Greatest Hollywood Director of All Time ?
Greatest Hollywood Director of All Time ? 20 votes
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...
Michael Mann for Heat and Collateral. Ferrari wasn't great but it also wasn't a 5 hour pile of shit like Scorsese's latest films.
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Steven Spielberg
I guess he must be a workaholic or addicted to always trying to be relevant but Spielberg suffers more than like anyone I can ever think of in any art form of doing way more than he needs to. Seriously The BFG? War Horse? Why?
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Francis Ford Coppola
From a sheer volume of classic films perspective, he tops the list.
But sometimes there's that Spielberg cheese factor.
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Francis Ford Coppola
Honorable mention…
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Stanley Kubrick
Francis 1A…It's hard
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Steven Spielberg
Spielberg has made the majority of movies that normal people care about and enjoy. The cultural arts nerds probably prefer the other guys on the list, but I don't know many other directors who are making E.T., Schindler's List, Jaws, Indiana Jones, and whatever other hits he's made. That's a pretty diverse list of genres and they were all mega hits.
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This is one pole where I have no idea.
Spielberg for reasons listed.
Tarantino for making me say holy shit during movies.
After that, I’d go Kubrick, Scorsese and Coppola.
Those are the top 5 in particular order. James Cameron is lingering close to them. -
Quentin Tarantino
Bulletproof could have been better
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Robert Zemeckis should probably be on this list.
Back to the Future
Roger Rabbit
Castaway
Forest Gump
Used Cars
Romancing the Stone
And others
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...
He won't be popular here but Ari Aster starting off with Misommar followed by Hereditary might be the greatest start to a directors career I can think of in terms of quality.
Never saw Beau is Afraid though..
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Spielberg is the Beatles. Quality, quantity, and sales.
John Hughes is my sleeper pick
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Steven Spielberg
It's boring to just say Spielberg but it's the choice. Jurassic Park is one of the greatest accomplishments of mankind. It's like the 91 Huskies of movies. Making the highest grossing movie of all time where nothing really happens for the first 45 minutes is astounding.
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Steven Spielberg
Midsommar was after Hereditary which makes it more impressive to me. Did a good job of following up good hipster horror by not getting self indulgent like the guy who followed up The Witch with The Lighthouse.
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John Hughes.
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Steven Spielberg
Who was Spielberg's Yoko Ono?
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Steven Spielberg
Darren Aronofsky gets an honorable mention
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Peter Jackson
I was Steven Spielberg for the 5th grade wax museum
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Francis Ford Coppola
Godfather I, II, Apocalypse alone make him my #1. Can't top that. Add in Gatsby, Outsiders, Rumblefish and Bram Stoker's Dracula (I tend to brb;jo to crazy Winona Ryder in that one), and he's my clear number one.
I'm not an ET guy, nor am I moved by Indiana Jones movies. Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan put him up there in my top … whatever. I thank him for his work in those, particularly the latter.John Hughes - agree with that. Doesn't belong with the greats, but he was a significant producer of entertainment that has stood the test of time, even the teen-aged stuff - Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, etc. - which really define the era and work like documentaries now for those who weren't alive or of-age back then.
Back to Spielberg - gotta thank him, too, for Jaws. Iconic monster movie.
Scorsese - Taxi Driver, Casino, GoNY, Departed, Cape Fear … all very good and among my favorite movies. For me, though, he is Goodfellas, and for that work, I thank him profusely. But, eyebrows too bushy. I mean, what is that? Like, a genetic disorder or something?
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Steven Spielberg
With Spielberg it is not just the mega hits that everyone knows about (Jaws, Indy, Close Encounters, ET, Jurassic, etc.), it's the really epic movies that stand the test of time like Schindler's, Color Purple and Munich that make him the GOAT to me.
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Not at the top of the list, and some of his efforts have been boring turds, but Wes Anderson deserves an honorable mention. Few directors have an unmistakable quality to their movies like he does.
Also a big fan of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's style, but he hasn't made a lot of hits.
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Also, this pole is invalid without Neil Breen.
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Francis Ford Coppola
To me it's Coppola, because of the epic struggles he had to endure to get the Godfather and Apocalypse Now completed and done the right way. A lesser director would have gone with Redford over Pacino.
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Steven Spielberg
I'll always have a funny view on Coppola because the first movie I saw of his was Jack. Weird weird movie. Weird that he did it.
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Steven Spielberg
What's the take on Christopher Nolan?
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He’s made some bangers. Like I said earlier, I have no idea who’s number in this category but I know Nolan is good at his job.
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I was gonna say, Nolan is probably HM territory already.
Also, no Ridley Scott?
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...
Life Aquatic and Fantastic Mr Fox were masterpieces. Isle of Dogs was great. His two latest movies were forgettable but yeah, he deserves to be on the list.
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Francis Ford Coppola
Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Tenenbaums were all hugely influential on me. Some of the best soundtracks of all time as well.
