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The Most Oscar-Worthy Directors Of All Time By mollie [89 more lists]
This list will never really be finished. Such is the curse of having a film degree. But, here it goes. . .Note: I ranked these based on the their talent, vision and skill when measured against all the other directors in movie history, so the directors are measured by their entire body of work and not just one piece in particular.
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1906The Spirit of St. Louis, Sunset Boulevard, One, Two, Three, The Fortune Cookie, Ace in the Hole, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Kiss Me, Stupid, The Major and the Minor, Fedora, Love in the Afternoon, Witness for the Prosecution, The Front Page, Some Like It Hot, Irma la Douce, The Emperor Waltz, Five Graves to Cairo, Double Indemnity, The Seven Year Itch, Stalag 17, Billy Wilder filmography, Mauvaise Graine, Buddy Buddy, The Apartment, Avanti!, Sabrina, The Lost Weekend, A Foreign Affair, Death Mills MoreUnited States of America, AustriaSucha Beskidzka - 2
1969The Wrestler, The Fountain, Black Swan, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Fortune Cookie, The Wolverine, No Time MoreUnited States of AmericaBrooklyn - 3
1963Dave Chappelle's Block Party, The Green Hornet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Björk: Greatest Hits, Tokyo!, Human Nature, Be Kind Rewind, The Science of Sleep, The Thorn in the Heart, The Work of Director Michel Gondry, The Willowz: Seeinsquares, Pecan Pie MoreFranceVersailles“ One of my all-time favorite directors, and one of the few people who is equally able to make a total mindf**k of a movie feel like the feel-good film of the year and also make a feel-good schmaltz smorgasbord like Be Kind Rewind feel important and relevant. „ - 4
1915Filming Othello, Citizen Kane, The Fountain of Youth, Macbeth, Othello, The Stranger, The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles' Magic Show, Around The World With Orson Welles, Mr. Arkadin, It's All True, The Immortal Story, The Merchant of Venice, Don Quixote, The Trial, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, F for Fake, The Orson Welles Batman Hoax, Chimes at Midnight, The Hearts of Age, Mr. Arkadin: The Comprehensive Version, Portrait of Gina, The Other Side of the Wind, Orson Welles' Sketch Book, The Lady in the Ice, Horse Eats Hat, Filming The Trial, One Man Band, Too Much Johnson, Moby Dick Rehearsed, Moby Dick, The Southern Star, Mr. Arkadin: The Corinth Version, Vienna, The Orson Welles Show, The Dreamers, In the Land of Don Quixote, The Deep, The Miracle of St. Anne MoreUnited States of AmericaKenosha - 5
1939The Rainmaker, Rumble Fish, The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980, Apocalypse Now Redux, The Godfather, Finian's Rainbow, Captain EO, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Tetro, The Godfather Saga, The Conversation, You're a Big Boy Now, Youth Without Youth, Peggy Sue Got Married, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, The Godfather Part II, New York Stories, The Godfather Part III, The Cotton Club, Godfather Trilogy, The Terror, Supernova, Dementia 13, One from the Heart, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Gardens of Stone, Jack, The Rain People, The Bellboy and the Playgirls, Tonight for Sure, Battle Beyond the Sun, Twixt MoreUnited States of AmericaDetroit -
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1890Moonfleet, Metropolis, The Spiders, The Return of Frank James, Spies, American Guerrilla in the Philippines, Hangmen Also Die, The Blue Gardenia, Human Desire, The Woman in the Window, While the City Sleeps, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, You and Me, Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache, Moontide, You Only Live Once, Kämpfende Herzen, M, Man Hunt, Woman in the Moon, Master of Love, Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, Liliom, Clash by Night, Der müde Tod, Western Union, The Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship, In Night and Ice, Scarlet Street, Secret Beyond the Door..., House by the River, Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Cloak and Dagger, Ministry of Fear, Fury, The Indian Tomb, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, Harakiri, The Big Heat, Rancho Notorious, Das wandernde Bild, Giorgio Moroder Presents Metropolis, Halbblut MoreUnited States of America, Germany, AustriaVienna - 7 1969Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Fully Flared, Björk: Greatest Hits, Where the Wild Things Are, I'm Here, Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak, Wholphin: Issue 1, Scenes From The Suburbs, Fatlip: The Loneliest Punk, Torrance Rises, Mourir auprès de toi, Beastie Boys Video Anthology, We Were Once a Fairytale, Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak, Yeah Right!, Bjork: Volumen Plus, Video Days, Wholphin: Issue 9, Slow Century, How They Get There, The Work of Director Spike Jonze, Amarillo by Morning MoreUnited States of AmericaRockville
