Top 5 Directors/Actors/Actresses

Name your top 5 and your favorite film/performance of each individual.

Directors

Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull
Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
David Fincher - Se7en
Robert Rodriguez - Sin City (< What he did there was brilliant!)
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather: Part II

Actors

Ed Norton - American History X
Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects
Al Pacino - The Godfather: Part II
Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda

I'll have to think about the actresses. I'll get back to you.

director
1) Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver
2) Alfred Hitchcock - Strangers on a Train
3) Stanley Kubrick - The Shining/ A clock work orange
4) Spike Lee - Do the Right Thing
5) John Carpenter - Halloween

Actors
1) Robert DeNiro - Taxi Driver
2) Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
3) John Turturro - oh Brother where art though
4) Edward Norton - Fight Club
5) Harvey Keitel - Taxi Driver

Actress (for some reason I have trouble with this category and can only think of 1 right now)
1) Jodie Foster - Taxi Driver/Silence of the Lambs

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"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theater admission and the babysitter were worth it."
- Alfred Hitchcock

John Ford The Searchers
Martin Scorsese Goodfellas
Akira Kurosawa Seven Samurai
Billy Wilder Some Like It Hot
Yasujiro Ozu Tokyo Story

John Wayne The Searchers
Clint Eastwood Unforgiven
Cary Grant North by Northwest
Toshiro Mifune The Seven Samurai
Robert DeNiro Raging Bull

Faye Dunaway Chinatown
Jean Arthur Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Ingrid Bergman Casablanca
Grace Kelly Rear Window
Meryl Streep Sophie's Choice

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"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."- Groucho Marx

DIRECTORS
Akira Kurosawa (Rashômon)
Martin Scorsese (GoodFellas)
John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
Robert Altman (Nashville)


ACTORS
Alec Guinness (The Horse's Mouth)
Robert DeNiro (Raging Bull)
Toshirô Mifune (Red Beard)
Dustin Hoffman (Straight Time)
Cary Grant (Notorious)


ACTRESSES
Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight)
Katharine Hepburn (Summertime)
Julie Christie (McCabe & Mrs. Miller)
Catherine Deneuve (Repulsion)
Sigourney Weaver (Death & the Maiden)

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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra

Also see THIS, THIS and THIS thread for similar ones on directors, and THIS one for a similar if longer and more inclusive list of actors and actresses.

Directors:
Stanley Kubrick- "Full Metal Jacket"
Coen Bros.- "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?"
David Fincher- "Fight Club"
Martin Scorcese- "Goodfellas"
Wes Anderson- "The Royal Tenenbaums"

Actors:
Jack Nicholson- "As Good As it Gets," or "The Shining"
Edward Norton- "American History X," or "Primal Fear" was great too
Marlon Brando- "On the Waterfront"
Robert DeNiro- Pretty much anything, but I'll say "Taxi Driver"
John Malkovich- "In the Line of Fire"

Actresses:
Cate Blanchett- "Elizabeth," "Coffee and Cigarettes"
Judi Dench- "Shakespeare In Love"
Naomi Watts- "Mullholland Drive"
Sharon Stone- "Basic Instinct"
Natalie Portman "The Professional" and "Garden State"

Director
Scorsese - Goodfellas
Tarantino - Reservoir Dogs
Miike - Audition
Kubrick - The Killing
Coppolla - The Godfather

Actor
Edward Norton - 25th Hour
Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter
John Turturro - Miller's Crossing
Robert DeNiro - Goodfellas
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Owning Mahowny

Actress
Natalie Portman - The Professional
Meryl Streep - The Hours
Kate Winslett - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Kathy Bates - About Schmidt
Laura Linney - The Life of David Gale

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I'm no good at 'favourites' lists so here's one for today...

