Filmmaking / Directing : Who is your favorite? by Rachel Odonnell

Oliver Stone, Atom Egoyan, Martin McDonagh, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, and Christopher Nolan top my list. While there are so many great filmmakers out there who have made incredible films, the ones I mentioned above are the most consistently good filmmakers that I know of.

Christopher Nolan has a lot of great films

Owch, that's a hard one. R.Scott, D. Lynch, JJ Abrams,ummmm...

Sam Mendes & Eastwood, great storytellers.

Wes Anderson, Del Toro, Scorsese, Baz Luhrmann, Tim Burton, Michelle MacLaren.

Did you guys/girls forget Roman Polański?

Billy Wilder, Hayao Miyazaki, Robert Zemeckis, Alfred Hitchcock, Chris Columbus

Tim Miller

Taika Waititi

Steven Spielberg, Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay, Tim Burton and Lauren Shuler Donner

I don't know if I have an absolute favorite BUT I must say there is not one movie that Brad Bird has made that I didn't like.

I love everyone on the lists given above...there is something about Mel Gibson though

Each one brings a different element to each of the movies they direct that it's hard to pick a favorite.

J J Abrams, Quentin Tarantino

David Lean. Bruce Beresford.

I loved the optimistic feelings of some of the coming of age stories by Steven Speilberg and Robert Zemeckis.

Wong Kar Wai

Coen Brothers, Nicolas Winding Refn, Alejandro G. Innaratu, and Spike Lee.

J Lee Thompson, Quentin Tarantino, Roman Polanski, Pedro Almodovar. Off course the list of great directors is endless, but doing a DVD count of whats on my collectables shelf, these are the most mentioned. Ive at least three films of each named above.

Scorsese, Sam Mendes, Eastwood.

Owch. Good one. I'm going with Scott, Polanski, Tarantino, and the Wachowski Bros..

Living it's Eastwood, less living it's Hitch. There are others who demonstrate unique abilities in 3D blocking, use of color and location attributes - but those are my favorites right now - subject to change.

Luc Besson!

One filmmaker I've been loving a lot as of late is Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth, Under the Skin). Anyone else a fan? He does some cool stuff and his movies look gorgeouuuuuus

Dario Argento, Jodorowsky, Andrei Tarkovski, Ingmar Bergman

Brad Bird, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Jackson...

The Coen Brothers. Go see "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"

Billy Wilder, Sam Raimi, Wes Craven, Steve Rash, Harold Ramis, Brian Trenchard-Smith.... To name a few.

Lars Von Trier