whenever these colleagues pair up they
make cinematic magic welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten director
actor partnerships we’ve progressed
emotionally for this list we’ve chosen
some of the most iconic long-running and
fruitful pairings of directors and
actors in cinema history which have
produced some of our favorite films
Anderson living good living number 10
Wes Anderson and Bill Murray John to
carrot yeah I’ll have one of those all
kinds of wacky awkwardness ensues when
these two get together you want to play
some word games or do some experiments
on me or anything well as seen in flicks
like The Royal Tenenbaums Anderson’s
films are often familial pieces that
aren’t too sure whether they’re comedies
dramas or some quirky genre in between
throw Bill Murray into the mix and
you’ve got a self-sustained
jar of ending piece of cinema about
family failure and success that speaks
to the uncomfortable uncertainty of our
generation number 9 John Ford and John
Wayne dad blaster watch it it’s loaded
this pair is the stuff that westerns are
made of together they pumped out many a
classic cowboy flick and effectively
spawned an entire genre while also
inspiring and informing a subsequent
generation of spaghetti westerns with
classics like stagecoach and The
Searchers time to think of it I didn’t
see you at the surrender don’t believe
in surrenders no I still got my saber
Reverend didn’t turn it into no
plowshare neither Wayne has become
infamous for his distinctly affected
drawl and together with Ford he cemented
what we now know as the heroic cowboy
trophy my success says it makes you
break it head number eight Elia Kazan
and Marlon Brando lash other than
Napoleonic Code a man has gotta take
interest and his wife’s affairs Kazan
was known for introducing a lot of young
talent in his time and one of these
notable fresh faces was Marlon Brando Oh
Brando was notoriously difficult at the
best of times but that’s what makes this
pairing so legendary I could have been a
contender I could have been somebody
Kazan was one of a few directors who
could adjust to the actors moods in
order to extract some of the best
performances of his life in films like
on the waterfront and a streetcar named
desire
hey number 7 burner Hertzog and Klaus
Kinski he been dead some ghattas
liaisons this make me even more
difficult to work with than Brando was
Klaus Kinski in fact he was such a
hothead he allegedly pulled a gun on
Hertzog while filming a giddy finish I
gave her the dusty Foubert old phony
environment fire and finally figured
toward funny environment I wonder but
thankfully it didn’t go further than
that intense obsessive and at times
bordering on the psychotic
Kinski was the perfect block of clay
from which Hertzog could sculpt
performances of perfectly calculated
passion in movies like Fitzcarraldo hey
watch my opera heart I
number six Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder
where is that a happy but nothing that’s
nothing
no nothing like a nice my blanket my new
blanket give me Mary all right while
both of these comedic legends are
rumoured to be difficult working
partners they struck gold together with
their hilarious comedy classics like
Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein
that’s frank enstein infamously the pair
engaged in screaming matches only to
reconcile minutes later and come to a
mutual understanding what makes this
matchup so legendary is their ability to
come together to create truly funny
movies that everyone can understand and
enjoy class is dismissed
number five Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro
Mifune journey although it up we can oh
no no Cole renowned as the fathers of
samurais cinema this partnership indoors
thanks to classics like Yojimbo and
Seven Samurai
though both worked independently
Kurosawa and Mifune were at their best
as a pair Horace aawaz meticulously
created films are known for their
complex she experienced storylines
with some samurai swashbuckling thrown
in for good measure
third – Shira Monet’s exaggerated facial
and vocal performances into the mix and
you have yourself three hours worth of
period epicness
number four Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy
Stewart when the British master of
suspense meets a mainstay of American
cinema the result is highly strung and
emotionally involving character pieces
that revived both men’s careers thank
you thank you
Hitchcock films are always grounds for
some tenseness or a good scare but when
you add Stewart to the equation you get
a movie about a man at the mercy of
events unsure what will come next
but eager to take charge what are you
going to do I don’t want to but I’m
gonna look inside that chest are you
crazy
I hope so with all my heart I hope I’m
crazy
number three Quentin Tarantino and
samuel l.jackson we got into this thing
