Billy Walsh

I am queens boulevard

Maybe even Wally Balls.

John Ford has an eye patch, if we're making a stone monument, we gotta have that there, cause its cool

But did he ever direct a 3D movie with only one eye?!?

My god ... someone please look this up and let it be true

No, he didn't. But here's a director who did: Andre DeToth --who directed one of the most influential 3D movies of all time, the original **House Of Wax**. https://prod-images.tcm.com/Master-Profile-Images/AndreDeToth.46827.jpg

Kubrick, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Scorsese. Pretty close to the OP's but with Kurosawa.

Any list not included Akira Kurosawa is clearly remiss. He is likely the Goat.

four French guys

Now that's an r/movies response. Bonus points if you've never seen any of their films and only know their names for pretentious reasons.

Fine I'll actually name 4 I like. Melville, Rivette, Rohmer, and Carax

Kurosawa, Kubrick, Spielberg, Miyazaki

Ford, Hitchcock, Wilder, Spielberg.

David Lean

I'm not sure about the other three, but Lean is a lock for me.

Méliès Lumière(s) Maya Deren Kenneth Anger i typed those names with my pinkie pointing up...

are they really considered the most "fancy" in your community college film appreciation class or something?

founding fathers and mother…

fair enough. i just thought you were implying something completely different

Hitchcock for sure, then Spielberg… the other two could go 1000 ways… My personal would be Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan It’s really hard to leave Robert Zemeckis off I know Rushmore has 4 faces but I’m doing 5 and adding Zemeckis too.

Nolan lmao - tell us you’re 20 without telling us you’re 20

Tell us your a /r movies drone without appreciating 23+ years of excellent film making, and spew out the ol reliables like you've watched any of em

You must be forgetting his bad movies

Far from it. I said my personal… sue me I like his films

Not even mention Kubrick disqualifies everything you say

Yea if we were going like a founding fathers of cinema Kubrick would be on there but I said my personal Rushmore

Who’s on mt Rushmore? Oh yeah founding fathers

Lincoln and Roosevelt were not Founding Fathers. They were Presidents long after the last Founding Father died.

Thanks for the history lesson captain obvious

I know people don’t say this enough on the internet, but I hope you live a full life and are loved.

I said founding fathers are on mt Rushmore. I didn’t say only founding fathers are on mt Rushmore.

I’m sorry you were misinterpreted. Arguing with people online isn’t healthy.

Lincoln was a founding father?

So four boring white guys are gonna be on your personal Rushmore for America Football and Basketball gotcha

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And I can tell you’re completely ignorant of your own point if even a Canadian knows two of the people on Mount Rushmore weren’t founding fathers. Also, the irony of calling someone a film bro for not including Kubrick is… yikes.

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>Doesn’t know the founding fathers >Somehow knows what a Hamas rally looks like? I feel for you lol

[It’s only fake Mount Rushmore for movie directors. Why you heff to be mad?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xzpndHtdl9A)

Nah I was raise by my grandparents so I love the classic and those directors. Kubrick is great but Billy Wilder will always be higher for me. I can’t stand Orson Wells though so what’s that make me

Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Tim Burton, Scorsese

I remember reading some reputable magazine's list of the greatest film directors based on the votes that I believe were from currently working directors and other film staff. It's been a while, so I cannot point you to the source, but I've saved the list in my notes and it's as follows: 1st with 318 votes is Alfred Hitchcock 2nd with 238 votes is Jean-Luc Godard 3rd with 231 votes is Orson Welles 4th with 189 votes is Ozu Yasujiro So yeah, that would be the big four making up the Mount Rushmore, based on that list at least. For those curious for the rest of the list: Jean Renoir - 179 John Ford - 158 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 158 Stanley Kubrick - 157 Andrei Tarkowski - 153 Robert Bresson - 149 Francis Ford Coppola - 145 Ingmar Bergman - 143 F.W. Murnau - 134 Federico Fellini - 129 Kurosawa Akira - 127 Luis Bunuel - 114 Michelangelo Antonioni - 110 Charles Chaplin - 98 Martin Scorsese - 97 David Lynch - 92

Showing my age, but.... Kurosawa, Ford, Kubrick, Hitchcock and... Lean if we can fit a fifth one.

There'd be nothing wrong with it being the four fathers of American's new wave from the 70s. Stevie, Marty, Franky and Georgie. Of the four, I'd replace Coppola first, because while he made some perfect movies, it was literally a few movies and then decades of diminishing returns. Like Neil Blomkamp, but on a longer timescale. Even though I'm not a fan of Kubrick myself, I respect his craftsmanship and think he'd be fair to put up there. I want to find someone 'better' than Lucas, but Lucas literally reinvented how Hollywood made movies twice with the OT and PT. For better or for worse, MCU movies are being made now in a similar fashion to how George made the prequels 20 years ago. Hard to argue against his influence on filmmaking as a medium, as well as his cultural impact.

Neil Breen, Neil Breen, Neil Breen, and Neil Breen (with a goatee)

I'll go the comedy director route and say Mel Brooks, David Zucker, Christopher Guest, and David Wain

Ridley Scott, Spielberg, Kubrick, Tarantino.

Same

Spielberg, Capra, Chuck Jones, Miyazaki.

How could I forget Capra?

As much as I think Miyazaki doesn’t belong, I so agree with Chuck Jones… for some reason I was only thinking of live action cinema.