- 8 1949All About My Mother, Broken Embraces, Tacones lejanos, Bad Education, Talk to Her, Kika, Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown, Volver, Live Flesh, Law of Desire, Dark Habits, The Skin I Live In, The Flower of My Secret, Matador, Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap, What Have I Done To Deserve This?, Laberinto de pasiones, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, The Cannibalistic Councillor MoreSpainCalzada de Calatrava
- 9 1963Biutiful, 21 Grams, BMW films, Amores perros, To Each His Own Cinema, Babel, 11'9''01 September 11, The Hire: Powder Keg MoreMexicoMexico City
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Rian Johnson
1973Looper, The Brothers Bloom, BrickUnited States of AmericaMaryland - 11 1894On purge bébé, La Chienne, Partie de campagne, Picnic on the Grass, The Woman on the Beach, Charleston Parade, Life Belongs to Us, Elena and Her Men, Toni, French Cancan, This Land Is Mine, The Doctor's Horrible Experiment, Grand Illusion, The Crime of Monsieur Lange, The Rules of the Game, The Elusive Corporal, La Marseillaise, Boudu Saved from Drowning, The Golden Coach, The River, Carola, The Lower Depths, La Bête humaine, The Diary of a Chambermaid, The Amazing Mrs. Holliday, The Southerner, The Italian Straw Hat, Night at the Crossroads, Swamp Water, La petite marchande d'allumettes, The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir, Nana MoreUnited States of America, FranceParis
- 12 1954The Hudsucker Proxy, The Man Who Wasn't There, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Paris, je t'aime, Intolerable Cruelty, To Each His Own Cinema, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, True Grit, Blood Simple, The Ladykillers, Miller's Crossing, A Serious Man, Burn After Reading, Hail Caesar, The Big Lebowski, Suburbicon MoreUnited States of AmericaMinneapolis
- 13 1957The Hudsucker Proxy, The Man Who Wasn't There, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Paris, je t'aime, Intolerable Cruelty, To Each His Own Cinema, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, True Grit, Blood Simple, The Ladykillers, Miller's Crossing, A Serious Man, Burn After Reading, Hail Caesar, The Big Lebowski MoreUnited States of AmericaMinneapolis
- 14 1933Frantic, Macbeth, Bitter Moon, Repulsion, Cul-de-Sac, Chinatown, Knife in the Water, Les plus belles escroqueries du monde, Oliver Twist, Tess, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Ninth Gate, The Pianist, The Tenant, What?, Pirates, Rosemary's Baby, Mammals, A Murderer, Break Up the Dance, Teeth Smile, When Angels Fall, The Fat and the Lean, The Lamp, The Ghost Writer, To Each His Own Cinema, Two Men and a Wardrobe, Death and the Maiden, Knife in the Water: Bonus Material, Carnage, Afternoon of a Champion MoreFrance, PolandParis
- 15 1928The Shining, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Spartacus, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon, Day of the Fight, The Killing, Lolita, Killer's Kiss, One-Eyed Jacks, Fear and Desire, The Seafarers, Flying Padre MoreUnited States of AmericaManhattan
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Michael Haneke
1942Lumière and Company, Code Unknown, Le Temps du Loup, Funny Games U.S., Caché, Fräulein, The Piano Teacher, Benny's Video, The Seventh Continent, 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance, The Castle, The White Ribbon, Funny Games, Lemminge, Teil 2 Verletzungen, Sperrmüll, Who was Edgar Allan?, Love, Variation, Die Rebellion, Nachruf für einen Mörder, Lemminge, Teil 1 Arkadien, Drei Wege zum See, After Liverpool MoreAustriaMunich - 17 1942The Color of Money, Bringing Out the Dead, The King of Comedy, The Departed, The Aviator, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Last Waltz, Gangs of New York, Shutter Island, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, Cape Fear, Italianamerican, After Hours, Street Scenes, Kundun, Shine a Light, Goodfellas, A Letter to Elia, The Key to Reserva, Hugo, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, New York Stories, The Age of Innocence, Who's That Knocking at My Door, The Last Temptation of Christ, Public Speaking, Casino, My Voyage to Italy, New York, New York, Boxcar Bertha, Bad, Untitled The Departed 2 Sequel, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, No Direction Home, Silence, It's Not Just You, Murray!, What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince, The Big Shave, Sinatra , Made in Milan, Made in Milan, Back Home Years Ago: The Real Casino MoreUnited States of AmericaQueens
