I'd be interested to see a top 10 film composers list from you. Especially because you take the time to talk about the scores in several of your reviews. I don't see many people comment on the soundtracks as much, and I feel like it's an untapped topic to discuss!
Mine are; 1. Hans Zimmer 2. Danny Elfman 3. John Williams 4. James Newton Howard 5. Junky XL 6. John Powell 7. Ryuichi Sakamoto (just because of the revenant alone) 8. Michael Giacchino 9. John Carpenter 10. Thomas Newman
Good list. My top 10 directors and favorite movies by them are: 1.Stanley Kubrick (The Shining) 2.John Carpenter (Halloween) 3.Sergio Leone (Tie between The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West) 4.Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now) 5.Dario Argento (Suspiria) 6.Steven Spielberg (Jaws) 7.Ridley Scott (Alien) 8.Quentin Tarantino (Inglorious Basterds) 9.Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) 10.Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver)
I can only think of 5 directors that I personally love and draw inspiration from: 1) John Carpenter 2) George Romero 3) Sam Raimi 4) Martin Scorsese 4) Wes Craven I would also say Tim Burton, because I love a lot of his earlier movies...but I can't justify his 2000s era (minus Sweeney Todd).
I thought Sweeney Todd was well done I just do not like the fact they cut the Badland out of the movie. Other than that I thought it was very faithful to the musical
@@rocknroll20024 Yeah, I hear it’s fairly accurate to the stage show. They’re always going to change something, but in this case Burton made a worthy adaptation. It’s in the top 5 of his movies for me.
Hell yeah, Cody. I wasn’t sure where Carpenter would land on your list but it makes me very happy that he’s your number one. He’s my favorite director as well and I’ll be surprised if he ever leaves that spot. Halloween and Escape from New York are in my top ten films of all time. Great list, man.
This was an great video. Thanks patrons. Awesome job Cody. Here's mine. 1. John Carpenter 2. Quinton Tarantino 3. George Lucas 4. Wes Craven 5. Christopher Nolan 6. James Cameron 7. George A. Romero 8. Steven Spielberg 9. Stanley Kubrick 10. Alfred Hitchcock
My favourite filmmakers and my fav of their movies: Stanley Kubrick - The Shining David Lynch - Eraserhead Akira Kurosawa - Kagemusha Sergio Leone - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Quentin Tarantino - Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark Ishiro Honda - Godzilla Hayao Miyazaki - My Neighbour Totoro Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be: 1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood) 2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) 3. Steven Spielberg (E.T) 4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles) 5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land) 6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) 7. David Fincher (Fight Club) 8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc) 9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E) 10. John Lasseter (Cars)
Great top 10 list Cody. My top 10 are 1. Quentin Tarantino 2. Martin Scorsese 3. The Coen Brothers 4. Stanley Kubrick 5. David Fincher 6. S. Craig Zahler 7. Paul Thomas Anderson 8. David Lynch 9. Christopher Nolan 10. John Hughes
Very similar to my list. I have: 1. Scorsese 2. Tarantino 3. Lynch 4. Kubrick 5. Coen Brothers 6. Wes Anderson 7. Robert Altman 8. PTA 9. Ridley Scott 10. Spike Lee
I'll just go ahead and drop mines: 10). Dario Argento - the godfather of Giallo. His gorgeous use of colors in his movies with his technique for suspense are absolutely incredible. 9). Walter Hill - he definitely contributed to giving us some of the grittiest films of all time that define their own era and still hold up today as cinema classics. He's generally known as a symbol in the Revisionist Western but "The Warriors" and "The Driver" are some of my favorite films of all time. 8). Paul Verhoeven - c'mon..... Robocop?? Total Recall? Basic Instinct? Hollow Man?! The latter I think is an underrated sci-fi slasher flick that isn't afraid to show the terrors of male voyuerism in an advanced way for its time. He's a legend. A true provocateur in cinema. Most of his american films are all time classics imo. 7). John Carpenter - okay, It might sound like a hot take placing him here, but know that everyone in this ranking no matter their number are important to me. Carpenter's movies are atmospheric. And he knows how to use suspense and horror to it's most claustrophobic. He also gave us the best movie scores ever fucking made. A real one. 6). Tony Scott - late brother of Ridley, his version of the modern blockbuster Hollywood action film was made with dirty colors, flashy camerawork, hyperkinetic editing and explosive action that makes Michael Bay look like an amateur filmmaker, and HE paved the way for directors like Bay. "Man On Fire" is the perfect example of how he used one of my favorite camera tricks long absent from cinema for years - the Hand Crank film camera - to it's full effectiveness he basically revived it for a modern time. The Hand Crank is filthy, and can be absolutely terrifying when showcased in Scott's poetic action sequences. He also gave us a movie called "True Romance". 5). Wes Craven - a genius to Horror and the professor of the genre. (He was a former professor before filmmaking so that's more effective to say.) The man who gave us the dream demon in Freddy Kreuger and the "Scream" of the meta, but earlier in his career explored the brutality of fragile humanity in films like "Last House" and "The Hills Have Eyes". He in a sense was kind of like the Sam Peckinpah of Horror. Speaking of which... 4). Sam Peckinpah - "There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness. I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart." Peckinpah understood the mental psychology of what pushes the everyday man into the ugliness of society's violence, and wasn't afraid to show it on screen with the infamous likes of "Straw Dogs". He himself was drowning in his own demons while shooting now cinema classics like "The Getaway" and "Alfredo Garcia". He also made arguably a top 3 spaghetti western in "The Wild Bunch". 3). Quentin Tarantino - the man. The legend. The one and only. There isn't much to say about how creative and influential he's become to this generation of filmmaking seeing how he was the only director who kept it old school. He's one of those Rare directors without a bad film, even his lower ones are a watchable fun time. If it wasn't for him, traditional filmmaking wouldn't even be here now. To this very day, his latest epic was THE BEST movie theater experience I had in my life, in 70mm IN Hollywood. Quentin, you're a god. 2). Martin Scorsese - another OG in the influential category. Goodfellas? Raging Bull? Taxi Driver? Mean Streets? Cape Fear? The Departed? Bringing Out The Dead? The IRISHMAN? Enough has been said. 1). Brian De Palma - yes. This is my favorite director in film. There are debates whether he's an Homage to Hitchcock or he's a Hitchcock knockoff. This means nothing to me. If anything he revived what Suspense is and kept it alive towards a post-Hitchcock era in Hollywood. His signature camera techniques helped the story progress. He wasn't afraid to be voyueristic. And he wasn't afraid to show us terror in both his Suspense and even his Gangster flicks. I know he hasn't been around lately but I would pay to see him make another film in Hollywood again after so long.
I was happy to see Zemeckis on this list. He’s criminally underrated. If he just made Back to the Future, he’d be in the conversation. If you haven’t seen Used Cars, I think it’d be in your wheelhouse.
Didn't know it was coming... But I needed this!!! I'm sitting here waiting for Sean's Top 40 Movies and I saw this right now... Just yes! My favorites are: Damien Chazelle, Quentin Tarantino, Jon Favreau, Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg, David Fincher
Honorable mentions: John Hughes, Brad Bird and Charlie Kaufman 10.John Carpenter (They Live) 9.Peter Jackson(The Lord of the Rings trilogy) 8.Matt Reeves(War for the Planet of the Apes) 7.Tim Burton(Edward Scissorhands) 6.Spike Jonze(Her) 5.Darren Aronofsky(Requiem for a Dream) 4.James Cameron (Avatar, but T2 does come close) 3.Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York) 2.Steven Spielberg (Three way tie between Schindler's List, Minority Report and Ready Player One) 1.Christopher Nolan(The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and Memento)
I love this list. Many of these guys are my favorite directors as well. Thanks for showcasing how under appreciated Robert Zemeckis is. Granted his newer stuff is not as great but he was always innovative like James Camero in the VFX world back in the day. I still don't know how they made Roger Rabbit all the way back in 1988. And as you said Back to the Future is my favorite trilogy also.
Top 60: David Fincher Christopher Nolan Steven Spielberg Akira Kurosawa Sam Raimi Denzel Washington Joss Whedon Quentin Tarantino Antoine Fuqua Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuaron John Singleton Alfred Hitchcock Martin Scorsese Zack Snyder Francis Ford Coppola Jordan Peele Sam Mendes James Wan Takashi Shimizu Robert Townsend Brad Bird Tony and Ridley Scott Lee Daniels Edgar Wright Tim Burton Kasi Lemmons Ryan Coogler Olivia Wilde Tyler Perry Patty Jenkins Wes Anderson James Gunn M. Night Shyamalan Damien Chazelle Robert Rodruguez Rian Johnson Darren Aronofsky Clint Eastwood Oliver Stone Jon Favreau Mike Flanagan Ron Howard Ava Duvernay Steven Soderbergh Stanley Kubrick JJ Abrams Sergio Leone Kathryn Bigelow Leigh Whannell Peter Jackson Spike Lee Greta Gerwig Brian de Palma Sofia Coppola Anthony and Joe Russo David Lynch George Lucas Honorable Mentions: Robert Zemeckis The Wachowskis John McTiernan John Hughes Hiyako Miyazaki
Only list I'm happy with because it includes old school directors and some I've never heard of, Have you seen anything by Takeshi Kitano? Edit : Sidney lumet also
@@user-xc7uo6md3n Sidney Lumet is a very good director. (Dog Day Afternoon, 12 Angry Men, etc.) and as far as Takeshi Kitano, two films acting wise I've seen but not any directing wise.
Totally agree about Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Not Thanksgiving until we’ve watched Steve Martin lose his mind at that auto place. And I love Uncle Buck and Home Alone.
