Who are your favorite sci-fi movie directors?

[Owain Taggart]

I forgot Zemeckis did Contact. I guess mainly because it doesn't seem like his type of movie, especially if you consider his later output.

 

[Eagan]

Before anyone else points them out, here's more that I could/should have included:

Jean Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Lucy, Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets)
Michael Crichton (Westworld, Runaway)
David Cronenberg (Stereo, Crimes Of The Future, Shivers, Scanners, Videodrome, Dead Zone, The Fly, Naked Lunch, eXistenZ)
Alfonso Cuaron (Children Of Men, Gravity)
Richard Fleischer (20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Fantastic Voyage, Soylent Green)
Peter Hyams (Capricorn One, Outland, 2010: The Year We Made Contact, Timecop, A Sound Of Thunder)
Rian Johnson (Looper, The Last Jedi)
John McTiernan (Predator, Rollerball)
Franklin J Schaffner (Planet Of The Apes, The Boys From Brazil)
Barry Sonnenfeld (Men In Black + 2 & 3)
Joss Whedon (Serenity, Avengers+)

 

[The Salt Umpire]

I voted Kubrick, Scott & Spielberg in the poll. Eagan's are all good picks, I recall seeing 25 of them and enjoying them all.

 

[Tosk]

Jean Luc Besson

It's just Luc Besson. Your Trek is showing.

 

[Eagan]

It's just Luc Besson. Your Trek is showing.

OMG, you're absolutely right. I could pretend that I did it on purpose, but I didn't. It was late at night, I was on a Star Trek site, thinking about French movie directors (e.g. Jean Luc Godard) so maybe it is a bit understandable; but a bit worrying nonetheless.

Unrelated titbit: As well as War Of The Worlds, I forgot to include Ready Player One in Spielberg's list

 

[Set Harth]

It's still there!

 

[Eagan]

It's still there!

It's too late for me to be able to edit it.

 

[Starkers]

Carpenter (and I'd add Prince of Darkness into the list)

Villeneuve

Garland (It's controversial but Dredd could be added into the mix here as well given there's a lot of evidence he was directing it more than Travis was)

 

[Set Harth]

It's too late for me to be able to edit it.