with the best intentions really I never
oh I’m sorry did I break your
concentration Tarantino has many
fruitful partnerships with luma Thurman
acting as one of his most frequent muses
but you’d be hard-pressed to find an
endeavor in which Tarantino hasn’t cast
the baddest mofo in Hollywood a Kaif
artists sell the very best day is when
you absolutely positively got to kill
every mother in the room accept no
substitutes
whether it’s a tiny cameo or uncredited
narration Sam Jackson is often lurking
in the background
y’all got a song about Love Me Tender
I’d play that the actors obvious
on-screen charisma coupled with
Tarantino skill at creating complex
characters makes for ultra violent ultra
entertaining films like Pulp Fiction and
Django Unchained when Mitchell can to
talk to you you asses number 2 Tim
Burton and Johnny Depp we are dealing
with a madman Tim Burton is very much a
genre based director unwilling to stray
too far from his creepy gothic subject
matter
whipped cream precisely oh but that
reticence to bend has translated to
success with the director using
recurring themes and elements in his
films one of these elements is the
omnipresent Johnny Depp with whom Burton
has produced and directed many zany
movies from Edward Scissorhands onward
they don’t have a permit run before we
find out which partnership topped our
list here are a few honorable mentions
aliens Oh is it major Lovins sir I want
you to hit me as hard as you can you you
play very well oh yeah so do you
you’re not gonna give me the same
treatment number one Martin Scorsese and
Robert De Niro those Scorsese may have
found himself another Muse in Leo
DiCaprio
he and DeNiro were once the hottest
couple in Hollywood so to speak and I
felt when I walked in that there was
something between us
there was an impulse that we were both
following through their shared love of
ad-libbing and the psychoanalysis of
dark characters Scorsese and De Niro
used their more contemporary stories not
only to redefine the gangster genre but
also cinema itself talking to me well
I’m the only one here while both had
successful careers independently they
were never as good as when they were
together dance entertainment do you
agree with our list which director actor
partnerships do you think of yield at
the best movies anything for more of
your favorite top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com is it all over I am afraid
so Rupert oh what a pity
you
make cinematic magic welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten director
actor partnerships we’ve progressed
emotionally for this list we’ve chosen
some of the most iconic long-running and
fruitful pairings of directors and
actors in cinema history which have
produced some of our favorite films
Anderson living good living number 10
Wes Anderson and Bill Murray John to
carrot yeah I’ll have one of those all
kinds of wacky awkwardness ensues when
these two get together you want to play
some word games or do some experiments
on me or anything well as seen in flicks
like The Royal Tenenbaums Anderson’s
films are often familial pieces that
aren’t too sure whether they’re comedies
dramas or some quirky genre in between
throw Bill Murray into the mix and
you’ve got a self-sustained
jar of ending piece of cinema about
family failure and success that speaks
to the uncomfortable uncertainty of our
generation number 9 John Ford and John
Wayne dad blaster watch it it’s loaded
this pair is the stuff that westerns are
made of together they pumped out many a
classic cowboy flick and effectively
spawned an entire genre while also
inspiring and informing a subsequent
generation of spaghetti westerns with
classics like stagecoach and The
Searchers time to think of it I didn’t
see you at the surrender don’t believe
in surrenders no I still got my saber
Reverend didn’t turn it into no
plowshare neither Wayne has become
infamous for his distinctly affected
drawl and together with Ford he cemented
what we now know as the heroic cowboy
trophy my success says it makes you
break it head number eight Elia Kazan
and Marlon Brando lash other than
Napoleonic Code a man has gotta take
interest and his wife’s affairs Kazan
was known for introducing a lot of young
talent in his time and one of these
notable fresh faces was Marlon Brando Oh
Brando was notoriously difficult at the
best of times but that’s what makes this
pairing so legendary I could have been a
contender I could have been somebody
Kazan was one of a few directors who
could adjust to the actors moods in
order to extract some of the best
performances of his life in films like
on the waterfront and a streetcar named
desire
hey number 7 burner Hertzog and Klaus
Kinski he been dead some ghattas
liaisons this make me even more
difficult to work with than Brando was
Klaus Kinski in fact he was such a
hothead he allegedly pulled a gun on
Hertzog while filming a giddy finish I
