List your five favorite directors, living or dead

[red dog 1]

1) Alfred Hitchcock

2) The Coen Brothers

3) Harold Ramis

4) Oliver Stone

5) Mel Brooks

[Doc Sportello]

1. Hard to choose just five but here goes

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1. Kubrick

2. Scorcese

3. The Coens

4. Tarantino

5. Michael Mann

[gohuskies]

2. My list..

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1. Akira Kurosawa
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Martin Scorsese
4. George Cukor
5. Billy Wilder

Honorable mentions go to:

Blake Edwards
John Ford
Howard Hawks

[Glorfindel]

3. In no particular order

Stephen Spielberg

Ridley Scott

George Cukor

Stanley Kubrick

Cecil B. DeMille

Thanks for a thought-provoking question, red dog 1!

[red dog 1]

33. You're welcome

[nocoincidences]

4. This is fun!

Jacques Tati

Federico Fellini

Quentin Tarantino

Jacques Truffaut

Stephen Spielberg

[ZZenith]

5. Ok -

1. Ingmar Bergman
2. Krzysztof Kieślowski
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Akira Kurosawa
5. Federico Fellini

Possibly in that order.

Gotta give honorable mention to Spike Lee and the Coen Brothers, though.

[jg10003]

6. no particular order (6 names, I couldn't decide)

1 - Preston Sturgis
2 - Ernst Lubitsch
3 - Billy Wilder
4 - Mel Brooks
5 - (tie) Howard Hawks, John Ford

[Chainfire]

7. My five favorite directors, hmmmmm

In no particular order; Bill Donovan, Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby and William Casey

[Glorfindel]

8. Bad Chainfire! Bad, bad, bad...

[red dog 1]

29. "Wild Bill" Donovan, Allen (hated JFK) Dulles, William "Debate-Gate" Casey + Helms & Colby?

You didn't like George H.W. Bush?

(Casey also engineered "October Surprise" to get Reagan elected in 1980)

[AZSkiffyGeek]

9. In no particular order

The Coen Brothers
Martin Scorsese
Taika Waititi
Robert Altman
Alfred Hitchcock

[Cartoonist]

10. Comedy is King

Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Mel Brooks
Tex Avery

and
Akira Kurosawa

[House of Roberts]

11. Oh well

John Huston

John Ford

Gene Kelly

Blake Edwards

Otto Preminger

[Harker]

12. Tough call.

Martin Ritt

John Frankenheimer

Kurosawa Akira

Coen Brothers

Ingmar Bergman

[NightWatcher]

13. Living, living, dead, dead, living.

[Botany]

14. In no order

Rob Reiner
Mel Brooks
Akira Kurosawa
Martin Scorsese
Penny Marshall
Clint Eastwood

BTW I used to like Woody Allen but he is dead to me now.

[milestogo]

23. Same here with Woody Allen

I hate it when talented people make me hate them.

[Botany]

24. How did I forget the team of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer?

And just for "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," John Ford. Over the top and cheesy but
every single frame was like a great painting.

Hard to limit to 5.

BTW And one time or another in my life I liked Woody Allen, Joe Paterno, and Bill Cosby.

[milestogo]

27. And Kevin Spacey.

A great actor.

[red dog 1]

32. Yeah, I loved to listen to Bill Cosby's comedy albums, especially the one that had "Fat Albert"

(I still think Woody Allen is a great director, in spite of what he reportedly did to his daughter, Dylan)

[red dog 1]

30. Yeah, I like Rob Reiner too....I'd put him sixth on my list

(followed by Scorsese & Spielberg)

[Upthevibe]

15. Mine in no particular order:

Quentin Tarantino
Martin Scorsese
The Cohen Brothers
Stephen Spielberg
Billy Wilder/Frank Capra (for old times sake)

[red dog 1]

31. Can you name one Quentin Tarantino movie that does not have the "N" word in it?

(But I still like him, and I've seen Pulp Fiction at least 30 times)

[Akoto]

16. My nerdy list:

In no particular order:

1. Hayao Miyazaki
2. Dave Filoni
3. Jonathan Frakes
4. George Lucas
5. Steven Spielberg

[First Speaker]

17. My list, no particular order:

1. Orson Welles

2. Alfred Hitchcock

3. Roman Polanski

4. John Huston

5. Michael Curtiz

[Ilsa]

18. I'm not going to go too far back:

Spielberg
Alfonso Cuarón
Richard Curtis
Simon Curtis

These just popped into my head. There are so many others that are superb.

[DFW]

19. Just five? Cruel, cruel.........

Bo Wideberg (Just because I loved "Ådalen 31" so much)
Volker Schlöndorff (Just because I loved "Die Blechtrommel" so much)
Mel Brooks
Spike Lee
Norman Jewison (Just because I loved "The Russians are Coming, The Russians Are Coming" so much)

[smirkymonkey]

20. In no particular order...

Alfred Hitchcock
George Cukor
Frank Capra
Billy Wilder
Pedro Almodovar
and...
Someone whose older films I like, but who has really gone downhill as an artist and a human being, Woody Allen.

Oh, wait. One I forgot, used to watch his films all the time, but haven't seen one in a while. Definitely worth re-watching...
Krzysztof Kieślowski

[Paladin]

21. Tough to limit it to 5, but here goes:

John Huston

Stephen Spielberg

Howard Hawks

Martin Scorsese

Ingmar Bergman

[milestogo]

22. 1. Stanley Kubrick

2. Sydney Pollack

3. Martin Scorcese

4. Ridley Scott

5. Steven Spielberg

[Jim G.]

25. I Have Some Favorites...

Robert Altman

Ridley Scott

Stanley Kubrick

James Cameron

Martin Scorsese/Steven Spielberg T-5

[jmowreader]

26. Okay...

Stanley Kubrick
Paul Verhoeven
Quentin Tarantino
the Coen Brothers
Chuck Jones

[hurl]

28. not in order

Coen brothers
Stanley Kubrik
Terry Gilliam
Paul Verhoeven
Spike Lee