10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

Discuss your favorite actors, directors or screenwriters
Moribunny
Posts: 118
5505 Ratings
Your TCI: na
Joined: Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:48 pm

10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

Post by Moribunny »

Rules:
- Made their feature-length debut 1994 or after (I'm not including purely short film makers).
- 3 film minimum (because some of them will not have done a lot yet).

Here are mine [quick edit :D ]:

1. Lynne Ramsay - 79.2 (5)
2. Cristian Mungiu - 78.25 (4)
3. Sylvain Chomet - 77.62 (3)
4. Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 75.25 (4)
5. Andrew Bujalski - 74.33 (3)
6. Jafar Panahi - 73.67 (3)
7. Shane Meadows - 72.17 (6)
8. Wen Jiang - 71.57 (3)
9. James Gray - 71.5 (4)
10. Joseph Cedar, 67 (3), Aaron Katz - 67 (3) (tied)

Runners up: Jaume Balaguero, Adam Elliott, Dover Koshashvili

Why 1994? Because 1995 would have been just as arbitrary, I sought to include Gray and Jiang, and I make the rules.

6/2014 - following drastic changes, my up-to-date list is on the second page of this thread
Last edited by Moribunny on Mon Jun 23, 2014 12:08 pm, edited 3 times in total.

paulofilmo
Posts: 2586
2428 Ratings
Your TCI: na
Joined: Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:40 pm

Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

Post by paulofilmo »

Throwing out some names (I think) adhering to 1994. Ordered by instinct.

Lynne Ramsay
Carlos Reygadas
Shane Meadows
Duane Hopkins
Wes Anderson
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Hirokazu Koreeda
Chan-wook Park

Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights is on C4, the 29th (UK). Enjoyed FT & RR.
Last edited by paulofilmo on Sat Dec 29, 2012 1:29 am, edited 1 time in total.

paulofilmo
Posts: 2586
2428 Ratings
Your TCI: na
Joined: Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:40 pm

Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

Post by paulofilmo »

Oh, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Must see Tropical Malady.

Svengali
Posts: 66
1540 Ratings
Your TCI: na
Joined: Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:56 pm

Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

Post by Svengali »

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.

3dRevelation
Posts: 515
1164 Ratings
Your TCI: na
Joined: Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:46 am

Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

Post by 3dRevelation »

Let's see:
1. Darren Aronofsky 88.2 (5 films)
2. Christopher Nolan 86.38 (8 films)
3. Paul Thomas Anderson 86.17 (6 films)
4. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 82.50 (4 films)
5. Richard Kelly 77.33 (3 films)
6. George Clooney 77.33 (3 films)
7. Gore Verbinski 75.75 (4 films)
8. Sam Mendes 75.33 (3 films)
9. Wes Anderson 74.33 (3 films)
10. Danny Boyle 74.2 (5 films)

Not the greatest list. I do consider my top 3 though to be among my favorite working directors.

snallygaster
Posts: 560
1646 Ratings
Your TCI: na
Joined: Sat Oct 09, 2010 6:15 pm

Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

Post by snallygaster »

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)

djross
Posts: 1212
5318 Ratings
Your TCI: na
Joined: Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:56 am

Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

Post by djross »

x
Last edited by djross on Thu Jul 20, 2023 9:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.

toro913
Posts: 31
8185 Ratings
Your TCI: na
Joined: Mon Dec 15, 2008 3:05 am

Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

Post by toro913 »

1. Spike Jonze
2. Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Wes Anderson
4. Sofia Coppola
5. Noah Baumbach
6. Rian Johnson
7. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennne
8. Bong Joon-Ho
9. Kim Ki-Duk
10. Michael Winterbottom

JooJoo
Posts: 523
6022 Ratings
Your TCI: na
Joined: Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:37 am

Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

Post by JooJoo »

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
Last edited by JooJoo on Sun Jan 06, 2013 2:12 pm, edited 2 times in total.

martryn
Posts: 228
1993 Ratings
Your TCI: na
Joined: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:04 pm

Re: 10 highest scoring new/contemporary directors

Post by martryn »

1. Joss Whedon, 3 films (88.67)
2. Christopher Nolan, 7 films (86.57)
3. Edgar Wright, 3 films (86.33)
4. Brad Bird, 3 films (85.00)
5. Danny Boyle, 3 films (84.33)
6. Darren Aronofsky, 4 films (84.25)
7. Guy Ritchie, 5 films (82.8)
8. Matthew Vaughn, 4 films (81.5)
9. Doug Liman, 4 films (80)
10. Marc Forster, 5 films (79.8)

Little bit ashamed of some of those rankings.

Post Reply