Top 10 Favorite Directors

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  • @NeoConnor1
    @NeoConnor1 Год назад +1

    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)

  • @gravewalkerfilms2209
    @gravewalkerfilms2209 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @LyleVSXyle
    @LyleVSXyle Год назад +1

    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

  • @msalisbury
    @msalisbury 3 года назад +22

    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!

    • @user-xc7uo6md3n
      @user-xc7uo6md3n 3 года назад

      He has done a few top 50s

    • @Xpertfusion
      @Xpertfusion 3 года назад +1

      1) Hans Zimmer

    • @jonnyolson
      @jonnyolson 3 года назад

      @@Xpertfusion no doubt

    • @jonnyolson
      @jonnyolson 3 года назад +2

      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

    • @user-xc7uo6md3n
      @user-xc7uo6md3n 3 года назад

      @@jonnyolson have you heard Danny elfmans new songs 😂😂 he raps now apparently.

  • @chetn9ne
    @chetn9ne 3 года назад +18

    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)

  • @AlmightyBruce
    @AlmightyBruce 5 месяцев назад +1

    5: Sergio Leone
    4: Quentin Tarantino
    3: Ishiro Honda
    2: Akira Kurosawa
    1: Stanley Kubrick

  • @nl3064
    @nl3064 2 года назад +4

    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

    • @cooperwolfe5478
      @cooperwolfe5478 Год назад

      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)

  • @fijistarproductions990
    @fijistarproductions990 2 года назад +3

    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

    • @cooperwolfe5478
      @cooperwolfe5478 Год назад

      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)

  • @jeremyhughes4170
    @jeremyhughes4170 Год назад +1

    Steven Spielberg. War horse
    Wes craven. Nightmare on elm Street
    Roger Donaldson. Dante's peak
    Michael Bay. Armageddon
    Clint Eastwood. American sniper

  • @matiaspereira9382
    @matiaspereira9382 Год назад +1

    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

  • @skyofthelivingdead
    @skyofthelivingdead 3 года назад +4

    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

  • @BluRayAddict1
    @BluRayAddict1 3 года назад +10

    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

    • @arizonaFIREent
      @arizonaFIREent 3 года назад

      Kubrick and Lynch are the best!!!

    • @misterlint8077
      @misterlint8077 3 года назад

      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

  • @jasonvoorhees310
    @jasonvoorhees310 3 года назад +9

    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

    • @friedrichnietzsche7376
      @friedrichnietzsche7376 3 года назад

      Your last three are misplased at the end

    • @jasonvoorhees310
      @jasonvoorhees310 3 года назад

      @@friedrichnietzsche7376 no. My list is my list. Not anyone else's.

    • @natek4488
      @natek4488 2 года назад

      I'd have Matt Reeves on my personal list

  • @waynebonner9749
    @waynebonner9749 3 года назад +14

    That was a HELL of a list ... John Carpenter's my favourite - The Thing and Christine are beyond excellent and exceptional

    • @LeisureSuitLuis
      @LeisureSuitLuis 2 года назад

      Assault on Precinct 13 is phenomenal too.

  • @mediamaniac898
    @mediamaniac898 3 года назад +1

    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.

  • @ZoCrawford
    @ZoCrawford 3 года назад +2

    I’m liking the variety of content you’ve been putting out since going full time! 🔥

  • @montybruce6079
    @montybruce6079 3 года назад +7

    John carpenter is easily my number one too. Even ghost of Mars is a guilty pleasure of mine.

  • @harveydodd8803
    @harveydodd8803 3 года назад +3

    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.

  • @EpictasticJoshua
    @EpictasticJoshua 3 года назад +4

    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

    • @user-xc7uo6md3n
      @user-xc7uo6md3n 3 года назад +1

      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

    • @EpictasticJoshua
      @EpictasticJoshua 3 года назад

      @@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.

  • @hughjass69933
    @hughjass69933 3 года назад +1

    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)

  • @LeisureSuitLuis
    @LeisureSuitLuis 2 года назад +7

    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.

  • @jamesanthony288
    @jamesanthony288 2 года назад +2

    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)

    • @cooperwolfe5478
      @cooperwolfe5478 Год назад +1

      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)

  • @johnpoffenbarger5103
    @johnpoffenbarger5103 3 года назад +2

    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.

