Top Ten Directors? (and now current)

[b/a]

This probably has been discussed before, but I was just curious to see people's top ten directors lists.
Mine:
1. David Lynch
2. Jean-Luc Godard
3. Michael Snow
4. Stan Brakhage
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. Orson Welles
7. Herschell Gordon Lewis
8. Alejandro Jowordowsky
9. Ingmar Bergman
10. Dario Argento

Just under the ten: Atom Egoyan, Harmony Korine, Andrei Tarkovsky.

[Ghostboy]

Great list, b/a! Mine are more predictable, I guess (since it includes PTA). And these are in no order:

1. Kryzstof Kieslowski
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. PTA
4. David Lynch
5. Spike Lee
6. Coen Brothers
7. Ingmar Bergman
8. Scorsese
9. Tim Burton
10. Hitchcock

Geez, I run out of room so fast on these lists! I need a space for Bunuel, Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch, Terry Gilliam, and all the guys who have only made one or two or three masterpieces so far (Wes Anderson, Darren Arronofsky, Vincent Gallo).

[KingBlackDeath]

I don't think I can put them in order. To Terrifying.
but in order that I think of them

PTA
Spike Jonze (including videos, etc.)
Luis Bunuel
David Lynch
Wes Anderson
Kubrick
Fellini
Woody Allen
Tarantino
Hal Ashby

[KingBlackDeath]

shit for some crazy reason I forgot Brakhage
BRAKHAGE!!!

[Pedro]

1. PTA
2. Bergman
3. Kieslowski
4. Allen
5. Fellini
6. Lynch
7. Kubrick
8. Resnais
9. Godard
10. Buñuel

[xerxes]

in the order they come to my mind...

1. Akira Kurosawa
2. PTA
3. Wes Anderson
4. Martin Scorsese
5. Spike Lee
6. Darren Aronofsky
7. Hitch
8. Woody Allen
9. Hirokazu Kore-eda

stopping at nine

[Cecil]

no particular order

kubrick
godard
lynch
cronenberg
john waters
abel ferrara
tarantino & avary
jarmush
bergman

(pta, oliver stone, coens, spike lee, aronofsky, and depalma almost made it)

[Recce]

Here goes(in not particular order), but I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

- Martin Scorcese
- The Coen Brothers(whichever one directs anyways)
- David Fincher
- Quentin Taranino
- Tom Tykwer
- Paul-Thomas Anderson
- Oliver Stone
- Stanley Kubrick
- Darren Aronofsky
- Wes Anderson
- Kryzstof Kieslowski
- Jonathan Demme

[phil marlowe]

No order on mine too:

- P.T.Anderson
- Terry Giliam
- Stanley Kubric
- David Lynch
- Steven Spielberg
- Martin Scorsese
- The Coens
- Quentin Tarantino

[Ernie]

I was just about to do this same post to coincide w/ the top 5 actors thread I made...good idea man. Lol, my list isn't half as cool and interesting as some of the ones above...this changes from time to time of course, this is just at this point in time....

paul thomas anderson
david gordon green
spike jonze
cameron crowe
wes anderson
martin scorsese
francois truffaut
jean luc godard
billy wilder
sidney lumet

[Sigur Rós]

Not in any order!

PTA
David Lynch
Lars Von Trier
Coen Brothers
Spike Jonze
Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
Steven Soderbergh
Wes Anderson
Thomas Vinterberg
Gary Kelly
Cameron Crowe
Darron Aronofsky
Orson Wells

[Duck Sauce]

Paul Thomas Anderson
Darren Aronofsky
MartinScorsese
Stanley Kubrick
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino
WoodyAllen
Spike Jonze
Spike Lee

[Newtron]

1. K
2. u
3. b
4. r
5. i
6. c
7. K
8. bor
9. ing
10. *yawn*

[life_boy]

1. Kubrick
2. Anderson, P.T.
3. Scorsese
4. Stone, Oliver
5. Coen
6. Lynch
7. Lee, Spike
8. Anderson, Wes
9. Soderbergh
10. Lumet

(Close-Calls: Jonze, Aronofsky, Payne, Allen, Spielburg, Fellini)

No real surprises.  Nothing that hasn't already been said.  There are many many many many classics of which I have not seen.   This would be my reasons for not having guys like Kurosawa, Bergman, Wells, Godard, and Truffaut.  Shamed to admit it, i am.  Someday I will see these great films I keep putting off.

[SubstanceD]

Kieslowski
Kubrick
Wong Kar Wai
Scorsese
Fellini
Cronenberg
Tarantino
PTA
Argento
Truffaut

Hitchcock
Ozu
George Romero