gave her the dusty Foubert old phony
environment fire and finally figured
toward funny environment I wonder but
thankfully it didn’t go further than
that intense obsessive and at times
bordering on the psychotic
Kinski was the perfect block of clay
from which Hertzog could sculpt
performances of perfectly calculated
passion in movies like Fitzcarraldo hey
watch my opera heart I
number six Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder
where is that a happy but nothing that’s
nothing
no nothing like a nice my blanket my new
blanket give me Mary all right while
both of these comedic legends are
rumoured to be difficult working
partners they struck gold together with
their hilarious comedy classics like
Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein
that’s frank enstein infamously the pair
engaged in screaming matches only to
reconcile minutes later and come to a
mutual understanding what makes this
matchup so legendary is their ability to
come together to create truly funny
movies that everyone can understand and
enjoy class is dismissed
number five Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro
Mifune journey although it up we can oh
no no Cole renowned as the fathers of
samurais cinema this partnership indoors
thanks to classics like Yojimbo and
Seven Samurai
though both worked independently
Kurosawa and Mifune were at their best
as a pair Horace aawaz meticulously
created films are known for their
complex she experienced storylines
with some samurai swashbuckling thrown
in for good measure
third – Shira Monet’s exaggerated facial
and vocal performances into the mix and
you have yourself three hours worth of
period epicness
number four Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy
Stewart when the British master of
suspense meets a mainstay of American
cinema the result is highly strung and
emotionally involving character pieces
that revived both men’s careers thank
you thank you
Hitchcock films are always grounds for
some tenseness or a good scare but when
you add Stewart to the equation you get
a movie about a man at the mercy of
events unsure what will come next
but eager to take charge what are you
going to do I don’t want to but I’m
gonna look inside that chest are you
crazy
I hope so with all my heart I hope I’m
crazy
number three Quentin Tarantino and
samuel l.jackson we got into this thing
with the best intentions really I never
oh I’m sorry did I break your
concentration Tarantino has many
fruitful partnerships with luma Thurman
acting as one of his most frequent muses
but you’d be hard-pressed to find an
endeavor in which Tarantino hasn’t cast
the baddest mofo in Hollywood a Kaif
artists sell the very best day is when
you absolutely positively got to kill
every mother in the room accept no
substitutes
whether it’s a tiny cameo or uncredited
narration Sam Jackson is often lurking
in the background
y’all got a song about Love Me Tender
I’d play that the actors obvious
on-screen charisma coupled with
Tarantino skill at creating complex
characters makes for ultra violent ultra
entertaining films like Pulp Fiction and
Django Unchained when Mitchell can to
talk to you you asses number 2 Tim
Burton and Johnny Depp we are dealing
with a madman Tim Burton is very much a
genre based director unwilling to stray
too far from his creepy gothic subject
matter
whipped cream precisely oh but that
reticence to bend has translated to
success with the director using
recurring themes and elements in his
films one of these elements is the
omnipresent Johnny Depp with whom Burton
has produced and directed many zany
movies from Edward Scissorhands onward
they don’t have a permit run before we
find out which partnership topped our
list here are a few honorable mentions
aliens Oh is it major Lovins sir I want
you to hit me as hard as you can you you
play very well oh yeah so do you
you’re not gonna give me the same
treatment number one Martin Scorsese and
Robert De Niro those Scorsese may have
found himself another Muse in Leo
DiCaprio
he and DeNiro were once the hottest
couple in Hollywood so to speak and I
felt when I walked in that there was
something between us
there was an impulse that we were both
following through their shared love of
ad-libbing and the psychoanalysis of
dark characters Scorsese and De Niro
used their more contemporary stories not
only to redefine the gangster genre but
also cinema itself talking to me well
I’m the only one here while both had
successful careers independently they
were never as good as when they were
together dance entertainment do you
agree with our list which director actor
partnerships do you think of yield at
the best movies anything for more of
your favorite top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com is it all over I am afraid
so Rupert oh what a pity
you
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