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Beano's Fourth Chin
6/14/2006, 01:05 AM
Probably Huston or Hitchcock.
At least that's my opinion.
proud gonzo
6/14/2006, 01:20 AM
I'm a pretty big fan of Akira Kurosawa and Preston Sturges
walkoffsooner
6/14/2006, 01:28 AM
To easy don't try to impress me your not rich enough. He makes movies you enjoy not think about Opie
oumartin
6/14/2006, 01:33 AM
fiedler.
etouffee
6/14/2006, 06:11 AM
I vote for whoever did Toxic Avenger.
Sooner_Bob
6/14/2006, 06:18 AM
I vote for whoever did Toxic Avenger.
Or Saving Ryan's Privates.
Shamrock
6/14/2006, 06:19 AM
Capra
Cohen bros. Well, probably not the best of all time, but they deserve a mention. They are like Altman... they can be pure genius and they can be pure Olevet dog crap.
I can't recall a Hitchcock film I didn't care for.
Sooner in Tampa
6/14/2006, 07:10 AM
Kubrick
slickdawg
6/14/2006, 08:06 AM
Kubrick and Hitchcock
TheHumanAlphabet
6/14/2006, 08:36 AM
I thought this was a Pride thread and we were going to talk about coach...;)
SoonerProphet
6/14/2006, 08:43 AM
Sam Peckinpah
TexasLidig8r
6/14/2006, 08:58 AM
Cecil B. DeMille
Sooner in Tampa
6/14/2006, 09:13 AM
Cecil B. DeMilleYeah...he should get mentioned...GWTW speaks for itself.
King Crimson
6/14/2006, 09:18 AM
I'm a pretty big fan of Akira Kurosawa and Preston Sturges
if you like Kurosawa (i'm a big fan of his film noirs Drunken Angel and High and Low)....you should check out Teshigahara's Rikyu and it's sequel Princess Goh. Woman in the Dunes is also really cool.
I'd say as a personal preference Godard, but Huston and Hitchcock are hard to agrue with.
picasso
6/14/2006, 09:22 AM
Kubrick
IMO, he needed more work to be on the list.
did you know he was putting together a WWII project called "The Aryian Papers" when "Schindlers List" came out? He scrapped the whole thing.
slickdawg
6/14/2006, 09:47 AM
M. Night Shamlalalala is also one of my favorites. He's like a Hitchcock-lite.
The Sixth Sense and Signs are two of my all time favorites.
SoonerInKCMO
6/14/2006, 09:49 AM
:les: Ed Wood!
Viking Kitten
6/14/2006, 09:57 AM
Sidney Lumet: Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, 12 Angry Men, among others.
frankensooner
6/14/2006, 10:02 AM
Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Billy Wilder, Joseph Mankiewicz, Sam Peckinpah, Leo McCarey
There were so many great, old-school directors.
HoserSooner
6/14/2006, 10:03 AM
Kevin Smith. ;)
picasso
6/14/2006, 10:08 AM
good call on Sam Peckinpah. he could frame some great shots.
spek.
Lampoon. National Lampoon.
He's great.
sooneron
6/14/2006, 10:13 AM
Scorsese - The most overdue Director of all. I would have a hard time arguing with Hitch or Kurosawa. Kubrick went out in a bad way, IMO. He did make some great films, tho. I still Like Paths Of Glory , Shining, and Strangelove. I guess you have to chalk up a couple of stinkers to each guy.
I'm surprised no one mentioned M Bay yet. heh
sooneron
6/14/2006, 10:13 AM
good call on Sam Peckinpah. he could frame some great shots.
spek.
or his DP could:texan:
frankensooner
6/14/2006, 10:18 AM
and I forgot George Cukor and Milos Forman, this could be a very long list, there are so many.
Elia Kazan sure hurt a lot of folks by naming names and getting lots of folks black-listed, but you can't argue with his body of work.
Beano's Fourth Chin
6/14/2006, 10:30 AM
Capra and Wyler each have 3 oscars for directing. Ford has 4
Hitchcock was nominated 6 times never won.
