For the past ten weeks, I have taken a look at the most recent work of some of our greatest living film directors. I looked at their three highest-rated films of the past decade (using the meta-score from Metacritic), then averaged those three films for an overall score. Some directors, like Spielberg and Scorsese, who would have topped the list in decades past dropped to the middle of the pack, while some other directors, like Peter Jackson, Paul Greengrass, and Alfonso Cuaron, got hot this decade and topped the list. Peter Jackson emerges as top of the heap with the LOTR trilogy, which, by any standard, is one of the great accomplishments in filmmaking history.
This list doesn't include some great directors like Paul Thomas Anderson who only made two films during the past decade. By the way, if we average the scores for the two films PT Anderson directed in the past ten years (Punch-Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood), he would have gotten a score of 85, enough to put him in the third spot. Andrew Stanton, director of Finding Nemo and WALL*E, who have tied Peter Jackson for first place with a score of 91. Brad Bird, who made The Incredibles and Ratatouille, who have had an average score of 93, which would have actually shot him over Stanton and Jackson and put him in first place!
Here's the top twenty best living film directors, along with their overall score, as judged by the average of their best three films over the past decade:
1. Peter Jackson – 91
2. Paul Greengrass – 88
3. Alfonso Cuaron – 84
4. Pedro Almodovar – 84
5. Spike Lee – 83
6. Ang Lee – 80
7. Christopher Nolan – 80
8. Tim Burton – 79
9. Coen Brothers – 78
10. Steven Soderbergh – 78
11. Martin Scorsese - 78
12. Quentin Tarantino – 77
13. Steven Spielberg – 76
14. Ron Howard – 74
15. Ridley Scott – 71
16. David Fincher – 71
17. Woody Allen – 70
18. Michael Mann – 69
19. Wes Anderson – 68
20. Sam Mendes – 66
This list doesn't include some great directors like Paul Thomas Anderson who only made two films during the past decade. By the way, if we average the scores for the two films PT Anderson directed in the past ten years (Punch-Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood), he would have gotten a score of 85, enough to put him in the third spot. Andrew Stanton, director of Finding Nemo and WALL*E, who have tied Peter Jackson for first place with a score of 91. Brad Bird, who made The Incredibles and Ratatouille, who have had an average score of 93, which would have actually shot him over Stanton and Jackson and put him in first place!
Here's the top twenty best living film directors, along with their overall score, as judged by the average of their best three films over the past decade:
1. Peter Jackson – 91
2. Paul Greengrass – 88
3. Alfonso Cuaron – 84
4. Pedro Almodovar – 84
5. Spike Lee – 83
6. Ang Lee – 80
7. Christopher Nolan – 80
8. Tim Burton – 79
9. Coen Brothers – 78
10. Steven Soderbergh – 78
11. Martin Scorsese - 78
12. Quentin Tarantino – 77
13. Steven Spielberg – 76
14. Ron Howard – 74
15. Ridley Scott – 71
16. David Fincher – 71
17. Woody Allen – 70
18. Michael Mann – 69
19. Wes Anderson – 68
20. Sam Mendes – 66
We've got one more round to go of this. Next week, we will look at the order of these directors based on their single best work of the past decade. In that list, I will include some of the other great directors who were left out for one reason or another on this list. That should reshuffle things a bit. Come back and check it out.
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