it’ll make you all happy to learn that
our circulation this morning was the
greatest in New York six hundred and
eighty four thousand they’ve all left an
everlasting mark on cinema even if they
don’t have a certain accolade to show
for it to maintain the art of motion
pictures as our primary mandate welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
film makers that have never won a Best
Director Oscar can’t
I’m the Swan queen you’re the one who
never left the call for this list we’re
taking a look at prominent directors
that have never taken home an Academy
Award for their directing work however
filmmakers who have been recognized with
honorary Oscars and wins in other
categories are still eligible and I go
over 12% for that look I ordered coffee
right now we’ve been here a long time
she’s only fill my cup three times I
mean when I are a coffee I want til six
times as long as they have never
achieved the highest honor for a
director
number 10 Sergio Leone such ingratitude
after all the times I’ve saved your life
when we think of the spaghetti western
genre this Italian filmmaker immediately
comes to mind hell I ever did it she
will choose LED bread go Leone will
always be remembered for his thrilling
dollars trilogy starring Clint Eastwood
as the man with no name they it’s nice
she levan see my new don’t like people
laughing it’s the crazy idea you’re
laughing at him he follow up on those
three films with the equally epic once
upon a time trilogy Vaughan Leone is
often considered one of the most
influential directors he never merited
more than a Golden Globe nomination for
his final film and arguably his magnum
opus Once Upon a Time in America fat
Moe’s boneyard boys which reminds me how
that cancer you got coming along chicken
joke number nine Robert Altman you
haven’t got my belt huh this is
completely destroyed
completely ruins a piece of trash so $35
bills
sure where most filmmakers would retire
long before turning 81 Robert Altman
continued making movies until his death
in 2006 it’s a detective story set in
London well not really most of it takes
place at a shooting party in a country
house sort of like this one actually
that same year Altman received an
honorary Oscar for his enduring career
in film the buses the buses are empty
and look almost menacing while it was
great to see ultimate finally receive an
Academy Award after several nominations
it’s still hard to believe he never
actually won a competitive Oscar
my god they’ve shot him Hot Lips you an
irrelevant income focus the end of the
quarter nevertheless Altman will always
be remembered as a natural filmmaker
bringing us timeless classics like mash
Nashville and the player listen Larry
guess who’s making promises about
getting pictures made to writers in
parking number 8 Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino is one of the coolest
and most beloved directors still making
movies today you got to make some phone
calls you got to call some people well
then do it and then get the get on my
house before she gets here
crafting some of the most enthralling
dialogue ever in movies like Pulp
Fiction and Django Unchained the Academy
couldn’t deny mr. Tarantino two Best
Original Screenplay Oscars gentlemen you
have my curiosity now you have my
attention however they’ve yet to award
him for his directing while the script
is usually the highlight of any
Tarantino production this filmmaking
visionary also injects unparalleled
style atmosphere and references into
every shot he takes even if he made a
dialogue free movie we’re confident it’d
still be a feat of directing number
seven Ingmar Bergman
yes weird idea tinta not enduring into
feather this illustrious Swedish
director made over 60 films and merited
three Academy Awards for Best Foreign
Film five nominations for Best Original
Screenplay one for Best Picture and
three knots for Best Director
throughout his esteemed career stack
Ashbaugh didn’t house yeah however if
you’re keeping score that means he has
zero Best Director Oscars to show for
his achievements
I have to send out me kalila thief
coming over my head
known for making commentary on death
illness and human emptiness
maybe his movies were just too grim for
the Academy to honor gonna yell faster
here’s mm-hmm regardless Bergman will
forever go down as one of cinema’s most
poetic and passionate artists I can see
oh no not today
hey no Mysterio Samuel say the chest
scene from the Seventh Seal in
particular stands out as an immortal
moment in movie history
vicuna th awfully vaseline yesterday
moon spell a element for you my number
six Federico Fellini a personage olestra
decoded offensive zone en take a video
recorder a question sake
Frederico Collini accumulated 12 Academy
Award nominations four of which were for
