Which Living English-Speaking Director Could Be The Wise To Never Win An Oscar
Since Stanley Kubrick is dead and Martin Scorsese has finally won his Oscar, there's a different debate a-brewing among movie buffs. To wit: Which English-speaking director is the best to get never won an Oscar. (Since Bergman, Fellini, Kurosawa, etc. never won a Best Director Oscar, you can conveniently leave out of the argument any contemporary foreign-language director.) Recently, IMDB's daily poll revolved with this in mind question; the winner can only be described as a number of joke.
Alexander Payne? Come on, man what's up achievable? Can any of you name your favorite shows this dude director. Almost as shocking as Payne's winning with nearly one-fourth with the vote is that David Fincher garnered only 1%. Let's consider the authentic possibilities.
Quentin Tarantino.
One thing's for certain; he's one of the most well-known from the competitors. The Payne league got a chance to Tarantino also; he garnered only 2.5% from the vote. Now, I'm not really a tremendous Tarantino fan. But let me explain what I mean by that. I think the person is tremendously talented at creating interesting characters, and at putting those characters into interesting situations. But deep is not a word that needs to be utilized to describe Quentin Tarantino's movies. While there is no doubt that he has directed one of the most memorable scenes in recent movie history, one could be hard put to place him in a similar category as Martin Scorsese. Scorsese's visceral appeal and violence betray an incisive running commentary about the ugly underbelly with the American system. Tarantino's films, alternatively, are significantly more useful to be a reference system for pop culture.
Tim Burton.
An important favorite among his fans and not even worthy of contention among his detractors. It is actually too glib in order to apply the love him or hate him acid test to Burton, but the eye remains that when he's working towards the top of his talent-Ed Wood or Pee Wee's Big Adventure-he's obviously a significant talent, however when he's looking to make a blockbuster-Charlie as well as Chocolate Factory or Sleepy Hollow-he's only a craftsman. His film about the so-called worst director for all time was one of the better films in the 90s and the Pee Wee movie is a physical exercise in modern surrealism, but he's simply make a few clunkers for being deserving of the title.
Spike Lee.
A lot like Tim Burton. At his incendiary best-Do the Right Thing-he doesn't have any equal. Unfortunately, almost every Perform the Right Thing they have a couple of movies that utterly wasted his significant talents. I've only seen regions of Bamboozled although the parts I have come across indicate I need to Netflix it; should it be a masterpiece. Maybe it is because he pissed off too many people or it could be it's because-like lots of artists-he only excels as he cares, video-x-converter.com but Spike's resume at the moment is just too hit or miss. There's still time, however to rise for the heights of greatness.
David Lynch.
Although I'm a huge fan of Twin Peaks, I actually have not been enamored of Lynch's movies. I believe I would probably take another evaluate many of them however, because initially my viewing of his movies occurred before my conversion to radical politics. Since I've been exposed to a little more philosophy than I'm when I first saw such movies as Eraserhead and Blue Velvet, perhaps I will appreciate them somewhat more. Keep him on the market for now.
Ridley Scott.
Look, one bona fide masterpiece-Alien-simply doesn't replace tripe like Black Rain and Gladiator.
Michael Mann.
Good one. Very funny whoever slipped his name in here. Hilarious.
David Fincher.
In another ten years when he's still among the list of those that haven't won an Oscar we'll talk. At that time we'll be positive about this if he is the real thing he appears to be or not. Until we will say beyond doubt he got screwed out from an Oscar for Fight Club.
Danny Boyle.
Very similar to Fincher we can expect in a decade he it's still Oscar-less. He's bound to be the running if he keeps making movies like he's been making. Boyle has one of the most useful visual senses in cinema today. Trainspotting had been a top tenner for that 90s and for that reason far there isn't any reason to trust he can't do it again.
The Coen Brothers.
Yep. There it is. As much as I'm concerned it's really a no-brainer. Come on, man just evaluate the resume on this brother team: Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Intolerable Cruelty, as well as rest. Can there be question who is one of deserving English-speaking directors who definitely are yet to win an Oscar. Many years ago before Kubrick kicked the bucket, there seemed to be a legitimate room for argument between him and Scorsese. The argument, at presents, produces quite a boring time.
