Best Ever Actor-Director Teams [POLL] **CLOSED**

[badseed]

Ok so here's the final rules.

We'll do 50. 100 sounded good but I'm sitting at 92 right now, and although I could bring it to 100, that's over 90% of the actor-director teams on that Wiki list that I'm familiar enough with. Hardly a "best of" list when everyone gets a trophy.

If anyone has any other two actor combinations, they must be like Pegg & Frost with Wright and have been in every film together. Otherwise, separate them. If it's really too close to call, list them side by side and there's a good chance they stay right next to each other on the final list if everyone else who votes for them feels the same.

[PurpleHazel]

Subject to change, of course:

1. Martin Scorsese-Robert de Niro
2. Akira Kurosawa-Toshiro Mifune
3. Alfred Hitchcock-James Stewart
4. John Ford-John Wayne
5. Howard Hawks-Cary Grant
6. Ingmar Bergman-Liv Ullman
7. John Huston-Humphrey Bogart
8. Yasujiro Ozu-Chishu Ryu
9. Francois Truffaut-Jean-Pierre Leaud
10. Michelangelo Antonioni-Monica Vitti
11. Josef von Sternberg-Marlene Dietrich
12. Jean Renoir-Jean Gabin
13. Anthony Mann-James Stewart
14. Alfred Hitchcock-Cary Grant
15. Woody Allen-Diane Keaton
16. Ingmar Bergman-Max von Sydow
17. Billy Wilder-Jack Lemmon
18. John Ford-Henry Fonda
19. John Cassavetes-Gena Rowlands
20. Federico Fellini-Giulietta Masina
21. Woody Allen-Mia Farrow
22. Yasujiro Ozu-Setsuko Hara
23. Robert Altman-Elliott Gould
24. Ingmar Bergman-Bibi Andersson
25. Mikio Naruse-Hideko Takamine
26. Frank Capra-James Stewart
27. Richard Linklater-Ethan Hawke
28. Jean-Luc Godard-Anna Karina
29. Luis Bunuel-Fernando Rey
30. Rainer Werner Fassbinder-Hanna Schygulla
31. Werner Herzog-Klaus Kinski
32. Elia Kazan-Marlon Brando
33. Andrei Tarkovsky-Anatoliy Solonitsyn
34. Coen brothers-Frances McDormand
35. Martin Scorsese-Harvey Keitel
36. Howard Hawks-John Wayne
37. Billy Wilder-William Holden
38. David Lean-Alec Guinness
39. Quentin Tarantino-Samuel L. Jackson
40. Otto Preminger-Dana Andrews
41. John Woo-Chow Yun-fat
42. Orson Welles-Joseph Cotton
43. Dardenne brothers-Olivier Gourmet
44. Mike Leigh-Timothy Spall
45. Wong Kar-wai-Tony Leung
46. Budd Boetticher-Randolph Scott
47. Mel Brooks-Gene Wilder
48. Paul Thomas Anderson-Philip Seymour Hoffman
49. Akira Kurosawa-Takashi Shimura
50. Wes Anderson-Bill Murray


As exhaustive as that Wikipedia list is, it can create a false sense of security because there are omissions. There's no listing for Preston Sturges, even though he had a large unofficial stock company of supporting actors who appeared in at least three movies, including William Demarest and Franklin Pangborn. Another biggie is Jean Renoir-Jean Gabin (Grand Illusion, La Bete humaine and French Cancan). Only one actor is listed for Mikio Naruse, even though the actor who starred in his two most famous films -- Floating Clouds and When a Woman Ascends the Stairs -- as well as 10 others isn't included.