Best Director cycle Yosemite 2 T so a
Tsaritsa traversal mondo Anka me piace
Reba Tonto VAR AC Ella possibly that
additionally directed for films that
went on to win the Best Foreign Language
Film Oscar including eight and a half
Casa de veau Ferrell Anton arm is
compared to non sorry me peu comme à la
stessa di prima no sorrow Kyoto male
condom is passe idea me alas this
Italian neo-realist only has an honorary
Oscar to his name however the impact he
had on cinema is undeniable
complete an ammonia a grin the Felicia
Todd Davis silicon boy Lynott satchel a
bratislava soon apocalyptic event almost
every acclaimed modern filmmaker from
Martin Scorsese to Woody Allen has drawn
inspiration from his work
Yano to the Canadian hi to Sharon Lama
from Toronto recorders regional
financial kiss never afraid to touch
base on politics religion or sexuality
Fellini’s movies are the stuff that
dreams are made of known Amy Abbott Oh
Jennifer Mara lesson euro per la strada
yeh roll on Ella Soloff a Mistel public
opera la la cuerda a mono spectacular
Bella robe number 5 Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin received two honorary
Academy Awards and finally won an Oscar
for Best Original Score in 1973 but this
icon of the silent movie era was never
even nominated for Best Director you’re
right what does it all mean where are we
going you’re going south dear your hands
in my pocket part of this was likely
because the popularity of silent films
started to die out in the 1930s and
Chaplin became an increasingly
controversial figure in the 1940s you
see when I get shaved I’m very nervous I
like something to look at
so I putting in glass walls and ceiling
so that when my head is turned this way
I shall have a view of the mountains ah
I’m going to stick this way I shall have
a view through the glass ceiling what’s
above our ceiling the ballroom plus
slapstick comedies have rarely been
taken seriously at the Oscars I said
don’t breathe stupid you can be most
annoying at times in retrospect though
the Academy must be kicking themselves
for not recognizing the Little Tramp for
his innovative direction
number four david fincher wants you to
hit me as hard as you can
what I want you to hit me as hard as you
can
he has made some of the most captivating
psychological thrillers of the past two
decades
you hear me today I’m trying to tell you
how much I admire you and your pretty
wife in addition however David Fincher
has demonstrated significant range as a
filmmaker with heartwarming epics like
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and
fascinating timely dramas like the
social network you wish you 24 million
new shares of stock you were told that
if new investors come upon your shares
diluted how much for his picture holds
the highest spot of any living director
on this list giving us hope that he’ll
be able to put an Oscar on his mantle
someday what’s the most common double
consonant in the English language
consonant the Double L trouble and
what’s the one word that we know that
he’ll use in here at least once
oh right that being said what does this
guy have to do to win a Best Director
Oscar already I didn’t come forward with
my affair because I knew it would make
me look really really bad but I don’t
care about that anymore I just want to
find my wife number three after I hear
ozawa I eat like with no idiot way but
it’s shocking to think that the master
behind Rashomon Seven Samurai and
Yojimbo only received one Best Director
nomination during his career or Ron see
you need Schedule E Monica and ever Colo
odd Sajha Suey no gotta swallow could be
a hike incident Allahabad Onodera salad
Oh Larry masu his films helped introduce
Japanese cinema to Western audiences and
influenced numerous other filmmakers
around the world through his
revolutionary cinematic techniques and
human themes you chain one so I come on
you my outfit hero Sawa’s films might
have been overlooked by the Academy for
years what they did at least recognized
him with a Lifetime Achievement Oscar in
1990 well oh my god I can already top
little gets up it’s only fitting that
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas who
Kurosawa significantly impacted
presented him with this overdue prize
number two Stanley Kubrick how are
things going mr. Torrence
things could be better Lloyd things
could be a whole lot better
some of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpieces
like The Shining and eyes white shot or
misunderstood upon release life goes on
it always does until it doesn’t but you
know that don’t you the Academy did
acknowledge several of his films though
including dr. Strangelove and a
Clockwork Orange
I feel very low in myself I can’t see
much in the future and I feel that any
