Can you name the 25 Greatest Working Directors according to Entertainment Weekly? by bigpapi

Can you name the 25 Greatest Working Directors according to Entertainment Weekly?

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Source: Entertainment Weekly
This is a subjective list of the most talented, in-demand filmmakers behind the camera today. I know the hints are tough but these are "great" directors. It'd be too easy to name a famous film.
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Rank	Director	Lesser Known Film
1		Panic Room
2		Insomnia
3		1941
4		After Hours
5		The Fountain
6		The Hudsucker Proxy
7		Jackie Brown
8		Badlands
9		Honkytonk Man
10		Bad Education
11		Hard Eight
12		The Devil's Backbone
13		Macbeth

Rank	Director	Lesser Known Film
14		Millions
15		K-19: The Widowmaker
16		Three Kings
17		Inland Empire
18		The Abyss
19		Heavenly Creatures
20		Hot Fuzz
21		Jungle Fever
22		Mission: Impossible III
23		The Iron Giant
24		Topsy-Turvy
25		Bottle Rocket

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25 Greatest Working Directors Quiz

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Created Feb 24, 2011 in Movies
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	Andrew_Tom:	Feb 24th, 2011 at 11:11 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz and a great list. Love the A Fistful of Fingers clue.

	Munkenstein:	Feb 24th, 2011 at 13:45 GMT	0 points
	Kathryn Bigelow over Woody Allen. She made 1 good movie and she's #15? Same with Danny Boyle.

	alsanali:	Feb 24th, 2011 at 14:35 GMT	10 points
	Danny Boyle has made a lot of great movies like Trainspotting, Sunshine, 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours so I don't know why you're comparing him to Bigelow.

	Annie1:	Feb 24th, 2011 at 15:37 GMT	2 points
	And Kathryn Bigelow has made acclaimed films such as Near Dark, Strange Days and Point Break so, you know.

	Hooby:	Feb 24th, 2011 at 20:22 GMT	2 points
	i know you didnt want to give it away but come on, these hints are near impossible

	chrisgaitan:	Feb 24th, 2011 at 20:24 GMT	4 points
	Kathryn Bigelow and JJ Abrams should have been replaced by Alfonso Cuaron and Sofia Coppola. I'd also swap Spike Lee for Woody Allen, but both artists have grown a bit stale recently.

	rsplenda477:	Feb 24th, 2011 at 20:28 GMT	4 points
	Woody Allen? Ridley Scott?

	bigpapi:	Feb 24th, 2011 at 20:55 GMT	5 points
	@hooby: I adjusted a few hints to make it slightly easier, but there's not many more hints I see changing without making it too easy. A big purpose of this quiz, too, is to show people a movie by one of their favorite directors they may have never seen or heard of. So, it's a bit more than just a quiz.

	jeffthepardoner:	Feb 24th, 2011 at 23:14 GMT	2 points
	Where is Soderbergh? Ang Lee? The previously mentioned Ridley Scott should be on here as well. Wes Anderson should be on here ahead of P.T. Anderson.

	ballen2824:	Feb 24th, 2011 at 23:31 GMT	3 points
	Good quiz. I like using their lesser known films. It makes it more of a challenge. I would like to agree with others and say Sofia Coppola, Ang Lee, and Steven Soderbergh should all be on this list. Also, Sam Mendes is a fantastic director and very under appreciate. Spike Jonze is also phenomenal, but hasn't put out anything in awhile.

	TheDegerness:	Feb 25th, 2011 at 00:01 GMT	3 points
	Great quiz! Leave to Entertainment Weekly to think they know directors...it's kind of cute though, like when a child thinks they're helping clean a mess.

	crab_legs:	Feb 25th, 2011 at 09:37 GMT	0 points
	Hot Fuzz is hardly one of Edgar Wright's lesser known films, ask anyone in the UK and they'll know what it is straight away

	crab_legs:	Feb 25th, 2011 at 09:39 GMT	1 point
	@ballen2824 it's not been that long, he put out Where the Wild Things Are two years ago, it took him 7 years to get from Adaptation to that.

	PeachSlice:	Feb 25th, 2011 at 14:39 GMT	1 point
	previously before this quiz i thought i was a director buff :( where was wes craven, david kronenburg and JOHN CARPENTER???

	bigpapi:	Feb 25th, 2011 at 15:35 GMT	2 points
	@crab_legs: Wright has only directed Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Shaun of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz (also a Fistful of Fingers way back, but practically nobody saw that) so Hot Fuzz is, I believe, the least known...even though it's one of my 3 favorite movies of all time. I'm also hoping people taking this quiz will just see Hot Fuzz already.

	TheGreatBobRoss:	Feb 26th, 2011 at 13:33 GMT	1 point
	People are all listing American directors not on the list...Abbas Kiarostami, Jean-Luc Godard, and Alain Resnais are still alive and making films. I think the deal is that EW uses the term "in demand." I honestly don't think Ridley Scott or Stephen Soderberg should be anywhere near this list, but netiehr do Edgar Wright, JJ Abrams, or Kathryn Bigelow.

	exackerly:	Mar 1st, 2011 at 22:27 GMT	1 point
	Naturally EW is going to go for the safe choices.

	Buscemi:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 06:01 GMT	1 point
	Robert Rodriguez not being on this list causes it lose most credibility.

	Hobbes196:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 23:05 GMT	1 point
	Entertainment Weekly really did screw this list up. First of all having any of the other names on this list ahead of Spielberg, Scorsese, Polanski, or Eastwood is a flat out joke. Secondly just thinking of the movies made by Edgar Wright or J.J. Abrahms makes me cringe (Hot Fuzz and the word greatest belong a far far way apart). Thirdly as stated above there is an entire laundry list of directors who are more accomplished and talented than some of these. Just off the top of my head...Woody Allen (a no brainer), Milos Forman, Oliver Stone, even Ron Howard. Not a bad quiz just a bad list.