Best Film Directors Since 1990

The Top Ten
1 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.

Schindler's List (1993)
Jurassic Park (1993)
The Lost World (1997)
Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
Minority Report (2002)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
The Terminal (2004)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Munich (2005)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Spielberg Rules forever! Jurassic Park & Saving private beats Pulp Fiction & The very overrated Kill Bill movies!

How is he not number one on every bet director's list?

His prime was the 70s and 80s. His two best movies were released in 1975 and 1981.

2 Quentin Tarantino Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, film critic and author. His films are characterized by frequent references to popular culture and film history, nonlinear storylines, dark humor, stylized violence, extended dialogue, pervasive use of profanity, cameos and ensemble casts. ...read more.

Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction truly great films that changed the game.

THE. BEST. FILMAKER. EVER. Or as jewels from pulp fiction would say That is, a tasty director!

Suck it speilberg! The Bride can kick Indiana jones ass anyday!

3 Christopher Nolan Christopher Edward Nolan, CBE (born 30 July 1970), is a British-American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His films have grossed more than US$5 billion worldwide and have garnered 11 Academy Awards from 36 nominations.

Born and raised in London, Nolan developed an interest in filmmaking from a young age. After studying English literature at University College London, he made his feature... read more

How is Seven Spielberg ranked higher than this man? Best director of all time.

Vote people come on this guy has not one bad review on his record

Come on guys he made the best batman movies, and the prestige

4 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.

Goodfellas (1990)
Cape Fear (1991)
Casino (1995)
Gangs of New York (2002)
The Aviator (2004)
No Direction Home:Bob Dylan (2005)
The Departed (2006)
Shine a Light (2008)

he's one of the most memorable directors of all time. the way he looks to the situations, the way he processes these situations into the movie, just awesome.

My most trustable director.

5 The Coen Brothers

Miller's Crossing (1990)
Barton Fink (1991)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Fargo (1996)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Naked Man (1998)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Burn After Reading (2008)
A Serious Man (2009)

6 Oliver Stone William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of Midnight Express (1978), and wrote the gangster film remake Scarface (1983). Stone achieved prominence as writer and director of the war drama Platoon (1986), which won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture. Platoon was the first in a trilogy of films based on the Vietnam War, in which Stone served as an infantry soldier. He continued the series with Born on the Fourth of July (1989)—for which Stone won his second Best Director Oscar—and Heaven & Earth (1993). Stone's other works include the Salvadoran Civil ...read more.

The Doors (1991)
JFK (1991)
Heaven & Earth (1993)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Nixon (1995)
Any Given Sunday (1999)
World Trade Center (2006)
South of the Border (2009)

I was gonna say you forgot platoon but it was made (1987)
So yea you were right and I failed

7 Peter Jackson Sir Peter Robert Jackson is a New Zealand filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known as the director, writer and producer of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy, both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkein. He is also known for cult films like Bad ...read more.
8 Clint Eastwood Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr. is an American actor, film director, producer, musician, and political figure.

Unforgiven (1992)
A Perfect World (1993)
Bridges of Madison County (1995)
True Crime (1999)
Mystic River (2003)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Changeling (2008)
Gran Torino (2008)
Invictus (2009)

9 Ron Howard Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He first came to prominence as a child actor, guest-starring in several television series, including an episode of The Twilight Zone. He gained national attention for playing young Opie Taylor, the ...read more.

Backdraft (1991)
Far and Away (1992)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Ransom (1996)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Cinderella Man (2005)
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Frost/Nixon (2008)

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

David Fincher is the best director of all time every single one of his films are revolutionary

The Contenders
11 James Cameron James Cameron is a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, and deep-sea explorer. He is best known for his films, The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Titanic, and Avatar. He is also the third person in history to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean and the only person to do it solo and unassisted.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
True Lies (1994)
Titanic (1997)
Avatar (2009)

He made Avatar, the best movie ever.

12 Tim Burton Timothy Walter Burton is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator. He is known for his dark, Gothic, eccentric, and quirky fantasy films such as Beetle-juice (1988), Edward Scissor-hands (1990), the animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), the biographical film ...read more.

Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Batman Returns (1992)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Ed Wood (1994)
Mars Attacks! (1997)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Planet Of The Apes (2001)
Big Fish (2003)
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (2005)
Corpse Bride (2006)
Sweeney Todd (2007)
Alice In Wonderland (2010)
Pre 1990s Burtons works were

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Batman (1989)

13 Michael Mann

Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Heat (1995)
The Insider (1999)
Ali (2001)
Collateral (2004)
The Aviator (2004)
Miami Vice (2006)
The Kingdom (2007)
Nobody Loves Alice (2008)
Hancock (2009)
Public Enemies (2009)

14 Ridley Scott Sir Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer. Following his commercial breakthrough with the science fiction horror film Alien, further works include the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner, historical drama Gladiator, and science fiction film The Martian.

Thelma & Louise (1991)
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
White Squall (1996)
G. I. Jane (1997)
Gladiator (2000)
Hannibal (2001)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Matchstick Men (2003)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
A Good Year (2006)
American Gangster (2007)
Body of Lies (2008)

Films that make you feel

His best movie is from 1982.

15 Jimmy Duke Traynor

Seen his movies
Very different

Great movie maker

16 Edgar Wright
17 Curtis Hansen

Bad Influence (1990)
Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
The River Wild (1994)
L. A. Confidential (1997)
Wonder Boys (2000)
8 Mile (2002)
In Her Shoes (2005)
Lucky You (2007)

18 Wes Anderson Wesley Wales Anderson is an American filmmaker. His films are known for their distinctive visual and narrative styles.

Bottle Rocket (1996)
Rushmore (1998)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
The Darjeeling Limited/Hotel Chevalier (2007)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

19 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.
20 Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer. He is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history. He died at the age of 71.
21 Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican filmmaker, author, actor, and former special effects makeup artist.
22 Dexter Fletcher
23 Kenneth Branagh
24 Paul Thomas Anderson
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