Tag: directors

In 2008 we ran a poll to find the 100 Greatest Directors ever. The final published results were compiled from both top ten lists from contributors and other published polls and lists.

• • • 1. Alfred Hitchcock (The Pendragon recommends – Vertigo, Psycho, Rear Window)
    • 2. Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Chimes at Midnight)
    • 3. Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon)
    • 4. Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Ran)
    • 5. John Ford (The Searchers, My Darling Clementine, The Grapes of Wrath)
    • 6. Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas)
    • 7. Ingmar Bergman (Persona, The Seventh Seal, Fanny & Alexander)
    • 8. Federico Fellini (8½, La Dolce Vita, La Strada)
    • 9. Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, Contempt, Pierrot le fou)
    • 10. Robert Bresson (Pickpocket, A Man Escaped, Balthazar)
    • 11. Andrei Tarkovsky (Andrei Rublev, The Mirror, Stalker)
    • 12. Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard, Some Like it Hot, The Apartment)
    • 13. Luis Bunuel (This Strange Passion, The Exterminating Angel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie)
    • 14. Charles Chaplin (City Lights, Modern Times, The Gold Rush)
    • 15. Jean Renoir (The Rules of the Game, La Grande illusion, A Day in the Country)
    • 16. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather: Part II)
    • 17. Howard Hawks (Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Rio Bravo)
    • 18. Carl Dreyer (The Passion of Joan of Arc, Ordet, Vampyr)
    • 19. Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story, Late Spring, An Autumn Afternoon)
    • 20. F.W. Murnau (Sunrise, Nosferatu, The Last Laugh)
    • 21. Steven Spielberg (Schindler’s List, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
    • 22. Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff, The Life of Oharu)
    • 23. David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago)
    • 24. Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse)
    • 25. Michelangelo Antonioni (L’Avventura, Blowup, The Passenger)
    • 26. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes)
    • 27. Buster Keaton (The General, Sherlock Jr., The Cameraman)
    • 28. Woody Allen (Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters)
    • 29. John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Man Who Would be King)
    • 30. Sergei Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible: Part I)
    • 31. Luchino Visconti (The Leopard, Rocco and His Brothers, Death in Venice)
    • 32. Roberto Rossellini (Rome, Open City, Germany Year Zero, Viaggio in Italia)
    • 33. Werner Herzog (Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser)
    • 34. Terence Malick (Days of Heaven, Badlands, The Thin Red Line)
    • 35. Robert Altman (McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Nashville, The Player)
    • 36. Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows, Jules et Jim, Day for Night)
    • 37. Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America)
    • 38. Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke)
      39. Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby, The Pianist)
    • 40. Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The Marriage of Maria Braun)
      41. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Inglourious Basterds)
    • 42. Kryzsztof Kieslowski (Dekalog, Three Colours: Red, Three Colours: Blue)
    • 43. Satayajit Ray (Pather Panchali, The World of Apu,  Aparajito)
    • 44. Alain Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad, Muriel)
    • 45. David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, The Elephant Man)
    • 46. Sam Peckinpath (The Wild Bunch, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Straw Dogs)
    • 47. Joel & Ethan Coen (Miller’s Crossing, Fargo, No Country For Old Men)
    • 48. Max Ophuls (Le Plaisir, The Earrings of Madame de…, Lola Montès)
    • 49. Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Alien, Gladiator)
    • 50. Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, The Spider’s Stratagem, The Last Emperor)

  
  
  
  

  • 51. Brian De Palma (Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito’s Way)
  • 52. John Cassavetes (Faces, A Woman Under the Influence, Opening Night)
  • 53. Ernst Lubitsch (Trouble in Paradise, The Shop Around the Corner, To Be or Not to Be)
  • 54. Michael Mann (The Insider, Heat, The Last of the Mohicans)
  • 55. Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, Time Bandits)
  • 56. Vincente Minnelli (Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon, An American in Paris)
  • 57. Douglas Sirk (Imitation of Life, All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind)
  • 58. Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby,  Mystic River)
  • 59. Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Samourai, Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge)
  • 60. Jacques Tati (Playtime, Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, My Uncle)
  • 61. Pier Paolo Pasolini (The Gospel According to Matthew, Theorem,  Accattone)
  • 62. Elia Kazan (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, East of Eden)
  • 63. Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause, Bigger Than Life, Johnny Guitar)
  • 64. David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises, Dead Ringers, The Fly)
  • 65. Leo McCarey (Duck Soup, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Awful Truth)
  • 66. D. W. Griffith ( The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance,  Broken Blossoms)
  • 67. Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King)
  • 68. Abbas Kiarostami (The Wind Will Carry Us, Close-Up, Taste of Cherry)
  • 69. Tim Burton (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood)
  • 70. Josef Von Sternberg (The Blue Angel, The Scarlet Empress, Shanghai Express)
  • 71. Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas, Kings of the Road)
  • 72. Frank Capra (It’s a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
  • 73. John Boorman (Deliverance, Excalibur, Hope and Glory)
  • 74. Peter Weir (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, The Truman Show)
  • 75. Milos Forman (The Fireman’s Ball, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus)
  • 76. Chris Marker (La Jetée, Le Joli Ma, Sans Soleil)
  • 77. Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon, JFK)
  • 78. Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, The Master)
  • 79. Kar Wai Wong (In the Mood For Love, Chungking Express, Happy Together)
  • 80. James Cameron (Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Terminator)
  • 81. Vittorio De Sica (Bicycle Thieves, Miracle in Milan, Shoeshine)
  • 82. Jean Vigo (L’Atalante, Zéro de conduite, À propos de Nice)
  • 83. Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception, Memento)
  • 84. William Wyler (Ben-Hur, The Best Years of Our Lives, Mrs. Miniver)
  • 85. Preston Sturges (The Palm Beach Story, Sullivan’s Travels, The Lady Eve)
  • 86. David Fincher (The Social Network, Seven,  Fight Club)
  • 87. Hou Hsiao-hsien (A City of Sadness, A Time to Live, A Time to Die, The Puppetmaster)
  • 88. Nicolas Roeg (Don’t Look Now, Walkabout, The Man Who Fell to Earth)
  • 89. George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, My Fair Lady)
  • 90. Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network)
  • 91. Eric Rohmer (My Night at Maud, Claire’s Knee, The Green Ray)
  • 92. Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude, The Last Detail, Being There)
  • 93. George Lucas (THX 1138, American Graffiti, Star Wars)
  • 94. Erich Von Stroheim (Foolish Wives, Greed, The Wedding March)
  • 95. Otto Preminger (Laura, Anatomy of a Murder, The Man with the Golden Arm)
  • 96. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (Singin’ in the Rain, On the Town, It’s Always Fair Weather)
  • 97. Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, Angels with Dirty Faces)
  • 98. Victor Fleming (The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Captains Courageous)
  • 99. Fred Zinnermann (High Noon, From Here to Eternity, A Man For All Seasons)
  • 100. Carol Reed (The Third Man, Odd Man Out, Oliver!)