Best Movie Directors of 2011

The Top Ten
1 Rob Marshall

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides was definitely a step up from the previous instalment.

This guy did Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. A step up from the last 2 installments.

2 Guy Ritchie

Who needs George Clooney being directed by a boring over indulgent bell-end when you can have Robert Downey Jr. And Guy Ritchie's genuine chemistry?

Guy was back doing Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Stephen Fry is such a scene stealer in the movie.

For a director best known for British gangster films, his best work came for this steampunk inspired detective franchise.

3 Todd Phillips

In the Hangover sequel he sent the boys to Bangkok for some Wolf Pack Mayhem.

4 Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as well as being viewed as one of the most popular directors and producers in film history.

War Horse was released

5 Paul Feig
6 Oliver Parker
7 Woody Allen Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films. He began his career writing material for television in the 1950s, mainly Your Show of Shows (1950–1954) working alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. He also published several books featuring short stories and wrote humor pieces for The New Yorker. In the early 1960s, he performed as a stand-up comedian in Greenwich Village alongside Lenny Bruce, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, and Joan Rivers. There he developed a monologue style (rather than traditional jokes) ...read more.

Midnight In Paris proves that Woody Allen still has it after all these years.

Midnight in Paris was great film

8 Gore Verbinski
9 Brad Bird
10 Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne is not self-indulgent. In fact, he's very close to the opposite. 'The Descendants' was very satirical, and instead portrays self-indulgent people.

He made The Descendants

The Contenders
11 Terrance Malick

He filmed The Tree of Life where Brad Pitt was superb

12 David Fincher David Andrew Leo Fincher is an American film director, film producer, television director, television producer, and music video director.

Fantastic director. In 2011 he made another masterpiece called "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"

13 Martin Scorsese Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is the recipient of many accolades, including an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, four British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of America Awards. Scorsese has received various honors including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". ...read more.

Master of directing. In 2011 he made Hugo

14 Stephen Daldry

He made Exremely Loud and Incredibly Close with Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks

15 Simon West
16 Bennett Miller
17 Jon Favreau
18 Morgan Spurlock
19 Nicolas Winding Refn

His DRIVE was unforgettable

20 Tate Taylor

He made awesome The Help

21 Michael Bay Michael Benjamin Bay is an American filmmaker known for directing and producing big-budget action films characterized by fast cutting, stylistic visuals and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depiction of explosions.

Mike Bay's movies are good. Deal with it. No one just sees the potential inside.

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