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Who are the best current film directors?

by a guest · 7 years ago
Alejandro Jodorowsky
% (102 votes)
Clint Eastwood
% (246 votes)
Jean-Luc Godard
% (77 votes)
Carlos Saura
% (1 votes)
Roman Polanski
% (65 votes)
Woody Allen
% (113 votes)
Ken Loach
% (33 votes)
Ridley Scott
% (258 votes)
Bernardo Bertolucci
% (20 votes)
Abbas Kiarostami
% (36 votes)
Brian De Palma
% (52 votes)
Terry Gilliam
% (129 votes)
Hayao Miyazaki
% (476 votes)
Stephen Frears
% (9 votes)
Michael Haneke
% (122 votes)
Werner Herzog
% (160 votes)
Martin Scorsese
% (1140 votes)
Michael Mann
% (108 votes)
Mike Leigh
% (42 votes)
David Cronenberg
% (139 votes)
Roy Andersson
% (14 votes)
Terrence Malick
% (197 votes)
George Miller
% (340 votes)
Wim Wenders
% (30 votes)
Nikita Mikhalkov
% (4 votes)
Terence Davies
% (9 votes)
David Lynch
% (524 votes)
Claire Denis
% (27 votes)
Steven Spielberg
% (681 votes)
Takeshi Kitano
% (36 votes)
Hou Hsiao-hsien
% (21 votes)
Errol Morris
% (33 votes)
Pedro Almodóvar
% (69 votes)
Dardennes
% (23 votes)
Alexander Sokurov
% (17 votes)
Julian Schnabel
% (4 votes)
Kathryn Bigelow
% (221 votes)
Jacques Audiard
% (14 votes)
Robert Zemeckis
% (130 votes)
Gus Van Sant
% (38 votes)
Alex van Warmerdam
% (1 votes)
Ulrich Seidl
% (2 votes)
Jim Jarmusch
% (100 votes)
Paul Haggis
% (12 votes)
Barry Sonnenfeld
% (10 votes)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
% (27 votes)
Ron Howard
% (133 votes)
James Cameron
% (301 votes)
Ang Lee
% (112 votes)
Emir Kusturica
% (10 votes)
Coen Brothers
% (844 votes)
Olivier Assayas
% (22 votes)
Béla Tarr
% (37 votes)
Paul Greengrass
% (51 votes)
Fernando Meirelles
% (15 votes)
Walter Salles
% (4 votes)
Lars von Trier
% (135 votes)
Giuseppe Tornatore
% (3 votes)
Wong Kar-wai
% (108 votes)
Tony Gilroy
% (25 votes)
Danny Boyle
% (288 votes)
Larry Charles
% (5 votes)
Aki Kaurismäki
% (24 votes)
Pavel Pawlikowski
% (4 votes)
Brad Bird
% (183 votes)
Tsai Ming-Liang
% (10 votes)
Oliver Hirschbiegel
% (2 votes)
David O. Russell
% (113 votes)
Tim Burton
% (115 votes)
Charlie Kaufman
% (221 votes)
Pedro Costa
% (6 votes)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
% (18 votes)
Luc Besson
% (65 votes)
Lee Daniels
% (8 votes)
Todd Solondz
% (21 votes)
Stephen Daldry
% (7 votes)
Richard Linklater
% (286 votes)
Takashi Miike
% (62 votes)
Rob Marshall
% (2 votes)
Leos Carax
% (18 votes)
Ki-duk Kim
% (20 votes)
Todd Haynes
% (46 votes)
Alexander Payne
% (91 votes)
Michael Winterbottom
% (13 votes)
Andrea Arnold
% (23 votes)
George Clooney
% (24 votes)
Tarsem Singh
% (13 votes)
Peter Jackson
% (182 votes)
Alfonso Cuarón
% (504 votes)
Hirokazu Kore-eda
% (17 votes)
David Fincher
% (1242 votes)
Kenneth Lonergan
% (69 votes)
Ari Folman
% (5 votes)
Steven Soderbergh
% (217 votes)
Jean-Marc Vallée
% (26 votes)
Quentin Tarantino
% (1115 votes)
Michel Gondry
% (62 votes)
Alejandro González Iñárritu
% (479 votes)
Park Chan-wook
% (260 votes)
James Mangold
% (89 votes)
Gaspar Noé
% (56 votes)
Joss Whedon
% (149 votes)
Guillermo del Toro
% (577 votes)
Kelly Reichardt
% (33 votes)
Michael Bay
% (50 votes)
Jonathan Glazer
% (39 votes)
Tomas Alfredson
% (15 votes)
Tom Tykwer
% (7 votes)
Wachowskis
% (56 votes)
Uwe Boll
% (47 votes)
Doug Liman
% (51 votes)
Sam Mendes
% (97 votes)
Bryan Singer
% (45 votes)
Andrew Stanton
% (29 votes)
Matt Reeves
% (121 votes)
Tom McCarthy
% (15 votes)
J. J. Abrams
% (446 votes)
James Gunn
% (240 votes)
Lenny Abrahamson
% (31 votes)
Lucrecia Martel
% (2 votes)
Bennett Miller
% (24 votes)
Michel Hazanavicius
% (8 votes)
Morten Tyldum
% (5 votes)
Denis Villeneuve
% (1527 votes)
Andrew Dominik
% (43 votes)
François Ozon
% (7 votes)
Wang Bing
% (6 votes)
Adam McKay
% (115 votes)
Cristian Mungiu
% (15 votes)
Guy Ritchie
% (114 votes)
Matteo Garrone
% (4 votes)
Lukas Moodysson
% (1 votes)
Darren Aronofsky
% (440 votes)
Danis Tanović
% (1 votes)
Wes Anderson
% (887 votes)
Thomas Vinterberg
% (23 votes)
Naomi Kawase
% (3 votes)
Tate Taylor
% (1 votes)
Noah Baumbach
% (99 votes)
Joon-ho Bong
% (82 votes)
Bong Joon Ho
% (163 votes)
Steve McQueen
% (205 votes)
Spike Jonze
% (301 votes)
Lynne Ramsay
% (38 votes)
Martin McDonagh
% (119 votes)
Jia Zhangke
% (12 votes)
Alex Garland
% (143 votes)
Paolo Sorrentino
% (35 votes)
Paul Thomas Anderson
% (821 votes)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
% (29 votes)
Christopher Nolan
% (1407 votes)
Nicolas Winding Refn
% (277 votes)
Francis Lawrence
% (10 votes)
Sofia Coppola
% (142 votes)
Duncan Jones
% (74 votes)
Russo Brothers
% (224 votes)
Alejandro Amenábar
% (11 votes)
Asghar Farhadi
% (56 votes)
Ben Affleck
% (222 votes)
Anurag Kashyap
% (8 votes)
Tom Hooper
% (15 votes)
Ben Wheatley
% (49 votes)
Andy Muschietti
% (37 votes)
J.C. Chandor
% (23 votes)
Rian Johnson
% (253 votes)
Yorgos Lanthimos
% (138 votes)
Derek Cianfrance
% (36 votes)
Ruben Östlund
% (17 votes)
Edgar Wright
% (813 votes)
Marc Webb
% (23 votes)
Joshua Oppenheimer
% (20 votes)
Eskil Vogt
% (0 votes)
Joachim Trier
% (17 votes)
Gareth Edwards
% (85 votes)
Maren Ade
% (4 votes)
Cary Fukunaga
% (158 votes)
Jason Reitman
% (28 votes)
Jeff Nichols
% (86 votes)
Sarah Polley
% (26 votes)
Jordan Peele
% (157 votes)
Neill Blomkamp
% (128 votes)
Barry Jenkins
% (104 votes)
Samira Makhmalbaf
% (2 votes)
Mia Hansen-Løve
% (17 votes)
Dan Trachtenberg
% (44 votes)
Benh Zeitlin
% (3 votes)
Ilya Naishuller
% (6 votes)
Damien Chazelle
% (460 votes)
Ryan Coogler
% (184 votes)
Xavier Dolan
% (72 votes)
Denis Villeneuve
5.77% (1,527 votes)
Christopher Nolan
5.31% (1,407 votes)
David Fincher
4.69% (1,242 votes)
Martin Scorsese
4.31% (1,140 votes)
Quentin Tarantino
4.21% (1,115 votes)
Wes Anderson
3.35% (887 votes)
Coen Brothers
3.19% (844 votes)
Paul Thomas Anderson
3.1% (821 votes)
Edgar Wright
3.07% (813 votes)
Steven Spielberg
2.57% (681 votes)
Guillermo del Toro
