Great Directors Poll: The Results!

Well here we are. Two years and 607 posts in. Not too shabby for a blog that generates roughly $0.15 a month if we're lucky. But then again this was never about the money. This blog emerged out of love. A love for cinema and desire to share that love with the world. And what do you know? Love is contagious! What began as two cinema nerds writing in their little apartment is now seven people on two continents sharing their love with the world. And if you are reading this, then the odds are pretty good that you have the bug as well. Don't worry. You're amongst friends here. Gooble gobble! We accept you, one of us!

Now on to why you are really here...

What follows are the results to our first ever Favorite Directors Poll! Lots of really great contributions from a lot of great people. In addition to readers and contributors to this blog, we also got lists from fellow film bloggers, a pair of comic book artists, a comic book writer, a painter, a film programmer and two filmmakers! Not too shabby if we don't say so ourselves! Lots of great directors can be found on these lists and all of them are worth checking out. Take this list as an opportunity to discover a new favorite!

In matters of a tie, names are listed alphabetically. Don't like ties? Deal with it!

Honorable Mentions: John Waters, David Fincher, Hayao Miyazaki

Tim Burton (6 votes)

Billy Wilder (6 votes)

Paul Thomas Anderson (8 votes)

Wes Anderson (9 votes)

David Lynch (9 votes)

Martin Scorsese (10 votes)

Quentin Tarantino (10 votes)

The Coen Brothers (12 votes)

Alfred Hitchcock (15 votes)

Stanley Kubrick (15 votes)

Contributors

'Becca'lise
Wes Anderson
Sofia Coppola
Quentin Tarantino
Steven Spielberg
Alfred Hitchcock
Woody Allen
Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
The Coen Brothers
Tim Burton

Andi
Alfred Hitchcock
John Waters
Gregg Araki
Gus Van Sant
David Lynch
Tim Burton
Sally Potter
Derek Jarman
Xavier Dolan
Rian Johnson

Colin
Ed Wood
Woody Allen
Wes Anderson
Alfred Hitchcock
Edgar Wright
Sam Raimi
The Coen Brothers
Jean-Luc Godard
David Lynch
John Waters

Craig
Martin Scorsese
Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock
David Fincher
Paul Thomas Anderson
Billy Wilder
David Lynch
The Coen Brothers
Wes Anderson
John Waters

John Carlos
Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
Terrence Malick
Wes Anderson
David Fincher
Alfred Hitchcock
Paul Thomas Anderson
Tim Burton
Guillermo Del Toro
Kevin Smith

Rachel
Wim Wenders
The Coen Brothers
Stanley Donen
Wes Anderson
Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock
Jacques Tati
Fritz Lang
Billy Wilder
John Hughes

Tracie
Robert Zemeckis
John Landis
Peter Jackson
Quentin Tarantino
Hayao Miyazaki
Steven Spielberg
Mel Brooks
Charlie Chaplin
Alfred Hitchcock
Tim Burton

Special Guests

Catherine Stebbins
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingmar Bergman
Hayao Miyazaki
Stanley Kubrick
Noah Baumbach
Paul Thomas Anderson
Bong Joon-Ho
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
The Coen Brothers
Hiroshi Teshigahara

Chris Melgar
David Lynch
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Maya Deren
Kenneth Anger
Martin Scorsese
Stanley Kubrick
Jim Jarmusch
John Waters
Alfred Hitchcock
The Coen Brothers

Jim Mahfood
Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Quentin Tarantino
Terry Gilliam
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Wes Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Francis Ford Coppola

Julie
Paul Thomas Anderson
Alfred Hitchcock
The Coen Brothers
Johnnie To
Pedro Almodóvar
David Lynch
Stanley Kubrick
Hayao Miyazaki
Roman Polanski
Jacques Tati

Kate Freund
Bob Fosse
Lina Wertmüller
Federico Fellini
Adam Elliot
Quentin Tarantino
Hal Ashby
The Coen Brothers
Todd Solondz
David Fincher
Rob Schrab

Logan Crow
Stanley Kubrick
Pedro Almodóvar
David Lynch
Ken Russell
Steven Spielberg
Peter Greenway
Lars Von Trier
Quentin Tarantino
Mike Leigh
Edgar Wright

Matt Fraction
Billy Wilder
Howard Hawks
Sergio Leone
Seijun Suzuki
Wong Kar-Wai
Emir Kusturica
François Truffaut
Fritz Lang
Wes Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson

Mike Allred
Stanley Kubrick
David Lynch
Richard Lester
Quentin Tarantino
Robert Rodriguez
Peter Jackson
Wes Anderson
The Coen Brothers
Tim Burton
Ridley Scott

Vincent Pereira
Dario Argento
Ingmar Bergman
Michael Cimino
Stanley Kubrick
David Lean
Sergio Leone
David Lynch
Terrence Malick
Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarantino

Readers

Adam
Martin Scorsese
The Coen Brothers
Robert Rodriguez
Christopher Nolan
David Fincher
Danny Boyle
Stanley Kubrick
Jim Jarmusch
Tim Burton
Terry Gilliam

Andrew
Akira Kurosawa
John Ford
Fritz Lang
Buster Keaton
Martin Scorsese
Hayao Miyazaki
Alfred Hitchcock
Kenji Mizoguchi
Orson Welles
Francis Ford Coppola

Evan
Peter Weir
Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock
Roman Polanski
Sidney Lumet
Paul Thomas Anderson
Martin Scorsese
The Coen Brothers
Darren Aronofsky
Clint Eastwood

Juan
Eric Rohmer
Sam Raimi
Samuel Fuller
David Lynch
John Waters
Luis Buñuel
Frank Capra
Billy Wilder
Akira Kurosawa
Barbara Loden

Taryn
Alfred Hitchcock
Woody Allen
Michael Curtiz
Quentin Tarantino
Frank Capra
John Ford
Mark Sandrich
Billy Wilder
Wes Anderson
Stanley Donen

Taylor
Stanley Kubrick
Terrence Malick
Martin Scorsese
Paul Thomas Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
Darren Aronofsky
The Coen Brothers
Michael Mann
Katheryn Bigelow

Ridley Scott