For me: 10. David Lynch 9. Alfred Hitchcock 8. Zack Snyder 7. Edgar Wright 6. James Wan 5. Tim Burton 4. Mel Brooks 3. Mike Flanagan 2. Wes Craven 1. Quentin Tarantino
HM: Spike Lee, Ryan Coogler, Peter Weir, Ivan Reitman, Yorgos Lanthimos 50. James Gunn (Super, Slither, GOTG Trilogy, The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker, Superman Legacy, Movie 43) 49. Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu (Birdman, The Revanant, Amores perros, Babel, 21 Grams, Bardo) 48. S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, Dragged Across Concrete, The Bookie & the Bruiser) 47. Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Mist, The Walking Dead, The Majestic, Buried Alive) 46. Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Banshees of Inisheran, Seven Psychopaths, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri) 45. Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3, The Nice Guys, The Predator, Play Dirty) 44. James Wan (Furious 7, Aquaman 1/2, The Conjuring 1/2, Insidious 1/2, Malignant, Saw, Dead Silence, Death Sentence) 43. George Lucas (Star Wars Episode 1-4, THX-1138, American Grafititi, Red Tails) 42. Jon Favreau (Iron Man 1/2, Elf, Chef, The Mandalorian, Jungle Book, Made, Cowboys vs. Aliens, Zathura, The Lion King) 41. John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing, Escape from New York/LA, Christine, The Fog, Vampires, Big Trouble In Little China, They Live, Ghosts of Mars, In the Mouth of Madness) 40. Shawn Levy (Deadpool & Wolverine, Free Guy, Night At the Museum, The Adam Project, Real Steel, Stranger Things, The Internahip) 39. Tim Burton (Batman, Ed Wood, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Peewee’s Big Adventure, Mars Attack!, Corpse Bride, Sleepy Hollow, Big Eyes) 38. John Hughes (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Breakfast Club, Uncle Buck, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Home Alone) 37. Rian Johnson (Knive’s Out, Glass Onion, Looper, Breaking Bad, Brick, The Brothers Bloom, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Wake Up Dead Man) 36. Richard Linklater (Boyhood, The Before Trilogy, School of Rock, Dazed and Confused, Hitman, Walking Life, Apollo 10 1/2, Tape, Last Flag Flying) 35. Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Shape of Water, Blade 2, Hellboy 1/2, Pacific Rim, Cronos, Crimson Peak, Nightmare Alley) 34. Jordan Peele (Get Out, Nope, Us, Him, Black Klansman, The Last OG, Candyman, Wendell & Wild) 33. Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles, Robin Hood: Men In Tights, Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein, The Producers, History of the World Part 1, Silent Movie) 32. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, Dracula, The Rainmaker, Megalopolis) 31. The Coen Brothers (No Country For Old Men, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Burn After Reading, O Brother Where Art Thou, Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink) 30. Sergio Leone (The Dollars Trilogy, Once Upon A Time In the West, Once Upon A Time In America, Duck You Sucker!, Colossus of Rhodes) 29. Matt Reeves (The Batman, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes, Cloverfield, The Pallbearer) 28. Brad Bird (The Incredibles Trilogy, Ratatouille, The Iron Giant, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, Tomorrowland) 27. Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird, Barbie, Little Women, Nights and Weekends, Chronicles of Narnia (Upcoming)) 26. Alfonso Cuaron (Prisoner of Azkaban, Gravity, Children of Men, Roma, Y tu mama tambien, A Little Princess, Great Expectations) 25. Rob Reiner (Princess Bride, This Is Spinal Tap, A Few Good Men, Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally, American President, The Sure Thing) 24. The Russo Brothers (Avengers: Infinity War, Endgame, Doomsday, Secret Wars, Captain America: Civil War/Winter Soldier, The Gray Man, Cherry, Community, You Me and Dupree, Welcome to Collinwood, Agent Carter) 23. Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral, Mindhunter, Inside Man, Thief, Last of the Mohicans, Public Enemies, Ferrari, Ali, Blackhat) 22. John McTiernan (Predator, Die Hard, Die Hard With A Vengeance, Hunt for the Red October, Thomas Crown Affair, Last Action Hero, Basic) 21. Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, King Kong, Heavenly Creatures, Braindead, Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, They Shall Not Grow Old, Lovely Bones) 20. Sam Mendes (Skyfall, Spectre, American Beauty, 1917, Road to Perdition, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Jarhead) 19. Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok/Love & Thunder, Jojo Rabbit, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, What We Do In the Shadows, Next Goal Wins) 18. PTA (There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, The Master, Punch-Drunk Love, Phantom Thread, Licorice Pizza, Inherent Vice, Hard Eight) 17. Wes Anderson (Grand Budapest Hotel, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, Life Aquatic, Asteroid City, French Dispatch, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Isle of Dogs) 16. James Mangold (Logan, Ford v. Ferrari, Cop Land, 3:10 To Yuma, Walk the Line, The Wolverine, Girl Interrupted, Identity, Indiana Jones 5) 15. Sam Raimi (Spider-Man, Evil Dead, A Simple Plan, Drag Me To Hell, Dr. Strange 2, Darkman, The Quick and the Dead) 14. Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Alien, Blade Runner, The Martian, The Last Duel, Black Hawk Down, American Gangster, Thelma & Louise, Legend, Kingdom of Heaven, Matchstick Men) 13. Richard Donner (Superman, Lethal Weapon, The Omen, The Goonies, Scrooged, Ladyhawke, Maverick, Conspiracy Theory, Assassins, Inside Moves) 12. Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, La La Land, Babylon, First Man, Guy and Madeline On A Park Bench) 11. David Fincher (Fight Club, Seven, Social Network, Zodiac, Gone Girl, The Game, Mank, The Killer, Girl w/ the Dragon Tattoo, Benjamin Button, Panic Room) 10. Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, The Departed, Mean Streets, King of Comedy, Wolf of Wall Street, etc.) 9. Robert Zemeckis (Back To the Future, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Contact, Polar Express, Flight, The Walk, Romancing the Stone, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) 8. David Leitch (John Wick, Deadpool 2, Bullet Train, The Fall Guy, Hobbs & Shaw, Atomic Blonde, With Love) 7. Edgar Wright (Baby Driver, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Last Night In Soho, Fistful of Fingers, The Running Man) 6. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Django Unchained, Hateful Eight, Inglorious Basterds, Kill Bill, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Jackie Brown, Death Proof) 5. Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Barry Lyndon, Full Metal Jacket, Clockwork Orange, Paths of Glory, Eyes Wide Shut, Dr. Strangelove, Spartacus) 4. James Cameron (Aliens, Terminator 1/2, Avatar 1-5, Titanic, The Abyss, True Lies, Piranha 2: The Spawning) 3. Denis Villenueve (Dune Part 1/2, Arrival, Prisoners, Blade Runner 2049, Sicario, Enemy, Incendies, Polytechnique) 2. Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones, Jaws, Jurassic Park, ET, Schindler’s List, Close Encounters, Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report, etc.) 1. Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Trilogy, The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar, Tenet, Memento, Dunkirk, Oppenheimer, Insomnia, Following)
And here are mine, because I can: 1. Quentin Tarantino 2. Wes Anderson 3. Paul Thomas Anderson 4. Wim Wenders 5. Wong Kar-Wai 6. Andrei Tarkovsky 7. Jean-Luc Godard 8. Martin Scorsese 9. Martin Mcdonaugh 10. Coen Bros. 11. Kevin Smith 12. Pedro Almadovar 13. Ingmar Bergman 14. Woody Allen
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be: 1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood) 2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) 3. Steven Spielberg (E.T) 4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles) 5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land) 6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) 7. David Fincher (Fight Club) 8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc) 9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E) 10. John Lasseter (Cars)
Looper and Knives out are both fucking fantastic movies. The last Jedi… not so much. Mad respect for Rian Johnson tho, taking criticism with stride, and improving because of it.
10. Brad Bird 9. Quentin Tarantino 8. Christopher Nolan 7. David Fincher 6. James Cameron 5. Richard Donner 4. John McTiernan 3. John Hughes 2. Robert Zemeckis 1. Steven Spielberg
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be: 1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood) 2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) 3. Steven Spielberg (E.T) 4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles) 5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land) 6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) 7. David Fincher (Fight Club) 8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc) 9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E) 10. John Lasseter (Cars)
Christopher Nolan Steven Spielberg Martin Scorsese Quentin Tarantino David Fincher Damien Chazelle James Wan Denis Villenueve James Cameron Mel Brooks Edgar Wright James Mangold So many I can’t choose
David Fincher for me, but I love Denis Villaneuve and Taylor Sheridan. Thank you for doing this. I found your channel during the Halloween Kills hype, and I've been watching your old content frequently at work. I love this shit. Props.
10) Yorgos Lanthimos 9) Todd Solondz 8) David Cronenberg 7) The Coen Brothers 6) Steven Spielberg 5) John Carpenter 4) Wes Anderson 3) David Lynch 2) Martin Scorsese 1) Quentin Tarantino
My Top 10 Directors and favourite films they've directed: 1. Matt Reeves( Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) 2. James Cameron( The Terminator) 3. Steven Spielberg( Jurassic Park) 4. The Russo Brothers( Avengers Infinity War) 5. David Cronenberg( The Fly) 6. Stephen Sommers (The Mummy) 7. George Lucas( Revenge of the Sith) 8. Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge) 9. Paul Verhoeven (Hollow Man) 10. John Carpenter (The Thing)
10. Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan 9. Matthew Vaughn - Kingsman: The Secret Service 8. Edgar Wright - Hot Fuzz 7. John Waters - Serial Mom 6. Tim Burton - Batman Returns 5. David Fincher - Fight Club 4. Sofia Coppola - Somewhere 3. Guillermo del Toro - Pan’s Labyrinth 2. Pedro Almodóvar - Pain And Glory 1. Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill / Death Proof
Love that you dig John Carpenter. My favorite directors are. 1. John Huston(The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon), 2. Stanley Kubrick(Dr Strangelove, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange) 3. John Carpenter(The Thing, They Live, The Fog, Halloween) 4. Martin Scorsese(Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, The Departed) 5. Alfred Hitchcock(Psycho) 6. Ridley Scott(Alien) 7. Steven Spielberg(Saving Private Ryan, Jaws) 8. Francis Ford Coppola(Godfather 1&2) 9. John Schlesinger(Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man) 10. George Roy Hill(The Sting, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid)
This is my list: 1. Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049) 2. Christopher Nolan (Memento) 3. Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained) 4. Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy 1 & 2) 5. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (The Revenant) 6. Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York) 7. John Carpenter (In the Mouth of Madness) 8. Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) 9. Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) 10. George Miller (Mad Max: The Road Warrior and Fury Road equally)
1. James Cameron (Avatar) 2. Denis Villeneuve (Dune) 3. Quentin Tarantino (Inglorious Bastards) 4. Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight) 5. James Mangold (Logan) 6. Matt Reeves (War For The Planet of The Apes) 7. Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park) 8. Ridley Scott (Alien) 9. John Carpenter (Halloween) 10. Peter Jackson (The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring) 11. David Fincher (Seven) 12. Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) 13. Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York) 14. Spike Lee (Do The Right Thing) 15. Sam Raimi (Spider-Man)
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be: 1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood) 2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) 3. Steven Spielberg (E.T) 4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles) 5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land) 6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) 7. David Fincher (Fight Club) 8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc) 9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E) 10. John Lasseter (Cars)
1. Stanley Kubrick - The Shining 2. Coen Brothers - Fargo 3. John Carpenter - The Thing 4. Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction 5. Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight 6. James Cameron - Terminator 2 7. Ridley Scott - Alien 8. John McTiernan - Die Hard 9. Steven Spielberg - The Last Crusade 10. Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be: 1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood) 2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) 3. Steven Spielberg (E.T) 4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles) 5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land) 6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) 7. David Fincher (Fight Club) 8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc) 9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E) 10. John Lasseter (Cars)
Fincher's my clear numero uno. His ability to explore and depict the dark side of human nature in such compelling fashion is second to none, IMO. On top of his filmography I thought his work on Mindhunter was spectacular. So many honorable mentions to throw out there. Big fan of Cronenberg, Hitchcock, Scorcese, Nolan, Carpenter, to name a few. Villeneuve is moving up my list quickly. BR2049 and Prisoners are two of my favorite films of the past decade. And I guess Cameron has to be there cause of Aliens and T2. And Spielberg cause of Indiana Jones, Catch Me If You Can, SPR, Jaws, Minority Report, etc. Eh, I'll stop now before my comment gets any longer...
