Baker's Dozen of the Best Directors
by TsarStepan | created - 25 Jun 2011 | updated - 28 Sep 2019 | PublicThese are my favorite directors of all time. My memory is like a river which current is a tad too strong for fishing. If I left one of my favorite directors out then well he was the big one that got away.
1. Hayao Miyazaki
Writer | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's greatest animation directors. The entertaining plots, compelling characters, and breathtaking visuals in his films have earned him international renown from critics as well as public recognition within Japan.
Miyazaki started his career in 1963 as an animator at the ...
10/10s
1. Spirited Away (2001)
2. Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
3. Princess Mononoke (1997)
4. Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
5. The Wind Rises (2013)
6. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
~9/10s
7. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
8. Porco Rosso (1992)
9. Ponyo (2008)....
2. Wes Anderson
Director | Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...
10/10s
1. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
2. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
3. Isle of Dogs (2018)
4. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
5. Rushmore (1998)
~9/10s
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
7. The Darjeeling Limited (2007)....
3. Satoshi Kon
Writer | Tôkyô goddofâzâzu
Satoshi Kon was born in 1963. He studied at the Musashino College of the Arts. He began his career as a Manga artist. He then moved to animation and worked as a background artist on many films (including Roujin Z (1991) by 'Katsuhiro Otomo'). Then, in 1995, he wrote an episode of the anthology film ...
10/10s 1. Tokyo Godfathers (2003) 2. Perfect Blue (1998) 3. Millennium Actress (2001) 4. Paprika (2006)....
4. Ethan Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The younger brother of Joel, Ethan Coen is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning writer, producer and director coming from small independent films to big profile Hollywood films. He was born on September 21, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In some films of the brothers- Ethan & Joel wrote, Joel...
Ethan and Joel Coen count as one singularity like twin suns in a binary star system.
10/10s
1. The Big Lebowski (1998)
2. Fargo (1996)
3. No Country for Old Men (2007)
3. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
4. Burn After Reading (2008)
5. True Grit (2010)
~9/10s
6. Raising Arizona (1987)
7. Miller's Crossing (1990)
8. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)....
5. Joel Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Joel Daniel Coen is an American filmmaker who regularly collaborates with his younger brother Ethan. They made Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail Caesar and other projects. Joel ...
Ethan and Joel Coen count as one singularity like twin suns in a binary star system.
6. Stanley Kubrick
Director | 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia). Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would ...
10/10s
1. The Shining (1980)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
3. The Killing (1956)
4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
5. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
~9/10s
6. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
7. A Clockwork Orange (1971)....
7. Christopher Nolan
Writer | Tenet
Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...
10/10s
1. The Dark Knight (2008)
2. Inception (2010)
3. The Prestige (2006)
4. Batman Begins (2005)
5. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
~9/10s
6. Dunkirk (2017)
7. Interstellar (2014)....
8. Roman Polanski
Director | Chinatown
Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933.
His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years ...
10/10's 1. Chinatown (1974); 2. The Ghost Writer (2010); 3. Carnage (2011); 4. Rosemary's Baby (1968); 5. The Pianist (2002); ~9/10's 6. The Ninth Gate (1999) 7. Knife in the Water (1962)
9. John Sayles
Writer | Lone Star
A bright child, John Sayles began reading novels before age 9. A Williams College grad in 1972, he shunned a corporate career to work various blue-collar jobs, moving to east Boston to take a factory job. He wrote stories and submitted them to various magazines, and the Atlantic Monthly gave him ...
10/10's 1. Lone Star (1996); 2. Eight Men Out (1988); 3. Men with Guns (1997); 4. The Secret of Roan Inish (1994); 5. Limbo (1999); 6. Silver City (2004); ~9/10's 7. City of Hope (1991); 8. The Brother from Another Planet (1984); 9. Casa de los babys (2003)....
10. Kar-Wai Wong
Director | Yi dai zong shi
Wong Kar-wai (born 17 July 1956) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised, emotionally resonant work, including Ah fei zing zyun (1990), Dung che sai duk (1994), Chung Hing sam lam (1994), Do lok tin si (1995), Chun gwong ...
10/10s
1. In the Mood for Love (2000)
2. Chungking Express (1994)
3. The Grandmaster (2013)
4. Fallen Angels (1995)
~9/10s
5. My Blueberry Nights (2007)
6. 2046 (2004)....
11. Denis Villeneuve
Director | Dune
Denis Villeneuve is a French Canadian film director and writer. He was born in 1967, in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. He started his career as a filmmaker at the National Film Board of Canada. He is best known for his feature films Arrival (2016), Sicario (2015), Prisoners (2013), Enemy (2013), ...
10/10s Blade Runner 2049 Arrival 2016 Sicario 2015 Enemy 2013 Prisoners 2013
12. Makoto Shinkai
Writer | Suzume no Tojimari
Makoto Shinkai is a Japanese director, writer, producer, animator, editor, cinematographer, voice actor, manga artist and former graphic designer. Shinkai studied Japanese literature at Chuo University where he was a member of juvenile literature club where he drew picture books. In 1999, Shinkai ...
10/10s
1. Your Name. (2016)
2. 5 Centimeters Per Second (2007)
3. The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)
9/10
The Garden of Words (2013)....
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