[Hayden]

1. Scorsese/De Niro
2. Kurosawa/Mifune
3. Fellini/Mastroianni
4. Godard/Leaud
5. Anderson/Hoffman
6. Wes Anderson/Bill Murray
7. Wright/Pegg
8. Linklater/Hawke
9. PT Anderson/Day-Lewis
10. Tarantino/Jackson
11. Bergman/Andersson
12. Bergman/Ullmann
13. Sorrentino/Servillo
14. Cassavetes/Rowlands
15. Wilder/Lemmon
16. Leone/Eastwood
17. Tarkovsky/Solonitsyn
18. Truffaut/Leaud
19. Almodovar/Cruz
20. Coen Bros/McDormand
21. Coen Bros/Goodman
22. Wong Kar-Wai/Chiu-Wai
23. Scorsese/DiCaprio
24. Burton/Bonham Carter
25. Fincher/Pitt
26. Ford/Wayne
27. Fassbinder/Schygulla
28. Wes Anderson/Adrien Brody
29. Antonioni/Vitti
30. Leigh/Spall
31. Godard//Karina
32. Huston/Bogart
33. Bunuel/Rey
34. Kaurismaki/Outinen
35. Coppola/Duvall
36. McQueen/Fassbender
37. Ozu/Hara
38. Dardenne’s/Gourmet
39. Spielberg/Hanks
40. Altman/Shelley Duvall
41. Tarantino/Thurman
42. Carax/Lavant
43. Wong Kar-Wai/Cheung
44. Yimou/Li
45. Hitchcock/Stewart
46. Coen Bros/Buscemi
47. Dolan/Dorval
48. Fellini/Masina
49. Lynch/Dern
50. Jarmusch/Tom Waits
(Bonus!)
51. Del Toro/Jones

Please don't tally yet... have to comb through some lists...

Found it surprisingly easy though. Only had about 60 favourite partnerships in the air, and figure these are the best.
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[badseed]

[badseed]

Actually I went ahead and knocked it out. While I've got a lot of similarities to the previous lists I think this may be surprising..

R. W. Fassbinder & H. Schygulla
J. Von Sternberg & M. Dietrich
W. Herzog & K. Kinski
L. Von Trier & C. Gainsbourgh
J. Cassavetes & G. Rowlands
A. Kurosawa & T. Mifune
J. Godard & A. Karina
I. Bergman & M. Von Sydow
T. Fischer & C. Lee
T. Fischer & P. Cushing

M. Antonioni & M. Vitti
I. Bergman & B. Andersson
M. Scorsese & R. De Niro
E. Kazan & M. Brando
Y. Ozu & C. Ryu
Q. Tarantino & S. L. Jackson
J. Carpenter & K. Russell
I. Bergman & G. Bjornstrand
A. Hitchcock & J. Stewart
B. Wilder & J. Lemmon

M. Scorsese & L. DiCaprio
A. Tarkovsky & A. Solonitsyn
I. Bergman & L. Ullman
A. Mann & J. Stewart
W. Allen & D. Keaton
D.W. Griffith & L. Gish
A. Kurosawa & T. Shimura
I. Bergman & E. Josephson
J. Ford & J. Wayne
S. McQueen & M. Fassbinder

R. Coogler & M. B. Jordan
R. Rossellini & I. Bergman
J. Huston & H. Bogart
D. Lean & A. Guinness
Y. Ozu & S. Hara
F. Truffaut & J. Léaud
W. Allen & M. Farrow
O. Welles & J. Cotten
M. Kobayashi & T. Nakadai
J. Jarmusch & T. Waits

I. Bergman & H. Andersson
S. Leone & C. Eastwood
R. Corman & V. Price
J. Ford & W. Bond
F. Fellini & G. Masina
R. Linklater & E. Hawke
S. Kramer & S. Tracy
D. Siegel & C. Eastwood
I. Bergman & I. Thulin
J. Ford & H. Fonda

[PurpleHazel]

[badseed]

Not gonna lie, after going through the lists I'm rather shocked some of my picks have only appeared on my list. No Herzog-Kinski or Kazan-Brando for anyone else? Weird.

[Hayden]

[Tha1ChiefRocka]

Did anybody put Carl Reiner and Steve Martin? They did 4 movies together.

[PurpleHazel]