second something terrible is going to
happen to me despite his numerous
nominations who Rick only won one Oscar
for the astounding visual effects in
2001 a Space Odyssey
but Kubrick’s movies only get better
with time looking back on his incredible
track record it’s shocking the Academy
never presented him a Best Oscar for his
groundbreaking contributions to cinema
do you believe in God the question is
does God book you can be but then again
all the best artists are most
appreciated when they’re gone
gentlemen you can’t fight in here this
is the war room before we get to our top
pick here are a few honorable mentions
Lita vodka toady said oceanic cons I did
only for Bluebell Fabian sixty million
people watch you every night of the week
Monday through Friday I have seen the
face of God you just might be right now
that people want to know how the story
ends
only a famous death will do those guys I
love him I love anybody win enough I
know that one of the few comfortable
abandon my job say it louder
say it loud I behind you my child I’ve
abandoned my child I’ve abandoned my boy
number one Alfred Hitchcock a few years
ago mother met this man and he he talked
her into building this moto he could
have talked her into anything that’s
right
Alfred Hitchcock the master of suspense
and arguably one of the greatest
directors who ever lived never won one
competitive Oscar for directing don’t
believe he wasn’t even nominated for
several of his pictures that are now his
most respective works like strangers on
a train and vertigo
why did you jump no I can’t tell why did
you jump what was there insight that
told you to jump hey what what please
don’t ask me please don’t ask this Oscar
injustice goes to show that it doesn’t
always matter if you’ve made some of the
most iconic influential and important
movies of all time even the best can go
home empty-handed
but maybe knowing that he’s created so
many classics is the only reward a true
director really needs what happened to
the first two marriages my wives
divorced me why I think they said I bet
$2 life do you agree with our list
what other directors deserved Oscar goal
people believe what they want to believe
he’s the guy who made this was so good
it is real – everybody knows the master
for more entertaining top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
also read which I think this just Martin
my masterpiece
our circulation this morning was the
greatest in New York six hundred and
eighty four thousand they’ve all left an
everlasting mark on cinema even if they
don’t have a certain accolade to show
for it to maintain the art of motion
pictures as our primary mandate welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
film makers that have never won a Best
Director Oscar can’t
I’m the Swan queen you’re the one who
never left the call for this list we’re
taking a look at prominent directors
that have never taken home an Academy
Award for their directing work however
filmmakers who have been recognized with
honorary Oscars and wins in other
categories are still eligible and I go
over 12% for that look I ordered coffee
right now we’ve been here a long time
she’s only fill my cup three times I
mean when I are a coffee I want til six
times as long as they have never
achieved the highest honor for a
director
number 10 Sergio Leone such ingratitude
after all the times I’ve saved your life
when we think of the spaghetti western
genre this Italian filmmaker immediately
comes to mind hell I ever did it she
will choose LED bread go Leone will
always be remembered for his thrilling
dollars trilogy starring Clint Eastwood
as the man with no name they it’s nice
she levan see my new don’t like people
laughing it’s the crazy idea you’re
laughing at him he follow up on those
three films with the equally epic once
upon a time trilogy Vaughan Leone is
often considered one of the most
influential directors he never merited
more than a Golden Globe nomination for
his final film and arguably his magnum
opus Once Upon a Time in America fat
Moe’s boneyard boys which reminds me how
that cancer you got coming along chicken
joke number nine Robert Altman you
haven’t got my belt huh this is
completely destroyed
completely ruins a piece of trash so $35
bills
sure where most filmmakers would retire
long before turning 81 Robert Altman
continued making movies until his death
in 2006 it’s a detective story set in
London well not really most of it takes
place at a shooting party in a country
house sort of like this one actually
that same year Altman received an
honorary Oscar for his enduring career
in film the buses the buses are empty
and look almost menacing while it was
great to see ultimate finally receive an
Academy Award after several nominations
it’s still hard to believe he never
