ek Ratanaruang
Hayao Miyazaki
Kiyoshi Kurosawa

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John Carpenter
Steven Spielberg
James Cameron
John Hughes
Sergio Leone
Richard Donner
Walter Hill
David Cronenberg
Clint Eastwoood
Robert Zemeckis

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No Order....

Spike Lee
Michael Mann
Steven Spielberg
David Fincher
Woody Allen
Marty Scorsese
Clint Eastwood
Quintin Tarantino
Ridley Scott
Kevin Smith

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I love these threads...really cool to see what we all like but anywhooo:
(In no order)

Akira Kurosawa
Quentin Tarantino
Clint Eastwood
Martin Scorsese
David Fincher
Christopher Nolan
Sam Raimi
Guillermo Del Toro
Terry Gilliam
Robert Rodriguez

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Clint Eastwood
Sam Raimi
Todd Field
Oliver Stone
William Friedkin
John Carpenter
Walter Hill
George Miller
Ridley Scott
Franc Roddam

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1) Steven Spielberg
2) Richard Donner
3) Sam Raimi
4) John Carpenter
5) Francias Ford Copola
6) Martin Scorsece
7) Ridley Scott
8) Quentin Tarentino
9) Robert Rodrigez
10) George Romero

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Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Oliver Stone
Quentin Tarantino
Clint Eastwood
Darren Aronofsky
Terry Gilliam
Christopher Guest
Martin Scorsese
Lars Von Trier

Runner's Up:
Terrence Malick and Takashi Miike

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Stanley Kubrick
Brad Bird
Martin Scorsese
Paul Thomas Anderson
Todd Field
Christopher Nolan
Alfonso Cuaron
Paul Greengrass
Hayao Miyazaki
Steven Soderbergh

substitute Speilberg for Kubrick if we're strictly talking those working today.

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Paul Thomas Anderson
David Lynch
James Cameron
Michael Mann
Todd Field, only two but.....
James L. Brooks
Martin Scorcese
Steven Speilberg
David Fincher
Eastwood

Re: Your Top 10 Favorite Directors
 

Takashi Miike
Kim Ki-duk
Spike Jonze
Quentin Tarantino
Pedro Almodovar
Chan Wook-Park
P.T. Anderson
Michel Gondry
Guillermo del Toro
Sion Sono

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No Order:

Coen Brothers
Mike Leigh
Martin Scorsese
P.T. Anderson
Dardenne Brothers
David Fincher
Chan-wook Park
Woody Allen
Claude Chabrol
Takashi Miike

Re: Your Top 10 Favorite Directors
 

Mike Leigh
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Paul Thomas Anderson
Hayao Miyazaki
Werner Herzog
Wong Kar-Wai
Lars von Trier
Terrence Malick
Michael Haneke
Joel and Ethan Coen

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Eastwood
Lynch
Weir
Burton
Cuaron
Nolan

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Kevin Smith
Wes Anderson
Christopher Nolan
Peter Jackson
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino
Ang Lee
Coen Brothers
PT Anderson
Guillermo del Toro

Re: Your Top 10 Favorite Directors
 

-Wes Anderson
-Darren Aronofsky
-The Coen Brothers
-Guillermo Del Toro
-Michel Gondry
-Michael Haneke
-Sam Mendes
-Christopher Nolan
-Kevin Smith
-Quentin Tarantino

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Sounds like fun...

James Cameron
Michael Mann
Coen Brothers
Wachowskis
David Fincher
Chris Nolan
Martin Scorsese
Guillermo del Toro
Greg Mottola (Superbad and Adventureland)
Peter Jackson

Lots more, and I've little complaint with many already listed, but the above ten never failure to deliver something interesting.

Re: Your Top 10 Favorite Directors
 

1) Wes Anderson
2) Spike Jonze
3) PT Anderson
4) Michel Gondry
5) Coen Brothers
6) Martin Scorsese
7) Terry Gilliam
8) David Fincher
9) Alfonso Cuaron
10) Quentin Tarantino

Re: Your Top 10 Favorite Directors
 

Lynch
Cronenberg
De Palma
Altman
Redford
Schrader
Jarmusch
Kurosawa
Clouzot
Frears

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That's 9, bro....

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No Order and probably get flamed but anyways:

Roland Emmerich
Christopher Nolan
Peter Jackson
Robert Zemeckis
Steven Spielberg
Michael Bay
Frank Darabont
Sam Raimi
M. Night Shyamalan
Judd Apatow

Re: Your Top 10 Favorite Directors
 

oh sorry, i going to edit to add: Stephen Frears to the list.

Re: Your Top 10 Favorite Directors
 

Some of you are not reading the thread correctly. The OP was asking for your favorite ten directors that are working today. Kurosawa, Altman, and Leone are great directors but the reason they are not working today now is because they are dead.

Re: Your Top 10 Favorite Directors
 

I forgot about Takeshi Kitano (KIKUJIRO, BROTHER, ZATOICHI). I'll take Tsui Hark off my list and put in Kitano.

Re: Your Top 10 Favorite Directors
 

1) Quentin Tarantino
2) Martin Scorsese
3) Clint Eastwood
4) Robert Zemeckis
5) Stanley Kubrick
6) Christoper Nolan
7) Joel and Ethan Coen
8) Sam Raimi
9) Steven Speilberg
10) Ridley Scott