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Many films are great, but only one wins Best Picture. This is a blog dedicated to everything involving the Oscars past and present as well as speculation on who should win at this year's events.

The Directors Project

Over the course of Summer 2014, I counted down the Top 50 directors that I like as calculated by my rankings on sites Flickchart and IMDb.

Notes:

Announcing: The Directors Project
An Update on Point Values
An Update on Formatting and Release Dates
What Makes a Trilogy?
10 Things I Noticed from Prep Sessions
An Update on Progress
The Final Primer

Countdown:

The Bottom "50"
50. Hal Ashby
49. William Friedkin
48. Jean-Luc Godard
47. Billy Wilder
46. Sidney Lumet
45. Guillermo Del Toro
44. Francois Truffaut
43. Rob Reiner
42. Frank Capra
41. Guy Ritchie
40. James Cameron
39. Alfonso Cuaron
38. George Roy Hill
37. Sergio Leone
36. Krzystof Kieslowski
35. Jason Reitman
34. Ridley Scott
33. James Whale
32. Spike Jonze
31. Mel Brooks
30. Edgar Wright
29. Alexander Payne
28. John Landis
27. Robert Zemeckis
26. Clint Eastwood
25. Paul Thomas Anderson
24. Roman Polanski
23. Danny Boyle
22. Sofia Coppola
21. Alfred Hitchcock
20. Darren Aronofsky
19. Richard Linklater
18. Robert Rodriguez
17. Sam Raimi
16. Terry Gilliam
15. Peter Jackson
14. Hayao Miyazaki
13. Francis Ford Coppola
12. Stanley Kubrick
11. Charles Chaplin
10. David Fincher
9. Tim Burton
8. Quentin Tarantino
7. Wes Anderson
6. Christopher Nolan
5. Kevin Smith
4. Steven Spielberg
3. Martin Scorsese
2. Joel and Ethan Coen
1. Woody Allen
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My name is Thomas Willett. I am a writer based out of Long Beach, CA. I have been writing about movies, TV, and pop culture since 2008. Here are some links to where you can reach me either for comments or potential work:

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