By Dustin Rowles | Lists | February 26, 2011 |
By Dustin Rowles | Lists | February 26, 2011 |
Entertainment Weekly came out with its list of the 25 Greatest Working Directors this week, and while I might have a few small quibbles with it, I thought the more interesting aspect here is the comparison of that list to the list of Most Profitable Working Directors, an opportunity to redundantly demonstrate how infrequently commerce and quality intersect. Indeed, of the 25 Greatest Working Directors, only five are also among the Most Profitable. The comparison is also a testament to those five directors’ abilities to merge the commercial and critical.
Entertainment Weekly’s List of the 25 Greatest Working Directors
25. Wes Anderson
24. Mike Leigh
23. Brad Bird
22. J.J. Abrams
21. Spike Lee
20. Edgar Wright
19. Peter Jackson
18. James Cameron
17. David Lynch
16. David O. Russell
15. Kathryn Bigelow
14. Danny Boyle
13. Roman Polanski
12. Guillermo del Toro
11. Paul Thomas Anderson
10. Pedro Almodóvar
9. Clint Eastwood
8. Terrence Malick
7. Quentin Tarantino
6. Joel & Ethan Coen
5. Darren Aronofsky
4. Martin Scorsese
3. Steven Spielberg
2. Christopher Nolan
1. David Fincher
Box Office Mojo’s List of the 25 Most Profitable Working Directors
25. Garry Marshall
24. Joel Schumacher
23. M. Night Shyamalan
22. Brett Ratner
21. Jay Roach
20. Ivan Reitman
19. Tony Scott
18. Roland Emmerich
17. Ridley Scott
16. Richard Donner
15. Andrew Adamson
14. Christopher Nolan
13. Lee Unrich
12. Clint Eastwood
11. Sam Raimi
10. Gore Verbinski
9. Peter Jackson
8. Michael Bay
7. Tim Burton
6. Chris Columbus
5. George Lucas
4. Ron Howard
3. James Cameron
2. Robert Zemeckis
1. Steven Spielberg