Favorite Directors

Favorite Directors

here is the List of my Favorite Directors (in order as of May 2010)

rank. Name (amount of their films i've seen) and my top 3 favorite films of theirs.

1. Martin Scorsese (12) Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, The Departed

2. Billy Wilder (12) Stalag 17, Some Like It Hot, Sunset Blvd

3. Clint Eastwood (13) Mystic River, Changeling, Unforgiven

4. Stanley Kubrick (12) The Killing, Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket

5. Alfred Hitchcock (26) Dial M for Murder, Rope, Strangers on a Train

6. Stephen Spielberg (14) Saving Private Ryan, Jaws, Schindlers List

7. Sergio Leone (5) The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, For A Few Dollars More, Once Upin a Time in the West

8. Fransis Ford Coppola (8) Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation

9. Elia Kazan (5) On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata!

10. Coen Brothers (8) No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man, Big Lebowski

11. Howard Hawks (10) Scarface, To Have and Have Not, Red River

12. John Huston (7) Treasure of the Sierra MAdre, The Man who Would Be King, African Queen

13. Sydney Lumet (6) Dog Day Afternoon, 12 Angry Men, Network

14. Frank Capra (5) It Happened one Night, Arsenic and Old Lace, Its a Wonderful Life

15. John Ford (10) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Grapes of Wrath, Stagecoach

16. George Cukor (6) My Fair Lady, Philadelphia Story, Gone With the Wind

17. Woody Allen (8) Love and Death, Sleeper, Annie Hall

18. Stanley Donnen (6) Singin in the Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Charade

19. Roman Polanski (4) The Pianist, The Ghost Writer, rosemarys Baby

20. David Fincher (6) Fight Club, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Seven

21. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (2) 21 Grams, Babel

22. Christopher Nolan (6) Memento, The Prestige, Dark Knight

23. David Lean (3) Bridge on the Riveer Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago

24. Terry Gilliam (7) Holy Grail, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Imaginarium of Doctor Parnasuss

25. Fritz Lang (5) M, The woman in the Window, Metropolis

26. Tim Burton (12) Beetle Juice, Sweeny Todd, Big Fish

27. Ridley Scott (7) Gladiator, Robin Hood, American Gangster

28. Charles Chaplin (7) The Circus, City Lights, Modern Times

29. Michael Mann (7) Heat, Collatera, Public Enemies

30. Geoge Stevens (5) Giant, a Place in the Sun, Gunga Din

31. Edward Zwick (5) Blood Diamond, Last Sumurai, Glory

32. Kevin Costner (4) Dances with Wolves, Open Range, The Postman

33. Mel Brooks (9) Young Frankenstein, Blazzing adles, Robin Hood Men in Tights

34. Danny Boyle (3) Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later, Trainspotting

35. Barry Levinson (9) Rain Man, Sleepers, Wag the Dog