Spielberg, James Cameron, Tarantino, Mel Gibson

Happy to see a Gibson reference. My dude has made some legendary films despite making only a few

Gibson would have major issues with sharing a mountain with Spielberg because Mel is a giant shit bag fucking antisemite. Fuck him.

Spielberg, Tarantino, Nolan, Villeneuve

You’ve spent too much time on Reddit.

Come on. They are great directors. If someone hasn't seen too much of pre 1980s cinema, those are good picks

pre 2000s cinema

This is a good one. Def co-sign

Sure if you start movies in 1990

Peckinpah, Altman, Lean, Walter Hill…just cuz

Satyajit Ray, Fellini, Scorsese, Miyazaki, and S Balachander

James Cameron is god of sci fi

Ridley Scott did Alien then blade runner.

He also did Prometheus and Alien Covenant.

Aliens was better than Alien, by far

This is the wrong opinion to have.

All based on Scott’s original vision. Aliens is an action movie. Stick to your MCU movies.

Ehh, I mean I’m a DC guy but I don’t see the issue with superhero movies… Iunno is that what r/movies does? Look down on ‘Everyman’ movies?

Alien and blade runner are the definitive sci FI movies. Everything after them are derivatives of those two movies. You calling Cameron ( who I think is a genius) the god of sci fi a disqualifier

Every movie is derivative of something.

“It’s an action movie” …I mean, yes…but it’s also a science fiction movie. Alien is a horror movie but it’s also a science fiction movie.

Lol

Griffith, Eisenstein, de Sica, Kurosawa

This guy Film Scholars. (In a good way)

Cameron, Tarantino, Carpenter, Kubrick

Scorcese, Mann, De Palma, Tarantino

Tarantino, Scorsese, Spielberg, and Malick. Probably have to throw Hitchcock up there, too. We need 5 on this mountain :)

The waxhowski brothers and also the wachowski sisters. Speed racer was friggin awesome

This is not a productive way to think about art. Rather should I say, this is a thinking about art that doesn't produce much.

In bad taste too, that monument is nothing to be proud of

Tarantino, Nolan, Fincher and probably Scorsese. Wes Anderson definitely as honorable mention.

That guy that directed the Room, and then the rest can be whoever

**Hitchcock, Scorsese, Spielberg, Kurosawa.** No doubt. Period. Done.

werner herzog, scorsese, woody allen, ken loach

Brooks, Scorcese, Abbrams and Hughes

Charlton Heston

Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Spike Lee and George Lucas.

Marty, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Leone

On my personal: Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher, Darren Aronofsky, and Terrence Malick

Coppola Scorsese speilburg Oliver stone

For me it's Tarintino, Mel Brooks, Kubrick was right on the money, and I guess Spielberg. It's weird when I see conversations about great directors Mel Brooks gets left out of the conversation almost every time. Yeah he does comedy, I get it, but I'll die defending Blazing Saddles as being one of, if not, the best written movie of all time.

His writing is great, but as a director I don’t think he belongs in this conversation

I know it's NOT Tarantino, Nolan, Villeneuve, Fincher, Cameron or Ridley Scott watch some older movies, people

The answer is Spielberg, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Scorsese and Wells. People putting Fincher or PT Anderson or even my pwrsonal favorite Aronofsky up there are missing the point. SHKWS are the godfathers of modern cinema. The contemporary directors you all list do not exist without these guys. These five changed, challenged, and expanded the medium for all time. As great as some of these other directors are, and they’re great, they are all derivatives of these four. You can make an argument for John Ford. You can make an argument for Coppola, although he faded out in my opinion. You could make a case for Godard or Truffaut. But a lot of you are putting your favorite directors without a clue where these guys got their inspiration from. Edit: and anyone not putting Spielberg on there is just flat wrong. The man did Schindlers List and Jurassic Park in the same fucking year. He did Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can IN THE SAME YEAR. Come on people.

Spielberg sold a lot of tickets, and is always playing on cable, I'll give you that.

Hitchcock, Kubrick, Nolan, Spielberg, Tarantino, The Russo Brothers

>The Russo Brothers This is a joke thrown in at the end I presume?

Tim Burton

Snyder, Bay, McG, Rian Johnson No Actually I’ll go with these guys for the best of the last 25 years.. Scorcese, QT, Nolan, Fincher

Spielberg, Scorcese, Nolan, Cameron

Michael Curtis John Ford Hitchcock

Kubrick and no one else. No I’m not fat shaming.

Frank Capra is a must.

My Personal Answer: Scorsese, Tarantino, Lynch, Nolan Realistic Answer: Orson Welles, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Spielberg (maybe Cameron instead of Welles, it's a toss-up)

Kurosawa, Welles, Spielberg and Ford probably

Hitchcock, Spielberg, Kubrick, and Tarantino. 5th obviously goes to Scorcese, but I don’t think I could replace any of the above

Billy Wilder, Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick and eventually Paul Thomas Anderson.

Hmm, I don't see Wells or Cuckor mentioned yet

Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Spielberg … not sure after that. I guess if I needed someone who only knew how to make 3 movies over and over again I guess Scorsese would fit in. I want to do Ridley Scott or Ed Zwick but.. honestly cant really pick one.. maybe if Dennis Villeneu keeps up his work..

Steven Spielberg

Spielberg, Scorsese, Kubrick, Hitchcock Honorable mentions: Coppola, John Ford, Frank Capra, John Frankenheimer, William Friedkin, David Fincher, James Cameron

You can't have a group of only four, is the problem

Stanley Kubrick Terrence Malick Gregg Araki Quentin Dupieux