I have been promising this post for a long time. The 2.0 version was posted in September of 2011, which really means it was my Century of Film post because I cut those posts off in 2011. It got delayed for so long because I was so busy writing other posts and trying to come up with tweaks to my system. The 1.0 and 2.0 versions had a couple of problems which I will describe below.
But a lot of films have been released since then as well. Of those three brilliant directors pictured on the left, only one was on the first version and only two in the second. What’s more, in September of 2011 those three men had never won an Oscar (out of one nomination for Director) while since then they have won a combined 5 Oscars just for Best Director (10 in total), almost as many as everyone else in the film industry combined in that time period. This time, they’re all three in there and they have made some big leaps.
Now, down to business. (more…)
Right from the start, the directors kind of ruled the world of film. They were paid well and by the 1930s they were getting “film by” credit and before too long that credit was before the title (in fact, mandated that way by agreement with the DGA). They formed one of the powerful early guilds and their guild was one of the first two to begin giving out their own awards. Writer-directors started to rise in the 1940s (lead by Preston Sturges and John Huston) and that would become the standard for most of the great foreign directors. In the 1960s the auteur theory would come along and propel a number of directors to the top of the film world when it came to critical appreciation of the medium. Today we are still in an era of truly great film directors, from those who came up through the medium in the 70s (Spielberg, Scorsese) to those 70s type independent minded directors who missed that era and came right after (Coen Brothers, Almodovar) to the great directors who made their mark in the 90s and later (Tarantino, Nolan, P.T. Anderson). Following not too long after this post will come finally my 3.0 version of the Top 100 Directors of All-Time.
This is the final grouping of 50 to count down the 1000 Greatest Films of the first Century of Film (1912-2011).
The penultimate grouping of 50 has films that earn a 97 down through 2001. After that, they are a 98. The intro is 
Lists are not a new thing for me. Lists of the best films are not a new thing for me. I have been doing this for so long that some of my old lists look like the work of a different person.
Three parts left in the first 1000 (before the updates). The introduction can be found 
Getting close to the (initial) end of the Top 1000 list. The introduction is 
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