Best Ever Directors [Poll][Deadline July 23rd] - Games

Hayden

Location: CDMX

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Hello everyone. Welcome to something slightly new. BEA is going to compile a list of what we think are the greatest directors of all time Smile

The format will be very similar to our decade polls, but there will be some slight adjustments.

The gist/ rules:

BEA's composes a list of our favourite directors Smile

All directors who have at least 1 directing credit on IMDB are eligible.

All lists will be PMed to me, maxing out at 100. The final list will be 100 directors. This time around, I'll be accepting lists of any denotation up to 100. The size of your list determines it's weight.

Lists will not be accepted in IMDb and Letterboxd format this time around. This is primarily because I don't want people making a list of films, and I have to tally up the corresponding director. Hope that isn't too much of a pain on you guys. Deadline will be mid-July, two months away.

Some small notes:
The Coen Brothers will be counted as 1 director.
The Dardenne Brothers will be counted as 1 director.
Actors that have directed films are eligible.
All directors dead or alive are eligible.
Directors who only made shorts are eligible.
Films are not eligible.
The new Radiohead album is not eligible.

Last edited by Hayden on 07/15/2016 17:53; edited 2 times in total

nutso42

Just want to get an early start pushing Shane Carruth and Terry Gilliam.

My approximate top 10 will probably be something like...

1. Luis Buñuel
2. Akira Kurosawa
3. Fritz Lang
4. Andrei Tarkovsky
5. Ingmar Bergman
6. Orson Welles
7. Shane Carruth
8. Alfred Hitchcock
9. Billy Wilder
10. Terry Gilliam
11. A Moon Shaped Pool

Hayden

Location: CDMX

Working on my top 100 (think I have everyone I want to include, just working on the order).

My top 50 will more or less be this:

1. Jean-Luc Godard
2. Wes Anderson
3. Quentin Tarantino
4. Hayao Miyazaki
5. Coen Brothers
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Charlie Chaplin
8. Woody Allen
9. Andrei Tarkovsky
10. Richard Linklater
11. Federico Fellini
12. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
13. Paul Thomas Anderson
14. Jim Jarmusch
15. Ingmar Bergman
16. Brad Bird
17. Xavier Dolan
18. David Fincher
19. Louis Malle
20. Bernardo Bertolucci
21. Wong Kar-wai
22. Martin Scorsese
23. Terrence Malick
24. Lars von Trier
25. Asghar Farhadi
26. Alejandro Jodorowsky
27. Michelangelo Antonioni
28. Roman Polanski
29. Alfonso Cuarón
30. Charlie Kaufman
31. Pete Docter
32. Darren Aronofsky
33. David Lynch
34. Billy Wilder
35. Abbas Kiarostami
36. Agnès Varda
37. Dardenne brothers
38. Mike Leigh
39. Alfred Hitchcock
40. Steven Spielberg
41. François Truffaut
42. Michael Moore
43. Max Ophüls
44. Andrew Stanton
45. Todd Haynes
46. Luis Buñuel
47. Tim Burton
48. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
49. Spike Jonze
50. Naomi Kawase

51. Michael Haneke
52. Jacques Tati
53. Akira Kurosawa
54. Wim Wenders
55. Alejandro González Iñárritu
56. John Lasseter
57. Sergio Leone
58. Fritz Lang
59. Miloš Forman
60. Emir Kusturica
61. Jean Renoir
62. Rob Reiner
63. Nicolas Winding Refn
64. Paolo Sorrentino
65. Krzysztof Kieślowski
66. Isao Takahata
67. Christopher Nolan
68. René Clément
69. Pier Paolo Pasolini
70. Yorgos Lanthimos
71. Ron Fricke
72. Alain Resnais
73. Jia Zhangke
74. Jacques Audiard
75. Miranda July
76. Gasper Noe
77. Jacques Demy
78. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
79. Ang Lee
80. Hal Ashby
81. Bela Tarr
82. Giuseppe Tornatore
83. Pedro Almodóvar
84. Guillermo del Toro
85. Sidney Lumet
86. Hou Hsiao-hsien
87. David Lean
88. Roy Andersson
89. Steve McQueen
90. Philippe Garrel
91. Alexander Payne
92. Noah Baumbach
93. Robert Bresson
94. Denis Villeneuve
95. Céline Sciamma
96. Sofia Coppola
97. Nicolas Roeg
98. Grigoriy Chukhray
99. Steven Soderbergh
100. Jean-Pierre Melville
Ish.

