Favorite Film Directors of All Time???

[bobbyb5]

Here's my favorites:

Robert Altman
Bernardo Bertolucci
Brian DiPalma
John Slessinger
Roman Polanski
Stanley Kubrick
Alan Pakula
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Luis Bunuel
Bob Fosse
Joseph Losey
Ingmar Bergman

[AfterHours]

Not totally sure of the order, but my top 25 would go approximately like this...

1. Orson Welles
2. Andrei Tarkovsky
3. Ingmar Bergman
4. Fritz Lang
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. Theo Angelopoulos
7. David Lynch
8. Lars Von Trier
9. Akira Kurosawa
10. Sam Peckinpah
11. Bela Tarr
12. Federico Fellini
13. Luis Bunuel
14. Stanley Kubrick
15. Charlie Chaplin
16. Martin Scorsese
17. Billy Wilder
18. Roman Polanski
19. Francis Ford Coppola
20. Carl Theodor Dreyer
21. Robert Altman
22. Howard Hawks
23. Terry Gilliam
24. Emir Kusturica
25. Michelangelo Antonioni
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[Mercury]

My tops are these, somewhat in order:

1. Satyajit Ray
2. Billy Wilder
3. Powell & Pressburger
4. Richard Linklater
5. Steven Spielberg
6. Akira Kurosawa
7. Ingmar Bergman
8. Buster Keaton
9. Robert Altman
10. K. Kieslowski
11. Frank Capra
12. Jean Renoir
13. Woody Allen
14. Christopher Nolan
15. Charlie Chaplin
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[Kool Keith Sweat]

Sam Peckinpah
Terrence Malick
Masahiro Shinoda
Akire Kurosawa
Wim Wenders
Francis Ford Coppola
Martin Scorsese
Paul Thomas Anderson
Christopher Nolan
David Lynch

[hereforashortime]

1. Scorsese
2. Hitchcock
3. Coen Brothers
4. Spielberg
5. Tarantino
6. Christopher Nolan
7. David Fincher
8. Miyazaki
9. Chaplin
10. Wes Anderson
11. Edgar Wright
12. Kubrick
13. Tim Burton
14. Frank Capra
15. Linklater
16. Francis Ford Coppola
17. Woody Allen
18. Milos Forman
19. Mel Brooks
20. Robert Zemeckis

Everything is pretty loosely ranked but this is about right
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[CA Dreamin]

Dude we've already done this:

https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...hp?t=14491
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[Hayden]

[bobbyb5]

Wow, you guys are way cooler than me. Many of these directors I've never seen any films they did. I recognize the names but never seen any of their films. I guess I'm gonna have to.

[9999]

Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Ingmar Bergman

Those are definitely my top 3, but I couldn't rank them properly. The rest of my top 10, in no particular order, would be:

Andrei Tarkovsky
Kenji Mizoguchi
Woody Allen
Quentin Tarantino
Billy Wilder
David Lynch
Martin Scorsese

[badseed]

This was the list I submitted for that poll. I still mostly stand by it. Would probably raise/add some horror filmmakers but that's about it.

1. Charles Chaplin (City Lights)
2. Ingmar Bergman (Persona)
3. Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo)
4. Luis Bunuel (Un Chien Andalou)
5. Jean-Luc Godard (Vivre Sa Vie)
6. Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker)
7. Carl Theodor Dreyer (The Passion of Joan of Arc)
8. Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story)
9. Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai)
10. Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves)

11. Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)
12. Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salo)
13. Jean Renoir (Grand Illusion)
14. Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey)
15. Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul)
16. Robert Bresson (Au Hasard Balthazar)
17. Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita)
18. Fritz Lang (M)
19. Satyajit Ray (Pather Panchali)
20. David Lynch (Blue Velvet)

21. David Lean (Brief Encounter)
22. Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
23. Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard)
24. Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu)
25. Steven Spielberg (Jaws)
26. Roman Polanski (Rosemary's Baby)
27. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (Black Narcissus)
28. Howard Hawks (His Girl Friday)
29. Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura)
30. Robert Altman (Short Cuts)

31. Terence Malick (Days of Heaven)
32. Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad)
33. John Ford (The Searchers)
34. Vittorio De Sica (Bicycle Thieves)
35. Krzysztof Kieslowski (Red)
36. Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows)
37. Werner Herzog (Agguire: The Wrath of God)
38. Woody Allen (Annie Hall)
39. Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull)
40. Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke)

41. Joel & Ethan Coen (Fargo)
42. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Part II)
43. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
44. Masaki Kobayashi (Harakiri)
45. Wong Kar-Wai (In the Mood for Love)
46. Ernst Lubitsch (Trouble in Paradise)
47. Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Samourai)
48. John Cassavetes (A Woman Under the Influence)
49. Abbas Kiarostami (Close-Up)
50. Sidney Lumet (Network)

51. Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront)
52. Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire)
53. Frank Capra (It Happened One Night)
54. Clint Eastwood (Mystic River)
55. Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels)
56. Sergei M. Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin)
57. Mario Bava (Black Sunday)
58. FW Murnau (Sunrise)
59. Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude)
60. Eric von Stroheim (Greed)

61. William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives)
62. Michael Haneke (Cache)
63. John Huston (The Maltese Falcon)
64. George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story)
65. Max Ophuls (The Earrings of Madame de...)
66. DW Griffith (Intolerance)
67. Mike Nichols (The Graduate)
68. Dario Argento (Tenebre)
69. Buster Keaton (The General)
70. Terry Gilliam (Brazil)

71. Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies)
72. Bernardo Bertolucci (The Dreamers)
73. Nicholas Ray (In a Lonely Place)
74. Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch)
75. Jacques Tati (Playtime)
76. Agnes Varda (Cleo from 5 to 7)
77. Michael Curtiz (Casablanca)
78. Jean Vigo (L'Atalante)
79. Chris Marker (La Jetee)
80. Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Wages of Fear)

81. King Vidor (The Big Parade)
82. Roberto Rossellini (Rome: Open City)
83. Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise)
84. Richard Linklater (Before Sunset)
85. Jacques Demy (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
86. Eric Rohmer (My Night at Maud's)
87. Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles)
88. Andrzej Wajda (Ashes and Diamonds)
89. Edward Yang (Yi Yi)
90. Carol Reed (The Third Man)

91. Otto Preminger (Anatomy of a Murder)
92. Marcel Carne (Children of Paradise)
93. Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
94. Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern)
95. Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
96. Luchino Visconti (The Leopard)
97. Vincente Minnelli (The Bad and the Beautiful)
98. Josef von Sternberg (The Scarlet Empress)
99. Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress)
100. Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom)