favorite directors/favorite films

1. David Fincher



2. Scorsese



3. Paul Thomas Anderson



4. Jim Jarmusch



5. The Coens

10- Clint Eastwood

1- Gran Torino
2- Mystic River
3- Letters From Iwo Jima
4- Unforgiven
5- American Sniper

9- Quentin Tarantino

1- Pulp Fiction
2- Reservoir Dogs
3- Inglorious Basterds
4- Django Unchained
5- Jackie Brown

8- James Wan

1- The Conjuring 2
2- The Conjuring
3- Saw
4- Insidious
5- Dead Silence

7- Martin Scorsese

1- Taxi Driver
2- The Wolf Of Wall Street
3- Goodfellas
4- Shutter Island
5- The Departed

6- Darren Aronofsky

1- Requiem For A Dream
2- The Wrestler
3- Black Swan
4- The Fountain
5- Pi

5- Christopher Nolan

1- The Dark Knight
2- Interstellar
3- Memento
4- The Prestige
5- Batman Begins

4- John Carpenter

1- Halloween
2- The Thing
3- Assault on Precinct 13
4- They Live
5- Escape From New York

3- Steven Spielberg

1- Jaws
2- Saving Private Ryan
3- Minority Report
4- Jurassic Park
5- Schindler's List

2- David Fincher

1- Zodiac
2- Fight Club
3- Se7en
4- The Social Network
5- Gone Girl

1- Stanley Kubrick

1- The Shining
2- A Clockwork Orange
3- 2001: A Space Odyssey
4- Full Metal Jacket
5- Paths Of glory

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Michael Mann – Heat, The insider, Collateral
Steven Spielberg – Jaws, Schindlers list, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Indiana Jones films excluding 4 and minority report
Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins, The dark knight rises, Interstellar, Inception, The Prestige, The dark knight, Memento
Martin Scorsese- Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull, The departed, Gangs of New York
Mel Gibson – Braveheart, Apocalypto
James Cameron- T2, Titanic, Aliens, Avatar, The Abyss
Quentin Tarantino- Inglorious Bastards, Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, The hateful 8, Kill Bill vol.2
Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby, American Sniper, Mystic River, Letters from Iwo Jima
Peter Jackson – The lord of the rings trilogy (nothing else)
Terrence Malik- The thin red line, Days of heaven, The tree of life
Oliver Stone- Platoon, Born on the fourth of July, Natural Born Killers
David Fincher – Seven, Fight club, The social network, Zodiac
Alfred Hitchcock – Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo
Ridley Scott- Gladiator, Alien, Black Hawk Down
Denis Villeneuve – Prisoners, Sicario
John McTiernan- Predator, The 13th Warrior, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Die Hard
James Wan- The conjuring, Insidious 1 + 2

Hard pick, I love lots of directors. But if I had to chose the five I like the most, these may be the ones.

Alfred Hitchcock

Strangers on a Train] , Spellbound , Psycho , [i][Rebecca/I] , Dial M for Murder

Quentin Tarantino

Pulp Fiction , The Hateful Eight , Inglourious Basterds , Django Unchained , Jackie Brown

Christopher Nolan

Interstellar , Inception , Memento , The Dark Knight , The Prestige

Billy Wilder

The Apartment , Double Indemity , Sunset Blvd. , Witness for the prosecution , Some like it Hot

Martin Scorsese

The Wolf of Wall Street , Goodfellas , Casino , Shutter Island , The Departed

Other honorable mentions I wanted to include in the list but didn't have room for:


Roman Polanski

Steven Spielberg

Robert Zemeckis

David Fincher

Alejandro G. Inarritu

The Coen brothers

J.J Abrams

Ridley Scott

Stanley Kubrick

James Cameron

Akira Kurosawa

Ingmar Bergman

Guy Ritchie

Fritz Lang

Frank Darabont

David Lean

Orson Welles

Sergio Leone

Denis Villeneuve


Hmm, I am sorry, this honorable mention list may be getting out of hand, but there are so many great filmmakers out there, both dead and alive, and I feel it's hard to do them justice with a list of just five people. Truth be told, I don't necessarily like the people on my list more than the ones mentioned above.

Clint eastwood.

Gran Torino
Unforgiven
Pale rider
Letters from iwo jima
Flags of our fathers

So thrilled to see New York New York on this list.

