Greatest: The 100 Greatest Directors of all Time (TOP 40)
Submitted by 1922 on Fri, 01/28/2005 - 12:10
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- 01. Spoiler: Highlight to viewDavid Lean
- 02. Spoiler: Highlight to viewAlfred Hitchcock
- 03. Spoiler: Highlight to viewStanley Kubrick
- 04. Spoiler: Highlight to viewBilly Wilder
- 05. Spoiler: Highlight to viewSteven Spielberg
- 06. Ingmar Bergman
- 07. Elia Kazan
- 08. Martin Scorsese
- 09. Akira Kurosawa
- 10. William Wyler
- 11. Fred Zinnemann
- 12. Orson Welles
- 13. Roman Polanski
- 14. Robert Bresson
- 15. Peter Jackson
- 16. Milos Forman
- 17. Federico Fellini
- 18. Woody Allen
- 19. Robert Wise
- 20. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 21. John Ford
- 22. Frank Capra
- 23. Luis Buñuel
- 24. Alain Resnais
- 25. Jean Renoir
- 26. Eric Rohmer
- 27. Robert Altman
- 28. Andrej Tarkovsky
- 29. Michelangelo Antonioni
- 30. John Huston
- 31. Mike Leigh
- 32. Tim Burton
- 33. Francis Ford Coppola
- 34. Satyajit Ray
- 35. David Lynch
- 36. Werner Herzog
- 37. François Truffaut
- 38. Joel Coen
- 39. George Stevens
- 40. Sidney Lumet
- 41. George Roy Hill
- 42. Howard Hawks
- 43. Clint Eastwood
- 44. Terrence Malick
- 45. Ken Loach
- 46. Laurence Olivier
- 47. Sam Mendes
- 48. Ridley Scott
- 49. Andrzej Wajda
- 50. Quentin Tarantino
- 51. Emir Kusturica
- 52. Pedro Almodóvar
- 53. Wim Wender
- 54. Merian C. Cooper
- 55. Mike Nichols
- 56. Luchino Visconti
- 57. John Schlesinger
- 58. Henri-Georges Clouzot
- 59. Leo McCarey
- 60. Denys Arcand
- 61. Constantin Costa-Gavras
- 62. James Cameron
- 63. Marcel Carné
- 64. Baz Luhrmann
- 65. Kon Ichikawa
- 66. Spike Jonze
- 67. Rouben Mamoulian
- 68. Istvan Szabo
- 69. Louis Milestone
- 70. Jim Henson
- 71. Terry Gilliam
- 72. George Cukor
- 73. James L. Brooks
- 74. Jim Jarmusch
- 75. Zhang Yimou
- 76. Jean-Luc Godard
- 77. Cecil B. DeMille
- 78. Buster Keaton
- 79. Christopher Nolan
- 80. Sydney Pollack
- 81. Charles Chaplin
- 82. Arthur Penn
- 83. Louis Malle
- 84. Norman Jewison
- 85. Ang Lee
- 86. Oliver Stone
- 87. Peter Weir
- 88. Ethan Coen
- 89. Marcel Ophüls
- 90. Krzysztof Kieslowski
- 91. Steven Soderbergh
- 92. Sergei Eisenstein
- 93. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- 94. Jacques Tati
- 95. David Fincher
- 96. Michael Mann
- 97. Volker Schlöndorff
- 98. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- 99. Sergio Leone
- 100. Fritz Lang
Author Comments:
1. Please note that I had absolutely NO influence on this list.
2. Criteria/ Scale:
a) the awards they have got
b) the average quality of their films (according to imdb.com)
c) their influence in film business (according to an article from a German movie magazine)
d) their experience in film business.
For you:
1. Do you miss any directors? (actually it is not impossible that I have forgotten a director)
2. Surprised?
Cloned From:
How do you have no influence on this list? Are you merely using a calculator with a weighted rating system that incorporates awards, IMDB film ratings, and some kind of numerical appropriation for 'influence in the film business' and 'experience in film business'?
OK, some explanation here:
Concerning the 'influence': This wasn't probably quite clear. Actually the only influence I had on this list was by choosing the criteria.
The awards: Well, I only counted Academy Awards, Golden Globes and DG Awards.
Influence in the film business: Here I took an article from a German movie magazine. I dunno how they could fixed a scale to rated this influence, but somehow they managed it quite well. (highest ratings here for: Eisenstein, Hitchcock, Spielberg, Griffith, Murnau).
Experience in film business: I took into consideration the number of years in film business and the number of films they have made. (according to IMDB/ not including TV movies or series and shorts).
Very cool. Are you incorporating the IMDB average of ALL their films? If you are, Kubrick has a distinct advantage over Hitchcock, for example - though perhaps the 'film experience' numbers are supposed to balance that.
Is that German movie magazine article online? Sounds pretty cool.
Anyway, good luck with your tabulating!
Hitchcock and Kubrick are VERY close to each other in the list (TOP 40).
The German movie magazine (Cinema) has got a website, but I couldn't find the article there.