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Who has been the best Director over the past 14 years?

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  1. steddinotayto

    steddinotayto Member

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    Scorsese, Tarantino, Spielberg, David O. Russell?
     
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    Clint Eastwood
     
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    Peter Jackson May not be the best but should get a mention.
     
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    Matt Reeves
     
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    steddinotayto Member

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    I forgot about him. Add him to the list too


    Unfortunately I do not know who that is and am afraid to use my work computer to google him up
     
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    David Fincher
    Christopher Nolan
     
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    Coen Brothers
     
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    Darren Aronofsky.
     
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    Scorsese:
    Gangs of New York
    The Aviator
    The Departed
    Shutter Island
    Hugo

    Tarantino:
    Kill Bill Vol 1
    Kill Bill Vol 2
    Sin City
    Grindhouse
    Inglorious Basterds
    Django Unchained

    Spielberg:
    AI
    Minority Report
    Catch Me If You Can
    The Terminal
    War of the Worlds
    Munich
    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    Adventure of Tin Tin
    War Horse
    Lincoln

    Russell:
    I Heart Huckabees
    Soldiers Play
    The Fighter
    Silver Linings Playbook
    American Hustle

    Eastwood:
    Space Cowboys
    Bloodwork
    Mystic River
    Million Dollar Baby
    Flags of Our Fathers
    Letters from Iwo Jima
    Changeling
    Gran Torino
    Invictus
    Hereafter
    J Edgar
    Jersey Boys

    Fincher:
    Panic Room
    Zodiac
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    The Social Network
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    Nolan:
    Memento
    Insomnia
    Batman Begins
    The Prestige
    The Dark Knight
    Inception
    The Dark Knight Rises

    Coen Bros:
    O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    The Man Who Wasn't There
    Intolerable Cruelty
    Ladykillers
    No Country for Old Men
    Burn After Reading
    A Serious Man
    True Grit
    Inside Llewyn Davis

    Jackson:
    The Fellowship of the Ring
    The Two Towers
    The Return of the King
    King Kong
    The Lovely Bones
    The Hobbit
    Desolation of Smaug
     
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    Over the last 14 years it's Christopher Nolan, and it's not close IMO.

    1.Nolan
    2.Tarantino
    3.Coen Brothers
    4.Scorsese


    Overall career body of work
    1.Tarantino
    2.Scorsese
    3.Nolan
    4.Coen Brothers
     
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    Coen Bros are among my favorites. Hard to argue the body of work of some of those other listed though
     
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    I'll take Coen brothers over these other guys, who are (imo) overrated by a certain demographic (who happen to post here a lot). But, I'd say Coen brothers get a lot of their edge from consistently good screenwriting, while these other guys' material isn't consistently as solid.
     
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    it is nolan.

    and i have pretty impeccable taste if i say so.
     
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    Alexander Payne is a top tier director who's batting 1.00:

    Nebraska
    The Descendants
    Sideways
    About Schmidt
    Election
     
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    The trick is to get Leo to be in your movie
     
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    Coen's work has a lot of misses in the 00s and one big win with No Country.

    For me it is definitely Nolan, I just wanted to throw Aronofsy out there.

    Requiem For a Dream
    The Fountain
    The Wrestler
    Black Swan
    Noah (Haven't seen it yet)
     
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  20. steddinotayto

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    Yea he's been killing it too.

    If I look at the list I posted and your list on Aronofsky and decided to spend a day watching ONLY one director's movie (and ONLY their good movies) then my list would be:

    1. Nolan
    2. Coen
    3. Tarantino
    4. Fincher
     
    #20 steddinotayto, Aug 14, 2014
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