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Mine is George Lucas.

No Quentin Tarantino?

Illuminatus Primus wrote:No Quentin Tarantino?

there is an other option. . .

Illuminatus Primus wrote:No Quentin Tarantino?

I ran out of options.

EDIT: *counts* hey! I didn't! Could some mod add him really fast, before most people come see this thread?

On that list, Spielberg. Quentin Tarantino is my favorite director.

On the list: George Lucas, because of his devotion to technical innovation, particularly in editing.

Off the list: Hideaki Anno, though I've seen little outside of his animation work.

On list: George Lucas - Just for Star Wars
Off list: Sergiu Nicolaescu - One of the few Romanian directors that worked with Hollywood (might be quite the only one). A lot of great movies from my opinion (especially the historical ones). Too bad that after '89 he entered the politics.

Christoph Clark

Orson Welles. Not just for Citizen Kane, but also for his other masterpieces: The Stranger, Macbeth, Touch Of Evil, F For Fake, Confidential Report (Mr. Arkadin) and The Trial.

Next would have to be Akira Kurosawa. Followed by Sergio Leone, John Ford, John Huston, Michael Curtiz, Andre Tartkovsky, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, David Lean, and William Cameron Menzies (not necessarily in that order).

Akira Kurosawa or Peter Jackson. Sergio Leone is a close second.

YT300000 wrote:Mine is George Lucas.

Why? What good films did he direct?





Um, from what's on the list I'd say John McTiernan, even though Ridley Scott is obviously the best.

Jon wrote:

YT300000 wrote:Mine is George Lucas.

Why? What good films did he direct?

*raises eyebrow. Takes a step back. And another. runs*

Should add Alfred Hitchcock, Wolfgang Petersen, and Ridley Scott to my list of favourites.

That was a facetious derogatory, YT, not an admission of ignorence.

Hmm...Ridley Scott, Kubrick or Hitchcock.

and the magic die says

Kubrick for now.

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:That was a facetious derogatory, YT, not an admission of ignorence.

Hmm... perhaps the could mean that I was playing along.

Nah, that would be too logical.

I'm the only one who said Peter Jackson? What is this shit?

James Cameron.

He gave us Terminator.

But off the list, Kevin Smith.

He gave us the Jersey Trilogy. Plus Dogma/JSBSB.

Darth Wong wrote:Christoph Clark

Porn director?

I find this list sorely lacking.

For classic directors, Lang, Cocteau, Lean, Renoir, Murnau, Capra, Eisenstein, Curtiz, Hitchcock, Mizoguchi, Welles, etc. are missing.
For silver age directors, Bergman, Truffaut, Godard, Kurosawa, Fellini, Scorcese, Coppola, Ozu, Tarkovsky, Allen, Ichikawa, Lumet, Polanski, etc. are missing.
And for modern directors, the Coen Brothers, Tarantino, Woo, Fincher, P.T. Anderson, Wes Anderson, Soderbergh, Reiner, Kar Wai, Gilliam, Smith, Spike Lee, Ang Lee, Boyle, Jonze, Minghella, Altman, the Hughes Brothers, Gondry, etc. are missing.

Really, it should be between Kurosawa, Bergman, Hitchcock, maybe an early American director, and one or two modern directors thrown in. My personal taste has me pick Kurosawa or Scorcese as best, and I say that Wes Anderson or the Coen Brothers are the best working right now.

This poll might as well have been "Who is the best genre director working today?"

Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:This poll might as well have been "Who is the best genre director working today?"

Sci-Fi/Action genre, yeah. That's just about the only way to justify McTiernan or Jackson on any "best director" poll.

My favorites are:

Steven Spielberg (I like his style, his pacing, his epic-feeling)
The Wachowski Brothers (One word: Matrix )
Tim Burton ( I love his take on Batman)
Zemmeckis (BTTF kicks ass, even 20 years later)
Ivan Reitman (The GB's!! Let's have a third one!!)

I think I'll stop there - for now...

Robert Treder wrote:

Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:This poll might as well have been "Who is the best genre director working today?"

Sci-Fi/Action genre, yeah. That's just about the only way to justify McTiernan or Jackson on any "best director" poll.

Not to mention that, as usual, animation is pretty much ignored.

Mine's Sam Raimi.