Best Director

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

All my picks have been taken, except for one.

 

David Cronenberg: Rabid, Scanners

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

and you don't mention his two most well known films: The Fly and The Dead Zone.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Thanks for the nominees. Feel free to nominate more directors until tomorrow afternoon.

 

A few more

 

Sergio Leone: The God, The Bad and The Ugly, and A Fistfull of Dollars.

 

John Sturges:The Great Escpae and The Magnificent 7.

 

Whe I reach 64 I'll try to figure out a different way of seeding the matcups other than Alphabetical.

[Guest MDH257]

Cameron Crowe: Say Anything, Almost Famous

 

Barry Levinson: Diner, Avalon

 

And kudos to the person who nominated John Sayles

[Guest MDH257]

and here's two more...

 

Sam Raimi: Evil Dead, A Simple Plan

 

Terrence Malick: Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line

[Guest 5_moves_of_doom]

Meh, I'll just name off two more, simply because I can... chances are one of these have already been picked, but ah well...

 

David Lynch - Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive

 

Sam Mendes - American Beauty, Road to Perdition

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

Goodie, I can put up more names then.

 

John Frakenheimer: The Manchurian Candidate, Seconds

William Wyler: Ben-Hur, Wuthering Heights

Gene Kelly: Singin' in the Rain, On the Town

Vincente Minelli: An American in Paris, Father of the Bride

Don Siegel: Dirty Harry, The Killers

Richard Donner: Lethal Weapon, Superman, The Omen

Hal Needham: Smoky and the Bandit, The Cannonball Run (not fantastic stylistically, but considered to be the best stunt directors of all time)

Mel Brooks: The Producers, Blazing Saddles

Mike Nichols: Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff? The Graduate, Working Girl

Eric Von Stroheim: Greed, The Merry Widow

James Whale: Frakenstein, Bride of Frakenstein

Brian De Palma: Carrie, Scarface, the Untouchables

John Carpenter: Halloween, They Live

Roger Corman: The Terror, The Trip

Stanley Kramer: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Stanley Donen: Indiscreet, Charade

Terence Young: Dr. No, Wait Until Dark

[Guest LooseCannon]

I just want to make sure Woody Allen is nominated, Annie Hall, and Radio Days.

 

And I'll also throw Sam Peckinpah out there, for Straw Dogs and The Wild Bunch, and Oliver Stone for Natural Born Killers and Platoon. Others I'd pick have already been mentioned, though I'll throw out more if I can think of them.

[Guest El Satanico]

Well i wasn't going to mention him since he has only made two movies thus far, but someone has mentioned Sam Mendes so eh why not.

 

Darren Aronofsky: Pi and Requiem For A Dream

 

 

He was quickly discussed and Monty Pythoners were mentioned, but he was never actually "nominated" so let me make sure he is.

 

Terry Gilliam: Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas and Time Bandits

[Guest Madmartigan21]

Cameron Crowe: Say Anything, Almost Famous

 

Barry Levinson: Diner, Avalon

 

And kudos to the person who nominated John Sayles

YAY! Kudos to ME!

[Guest Dmann2000]

U put up Terry Gilliam and not mentione Brazil?

[Guest Vern Gagne]

I've got my 64 directors. I'll either be back later tonight or tomorrow with the seedings.

[Guest El Satanico]

U put up Terry Gilliam and not mentione Brazil?

I was actually going to mention it, but i haven't actually seen Brazil so didn't feel right putting it.

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

and you don't mention his two most well known films: The Fly and The Dead Zone.

Is there some rule that you have to list the director's more "well known" films?

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

I just think people would know him better by mentioning his most well known films. These are also my two favorites of his and I think are both really good flicks.

[Guest J*ingus]

Dammit, don't it yet, I didn't get online all day! Wrestlingdeacon can't take half the votes by himself! What about Atom Egoyan (Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter), Takeshi Kitano (Sonatine, Brother), Buster Keaton (The General, Sherlock Jr.), Lucio Fulci (Zombie, The Beyond), Jackie Chan (Police Story, Drunken Master 2), Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential, Wonder Boys), Werner Herzog (Aguirre the Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampire), Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo the Iron Man, Tokyo Fist), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (City of Lost Children, Amelie), Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust, Ninja Scroll), John Woo (Hard-Boiled, The Killer), Peter Jackson (Heavenly Creatures, Lord of the Rings), John Waters (Serial Mom, Pink Flamingoes), Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner), Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker, Solaris), Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi, Spy Kids), Woody Allen (Manhattan, Annie Hall), Frederico Fellini (8 1/2, La Dolce Vita), Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant, King of New York), Ron Howard (Willow, Apollo 13), Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries), Jim Mallon (MST3K The Movie and most episodes), Michael Mann (Last of the Mohicans, The Insider), Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), Jim Jarmusch (Down by Law, Dead Man), Robert Wise (West Side Story, the Haunting), Kenneth Branaugh (Henry V, Dead Again), Lars Von Triers (Zentropa, The Kingdom), Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley), D.W. Griffith (Intolerance, Birth of a Nation), George Lucas (Star Wars, American Graffiti), Carol Reed (The Third Man, Oliver!), James Ivory (Savages, Remains of the Day), Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade, All the Pretty Horses), Otto Preminger (Laura, The Man with the Golden Arm), David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club), Tod Browning (Freaks, Dracula), Warren Beatty (Heaven Can Wait, Bulworth), Jake Kasdan (Zero Effect, Orange County), and Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire)?

 

 

(And yes, I HAVE seen all those movies.)

[Guest NoCalMike]

Ummm, I think we are missing the point here folks. I could name a gazillion directors that have done approx 2 GREAT movies, but the question is, BEST DIRECTOR, not top 10, 20, 50 etc.....

[Guest J*ingus]

Yeah, and there's a few that I've listed that I'd definitely vote for, and a few that others have listed that I don't think should even be considered. Shouldn't we try to include as many as possible?

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

That was my logic when I posted the ones I did. Going for a lot of off the beaten path guys. Hell, we could finish this poll with only about ten names tops. Great picks from Jingus for the most part, although there's a couple names I wouldn't toss in just to fill things out and I certainly hope Verne sees that and puts a few of yours in, feel free to take some of mine out if need be.

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

I just think people would know him better by mentioning his most well known films. These are also my two favorites of his and I think are both really good flicks.

Well, if there is anyone who doesn't know who David Cronenberg is without mentioning The Fly and The Dead Zone, then chances are they aren't into movies that much anyway.

[Guest godthedog]

george lucas should NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER be in ANY kind of tournament that is even vaguely related to "best director." I can direct actors and create better characters than lucas can. there's no way in hell he deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as werner herzog, elia kazan and ingmar fucking bergman.

[Guest shlidgn90]

i have two:

Greydon clark: Final Justice and lambada: the forbidden dance.

Robert Boris: Oxford Blues and Backyard dogs

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Sorry Jingus. If it makes you feel any better Elia Kazan is in the tourney.