Fame or Shame: Directors

[Joe the Destroyer]

Oh yeah.  I went there.  Same rules.  Try to limit it to directors that most people on this forum would know, both highly acclaimed and schlocky.

John Carpenter 30
Dario Argento 30
Michael Bay 30
Akira Kurosawa 30
Uwe Boll 30

HALL OF FAME

John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing [remake], Escape from New York)
Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Kagemusha, Ran)
Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds)
Dario Argento (Suspiria, Deep Red, Tenebre)
Ishiro Honda (Gojira/Godzilla, Mothra, Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People)
Stephen Spielberg (ET, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan)
Val Guest (The Day the Earth Caught Fire, The Quartermass Xperiment, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth)
Kathryn Bigelow (Near Dark, Point Break, The Hurt Locker)
John Frankenheimer (Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate, Reindeer Games)
David Cronenberg (The Brood, The Fly [remake], A History of Violence)
Sergio Leone (A Fistful of Dollars, Once Upon a Time in the West; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula)
Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, North by Northwest, Strangers on a Train)
Christopher Nola (The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception)


HALL OF SHAME

Michael Bay (Transformers, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys)
Uwe Boll (BloodRayne, House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark)
Joe D'Amato (Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper, Ator the Invincible, Killing Birds)
Hal Needham (Smokey and the Bandit, Cannonball Run, Megaforce)
Renny Harlin (Deep Blue Sea, Cliffhanger, Die Hard 2)
Alexandre Aja (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes [remake], Mirrors [remake])
Mark Polonia (Feeders, Peter Rottentail, Preylien: Alien Predators)
Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger, Tromeo and Juliet, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead)
Wes Craven (Last House on the Left, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream)
Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, From Beyond, Castle Freak)
Peter Hyams (2010, Stay Tuned, The Relic)
M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs)
Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012)
Richard Donner (The Goonies, Superman, Lethal Weapon)
James Cameron (Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Avatar)

[claws]

John Carpenter 32 SAVE
Dario Argento 30
Michael Bay 28 KILL
Akira Kurosawa 30
Uwe Boll 30

Fame or Shame: Directors I played at another forum just died the other week. I hope it will last longer here.

[Jack]

John Carpenter 34 SAVE
Dario Argento 28 KILL
Michael Bay 28
Akira Kurosawa 30
Uwe Boll 30

[Mr. DS]

John Carpenter 36 SAVE
Dario Argento 28
Michael Bay 26 KILL
Akira Kurosawa 30
Uwe Boll 30

[Pilgermann]

John Carpenter 36
Dario Argento 28
Michael Bay 24 KILL
Akira Kurosawa 32 SAVE
Uwe Boll 30

[3mnkids]

John Carpenter 38 SAVE
Dario Argento 28
Michael Bay 22 KILL
Akira Kurosawa 32 
Uwe Boll 30

well, that was easy. 

[Joe the Destroyer]

John Carpenter 40 SAVE
Dario Argento 28
Michael Bay 20 KILL
Akira Kurosawa 32
Uwe Boll 30

Yes indeed, it was easy. 

[nilbog]

John Carpenter 42 - SAVE
Dario Argento 28
Michael Bay 20
Akira Kurosawa 32
Uwe Boll 28 - KILL

[Rev. Powell]

John Carpenter 42 -
Dario Argento 28
Michael Bay 18 KILL
Akira Kurosawa 34 SAVE
Uwe Boll 28

Interesting that Bay has received more hate early on than Uwe.  I agree that he should, I just found it unexpected. 

[JaseSF]

John Carpenter 42 
Dario Argento 28
Michael Bay 18
Akira Kurosawa 36 SAVE
Uwe Boll 26 KILL

[claws]

John Carpenter 44 SAVE
Dario Argento 28
Michael Bay 16 KILL
Akira Kurosawa 36
Uwe Boll 26

[3mnkids]

John Carpenter 44
Dario Argento 30 SAVE
Michael Bay 14 KILL
Akira Kurosawa 36
Uwe Boll 26

[AndyC]

John Carpenter 46 SAVE
Dario Argento 30
Michael Bay 12 KILL
Akira Kurosawa 36
Uwe Boll 26

[Mr. DS]

John Carpenter 48 SAVE
Dario Argento 30
Michael Bay 10 KILL
Akira Kurosawa 36
Uwe Boll 26

[Rev. Powell]

John Carpenter 48
Dario Argento 30
Michael Bay 08 KILL
Akira Kurosawa 38 SAVE
Uwe Boll 26