  • @mikeystevens4784
    @mikeystevens4784 3 года назад +3

    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

  • @rileylallier429
    @rileylallier429 2 года назад +1

    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

    • @cooperwolfe5478
      @cooperwolfe5478 Год назад

      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)

  • @jermainehaslam5634
    @jermainehaslam5634 3 года назад +1

    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)

  • @nickravera4069
    @nickravera4069 3 года назад +1

    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

  • @Antonio8885
    @Antonio8885 3 года назад

    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!

  • @rylan_reviews6493
    @rylan_reviews6493 3 года назад +4

    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

  • @dalton3706
    @dalton3706 3 года назад +2

    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

  • @shanefoster333
    @shanefoster333 3 года назад +1

    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.

  • @alexreeder2372
    @alexreeder2372 3 года назад +15

    R I p Wes craven what a legend

  • @georgek2222
    @georgek2222 2 года назад +1

    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)

    • @cooperwolfe5478
      @cooperwolfe5478 Год назад

      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)

  • @Robalexe
    @Robalexe 3 года назад +4

    Nolan is my #1. Some other favorites would be Cameron, Fincher, Spielberg, Villeneuve, Snyder, Zemeckis

  • @bratosin1
    @bratosin1 3 года назад +1

    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

  • @Robalexe
    @Robalexe 3 года назад +3

    Have you seen The Abyss from James Cameron? Incredible underrated movie

  • @sammysantoro9107
    @sammysantoro9107 3 года назад +1

    Not sure if you’ve seen Casino, but if you haven’t just check it out. It’s so damn good.

  • @theirongiants
    @theirongiants 2 года назад +1

    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

    • @cooperwolfe5478
      @cooperwolfe5478 Год назад

      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)

  • @legendarypsychomike4309
    @legendarypsychomike4309 3 года назад

    Next topic should be the top five best director/actor duo. Other than that great list.

  • @stevemcnary7963
    @stevemcnary7963 Год назад

    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)

  • @LegendOfTheBat
    @LegendOfTheBat 3 года назад +2

    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.

  • @gavinevans1687
    @gavinevans1687 3 года назад +1

    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

  • @Terminatorfan-2016
    @Terminatorfan-2016 3 года назад +1

    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.

  • @johnconnor17
    @johnconnor17 3 года назад

    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

  • @RayvenDraws
    @RayvenDraws 3 года назад +1

    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)

  • @AJDaniels99
    @AJDaniels99 3 года назад +1

    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 👊

  • @glenphillips4916
    @glenphillips4916 Год назад

    Hey Cody. Love all your stuff.Are you going to do rankings on all Steven Spielbergs films?

  • @jaynyce5923
    @jaynyce5923 3 года назад +2

    Ghost of Mars is my favorite guilty pleasure horror film. I love John Carpenter 🔥🔥🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽😩

  • @NPS2204
    @NPS2204 3 года назад +14

    My personal favourite Director is Quentin Tarantino followed by Christopher Nolan and Rian Johnson.

    • @theobsidiansimp8626
      @theobsidiansimp8626 3 года назад +2

      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.

    • @NPS2204
      @NPS2204 3 года назад +2

      @@theobsidiansimp8626 Rian Johnson also directed some of the best Breaking Bad episodes most notable being Ozymandias.

    • @bartlett247
      @bartlett247 3 года назад +2

      Brick is criminally underrated

    • @theobsidiansimp8626
      @theobsidiansimp8626 3 года назад +1

      @@NPS2204 shit, I forgot about that

  • @AliFrankTheTank
    @AliFrankTheTank 3 года назад +2

    My favorite director is Tarantino but a Nolan film is what i wanna do most lol

  • @JP5466
    @JP5466 3 года назад +2

    Most successful versatile director of all time has to be Spielberg.

  • @matsernn
    @matsernn 3 года назад

    Awesome list brother. Love all 10!

  • @rebecaukbr
    @rebecaukbr Год назад +1

    my top 10 directors and my favorite movie from them
    honorable mentions
    Brad bird best movie: The Incredibles
    John carpenter best movie: Halloween
    My top 10
    10. John mctiran best movie: Die hard
    9. Mel brooksbest movie: The elephant man
    8. Wes Anderson best movie: Fantastic Mr fox
    7. Hayao Miyazaki best movie: Howls moving castle
    6. David Fincher best movie: Fight club
    5. Martin Scorsese best movie: Goodfellas
    4. Christopher nolan best movie:The dark knight
    3. Tarantino best movie: Inglorious bas***ds
    2. James Camaron best movie: Aliens
    1. Steven Spielberg: Jurassic park

    • @cooperwolfe5478
      @cooperwolfe5478 Год назад

      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)

    • @rebecaukbr
      @rebecaukbr Год назад +1

      @@cooperwolfe5478 Love this list. yes it was hard there were alot of directors i want to include

    • @cooperwolfe5478
      @cooperwolfe5478 Год назад

      @@rebecaukbr Yeah it was a real struggle. A couple of directors that I really wanted to put on my list was Baz Luhrmann, Wes Anderson, and Paul Thomas Anderson.

  • @ThePragmaticScorpio
    @ThePragmaticScorpio 3 года назад +3

    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...

  • @rocknroll20024
    @rocknroll20024 3 года назад +1

    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.

  • @Webzilla8883
    @Webzilla8883 2 месяца назад

    1. Christopher nolan( the dark knight, Oppenheimer, interstellar, inception)
    2. Stanley kubrick(2001: a space odyssey, the shining, a clockwork orange, dr Strangelove, full metal jacket, Barry Lyndon, eyes wide shut, paths of glory)
    3. Denis villeneuve(dune, blade runner 2049, arrival, prisoners,
    Sicario, enemy, incendies)
    4. Steven Spielberg(Jurassic park,
    Jaws, Schindlers list, raiders of the lost ark, catch me if you can, saving private Ryan, E.T.: the extra terrestrial, minority report, ready player one, A.I. artificial intelligence, close encounters of the third kind, war of the worlds, the terminal, the color purple, Lincoln, empire of the sun, hook,
    Bridge of spies)
    5. Quentin tarantino(Pulp fiction,
    Kill bill, Django unchained, inglorious bastards, reservoir dogs, once upon a time in Hollywood, the hateful 8)
    6. Alfred Hitchcock(psycho, vertigo, rear window, north by northwest, the birds, rope, dial M for murder, notorious, Rebecca, strangers on a train, to catch a thief, shadow of a doubt, the lady vanishes, the 39 steps, spellbound, frenzy, the man who knew too much, the wrong man, Marnie)

  • @MatthewFerrisi
    @MatthewFerrisi 3 года назад

    All outstanding choices.

  • @1000000man1
    @1000000man1 7 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @BareBandSubscription
    @BareBandSubscription 3 года назад +1

    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.

  • @BL-mf3jp
    @BL-mf3jp 10 месяцев назад

    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

  • @Sir_Master_Kaino
    @Sir_Master_Kaino 3 года назад +1

    My favourite director is James Cameron

  • @TheOfficialJohnSilveira
    @TheOfficialJohnSilveira 3 года назад +1

    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

  • @tinomen2657
    @tinomen2657 2 года назад

    Was kinda upset not to see Brian DePalma on the list, but oh well, still a great top 10.

  • @SlasherInSuits
    @SlasherInSuits 3 года назад

    1. Scorsese
    2. Tarantino
    3. David Fincher
    4. Todd Phillips
    5. Spielberg
    6. Todd Phillips
    7.

  • @sleuthentertainment5872
    @sleuthentertainment5872 2 года назад +1

    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

  • @ste.6026
    @ste.6026 2 года назад +1

    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 ...

    • @cooperwolfe5478
      @cooperwolfe5478 Год назад +1

      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)

  • @jordansweet8054
    @jordansweet8054 3 года назад +2

    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

  • @ANGRYPHILMITCHELL
    @ANGRYPHILMITCHELL 3 года назад

    Great List! Cody!
    I have to have few Honorable Mentions first. John Singleton, Shane Meadows, Nancy Meyers, Barry Sonnenfield, David Fincher John Landis & Richard Linklater
    10. Farrelly Brothers
    9. Coen Brothers
    8. Lee Unkrich
    7. Tim Burton
    6. Chris Columbus
    5. Steven Spielberg
    4. Ron Howard
    3. Rob Reiner
    2. John Hughes
    1. Roberts Zemeckis/Wes Craven John Carpenter & Clint Eastwood (First place was tough)

  • @kevindobson3701
    @kevindobson3701 3 года назад

    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

  • @sensiblegear6049
    @sensiblegear6049 3 года назад +2

    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

  • @BurnsReviews
    @BurnsReviews 3 года назад

    @10:00 "It's not Vintage... It's Retro." -Jake

  • @nickdorenkamp959
    @nickdorenkamp959 3 года назад +1

    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.