Nice to see some love for The Hudsucker Proxy and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Well...

Alfred Hitchcock
1. Psycho
2. Vertigo
3. Rebecca
4. Notorious
5. Strangers on a train

Billy Wilder
1. The apartment
2. Witness for the prosecution
3. Double indemnity
4. Irma la Douce
5. One, two, three

Charles Chaplin
1. City lights
2. The great dictator
3. Modern times
4. The kid
5. The gold rush

Hayao Miyazaki
1. Spirited away
2. Princess Mononoke
3. My neighbor Totoro
4. Porco Rosso
5. Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind

Ingmar Bergman
1. Scenes from a marriage
2. Saraband
3. Persona
4. From the life of the marionettes
5. The seventh seal

Isao Takahata
1. Grave of the fireflies
2. The tale of the Princess Kaguya
3. Only yesterday
4. Chie the brat
5. Gauche the cellist

John Huston
1. The treasure of the Sierra Madre
2. The man who would be king
3. Key Largo
4. The night of the iguana
5. Moulin Rouge

Luis Buñuel
1. Viridiana
2. Nazarín
3. Él
4. The exterminating angel
5. Tristana

Michael Haneke
1. Funny Games
2. The piano teacher
3. Caché
4. Code unknown
5. The seventh continent

Quentin Tarantino
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Kill Bill vol. 2
3. Reservoir dogs
4. Kill Bill vol. 1
5. Django unchained

Roman Polanski
1. Repulsion
2. The pianist
3. The ghost writer
4. Rosemary's baby
5. The tenant

Satoshi Kon
1. Perfect Blue
2. Millennium actress
3. Paprika
4. Tokyo Godfathers
5.

Stanley Kubrick
1. Paths of glory
2. A clockwork orange
3. The shining
4. Eyes wide shut
5. The killing

Christopher Nolan

1. “Inception” 2. “The Dark Knight” 3. “Memento”

Steven Spielberg

1. “Jaws” 2. “Bridge of Spies” 3. “E.T.”

Damien Chazelle

1. “Whiplash” (I also enjoyed his written contributions to “10 Cloverfield Lane”)

J.J. Abrams

1. “Cloverfield” 2. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” “Super 8”

Edgar Wright

1. “Hot Fuzz” (This is the only film of his I’ve seen, but I loved the fast-paced editing and visual style in this film. I look forward to viewing more of his work and I am now disappointed that he did not finish directing Marvel's “Ant Man.”

I did one earlier but things have changed a bit now. Not included any that i've seen less than five from; David Lean for example.:

Alfred Hitchcock:

01.North By Northwest
02.Vertigo
03.Notorious (these three could all switch around they are all pretty equal to me)
04.Rebecca
05.Dial M For Murder

Martin Scorsese:

01.Taxi Driver
02.The King of Comedy
03.Goodfellas
04.The Last Waltz
05.After Hours

Akira Kurosawa:

01.Rashomon
02.Seven Samurai
03.Throne of Blood
04.Kagemusha
05.Dersu Uzala

Paul Thomas Anderson:

01.There Will Be Blood
02.The Master
03.Magnolia
04.Punch Drunk Love
05.Inherent Vice

David Lynch:

01.Eraserhead
02.The Elephant Man
03.Mulholland Drive
04.Blue Velvet
05.The Straight Story

Alex Gibney:

01.Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
02.Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
03.Taxi To The Dark Side
04.Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
05.Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search For A Kool Place

Werner Herzog:

01.Aguirre, The Wrath of God
02.Nosferatu The Vampyre
03.Grizzly Man
04.Stroszek
05.Encounters At The End of the World

Richard Linklater:

01.Dazed and Confused
02,Before Midnight
03.Slacker
04.Before Sunset
05.Before Sunrise

Francis Ford Coppola:

01.The Godfather
02.Apocalype Now
03.The Godfather Part II
04.The Conversation
05.Dracula

Wes Anderson:

01.Fantastic Mr. Fox
02.Rushmore
03.Moonrise Kingdom
04.Botttle Rocket
05.The Grand Budapest Hotel

Directors in no order, films ranked

Christopher Nolan
1- Inception
2- The Dark Knight
3- Interstellar
4- Batman Begins
5- The Prestige
6- Memento (couldn't not include it even though this is 6)


Steven Spielberg
1- Raiders of the Lost Ark
2- Jurassic Park
3- Saving Private Ryan
4- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
5- Jaws

Quentin Tarantino
1- Inglorious Basterds
2- Reservoir Dogs
3- Pulp Fiction
4- Django Unchained
5- Kill Bill Vol. 1

Ridley Scott
1- The Martian
2- Alien
3- Gladiator
4- Blade Runner
5- Thelma & Louise

I have a lot of other favorite directors but I either haven't seen 5 films from them or they haven't yet made 5 films so instead I'm going to list 5 of them with my one favorite film by them.