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be: 1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood) 2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) 3. Steven Spielberg (E.T) 4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles) 5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land) 6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) 7. David Fincher (Fight Club) 8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc) 9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E) 10. John Lasseter (Cars)
Very hard list but here's mine. 10. Ridley Scott 9. Tony Scott 8. James Wan 7. Antoine Fuqua 6. Brian De Palma 5. David Cronenberg 4. Steven Spielberg 3. John Carpenter 2. Christopher Nolan 1. Martin Scorsese
Stanley Kubrick is at the top for me. With him, you get the sense that every frame is meticulously crafted. Any of his films can be used as an example of film as an artform. And he made my favourite film of all time, 2001: a space odyssey.
1. Steven Speilberg - The Last Crusade 2. David Fincher - Se7en 3. Stanely Kubrick - The Shining 4. Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight 5. Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill 6. James Cameron - Aliens 7. Sam Raimi - Spider-ma 8. Richard Donner - Lethal Weapon 2 9. Ridley Scott - Blade Runner 10. Edgar Wright - Baby Driver
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be: 1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood) 2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) 3. Steven Spielberg (E.T) 4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles) 5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land) 6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) 7. David Fincher (Fight Club) 8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc) 9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E) 10. John Lasseter (Cars)
I'd say that even based on the 3 films I've seen from him (What We Do In The Shadows, Hunt For The Wilderpeople and especially Jojo Rabbit), Waititi has secured his spot on my list.
Top 5 for me: 5) Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho) 4) Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight) 3) John Carpenter (The Thing) 2) Steven Spielberg (Jaws) 1) Wes Craven (Scream)
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be: 1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood) 2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) 3. Steven Spielberg (E.T) 4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles) 5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land) 6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) 7. David Fincher (Fight Club) 8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc) 9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E) 10. John Lasseter (Cars)
Really good list, man. I think my personal top 10 would be: 10. Stanley Kubrick (The Shining) 9. Sam Mendes (1917) 8. Hayao Miyazaki (Howl's Moving Castle) 7. Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) 6. Sam Raimi (Spiderman 2) 5. Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands) 4. Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049) 3. Martin Scorcese (The Departed) 2. Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins) 1. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood)
I will always love Wes Craven, something about how he shot scenes just interested me. I like he shot the hallway dream scene in the first elm street movie. And scream it’s just wonderfully shot from beginning to end. Oh and I like Gilmore Del Toro.
No need to list my favorites because you just said most of them and it would be redundant LOL. But seriously great video man you are hands down one of the best RUclipsrs going today 👊
My top 10 ever : 1. Quentin Tarantino, the best of al time by far 2. Cohen Brothers , the big lebowski, no country, fargo , Omg ! I love them 3. Martin scorsese 4. Sergio leone 5. James Cameron 6. Robert zemeckis 7. Farelly brothers 8 . Peter jackson ( lord and hobbit trilogy's) 9. Paul thomas Anderson 10. Ridley scott
A nice list as usual Sir; a couple unexpected choices, and a couple others that ranked unexpectedly high. Agreed on Scorsese, but I’d put Taxi Driver & Raging Bull ahead of Goodfellas & The Departed (though all four rank among my all-time favorites). I’m not as keen on some of his films as many others are, but he’s made more than enough all-time greats to make up for that. Even with Die Hard & Predator rating so highly with you, I wasn’t sure if McTiernan would appear here - obviously I should have been! Spielberg tends to overshadow Zemeckis, so I’m glad you put both on your list; Schindler’s List is my favorite of the former’s work, while Roger Rabbit is the latter’s best. Guys like Cameron, Tarantino & Leone don’t have huge filmographies but they make up for that with consistently high quality work; Leone would definitely make my own list - the Dollars Trilogy & Once Upon a Time in the West are among my all-time favorites - while the other two would certainly be in the running. I agree with you on Terminator 2 being Cameron’s best movie, while we’re pretty far apart on Tarantino: Jackie Brown is my favorite, while I’d Pulp Fiction in the lower half of his filmography. (I believe Leone is Tarantino’s favorite director of all time.) I like Nolan’s work - particularly Interstellar & Memento - but wouldn’t yet put him on a list like this. Same goes for Fincher, whose middle-period films like Zodiac & The Social Network I admire greatly but whose early movies (Se7en & Fight Club) I’ve never shared the love for. Knew Carpenter would make it here, but wasn’t sure exactly where he’d rank; I love many of his movies - we agree on The Thing being his best - but his track record is a little too spotty for him to make my list. He had an amazing streak from the late 1970s to the late 1980s, but since then In the Mouth of Madness is the only film of his I’ve liked. Two directors that would definitely make my list - and rank high to boot - are David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Hobson’s Choice, Brief Encounter) and Billy Wilder (The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, Ace in the Hole). Both made a lot of terrific films and had very few misfires. The former might be the best director to come out of Great Britain (though Powell, Hitchcock & more recently McQueen give him some strong competition) while the latter is probably the best filmmaker of the Classic Hollywood period. As for American directors, I’d definitely put the Coen brothers on my list; they’ve made a lot of terrific films and have yet to come up with one I’ve disliked (though I’ve been tepid on a few). No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man, The Big Lebowski & Barton Fink are all fantastic. Another I’d put on is Woody Allen; he has a much more inconsistent filmography than the others I’ve mentioned, but he’s also the most prolific (by far) and deserves high placement simply by the sheer number of excellent movies he’s made: Hannah & Her Sisters is my favorite, but Manhattan, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Radio Days, Annie Hall, Another Woman, and so on are terrific too. Speaking of prolific directors with somewhat spotty track records, I’d also find a place for Ingmar Bergman; Persona is an all-time favorite, while Fanny & Alexander, Wild Strawberries, and others are really good as well. Same goes for Clint Eastwood, who has given us some duds but also given us Unforgiven, the Iwo Jima movies, The Outlaw Josey Wales & Mystic River. Two of the main indie directors of the 1990s would be in the running, with one if not both making my list: John Sayles & Richard Linklater. Sayles’ filmography is a little more qualitatively consistent than Linklater’s, while Linklater’s high points (the Before Trilogy) exceed Sayles’. Krzysztof Kieslowski made the Three Colors Trilogy - which vies with the Before series as my all-time favorite trilogy - as well as the ten-part Decalogue and a handful of other really good films, so I’d probably put him on too. As for Japanese directors, Kurosawa always makes these lists but I’d put Yasujiro Ozu on before him; the quality of Ozu’s work is certainly more consistent than Kurosawa’s, and he manages to achieve great impact while keeping his movies mostly quiet. Tokyo Story is his most famous film, but he’s made several other great ones. Masaki Kobayashi, who made The Human Condition (another great trilogy) as well as Kwaidan (a terrific horror anthology film you should check out) and Hara-Kiri is a relatively unsung director who’d be in contention as well. There are some directors on the scene now that might make my list one day, if they continue to pump out films of the quality that they have been: Denis Villeneuve (certainly the best sci-fi director we have right now), Martin McDonagh (one of the best writer-directors), Alexander Payne (who hasn’t done much in the last decade but had a fantastic run before that) & Damien Chazelle (who’s young enough that there’s no reason for him not to become one of the all-time greats as long as he doesn’t seriously screw things up). I’ve omitted lot of excellent pre-1960s filmmakers that would probably make my list but (a) I’ve written enough already, and (b) they probably wouldn’t be that familiar to most reading this, so might as well leave them off. Have also not included some great directors of animated movies for reasons of space. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving.
This is my top 10: 1 - Steven Spielberg 2 - Christopher Nolan 3 - James Cameron 4 - Tim Burton 5 - Peter Jackson 6 - Wes Anderson 7 - Robert Zemeckis 8 - George Lucas 9 - Michael Bay 10 - Chris Columbus
My top 10 Directors would be 1. Edgar Wright - The World's End 2. Steven Spielberg - Jurassic Park 3. David Fincher - The Social Network 4. James Cameron - Titanic 5. Peter Jackson - Braindead 6. Christopher Nolan - Inception 7. Gore Verbinski - Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Mans Chest 8. Matthew Vaughn - Kick-Ass 9. Tim Burton - Edward Scissorhands 10. James Waan - Insidious
Great list and definitely understandable. Absolutely. But I am surprised you didn't list Shane Black 😆 I know you're a Shane Black fanatic so I was waiting for that and definitely love your number one pick.
1. Stanley Kubrick 2. David Fincher 3. Terrence Malick 4. PTA (Paul Thomas Anderson) 5, Sam Raimi 6. Gore Verbinski 7. Chris Columbus 8. Martin Scorcese 9, John Carpenter 10. Mary Hannon
My personal favorite directors, my favorite film of theirs will under their name, Also I'm gonna do a Top 30 list: 30. Robert Zemeckis Back to the Future 29. Alfred Hitchcock North by Northwest 28. Orson Welles Citizen Kane 27. Jordan Peele Get Out 26. James Gunn The Suicide Squad 25. Mel Gibson Braveheart 24. Matthew Vaughn Kingsman: The Secret Service 23. Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 22. Irvin Kershner The Empire Strikes Back 21. Sergio Leone The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 20. Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Rublev 19. Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather 18. David Lynch Mulholland Drive 17. Brad Bird The Iron Giant 16. Ingmar Bergman The Seventh Seal 15. James Cameron Terminator 2: Judgment Day 14. Edgar Wright Hot Fuzz 13. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen No Country for Old Men 12. Denis Villeneuve Arrival 11. Ridley Scott Gladiator 10. Martin Scorsese Goodfellas 9. Damien Chazzele Whiplash 8. Paul Thomas Anderson There Will Be Blood 7. David Fincher The Social Network 6. Quentin Tarantino Pulp Fiction 5. Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight 4. Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey 3. Akira Kurosawa Seven Samurai 2. Steven Spielberg Raiders of the Lost Ark 1. Wes Anderson The Grand Budapest Hotel
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be: 1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood) 2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) 3. Steven Spielberg (E.T) 4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles) 5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land) 6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) 7. David Fincher (Fight Club) 8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc) 9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E) 10. John Lasseter (Cars)
Code Man, what an excellent list dude! Kudos for celebrating Carpenter! I'd like to add a few more to the proceedings: Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, David Lynch and Ridley Scott!
