Total Film - top 20 Film directors of all time

[Uncle Spielberg]

MOH will be pleased to note Total Film have voted Hitchcock the greatest ever director, The beard came a very respectable 3rd. I am giving you the opportunity to vote on their top 20 for NSC to decide. No doubt this will cause great rancour but hey, its Friday, the suns out and the weekend looks fine.

Who is the best and why in your opinion ?.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I don't have a favourite director, but I have thoroughly enjoyed two films by Frank Darabont. Shawshank and The Green Mile were beautifully directed.

 

[JJ McClure]

Scorcese, then Kevin Smith.

 

[Les Biehn]

Paul Thomas Anderson?!? I would put someone like Friedkin or Nolan over him.

 

[REDLAND]

Sam Raimi is mine (not just for Spiderman I add) I voted Coen Bros. though !!

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Nolan - 32nd
Darabont - not in top 50
Friedkin - not in top 50
Smith - not in top 50

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Raimi - not in top 50

 

[JJ McClure]

And where the hell is John Hughes, how you can overlook the director of Wierd Science and Uncle Buck is beyond me.

 

[Les Biehn]

No Michael Mann, Godard, Truffaut or Rosellini either.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Rubbish list!!! No Bergman, no Truffaut, no Fellini, no Preston Sturges

Just goes to show how brainwashed we become by Hollywood.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Stone would be in the top 50

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Hitchcock was a superb director of that there is no doubt.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

My favourites:

Speilberg
Stone
Raimi
Lynch
Cronenbourg
Cameron
Nolan
Anderson

 

[Easy 10]

By the beard of ODIN, how can James Cameron NOT be in the top 20 ?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Cameron 38th Easy, he is in my top 5, not fashionable I know but I do not go along with the Titanic is shit stuff as it is not, infact its an extremely well made and crafted film, he also did T1 and T2, True Lies and Aliens

 

[MattBackHome]

Yimou Zhang? Geeeenius.

 

[Easy 10]

Cameron 38th Easy, he is in my top 5, not fashionable I know but I do not go along with the Titanic is shit stuff as it is not, infact its an extremely well made and crafted film, he also did T1 and T2, True Lies and Aliens

With the two Terminator films, Aliens, Titanic and The Abyss, Cameron proved himself to be the one of the most technically accomplished directors of all time. His films regularly raised the bar and set new standards for groundbreaking visual effects that are still being copied to this day. For him to be nowhere near the top 20 even is a DISGRACE and an AFFRONT.

Whoever put that list together is a CACKBADGER. They must have asked the question funny, or something.

 

[Normal Rob]

Total Film is a real pile of shite trying to cater for a mass market audience. they have no editorial integrity at all and would probably sell their familys for a few extra sales.

 

[Easy 10]

And where the f*** is Ridley Scott ?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Ridley Scott - 39th