Directors

Mike Leigh (Naked)
Takeshi Kitano (Sonatine)
Terry Gilliam (Brazil)
Ken Loach (Raining Stones)
Powell & Pressburger (The Life & Death Of Colonel Blimp)

Actors

Alec Guinness (The Bridge On The River Kwai)
Warren Oates (Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia)
Bob Hoskins (24/7)
Paddy Considine (Dead Man's Shoes)
Big Neeson (Kinsey)

Actresses

Emily Watson (Breaking The Waves)
Maggie Cheung (Irma Vep)
Faye Dunaway (Barfly)
Sam Morton (In America)
Julie Christie (Don't Look Now)

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"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how the Tatty 100 is done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." - Brendan Behan

Not alot has changed from my previous lists, but here's a fresh re-hash.

Directors
William Wyler... The Little Foxes (1941)
Michael Curtiz... The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
George Cukor... The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Frank Capra...It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Charlie Chaplin...The Gold Rush(1942 re-issue) and City Lights (1931)
Ang Lee...Sense and Sensibilty (1995)

Actors
Cary Grant...Bringing Up Baby (1938) and every movie he’s in seems to be a favorite.
Charles Chaplin...The Gold Rush (1924 and 1942)
James Stewart...It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Humphrey Bogart...Casablanca(1942)
Tom Hanks...Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994)
Johnny Depp... Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and Ed Wood (1994)

Actresses
Katharine Hepburn...The Philadelphia Story (1940) and The Lion in Winter (1968)
Bette Davis...Now, Voyager (1942) and The Little Foxes(1941)
Olivia de Havilland... The Snake Pit (1948) and Light in the Piazza (1962)
Claudette Colbert...It Happened One Night (1934)
Meryl Streep...Sophie's Choice (1982)
Li Gong...To Live (Huozhe) (1994)

Okay, I'll bite.

Directors:

David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia & Bridge On The River Kwai
Speilberg - Saving Private Ryan
John Woo - The Killer
John Lasseter - Toy Story 1 & 2 etc
Stanley Kubrick - 2001, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining

Honorouble Mentions to - Hitchcock (The Birds), Jean Pierre-Juenet (Amelie & The Very Long Engagement), Sam Raimi (Spiderman 1 & 2)

Actors:
Al Pacino (Devils Advocate & The Godfather Series)
Robert DeNiro (Cape Fear & Taxi Driver)
Anthony Hopkins (Everythings he is in)
Jason Isaccs (The Patriot & Peter Pan)
Christian Bale (Batman Begins & Equilibrium)

Honourable Mentions - Sean Astin (Lord Of The Rings), Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan)

Actressess:
Meryl Streep - The Manchurian Candidate
Angelina Jolie - Girl Interrupted
Laura Linney - The Truman Show
Dakota Fanning - I Am Sam
Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener

Honourable Mentions - Dame Judi Dench (Mrs Brown), Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast At Tiffany's)

Directors
1. Andrei Tarkovsky - The Mirror
2. Robert Bresson - Mouchette
3. Ingmar Bergman - The Hour of the Wolf
4. Vittorio De Sica - Umberto D
5. Alain Resnais - Hiroshima mon amour

Actors
1. Alain Delon - Le Samourai
2. Toshiro Mifune - Red Beard
3. Marcello Mastroianni - 8 1/2
4. Gunnar Björnstrand - Seventh Seal
5. Peter Falk - Woman Under the Influence

Actresses
1. Liv Ullmann - Persona
2. Gena Rowlands - Woman Under the Influence
3. Ingrid Bergman - Casablanca
4. Anna Karina - Band of Outsiders
5. Katharine Hepburn - The Philadelphia Story

Directors:
Akira Kurosawa - Rashomon
Robert Altman - The Long Goodbye
Shohei Imamura - Vengeance is Mine
Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven
Wong Kar-Wai - Days of Being Wild

Actors:
Wallace Shawn - Vanya on 42nd Street
Sean Penn - Sweet and Lowdown
Tim Roth + Gary Oldman - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Toshiro Mifune - Rashomon
Michael Caine - The Man Who Would be King

Actresses:
Shelley Duvall - Brewster McCloud
Parker Posey - The House of Yes
Janeane Garofalo - The Minus Man
Kyoko Kishida - Woman in the Dunes
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Hudsucker Proxy

I'll come back and change this in a year or two. especially those last two choices for women actors...

