Directors with multiple appearances on IMDB's top 250

  • Hitchcock (great director, no argument)
  • Stanly Kubrick (good director with some weak movies)
  • Christopher Nolan (good, but 3rd place = overrated)
  • Martin Scorcese (used to be a good director 20 years ago)
  • Steven Spielberg (I hate him, I do not see what others see in him: sappy, flat, blunt, humorless, banal)
  • Hayao Miyazaki (probably the greatest animator in history)
  • Charles Chaplin (outdated, irrelevant, overrated)
  • Quentin Tarantino (used to be a good director 12 years ago)
  • Akira Kurosawa (fantastic director, brilliant West-East bridge)
  • Billy Wilder (classic, I do not know him well, I wish I knew more)
  • Sergio Leone (crowd pleaser, knows how entertain people, I love him)
  • Ingmar Bergman (first true, serious director in the list, great researcher of human soul, underrated on this list)
  • James Cameron (hands down the most skillful technically brilliant modern director, who has A scores on every single aspect of film making, very successful commercially, proved to be able to excel in different genre, I love him)
  • Ridley Scott (same here, although I hate Blade Runner)
  • David Fincher (great director, love his cinematography, poor choice of score composers lately, a bit too much of himself)
  • Sidney Lumet (I do not like him)
  • Peter Jackson (what the heck this bloody mediocrity is doing here? he is a crowd pleaser, definitely not my crowd)
  • William Wyler (irrelevant now)
  • Francis Ford Coppola (uneven, brilliant, love him)
  • Federico Fellini (way, way underrated, brilliant director, both spectacularly entertaining and serious at the same time, love him)
  • Clint Eastwood (probably the top most actor-director in this category, American Sniper is a faux pas)
  • Frank Capra (classic, I have seen only one movie of him, which I love dearly: IAWL)
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