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Top directors of IMDB 250 UPDATED

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1. Alfred Hitchcock

1. Rear Window (1954)
2. Psycho (1960)
3. Vertigo (1958)
4. North by Northwest (1959)
5. Rebecca (1940)
6. Strangers on a Train (1951)
7. Notorious (1946)
8. Dial M for Murder (1954)
9. Rope (1948)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.9

2. Stanley Kubrick

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
2. Paths of Glory (1957)
3. The Shining (1980)
4. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
5. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
7. The Killing (1956)
8. Barry Lyndon (1975)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.5

3. Clint Eastwood

1. Gran Torino (2008)
2. Unforgiven (1992)
3. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
4. Changeling (2008)
5. Mystic River (2003)
6. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.9

4. Billy Wilder

1. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
2. Double Indemnity (1944)
3. Some Like It Hot (1959)
4. The Apartment (1960)
5. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
6. Stalag 17 (1953)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.3

5. Quentin Tarantino

1. Pulp Fiction (1994)
2. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
3. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
4. Sin City (2005)
5. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
6. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.9

6. Charles Chaplin

1. City Lights (1931)
2. The Great Dictator (1940)
3. Modern Times (1936)
4. The Kid (1921)
5. The Gold Rush (1925)

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7. Akira Kurosawa

1. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
2. Rashômon (1950)
3. Ran (1985)
4. Yojimbo (1961)
5. Ikiru (1952)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.5

8. Christopher Nolan

1. Inception (2010)
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
3. Memento (2000)
4. The Prestige (2006)
5. Batman Begins (2005)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.1

9. Steven Spielberg

1. Schindler's List (1993)
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
3. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
5. Jaws (1975)

dlamarr23's rating:

7.5

10. James Cameron

1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
2. Aliens (1986)
3. Avatar (2009)
4. The Terminator (1984)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.6

11. Frank Capra

1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
3. It Happened One Night (1934)
4. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

8.4

12. Francis Ford Coppola

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
3. Apocalypse Now (1979)
4. The Conversation (1974)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.8

13. Sergio Leone

1. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966)
2. C'era una volta il West (1968)
3. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
4. Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.7

14. Martin Scorsese

1. Goodfellas (1990)
2. Taxi Driver (1976)
3. The Departed (2006)
4. Raging Bull (1980)

dlamarr23's rating:

15. Lee Unkrich

1. Toy Story 3 (2010)
2. Finding Nemo (2003)
3. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
4. Toy Story 2 (1999)

8.3

16. Joel Coen

1. Fargo (1996)
2. No Country for Old Men (2007)
3. The Big Lebowski (1998)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.9

17. Federico Fellini

1. Le notti di Cabiria (1957)
2. La strada (1954)
3. 8½ (1963)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.4

18. David Fincher

1. Fight Club (1999)
2. Se7en (1995)
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.3

19. John Huston

1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
2. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
3. The African Queen (1951)

dlamarr23's rating:

7.7

20. Peter Jackson

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.5

21. David Lean

1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
3. Brief Encounter (1945)

dlamarr23's rating:

9.2

22. Hayao Miyazaki

1. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
2. Mononoke-hime (1997)
3. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

8.2

23. Roman Polanski

1. Chinatown (1974)
2. The Pianist (2002)
3. Rosemary's Baby (1968)

dlamarr23's rating:

24. Ridley Scott

1. Alien (1979)
2. Blade Runner (1982)
3. Gladiator (2000)

dlamarr23's rating:

7.8

25. Woody Allen

1. Annie Hall (1977)
2. Manhattan (1979)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.3

26. Paul Thomas Anderson

1. There Will Be Blood (2007)
2. Magnolia (1999)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.3

27. Darren Aronofsky

1. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
2. The Wrestler (2008)

dlamarr23's rating:

9.1

28. Ingmar Bergman

1. Det sjunde inseglet (1957)
2. Smultronstället (1957)

dlamarr23's rating:

7.6

29. Brad Bird

1. Ratatouille (2007)
2. The Incredibles (2004)

dlamarr23's rating:

7.9

30. Danny Boyle

1. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
2. Trainspotting (1996)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.3

31. Tim Burton

1. Ed Wood (1994)
2. Big Fish (2003)

dlamarr23's rating:

7.7

32. Michael Curtiz

1. Casablanca (1942)
2. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

7.8

33. Frank Darabont

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. The Green Mile (1999)

dlamarr23's rating:

7.5

34. Victor Fleming

1. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
2. Gone with the Wind (1939)

dlamarr23's rating:

35. Milos Forman

1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
2. Amadeus (1984)

dlamarr23's rating:

7.9

36. Terry Gilliam

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
2. Twelve Monkeys (1995)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.4

37. Howard Hawks

1. The Big Sleep (1946)
2. His Girl Friday (1940)

dlamarr23's rating:

7.5

38. Terry Jones

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
2. Life of Brian (1979)

8.4

39. Elia Kazan

1. On the Waterfront (1954)
2. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

8.8

40. Buster Keaton

1. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
2. The General (1926)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.8

41. Fritz Lang

1. M (1931)
2. Metropolis (1927)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.2

42. Sidney Lumet

1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
2. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.6

43. David Lynch

1. The Elephant Man (1980)
2. Mulholland Dr. (2001)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.1

44. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1. All About Eve (1950)
2. Sleuth (1972)

7.4

45. Mike Nichols

1. The Graduate (1967)
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

dlamarr23's rating:

6.8

46. Rob Reiner

1. The Princess Bride (1987)
2. Stand by Me (1986)

dlamarr23's rating:

7.5

47. Guy Ritchie

1. Snatch. (2000)
2. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

dlamarr23's rating:

8.1

48. William Wyler

1. Ben-Hur (1959)
2. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

7.3

49. Robert Zemeckis

1. Forrest Gump (1994)
2. Back to the Future (1985)

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Comments

Shaun

Posted: 3 years, 7 months ago at Oct 22 13:56

Great idea and great list!

C!pH3r

Posted: 2 years, 8 months ago at Sep 1 0:24

You need to update, Nolan for Inception etc :)

vicky

Posted: 1 year, 5 months ago at Dec 6 17:18

awesome!

The O.P.

Posted: 6 months ago at Nov 21 17:14

Useful list! :)

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