The Total Filmmaker ... Nominations open for the next ILX film poll of the Greatest Movie Directors of All Time!

maybe Eric should just agree to nominate the TSPDT top 250 and save a lotta time

John Cassavetes
Billy Wilder

Ford
Godard
Mizoguchi
Pialat
Hawks
Anthony Mann
Renoir
Spielberg
Melville
Lang
Buñuel
Welles

not in that order but...yeah it reads like a Criterion™ Ho's list but these are my faves.

George Cukor
Maren Ade
Cristian Mungiu
Kenji Mizoguchi

But then there wouldn't be surprise "omissions" that don't end up mattering because you're free to vote for whoever on your ballots even if they weren't nominated, et al.

Rivette as well!

Fuck it. Too many more I revere that I forgot. Like Bresson.

Johnnie To

Frederick Wiseman (outside of TSPDT's Top 100 but on the list of 250).

Peter Watkins
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Takeshi Kitano
Aki Kaurismäki
Sally Potter
Gurinder Chadha
Paul Schrader

What about creators who mostly worked together? E.g. do we vote for "Michael Powell" and "Emeric Pressburger" or is there an option to vote for "Powell & Pressburger"? I'm actually mainly asking this because I want to vote for Jane Arden but she mostly only worked in conjunction with Jack Bond so I'm not sure whether to just nominate her or to nominate "Arden & Bond".

nearly nominated Jane Arden just now, i guess we've the option to vote for both/either

One for the so-over-auteurs corner.

John Huston

Park Chan-wook

All my faves been nommed already, even Kenji Mizoguchi who I learned about from here - so that makes sense!

Neil Breen

Werner Herzog
Chuck Jones
Francois Truffaut

John Boorman

Abbas Kiarostami

Neil Breen

In case my block of text didn't indicate clearly that I was nominating Jane Arden, I shall include her in my initial noms list:

Jane Arden
Germaine Dulac
Roy Andersson
Sergei Parajanov
Wojciech Has
Juraj Herz
Dario Argento

Doc updated. Yes, Morbs, I'll probably end up adding any from the TSPDT 250 in the end.

William Wellman
Maurice Tourneur
Frank Capra
Alice Guy Blache
Julian Duvivier
Max Ophuls

Douglas Sirk
Seijun Suzuki
Paul Verhoeven
Monte Hellman
Kathryn Bigelow
Robert Altman
Tony Scott
Jacques Tati
Sergio Leone
Bob Fosse

Buster Keaton
John Woo

Jacques Feyder
Joseph Losey
E.A. Dupont
Lois Weber

A few who I'm not 100% sure I'll vote for but worth putting in here to remind me, just in case:

Hans Richter
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Peter Strickland

Also, um:

Russ Meyer

Tex Avery

terrence malick

Isao Takahata
Norman McLaren

Samuel Fuller

apichatpong weerasthakul/joe

John Waters
Ingmar Bergman
Pedro Almodóvar
Kelly Reichardt
Charlie Kaufman
Todd Haynes
Lars Von Trier
Harmony Korine
Jim Jarmusch
Jonathan Demme

Everybody I'd have nominated is already there except for Sofia Coppola.

Tsai Ming Liang
Craig R. Baxley
David Lean

reichardt otm!

tamara jenkins

Craig R. Baxley

Unless the point was the juxtaposition, not seeing any first-unit director credits here.

William Friedkin

CHARLES LAUGHTON

Michael Cimino
Penelope Spheeris
Christopher Guest
David Gordon Green
Todd Solondz

Richard Lester
Paul Mazursky

vertov
svankmajer
lindsay anderson

Carol Reed
Ernst Lubitsch
Norman McLaren
Guy Maddin
Ida Lupino
Michael Curtitz
Mike Nichols
John Schlesinger
John Lassetter
Michael Winterbottom

Bruce Conner

Peter Greenaway

Michael Curtitz

Didn't he direct Assablanca?

TROLL NOMINATION: Charles Laughton

I don't see that as trolling

I don't either, but I'm pretty sure that I won't find room on my ballot for him above the many directors who managed at least two great films.

Guillermo del Toro
John Sayles
Julie Taymor
Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker

James W. Horne

Rabbit season

Steve McQueen

Tony Leondis

Fernando Solanas
Thomas Guiterrez
Ursula Biemann
Margaret Dickinson
Lizzie Borden

sorry for any duplicates

René Vautier

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_yiA3-iP3ZK9m6YC1iOthz_ZT2YiwjZ8lLOXYc-Nxf4/

503 nominees. Last chance to add some to the list before I launch the voting/campaigning thread later today.

(I'm only reasonably sure there are no duplicates.)

Probably going to go with 50-slot ballots btw.

psyched!

Better stick Patrick Keiller and Roger Vadim on that shortlist

oh wow, keiller was missing?

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