Direct 5

I admit, this is yet another post that exists just for my own entertainment. I came up with directors who have enough movies I like to be able to make a top 5. There are some that I was surprised to not have a list for, which means either I haven’t seen enough of their films, or in a top 5 I would have to include one or movies that I don’t care that much about. So here are 22 directors and my top 5 of each of their movies:

Stephen Spielberg

1 – (1993)2 – (1975)3 – (1993)4 – (1981)5 – (1998)

John Hughes

1 – (1987)2 – (1989)3 – (1990)4 – (1989)5 – (1986)

Quentin Tarantino

1 – (2019)2 – (2009)3 – (1994)4 – (1992)5 – (2012)

Francis Ford Coppola

1 – (1974)2 – (1972)3 – (1983)4 – (1979)5 – (1997)

Martin Scorsese

1 – (1990)2 – (2013)3 – (1995)4 – (2002)5 – (2011)

Stanley Kubrick

1 – (1980)2 – (1956)3 – (1987)4 – (1957)5 – (1968)

Christopher Nolan

1 – (2008)2 – (2000)3 – (2017)4 – (2010)5 – (2023)

Paul Thomas Anderson

1 – (2007)2 – (1996)3 – (1999)4 – (2021)5 – (2012)

The Cohen Brothers

1 – (1994)2 – (1987)3 – (2007)4 – (2000)5 – (2010)

Tim Burton

1 – (1990)2 – (1989)3 – (2003)4 – (1988)5 – (1994)

James Cameron

1 – (1991)2 – (1997)3 – (2009)4 – (1986)5 – (1922)

Ridley Scott

1 – (1979)2 – (2000)3 – (2015)4 – (1991)5 – (2021)

Akira Kurosawa

1 – (1950)2 – (1954)3 – (1961)4 – (1952)5 – (1963)

Clint Eastwood

1 – (2008)2 – (2009)3 – (2004)4 – (2008)5 – (1992)

Bong Joon Ho

1 – (2019)2 – (2013)3 – (2003)4 – (2006)5 – (2025)

David Fincher

1 – (1999)2 – (2014)3 – (2011)4 – (2008)5 – (1995)

Sergio Leone

1 – (1966)2 – (1968)3 – (1965)4 – (1964)5 – (1984)

Robert Zemeckis

1 – (1985)2 – (1994)3 – (2000)4 – (1997)5 – (1988)

Charlie Chaplin

1 – (1926)2 – (1921)3 – (1931)4 – (1940)5 – (1936)

Rob Reiner

1 – (1987)2 – (1986)3 – (1992)4 – (1989)5 – (1990)

Darren Aronofsky

1 – (2008)2 – (2010)3 – (2000)4 – (2017)5 – (2022)

Alfred Hitchcock

1 – (1960)2 – (1954)3 – (1959)4 – (1954)5 – (1940)

Congratulations Dial M for Murder. This is your week.

Best Actress: Grace Kelly as Margo Wendice in

Best Actor: Henry Fonda as Juror 8 in

Best Quote: “You can’t lynch me! I’m a white man!” – Tony Curtis as John ‘Joker’ Jackson in

You may or may not have noticed, but all of the directors 

1 – Greta Gerwig ()

2 – Penny Marshall ()

3 – Ava Duvernay ()

4 – Sofia Coppola ()

5 – Nora Ephron ()