Paste Magazine's 50 best living Directors and their Crowning Achievements

Paste Magazine's 50 best living Directors and their Crowning Achievements

(bold text are the films I've seen)

50 - Mel Brooks - Blazing Saddles

49 - Charles Burnett - Killer of Sheep

48 - Errol Morris - The Fog Of War: Eleven Lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara

47 - Jim Sheridan - My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

46 - John Sayles - Lone Star

45 - Sofia Coppola - Lost In Translation

44 - Cameron Crowe - Almost Famous

43 - Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven

42 - Jane Campion - The Piano

41 - James Cameron - Avatar

40 - Guillermo Del Toro - Pan's Labyrinth

39 - Jacques Rivette - La Belle Noiseuse

38 - Spike Lee - Do the Right Thing

37 - Pedro Almodovar - Talk To Her

36 - Richard Linklater - Before Sunset

35 - Ridley Scott - Blade Runner

34 - Gus Van Sant - Good Will Hunting

33 - Alain Resnais - Hiroshima Mon Amour

32 - Michael Haneke - Cache (Hidden)

31 - Chris Marker - Sans Soleil (Without Sun)

30 - Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire

29 - Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight

28 - Claire Denis - Chocolat

27 - Terry Gilliam - Brazil

26 - Jim Jarmusch - Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

25 - Wim Wenders - Wings of Desire

24 - Tim Burton - Edward Scissorhands

23 - 23 - David Cronenberg - A History of Violence

22 - Agnes Varda - Vagabond

21 - Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Syndromes and a Century

20 - Hayao Miyazaki - Princess Mononoke

19 - Clint Eastwood - Mystic River

18 - Abbas Kiarostami - Taste of Cherry

17 - David Fincher - Fight Club

16 - Hou Hsiao-Shien - Hao nan Hao Nu (Good Men, Good Women)

15 - Lars Von Trier - Breaking the Waves

14 - Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather

13 - Werner Herzog - Grizzly Man

12 - Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne - L'enfant (The Child)

11 - Wes Anderson - Rushmore

10 - Wong Kar-Wai - In The Mood For Love

09 - David Lynch - Mulholland Dr.

08 - Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction

07 - Woody Allen - Annie Hall

06 - Paul Thomas Anderson - Magnolia

05 - Steven Soderbergh - Traffic

04 - Joel and Ethan Coen - Fargo

03 - Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List

02 - Jean-Luc Godard - Breathless

01 - Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull