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)
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.
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
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)
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 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)
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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)
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.
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
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)
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
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!
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
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
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.
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)
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
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)
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)
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.
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.
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
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)
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 👊
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.
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
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 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.
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...
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.
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)
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.
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.
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
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
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)
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
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)
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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. 🤣
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...
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.
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.
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 .
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
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)
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.
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
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
5: Sergio Leone
4: Quentin Tarantino
3: Ishiro Honda
2: Akira Kurosawa
1: Stanley Kubrick
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 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)
Steven Spielberg. War horse
Wes craven. Nightmare on elm Street
Roger Donaldson. Dante's peak
Michael Bay. Armageddon
Clint Eastwood. American sniper
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
I’m liking the variety of content you’ve been putting out since going full time! 🔥
Thank you
@@CodyLeachYT np
John carpenter is easily my number one too. Even ghost of Mars is a guilty pleasure of mine.
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.
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.
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)
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
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)
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.
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
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)
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
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!
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
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
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.
R I p Wes craven what a legend
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)
Nolan is my #1. Some other favorites would be Cameron, Fincher, Spielberg, Villeneuve, Snyder, Zemeckis
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
Have you seen The Abyss from James Cameron? Incredible underrated movie
Not sure if you’ve seen Casino, but if you haven’t just check it out. It’s so damn good.
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)
Next topic should be the top five best director/actor duo. Other than that great list.
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)
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.
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.
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
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)
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 👊
Hey Cody. Love all your stuff.Are you going to do rankings on all Steven Spielbergs films?
Ghost of Mars is my favorite guilty pleasure horror film. I love John Carpenter 🔥🔥🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽😩
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
My favorite director is Tarantino but a Nolan film is what i wanna do most lol
Most successful versatile director of all time has to be Spielberg.
Awesome list brother. Love all 10!
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
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)
@@cooperwolfe5478 Love this list. yes it was hard there were alot of directors i want to include
@@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.
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...
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.
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)
All outstanding choices.
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.
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.
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 favourite director is James Cameron
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
Was kinda upset not to see Brian DePalma on the list, but oh well, still a great top 10.
1. Scorsese
2. Tarantino
3. David Fincher
4. Todd Phillips
5. Spielberg
6. Todd Phillips
7.
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
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)
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
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)
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
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
@10:00 "It's not Vintage... It's Retro." -Jake
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.
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
Love the Robert Eggers acknowledgement
Great list
Awesome list and your number 1 is for sure the best!
Thank you Cody for showing Robert Zemeckis some love.
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
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
Watching right now
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
awesome list! im suprised that Wes Craven isnt on your list!
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 :)
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
Tim Burnton?? Hello?
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
Hey codeman. Where's the merch? It's been a bit since I've seen a shirt. That'll get the patrons to bite
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. 🤣
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.
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
Great list!👍
Excellent list
My top 5 (6 technically) are:
1. The Coen Brothers
2. Martin Scorsese
3. John Carpenter
4. Frank Darabont
5. David Lynch
My favourite is undoubtedly Rob Zombie, the dialogue in his movies is gold! (no)
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.
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.
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 .
Cody, have you seen John Mctiernan’s first film? It’s a weird little horror film called Nomads starring Pierce Brosnan. I
for me as a horror fan wes craven will always have a special place in my heart
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
Hey cody, great picks I love your channel anyway here's is my top three:
3. Christopher Nolan
2. Robert Zemeckis
1. Steven Spielberg