Top 10 American Directors?
1. John Ford
2. Alfred Hitchcock 3. Stanley Kubrick 4. Billy Wilder 5. Howard Hawks 6. Steven Spielberg 7. Francis Ford Coppola 8. Charlie Chaplin After that I struggle between :
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Top 10 American Directors, cool
Originally Posted by uconjack (Post 978795)
2. Alfred Hitchcock
4. Billy Wilder 8. Charlie Chaplin After that I struggle between :
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My top 10 American directors - minimum 3 movies, average rating out of 100 in brackets.
1. Martin Scorsese (85.33) 2. Sidney Lumet (83.00) 3. Quentin Tarantino (81.88) 4. Coen Brothers (77.75) 5. Francis Ford Coppola (77.17) 6. Stanley Kubrick (76.50) 7. Jonathan Demme (75.67) 8. Clint Eastwood (73.67) 9. Robert Rodriguez (72.67) 10. David Fincher (67.50) Hopefully they are all American ;) |
Originally Posted by Sane (Post 978905)
My top 10 American directors - minimum 3 movies, average rating out of 100 in brackets.
1. Martin Scorsese (85.33) 2. Sidney Lumet (83.00) 3. Quentin Tarantino (81.88) 4. Coen Brothers (77.75) 5. Francis Ford Coppola (77.17) 6. Stanley Kubrick (76.50) 7. Jonathan Demme (75.67) 8. Clint Eastwood (73.67) 9. Robert Rodriguez (72.67) 10. David Fincher (67.50) Hopefully they are all American ;) |
Re: Top 10 American Directors?
USA Born
1) Stanley Kubrick 2) David Lynch 3) John Ford 4) Martin Scorsese 5) Francis Ford Coppola 6) Coen Brothers 7) Orson Welles 8) Quentin Tarantino 9) Steven Spielberg 10) Victor Fleming |
Re: Top 10 American Directors?
Wes Anderson
Joel & Ethan Coen Brian De Palma Jonathan Demme Howard Hawks Jim Jarmusch Richard Linklater David Lynch Martin Scorsese Quentin Tarantino Don't think Lubitsch/Wilder can really be considered American directors, otherwise they'd supplant Scorsese and Lynch on my list HM for Spike Lee, PTA, Spielberg, George Stevens and Kubrick |
Re: Top 10 American Directors?
I'm stunned that some people wouldn't consider Billy Wilder an American director.
Born in 1906, came to America in 1933. Became a citizen in 1934. All of his good movies, and there were many, were made in America. #1 Comedy on AFI. Had 3 movies in AFI Top 100 Movies of All Time. Directed the best film noir ever. AFI Life Achievement Award He wrote 5 films in AFI top 100 Comedies. If Billy Wilder is not an American director than no one is. |
Re: Top 10 American Directors?
Yeah it's just silly semantics. But I mean are you gonna say then that anyone who made their best movies in the US counts? Like Roman Polanski's one of my favorite filmmakers ever and his absolute best movies were made through Hollywood but yeah putting him on here would be tough. And a lot of my favorite Hollywood directors from the 30s/40s/50s fall under the same umbrella of being born in Europe like Wilder so I went with Hitchcockian's standard of "USA born"
I agree though Wilder probably is less of a borderline case than others and should probably count |
Re: Top 10 American Directors?
It is semantics and whether Kubrick and Hitchcock are American or English directors can be argued either way.
But when you look at the settings of Hitchcock's great films - Mount Rushmore, the Statue of Liberty, San Francisco ... and where they were made, it's pretty hard to say he is not an American director. He did become a citizen. But to include him on a list of great English directors would also be correct to me. Being considered an American director has nothing to do where someone is born. It has to do with where they created their best work, and about the style and settings of their films. To say William Wyler, Billy Wilder, or Michael Curtiz are not American directors because they were born somewhere doesn't seem correct to me. And to say Kubrick is an American director because he was born here and Hitchcock wasn't because he was born in England, seems to really confuse the issue, and get it wrong. |
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Ah, oh well. You're probably right but I just did the US born thing to make it easier. Nobody wins here anyway because then there's somebody like Lubitsch who was born in Europe BUT all his notable films were made here BUT they're practically all set in Europe and feel like they come from a foreign perspective (to me at least) BUT they star some very American people like Jimmy Stewart and Jennifer Jones and whoever else
Either way I'm an idiot because I forgot to put Preston Sturges and Albert Brooks and probably a million others on my list |
Obviously it would have been helpful to further explain what you were asking. To me if you ask about our favourite American directors you're asking about people that were simply born in America.
Anyway, as for what you do seem to be asking - for me, Wilder is definitely an "American" director, but Hitchcock could go either way. Obviously on a surface level (settings, actors, where he worked) his later work was most certainly heavily Americanised but his British upbringing was a huge influence on his films. My list, no particular order (if I'm counting Hitch, he'd probably replace Darren Aronofsky) Allen PT Anderson Kubrick Linklater Wilder Lynch Scorsese Tarantino Aronofsky Coen brothers Honorable mention: Spielberg, Fincher, Payne, Altman, Zemeckis |
Re: Top 10 American Directors?
Martin Scorsese
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Originally Posted by uconjack (Post 979122)
It is semantics and whether Kubrick and Hitchcock are American or English directors can be argued either way.
To say William Wyler, Billy Wilder, or Michael Curtiz are not American directors because they were born somewhere doesn't seem correct to me.
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Re: Top 10 American Directors?
no order:
scorsese, pt anderson, coen brothers, sidney lumet, spike lee, clint eastwood, kubrick. i hesitate on eastwood. |
Re: Top 10 American Directors?
I like this list, except for Jonathan Demme...I might stick Woody Allen in there.
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Hello gentlement, here is my TOP 10 BEST DIRECTORS (not all american)
1. Stanley Kubrick 2. Martin Scorsese 3. Brian de Palma 4.Quentin Tarantino 5. Francis Ford Coppola 6. David Fincher 7. Oliver Stone 8. Milos Forman 9. Alfred Hitchcock 10. David Lynch In a TOP 20, i would surely add Spike Lee find TOP 10 more on my blog:TOPBESTCinema . com |
Originally Posted by TOP BEST Cinema (Post 979967)
Hello gentlement, here is my TOP 10 BEST DIRECTORS (not all american)
1. Stanley Kubrick 2. Martin Scorsese 3. Brian de Palma 4.Quentin Traction 5. Francis Ford Coppola 6. David Fincher 7. Oliver Stone 8. Milos Forman 9. Alfred Hitchcock 10. David Lynch In a TOP 20, i would surely add Spike Lee find TOP 10 more on my blog:TOPBESTCinema . com |
Re: Top 10 American Directors?
1. Kubrick
2. Coppola 3. the guy who directed The Empire Strikes Back 4. Ridley Scott 5. James Cameron 6. Martin Scorsese 7. Steven Spielberg 8. David Lynch 9. Paul Thomas Anderson 10. Zemeckis Oh yeah, James Cameron > Martin Scorsese and David Lynch. :D |
Originally Posted by BlueLion (Post 979997)
lolwut
Originally Posted by Guaporense (Post 979998)
Oh yeah, James Cameron > Martin Scorsese and David Lynch. :D
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Originally Posted by bluedeed (Post 980001)
Autocorrect, or unknown master of American movies?!?!
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