IMQ #1 - People in Film - Favorite Director

[Chaplin]

Category #1 of the Internet Movie Questionnaire is the first in a series of 42 questions about People in Film.

This is your favorite director, not necessarily who you think is the best director ever. Feel free to post reasons and runners-up if you'd like, but please narrow down a final answer to a single person.


As the inaugural poster, my #1 favorite director is:
Akira Kurosawa

By a long mile. The guy knew how to do spectacle and is the hands-down best director of actors I've ever seen.

My runners-up:
Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorsese
Alfred Hitchcock
Kenneth Branagh
Howard Hawks
John Ford

 

[AZ Native]

I have to go with Steven Spielberg.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Man... this is FREAKING TOUGH!

Favorite Director: Scorcese

Second Favorite: Mel Brooks

Runners Up (close in order):

Coen Brothers
Christopher Nolan
Spielberg
Kubrick
John Landis
John Hughes
Tarantino

P.T. Anderson was in my top 5 for a long time, but he fell by the wayside after The Master (which should have been his masterpiece but instead was just REALLY good performances in search of a story) and that really atrocious Coen Brothers-y one that came out a couple years ago who's title escapes memory.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Spielberg for me, no doubt, but I've always had a soft spot for John Sturges.

 

[Dback Jon]

John Hughes
John Landis

 

[Chaplin]

John Hughes
John Landis

Child of the 80s!

 

[Dback Jon]

Child of the 80s!

Yup!!

 

[AZ Native]

Spielberg for me, no doubt, but I've always had a soft spot for John Sturges.

Also the Scottsdale connection?

 

[AzStevenCal]

Also the Scottsdale connection?

John Sturges has a Scottsdale connection? j/k

I went to Coronado High School so I like Spielberg DESPITE his Scottsdale connection. Also, he was a big Wallace and Ladmo fan so that's a huge plus.

 

[Bada0Bing]

I have to go with David Fincher. Fight Club was just too good to choose anyone else.

Close runners up:

Chris Nolan
Scorsese

 

[BillsCarnage]

This question should be "Who is the 2nd favorite director." It's Hitchcock and then everyone else.

 

[Covert Rain]

Hughes, Nolan, Scorcese, Spielberg, Cameron, Branagh

 

[Cheesewater]

Jim Jarmusch

Also Wes Anderson

 

[Rivercard]

Scorcese

Robert Altman

Woody Allen

 

[Chaplin]

Jim Jarmusch

Also Wes Anderson

Jarmusch is a great choice.

 

[Cheesewater]

Jarmusch is a great choice.

Is there going to be a Favorite Screenwriter thread?

 

[Chaplin]

Is there going to be a Favorite Screenwriter thread?

I believe there will be. Like I said in the main thread, there are something like 101 different questions, and I've only posted 3 of them so far.

 

[MadCardDisease]

Spielberg in a land slide

 

[NJCardFan]

Spielberg hands down. Not even close for me but a distant second would be Ron Howard.