2.18% (577 votes)
David Lynch
1.98% (524 votes)
Alfonso Cuarón
1.9% (504 votes)
Alejandro González Iñárritu
1.81% (479 votes)
Hayao Miyazaki
1.8% (476 votes)
Damien Chazelle
1.74% (460 votes)
J. J. Abrams
1.68% (446 votes)
Darren Aronofsky
1.66% (440 votes)
George Miller
1.28% (340 votes)
James Cameron
1.14% (301 votes)
Spike Jonze
1.14% (301 votes)
Danny Boyle
1.09% (288 votes)
Richard Linklater
1.08% (286 votes)
Nicolas Winding Refn
1.05% (277 votes)
Park Chan-wook
0.98% (260 votes)
Ridley Scott
0.97% (258 votes)
Rian Johnson
0.96% (253 votes)
Clint Eastwood
0.93% (246 votes)
James Gunn
0.91% (240 votes)
Russo Brothers
0.85% (224 votes)
Ben Affleck
0.84% (222 votes)
Kathryn Bigelow
0.83% (221 votes)
Charlie Kaufman
0.83% (221 votes)
Steven Soderbergh
0.82% (217 votes)
Steve McQueen
0.77% (205 votes)
Terrence Malick
0.74% (197 votes)
Ryan Coogler
0.69% (184 votes)
Brad Bird
0.69% (183 votes)
Peter Jackson
0.69% (182 votes)
Bong Joon Ho
0.62% (163 votes)
Werner Herzog
0.6% (160 votes)
Cary Fukunaga
0.6% (158 votes)
Jordan Peele
0.59% (157 votes)
Joss Whedon
0.56% (149 votes)
Alex Garland
0.54% (143 votes)
Sofia Coppola
0.54% (142 votes)
David Cronenberg
0.52% (139 votes)
Yorgos Lanthimos
0.52% (138 votes)
Lars von Trier
0.51% (135 votes)
Ron Howard
0.5% (133 votes)
Robert Zemeckis
0.49% (130 votes)
Terry Gilliam
0.49% (129 votes)
Neill Blomkamp
0.48% (128 votes)
Michael Haneke
0.46% (122 votes)
Matt Reeves
0.46% (121 votes)
Martin McDonagh
0.45% (119 votes)
Tim Burton
0.43% (115 votes)
Adam McKay
0.43% (115 votes)
Guy Ritchie
0.43% (114 votes)
Woody Allen
0.43% (113 votes)
David O. Russell
0.43% (113 votes)
Ang Lee
0.42% (112 votes)
Michael Mann
0.41% (108 votes)
Wong Kar-wai
0.41% (108 votes)
Barry Jenkins
0.39% (104 votes)
Alejandro Jodorowsky
0.39% (102 votes)
Jim Jarmusch
0.38% (100 votes)
Noah Baumbach
0.37% (99 votes)
Sam Mendes
0.37% (97 votes)
Alexander Payne
0.34% (91 votes)
James Mangold
0.34% (89 votes)
Jeff Nichols
0.32% (86 votes)
Gareth Edwards
0.32% (85 votes)
Joon-ho Bong
0.31% (82 votes)
Jean-Luc Godard
0.29% (77 votes)
Duncan Jones
0.28% (74 votes)
Xavier Dolan
0.27% (72 votes)
Pedro Almodóvar
0.26% (69 votes)
Kenneth Lonergan
0.26% (69 votes)
Roman Polanski
0.25% (65 votes)
Luc Besson
0.25% (65 votes)
Takashi Miike
0.23% (62 votes)
Michel Gondry
0.23% (62 votes)
Gaspar Noé
0.21% (56 votes)
Wachowskis
0.21% (56 votes)
Asghar Farhadi
0.21% (56 votes)
Brian De Palma
0.2% (52 votes)
Paul Greengrass
0.19% (51 votes)
Doug Liman
0.19% (51 votes)
Michael Bay
0.19% (50 votes)
Ben Wheatley
0.19% (49 votes)
Uwe Boll
0.18% (47 votes)
Todd Haynes
0.17% (46 votes)
Bryan Singer
0.17% (45 votes)
Dan Trachtenberg
0.17% (44 votes)
Andrew Dominik
0.16% (43 votes)
Mike Leigh
0.16% (42 votes)
Jonathan Glazer
0.15% (39 votes)
Gus Van Sant
0.14% (38 votes)
Lynne Ramsay
0.14% (38 votes)
Béla Tarr
0.14% (37 votes)
Andy Muschietti
0.14% (37 votes)
Abbas Kiarostami
0.14% (36 votes)
Takeshi Kitano
