The Greatest Directors of all Time Tier List! PART 1 

Akira Kurosawa is is definitely one of the godfathers of filmmaking and definitely S tier

The tik tok goat now on RU-vid

Bro your film knowledge and insight suits long-form content so well. Please do more of these 🙌

Really good video, would love to see more of these tier lists

Loving your videos on all platforms Seth and your insight into movies! Was shocked Guillermo Del Toro wasn’t here before I realised it’s Part 1 so I’m sure he’ll be in the next one! Keep up the amazing work man 👍

Knowing I’m here from the beginning of your RU-vid career is exciting. Can’t wait to see what else you do

David Lynch better be in Part 2, THE 🐐

Love seeing the long form content!

My guy, so glad you're making RU-vid videos now! I always enjoy hearing your opinions on everything film and typically have similar takes to you but for me Wes is high A-tier. Looking forward to more content!

Brilliant vid, would love to see a actors tier list ranking

Big up Seth man love the longer style content

Definitely looking forward to more of these

Nice work bro! 🙌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Nice list. Great seeing PTA and Park Chan-Wook in S tier. Plus their both in their 50s so hopefully more great stuff to come!

Been waiting for you to start a channel!

The legend is finally on RU-vid!!!

So cool you have started a youtube channel!

Big W Seth!!

I’m kinda surprised that Gaspar Noé wasn’t included. I know he’s a bit of a controversial director and his films definitely aren’t for everyone but he’s done some amazing work. Loved this video overall though and I agree with your placements! ✨

Huge W Seth!!!

The most impressive part of this is linking all those faces to names

THE GOAT IS ON RU-vid NOW LETS GOOOOO

Welcome to RU-vid

Let’s go new channel let’s go

Great video. I hope Sergio Leone is in the second part. He is my favourite directer and I think he is one of the best ever.

Don’t diss George and American Graffiti like that🥶

Of the directors on this specific list, I myself would rank them: S: Tarantino, Wes Anderson, PTA A: Bergman, Scorsese, Coen Bros., Fincher, Linklater, Miyazaki, Kubrick, Coppola B: Park, Villineuve, Boyle, Iñaritu, Nolan, Bong, Gerwig, Todd Philips, Celine Sciamma C: Von Trier, Aronofsky, Lucas, Spielberg, Jackson, Ridley D: Vinterberg, Mann, De Plama, Cameron, Hitchcock, Polanski, Shyamalan, Gibson, Reiner, Zemeckis, Darabont, Chris Colombus

Lets go!!!

Ingmar Bermans Fanny and Alexander is one of the best movies i have ever seen for sure

So this list unfairly focuses heavily on directors from only the last 30 yrs.

You hit this on the head got pretty much all of em where I'd put em

Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa and Sidney Lumet would be in my top 5 directors (with Hitchcock and Kubrick)

Where would you put Damien Chazelle?

Thank god your on RU-vid now

no love for akira and clint? S & A respectively

SETH THE GOAT

Where is Tarkovsky?

Unfortunate that Kurosawa, John Ford and Orson Welles aren't here, but good list.

I would have loved that you considered Pedro Almodovar for the video

Del toro and guy Ritchie should be discussed

Part 2??👀👀

You forgot Clint Eastwood. Overall good list but not great

George Lucas revolutionized a genre with American Graffiti dude…

George Lucas is an easily S tier. THX 1138,American Graffiti, A New Hope,and Revenge of the Sith are all classics.The most innovative Director of all time.He changed the game forever.His movies really haven’t aged a day.

Where would you rank lynch?

where would u put david lynch and spike lee?

Linklater s tier imo

Common Seth W

Your can have a many filmmakers as you want in whatever tier. Its not first second third. If its s tier work thats what it is. I think we can put a many as are capable of thst work

🔥

👑

Finally...

I've loved films since i was 4. I always wabted to make my own movies and did a lot of theater.....Tarantino, Spielberg were my two big influences at first......but i watched Amores Perros, Stalker...... after that, Tarantino and Spielberg are at most A, but solid B's.

Michael Mann A for The Insider and Last of the Mohicans

everything is good

who cares about the impact they had on the industry. if someone makes more enjoyable movies, they should still be ranked higher, imo. A director can make shitty movies but still be influencial :)

Surprisingly, I don’t think I’ve every agreed with a film video more

Michael bay and Roland emmerich lol

Michael bay and Roland emmerich lol those are great directors too

The goat tiktoker

Where’s Sergio leone

Top 2 are black and white what a surprise 😂

Robert Altman S tier

What about Sidney Lumet?

Great list but Ang Lee is missing.

