Ranking Top 40 Directors. The Final Edition (really).

This is the final edition for me. Drop your favourite below!

1. Satyajit Ray
2. Yasujiro Ozu
3. Mrinal Sen
4. Andrei Tarkovsky
5. Ritwik Ghatak
6. Mikio Naruse
7. Jean Pierre Melville
8. Kenji Mizoguchi
9. Ingmar Bergman
10. Henri-Georges Clouzot
11. Abbas Kiarostami
12. Alain Resnais
13. Masaki Kobayashi
14. Jacques Rivette
15. Michelangelo Antonioni
16. Jean Renoir
17. Nagisa Oshima
18. Pier Paolo Pasolini
19. Daisuke Ito
20. Jean Luc Godard
21. Yoshishige Yoshida
22. Orson Welles
23. Stanley Kubrick
24. Jacques Tourneur
25. Krzysztof Kieslowski
26. Roberto Rossellini
27. David Lynch
28. Francois Truffaut
29. Lav Diaz
30. Werner Herzog
31. Carl Dreyer
32. Sam Peckinpah
33. Alfred Hitchcock
34. Michael Haneke
35. Tadashi Imai
36. Alejandro Jodorowsky
37. Billy Wilder
38. Sergei Eisenstein
39. Hirokazu Koreeda
40. Park Chan Wook

#40 is still a great director.

...and then existence itself exploded ;p

Interesting list, ranking are always debatable so here's my contribution.

If've seen one third of a movie by Kurosawa, another by Godard. Kurosawa seemed much better to me.

Edit: spelled "Kurosawa" properly.

@m011235 said ^

Interesting list, ranking are always debatable so here's my contribution.

If've seen one third of a movie by Kurosawa, another by Godard. Kurosawa seemed much better to me.

Edit: spelled "Kurosawa" properly.

Yeah, he's a director I personally admire, more than one I connect with. Still, he'd probably be only one slot above Godard if I were forced to use him.

Just my opinion.

• Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Angst essen Seele auf, Berlin Alexanderplatz)
• Ethan and Joel Coen (The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men)
• Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Léon)

Until recently, I considered Luc Besson an absolutely outstanding director - but unfortunately, even he produced absolute rubbish with his 2023 film Dogman.

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Satyajit Ray used to make B&W films, I agree his films were nice and he was like the no.1 in India back then but like he shouldn't be no.1 now. But its your opinion I'm just stating mine.
Ig Christopher Nolan should be no.1 for me, I don't really know directors but him detonating a real bomb (not a nuclear warhead) for Oppenheimer was class.

1. Akira Kurosawa
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Roman Polanski

@Ar4Asd1_Chess said ^

Satyajit Ray used to make B&W films, I agree his films were nice and he was like the no.1 in India back then but like he shouldn't be no.1 now. But it’s your opinion I'm just stating mine.
Ig Christopher Nolan should be no.1 for me, I don't really know directors but him detonating a real bomb (not a nuclear warhead) for Oppenheimer was class.

Should Ray ever be considered above Hitchcock or Kurosawa? Probably not, no. But faulting him for making black and white movies doesn’t make sense. Nights of Cabiria is not an inferior film to Transformers: Last Knight, even if Michael Bay is arguably the best SFX guy ever.

Nolan is a good director, but has a tendency to fall into the traps of Michael Bay style over-actioning and Shyamalan “look at this convoluted plot twist”-ing.

@RAybonto
I find your lack of Kurosawa, Cocteau, Huston, Ford, and Leone odd.

so #1’s first name , ray, just happens to be a coincidence :|

@kipel73 said ^

so #1’s first name , ray, just happens to be a coincidence :

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