  • @Crashking416
    @Crashking416 3 года назад +2

    My top ten (in no order):
    1. Alfred Hitchcock
    2. Bong Joon Ho
    3. Ingmar Bergman
    4. David Lowery
    5. Sam Mendes
    6. Robert Eggers
    7. Howard Hawkes
    8. David Lynch
    9. Orson Welles
    10. Fritz Lang

    • @alpha13446
      @alpha13446 3 года назад

      Love the Robert Eggers acknowledgement

  • @thebookgeek87
    @thebookgeek87 3 года назад

    Great list

  • @howardgilbert9862
    @howardgilbert9862 3 года назад

    Awesome list and your number 1 is for sure the best!

  • @ChelseaAllen420
    @ChelseaAllen420 3 года назад +2

    Thank you Cody for showing Robert Zemeckis some love.

  • @cormels4836
    @cormels4836 3 года назад

    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

  • @chuckjammy9251
    @chuckjammy9251 3 года назад

    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

  • @JohnNoir8911
    @JohnNoir8911 3 года назад

    Watching right now

  • @1977Eelco
    @1977Eelco 3 года назад

    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

  • @leandrodosul6407
    @leandrodosul6407 3 года назад

    awesome list! im suprised that Wes Craven isnt on your list!

  • @distinguishedflyer
    @distinguishedflyer 3 года назад +10

    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.

    • @Johnnysmithy24
      @Johnnysmithy24 2 года назад +1

      You sir have great taste, and much more film knowledge than most people here😎👌

    • @distinguishedflyer
      @distinguishedflyer 2 года назад +2

      @@Johnnysmithy24 Why thank you!

    • @Johnnysmithy24
      @Johnnysmithy24 2 года назад +1

      @@distinguishedflyer You’re welcome :)

  • @colewarnerreviews5834
    @colewarnerreviews5834 9 месяцев назад

    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

  • @Chris17an36
    @Chris17an36 Год назад +1

    Tim Burnton?? Hello?

  • @thesmellofadventure5370
    @thesmellofadventure5370 12 дней назад

    100. Joss Whedon (The Avengers 1/2, Much Ado About Nothing, Serenity, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Justice League)
    99. Chloe Zhao (Nomadland, The Rider, Eternals, Songs My Brothers Taught Me)
    98. Gina Prince Bythewood (The Woman King, The Old Guard, Love & Basketball, Beyond the Lights, Cloak & Dagger, Women of the Movement)
    97. Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler, Velvet Buzzsaw, Roman J. Israel Esq.)
    96. Christopher McQuarrie (Mission Impossible 5-8, Jack Reacher, The Way of the Gun)
    95. Zack Snyder (BvS, Justice League, Man of Steel, Dawn/Army of the Dead, Watchmen, 300, Sucker Punch, Rebel Moon)
    94. Hayoa Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Whisper of the Heart, The Boy & the Heron, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service)
    93. Daniel Kwan & Scheinert
    92. Ivan Reitman
    91. Alexander Payne
    90. David Lynch (R.I.P)(Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks, Inland Empire, Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, Dune)
    89. Steve McQueen
    88. Tony Scott
    87. Pete Docter
    86. Fede Alvarez
    85. John Woo
    84. Keneth Branagh
    83. George Miller
    82. Wes Craven
    81. M. Night Shamalayan
    80. Sidney Lumet
    79. Luca Guadagnino
    78. Lee Unkrich
    77. Clint Eastwood
    76. The Safdie Brothers
    75. Guy Ritchie
    74. Luc Besson
    73. Gavin O’Conner
    72. Ari Aster
    71. Scott Derrickson
    70. Spike Lee
    69. Spike Jonze
    68. Akira Kurosawa
    67. Peter Weir
    66. Lord & Miller
    65. Bryan Singer
    64. Roman Polanski (Awful person tho)
    63. Ang Lee
    62. S. Craig Zahler
    61. Alfred Hitchcock
    60. Brian DePalma
    59. Darren Aronofsky
    58. Kathryn Bigelow
    57. Martin McDonagh
    56. Mel Gibson
    55. Frank Darabont
    54. Alex Garland
    53. Ben Affleck
    52. Shawn Levy
    51. Richard Linklater
    50. Ryan Coogler
    49. Guillermo Del Toro
    48. Rob Reiner
    47. Bong Joon Ho
    46. Danny Boyle
    45. John Hughes
    44. Yorgos Lanthimos
    43. James Wan
    42. Robert Eggers
    41. Sergio Leone
    40. John Carpenter
    39. Rian Johnson
    38. Tim Burton
    37. Mel Brooks
    36. Jon Favreau
    35. Shane Black
    34. James Gunn
    33. Jordan Peele
    32. George Lucas
    31. Richard Donner
    30. Greta Gerwig
    29. John McTiernan
    28. Brad Bird
    27. The Coen Brothers
    26. Francis Ford Coppola
    25. Alfonso Cauron
    24. Michael Mann
    23. Alejandro G. Iñarritu
    22. The Russo Brothers
    21. Sam Mendes
    20. Peter Jackson
    19. Matt Reeves
    18. Paul Thomas Anderson
    17. Taika Waititi
    16. Wes Anderson
    15. James Mangold
    14. Ridley Scott
    13. Sam Raimi
    12. Robert Zemeckis
    11. Damien Chazelle
    10. David Fincher
    9. Martin Scorsese
    8. Stanley Kubrick
    7. David Leitch
    6. James Cameron
    5. Quentin Tarantino
    4. Edgar Wright
    3. Steven Spielberg
    2. Denis Villenueve
    1. Christopher Nolan

