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    Default Favourite Directors

    I made a list where I ranked all movie directors I have rated at least 4 movies of, limiting myself to one movie per blockbuster series.

    For Alfred Hitchcock, 22 movies qualified, 12 of which I regard as 8\10s or better. My method for ranking each movie director was to determine an average score of the 12 movies I most highly regarded. There were actually only 7 directors my ranking who I have ratings for at least 12 qualifying movies, so I gave a crude estimate by inventing scores for other directors based on their worst movies.

    1. Alfred Hitchcock (22)
    2. Charlie Chaplin (13)
    3. Steven Spielberg (17)
    4. Woody Allen (23)
    5. Buster Keaton (10)
    6. Akira Kurosawa (12)
    7. Martin Scorsese (17)
    8. David Fincher (8)
    9. Stanley Kubrick (11)
    9. Quentin Tarantino (8)
    11. Ridley Scott (8)
    11. Ingmar Bergman (9)
    13. Billy Wilder (10)
    14. Howard Hawks (7)
    15. Jim Jarmusch (8)
    16. Coen Brothers (12)
    17. Hayao Miyazaki (8)
    18. Frank Capra (6)
    19. Christopher Nolan (7)
    19. Roman Polański (7)
    21. Luis Buñuel (10)
    22. Terry Gilliam (6)
    22. David Lean (7)
    24. Orson Welles (6)
    24. Andrei Tarkovsky (6)
    24. Wes Anderson (6)
    27. Edgar Wright (4)
    28. Tim Burton (8)
    29. Richard Linklater (5)
    30. Michael Powell (6)
    31. Clint Eastwood (7)
    32. Michael Apted (4)
    33. Emeric Pressburger (5)
    34. Fritz Lang (6)
    34. John Ford (6)
    34. Sidney Lumet (6)
    37. David Lynch (8)
    38. John Huston (5)
    39. Robert Wise (6)
    40. Sergio Leone (4)
    41. Denis Villeneuve (5)
    41. Werner Herzog (5)
    43. Jean-Luc Godard (6)
    44. James Cameron (4)
    44. John Landis (4)
    44. Brian De Palma (4)
    47. Robert Altman (5)
    47. Steven Soderbergh (5)
    47. Yasujiro Ozu (5)
    47. Nicholas Ray (5)
    51. Francis Ford Coppola (4)
    51. Edward F. Cline (4)
    51. Robert Zemeckis (4)
    51. Preston Sturges (4)
    51. Alexander Mackendrick (4)
    51. Krzysztof Kieślowski (4)
    51. Fred Zinnemann (4)
    51. Ang Lee (4)
    51. Alfonso Cuarón (4)
    51. F. W. Murnau (4)
    61. Federico Fellini (5)
    61. Wim Wenders (5)
    63. Ron Howard (4)
    63. Sydney Pollack (4)
    63. Richard Donner (4)
    63. John McTiernan (4)
    63. Peter Weir (4)
    68. Carl Th. Dreyer (4)
    68. Alejandro González Iñárritu (4)
    68. Paolo Sorrentino (4)
    71. Paul Greengrass (4)
    71. Mike Leigh (4)
    71. John Carpenter (4)
    71. Zhang Yimou (4)
    71. Danny Boyle (5)
    71. Paul Thomas Anderson (6)
    77. Tony Scott (4)
    78. Darren Aronofsky (4)
    79. David Cronenberg (5)
    80. Robert Rodríguez (4)



    I posted this list with the expectation that others would like to discuss their favourite and least favourite directors!

    My observation of my list is that it can be quite savage towards many highly regarded directors, including towards directors who have actually made one or two or more movies I really like or even love. Perhaps it penalizes those most who made some movies I find noteworthy if not outstanding, but also made some movies I found average or even outright abhorred.

    I'm astonished that Martin Scorsese scores so highly, but I think he has the advantage of having his score based on the 12 movies of the 17 I have rated that had the highest ratings. I'm also surprised that Quentin Tarantino scores so highly considering how much I despise him at his worst. I think also my method of ranking penalizes severely directors I love (e.g. Terry Gilliam) who made one or two bad movies and who I have not seen a huge number of movies for (which may in part due to them not being so prolific in producing movies).

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    Only including directors with at least one 9\10 or 10\10 movie as rated by me!:

    1. Alfred Hitchcock (22)
    2. Charlie Chaplin (13)
    3. Steven Spielberg (17)
    4. Buster Keaton (10)
    5. Akira Kurosawa (12)
    6. Martin Scorsese (17)
    7. Quentin Tarantino (8)
    7. Stanley Kubrick (11)
    9. Ridley Scott (8)
    10. Howard Hawks (7)
    10. Jim Jarmusch (8)
    12. Frank Capra (6)
    13. Christopher Nolan (7)
    13. Roman Polański (7)
    15. David Lean (7)
    15. Terry Gilliam (6)
    17. Andrei Tarkovsky (6)
    17. Orson Welles (6)
    19. Edgar Wright (4)
    20. Richard Linklater (5)
    21. Sergio Leone (4)
    22. Brian De Palma (4)
    22. John Landis (4)
    24. Ang Lee (4)
    25. Preston Sturges (4)
    26. John Carpenter (4)

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    This is so nice. We have 21 in common. I wouldn't go that far to list all of mine but I will post my top 10.

    Michael Mann
    D.W. Griffith
    Francis Ford Coppola
    Denis Villeneuve
    Jean Luc Godard
    Martin Scorsese
    John Ford
    Sam Peckinpah
    Michael Bay
    Jean Pierre Melville

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    @PussyInASarcophagus I only give 49 of the 80 I listed a raw average greater than the overall average of 7.37 or so. And they're not the top 49 on my list, due to the way I penalize directors who've not made so many movies! i.e. my list is essentially a ranking of a full spectrum from "very good" to "very bad".

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    I haven't given it much thought, but in no particular order of favorites: Kubrick, Scorsese, Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Tarkovsky, del Toro, and Tarantino.

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    in sparsed order:

    Linklater,
    Moretti,
    Loach,
    Lynch,
    Tarkowski,
    Resnais,
    Almodovar,
    Godard,
    Wenders,
    Antonioni,
    Kubrick,
    Pasolini,
    Leone,
    Wong Kar Wai,
    Kim Ki Duk,
    Yamada,
    Satrapi,
    Von Trier,
    Jodorowski,
    Sorrentino,
    Chaplin,
    Haneke,
    Van Sant,
    Coppola fam.,
    Ozpetek,
    Anderson,
    Argento,
    Burton,
    ...

    I'm sure I'm forgetting someone...

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    Hmm, I don't think my list has any female directors.

    David Cronenberg is 79th out of 80 in my list, even though I thought Existenz was a fascinating movie that felt like it could have been something incredible.
    @ooo I rather like Dario Argento's style, even if I am not a natural fan of his areas of interest.

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    sort of same, I'm just a big fan of his soundtracks and of the cure for tiny details he puts everywhere

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    @Subteigh, um, women in cinema... Ikr.

    I thought of adding Campion but then I'm not really a big fan, nevertheless some of her movies are true pearls;
    I'd like adding Ramsay too but despite the punch (the photography is really kickass) her movies gave me when I watched them, I can't really remember much.
    I've watched one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen some months ago, 'Lazzaro Felice' by Alice Rohrwacher, but it was her first movie ever.

    Two serious additions: Lina Wertmuller and Isabel Coixet. Must watch: 'Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August' and 'The secret life of words'.
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