I guessed on your schedule page. Let's see how I did Edit: 5 for 10. I'm disappointed but can't say this isn't an awesome list. Michael Mann-Last of the Mohicans was one of my first r-rated movies and it's a killer. Great action and scores and his action makes you think. David Fincher- Brad Bird-The Incredibles. My #2 of all time. Only Tomorrowland was a dud and it's at least interesting. The Russo brothers-Endgame. I haven't heard a theater lose it's mind like this. 4 of the best comic book movies ever. We'll talk about the streak for decades. Robert Rodriguez-I loved The Spy Kids movies as a kid and his grown up stuff kicks butt. Desparado, From Dusk Till Dawn,Sin City, Machete, so much awesome. Christopher Nolan-The man is getting very close to overrated for me (wasn't crazy about Tenet,Interstellar or Dunkirk but they aren't terrible per say). I love TDK,Inception and The Prestige may be my favorite of his flicks. Glad we have a intelligent blockbuster specialist like him even if I think he crowds out a lot of the other guys. Stephen Sodenbergh Richard Donner Steven Spielberg Robert Reinner
Here's mine: 10 David Fincher, 9 Christopher Nolan, 8 John McTiernan, 7 Robert Zemeckis, 6 Tim Burton, 5 Terry Gilliam, 4 John Hughes, 3 Wes Craven, 2 John Carpenter, 1 Steven Spielberg
My two favourites are Quentin Tarantino(love all his movies but Django) and James Cameron(I don’t like Avatar and Titanic)... John Carpenter is my number 3! I also think Kenneth Branagh and Spielberg are great as directors but I don’t like a big chunk of the movies they choose to direct. Bill Paxton did an awesome job with Frailty and Frank Darabont did a great job with all of his movies, but both are not prolific enough to be considered the best...
Very curious for The Thing, I am absolutely not a horror guy, but after countless of recommendations by you Cody, we bought it this month and it will be watched in a few weeks. Favourite directors will be Nolan (Inception), Fincher (Gone Girl and Seven), Reeves (Planet of the Apes), Spielberg (Jurassic Park) and Taika Waititi (Hunt for the Wilderpeople and What we do in the Shadows), and probably someone I am forgetting
I honestly couldn't tell you my favorite director but I have a big fan of Ridley Scott and David Fincher both of which worked on the alien franchise funnily enough.
THANK YOU for putting Zemeckis. So underrated when he shouldn’t be. You mentioned all his great movies, I’m gonna add Polar Express, one of my favorite Christmas movies
10. Martin Scorsese (Hugo) 9. Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) 8. Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strange love) 7. Wes Craven (The original Nightmare on Elm Street) 6. Woody Allen (Annie Hall) 5. John Landis (An American Werewolf in London) 4. Tim Burton (Big Eyes) 3. Quenten Tarantino (Django Unchained) 2. Steven Spielberg (indiana Jones and the last crusade) My number 1 is sort of a tie between Barry Sonnenfeld and Wes Anderson. My favorite film from Sonnenfeld is Men in Black 3 and as for Wes Anderson my favorite of his is Moonrise Kingdom. Honorable mentions are M. Night Shyamalan and Christopher Nolan. To anyone who says all of Shyamalan's films are garbage let me correct that and say that the only movies he made that were garbage was the lady in the water, The Happening, Last Airbender, and After Earth.
10. Mel Gibson - Apocalypto, Braveheart, and Hacksaw Ridge 9. John Carpenter - Halloween and Escape from New York 8. The Safdie Brothers - Good Time 7. Matt Reeves - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Cloverfield 6. Denis Villenueve - Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival 5. Steven Spielberg - Jaws, Minority Report, Jurassic Park 4. Sam Raimi - Spider-Man trilogy and Evil Dead 3. M. Night Shyamalan - Unbreakable 2. Christopher Nolan - Inception and Memento 1. David Fincher - Fight Club and The Social Network HONORABLE MENTIONS: • Martin Scorsese - Mean Streets and Raging Bull • Zack Snyder - Dawn of the Dead and Justice League: Snyder Cut • Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu - The Revenant and Babel • Leigh Whannell - Upgrade • Wes Craven - Scream • Gareth Evans - The Raid • Martin Campbell - Casino Royale, Edge of Darkness, The Foreigner • Sam Mendes - Skyfall, Road to Perdition, and 1917 • Bong joon-ho: Snowpiercer and Parasite
Cody like your top ten movie directors. It is sad about Wes Craven. He could give us another Nightmare On Elm Street movie. Steven Spielberg is one of my favorites.
Planes trains and automobiles is my favorite John Hughes movie ever along with the Breakfast club , but planes trains is in my top 3 fav comedies of all time
My top 10 favorite directors (and...very difficult!...my favorite movie by them): -Joel & Ethan Coen --> O Brother, Where Art Thou? -Ridley Scott --> Blade Runner -Robert Zemeckis --> Back To The Future -Steven Spielberg --> Close Ecounters Of The Third Kind -Tim Burton --> Corpse Bride -Sergio Leone --> Once Upon A Time In The West -Alfred Hitchcock --> Psycho -Don Siegel --> Escape From Alcatraz -Blake Edwards --> A Shot In The Dark -John Carpenter --> The Thing
10... Robert Zemeckis... 09... Alfred Hitchcock... 08... David Cronenberg... 07... Edgar Wright... 06... Peter Jackson... 05... Martin Scorsese... 04... Clint Eastwood... 03... Steven Spielberg... 02... The Coen Brothers... 01... Quentin Tarantino ...
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be: 1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood) 2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) 3. Steven Spielberg (E.T) 4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles) 5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land) 6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) 7. David Fincher (Fight Club) 8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc) 9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E) 10. John Lasseter (Cars)
David Lynch and John Carpenter are my personal top two, but I also love me some Sam Raimi, Park Chan-Wook, Bong Joon Ho, Martin Scorcese, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, David Fincher, Edgar Wright, and Robert Eggers. Obviously, there are more, but that’s really the cream of the crop for me right now.
No particular order: Jordan Peele John Carpenter James Wan Wes Craven James Gunn Steven Spielberg Robert Rodriguez M. Night Shyamalan Tim Burton David Lynch
My Top 30 1. Steven Spielberg 2. John Mctiernan 3. David Fincher 4. John Carpenter 5. James Cameron 6. Robert Zemekis 7. John Hughes 8. John Woo 9. Richard Donner 10. Quentin Tarantino 11. Martin Scorsese 12. Christopher Nolan 13. Matt Reeves 14. Andrew Davis 15. Wes Craven 16. James Mangold 17. Sam Raimi 18. Tony Scott 19. Wolfgang Peterson 20. Brian De Palma 21. Martin Campbell 22. Clint Eastwood 23. Ben Affleck 24. Edgar Wright 25. Peter Jackson 26. Ivan Reitman 27. Peter Hyams 28. Ishiro Honda 29. Guillermo Del Toro 30. Neil Blomkamp
My Personal Top 10 Favs 1. Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas 2. Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction 3. Steven Spielberg - Back to the Future 4. Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho 5. Francis Ford Coppola - Godfather II 6. John Carpenter - Halloween 7. Wes Craven - Scream 8. Spike Lee - Malcom X 9. George Lucas - A New Hope 10. Alfonso Cuarón - Prisoner of Azkaban
PTA has forever been my favourite, has three films in my top ten, and five in my top 50, liquorice pizza going to be amazing. Abel Ferrara is a close second behind him, he's one of the most daring, unique, chameleonic and just plain cool filmmakers of all time, and easily the most underrated filmmaker out there. Again, has at least 5 movies in my top 50. Lars Von Trier, Scorsese, Tarkovsky, Korine, Kar Wai, Tarantino (mostly for his 90's trilogy), Lynch, Cassavetes, Aronofsky, Noe, Kurosawa, Bergman, Godard, Malik, Refn, Claire Denis, and of course, Kubrick would all place on my favourites list too. Theres so many great ones out there i still need to get into more before i can call them favourites, Kiarostami and Angelopoulos being two that come to mind. Very respectable list, favourite filmmakers will always be the ones that make the films that feel the most tailored to you personally, and this list is clearly comprised of ones that mean the most to you. I Remember when your channel was on less than 1000 subs dude ur doing great
Great List...I had a hard time narrowing down the ten so I have four honorable mentions that could be substituted in at 9 & 10 depending on my mood. Also included favorite movie by each. Hon. Mention: Olive Stone (Platoon), James Cameron (True Lies), Brian De Palma (The Untouchables), & Stanley Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket) 10. Roberts Zemeckis (Back to Future) 9. John Hughes (Breakfast Club) 8. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) 7. Rob Reiner (Princess Bride) 6. Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window) 5. Kevin Smith (Dogma) 4. John Carpenter (Halloween) 3. Steven Spielberg (Raiders of Lost Ark) 2. Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas) 1. Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather Saga)
R I p Wes craven what a legend
I'd be interested to see a top 10 film composers list from you. Especially because you take the time to talk about the scores in several of your reviews. I don't see many people comment on the soundtracks as much, and I feel like it's an untapped topic to discuss!
He has done a few top 50s
1) Hans Zimmer
@@Xpertfusion no doubt
Mine are;
1. Hans Zimmer
2. Danny Elfman
3. John Williams
4. James Newton Howard
5. Junky XL
6. John Powell
7. Ryuichi Sakamoto (just because of the revenant alone)
8. Michael Giacchino
9. John Carpenter
10. Thomas Newman
@@jonnyolson have you heard Danny elfmans new songs 😂😂 he raps now apparently.
Good list. My top 10 directors and favorite movies by them are:
1.Stanley Kubrick (The Shining)
2.John Carpenter (Halloween)
3.Sergio Leone (Tie between The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West)
4.Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now)
5.Dario Argento (Suspiria)
6.Steven Spielberg (Jaws)
7.Ridley Scott (Alien)
8.Quentin Tarantino (Inglorious Basterds)
9.Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away)
10.Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver)
Awesome list
That was a HELL of a list ... John Carpenter's my favourite - The Thing and Christine are beyond excellent and exceptional
Assault on Precinct 13 is phenomenal too.
I can only think of 5 directors that I personally love and draw inspiration from:
1) John Carpenter
2) George Romero
3) Sam Raimi
4) Martin Scorsese
4) Wes Craven
I would also say Tim Burton, because I love a lot of his earlier movies...but I can't justify his 2000s era (minus Sweeney Todd).
I thought Sweeney Todd was well done I just do not like the fact they cut the Badland out of the movie. Other than that I thought it was very faithful to the musical
@@rocknroll20024 Yeah, I hear it’s fairly accurate to the stage show. They’re always going to change something, but in this case Burton made a worthy adaptation. It’s in the top 5 of his movies for me.
@@ScreamingShark yeah I loved it the first time I saw it.
@@JorgeGomez-hx5uu I find that it gets better every time I watch it. I remember thinking by it was okay when I first watched it.
Sweeney Todd is the only musical I can sit through just for how fucked up it is haha.
Hell yeah, Cody. I wasn’t sure where Carpenter would land on your list but it makes me very happy that he’s your number one. He’s my favorite director as well and I’ll be surprised if he ever leaves that spot. Halloween and Escape from New York are in my top ten films of all time. Great list, man.
I’m liking the variety of content you’ve been putting out since going full time! 🔥
Thank you
@@CodyLeachYT np
This was an great video. Thanks patrons. Awesome job Cody. Here's mine.
1. John Carpenter
2. Quinton Tarantino
3. George Lucas
4. Wes Craven
5. Christopher Nolan
6. James Cameron
7. George A. Romero
8. Steven Spielberg
9. Stanley Kubrick
10. Alfred Hitchcock
Your last three are misplased at the end
@@friedrichnietzsche7376 no. My list is my list. Not anyone else's.