  • @gknow19
    @gknow19 3 года назад

    Hey codeman. Where's the merch? It's been a bit since I've seen a shirt. That'll get the patrons to bite

  • @williamsummerson1204
    @williamsummerson1204 3 года назад

    Great list cody. My top ten in order. No1 is a tie
    10. Alfred Hitchcock
    9. David Fincher
    8. Clint Eastwood
    7. Tony Scott & Ridley Scott
    6. John carpenter
    5. Quentin Tarantino
    4. Martin Scorsese
    3. Robert zemeckis
    2. Wes craven
    1. Steven Spielberg & George Lucas
    Honorable mentions.
    Patricia Jenkins
    Rob Reiner
    James Cameron
    Christopher nolan
    John Hughes
    I'm glad to see no Michael bay fans. 🤣

  • @wardenmagellan2643
    @wardenmagellan2643 3 года назад +2

    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...

    • @willhuey4462
      @willhuey4462 3 года назад +1

      say what you will but i loved zack snyders take on dawn of the dead.

  • @barbarianorc8301
    @barbarianorc8301 3 года назад

    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

  • @tokusatsulinking5969
    @tokusatsulinking5969 3 года назад

    Great list!👍

  • @ROCK_UNIVERSE97
    @ROCK_UNIVERSE97 3 года назад

    Excellent list

  • @benjaminkennedy5083
    @benjaminkennedy5083 3 года назад +1

    My top 5 (6 technically) are:
    1. The Coen Brothers
    2. Martin Scorsese
    3. John Carpenter
    4. Frank Darabont
    5. David Lynch

  • @my3rs307
    @my3rs307 3 года назад +1

    My favourite is undoubtedly Rob Zombie, the dialogue in his movies is gold! (no)

  • @davevannatta985
    @davevannatta985 3 года назад +1

    1. John Carpenter
    2. Brian De Palma
    3. Stanley Kubrick
    4. William Friedkin
    5. Ridley Scott and Tony Scott
    6. Sam Peckinpah
    7. Steven Spielberg
    8. Alan Parker
    9. Martin Scorsese
    10.David Lynch
    And on the god list. Alfred Hitchcock who cannot be ranked.

  • @bigkmoviesandgames
    @bigkmoviesandgames 3 года назад +1

    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.

  • @Thomas_of_the_forest
    @Thomas_of_the_forest 3 года назад

    Top 10 for me would be:
    1. David Lynch
    2. Martin Scorsese
    3. Stephen Spielberg
    4. Stanley Kubrick
    5. Christopher Nolan
    6. Danny Boyle
    7. David Fincher
    8. Robert Zemekis
    9. John Carpenter
    10. Tarantino (probably... can't think of another one who I love on the same level )
    After that, there are certainly other directors whose work I love, but they're the ones that I connect with the most with their whole filmography .

  • @timgorr4387
    @timgorr4387 3 года назад

    Cody, have you seen John Mctiernan’s first film? It’s a weird little horror film called Nomads starring Pierce Brosnan. I

  • @thijs6439
    @thijs6439 3 года назад

    for me as a horror fan wes craven will always have a special place in my heart

  • @JSPokemonYT
    @JSPokemonYT 3 года назад

    My Top 10 Favorite Directors:
    1.) Steven Spielberg
    2.) Hayao Miyazaki
    3.) Edgar Wright
    4.) Martin Scorsese
    5.) Christopher Nolan
    6.) James Cameron
    7.) Ridley Scott
    8.) Quentin Tarantino
    9.) Wes Craven
    10.) John Carpenter

  • @ashermoran611
    @ashermoran611 3 года назад

    Hey cody, great picks I love your channel anyway here's is my top three:
    3. Christopher Nolan
    2. Robert Zemeckis
    1. Steven Spielberg