Filmmakers : Top 5 Favorite Directors

[Derrick]

Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarentino
Woody Allen
Steven Spielberg
Sam Peckinpah

[kgbelliveau]

1.Martin Scorsese
2.David Fincher
3. Quentin Tarantino
4.Christopher Nolan
5.Terry Gilliam

Scorsese for me is the master of all film makers. His films are always good, no matter who he casts. His recent work with Dicaprio was able to turn Dicaprio from his Titanic image into oscar worthy in no matter what he does. David Fincher has had some bad films but because he is the director of the film I have seen the most "Fight Club" he gets the second spot on my list. I wrestled with the other three, Tarantino is a classic film maker, Nolan continues to amaze with his brilliance and Gilliam has had his fair share of criticism over the years and yet he still continues to make films as he sees fit.

[mariane.c]

1 .Francis Ford Coppola
2. Michael Mann
3. Brian de Palma
4. Michael Mann
5. Quentin Tarantino

HM:

José Padilha
Paul Greengrass
Oliver Stone

[FitFortDanga]

1 .Francis Ford Coppola
2. Michael Mann
3. Brian de Palma
4. Michael Mann
5. Quentin Tarantino

HM:

José Padilha
Paul Greengrass
Oliver Stone

So, you really like Michael Mann?

[Mr. Mxyzptlk]

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Yasujiro Ozu, Jacques Tati, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Robert Bresson, Alfred Hitchcock, Andrei Tarkovsky, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Kenji Mizoguchi, Fritz Lang, etc.

so many

[MaxS]

1. Béla Tarr
2. Ingmar Bergman
2. Jean-Luc Godard
2. Andrei Tarkovski
2. Federico Fellini
Picking my 5 all-time favorites is rather easy, even though it hurts to leave some people out who have done many great movies those 5 have done more great movies than my other favorites. Putting them in order is impossible, though, so they're even.

[oskarhu]

1.Luis Buñuel
2.Stanley Kubrick
3.Alfred Hitchcock
4.Jim Jarmusch
5.David Lynch

The rest of top 10:
6.Martin Scorsese
7.Ethan/Joel Coen
8.Ingmar Bergman
9.Federico Fellini
10.Billy Wilder


next 10: Woody Allen, Jean-Luc Godard , Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polanski, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Quentin Tarantino, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Aki Kaurismäki (no order)

[-BigEvil-]

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Akira Kurosawa
3. Francois Truffaut
4. Martin Scorsese
5. Billy Wilder

Revised:

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Akira Kurosawa
3. Werner Herzog
4. Orson Welles
5. Billy Wilder

Honorable mentions: Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, F.W. Murnau, Coen Brothers, Masaki Kobayashi, Woody Allen, and Buster Keaton.

[OMGFridge]

Only have 3 definite choices at the moment.

Werner Herzog
Stanley Kubrick
Terrence Malick

Honorable Mentions; Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Orson Welles, Joel & Ethan Coen

Have only recently watched two Ingmar Bergman films and they are both utterly brilliant, so once I see a few more, I expect him to crash into my top 5 (well er 3 at the moment). Same goes with Andrei Tarkovsky.

[spring]

They are as following :-
1. Ingmar Bergman

2. Akira Kurosawa

3. Stanley Kubrick

4. Alfred Hitchcock

5. Ritwik Ghatak