actually won a competitive Oscar
my god they’ve shot him Hot Lips you an
irrelevant income focus the end of the
quarter nevertheless Altman will always
be remembered as a natural filmmaker
bringing us timeless classics like mash
Nashville and the player listen Larry
guess who’s making promises about
getting pictures made to writers in
parking number 8 Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino is one of the coolest
and most beloved directors still making
movies today you got to make some phone
calls you got to call some people well
then do it and then get the get on my
house before she gets here
crafting some of the most enthralling
dialogue ever in movies like Pulp
Fiction and Django Unchained the Academy
couldn’t deny mr. Tarantino two Best
Original Screenplay Oscars gentlemen you
have my curiosity now you have my
attention however they’ve yet to award
him for his directing while the script
is usually the highlight of any
Tarantino production this filmmaking
visionary also injects unparalleled
style atmosphere and references into
every shot he takes even if he made a
dialogue free movie we’re confident it’d
still be a feat of directing number
seven Ingmar Bergman
yes weird idea tinta not enduring into
feather this illustrious Swedish
director made over 60 films and merited
three Academy Awards for Best Foreign
Film five nominations for Best Original
Screenplay one for Best Picture and
three knots for Best Director
throughout his esteemed career stack
Ashbaugh didn’t house yeah however if
you’re keeping score that means he has
zero Best Director Oscars to show for
his achievements
I have to send out me kalila thief
coming over my head
known for making commentary on death
illness and human emptiness
maybe his movies were just too grim for
the Academy to honor gonna yell faster
here’s mm-hmm regardless Bergman will
forever go down as one of cinema’s most
poetic and passionate artists I can see
oh no not today
hey no Mysterio Samuel say the chest
scene from the Seventh Seal in
particular stands out as an immortal
moment in movie history
vicuna th awfully vaseline yesterday
moon spell a element for you my number
six Federico Fellini a personage olestra
decoded offensive zone en take a video
recorder a question sake
Frederico Collini accumulated 12 Academy
Award nominations four of which were for
Best Director cycle Yosemite 2 T so a
Tsaritsa traversal mondo Anka me piace
Reba Tonto VAR AC Ella possibly that
additionally directed for films that
went on to win the Best Foreign Language
Film Oscar including eight and a half
Casa de veau Ferrell Anton arm is
compared to non sorry me peu comme à la
stessa di prima no sorrow Kyoto male
condom is passe idea me alas this
Italian neo-realist only has an honorary
Oscar to his name however the impact he
had on cinema is undeniable
complete an ammonia a grin the Felicia
Todd Davis silicon boy Lynott satchel a
bratislava soon apocalyptic event almost
every acclaimed modern filmmaker from
Martin Scorsese to Woody Allen has drawn
inspiration from his work
Yano to the Canadian hi to Sharon Lama
from Toronto recorders regional
financial kiss never afraid to touch
base on politics religion or sexuality
Fellini’s movies are the stuff that
dreams are made of known Amy Abbott Oh
Jennifer Mara lesson euro per la strada
yeh roll on Ella Soloff a Mistel public
opera la la cuerda a mono spectacular
Bella robe number 5 Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin received two honorary
Academy Awards and finally won an Oscar
for Best Original Score in 1973 but this
icon of the silent movie era was never
even nominated for Best Director you’re
right what does it all mean where are we
going you’re going south dear your hands
in my pocket part of this was likely
because the popularity of silent films
started to die out in the 1930s and
Chaplin became an increasingly
controversial figure in the 1940s you
see when I get shaved I’m very nervous I
like something to look at
so I putting in glass walls and ceiling
so that when my head is turned this way
I shall have a view of the mountains ah
I’m going to stick this way I shall have
a view through the glass ceiling what’s
above our ceiling the ballroom plus
slapstick comedies have rarely been
taken seriously at the Oscars I said
don’t breathe stupid you can be most
annoying at times in retrospect though
the Academy must be kicking themselves
for not recognizing the Little Tramp for
his innovative direction
number four david fincher wants you to
hit me as hard as you can
what I want you to hit me as hard as you
can
he has made some of the most captivating
psychological thrillers of the past two
decades
you hear me today I’m trying to tell you
how much I admire you and your pretty
wife in addition however David Fincher
