Directors With The Best Villains

Which filmmakers do you think have the best villains in their movies? I'd say Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, and Walt Disney all have some of the best.

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Spielberg - Duel, Jaws, Raiders, Temple of Doom, Hook (HA!), Schindler's List, several others.

From a literary standpoint, Charles Dickens has a great collection of villains which have been transcribed to the big screen.

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Tricky question. Spielberg's villains were good but didn't have me hating them, just enjoying them.

The Coen brothers, maybe.

They didn't occur me to when I first saw the title of the thread, but the Cohen Brothers definitely have brought us some pretty awesome villians. Quentin Tarantino deserves mention here as well.

I'll go with Michael Corleone, Darth Vader, Sauron, Hannibal Lector and The Joker.

That would translate to Francis Coppola, George Lucas, Peter Jackson, Jonathan Demme and Christopher Nolan.

Maybe an honorable mention for Bill the Butcher and Martin Scorsese or The Thing (Christian Nyby).

Give me a little longer and I will come up with another 50 or so.

Technically, Walt Disney wasn't a director, though Disney films have produced a plethora of memorable villains.