22 Directors Who Knocked It Out of the Park for a Full Decade
Nobody hits a hole-in-one every time, and that’s especially true for movies. Sometimes, a director scores such a big hit that they get carte blanche on their next title, only to crash and burn some bloated three-hour bore. Maybe they start off just okay and get better and better with each new pass, which is basically how getting good at stuff works. Maybe they just suck the whole time. There are certainly directors who have made careers out of that.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t have a hot streak — or even an impressively long one. For example, Redditor FantaseaAdvice listed Francis Ford Coppola in the ‘70s, Steven Spielberg in the ‘90s and Martin Scorsese in the aughts as directors who had flawless decades.
They then asked, “What director has the strongest decade of filmmaking?” and their fellow Redditors responded with some very swole (figuratively speaking, of course) auteurs.
Charlie Kaufman
Sergio Leone
John Carpenter
Billy Wilder
Tim Burton
The Coen Brothers
John Huston
James Cameron
Ridley Scott
Hal Ashby
John Cassavetes
Robert Altman
Rob Reiner
Steven Spielberg
Christopher Nolan
Hayao Miyazaki
Oliver Stone
Alfred Hitchcock
Akira Kurosawa
John Hughes
Jordan Peele
Stanley Kubrick