- 18 1922Arabian Nights, Accattone, Edipo re, Medea, Caprice Italian Style, The Hawks and the Sparrows, Il Decameron, Ro.Go.Pa.G., La ricotta, Pasolini Programm I, Pasolini Programm II, Pigpen, Mamma Roma, Notes Towards an African Orestes, Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die, Love and Anger, Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Teorema, Love Meetings, The Canterbury Tales, Le mura di Sana, Le Streghe, The Anger, Appunti per un film sull'India, Che cosa sono le nuvole, Sopralluoghi in Palestina per il vangelo secondo Matteo, The Earth As Seen from the Moon MoreItalyBologna
- 19 1954Mi Vida Loca, Four Rooms, Sugar Town, Things Behind the Sun, Grace of My Heart, Gas Food Lodging, A Crush on You, Border Radio MoreUnited States of AmericaAshland“ Alright, I'll admit it - I'm biased. Allison was one of my favorite professors in college. But, she's also a masterful director, and her films are some of my favorites to watch, pick apart and then watch again for even more film-major-geeking-out pleasure. „
- 20 1912The Passenger, La Notte, Blowup, L'eclisse, Cronaca di un amore, I Vinti, Il mistero di Oberwald, Beyond the Clouds, Lies of Love, L'Amore in Città, Identification of a Woman, Il grido, I tre volti, L'avventura, Zabriskie Point, Le amiche, Red Desert, Eros, The Lady Without Camelias, Superstitions, La Funivia del faloria, Nel Segno di Roma, Chung Kuo, Cina, La Villa dei mostri, N.U. MoreItalyFerrara
- 21 195628 Days Later, Sunshine, The Beach, Millions, Alien Love Triangle, Slumdog Millionaire, Shallow Grave, A Life Less Ordinary, 127 Hours, Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise, Trainspotting, Strumpet, Trance MoreEnglandRadcliffe
- 22 1942Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Ten Minutes Older, Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices, Fitzcarraldo, Rescue Dawn, No One Will Play with Me, Portrait Werner Herzog, God's Angry Man, Stroszek, Heart of Glass, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Invincible, Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, Grizzly Man, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, La bohème, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Woyzeck, Encounters at the End of the World, Last Words, Handicapped Future, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Wheel of Time, Signs of Life, Scream of Stone, Ten Thousand Years Older, Cobra Verde, Bells from the Deep, Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Fata Morgana, Lessons of Darkness, The Flying Doctors of East Africa, My Best Fiend, The Wild Blue Yonder, Jag Mandir, Pilgrimage, La Soufrière, Echoes from a Somber Empire, The White Diamond, The Transformation of the World Into Music, How much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck, The Dark Glow of the Mountains, Where the Green Ants Dream, Giovanna D'Arco: Teatro Comunale Di Bologna, Precautions Against Fanatics, Land of Silence and Darkness, Wings of Hope, Herakles, Game in the Sand, Huie's Sermon, Into the Abyss, Ballad of the Little Soldier, The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz MoreGermanyMunich
- 23 1954Repo Man, Walker, Straight to Hell, Straight to Hell Returns, Revengers Tragedy, Sid and Nancy, Death and the Compass, El Patrullero, Repo Chick, The Winner, Searchers 2.0, Sleep Is for Sissies, Three Businessmen, I'm A Juvenile Delinquent - Jail Me! MoreEnglandLiverpool
- 24 1920Amarcord, City of Women, L'Amore in Città, Intervista, Satyricon, La voce della luna, La Strada, I Clowns, Fellini: A Director's Notebook, Il bidone, And the Ship Sails on, 8½, Ginger and Fred, The White Sheik, La Dolce Vita, Le Notti di Cabiria, Variety Lights, I Vitelloni, Roma, Prova d'orchestra, Fellini's Casanova, Juliet of the Spirits, Spirits of the Dead, Boccaccio '70, 8 1/2 MoreItalyRimini
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Albert and David Maysles
Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens, Salesman, The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit, LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton, Christo's Valley Curtain MoreUnited States
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