I'd have Matt Reeves on my personal list
My favourite filmmakers and my fav of their movies:
Stanley Kubrick - The Shining
David Lynch - Eraserhead
Akira Kurosawa - Kagemusha
Sergio Leone - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Quentin Tarantino - Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ishiro Honda - Godzilla
Hayao Miyazaki - My Neighbour Totoro
Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull
Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be:
1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood)
2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
3. Steven Spielberg (E.T)
4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles)
5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
7. David Fincher (Fight Club)
8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc)
9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E)
10. John Lasseter (Cars)
Great top 10 list Cody. My top 10 are
1. Quentin Tarantino
2. Martin Scorsese
3. The Coen Brothers
4. Stanley Kubrick
5. David Fincher
6. S. Craig Zahler
7. Paul Thomas Anderson
8. David Lynch
9. Christopher Nolan
10. John Hughes
Kubrick and Lynch are the best!!!
Very similar to my list. I have:
1. Scorsese
2. Tarantino
3. Lynch
4. Kubrick
5. Coen Brothers
6. Wes Anderson
7. Robert Altman
8. PTA
9. Ridley Scott
10. Spike Lee
John carpenter is easily my number one too. Even ghost of Mars is a guilty pleasure of mine.
I'll just go ahead and drop mines:
10). Dario Argento - the godfather of Giallo. His gorgeous use of colors in his movies with his technique for suspense are absolutely incredible.
9). Walter Hill - he definitely contributed to giving us some of the grittiest films of all time that define their own era and still hold up today as cinema classics. He's generally known as a symbol in the Revisionist Western but "The Warriors" and "The Driver" are some of my favorite films of all time.
8). Paul Verhoeven - c'mon..... Robocop?? Total Recall? Basic Instinct? Hollow Man?! The latter I think is an underrated sci-fi slasher flick that isn't afraid to show the terrors of male voyuerism in an advanced way for its time. He's a legend. A true provocateur in cinema. Most of his american films are all time classics imo.
7). John Carpenter - okay, It might sound like a hot take placing him here, but know that everyone in this ranking no matter their number are important to me. Carpenter's movies are atmospheric. And he knows how to use suspense and horror to it's most claustrophobic. He also gave us the best movie scores ever fucking made. A real one.
6). Tony Scott - late brother of Ridley, his version of the modern blockbuster Hollywood action film was made with dirty colors, flashy camerawork, hyperkinetic editing and explosive action that makes Michael Bay look like an amateur filmmaker, and HE paved the way for directors like Bay. "Man On Fire" is the perfect example of how he used one of my favorite camera tricks long absent from cinema for years - the Hand Crank film camera - to it's full effectiveness he basically revived it for a modern time. The Hand Crank is filthy, and can be absolutely terrifying when showcased in Scott's poetic action sequences. He also gave us a movie called "True Romance".
5). Wes Craven - a genius to Horror and the professor of the genre. (He was a former professor before filmmaking so that's more effective to say.) The man who gave us the dream demon in Freddy Kreuger and the "Scream" of the meta, but earlier in his career explored the brutality of fragile humanity in films like "Last House" and "The Hills Have Eyes". He in a sense was kind of like the Sam Peckinpah of Horror. Speaking of which...
4). Sam Peckinpah - "There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness. I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart."
Peckinpah understood the mental psychology of what pushes the everyday man into the ugliness of society's violence, and wasn't afraid to show it on screen with the infamous likes of "Straw Dogs". He himself was drowning in his own demons while shooting now cinema classics like "The Getaway" and "Alfredo Garcia". He also made arguably a top 3 spaghetti western in "The Wild Bunch".
3). Quentin Tarantino - the man. The legend. The one and only. There isn't much to say about how creative and influential he's become to this generation of filmmaking seeing how he was the only director who kept it old school. He's one of those Rare directors without a bad film, even his lower ones are a watchable fun time. If it wasn't for him, traditional filmmaking wouldn't even be here now. To this very day, his latest epic was THE BEST movie theater experience I had in my life, in 70mm IN Hollywood. Quentin, you're a god.
2). Martin Scorsese - another OG in the influential category.
Goodfellas? Raging Bull? Taxi Driver? Mean Streets? Cape Fear? The Departed? Bringing Out The Dead? The IRISHMAN?
Enough has been said.
1). Brian De Palma - yes. This is my favorite director in film. There are debates whether he's an Homage to Hitchcock or he's a Hitchcock knockoff. This means nothing to me. If anything he revived what Suspense is and kept it alive towards a post-Hitchcock era in Hollywood. His signature camera techniques helped the story progress. He wasn't afraid to be voyueristic. And he wasn't afraid to show us terror in both his Suspense and even his Gangster flicks. I know he hasn't been around lately but I would pay to see him make another film in Hollywood again after so long.
I love De Palma's Raising Cain. And several of his other films.
Love Brian. He's amazing.
Walter Hill directed one of my favorite comedies...48 Hours
I was happy to see Zemeckis on this list. He’s criminally underrated. If he just made Back to the Future, he’d be in the conversation. If you haven’t seen Used Cars, I think it’d be in your wheelhouse.
Didn't know it was coming... But I needed this!!! I'm sitting here waiting for Sean's Top 40 Movies and I saw this right now... Just yes! My favorites are: Damien Chazelle, Quentin Tarantino, Jon Favreau, Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg, David Fincher
Honorable mentions: John Hughes, Brad Bird and Charlie Kaufman
10.John Carpenter (They Live)
9.Peter Jackson(The Lord of the Rings trilogy)
8.Matt Reeves(War for the Planet of the Apes)
7.Tim Burton(Edward Scissorhands)
6.Spike Jonze(Her)
5.Darren Aronofsky(Requiem for a Dream)
4.James Cameron (Avatar, but T2 does come close)
3.Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York)
2.Steven Spielberg (Three way tie between Schindler's List, Minority Report and Ready Player One)
1.Christopher Nolan(The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and Memento)
I love this list. Many of these guys are my favorite directors as well. Thanks for showcasing how under appreciated Robert Zemeckis is. Granted his newer stuff is not as great but he was always innovative like James Camero in the VFX world back in the day. I still don't know how they made Roger Rabbit all the way back in 1988. And as you said Back to the Future is my favorite trilogy also.
Top 60:
David Fincher
Christopher Nolan
Steven Spielberg
Akira Kurosawa
Sam Raimi
Denzel Washington
Joss Whedon
Quentin Tarantino
Antoine Fuqua
Guillermo del Toro
Alfonso Cuaron
John Singleton
Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese
Zack Snyder
Francis Ford Coppola
Jordan Peele
Sam Mendes
James Wan
Takashi Shimizu
Robert Townsend
Brad Bird
Tony and Ridley Scott
Lee Daniels
Edgar Wright
Tim Burton
Kasi Lemmons
Ryan Coogler
Olivia Wilde
Tyler Perry
Patty Jenkins
Wes Anderson
James Gunn
M. Night Shyamalan
Damien Chazelle
Robert Rodruguez
Rian Johnson
Darren Aronofsky
Clint Eastwood
Oliver Stone
Jon Favreau
Mike Flanagan
Ron Howard
Ava Duvernay
Steven Soderbergh
Stanley Kubrick
JJ Abrams
Sergio Leone
Kathryn Bigelow
Leigh Whannell
Peter Jackson
Spike Lee
Greta Gerwig
Brian de Palma
Sofia Coppola
Anthony and Joe Russo
David Lynch
George Lucas
Honorable Mentions:
Robert Zemeckis
The Wachowskis
John McTiernan
John Hughes
Hiyako Miyazaki
Only list I'm happy with because it includes old school directors and some I've never heard of, Have you seen anything by Takeshi Kitano? Edit : Sidney lumet also
@@user-xc7uo6md3n Sidney Lumet is a very good director. (Dog Day Afternoon, 12 Angry Men, etc.) and as far as Takeshi Kitano, two films acting wise I've seen but not any directing wise.
Totally agree about Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Not Thanksgiving until we’ve watched Steve Martin lose his mind at that auto place. And I love Uncle Buck and Home Alone.
Have you seen The Abyss from James Cameron? Incredible underrated movie
For me:
10. David Lynch
9. Alfred Hitchcock
8. Zack Snyder
7. Edgar Wright
6. James Wan
5. Tim Burton
4. Mel Brooks
3. Mike Flanagan
2. Wes Craven
1. Quentin Tarantino
HM: Spike Lee, Ryan Coogler, Peter Weir, Ivan Reitman, Yorgos Lanthimos
50. James Gunn (Super, Slither, GOTG Trilogy, The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker, Superman Legacy, Movie 43)
49. Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu (Birdman, The Revanant, Amores perros, Babel, 21 Grams, Bardo)
48. S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, Dragged Across Concrete, The Bookie & the Bruiser)
47. Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Mist, The Walking Dead, The Majestic, Buried Alive)
46. Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Banshees of Inisheran, Seven Psychopaths, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri)
45. Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3, The Nice Guys, The Predator, Play Dirty)
44. James Wan (Furious 7, Aquaman 1/2, The Conjuring 1/2, Insidious 1/2, Malignant, Saw, Dead Silence, Death Sentence)
43. George Lucas (Star Wars Episode 1-4, THX-1138, American Grafititi, Red Tails)
42. Jon Favreau (Iron Man 1/2, Elf, Chef, The Mandalorian, Jungle Book, Made, Cowboys vs. Aliens, Zathura, The Lion King)
41. John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing, Escape from New York/LA, Christine, The Fog, Vampires, Big Trouble In Little China, They Live, Ghosts of Mars, In the Mouth of Madness)
40. Shawn Levy (Deadpool & Wolverine, Free Guy, Night At the Museum, The Adam Project, Real Steel, Stranger Things, The Internahip)
39. Tim Burton (Batman, Ed Wood, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Peewee’s Big Adventure, Mars Attack!, Corpse Bride, Sleepy Hollow, Big Eyes)
38. John Hughes (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Breakfast Club, Uncle Buck, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Home Alone)
37. Rian Johnson (Knive’s Out, Glass Onion, Looper, Breaking Bad, Brick, The Brothers Bloom, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Wake Up Dead Man)
36. Richard Linklater (Boyhood, The Before Trilogy, School of Rock, Dazed and Confused, Hitman, Walking Life, Apollo 10 1/2, Tape, Last Flag Flying)
35. Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Shape of Water, Blade 2, Hellboy 1/2, Pacific Rim, Cronos, Crimson Peak, Nightmare Alley)
34. Jordan Peele (Get Out, Nope, Us, Him, Black Klansman, The Last OG, Candyman, Wendell & Wild)
33. Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles, Robin Hood: Men In Tights, Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein, The Producers, History of the World Part 1, Silent Movie)
32. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, Dracula, The Rainmaker, Megalopolis)
31. The Coen Brothers (No Country For Old Men, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Burn After Reading, O Brother Where Art Thou, Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink)
30. Sergio Leone (The Dollars Trilogy, Once Upon A Time In the West, Once Upon A Time In America, Duck You Sucker!, Colossus of Rhodes)
29. Matt Reeves (The Batman, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes, Cloverfield, The Pallbearer)
28. Brad Bird (The Incredibles Trilogy, Ratatouille, The Iron Giant, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, Tomorrowland)
27. Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird, Barbie, Little Women, Nights and Weekends, Chronicles of Narnia (Upcoming))
26. Alfonso Cuaron (Prisoner of Azkaban, Gravity, Children of Men, Roma, Y tu mama tambien, A Little Princess, Great Expectations)
25. Rob Reiner (Princess Bride, This Is Spinal Tap, A Few Good Men, Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally, American President, The Sure Thing)
24. The Russo Brothers (Avengers: Infinity War, Endgame, Doomsday, Secret Wars, Captain America: Civil War/Winter Soldier, The Gray Man, Cherry, Community, You Me and Dupree, Welcome to Collinwood, Agent Carter)
23. Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral, Mindhunter, Inside Man, Thief, Last of the Mohicans, Public Enemies, Ferrari, Ali, Blackhat)
22. John McTiernan (Predator, Die Hard, Die Hard With A Vengeance, Hunt for the Red October, Thomas Crown Affair, Last Action Hero, Basic)
21. Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, King Kong, Heavenly Creatures, Braindead, Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, They Shall Not Grow Old, Lovely Bones)
20. Sam Mendes (Skyfall, Spectre, American Beauty, 1917, Road to Perdition, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Jarhead)
19. Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok/Love & Thunder, Jojo Rabbit, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, What We Do In the Shadows, Next Goal Wins)
18. PTA (There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, The Master, Punch-Drunk Love, Phantom Thread, Licorice Pizza, Inherent Vice, Hard Eight)
17. Wes Anderson (Grand Budapest Hotel, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, Life Aquatic, Asteroid City, French Dispatch, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Isle of Dogs)
16. James Mangold (Logan, Ford v. Ferrari, Cop Land, 3:10 To Yuma, Walk the Line, The Wolverine, Girl Interrupted, Identity, Indiana Jones 5)
15. Sam Raimi (Spider-Man, Evil Dead, A Simple Plan, Drag Me To Hell, Dr. Strange 2, Darkman, The Quick and the Dead)
14. Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Alien, Blade Runner, The Martian, The Last Duel, Black Hawk Down, American Gangster, Thelma & Louise, Legend, Kingdom of Heaven, Matchstick Men)
13. Richard Donner (Superman, Lethal Weapon, The Omen, The Goonies, Scrooged, Ladyhawke, Maverick, Conspiracy Theory, Assassins, Inside Moves)
12. Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, La La Land, Babylon, First Man, Guy and Madeline On A Park Bench)
11. David Fincher (Fight Club, Seven, Social Network, Zodiac, Gone Girl, The Game, Mank, The Killer, Girl w/ the Dragon Tattoo, Benjamin Button, Panic Room)
10. Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, The Departed, Mean Streets, King of Comedy, Wolf of Wall Street, etc.)
