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EW 25 Greatest Working Directors (& 50 they forgot)

Sasha Stone by Sasha Stone
February 22, 2011
in AWARDS CHATTER, BEST DIRECTOR, Lists
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Entertainment Weekly makes a list of 25 Greatest Working Directors, and we add 35 more.

(Thanks to Marshall for the find and the collating)

  1. David Fincher
  2. Christopher Nolan
  3. Steven Spielberg
  4. Martin Scorsese
  5. Darren Aronofsky
  6. Joel and Ethan Coen
  7. Quentin Tarantino
  8. Terrence Malick
  9. Clint Eastwood
  10. Pedro Almodovar
  11. Paul Thomas Anderson
  12. Guillermo Del Toro
  13. Roman Polanski
  14. Danny Boyle
  15. Kathryn Bigelow
  16. David O. Russell
  17. David Lynch
  18. James Cameron
  19. Peter Jackson
  20. Edgar Wright
  21. Spike Lee
  22. J.J. Abrams
  23. Brad Bird
  24. Mike Leigh
  25. Wes Anderson

And 50 amazing names they neglected:

  • Woody Allen
  • Olivier Assayas
  • Jacques Audiard
  • Tim Burton
  • Jane Campion
  • Park Chan-wook
  • Francis Ford Coppola
  • Sofia Coppola
  • David Cronenberg
  • Cameron Crowe
  • Alfonso Cuar√≥n
  • Stephen Daldry
  • Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
  • Brian De Palma
  • Claire Denis
  • Andrew Dominik
  • Charles Ferguson
  • Terry Gilliam
  • Jean-Luc Godard
  • David Gordon Green
  • Paul Greengrass
  • Michael Haneke
  • Todd Haynes
  • Werner Herzog
  • Alejandro Gonz√°lez I√±√°rritu
  • Jim Jarmusch
  • Spike Jonze
  • Bong Joon-Ho
  • Wong Kar-Wai
  • Abbas Kiarostami
  • Ang Lee
  • Richard Linklater
  • Michael Mann
  • Sam Mendes
  • Fernando Meirelles
  • Hayao Miyazaki
  • Errol Morris
  • Gaspar Noe
  • Alexander Payne
  • Alain Resnais
  • John Sayles
  • Ridley Scott
  • Steven Soderbergh
  • Todd Solondz
  • Andrew Stanton
  • Agn√®s Varda
  • Gus Van Sant
  • Paul Verhoeven
  • Oliver Stone
  • Bela Tarr
  • Lars von Trier
  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Peter Weir
  • Wim Wenders
  • Joe Wright
  • Zhang Yimou
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