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…)