We Like Media's Top 50 Directors
Actually 58, but Who's Counting?

by Tommy Burton, Eric Jenkins, Jorge Hinojosa, Noby Nobriga, Sean Sloan, Rusty W. Spell, and Neola Young

We like directors around here, and we were asked to list at least thirty of our favorites to come up with this top fifty list.  Some listed more than thirty and some wrote commentary.  Click on the names below to see the individual lists we made.  This final list was made by adding all of our lists together and dividing by two (more or less).  Unlike previous lists on this cite, we didn't break ties (which is why there are more than fifty directors, even though there are fifty slots).  You may look at the masterlist for the raw data.

Tommy, Eric, Jorge, Noby, Sean, Rusty, Neola
Masterlist


1. Stanley Kubrick

 

2. David Lynch

 

3. Alfred Hitchcock

 

4. Federico Fellini

 

5. Werner Herzog

 

6. Joel and Ethan Coen

 

7. Martin Scorsese

 

8. Quentin Tarantino

 

9. Paul Thomas Anderson

 

10. Orson Welles

 

11. Woody Allen

 

12. Steven Spielberg

 

13. Francis Ford Coppola

 

14. Wes Anderson

 

15. Lars von Trier

 

16. Akira Kurosawa

 

17. Jean-Luc Godard

 

18. Frank Capra

 

19. Sam Raimi

 

20. Billy Wilder

 

21. Sam Peckinpah

 

22. Ingmar Bergman

 

23. George Lucas

 

24. Jim Jarmusch

 

25. Christopher Guest

 

26. Ridley Scott

 

27. Sofia Coppola

 

28. Krzysztof Kieslowski

 

29. Errol Morris

 

30. Walt Disney

 

31. Cameron Crowe / Francois Truffaut

 

32. Milos Forman

 

33. John Ford

 

34. Jean-Pierre Jeunet

 

35. John Hughes

 

36. Tim Burton / Michel Gondry

 

37. Sergio Leone

 

38. Peter Jackson

 

39. John Patrick Shanley

 

40. Robert Altman

 

41. Luis Buñuel

 

42. Dario Argento / Wim Winders / Edgar Wright

 

43. Mel Brooks / Robert Rodriguez

 

44. John Frankenheimer

 

45. John Waters

 

46. Pedro Almodóvar

 

47. Charlie Chaplin

 

48. Judd Apatow / D.A. Pennebaker / Roman Polanski / Robert Zemeckis

 

49. David Cronenberg / D.W. Griffith

 

50. Hal Ashby

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