But there's no rush. Plenty of time Smile

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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3

Gender: Female
Age: 30
Location: Chicago

Okay, I just updated a version of my list. It could easily change in the next two months, but I think this is mostly what my top 100 will look like.
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Cubbieri...directors/

badseed

Gender: Male
Age: 35
Location: FL

What about Powell and Pressburger? I plan on listing them together but don't know if Powell is also eligible alone or what. So how's that work?

And FYI IMDb lists can contain people as well, not just films.

I've got a top 50 but its at the house. I'll post it shortly.

Hayden

Location: CDMX

badseed wrote:

What about Powell and Pressburger? I plan on listing them together but don't know if Powell is also eligible alone or what. So how's that work?

And FYI IMDb lists can contain people as well, not just films.

Interesting question about Powell & Pressburger. Off the top of my head, I'm going to say count them as 1, but I have to look into their filmographies a bit more. I think it's fair to say that their big films were a joint effort.

And that's true, I should have mentioned that. I primarily just didn't want people to send me a list containing 100 films representing the directors.

badseed

Gender: Male
Age: 35
Location: FL

Hayden wrote:

badseed wrote:

What about Powell and Pressburger? I plan on listing them together but don't know if Powell is also eligible alone or what. So how's that work?

And FYI IMDb lists can contain people as well, not just films.

Interesting question about Powell & Pressburger. Off the top of my head, I'm going to say count them as 1, but I have to look into their filmographies a bit more. I think it's fair to say that their big films were a joint effort.

For the most part yes, but Powell did have Peeping Tom, and the majority of people who have only seen one have seen that one (although their 40s output is amazing and highly regarded). Most sites I've seen list them together, while a few of them list the duo rather high and Powell alone further down. I couldn't vote for him twice, I just didn't know if you were planning on counting votes separately depending on how they're submitted. I'd totally recommend just keeping the pair together for the sake of getting more names on the list (assuming they make it - I haven't seen them on any of the early lists but it's gotta be a fluke. They're in my top 30).

Which brings me to a point I've been meaning to bring up to everyone. Don't let the fact that we haven't done pre-50s decade lists yet let anyone forget about the guys that peaked before then. The best works of the aforementioned duo, along with the likes of Jean Renoir, Fritz Lang, Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, William Wyler, Preston Sturges, Charlie Chaplin, FW Murnau, Carl Dreyer, Sergei Eisenstein, and even David Lean (Brief Encounter>Lawrence of Arabia) haven't been analyzed and listed by us as of yet.

badseed

Gender: Male
Age: 35
Location: FL

This is my current unofficial top 50. Kind of hard to describe how and why they're ranked in the order they are. Combination of technique, style, acting performances, quality of films, quantity of films I enjoy, and personal favoritism in general I guess.

1. Ingmar Bergman
2. Jean-Luc Godard
3. Andrei Tarkovsky
4. Luis Bunuel
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. Yasujiro Ozu
7. Lars von Trier
8. Akira Kurosawa
9. Terrence Malick
10. Robert Bresson

11. Charles Chaplin
12. Carl Theodor Dreyer
13. Satyajit Ray
14. Pier Paolo Pasolini
15. David Lynch
16. Stanley Kubrick
17. Alain Resnais
18. Federico Fellini
19. Fritz Lang
20. Orson Welles

21. Michelangelo Antonioni
22. Roman Polanski
23. Jean Renoir
24. Kenji Mizoguchi
25. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
26. Robert Altman
27. Sergio Leone
28. Howard Hawks
29. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
30. David Lean

31. Billy Wilder
32. Francois Truffaut
33. Martin Scorsese
34. Ernst Lubitsch
35. Masaki Kobayashi
36. John Ford
37. Steven Spielberg
38. Krzysztof Kieslowski
39. Preston Sturges
40. John Cassavetes

41. Vittorio De Sica
42. Jean-Pierre Melville
43. Wim Wenders
44. Paul Thomas Anderson
45. Elia Kazan
46. Sidney Lumet
47. Joel & Ethan Coen
48. Werner Herzog
49. Michael Haneke
50. Quentin Tarantino

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Mercury
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Gender: Male
Location: St. Louis

No love for fucking Steven Spielberg, wtf!?

Edit: except some love from Hayden.

But come on the dude made a dozen or so masterpieces. Total classics.
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badseed

Gender: Male
Age: 35
Location: FL

Mercury wrote:

No love for fucking Steven Spielberg, wtf!?

Edit: except some love from Hayden.

But come on the dude made a dozen or so masterpieces. Total classics.

Wtf yo I have him higher than Hayden.