0.14% (36 votes)
Derek Cianfrance
0.14% (36 votes)
Paolo Sorrentino
0.13% (35 votes)
Ken Loach
0.12% (33 votes)
Errol Morris
0.12% (33 votes)
Kelly Reichardt
0.12% (33 votes)
Lenny Abrahamson
0.12% (31 votes)
Wim Wenders
0.11% (30 votes)
Andrew Stanton
0.11% (29 votes)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
0.11% (29 votes)
Jason Reitman
0.11% (28 votes)
Claire Denis
0.1% (27 votes)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
0.1% (27 votes)
Jean-Marc Vallée
0.1% (26 votes)
Sarah Polley
0.1% (26 votes)
Tony Gilroy
0.09% (25 votes)
Aki Kaurismäki
0.09% (24 votes)
George Clooney
0.09% (24 votes)
Bennett Miller
0.09% (24 votes)
Dardennes
0.09% (23 votes)
Andrea Arnold
0.09% (23 votes)
Thomas Vinterberg
0.09% (23 votes)
J.C. Chandor
0.09% (23 votes)
Marc Webb
0.09% (23 votes)
Olivier Assayas
0.08% (22 votes)
Hou Hsiao-hsien
0.08% (21 votes)
Todd Solondz
0.08% (21 votes)
Bernardo Bertolucci
0.08% (20 votes)
Ki-duk Kim
0.08% (20 votes)
Joshua Oppenheimer
0.08% (20 votes)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
0.07% (18 votes)
Leos Carax
0.07% (18 votes)
Alexander Sokurov
0.06% (17 votes)
Hirokazu Kore-eda
0.06% (17 votes)
Ruben Östlund
0.06% (17 votes)
Joachim Trier
0.06% (17 votes)
Mia Hansen-Løve
0.06% (17 votes)
Fernando Meirelles
0.06% (15 votes)
Tomas Alfredson
0.06% (15 votes)
Tom McCarthy
0.06% (15 votes)
Cristian Mungiu
0.06% (15 votes)
Tom Hooper
0.06% (15 votes)
Roy Andersson
0.05% (14 votes)
Jacques Audiard
0.05% (14 votes)
Michael Winterbottom
0.05% (13 votes)
Tarsem Singh
0.05% (13 votes)
Paul Haggis
0.05% (12 votes)
Jia Zhangke
0.05% (12 votes)
Alejandro Amenábar
0.04% (11 votes)
Barry Sonnenfeld
0.04% (10 votes)
Emir Kusturica
0.04% (10 votes)
Tsai Ming-Liang
0.04% (10 votes)
Francis Lawrence
0.04% (10 votes)
Stephen Frears
0.03% (9 votes)
Terence Davies
0.03% (9 votes)
Lee Daniels
0.03% (8 votes)
Michel Hazanavicius
0.03% (8 votes)
Anurag Kashyap
0.03% (8 votes)
Stephen Daldry
0.03% (7 votes)
Tom Tykwer
0.03% (7 votes)
François Ozon
0.03% (7 votes)
Pedro Costa
0.02% (6 votes)
Wang Bing
0.02% (6 votes)
Ilya Naishuller
0.02% (6 votes)
Larry Charles
0.02% (5 votes)
Ari Folman
0.02% (5 votes)
Morten Tyldum
0.02% (5 votes)
Nikita Mikhalkov
0.02% (4 votes)
Julian Schnabel
0.02% (4 votes)
Walter Salles
0.02% (4 votes)
Pavel Pawlikowski
0.02% (4 votes)
Matteo Garrone
0.02% (4 votes)
Maren Ade
0.02% (4 votes)
Giuseppe Tornatore
0.01% (3 votes)
Naomi Kawase
0.01% (3 votes)
Benh Zeitlin
0.01% (3 votes)
Ulrich Seidl
0.01% (2 votes)
Oliver Hirschbiegel
0.01% (2 votes)
Rob Marshall
0.01% (2 votes)
Lucrecia Martel
0.01% (2 votes)
Samira Makhmalbaf
0.01% (2 votes)
Carlos Saura
0% (1 votes)
Alex van Warmerdam
0% (1 votes)
Lukas Moodysson
0% (1 votes)
Danis Tanović
0% (1 votes)
Tate Taylor
0% (1 votes)
Eskil Vogt
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 26,480 (from 4 participants)
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