has demonstrated significant range as a
filmmaker with heartwarming epics like
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and
fascinating timely dramas like the
social network you wish you 24 million
new shares of stock you were told that
if new investors come upon your shares
diluted how much for his picture holds
the highest spot of any living director
on this list giving us hope that he’ll
be able to put an Oscar on his mantle
someday what’s the most common double
consonant in the English language
consonant the Double L trouble and
what’s the one word that we know that
he’ll use in here at least once
oh right that being said what does this
guy have to do to win a Best Director
Oscar already I didn’t come forward with
my affair because I knew it would make
me look really really bad but I don’t
care about that anymore I just want to
find my wife number three after I hear
ozawa I eat like with no idiot way but
it’s shocking to think that the master
behind Rashomon Seven Samurai and
Yojimbo only received one Best Director
nomination during his career or Ron see
you need Schedule E Monica and ever Colo
odd Sajha Suey no gotta swallow could be
a hike incident Allahabad Onodera salad
Oh Larry masu his films helped introduce
Japanese cinema to Western audiences and
influenced numerous other filmmakers
around the world through his
revolutionary cinematic techniques and
human themes you chain one so I come on
you my outfit hero Sawa’s films might
have been overlooked by the Academy for
years what they did at least recognized
him with a Lifetime Achievement Oscar in
1990 well oh my god I can already top
little gets up it’s only fitting that
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas who
Kurosawa significantly impacted
presented him with this overdue prize
number two Stanley Kubrick how are
things going mr. Torrence
things could be better Lloyd things
could be a whole lot better
some of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpieces
like The Shining and eyes white shot or
misunderstood upon release life goes on
it always does until it doesn’t but you
know that don’t you the Academy did
acknowledge several of his films though
including dr. Strangelove and a
Clockwork Orange
I feel very low in myself I can’t see
much in the future and I feel that any
second something terrible is going to
happen to me despite his numerous
nominations who Rick only won one Oscar
for the astounding visual effects in
2001 a Space Odyssey
but Kubrick’s movies only get better
with time looking back on his incredible
track record it’s shocking the Academy
never presented him a Best Oscar for his
groundbreaking contributions to cinema
do you believe in God the question is
does God book you can be but then again
all the best artists are most
appreciated when they’re gone
gentlemen you can’t fight in here this
is the war room before we get to our top
pick here are a few honorable mentions
Lita vodka toady said oceanic cons I did
only for Bluebell Fabian sixty million
people watch you every night of the week
Monday through Friday I have seen the
face of God you just might be right now
that people want to know how the story
ends
only a famous death will do those guys I
love him I love anybody win enough I
know that one of the few comfortable
abandon my job say it louder
say it loud I behind you my child I’ve
abandoned my child I’ve abandoned my boy
number one Alfred Hitchcock a few years
ago mother met this man and he he talked
her into building this moto he could
have talked her into anything that’s
right
Alfred Hitchcock the master of suspense
and arguably one of the greatest
directors who ever lived never won one
competitive Oscar for directing don’t
believe he wasn’t even nominated for
several of his pictures that are now his
most respective works like strangers on
a train and vertigo
why did you jump no I can’t tell why did
you jump what was there insight that
told you to jump hey what what please
don’t ask me please don’t ask this Oscar
injustice goes to show that it doesn’t
always matter if you’ve made some of the
most iconic influential and important
movies of all time even the best can go
home empty-handed
but maybe knowing that he’s created so
many classics is the only reward a true
director really needs what happened to
the first two marriages my wives
divorced me why I think they said I bet
$2 life do you agree with our list
what other directors deserved Oscar goal
people believe what they want to believe
he’s the guy who made this was so good
it is real – everybody knows the master
for more entertaining top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
also read which I think this just Martin
my masterpiece
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