Top Ten Most Underrated Film Directors

Established filmmakers who haven't got enough credit for their work on the big screen.
The Top Ten
1 Edgar Wright

Needs way more praise than he gets

2 Rob Reiner Robert Reiner is an American actor, director, producer, and writer. As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence with the role of Michael Stivic on All in the Family, a role that earned him two Emmy Awards during the 1970s.
3 Walter Hill
4 David Gordon Green
5 Martin McDonagh
6 Lynne Ramsay

She understand trauma and visualizing social darkness better than any director today, maybe with the exception of Fincher. If DC ever make a Cassandra Cain/Batgirl movie, Ramsay is the only one capable of pulling it off. Period

7 Andrew Dominik
8 David Ayer
9 Duncan Jones
10 Rian Johnson
The Contenders
11 M. Night Shyamalan Manoj "M. Night" Shyamalan is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots and twist endings.

Ok he had the sixth sense, unbreakable, signs, village, visit and split. Even lady in the water wasn't bad

Made mistakes but not an awful director

12 Michael Haneke
13 Douglas Sirk

Douglas Sirk made several masterful movies during the 50s and earlier, most of which were successful in their initial release but forgotten over time.
He exlored social issues like racism, sexism in Hollywood, two class society, promiscuity, alcohol addiction, war, prejudices and other then-controversial topics in heartbreaking dramas like "Imitation of Life", "All that Heaven Allows", "Written on the Wind" or "A Time to Love and a Time to Die", among many others. He also made more mainstream movies like film noirs, westerns or history films in between, but his main filmography consists of sociocritic melodramas.
Please, even if you never heard of him or his movies - if you love the art of classic filmmaking, watch the 4 films I listed above. You will adore them. Else you'll miss some of the best works of cinema history.

14 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.

A Director who if Far Better than he gets credit for. Michael Bay is a Director with unique Ideas and a Creative Style.

15 Paul W.S. Anderson
16 Uwe Boll Uwe Boll is a German-born Canadian filmmaker and restaurateur, whose work includes several films adapted from video games.

Uwe Boll has made the mistake of directing video game adaptions to finance his more ambitious movies from the money he makes from them. Boll is not a fan of video games and his adaptions were made without putting his heart and soul into it, him pissing off the game's fan base. But check his original movies: "Assault on Wall Street", the "Rampage" movies, "Darfur",...
And if you don't see "Postal" as an adaption of the game, it is really funny in a Trey Parker and Matt Stone kind of way. Boll didn't create "Postal" as a game adaption, it was actually planned as an original movie, but if he didn't use that name for the film, studios didn't want to produce it due to its risky humor.
Boll is a passionate filmmaker when it comes to his own projects, but his subjects are often so touchy that no big film studio would finance them. So Boll directs mediocre mainstream movies to make a quick buck and independently finance his movies. Don't judge Boll by movies like "Alone in the Dark" or ...more

17 Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican filmmaker, author, actor, and former special effects makeup artist.
18 Michael Moore Michael Francis Moore is an American documentary filmmaker, left-wing activist, and author. One of his first films, Bowling for Columbine, examined the causes of the Columbine High School massacre and overall gun culture of the United States.
19 Takeshi Kitano
20 Uli Edel
21 Isao Takahata
22 Tony Scott
23 Matthew Vaughn
24 Robert Rodriguez Robert Anthony Rodríguez is an American film director, film producer, writer, composer, cinematographer and film editor.
25 George Lucas George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as the founder of Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic.
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