9. Robert Zemeckis (Back To the Future, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Contact, Polar Express, Flight, The Walk, Romancing the Stone, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
8. David Leitch (John Wick, Deadpool 2, Bullet Train, The Fall Guy, Hobbs & Shaw, Atomic Blonde, With Love)
7. Edgar Wright (Baby Driver, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Last Night In Soho, Fistful of Fingers, The Running Man)
6. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Django Unchained, Hateful Eight, Inglorious Basterds, Kill Bill, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Jackie Brown, Death Proof)
5. Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Barry Lyndon, Full Metal Jacket, Clockwork Orange, Paths of Glory, Eyes Wide Shut, Dr. Strangelove, Spartacus)
4. James Cameron (Aliens, Terminator 1/2, Avatar 1-5, Titanic, The Abyss, True Lies, Piranha 2: The Spawning)
3. Denis Villenueve (Dune Part 1/2, Arrival, Prisoners, Blade Runner 2049, Sicario, Enemy, Incendies, Polytechnique)
2. Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones, Jaws, Jurassic Park, ET, Schindler’s List, Close Encounters, Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report, etc.)
1. Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Trilogy, The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar, Tenet, Memento, Dunkirk, Oppenheimer, Insomnia, Following)
Nolan is my #1. Some other favorites would be Cameron, Fincher, Spielberg, Villeneuve, Snyder, Zemeckis
And here are mine, because I can:
1. Quentin Tarantino
2. Wes Anderson
3. Paul Thomas Anderson
4. Wim Wenders
5. Wong Kar-Wai
6. Andrei Tarkovsky
7. Jean-Luc Godard
8. Martin Scorsese
9. Martin Mcdonaugh
10. Coen Bros.
11. Kevin Smith
12. Pedro Almadovar
13. Ingmar Bergman
14. Woody Allen
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be:
1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood)
2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
3. Steven Spielberg (E.T)
4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles)
5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
7. David Fincher (Fight Club)
8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc)
9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E)
10. John Lasseter (Cars)
My favorite director is Tarantino but a Nolan film is what i wanna do most lol
My personal favourite Director is Quentin Tarantino followed by Christopher Nolan and Rian Johnson.
Looper and Knives out are both fucking fantastic movies. The last Jedi… not so much. Mad respect for Rian Johnson tho, taking criticism with stride, and improving because of it.
@@theobsidiansimp8626 Rian Johnson also directed some of the best Breaking Bad episodes most notable being Ozymandias.
Brick is criminally underrated
@@NPS2204 shit, I forgot about that
10. Brad Bird
9. Quentin Tarantino
8. Christopher Nolan
7. David Fincher
6. James Cameron
5. Richard Donner
4. John McTiernan
3. John Hughes
2. Robert Zemeckis
1. Steven Spielberg
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be:
1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood)
2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
3. Steven Spielberg (E.T)
4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles)
5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
7. David Fincher (Fight Club)
8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc)
9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E)
10. John Lasseter (Cars)
Not sure if you’ve seen Casino, but if you haven’t just check it out. It’s so damn good.
Christopher Nolan
Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarantino
David Fincher
Damien Chazelle
James Wan
Denis Villenueve
James Cameron
Mel Brooks
Edgar Wright
James Mangold
So many I can’t choose
David Fincher for me, but I love Denis Villaneuve and Taylor Sheridan.
Thank you for doing this. I found your channel during the Halloween Kills hype, and I've been watching your old content frequently at work. I love this shit. Props.
10) Yorgos Lanthimos
9) Todd Solondz
8) David Cronenberg
7) The Coen Brothers
6) Steven Spielberg
5) John Carpenter
4) Wes Anderson
3) David Lynch
2) Martin Scorsese
1) Quentin Tarantino
Steven Spielberg. War horse
Wes craven. Nightmare on elm Street
Roger Donaldson. Dante's peak
Michael Bay. Armageddon
Clint Eastwood. American sniper
My Top 10 Directors and favourite films they've directed:
1. Matt Reeves( Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)
2. James Cameron( The Terminator)
3. Steven Spielberg( Jurassic Park)
4. The Russo Brothers( Avengers Infinity War)
5. David Cronenberg( The Fly)
6. Stephen Sommers (The Mummy)
7. George Lucas( Revenge of the Sith)
8. Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge)
9. Paul Verhoeven (Hollow Man)
10. John Carpenter (The Thing)
10. Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
9. Matthew Vaughn - Kingsman: The Secret Service
8. Edgar Wright - Hot Fuzz
7. John Waters - Serial Mom
6. Tim Burton - Batman Returns
5. David Fincher - Fight Club
4. Sofia Coppola - Somewhere
3. Guillermo del Toro - Pan’s Labyrinth
2. Pedro Almodóvar - Pain And Glory
1. Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill / Death Proof
Love that you dig John Carpenter. My favorite directors are. 1. John Huston(The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon), 2. Stanley Kubrick(Dr Strangelove, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange) 3. John Carpenter(The Thing, They Live, The Fog, Halloween) 4. Martin Scorsese(Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, The Departed) 5. Alfred Hitchcock(Psycho) 6. Ridley Scott(Alien) 7. Steven Spielberg(Saving Private Ryan, Jaws) 8. Francis Ford Coppola(Godfather 1&2) 9. John Schlesinger(Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man) 10. George Roy Hill(The Sting, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid)
This is my list:
1. Denis Villeneuve
(Blade Runner 2049)
2. Christopher Nolan
(Memento)
3. Quentin Tarantino
(Django Unchained)
4. Guillermo del Toro
(Hellboy 1 & 2)
5. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
(The Revenant)
6. Martin Scorsese
(Gangs of New York)
7. John Carpenter
(In the Mouth of Madness)
8. Matt Reeves
(Cloverfield)
9. Paul Thomas Anderson
(There Will Be Blood)
10. George Miller
(Mad Max: The Road Warrior and Fury Road equally)
1. James Cameron (Avatar)
2. Denis Villeneuve (Dune)
3. Quentin Tarantino (Inglorious Bastards)
4. Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight)
5. James Mangold (Logan)
6. Matt Reeves (War For The Planet of The Apes)
7. Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park)
8. Ridley Scott (Alien)
9. John Carpenter (Halloween)
10. Peter Jackson (The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring)
11. David Fincher (Seven)
12. Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth)
13. Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York)
14. Spike Lee (Do The Right Thing)
15. Sam Raimi (Spider-Man)
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be:
1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood)
2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
3. Steven Spielberg (E.T)
4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles)
5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
7. David Fincher (Fight Club)
8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc)
9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E)
10. John Lasseter (Cars)
1. Stanley Kubrick - The Shining
2. Coen Brothers - Fargo
3. John Carpenter - The Thing
4. Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
5. Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
6. James Cameron - Terminator 2
7. Ridley Scott - Alien
8. John McTiernan - Die Hard
9. Steven Spielberg - The Last Crusade
10. Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be:
1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood)
2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
3. Steven Spielberg (E.T)
4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles)
5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
7. David Fincher (Fight Club)
8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc)
9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E)
10. John Lasseter (Cars)
Fincher's my clear numero uno. His ability to explore and depict the dark side of human nature in such compelling fashion is second to none, IMO. On top of his filmography I thought his work on Mindhunter was spectacular.
So many honorable mentions to throw out there. Big fan of Cronenberg, Hitchcock, Scorcese, Nolan, Carpenter, to name a few. Villeneuve is moving up my list quickly. BR2049 and Prisoners are two of my favorite films of the past decade. And I guess Cameron has to be there cause of Aliens and T2. And Spielberg cause of Indiana Jones, Catch Me If You Can, SPR, Jaws, Minority Report, etc. Eh, I'll stop now before my comment gets any longer...
Here is my top 5:
5. Wes Craven
4. Christopher Nolan
3. John Carpenter
2. Stephen Spielberg
1. James Cameron
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be:
1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood)
2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
3. Steven Spielberg (E.T)
4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles)
5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
7. David Fincher (Fight Club)
8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc)
9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E)
10. John Lasseter (Cars)
Most successful versatile director of all time has to be Spielberg.
Ghost of Mars is my favorite guilty pleasure horror film. I love John Carpenter 🔥🔥🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽😩
Very hard list but here's mine.
10. Ridley Scott
9. Tony Scott
8. James Wan
7. Antoine Fuqua
6. Brian De Palma
5. David Cronenberg
4. Steven Spielberg
3. John Carpenter
2. Christopher Nolan
1. Martin Scorsese
Stanley Kubrick is at the top for me.