Huston has 1 win with 5 nominations
The following have 2 wins (nominations)
Billy Wilder (8)
David Lean (7)
Fred Zinnemann (7)
Elia Kazan (5)
George Stevens (5)
Steven Spielberg (5)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (4)
Robert Wise (3)
Oliver Stone (3)
Milos Forman (3)
Leo McCarey (3)
Lewis Milestone (3)
Frank Lloyd (3)
Clint Eastwood (3)
Frank Borzage (2)Welles was never nominated. Neither was Kurosawa.
picasso
6/14/2006, 10:34 AM
Capra and Wyler each have 3 oscars for directing. Ford has 4
Hitchcock was nominated 6 times never won.
Huston has 1 win with 5 nominations
The following have 2 wins (nominations)
Billy Wilder (8)
David Lean (7)
Fred Zinnemann (7)
Elia Kazan (5)
George Stevens (5)
Steven Spielberg (5)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (4)
Robert Wise (3)
Oliver Stone (3)
Milos Forman (3)
Leo McCarey (3)
Lewis Milestone (3)
Frank Lloyd (3)
Clint Eastwood (3)
Frank Borzage (2)Welles was never nominated. Neither was Kurosawa.
Oscars are like political juried art shows. bleh.
sooneron
6/14/2006, 10:35 AM
Welles was never nominated. Neither was Kurosawa.
Incorrect- Kurosawa was nominated for Ran.
Beano's Fourth Chin
6/14/2006, 10:36 AM
Oscars are like political juried art shows. bleh.
Yeah, that list doesn't mean all that much to me because I live in a different world than those people do.
Incorrect- Kurosawa was nominated for Ran.
Beanowned!
Beano's Fourth Chin
6/14/2006, 10:39 AM
Incorrect- Kurosawa was nominated for Ran.
You're right. I just skimmed the article. He also won an honorary award in 1990. Welles was also nominated.
"great" directors that never won (http://www.filmsite.org/noawards3.html#6)
here's the page where I got the other stuff from (http://www.filmsite.org/bestdirs.html)
Beano's Fourth Chin
6/14/2006, 10:42 AM
And Hitchcock was only nominated 5 times.
I give up on reading today.
I've always enjoyed Woody Allen.
But there are just way to many great directors to choose a "greatest", IMO.
frankensooner
6/14/2006, 11:25 AM
I've always enjoyed Woody Allen.
But there are just way to many great directors to choose a "greatest", IMO.
Amen, it would be like trying to pick the prettiest woman, although we have more than our fair share right here in the south oval.
Speaking of the best, did anyone catch Penn & Teller's Bull%$*& about the best?
Sooner24
6/30/2006, 01:11 PM
Amen, it would be like trying to pick the prettiest woman, although we have more than our fair share right here in the south oval.
Speaking of the best, did anyone catch Penn & Teller's Bull%$*& about the best?
Wow you should be getting some spek for that.
IB4OU2
6/30/2006, 01:13 PM
TD2K's uncle that owns a Limo........:cool:
Scott D
6/30/2006, 01:26 PM
You're right. I just skimmed the article. He also won an honorary award in 1990. Welles was also nominated.
"great" directors that never won (http://www.filmsite.org/noawards3.html#6)
here's the page where I got the other stuff from (http://www.filmsite.org/bestdirs.html)
heh I just saw that first link.....who the hell would say Tim Burton was a great director...hello.....Johnny Scissorhands. And this is the man who wanted to give the world Nicholas Cage as Superman.
I fact, I think about half of that list in that first group would be very questionable to call them Great..much less calling them Good. In fact, Opportunistic would be more fitting.
heh I just saw that first link.....who the hell would say Tim Burton was a great director...hello.....Johnny Scissorhands. And this is the man who wanted to give the world Nicholas Cage as Superman.
I fact, I think about half of that list in that first group would be very questionable to call them Great..much less calling them Good. In fact, Opportunistic would be more fitting.
Heh!
. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099487/)
JohnnyMack
6/30/2006, 01:45 PM
Michael Mann has a great style. Don't think he's the greatest director by a long shot. But I love his work.
Sooner in Tampa
6/30/2006, 03:50 PM
I am suprised more people didn't pick Capra.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life are just two awesome pieces of work.
picasso
6/30/2006, 04:00 PM
Michael Mann has a great style. Don't think he's the greatest director by a long shot. But I love his work.
agreed. loved his camerawork in Collateral.
JohnnyMack
6/30/2006, 04:02 PM
agreed. loved his camerawork in Collateral.
