Top 10 Greatest directors!!

Carrying on in the theme.Let's see who your greatest Directors are................Here are mine..

1. Steven Spielberg
2. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Howard Hawks
3. John Huston
4. Dario Argento
5. Martin scorsese
6. John Carpenter
7. Ridley Scott
8. Sergio Leone
9. John Ford
10. Adrian Lynne/James Cameron

Just my list.................

I am surely going to pick some people who will get berated but its how I see it!

Not in any particular order:

Spielberg
John Carpenter (at his late 70's/ early 80s height)
Tony Scott (better than his brother)
Robert Zemeckis
Joe Dante
Baz Luhrman
Brian DePalma
Hitchcock
Frank Capra
Tim Burton

I also really like Zach Snyders work so far - think he could be a future great

Brian depalma is a very good choice....The old taciturn one did Dressed to kill and scarface and probably belongs on my list....

However sold out a little for me and became lazy..

Quentin was another consideration..

This is tough but here goes:

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Martin Scorcese
3. Paul Thomas Anderson
4. Michael Powell
5. Segio Leone
6. Francis Ford Coppola
7. John Carpenter
8. David Fincher
9. Michael Mann
10. Howard Hawks/Charles Laughton (only directed one film, "Night of the Hunter", but what a film).

1 milos forman
2 joel coen
3 john ford
4 fw murnau
5 sergio leone
6 jean-luc godard
7 lasse hallstrom
8 stanley kubrick
9 harmony korine
10 clint eastwood

haven't seen enough of their films to form a proper opinion but kurasawa & fellini would probably be on the list if I had

John Woo

Hard boiled ,a better tomorrow etc.

For some reason I thought the thread title read greatest action directors. Apologies for that.

Martin Scorcese is number 1 for me because he made Goodfellas a great movie that I have seen a thousand times and never get bored with it.

Need to think about a full list but I would definitely have Richard Donner in there.

Superman
The Omen
Goonies
Lethal Weapon
Scrooged

In no particular order:

Martin Scorcese
David Lean
Alan Parker
Peter Weir
Ridley Scott (early stuff at least)
Stanley Kubrick
Spielberg
Coen brothers
Michael Powell
Hitchcock

In no particular order:

Orson Welles
Martin Scorsese
Michael Curtiz
Akira Kurosawa
Howard Hawks
David Lean
Costa-Gavras
John Ford
Billy Wilder
George Roy Hill

Its funny that when lists about actors, films or directors come up, the same names appear. But more contempory directors dont get any credit.

For example, David Lean is an incredible film maker (Speilbergs favourite I think) but if I had a choice of a David Lean marathon or a Tony Scott one, I would be heading into the Danger zone as we speak!

What was the last film that made you marvel at the wonders of film?

Mine was Baz Luhrmans Moulin Rouge which reminded me how good film can be as a spectacle. I was completely lost in the music and visuals - when I left it was the first time in years where I felt that films were almost magical. That seems a bit crap when written out but hopefully you will know what I kind of mean (if not with that film)