My Top Ten Directors, Actors, and Writers

To elaborate more on the last post, I'll focus on the directors, actors, and writers. The director is often the person who gets the most credit for a film's success or failure. The actor is of course the person who the audience notices the most. The writer is another member of the crew who's efforts are clearly visible. Here are my top ten directors and the films that I think are their crowning achievements.

1. Akira Kurosawa-Seven Samurai
2. Quentin Tarantino-Pulp Fiction
3. Francis Ford Coppola-The Godfather
4. Milos Forman-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. Martin Scorsese-Taxi Driver
6. Sidney Lumet-Network
7. Alfred Hitchcock-Vertigo
8. Sofia Coppola-Lost in Translation
9. The Coen Brothers-No Country for Old Men
10. Charlie Kaufman-Synecdoche, New York

Here are my top ten actors.

1. Al Pacino-The Godfather Part II
2. Jack Nicholson-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. Daniel Day Lewis-There Will Be Blood
4. Phillip Seymour Hoffman-Synecdoche, New York
5. Marlon Brando-The Godfather
6. Toshiro Mifune-Seven Samurai
7. Alec Baldwin-Glengarry Glen Ross
8. Dennis Hopper-Blue Velvet
9. Robert De Niro-Taxi Driver
10. Peter Finch-Network

Here are my top ten writers
1.Quentin Tarantino-Pulp Fiction
2. David Mamet-Glengarry Glen Ross
3. Paddy Chayefsky-Network
4. Charlie Kaufman-Synecdoche, New York
5. Christopher Nolan-Memento
6. Michael Arndt-Little Miss Sunshine
7. Whit Stillman-Metropolitan
8. Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks-Young Frankenstein
9. Taxi Driver-Paul Schrader
10. Crash-Paul Haggis