Who is the worst movie director of all time?

[Elie]

Good call.

He's at least one of the worst 5 high-profile movie directors.

I think Quentin Tarantino, David Cronenberg, Werner Herzog and Roland Emmerich are awful too.

yeah cronenberg is terrible

[Xyei]

Let's play look up the director of a movie you hate and post his name...

Nobody has mentioned Steven Spielberg?

I hate all directors. They all suck except for the ones nobody knows about that make low budget films and foreign films.

[4Corners]

George Lucas, and Peter Jackson. That's right I said it!

Oh, and Mel Brooks!!

No way. Mel Brooks is one of the best comedy directors ever. The guy made 3 classics in The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein. Than another really good one in History of the World Pt. 1. Most directors are lucky to have 1 classic, let alone 3.

[4Corners]

Some of the best directors:

David Lean (the best ever)
Ridley Scott
Henry Hathaway
Roman Polanski (he may be a pervert but he's a talented director)
Alfred Hitch****
Michael Curtiz
Terrence Malick
Robert Wise
William Wyler
Antoine Fuqua (underrated)
John Ford
Alex Proyas (underrated)
John Huston
Clint Eastwood
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Wolfgang Petersen
William A. Wellman

Your list leaves a lot to be desired....

No Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson, Milos Foreman, or even a new young gun on a roll like Ben Affleck. The guy has made only 3 movie's, but all 3 have been good so far. Gone Baby Gone, The Town, and Argo.

But yet you include Antoine Fuqua, who hasn't made a good film since Tears of the Sun or Training Day???

Eastwood is one of the best, yes sir. Average and overrated actor, great director. Mystic River is one of the best films of the 00's and Unforgiven might be the best Western ever.

Hitch**** is a legend, but I find is puzzling you didn't include Kubrick and Scorsese, who are as great, if not greater.

Ridley Scott is good, made a ton of good films. He hasn't set the world on fire lately though. Hopefully The Counselor with Fassbender, Pitt, and Bardem gets him back on track. Body of Lies, Robin Hood, Prometheus, I just felt very underwhelmed. But no one can deny he's made great films like Alien, Blade Runner, and Gladiator, to name just a few of his greatest accomplishments.

No Spielberg??? The guy's resume has some dud's, but many great one's too.

[Hitman Hodgson]

No way. Mel Brooks is one of the best comedy directors ever. The guy made 3 classics in The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein. Than another really good one in History of the World Pt. 1. Most directors are lucky to have 1 classic, let alone 3.

Aside from Blazing Saddles I don't like any of those. History of the World is one of the most unfunny films I've ever seen, I haven't see young Frankenstein. It doesn't help that I watched most of his films after hearing all the hype, and I just don't find them that funny. I have the same problem with most of Woody Allen's films.

[4Corners]

Aside from Blazing Saddles I don't like any of those. History of the World is one of the most unfunny films I've ever seen, I haven't see young Frankenstein. It doesn't help that I watched most of his films after hearing all the hype, and I just don't find them that funny. I have the same problem with most of Woody Allen's films.

Yeah some people have different taste. I f**king love all 4 of those. So I can't say the man that made Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein sucks. Those two are timeless.

[- Ram Raid -]

Michael Winner is up there on the P4P ratings list.

But. . . . Andrew Morahan, who usually directed music videos had a stab at the Highlander 'franchise' with Highlander III: The Sorcerer.

I remember it as the single worst film I've ever seen. So he's up against the wall. . . sorry, 'on the list'.

[Hitman Hodgson]

Some of the best directors:

David Lean (the best ever)
Ridley Scott
Henry Hathaway
Roman Polanski (he may be a pervert but he's a talented director)
Alfred Hitch****
Michael Curtiz
Terrence Malick
Robert Wise
Robert Zemeckis
William Wyler
Antoine Fuqua (underrated)
John Ford
Alex Proyas (underrated)
John Huston
Clint Eastwood
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Wolfgang Petersen
William A. Wellman

No Kirowsawa, Ang Lee, Danny Boyle, Scorsese, Gilliam, Kubrick, or Michael Mann?

I didn't like The Tree of Life but Malick is a good call, I like Badlands and The Thin Red Line.

As for another crap director... Tim Burton.

[TheNegation]

Uwe Boll....

[ciscofromoc]

I agree that Uwe Bolle is probably the worst, but you gotta add Paul Anderson.