Directors Poll: Your top 3 favorite directors (1 Viewer)

[Nick Sievers]

Not necessarily the best but my 3 Favorite directors are:

1. The Coen's
2. Steven Soderbergh
3. Stanley Kubrick

 

[Lew Crippen]

Carl Dreyer

Kubrick

Kursowawa

Close are Sturges, Buñuel, Griffith and a host of others.

 

[Chris_Richard]

Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
Francois Trauffaut

Runners up would be: Altman, Kurosawa, Sayles,

 

[Rob Tomlin]

Martin Scorsese

David Lean

Akira Kurosawa

Alfred Hitchcock

Stanley Kubrick

Sorry, I couldn't stop at just three!

 

[Dome Vongvises]

Steven Spielberg
Akira Kurosawa
David Lean

I like Alfred Hitchcock, John Carpenter, Martin Scorsese, and Stanley Kubrick as well.

 

[Scott W.]

Hitchcock, Cameron and Coppola.

Scott

 

[Tommy G]

I always knew you had great taste in movies, George.

 

[JohnRice]

Coen Brothers

Terry Gilliam

David Lean



Vickie and I have 2 or the same 3. Why do we often have such different taste in movies?

 

[Wes C]

Wes Anderson
Martin Scorsese
Stanley Kubrick

 

[Richard_D_Ramirez]

Akira Kurosawa
Brian De Palma
David Fincher
Penny Marshall
Terry Gilliam
Steven Spielberg
Ridley Scott
Frank Darabont
David Lean
Robert Zemeckis
Terrence Malick
John Frankenheimer
Sergio Leone
John Carpenter
Stanley Kubrick
Michael Mann
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Spike Lee
Steven Soderburgh
Christopher Nolan
Luc Besson
Clint Eastwood
Robert Rodriguez
M. Night Shyamalan

Sorry, I couldn't name just three...

8^B

 

[LukeB]

Steven Spielberg
Francis Ford Coppola
Martin Scorsese

 

[RayG]

Orson Welles
David Lynch
Robert Altman

 

[filmnoirguy]

1. Billy Wilder
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. George Stevens

Third is a toss up with Elia Kazan, but Stevens wins by a narrow margin.

 

[Jeffrey D]

Billy Wilder
Quentin Tarantino
Alfred Hitchcock

Tough to narrow it down to 3- I’d rank P.T. Anderson and David Fincher right up beside the best directors too.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

1) Orson Welles
2) David Lean
3) Francois Truffaut
4) John Ford
5) Federico Fellini

 

[Thomas T]

Alfred Hitchcock
Douglas Sirk
Robert Altman

 

[AshJW]

John Ford
Alfred Hitchcock
Quentin Tarantino

 

[Keith Cobby]

Hitch
Richard Fleischer
Fritz Lang

Kubrick
Zemeckis
Nolan
John Sturges

 

[jayembee]

In chronological order:

John Ford

David Lean

Stanley Kubrick