With him, you get the sense that every frame is meticulously crafted. Any of his films can be used as an example of film as an artform.
And he made my favourite film of all time, 2001: a space odyssey.
1. Steven Speilberg - The Last Crusade
2. David Fincher - Se7en
3. Stanely Kubrick - The Shining
4. Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
5. Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill
6. James Cameron - Aliens
7. Sam Raimi - Spider-ma
8. Richard Donner - Lethal Weapon 2
9. Ridley Scott - Blade Runner
10. Edgar Wright - Baby Driver
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be:
1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood)
2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
3. Steven Spielberg (E.T)
4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles)
5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
7. David Fincher (Fight Club)
8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc)
9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E)
10. John Lasseter (Cars)
Thank you Cody for showing Robert Zemeckis some love.
I'd say that even based on the 3 films I've seen from him (What We Do In The Shadows, Hunt For The Wilderpeople and especially Jojo Rabbit), Waititi has secured his spot on my list.
Top 5 for me:
5) Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho)
4) Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight)
3) John Carpenter (The Thing)
2) Steven Spielberg (Jaws)
1) Wes Craven (Scream)
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be:
1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood)
2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
3. Steven Spielberg (E.T)
4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles)
5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
7. David Fincher (Fight Club)
8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc)
9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E)
10. John Lasseter (Cars)
Really good list, man.
I think my personal top 10 would be:
10. Stanley Kubrick (The Shining)
9. Sam Mendes (1917)
8. Hayao Miyazaki (Howl's Moving Castle)
7. Martin Campbell (Casino Royale)
6. Sam Raimi (Spiderman 2)
5. Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands)
4. Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049)
3. Martin Scorcese (The Departed)
2. Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins)
1. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood)
I will always love Wes Craven, something about how he shot scenes just interested me. I like he shot the hallway dream scene in the first elm street movie. And scream it’s just wonderfully shot from beginning to end. Oh and I like Gilmore Del Toro.
No need to list my favorites because you just said most of them and it would be redundant LOL. But seriously great video man you are hands down one of the best RUclipsrs going today 👊
My top 10 ever :
1. Quentin Tarantino, the best of al time by far
2. Cohen Brothers , the big lebowski, no country, fargo , Omg ! I love them
3. Martin scorsese
4. Sergio leone
5. James Cameron
6. Robert zemeckis
7. Farelly brothers
8 . Peter jackson ( lord and hobbit trilogy's)
9. Paul thomas Anderson
10. Ridley scott
A nice list as usual Sir; a couple unexpected choices, and a couple others that ranked unexpectedly high.
Agreed on Scorsese, but I’d put Taxi Driver & Raging Bull ahead of Goodfellas & The Departed (though all four rank among my all-time favorites). I’m not as keen on some of his films as many others are, but he’s made more than enough all-time greats to make up for that.
Even with Die Hard & Predator rating so highly with you, I wasn’t sure if McTiernan would appear here - obviously I should have been!
Spielberg tends to overshadow Zemeckis, so I’m glad you put both on your list; Schindler’s List is my favorite of the former’s work, while Roger Rabbit is the latter’s best.
Guys like Cameron, Tarantino & Leone don’t have huge filmographies but they make up for that with consistently high quality work; Leone would definitely make my own list - the Dollars Trilogy & Once Upon a Time in the West are among my all-time favorites - while the other two would certainly be in the running. I agree with you on Terminator 2 being Cameron’s best movie, while we’re pretty far apart on Tarantino: Jackie Brown is my favorite, while I’d Pulp Fiction in the lower half of his filmography. (I believe Leone is Tarantino’s favorite director of all time.)
I like Nolan’s work - particularly Interstellar & Memento - but wouldn’t yet put him on a list like this. Same goes for Fincher, whose middle-period films like Zodiac & The Social Network I admire greatly but whose early movies (Se7en & Fight Club) I’ve never shared the love for.
Knew Carpenter would make it here, but wasn’t sure exactly where he’d rank; I love many of his movies - we agree on The Thing being his best - but his track record is a little too spotty for him to make my list. He had an amazing streak from the late 1970s to the late 1980s, but since then In the Mouth of Madness is the only film of his I’ve liked.
Two directors that would definitely make my list - and rank high to boot - are David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Hobson’s Choice, Brief Encounter) and Billy Wilder (The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, Ace in the Hole). Both made a lot of terrific films and had very few misfires. The former might be the best director to come out of Great Britain (though Powell, Hitchcock & more recently McQueen give him some strong competition) while the latter is probably the best filmmaker of the Classic Hollywood period.
As for American directors, I’d definitely put the Coen brothers on my list; they’ve made a lot of terrific films and have yet to come up with one I’ve disliked (though I’ve been tepid on a few). No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man, The Big Lebowski & Barton Fink are all fantastic.
Another I’d put on is Woody Allen; he has a much more inconsistent filmography than the others I’ve mentioned, but he’s also the most prolific (by far) and deserves high placement simply by the sheer number of excellent movies he’s made: Hannah & Her Sisters is my favorite, but Manhattan, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Radio Days, Annie Hall, Another Woman, and so on are terrific too.
Speaking of prolific directors with somewhat spotty track records, I’d also find a place for Ingmar Bergman; Persona is an all-time favorite, while Fanny & Alexander, Wild Strawberries, and others are really good as well. Same goes for Clint Eastwood, who has given us some duds but also given us Unforgiven, the Iwo Jima movies, The Outlaw Josey Wales & Mystic River.
Two of the main indie directors of the 1990s would be in the running, with one if not both making my list: John Sayles & Richard Linklater. Sayles’ filmography is a little more qualitatively consistent than Linklater’s, while Linklater’s high points (the Before Trilogy) exceed Sayles’.
Krzysztof Kieslowski made the Three Colors Trilogy - which vies with the Before series as my all-time favorite trilogy - as well as the ten-part Decalogue and a handful of other really good films, so I’d probably put him on too.
As for Japanese directors, Kurosawa always makes these lists but I’d put Yasujiro Ozu on before him; the quality of Ozu’s work is certainly more consistent than Kurosawa’s, and he manages to achieve great impact while keeping his movies mostly quiet. Tokyo Story is his most famous film, but he’s made several other great ones. Masaki Kobayashi, who made The Human Condition (another great trilogy) as well as Kwaidan (a terrific horror anthology film you should check out) and Hara-Kiri is a relatively unsung director who’d be in contention as well.
There are some directors on the scene now that might make my list one day, if they continue to pump out films of the quality that they have been: Denis Villeneuve (certainly the best sci-fi director we have right now), Martin McDonagh (one of the best writer-directors), Alexander Payne (who hasn’t done much in the last decade but had a fantastic run before that) & Damien Chazelle (who’s young enough that there’s no reason for him not to become one of the all-time greats as long as he doesn’t seriously screw things up).
I’ve omitted lot of excellent pre-1960s filmmakers that would probably make my list but (a) I’ve written enough already, and (b) they probably wouldn’t be that familiar to most reading this, so might as well leave them off. Have also not included some great directors of animated movies for reasons of space.
Hope you had a good Thanksgiving.
You sir have great taste, and much more film knowledge than most people here😎👌
@@Johnnysmithy24 Why thank you!
@@distinguishedflyer You’re welcome :)
This is my top 10:
1 - Steven Spielberg
2 - Christopher Nolan
3 - James Cameron
4 - Tim Burton
5 - Peter Jackson
6 - Wes Anderson
7 - Robert Zemeckis
8 - George Lucas
9 - Michael Bay
10 - Chris Columbus
My top 10 Directors would be
1. Edgar Wright - The World's End
2. Steven Spielberg - Jurassic Park
3. David Fincher - The Social Network
4. James Cameron - Titanic
5. Peter Jackson - Braindead
6. Christopher Nolan - Inception
7. Gore Verbinski - Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Mans Chest
8. Matthew Vaughn - Kick-Ass
9. Tim Burton - Edward Scissorhands
10. James Waan - Insidious
Great list and definitely understandable. Absolutely. But I am surprised you didn't list Shane Black 😆 I know you're a Shane Black fanatic so I was waiting for that and definitely love your number one pick.
Peter Jackson would be somewhere in my top 10 just because of Lord of the Rings trilogy :) and King Kong was not too bad either
1. Stanley Kubrick
2. David Fincher
3. Terrence Malick
4. PTA (Paul Thomas Anderson)
5, Sam Raimi
6. Gore Verbinski
7. Chris Columbus
8. Martin Scorcese
9, John Carpenter
10. Mary Hannon
My personal favorite directors, my favorite film of theirs will under their name, Also I'm gonna do a Top 30 list:
30. Robert Zemeckis
Back to the Future
29. Alfred Hitchcock
North by Northwest
28. Orson Welles
Citizen Kane
27. Jordan Peele
Get Out
26. James Gunn
The Suicide Squad
25. Mel Gibson
Braveheart
24. Matthew Vaughn
Kingsman: The Secret Service
23. Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
22. Irvin Kershner
The Empire Strikes Back
21. Sergio Leone
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
20. Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Rublev
19. Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather
18. David Lynch
Mulholland Drive
17. Brad Bird
The Iron Giant
16. Ingmar Bergman
The Seventh Seal
15. James Cameron
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
14. Edgar Wright
Hot Fuzz
13. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
No Country for Old Men
12. Denis Villeneuve
Arrival
11. Ridley Scott
Gladiator
10. Martin Scorsese
Goodfellas
9. Damien Chazzele
Whiplash
8. Paul Thomas Anderson
There Will Be Blood
7. David Fincher
The Social Network
6. Quentin Tarantino
Pulp Fiction
5. Christopher Nolan
The Dark Knight
4. Stanley Kubrick
2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Akira Kurosawa
Seven Samurai
2. Steven Spielberg
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1. Wes Anderson
The Grand Budapest Hotel
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be:
1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood)
2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
3. Steven Spielberg (E.T)
4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles)
5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
7. David Fincher (Fight Club)
8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc)
9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E)
10. John Lasseter (Cars)
Was kinda upset not to see Brian DePalma on the list, but oh well, still a great top 10.
Code Man, what an excellent list dude! Kudos for celebrating Carpenter! I'd like to add a few more to the proceedings: Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, David Lynch and Ridley Scott!
I guessed on your schedule page. Let's see how I did
Edit: 5 for 10. I'm disappointed but can't say this isn't an awesome list.
Michael Mann-Last of the Mohicans was one of my first r-rated movies and it's a killer. Great action and scores and his action makes you think.
David Fincher-
Brad Bird-The Incredibles. My #2 of all time. Only Tomorrowland was a dud and it's at least interesting.
The Russo brothers-Endgame. I haven't heard a theater lose it's mind like this. 4 of the best comic book movies ever. We'll talk about the streak for decades.
Robert Rodriguez-I loved The Spy Kids movies as a kid and his grown up stuff kicks butt. Desparado, From Dusk Till Dawn,Sin City, Machete, so much awesome.
Christopher Nolan-The man is getting very close to overrated for me (wasn't crazy about Tenet,Interstellar or Dunkirk but they aren't terrible per say). I love TDK,Inception and The Prestige may be my favorite of his flicks. Glad we have a intelligent blockbuster specialist like him even if I think he crowds out a lot of the other guys.