I'm actually excited about Miami Vice. Although Colin Ferrell is kind of a putz.
KaiserSooner
6/30/2006, 04:04 PM
I'd go with Hitchcock and maybe Kubrick too. Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove and 2001 are two of my favorites.
Kurosawa is another good one....Rashomon is an awesome movie, another one of my favorites.
Capra has an impressive filmography. I like him, but he gets (or at least used to get it during his time) criticism for too much sunshine pumping, for lack of a better term. Even so, I can't argue with movies like It's A Wonderful, Arsenic and Old Lace, and It Happened One Night.
KaiserSooner
6/30/2006, 04:06 PM
Oh I forgot...someone mentioned Godard earlier. I don't think I've seen much of his films, but I hear a lot of good things about his work and the whole French New Wave stuff.
picasso
6/30/2006, 04:19 PM
I'm actually excited about Miami Vice. Although Colin Ferrell is a putz.
fixed.
BudSooner
6/30/2006, 04:45 PM
Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Billy Wilder, Joseph Mankiewicz, Sam Peckinpah, Leo McCarey
There were so many great, old-school directors.
Good call...and let me add to that-
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/01/11/goodfellas.memoir.reut/vert.deniro.scorsese.file.jpg
Can't beat Martin and Robert together.
stoopified
6/30/2006, 05:52 PM
Ron Howard but what do I know?I'm just an f'ing hillbilly.
stoopified
6/30/2006, 05:53 PM
Speilberg,but than again I am just a biased Jew.
AllAboutThe'O'
6/30/2006, 06:59 PM
Yeah...he should get mentioned...GWTW speaks for itself.
DeMille didn't direct Gone With the Wind, it was Victor Fleming.
Which brings up this point: That same year, 1939, Fleming also directed The Wizard of Oz. Name another director who could lay claim to directing arguably the two most popular movies of all time in the same year?
AllAboutThe'O'
6/30/2006, 07:01 PM
Can't believe no one's mentioned Mel Brooks.
yermom
6/30/2006, 07:15 PM
DeMille didn't direct Gone With the Wind, it was Victor Fleming.
Which brings up this point: That same year, 1939, Fleming also directed The Wizard of Oz. Name another director who could lay claim to directing arguably the two most popular movies of all time in the same year?
that's just incredible... i mean really
it's hard to imagine two movies that are as well known as those. i mean movies from the 30's that damn near everyone has seen and is talked about or referenced on a regular basis
i think Lil referenced TWoO in the last couple days here
but to think that they are from the same year, directed by the same guy is just nuts
birddog
6/30/2006, 09:29 PM
john ford and kubrick. i went to kubrick's estate right after he died. his wife was packing up and selling the place for 20 million pounds (30 mil.)
WILBURJIM
6/30/2006, 09:44 PM
Can't believe no one's mentioned Mel Brooks.
I just started reading this thread and I was thinking the same.
WILBURJIM
6/30/2006, 09:48 PM
Federico Fellini - but for the life of me, I cannot name a single one of his movies off the top of my head, or the side either.
Scott D
6/30/2006, 10:27 PM
Federico Fellini - but for the life of me, I cannot name a single one of his movies off the top of my head, or the side either.
8 1/2
Intervista
Casanova
KaiserSooner
6/30/2006, 11:44 PM
Didn't Fellini also make Amarcord?
You guys kill me. It takes 60 posts on this thread to mention David Lean?
Bridge on the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Zhivago
To name a few.
AllAboutThe'O'
6/30/2006, 11:58 PM
Has someone mentioned Sergio Leone yet? Another famous international movie director and the father of the "spaghetti western."
AllAboutThe'O'
6/30/2006, 11:59 PM
I'll throw a few more names out there:
George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid/The Sting
Norman Jewison - Fiddler on the Roof/Jesus Christ Superstar
Mike Nichols - The Graduate/The Birdcage
RiddlerOK
3/18/2007, 07:46 PM
My top 5 in order, along with my favorite movies by them:
1. Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lolita)
2. Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, The Bodyguard, Ran and Dreams)
3. Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Cape Fear, Goodfellas, The Departed)
4. John Ford (The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Stagecoach)
5. Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, North by Northwest, Vertigo, Rear Window)
Honorable mention: David Lean and Frank Capra. Sorry, but Speilberg isn't quite there yet.
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