Search found 7 matches: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

(scores above 70) (italics=5+ films. inc. shorts)

Lynne Ramsay
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Wes Anderson
Masaaki Yuasa
Hirokazu Koreeda
Luca Guadagnino
Chan-wook Park
Kelly Reichardt
Semih Kaplanoglu
Andrea Arnold


(TV) Shinichirô Watanabe

pre - prolly still closer to my heart 8 years later. I'd add Sofia Coppola (if i'm adding her, i may as well add vincent gallo).

if you averaged only the top 3 films, these chaps would be in:

Shane Meadows
Satoshi Kon (inc. Paranoia Agent)
Ben Wheatley
Paul Thomas Anderson

Director avg tier films
Kenji Kamiyama 76.67 3
Asghar Farhadi 75.80 5
Bruce Sinofsky 74.75 4
Tony Kaye 74.67 3
Steve McQueen 74.00 3
Ágnes Hranitzky 73.67 3
Cristian Mungiu 73.33 3
Chang-dong Lee 71.75 4
Steve James 71.75 4
Sylvain Chomet 71.67 3
Philippe Grandrieux 71.00 3
Andrei Zvyagintsev 71.00 3
Jeff Nichols 70.67 3
Jaco van Dormael 70.33 3
Jacques Audiard 70.25 4
Apichatpong Weerasethakul 70.14 7
Lee Unkrich 69.75 4
Leos Carax 69.17 6
Don Hertzfeldt 69.08 12
Tetsuya Nakashima 69.00 3
Jafar Panahi 68.67 6
Bennett Miller 68.33 3
Zhang Ke Jia 68.29 7
Christopher Nolan 68.00 9
Denis Villeneuve 68.00 5
Kazuya Tsurumaki 68.00 5
Laurent Cantet 67.75 4
György Pálfi 67.67 3
Mahiro Maeda 67.67 3
Nuri Bilge Ceylan 67.50 8
Lynne Ramsay 67.50 4
Jean-Marc Vallée 67.50 4
Joon-ho Bong 67.17 6
Chan-wook Park 67.11 9
Jehane Noujaim 67.00 3
Paolo Sorrentino 66.75 4
Anders Thomas Jensen 66.75 4
Jae-young Kwak 66.67 3
Thomas McCarthy 66.67 3
Julian Schnabel 66.67 3

Kenji Kamiyama
Asghar Farhadi
Tony Kaye
Cristian Mungiu
José Padilha
Steve James
Sylvain Chomet
Chang-dong Lee
Bruce Sinofsky
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Masayuki
Don Hertzfeldt
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Darren Aronofsky
Lee Unkrich
Lynne Ramsay
Chan-wook Park
Zhang Ke Jia
Martin McDonagh
Hideaki Anno
Jafar Panahi
Christopher Nolan
Joon-ho Bong
Reha Erdem
Tetsuya Nakashima
(according to criticker users' average ratings; all genres combined)

Lynne Ramsay - 8 (3 films)
Spike Jonze - 8 (3 films)
Wes Anderson - 7.86 (7 films)
Gaspar Noé - 7.75 (3 films)
Paul Thomas Anderson - 7.75 (4 films) [will most likely decrease on a re-watch of Magnolia]
David Gordon Green - 7.6 (5 films)
Satoshi Kon - 7.25 (4 films)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 7 (3 films)
Noah Baumbach - 7 (4 films)
Alexander Payne - 7 (3 films)

runner-ups:
james gray, dardenne brothers, zhang ke jia, shane meadows, nicolas winding refn, makota shinkai, apichatpong weerasethakul

I don't really have enough rankings, but:
1. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (80)
2. someone named Shannon Hartman (74.33)
3. Zhang Ke Jia (73.75)
4. P. T. Anderson (73.33)
5. Louis C.K., who says "you're welcome, Ms. Hartman!" (71.67)
6. Christopher Nolan (67)
7. Joon-ho Bong (64.67)
8. Chan-Wook Park (60.5)
9. Takashi Miike (53)
10. Wes Anderson, thankfully knocking out the Farrellys (50.75)

1. Paul Thomas Anderson - 69.50 (4)
2. Apichatpong Weerasethakul - 69.00 (4)
3. Wes Anderson - 61.60 (5)
4. Tomas Alfredson - 58.33 (3)
5. Christopher Nolan - 56.15 (6)
6. Darren Aronofsky - 49.60 (5)
7. Gaspar Noé - 56.67 (3)
8. Brad Bird - 45.00 (4)
9. Guy Ritchie - 36.67 (3)
10. Andy and Lana Wachowski - 35.67 (3)

There's so much wrong with that list... God... clearly Weerasethakul is the best director of of those and I feel ashamed not to have higher scores for more people.

Oh, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Must see Tropical Malady.