Stephen Sodenbergh
Richard Donner
Steven Spielberg
Robert Reinner
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Here's mine: 10 David Fincher, 9 Christopher Nolan, 8 John McTiernan, 7 Robert Zemeckis, 6 Tim Burton, 5 Terry Gilliam, 4 John Hughes, 3 Wes Craven, 2 John Carpenter, 1 Steven Spielberg
My favourite director is James Cameron
My two favourites are Quentin Tarantino(love all his movies but Django) and James Cameron(I don’t like Avatar and Titanic)... John Carpenter is my number 3!
I also think Kenneth Branagh and Spielberg are great as directors but I don’t like a big chunk of the movies they choose to direct.
Bill Paxton did an awesome job with Frailty and Frank Darabont did a great job with all of his movies, but both are not prolific enough to be considered the best...
say what you will but i loved zack snyders take on dawn of the dead.
John Carpenter would be on my list for the thing alone lol
My favorite Spielberg film is his first one....Duel. Made for TV.
Awesome list brother. Love all 10!
Next topic should be the top five best director/actor duo. Other than that great list.
Very curious for The Thing, I am absolutely not a horror guy, but after countless of recommendations by you Cody, we bought it this month and it will be watched in a few weeks. Favourite directors will be Nolan (Inception), Fincher (Gone Girl and Seven), Reeves (Planet of the Apes), Spielberg (Jurassic Park) and Taika Waititi (Hunt for the Wilderpeople and What we do in the Shadows), and probably someone I am forgetting
Brian De Palma is a new favorite of mine. Dressed to Kill, Blow out and Body Double are great movies
I honestly couldn't tell you my favorite director but I have a big fan of Ridley Scott and David Fincher both of which worked on the alien franchise funnily enough.
Hey Cody. Love all your stuff.Are you going to do rankings on all Steven Spielbergs films?
My favourite is undoubtedly Rob Zombie, the dialogue in his movies is gold! (no)
THANK YOU for putting Zemeckis. So underrated when he shouldn’t be. You mentioned all his great movies, I’m gonna add Polar Express, one of my favorite Christmas movies
10. Martin Scorsese (Hugo)
9. Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future)
8. Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strange love)
7. Wes Craven (The original Nightmare on Elm Street)
6. Woody Allen (Annie Hall)
5. John Landis (An American Werewolf in London)
4. Tim Burton (Big Eyes)
3. Quenten Tarantino (Django Unchained)
2. Steven Spielberg (indiana Jones and the last crusade)
My number 1 is sort of a tie between Barry Sonnenfeld and Wes Anderson.
My favorite film from Sonnenfeld is Men in Black 3 and as for Wes Anderson my favorite of his is Moonrise Kingdom.
Honorable mentions are M. Night Shyamalan and Christopher Nolan. To anyone who says all of Shyamalan's films are garbage let me correct that and say that the only movies he made that were garbage was the lady in the water, The Happening, Last Airbender, and After Earth.
What about Ridley Scott?
Tarantino will always be in my top 10 favorite directors. Robert Rodriguez is another favorite of mine.
10. Mel Gibson - Apocalypto, Braveheart, and Hacksaw Ridge
9. John Carpenter - Halloween and Escape from New York
8. The Safdie Brothers - Good Time
7. Matt Reeves - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Cloverfield
6. Denis Villenueve - Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival
5. Steven Spielberg - Jaws, Minority Report, Jurassic Park
4. Sam Raimi - Spider-Man trilogy and Evil Dead
3. M. Night Shyamalan - Unbreakable
2. Christopher Nolan - Inception and Memento
1. David Fincher - Fight Club and The Social Network
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
• Martin Scorsese - Mean Streets and Raging Bull
• Zack Snyder - Dawn of the Dead and Justice League: Snyder Cut
• Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu - The Revenant and Babel
• Leigh Whannell - Upgrade
• Wes Craven - Scream
• Gareth Evans - The Raid
• Martin Campbell - Casino Royale, Edge of Darkness, The Foreigner
• Sam Mendes - Skyfall, Road to Perdition, and 1917
• Bong joon-ho: Snowpiercer and Parasite
Cody like your top ten movie directors. It is sad about Wes Craven. He could give us another Nightmare On Elm Street movie. Steven Spielberg is one of my favorites.
@10:00 "It's not Vintage... It's Retro." -Jake
All outstanding choices.
Planes trains and automobiles is my favorite John Hughes movie ever along with the Breakfast club , but planes trains is in my top 3 fav comedies of all time
My top 10 favorite directors (and...very difficult!...my favorite movie by them):
-Joel & Ethan Coen --> O Brother, Where Art Thou?
-Ridley Scott --> Blade Runner
-Robert Zemeckis --> Back To The Future
-Steven Spielberg --> Close Ecounters Of The Third Kind
-Tim Burton --> Corpse Bride
-Sergio Leone --> Once Upon A Time In The West
-Alfred Hitchcock --> Psycho
-Don Siegel --> Escape From Alcatraz
-Blake Edwards --> A Shot In The Dark
-John Carpenter --> The Thing
10... Robert Zemeckis...
09... Alfred Hitchcock...
08... David Cronenberg...
07... Edgar Wright...
06... Peter Jackson...
05... Martin Scorsese...
04... Clint Eastwood...
03... Steven Spielberg...
02... The Coen Brothers...
01... Quentin Tarantino ...
That’s a great list. I don’t know about you but I had a real difficult time making my list, but mine would be:
1. Tim Burton (Ed Wood)
2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
3. Steven Spielberg (E.T)
4. Brad Bird (The Incredibles)
5. Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
6. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
7. David Fincher (Fight Club)
8. Pete Doctor (Monsters, Inc)
9. Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E)
10. John Lasseter (Cars)
My Favorite Movies and The Directors:
1.Steve Barron, TMNT 1990
2.Chris Columbus, Home Alone 1&2 1990, 1992
3.Wes Craven, Scream 1996
4.Martin Campbell, Casino Royal 2006
5.Clay Kaytis, Christmas Chronicles 2018
for me as a horror fan wes craven will always have a special place in my heart
My top 5 (6 technically) are:
1. The Coen Brothers
2. Martin Scorsese
3. John Carpenter
4. Frank Darabont
5. David Lynch
So difficult to pick up a top 10 of my favorite directors...can I try a top 50?
I'd like to know your opinion:
-Alfred Hitchcock
-Akira Kurosawa
-Stanley Kubrick
-Ingmar Bergman
-John Sturges
-Yoshishige Yoshida
-Clint Eastwood
-Sidney Lumet
-Roman Polanski
-Yasujiro Ozu
-Jean-Pierre Melville
-Federico Fellini
-John Frankenheimer
-Kenji Mizoguchi
-Delmer Daves
-Fritz Lang
-Maya Deren
-Hiroshi Shimizu
-Robert Siodmak
-Luis García Berlanga
-Mario Bava
-Woody Allen
-Sam Peckinpah
-Don Siegel
-Blake Edwards
-Edgar Ulmer
-Mariano Ozores
-Roger Corman
-Terry Gilliam
-Heinosuke Gosho
-Tobe Hooper
-Martin Scorsese
-Quentin Tarantino
-John Carpenter
-Yasuzo Masumura
-Kevin Smith
-Joel Coen
-Hideo Gosha
-David Cronenberg
-Ringo Lam
-Seijun Suzuki
-Abel Ferrara
-David Lynch
-Takashi Miike
-John Woo
-Paul Verhoeven
-Joe Dante
-Brian DePalma
-Dario Argento
-Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Well, I stop
David Lynch and John Carpenter are my personal top two, but I also love me some Sam Raimi, Park Chan-Wook, Bong Joon Ho, Martin Scorcese, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, David Fincher, Edgar Wright, and Robert Eggers. Obviously, there are more, but that’s really the cream of the crop for me right now.
Ridley Scott, John Boorman,Sam Raimi.
No particular order:
Jordan Peele
John Carpenter
James Wan
Wes Craven
James Gunn
Steven Spielberg
Robert Rodriguez
M. Night Shyamalan
Tim Burton
David Lynch
My Top 30
1. Steven Spielberg
2. John Mctiernan
3. David Fincher
4. John Carpenter
5. James Cameron
6. Robert Zemekis
7. John Hughes
8. John Woo
9. Richard Donner
10. Quentin Tarantino
11. Martin Scorsese
12. Christopher Nolan
13. Matt Reeves
14. Andrew Davis
15. Wes Craven
16. James Mangold
17. Sam Raimi
18. Tony Scott
19. Wolfgang Peterson
20. Brian De Palma
21. Martin Campbell
22. Clint Eastwood
23. Ben Affleck
24. Edgar Wright
25. Peter Jackson
26. Ivan Reitman
27. Peter Hyams
28. Ishiro Honda
29. Guillermo Del Toro
30. Neil Blomkamp
My Personal Top 10 Favs
1. Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
2. Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
3. Steven Spielberg - Back to the Future
4. Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho
5. Francis Ford Coppola - Godfather II
6. John Carpenter - Halloween
7. Wes Craven - Scream
8. Spike Lee - Malcom X
9. George Lucas - A New Hope
10. Alfonso Cuarón - Prisoner of Azkaban
Excellent list
PTA has forever been my favourite, has three films in my top ten, and five in my top 50, liquorice pizza going to be amazing. Abel Ferrara is a close second behind him, he's one of the most daring, unique, chameleonic and just plain cool filmmakers of all time, and easily the most underrated filmmaker out there. Again, has at least 5 movies in my top 50. Lars Von Trier, Scorsese, Tarkovsky, Korine, Kar Wai, Tarantino (mostly for his 90's trilogy), Lynch, Cassavetes, Aronofsky, Noe, Kurosawa, Bergman, Godard, Malik, Refn, Claire Denis, and of course, Kubrick would all place on my favourites list too. Theres so many great ones out there i still need to get into more before i can call them favourites, Kiarostami and Angelopoulos being two that come to mind. Very respectable list, favourite filmmakers will always be the ones that make the films that feel the most tailored to you personally, and this list is clearly comprised of ones that mean the most to you. I Remember when your channel was on less than 1000 subs dude ur doing great
1. Steven Spielberg
2. Christopher Nolan
3. Martin Scorsese
4. Alfred Hitchcock
5. Stanley Kubrick
I usually stick to horror and comedy. Some historical stories. But even I couldn't ignore The Departed.
Great List...I had a hard time narrowing down the ten so I have four honorable mentions that could be substituted in at 9 & 10 depending on my mood. Also included favorite movie by each.
Hon. Mention: Olive Stone (Platoon), James Cameron (True Lies), Brian De Palma (The Untouchables), & Stanley Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket)
10. Roberts Zemeckis (Back to Future)
9. John Hughes (Breakfast Club)
8. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
7. Rob Reiner (Princess Bride)
6. Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window)
5. Kevin Smith (Dogma)
4. John Carpenter (Halloween)
3. Steven Spielberg (Raiders of Lost Ark)
2. Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas)
1. Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather Saga)
Great list