Your Top 5 Directors?

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I thought this could be fun :)

List your top 5 directors and your favorite film of theirs

This should help expose people to unknown names and give them a chance to see some of their best work. Here's mine...

1.Sergio Leone (Once Upon A Time In America)
2.Quentin Tarentino (Pulp Fiction)
3.Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road)
4.Ridley Scott (American Gangster)
5.David Fincher (Se7en)

Missing out marginally are Frank Darabont, Michael Haneke, Christopher Nolan and Scorsese.
 
1. Steven Spielberg (Jaws)
2. Christopher Nolan (Dark Knight)
3. Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas)
4. Ridley Scott (Alien)
5. Clint Eastwood (Mystic River)

Honorable mentions to Tarantino, Coppola, Lee Unkrich and Andrew Stanton.
 
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1 Sam Peckinpah (Cross of Iron)
2 Fred Zinneman (The Day of the Jackal)
3 Richard Attenborough (Oh! What a Lovely War)
4 John Ford (The Horse Soldiers)
5 Howard Hawks (Scarface)

 
Never pay much attention to directors - quick list I cobbled together with some of my faves.

Sergio Leone - Dollars Trilogy
Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Saving P. R.
Peter Jackson - LOTR
Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Departed, Cape Fear
Ridley Scott - Blade Runner, Gladiator, American Gangster
 
Same, I was trying to do this and it just basically ended up with me picking my favourite films. Although Spielberg would definitely crop up there but mostly for his earlier work such as Jurassic Park that absolutely blew me away when I was young.
 
I don't know what I found harder, choosing the directors or the films!

Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull
Ridley Scott - Blade Runner
James Cameron - aliens
 
Quentin Tarrantino (Pulp Fiction, Inglourious ********)
James Cameron (Terminator 2, Avatar)
Christopher Nolan (The Prestige, The Dark Knight)
Clint Eastward (Gran Torino, Changeling)

They're not in any order, but I can't really think of another director I like enough to add to the list. :confused:

There aren't any unknowns there either. :rolleyes:

EDIT: My fifth would probably be Guy Ritchie for Lock Stock, Snatch and Sherlock Holmes (obviously ignoring Swept Away and his other films :p).

EDIT again: Scrud Guy Ritchie, the fifth has to be John Hughes.
 
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1. Stanley Kubrick - Clockwork Orange & Space Odyssey
2. Spike Jonze - Being John Malkovich & Adaptation
3. David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button & Fight Club
4. Danny Boyle - Trainspotting & Slumdog
5. Frank Darabont - The Green Mile & Shawshank

Easy Pea-sy
 
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this is damn hard. not only is choosing favourite directors hard but choosing their favourite film is bloomin hard too

1. werner herzog - stroszek
2. stanley kubrick - the shining
3. speilberg - E.T
4. tarantino - true romance
5. franccis ford coppola - apocolypse now


honourable mentions to all the other people who made great films just not as many great films as those above
 
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