🎉🎉🎉

This might be a normie take, but how can Tarantino not be in s tier man. He made his own film genre, and revolutionizes every genre he dips his toes in

george a. romero/ john carpenter? 😢

I don't really care about influince or anything like that cuz that doesn't mean quality, it just means importance. i only care about quality n quantity, how great of a filmography u have and how great your films have aged over the years cuz it's the classics and greats that count here ppl. so to me, these are the best directors 👇. 50. Ang lee 49. John singleton 48. Peter jackson 47. George lucas (only reason lucas & jackson are even on my list is cuz of star wars & lotk) 46. Sam mendes 45. David o russell 44. Gullermo del toro 43. Farrelley brothers 42. John carpenters 41. Wes craven 40. Edward zwick 39. Antoine fuqua 38. Frank darabont 37. Luc besson 36. Christopher nolan 35. Ron howard 34. Bong joon ho 33. David fincher 32. Rob reiner 31. Michael mann 30. Spike lee 29. Brian de palma 28. Richard linklater 27. Sidney lumet 26. William friedkin 25. Danny boyle 24. Alejandro gonzales 23. Mel gibson 22. Milos forman 21. Wes anderson 20. Clint eastwood 19. David cronenberg 18. Francis ford coppola 17. James cameron 16. Paul verhoven 15. Robert zemeckis 14. Hayao miyazaki 13. David lynch 12. Sergio leone 11. Tim burton 10. Takashi mike 9. Paul thomas anderson 8. Quentin tarantino 7. Ridley scott 6. Coen brothers 5. Steven speilberg 4. Akira kurosawa 3. Stanly kubrick 2. martin scorsese (tbh, scorsese & kubrick are my 2 favorite but sometimes your favorites aren't the best, in reality the next one is the best 👇) 1. Alfred hitchcock (greatest director of all time) There's probably more but i can't remember right now, maybe i'll edit and arrange the list in the future. and a few hailed as some of the best like david lean, charley chaplin, roman polanski, darron aronofsky, park chan-wook, orsen wells, elia kazan, terrance mallick, john ford, frank capra, lars von trier, woody allen im not familier with most their works which is why they didn't make my list. So until i watch them, i won't rank em on my list.

I cant agree with that PTA placement. I like his movies a lot but hes not better than Nolan, or Fincher in my opinion

David Lynch and PTA are the GOATs imo

You are clearly more concerned with the history of cinema then with picking the directors who have made the best movies. You're not alone in that sentiment so it's fine. Nolan should be so much higher.

Paul Thomas Anderson Over tarantino, fincher and Nolan Hurts…

UMMMMMMMMM........ WHERE IS DAVID LYNCH??????

W

Bro did you fart @ 5:59? O_o

Coppola and Paul Thomas are a not top I love them but this is Hitchcock Kubrick level only Spielberg maybe cohen

John ford is obviously best

Only D tier for Roman Polanski? 😮 should be bloody z tier the guys a wrogen

where is fucking... SERGIO LEONE? MILLOS FORMAN? DAVID LEAN? AKIRA KUROSAWA? DAVID LINCH? ORSON WELLS?

The fact that Kurosawa and Tarkovski aren't there in the S tier is insane C'mon bro you made your self look stupid

Want a laugh? Look at the rottentomatoes list. It’s hilarious.

You lost my respect by putting Nolan almost on the B list. Wtf???

I would say Tenet, Interstellar and Inception are the only Nolan films where the exposition is noticeably too much. Even then, it doesn't ruin the film, just makes it more clunky. For example I think Interstellar is massively misunderstood and part of the reason is because of issues with writing. To me a big focus of that movie is on the love and hope we feel for those close to us and how that connection can span time and space in a way we can't quantify. That scene at the end where Murphy says she knew her dad would come back 'because my dad promised me' legit made me tear up and I don't really cry that often in movies. In short, I think people overlook that his movies aren't all just complicated wild ideas. Every single one of his movies revolves around a very grounded human idea, with the exception of Tenet which is his only disappointing film in my opinion. Tenet felt mostly like an experiment, but I do think it overstepped that line of 'interesting idea' vs 'what the hell is going on and why should I care'? But I think films like Dunkirk, Memento, The Dark Knight and more recently Oppenheimer show that Nolan is perfectly capable of not suffering from exposition. One thing that's easy to notice is that these films are the more grounded movies with all of them except Memento being based on something already existent. However I'd point out Dunkirk as a prime example of how Nolan pushes the medium and uses thoughtful techniques to tell a story in more ways than just one. He's probably my favourite director because he's one of only two (the other being Denise V.) directors currently that I would see a movie ONLY because they directed it. I also just really enjoy listening to him, some of the things he said during the Oppenheimer press tour were genuinely interesting and thought provoking. One thing I've noticed is that it's really interesting to see how people across different generations regard different directors, a lot of younger people like myself have grown up with Nolan's work so while I'm aware of the great directors of the past it just doesn't touch me in the same way. It reminds me of sports to be honest, with people having that nostalgia for athletes of the past and being really hard pressed to put younger athletes in that same category.

Tarantino there is a crime Huge L

Where is the MASTER JOHN FORD?????!!!!!!! Not to mention, Elia Kazan, William Wyler, Billy, Wilder, Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Howard, Hawks, Orson, Welles, Robert Wise, Fred Zinnemann, William Friedkin, Victor Fleming, Frank Capra, Michael Kuritz, and John Huston