Whos the top five directors,currently working?

[Kill Dat Noize]

Im a film snob like the rest of us, i have a lengthy criterion collection, but i never got why people hate on nolan. its like he never made "The Prestige" and only made the dark knight rises.

Prestige was the dumbest fukkin movie ever. Please.

 

[TheGodling]

Current:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Joel & Ethan Coen
Takeshi Kitano
Werner Herzog
Kim Jee-woon

Ever is going to be hard to put together but Welles, Kurosawa and Carpenter are definitely the top 3.

 

[Knicksman20]

I'd like to add Johnnie To. He's very underrated

 

[Thief's Theme]

top 5 right now is tough because I feel like a lot of the top directors don't come out with films on a regular basis...

but I'll go with:

Scorsese
Haneke
Almodovar (his last joint aside)
Bong Joon Ho
Xavier Dolan (only seen two of his but both were on point, he has potential to be great)

honorable mention: Steve McQueen, Lynne Ramsey, Lars Von Trier, Derek Cianfrance, Nicholas Winding Refn, Linklater, Inaritu, Malick

feel like PTA, Tarantino, Wes, and Coens are all falling off a little

I don't know how you can do an all-time 5, it would be tough to do an all-time 50 let alone just 5