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Current or historical?
Who do you think is the greatest American born director? Apologies to whoever I left off the poll.
Current or historical?
Of all time. I just added the poll but there's a max of 10 options there, so there's obviously a lot that have been left off.
Why is Bob Saget not on this list?
Seriously, no George Lucas?
Lame.
George Romero.
Everyone else are scrubs.
Good choices.
George Lucas does need to be on there.
It's tough, do we go by personal taste in their films, critical success, box office success?
(My 12 year old wants Tim Burton on the list!)
What about David Lynch?
I think some mixture of the 3.
But guys like Lucas, Burton, Zemeckis, Cassavettes, got left off simply cuz I could only make 10 on the poll. There's definitely way more great American directors.
I also didn't include alot of young directors that have a chance to be really great once they have a larger body of work (PT Anderson, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, etc)
Yeah I was debating including him, Oliver Stone, Michael Mann, or Altman in that final spot....I went with Altman.
Cool, I voted for Kubrick (also Coen Brothers get some attention). But just wanted to mention some other great American directors:
Billy Wilder
Orson Welles
Cecile B. Demille
Robert Wise (seriously, look up his filmography, one of the most versatile directors of all time)
Frank Capra (even though born in Italy, moved to the US when he was six)
John Ford
David Cronenberg
What about Sidney Lumet?
12 Angry Men
Serpico
Dog Day Afternoon
Network
to name a few
It's cool, I take no offense.Apologies to whoever I left off the poll.
But if it's all time I think you should have included Cecil B. Demille.
He was actually born in Austria. I almost named him too.Billy Wilder
It's all good; I like your list. I voted for Marty. C'mon now really it's no contest: Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Color of Money, Casino, THE DEPARTED!!!!
yeah he's greatness. he even made Vin Diesel look like a decent actor in Find Me Guilty.
really? Damn didn't know that. There were a ton of good directors who primarily worked in the US that were born overseas.
, that list is probably better than the list of great American directors (Ridley Scott, Alfred Hitch etc).
I grudgingly picked Spielberg from this list. I think he influenced a lot of the bad things happening in movies these days (gratuitous product placement, cutesy kids as comic relief), but he also created real movie magic in his hey-day.
Scorcese was a tough one to pick against. Ask me in two days and my vote may have already changed..
Coens for me. I would also put frankenheimer on there for his earlier efforts
I can't believe Wes Anderson isn't in this poll....
I had to vote for Clint Eastwood for my husband.
He's the biggest Eastwood fan ever.
The movie "True Crime" is probably one of his least known and one of his best.
That's not to mention the biggies he's won Oscars for.
i didn't think he accomplished enough to this point to be included. 10 years from now, maybe so.
I read that after I posted, so apologies. But he is pretty easily my favorite American director, so that's why I posted what I did.
it's cool, he's one of my top 5 favorites too, and Rushmore might be my favorite movie ever.
You know...True Crime isn't conciously on my list of all time great movies...
But it does have the distinction of being the only movie I have seen in my adult life that I didn't get up in the middle of to go smoke a cig or take a piss...Most of the time I have an inherent sense for when a movie is in a slow and unventful part(and I have always verified this with whoever I went to see the movie with, and they are always amazed at how I never miss a key part)...I literally could not find that moment during True Crime.
Definitely something special about that movie
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