Top 5 Directors

[Short Round]

What are your top 5 favorite directors?

mine (in no order)

Steven Spielberg
George Lucas
Martin Scorsese
Alfred Hitchcock
Francis Ford Coppola

Honorable Mentions:
Ridley Scott
Billy Wilder
Frank Capra

[ResidentAlien]

Akira Kurosawa
Stanley Kubrick
Ingmar Bergman
Jean Cocteau
Werner Herzog

[ClintonHammond]

Terry Gilliam
Brad Bird
John Carpenter
Guy Ritchie
Paul Verhoeven

But if you ask me tomorrow I'll probably come up with a whole different list....

[HovitosKing]

My top 5, in order:

Wes Anderson (pure unfiltered genius)
Steven Spielberg (obvious)
Christopher Nolan (still on the way up, could bump Spielberg in another 4-5 years)
Ridley Scott (for one film in particular...you know the one)
Martin Scorsese (for many wonderful films and years of neglect)

[Niteshade007]

Hitchcock
Wilder
Zemeckis
Hawkes
Scorceses

[Attila the Professor]

Well, I like the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

Apart from him...
Billy Wilder (my only other "any day you ask me" choice)
David Lean
Akira Kurosawa
Sergio Leone

[Misha]

Steven Spielberg
David Lean
Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese
Stanley Kubrick

[Rumpled Fedora]

Wow. I'm surprised there are so many Wilder fans on this board. Kinda goes against these poll results (http://imdb.com/poll/results/2007-08-10) from a few days ago.

1. Billy Wilder (Fanatic)
I don't know the rest of the order but here are four more.

Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, Ernst Lubitsch, Howard Hawks.
Honorable Mentions: Alfred Hitchcock, King Vidor, Stanley Donen, and John Huston.

[Doctorjones]

My Top 5 Directors, in no particular order:

Robert Zemeckis
Steven Spielberg
George Lucas
Peter Jackson
Edgar Wright

[Michael24]

In no particular order...

1. Stephen Sommers
2. Steven Spielberg
3. John Carpenter
4. Joe Dante
5. Alfred Hitchcock

Honorable mentions: Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, and Michael Crichton.

[drwynn]

In no particular order;

Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Wes Craven
Frank Capra

Honorable Mentions; Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Jackson, Robert Zemeckis, Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman, Sam Raimi, Mel Brooks

[Dr.Sartorius]

My list of favorite directors changes all the time. Right now its:

1. Spielberg
2. Scorsese
3. Kubrick
4. Weir
5. Eastwood

[EvilDevo]

1) Steven Spielberg
2) James Cameron
3) Sam Raimi
4) Tim Burton
5) John Woo

Probably in that order...

[Jones Junkie]

1. Steven Spielberg
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Tim Burton
4. David Fincher
5. Martin Scorsese

[drwynn]

Almost forgot;

Woody Allen on the honorable mention list

[Kingsley]

Impossible, I hate lists... I can't order things like this.

Herzog
Scorsese
Weir
Allen
Tarantino
Kusturica
Meirelles
Welles
Sturges
Spielberg
Kubrick
Wilder
Kieslowski
Eastwood
Jonze
Cameron
Cuaron
Coppolla

... and I forgot a lot!! :(