Paul Thomas Anderson There Will Be Blood

Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey

Coen Brothers Inside Llewyn Davis

Damien Chazelle Whiplash

Alfonso Cuaron Children of Men

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Stanley Kubrick:
-2001: A Space Odyssey
-A Clockwork Orange
-Dr.Strangelove

Steven Spielberg:
-Saving Private Ryan
-Schindler's List
-ET

David Lynch:
-Mulholland Drive
-Blue Velvet
-Eraserhead

Martin Scorsese:
-Taxi Driver
-Raging Bull
-Goodfellas

Paul Thomas Anderson:
-Boogie Nights
-The Master
-Punch Drunk Love

Tarantino
Pulp Fiction
Inglorious Basterds
Django
Kill Bill
Reservoir dogs

Scorcese
The Departed
Goodfellas
Raging Bull
Wolf of Wall street
Cape Fear

Eastwood
Unforgiven
Gran Torino
Million dollar baby
American Sniper
Mystic River

Spielberg
Jaws
Schindler's list
Saving Private Ryan
Lincoln
Jurassic park

Fincher
Seven
Fight club
The Game
Zodiac
Gone girl

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Mario Bava
Black Sunday (1960), The Whip and the Body (1963), Lisa and the Devil (1972), Danger: Diabolik (1968), Planet of the Vampires (1965)

Howard Hawks
Bringing Up Baby (1938), Red River (1948), Scarface (1932), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), The Big Sleep (1946)

John Carpenter
Halloween (1978), Escape from New York (1981), They Live (1988), The Thing (1982), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

Raoul Walsh
White Heat (1949), They Died with Their Boots On (1941), Gentleman Jim (1942), The Big Trail (1930), Objective, Burma! (1945)

Paul Verhoeven
Flesh + Blood (1985), Basic Instinct (1992), Total Recall (1990), Starship Troopers (1997), Showgirls (1995)

Spielberg:
Jaws
Indiana Jones Trilogy (I still like Crystal Skull though)
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Jurassic Park
1941 (Yeah. I know)

Nolan:
Memento
Inception
The Dark Knight
Dark Knight Rises
Interstellar
The Prestige

Scorsese:
After Hours
Silence
Goodfellas

Coppola:
The Godfather Trilogy
The Rainmaker

Zemeckis:
BTTF Trilogy
Forrest Gump
Castaway

Chazelle:
Whiplash
La La Land

Shane Black:
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Nice Guys

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Isaac Florentine
Undisputed II, Undisputed III, Close Range, Ninja II: Shadow of a Tear, Special Forces

Martin Scorsese
Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, The Departed

Andrew Lau
Infernal Affairs, Infernal Affairs II, Infernal Affairs III, Dance of a Dream, Young and Dangerous

Yuen Woo-Ping
Drunken Master, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, Drunken Tai Chi, Mismatched Couples, Iron Monkey

Dick Maas
The Lift, Flodder, Amsterdamned, Flodder in America, Sint

Honorable Mention:
Roel Reine
Admiral, The Man with the Iron Fists 2, Death Race 2, Death Race 3: Inferno, The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption

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Wow...except for Scorsese, I've never even heard of any of these other directors.

Yuen Woo-Ping is a genius, greatest kung-fu director/choreographer that ever lived

Another one of my favorites:


Takashi Miike
Fudoh: The New Generation
Ichi the Killer
The Bird People of China
Graveyard of Honor
The Dead or Alive Trilogy

Here's three at any rate :

Ridley Scott:

Alien
Blade Runner
Someone to Watch Over Me
The Duellists
Legend

Werner Herzog:

Fitzcarraldo
Aguirre, Wrath of God
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Cobra Verde
My Best Fiend

John Boorman:

Excalibur
Point Blank
Zardoz
Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
Hell in the Pacific