Top Living/Active Directors?

[SlayerDeuS]

By active I'll just say those who have directed a film in the past 5 years. Originally I was gonna say Top 5, but then I realized that there was no way I could, personally, limit that number.

Cream of the Crop:
Christopher Nolan
Martin Scorese
Quinton Tarantino
Guillermo Del Toro
Coen Bros

Quality:
David Fincher
Peter Carlos*son
Bryan Singer
Michael Gondry
Guy Ritchie
Sam Raimi
Steven Spielberg
Sam Mendes
Mel Gibson
Wachowski Bros

 

[Bonzi]

Ridley Scott
James Cameron
George Lucas
Robert Rodriguez
Paul Thomas Anderson
David Lynch
Clint Eastwood
Rob Reiner
Michael Mann
Sidney Lumet
Danny Boyle
Terry Gilliam
John Carpenter
Tim Burton

 

[Ubik Valis]

Can we make a rule that if anyone nominates George Lucas, they recieve a permanent ban? Even if it's Tom...

 

[::shinji::]

I've always liked the feel that Michael Mann movies seem to have

 

[SlayerDeuS]

Can we make a rule that if anyone nominates George Lucas, they recieve a permanent ban? Even if it's Tom...

thirded...

 

[Bonzi]

Bunch of ass kissers on this forum

 

[Juventino]

Francis Ford Coppola made a movie last year so you could include him too.

 

[Hakeem]

I dont agree with your cream of the crop SlayerDeuS (:/)
Nolan and Del Toro? no way. Quality yes, but not that high.

to me the top 4 would be:
1 Spielberg
2 Cameron
3 Scorsese
4 Tarantino

5 Zemeckis
6 Tim Burton
7 Lucas
8 The Coens
9 Ridley Scott
10 Peter Carlos*son

11 PTA
12 Wes Anderson
13 Fincher
14 Cronenberg
15 Nolan
16 Soderbergh
17 Brian Singer
18 Cameron Crowe
19 Sam Mendes
20 Alexander Payne
21 David Lynch
22 Brad Bird
23 David O Russell
24 Hayao Miyazaki
25 Michael Mann
26 Pedro Almodovar
27 Richard Linklater
28 Gus Van Sant
29 Chan-Wook Park
30 Wong Kar-wai

 

[SlayerDeuS]

I dont agree with your cream of the crop SlayerDeuS (:/)
Nolan and Del Toro? no way. Quality yes, but not that high.

to me the top 4 would be:
1 Spielberg
2 Cameron
3 Scorsese
4 Tarantino

5 Zemeckis
6 Tim Burton
7 Lucas
8 The Coens
9 Ridley Scott
10 Peter Carlos*son

11 PTA
12 Wes Anderson
13 Fincher
14 Cronenberg
15 Nolan
16 Soderbergh
17 Brian Singer
18 Cameron Crowe
19 Sam Mendes
20 Alexander Payne
21 David Lynch
22 Brad Bird
23 David O Russell
24 Hayao Miyazaki
25 Michael Mann
26 Pedro Almodovar
27 Richard Linklater
28 Gus Van Sant
29 Chan-Wook Park
30 Wong Kar-wai

yeh Hak, i figured not too many would agree with those two. personally two of my favs and up-and-coming monsters in the game. also, i absolutely despise some of the work spielberg has done, but i couldn't leave him out so i just dropped him a few.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Ok, I reckon this question needs to be divided into two groups - the great directors who are still alive, and the directors who are still making great movies. Francis Ford Coppolla is an all time great and still alive, but Youth Without Youth was trash and he hasnt made anything else for ten years, since the Rainmaker, which was also trash.

So....

Directors who are alive and still making great movies.....

.... let's say to get in this group they need to have made atleast one great movie in the last three years....

1. Werner Herzog
2. David Lynch
3. Jim Jarmusch
4. Pedro Almodovar
5. Terrence Malick
6. The Coen Brothers
7. Abbas Kiarostami
8. Sidney Lumet
9. Clint Eastwood
10. Michael Moore
11. Quentin Tarantino
12. Stephen Frears
13. Guiellmo Del Toro
14. Wes Anderson
15. Steven Soderbergh
16. David Cronenberg
17. Oliver Hirschbiegel
18. Sam Mendes
19. Mike Leigh
20. Michael Winterbottom
21. Michael Haneke
22. Brian De Palma
23. Shane Meadows
24. Spike Lee
25. Istvan Szabo


Great directors who are still alive but dont make movies anymore or no longer seem to make great movies....

(in my opinion)

1. Jean-Luc Godard
2. Nicholas Roeg
3. Francis Ford Coppolla
4. Wim Wenders
5. Bigas Luna
6. Milos Foreman
7. Martin Scorsese
8. Ken Russell
9. Roman Polanski
10. Steven Spielburg
11. Ridley Scott
12. Errol Morris
13. Oliver Stone
14. Takashi Miike
15. Woody Allen
16. Terry Gilliam
17. Bernardo Bertolucci
18. Luc Besson
19. Richard Attenborough
20. Wolfgang Petersen

Will come back and edit as and when I remember people I missed out

 

[Hakeem]

so Scorsese won the Oscar last year but is not making great movies anymore

 

[Sir Calumn]

Not in my opinion he isnt....

Departed was weak, Aviator was weaker, GONY was trash.

 

[SlayerDeuS]

Well it looks like Guillermo del Toro is going to be directing the LOTR prequels, "The Hobbit" and a completely made up film that connects it to LOTR. Should be great, del Toro has the talent and now he has the chance to helm a major major film franchise. I can't wait to see what kinds of things he plans to trick that **** out with, should be great!

 

[Sir Calumn]

Well it looks like Guillermo del Toro is going to be directing the LOTR prequels, "The Hobbit" and a completely made up film that connects it to LOTR. Should be great, del Toro has the talent and now he has the chance to helm a major major film franchise. I can't wait to see what kinds of things he plans to trick that **** out with, should be great!

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[SlayerDeuS]

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yap it is true. he won't ruin it, will he?

 

[Hakeem]

its not a "completely made up film that connects it to LOTR", they will get the story from stories of all the other Middle Earth books Tolkien wrote like the Silmarillion