10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

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Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

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Last update (2018):
Spoiler!
Moribunny wrote:
Tue Dec 08, 2015 11:12 pm
2018 Update -- some major changes:

1. Radu Jude - 89.40 (5)
2. Asghar Farhadi - 87.83 (6)
3. Sylvain Chomet - 80.33 (3)
4. Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 79.29 (7)
5. Lynne Ramsay - 78.14 (7)
6. Calvin Reeder - 77.00 (4)
7. Andrey Zvyagintsev - 76.67 (6)
8. J.C. Chandor - 76.33 (3)
9. Cristian Mungiu - 75.50 (6)
10. Ben & Josh Safdie - 74.67 (3)
11. Jacques Audiard - 74.40 (5)
12. Lucrecia Martel - 74.33 (3)
13. Jafar Panahi - 72.88 (8)
14. Larry Clark - 72.50 (4)
15. Harmony Korine - 72.33 (6)

Came close: Wen Jiang, Shane Meadows, Oren Moverman, Andrew Bujalski, Steve James

2020:

1. Radu Jude - 87.67 (6)
2. Asghar Farhadi - 86.43 (7)
3. Sylvain Chomet - 81.00 (3)
4. Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 80.00 (8)
5. Lucretia Martel - 79.50 (4)
6. Lynne Ramsay - 79.00 (8)
7. Nina Paley - 78.00 (3)
8. Andrey Zvyagintsev - 77.83 (6)
9. Matteo Garrone - 76.33 (3)
10. Cristian Mungiu - 75.50 (6)
11. Jacques Audiard - 74.50 (6)
12. Josh & Ben Safdie - 74.40 (5)
13. Jafar Panahi - 73.44 (9)
14. Harmony Korine - 73.14 (7)
15. Andrew Bujalski - 72.33 (6)
16. J.C. Chandor - 71.75 (4)
17. Jiang Wen - 71.67 (3)
18. Shane Meadows - 71.14 (7)
19. Oren Moverman - 71.00 (3)
20. Steve James - 70.33 (3)

Runners up: Larry Charles, Larry Clark, Matthias Glasner, Calvin Reeder, Joseph Cedar, S. Craig Zahler

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Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

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(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
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Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

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Kenneth Lonergan - 8.33 (3 films)
Lukas Moodysson - 7.33 (3)
Hirokazu Koreeda - 7.09 (11)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 7.00 (3)
Jafar Panahi - 7.00 (3)
Bong Joon-Ho - 6.86 (7)
Lynne Ramsay - 6.80 (5)
=Steve McQueen - 6.75 (4)
=Shane Meadows - 6.75 (4)
=John Crowley - 6.67 (3)
=Andrew Haigh - 6.67 (3)
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Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

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Solondz and the Dardennes may have disowned their early features, but they still started well before 1994.

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Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

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iconogassed wrote:
Mon Jun 29, 2020 3:23 am
Solondz and the Dardennes may have disowned their early features, but they still started well before 1994.
Thanks for the catch - with Solondz especially I have always believed that Welcome to the Dollhouse was his debut... edited above.

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Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

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1. Joon-ho Bong___________88.00 (5)
2. S. Craig Zahler__________83.33 (3)
3. Lee Unkrich____________81.67 (3)
4. John Lasseter___________81.67 (3)
5. Rian Johnson___________80.00 (3)
6. Christopher Nolan_______78.75 (8)
7. Christopher McQuarrie___78.75 (4)
8. James Gray____________78.33 (3)
9. Brad Bird______________76.67 (3)
10. Spike Jonze___________76.25 (4)
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Ji-woon Kim__________ 76.00 (5)
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Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

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Removing shorts from the calculations...

1 Harmony Korine (90.00 / 5)
2 Oren Moverman (86.67 / 3)
3 Bruno Dumont (86.25 / 4)
3 Lukas Moodysson (86.25 / 4)
5 Whit Stillman (86.00 / 5)
6 Paul Thomas Anderson (85.63 / 8)
7 Kenneth Lonergan (85.00 /3)
8 James Gray (83.33 / 6)
9 Andrew Bujalski (81.67 / 6)
9 Adrienne Shelly (81.67 / 3)

Hon. mention to Ray McKinnon @ 85 / 3, which includes the 40-minute The Accountant (2001) which has more and better ideas than most features (and his score would be even higher if you were to include his television show Rectify).

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Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

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I decided to start from 1995 instead so that it's a nice even 25 years.

1. John Lasseter - 89.33 (3)
2. Lee Unkrich - 87.40 (5)
3. Sam Mendes - 87.00 (3)
4. Christopher Nolan - 86.50 (6)
5. Pete Docter - 85.33 (3)

6. Andrew Stanton - 85.25 (4)
7. Bong Joon-Ho - 82.00 (3)
8. Phil Lord & Chris Miller - 80.33 (3)
9. Wes Anderson - 79.57 (7)
10= Sofia Coppola - 79.33 (3)
10= Rich Moore - 79.33 (3)

Animation seems to dominate the list, which surprised me.

Hon. Mentions to: Edgar Wright and Taika Waititi (who both barely didn't make the cut,) as well as Joss Whedon, if his TV work was included he would come in at #8 with an 80.83, but films only leave him pretty far out of the top 10.

Update June 2021:

I'm staying with the 25-year requirement, so moving the year of first feature film up to 1996.

1. Lee Unkrich - 87.4 (5)
2. Sam Mendes - 87.0 (3)
3. Andrew Stanton - 85.3 (4)
4. Pete Docter - 84.00 (4)
5. Christopher Nolan - 84.7 (7)

6. Denis Villeneuve - 83.0 (3)
7. Bong Joon-Ho - 82.0 (3)
8. Phil Lord & Chris Miller - 80.3 (3)
9. Wes Anderson - 79.6 (7)
10= Sofia Coppola - 79.3 (3)
10= Rich Moore - 79.3 (3)
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Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

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Yorgos Lanthimos 79
Jessica Hausner 76
Fernando León de Aranoa 73
Steve McQueen 73
Rúnar Rúnarsson 71
Cédric Klapisch 69
Reha Erdem 69
Bahman Ghobadi 68
Joon-ho Bong 68
Alejandro Amenábar 66

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