Directors:

Wes Anderson (The Royal Tennenbaums)
Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy)
The Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski)
Sam Raimi (Evil Dead 2)

Actors:

Sam Rockwell (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind)
John Cusack (Grosse Pointe Blank)
Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting)
Jason Lee (Chasing Amy)
Jack Black (School of Rock)

Actresses:

Winona Ryder (Heathers)
Natalie Portman (Garden State)
Jodie Foster (Silence of the Lambs)
Naomi Watts (King Kong)
Thora Birch (Ghost World)

why are so many people on spielbergs nutz for saving private ryan. Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line was a far superior film. in all aspects too. nick nolte was just incredible.

So many people? A whopping TWO people mentioned the film... Quite a massive following, there....



That said, I love The Thin Red Line. Great stuff, but the two films aren't really similar at all. They are both war films, but beyond that, have little in common. SPR is intense, and paced in such a way as to keep the viwer on their heels, while The Thin Red Line let's the viewer contemplate the themes of order vs chaos, the nature of evil, etc...

Like comparing apples to oranges.... Both films are great...IMO.

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Directors
Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey
Martin Scorsese Raging Bull
Alfred Hitchcock Notorious
Francis Ford Coppola The Conversation
Terrence Malick Days of Heaven

Actors
Robert De Niro Raging Bull
Marlon Brando On the Waterfront
Dustin Hoffman Midnight Cowboy
Jack Nicholson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kevin Costner JFK

Actresses
Guilietta Masina Nights of Cabiria
Ingrid Bergman Casablanca
Monica Vitti L' Avventura
Diane Keaton Annie Hall
Lillian Gish The Wind

Directors
Spielberg- Schindler's List
Lucas- Star Wars Epic
Scorsese- Casino
Stone- Platoon
Tarantino- Pulp Fiction

Actors
De Niro- Casino
Pesci- Casino
Pacino- Scarface
Washington- Philadelphia
Jet Li- Once Upon a Time in China

Actresses
Thurman- Pulp Fiction
Berry- Gothika
Roberts- Stepmom
Sarandon- Stepmom
Cuthbert- The Girl Next Door

Martin Scorsese- Gangs of New York
Quentin Tarantino- Pulp Fiction
Stanley Kubrick- The Shinning
Goerge Lucas- Star Wars
John Carpenter- Halloween

Actors- Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones
Denzel Washington- Training day
Matt Damon- The Rainmaker
Jack Nicholson- As good as it gets
Ben Affleck- Armaggedon
Actresses- Mila Jolovich- Resident Evil
Julia Roberts- Erin Brockovich
Bridget Wilson- Love Stinks
Drew Barrymore- Madd Love
Jennifer Aniston - Derailed
Leo DeCaprio, Robert Deniro, And Al Pacino are great at everything they do.

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Princess j.t.

Okay...

DIRECTORS

1. John Cassavetes
2. Woody Allen
3. Jean Renoir
4. Hal Ashby
5. Akira Kurosawa

Orson Welles
Luchino Visconti
John Ford

ACTORS

1. Ben Johnson
2. Toshirô Mifune
3. River Phoenix
4. James Stewart
5. William Holden

Bob Mitchum
Gael Garcia Bernal
Warren Oates

ACTRESSES

1. Gena Rowlands
2. Nastassja Kinski
3. Greta Garbo
4. Maggie Cheung
5. Kate Hepburn

Emily Watson
Catherine Deneuve
Meryl Streep

Directors:
Alfred Hitchcock ...North By Northwest
Akira Kurosawa ...Ran
Quentin Taramtino ...Kill Bill
Mel Brooks ...The Producers
Billy Wilder ...Sunset Boulevard

Actors:
Cary Grant ...North By Northwest
Jimmy Stewart ...Vertigo
Anthony Hopkins ...Shadowlands
Jack Nicholson ...About Schmidt
Clint Eastwood ...Heartbreak Ridge

Actresses:
Natalie Wood ...Splendor In The Grass
Diane Keaton ...Annie Hall
Kathy Bates ...Misery
Claudette Colbert ...It Happened One Night
Audrey Hepburn ...Breakfeast At Tiffany's