Top 10 directors in world

Who are the best directors of all time? That's a harder question to answer than you might think. Is it those whose work came first and created the foundation of early cinema? Is it those who have advanced cinema most spectacularly? Or maybe it's those whose work every filmmaker and screenwriter should know? From silent cinema to 21st-century cinema, they have produced most of the medium-defining works of cinema: the films that stand out as the consummate examples of filmmaking.

More info coming soon Remind Me. And yet it is arguable that at the end of the 20th century no other director produced such a succession of great films that captured so much of the messiness and even monstrosity of late Western civilization. Like Hollywood itself, Altman enjoyed two golden ages. Miller , and Nashville Nevertheless, this pair of late Altman classics reminded everyone of his sheer shaggy genius.

Best directors of all time and their movies

Andrei Tarkovsky is the James Joyce of cinema: a man who directed relatively few films only seven features in total , just as Joyce wrote relatively few books, but, just like Joyce, every one of his works was a masterpiece. It continued with Andrei Rublev , a biopic not of the current Russian tennis player but the 15th-century Russian painter of the same name; and Solaris , the finest Soviet sci-fi film ever made.

However, it was with his next three films that Tarkovsky really sealed his reputation as one of the true cinematic greats. Finally, there was The Sacrifice , a cinematic updating of the story of Abraham in which a man tries to negotiate with God to prevent nuclear Armageddon.