who are your favourite directors?

please base this on their overall directing work, not just one classic they made (e.g. Peter Jackson, The Wachowski Brothers)

here are my favourites:

Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas, The Departed, Gangs of New York etc

Ridley Scott - Gladiator, Thelma and Louise, American Gangster,

Zack Snyder - 300, Watchmen,

Matthew Vaughn - Layer Cake, Stardust, Kick Ass

Christopher Nolan - Memento, The Prestige, Batman Begins and obviously The Dark Knight

EDIT: how could i forget Quentin Tarantino?? - Inglorious Basterds, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill

EDIT 2: and Michael Mann- Heat, Public Enemies, Collateral

if i had to go with one, I'd say Christopher Nolan, with Scorsese a close second, cos they are both amazingly consisently good.

Stanley Kubrick of course

Martin Scorsese,Ridley Scott,Christopher Nolan,Tim Burton,Stanley Kubrick,Michael Bay,Zack Snyder,Clint Eastwood,Steven Spielberg,M. Night Shyamalan

*edit*Damn,forgot Roman Polanski.Shame on me.

Stanley Kubrick of course

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I've only seen The Shining, haven't got round to seeing Full Metal Jacket and 2001: A Space Odyssey

• F.W. Murnau
• G.W. Pabst
• Lau Kar Leung
• Ridley Scott
• Jean-Luc Godard
• Yasujiro Ozu
• Seijun Suzuki
• Stanley Kubrick
• Satyajit Ray
• Hiroshi Shimizu
• Akira Kurosawa
• John Carpenter

That's the short list I suppose.

John Carpenter

Geroge A Romero

Sam Raimi

Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Jackson

Neil Blomkamp

James Cameron

Steven Speilberg

Roman Polanski

Christopher Nolan

Ridley Scott

David Cronenberg

David Fincher

David Lynch

Quentin Tarintino

Martin Scorsese

Stanley Kubrick

Clint Eastwood

Paul Thomas Anderson: Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Punch Drunk Love - I don't think there's a more original filmmaker at the moment.

Christopher Nolan - hasn't made a bad film yet. Very talented and he's barely 40.

Tarantino: I like all his films except Death Proof.

Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Wong Kar-Wai.

James Cameron, Christopher Nolan and possibly Matthew Vaughn in the future

Alfred Hitchcock
Elia Kazan
Ridley Scott
James Cameron
David Fincher

Stanley Kubrick of course

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Martin Scorsese

Stanley Kubrick

Francis Ford Coppola

Terry Gilliam

Richard Linklater

Paul Thomas Anderson

Wes Anderson

Oliver Stone

Noah Baumbach

The Coen Brothers

Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, Paul Thomas Anderson, etc.

David Fincher is my favorite director.

Stanley Kubrick.

I see quite a few mentions for Hitchcock. I haven't seen much of his work but I had watched Rear Window last night. It was really disappointing. I hope people are wrong when they say it is one of Hitchcock's best. I liked North by Northwest a lot better.

Steven Spielberg

He filled my childhood with joy, and has done great moves in pretty much every genre.

He literally invented the summer blockbuster concept.

To Name a few.

Gus Van Sant and Jim Jarmusch.

Ingmar Bergman Sidney Lumet Jean-Pierre Jeunet Francis Ford Coppola Michael Mann Martin Scorsese Wes Anderson The Coen Brothers Christopher Nolan David FincherSaintLeonidas

You're forgetting this guy:

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You're forgetting this guy:

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Here are mine in order. :D

1.Stanley Kubrick

2.Ingmar Bergman

3.Akira Kurosawa

4.Martin Scorsese

5.Vittorio De Sica

6.David Lynch

7.John Ford

8.Yasujiro Ozu

9.François Truffaut

10.Franicis Ford Cappolla

11.Coen Brothers

12.Sergio Leone

13.Masaki Kobayashi

14.Elia Kazan

15.Wes Anderson

Favorite non-living directors: Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock

Favorite living directors: The Coen Brothers

Alfred Hitchcock
David Cronenberg
Ingmar Bergman
Coen brothers
Frank Capra
Martin Scorsese
Stanley Kubrick
Francis Ford Coppola
etc.