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

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.

Me neither but it's a good nomination, people might want to vote for him. Pretty sure a lot of people consider harper lee one of the greatest novelists too

Sidney Lumet
Milos Forman
Roy Andersson

Louis Malle
Georges Melies

ctrl+f is your friend

Doesn't work on the app. I did scroll through whole thread, couldn't find those 5.

richard donner
john badham
john mctiernan
chris columbus
george p cosmatos

Some less obvious but deserving names:

João Cesar Monteiro
Jaromil Jires
Kinji Fukasaku
Hideo Gosha
Krzysztof Zanussi

Andy Warhol
Rosa von Praunheim

jim in vancouver, it's not the best 2500 directors.

Bernardo Bertolucci
Federico Fellini
Vittorio De Sica
Luchino Visconti
Busby Berkeley

Tsui Hark

Jimmy Wang Yu

wong kar wai

Shohei Imamura
Nagisa Oshima
Eric Rohmer
Claude Chabrol

Larisa Shepitko

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Peter Greenaway

― Master of Treacle, Thursday, November 9, 2017 11:48 AM (two hours ago)

Good call.

Shinya Tsukamoto
Ken Russell
Quay Brothers
Terry Gilliam
Sogo Ishii
Ideya Garanina
Gyorgy Kovasznai
Chang Cheh
Sammo Hung

Updated again, including the remainder of the TSPDT 250. Total count is 336 now.

Harun Farocki
Straub-Huillet
Christian Petzold
Philip Scheffner
Jean Negulesco
Ryan Trecartin
Ken Loach
Abel Gance
Alain Resnais
D.W. Griffith

Paul Morrissey

Wondering if 50 is enough for the rollout when it comes, instead of 100.

Budd Boetticher

Derek Jarman
Terence Davies
Theo Angelopoulos
Bruno Dumont