What’s your TOP ten American Film Directors?

A list of your top ten of favourite American film directors ?

Old and new!!!!!!

 

Frank Capra
John Ford
John Huston
Howard Hawks
Robert Aldrich
David Lynch
Brian De Palma
Quentin Tarantino
Woody Allen
Coen Brothers

 

Francis Ford Coppola
John Carpenter
Wes Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Orson Welles
David Lynch
Clint Eastwood
Alexander Payne
Stephen Spielburg
Robert Zemekis

 

tatratino
scorcese
jynch
coppolla
kubrick
hitchcock ? american
bigelow
shyamalan
coppolla sophia
spielberg

 

John Frankenheimer
The Coens
Quentin Tarantino
F.F. Coppola
Clint Eastwood
David Lean
Terrance Malik
Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese
John Ford

 

Threads about American film directors!!!!!!

 

Oops!

Well, they all made films in America, anyway. I guess I don't have ten favorite American directors.

 

Do Billy Wilder
&
Milos Forman count?

 

1-Martin Scorsese
2-Quentin Tarantino
3-Clint Eastwood
4-John Ford
5-Brian DePalma
6-Raoul Walsh
7-Francis Ford Coppola
8-John Carpenter
9-the Coen brothers
10-George A. Romero

 

May as well throw in Akira Kurosawa. Lol.

 

Allen
Cassavetes
Coen
Downey
Fuller
Meyer
Peckinpah
Waters
Welles
Wilder

 

Ok, here are a few I like:
William Wyler - IMDb
Martin Ritt - IMDb
Sidney Lumet - IMDb
Michael Curtiz - IMDb
George Cukor - IMDb
Don Siegel - IMDb
Mitchell Leisen - IMDb

 

Billy Wilder ... American?

 

No order

Russ Meyer
Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarantino
Steven Spielberg
John Ford
Francis Ford Coppola
Orson Welles
Tim Burton
John Huston

 

Scott Cooper
Oliver Stone
Jeff Nichols
Bennet Miller (anyone know where he is?)
Francis Ford Coppola
Joseph Kosinski
Andrew Niccol
David Fincher
J.C. Chandor
Michael Mann

Bonus if anyone above is not US born:
Ben Affleck (yes, him)

 

Only ten? That's hard. You can't appreciate American cinema without being
steeped in all the films of Buster Keaton, Frank Capra, Mervyn LeRoy, Henry
Hathaway, William Wellman, John Sturges, Roger Corman, Martin Ritt, Elia
Kazan, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, George Roy Hill, Richard Fleischer,
Franklin J. Schaffner, Martin Scorsese, John Hughes, George Romero and so
many others.

Woody Allen -- Annie Hall, Manhattan, Zelig, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, many more.
John Ford -- Stagecoach, Grapes of Wrath, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers,
John Frankenheimer -- Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days In May, Seconds, Gypsy Moths, 52 Pick Up, Ronin, etc.
John Huston -- Key Largo, Treasure of Sierra Madre, Asphalt Jungle, Man Who Would Be King, Under the Volcano, etc.
Stanley Kubrick -- Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, 2001 a space odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, etc.
Sidney Lumet -- 12 Angry Men, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, Prince of the City, Night Falls On Manhattan, etc.
Anthony Mann -- Railroaded, Raw Deal, Devil's Doorway, Bend of the River, The Far Country, Man From Laramie, El Cid, etc.
Sam Peckinpah -- The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, Junior Bonner, Getaway, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Alfredo Garcia, etc.
Steven Spielberg -- Duel, Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark,
Orson Welles -- Citizen Kane, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil, The Trial.

 

In a country of immigrant directors, two of America's finest -- Joseph
Losey and Richard Lester -- were ex-patriots who worked in England
and Europe. They invested European films with a distinct American
sensibility.

 

Interesting question. Thanks. Never really thought of directors in terms of nationality. Anyway...

Alfred Hitchcock
Sidney Lumet
Robert Altman
John Cassavetes
Robert Wise
John Ford (how can you not give him props?)
Hal Ashby
Martin Scorsese
Billy Wilder
Orson Welles

I'd love a (close to) complete Blue-ray/DVD box set of each one of these titans.

 

Robert Wise and Hal Ashby, yes.

Wilder was from Germany and Hitch was a Brit.

 

In no particular order:
John Ford
John Huston
Nicholas Ray
Stanley Kubrick
John Cassavetes
Hal Ashby
Stanley Kubrick
Sam Peckinpah
Robert Altman
Francis Ford Coppola

 

In order
John Ford
Orson Welles
John Huston
Howard Hawks
Woody Allen
Buster Keaton
Preston Sturges
George Cukor
Martin Scorsese
Frank Capra
Robert Wise
Terry Gilliam
William Wyler

What nationality is Polanski? I guess he's definitely not American any more, if he ever was. And yeah, I can't count.

 

The Coen Brothers - number one for me, hands down. Then Scorcese, Orson Welles and Steven Soderbergh.

I'll use the rest of my top 10 for my favorite noir directors.:

Jules Dassin ( Night and the City)
Joseph H Lewis. (Gun Crazy is a masterpiece)
Anthony Mann (Raw Deal)
Ida Lupino (Hitch Hiker)
Richard Fleischer (Narrow Margin)
Samuel Fuller (Pickup on South Street)

 

only ten?
Think I got lucky with that choice as some folk think European directors are American in this thread.

 

Going with some of the judgment calls here I’d say he was an American.