Top Ten Directors

Francis Ford Coppola
Francois Truffaut
David Fincher
George Lucas      

Martin Scorsese
Howard Hawks
Preston Sturges
William Wyler
Victor Fleming

Sindey Lumet
Peter Weir
John Boorman
David Lynch
Ron Howard
Robert Altman
Alan Parker

Frank Capra
Mel Brooks
Akira Kurosawa
John Cassavetes
James Cameron
George Stevens
Mike Nichols

Below is my list of TOP TEN favorite film directors and the films that put them on the list. 

1. Steven Spielberg   (Jaws, E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Schindler's List, Raiders of the Lost Ark)
What can I say? He makes great films. He has reinvented himself again and again and has always managed to keep the general audience interested in everything that he does. He will be remembered as the greatest director of all time.

2. Billy Wilder   (Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, Some Like It Hot)
One of the great comedy directors and master of voice over. Besides reinventing the buddy comedy duo (Matthau/Lemmon for example) he has made films of all different genres that are classics.

3. Woody Allen   (Manhattan, Annie Hall, Sleeper, Bananas)
A great director, but an even better writer. From his "early comedies" to his New York stories, he is always consistent.

4. Alfred Hitchcock   (Vertigo, Psycho, North By Northwest)
The master of suspense. If you haven't seen his work, you can't call yourself a filmmaker.

5. Stanley Kubrick   (Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lolita)
He made very few films in his career, but each one is a classic.

6. David Lean   (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago)
Besides these classic films, he made dozens of other great movies. He is the master of the epic.

7. Giuseppe Tornatore   (Cinema Paradiso, Star Maker, Everybody's Fine)
The greatest Italian director since Fellini.

8. Orson Welles   (Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil)
He invented some of the greatest shots ever put on film. He's thought provoking and inventive.

9. Elia Kazan   (On the Waterfront, A Face in the Crowd, America America)
Forget the whole HUAC blacklist thing, he made the greatest films of the 50's.

10. Robert Zemeckis   (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, Romancing the Stone)
A guilty pleasure, I just love his films. They make me laugh.

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