Who Are Your Favorite Directors? (1 Viewer)

[Steve Christou]

Alfred Hitchcock - numero uno

and rounding up the usual suspects...

Steven Spielberg

Martin Scorsese

David Lean

Stanley Kubrick

John Ford

Howard Hawks

Francis Coppola

Oliver Stone

Sergio Leone

William Wyler

James Cameron

Ridley Scott

Tim Burton

 

[Tommy G]

Top 3 in order

1. Alfred Hitchcock

2. Steven Spielberg

3. Billy Wilder

 

[Nick Sievers]

Favorite's Alive:

1. Steven Soderbergh

2. Quentin Tarantino

3. Martin Scorsese

4. Woody Allen

5. David Fincher

Favorite's Dead:

1. Alfred Hitchcock

2. Stanley Kubrick

3. Billy Wilder

4. David Lean

Hates:

1. Paul Thomas Anderson

2. Steven Speilberg

and

Tim Burton, while he has made a couple of good ones. He really annoy's me.

 

[Chuck Mayer]

Maybe in some kind of order...
David Fincher
James Cameron
Cameron Crowe
Ridley Scott
Adventure S. Spielberg
I respect Francis F. Coppola and Martin Scorcese.
I respect George Lucas' vision, but not necessarily his direction...
I am surprised no one mentioned McG or Renny Harlin
Take care,
Chuck

 

[Artur Meinild]

Ridley Scott
James Cameron
David Fincher
(yes, I like the first 3 alien moves very much)
Robert Zemeckis
John Carpenter
Peter Jackson
Sam Raimi
Richard Donner
Rob Reiner
Steven Spielberg
Hayao Miyazaki

 

[Ron-P]

Tim Burton
Robert Zemmeckis
James Cameron
Ridley Scott
Paul Verhoven
Steven Speilberg
George Lucas
Peace Out~

 

[Brook K]

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Ingmar Bergman

Alfred Hitchcock

Andrei Tarkovsky

Luis Bunuel

Martin Scorsese

Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger

F.W. Murnau

Preston Sturges

Sergei Eisenstein

Werner Herzog

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Krystoff Kieslowski

Billy Wilder

John Sayles

Wong Kar Wai

Takeshi Kitano

Edward Yang

Francois Truffaut

Jean-Luc Godard

Fritz Lang

Coen Bros.

John Ford

Frank Capra

 

[SteveGon]

My top three favorites are:

Stanley Kubrick

Akira Kurosawa

Werner Herzog

 

[Bruce Hedtke]

Luis Bunuel

Oliver Stone

Todd Solandz

Zhang Yimou

Bruce

 

[ScottR]

Victor Fleming (The man directed Gone With the Wind AND The Wizard of Oz in the same year!!!)

Steven Speilberg

Michael Curtiz

Alfred Hitchcock

Vincente Minnelli

Frank Capra

 

[Keith_R]

James Cameron, if it is a James Cameron movie there is a 99.9% chance I'll be seeing that movie.

 

[Larry Sutliff]

In no particular order:
Alfred Hitchcock
Orson Welles
Michael Curtiz
David Lean
James Whale
Billy Wilder
Steven Speilberg
George Lucas
John Ford
Carol Reed
Martin Scorcese
Karl Freund
Fritz Lang
Edgar Ulmer
Rouben Mamoulian
John Huston
Akira Kurosawa
Tim Burton
Tod Browning
Stanley Kubrick.
I just couldn't stop at ten!

 

[Rich Malloy]

Today's Top 10:
First Tier Faves:

• Robert Bresson
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Stanley Kubrick
• Andrei Tarkovsky

Second Tier Faves:

• Luis Buñuel
• Carl Th. Dreyer
• Krzysztof Kieslowski

Third Tier Faves:

• RW Fassbinder
• David Lynch
• Lars von Trier

 

[Pascal A]

All time:

1. Kenji Mizoguchi

2. Satyajit Ray

3. Yasujiro Ozu

4. Robert Bresson

5. Carl Theodor Dreyer

Contemporary:

1. Tsai Ming-Liang

2. Hou Hsiao-Hsien

3. Shohei Imamura

4. Abbas Kiarostami

5. Wong Kar-Wai

Rising:

1. Shunji Iwai

2. Fruit Chan

3. Bruno Dumont

4. Tran Anh Hung

5. Shinji Aoyama

 

[Neil Joseph]

james Cameron, George Lucas, Wolfgang Pieterson

 

[DonaldB]

Active
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Abbas Kiarostami
Nagisa Oshima
Tsai Ming-Liang
Wong Kar-Wai
Wes Anderson
Shohei Imamura
Tran Anh Hung
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Inactive
Luis Buñuel
Robert Bresson
Yasujiro Ozu
Alain Resnais
Ingmar Bergman
Andrei Tarkovsky
Preston Sturges
Kenji Mizoguchi
Stanley Kubrick
Satyajit Ray

 

[Luis C. Ortiz]

My Top 3 would be:

Michael Mann (can't belive no one mentioned him before)

Oliver Stone

Quintin Tarantino

Others:

Spielberg

Kubrik

Wolfgang Petersen

Paul Verhoven

Others I can't remember.

Luis

 

[Rob Tomlin]

Hmm, I find it odd that no one has mentioned Quentin Tarantino

Odd indeed! I can't believe that I forgot to add him to my list of favorite Directors! Just wish that Quentin would do more work!

 

[Rob Tomlin]

Shoot, just thought of another one!
Luc Besson!

 

[James RD]

Oops, I forgot a few:

Ang Lee

David Mamet

Mike Leigh