30 Film Directors Who Have Never Made a Bad Movie
Recently, we looked at 30 filmmakers who made only one well-reviewed movie over their entire careers, and then 25 great directors who missed out on perfection by just one film. But there is an even more elite group of film directors who have received critical acclaim for every single film they ever directed. In other words, they've never received anything but a green Metascore for one of their features.
How many of those directors can you guess? Check them all out in the gallery above. Note that we only looked at directors who have made at least five films since 1980.
One of only three women on this list, Coppola may not have a film that scores as highly as her father's best work, but she has yet to come anywhere close to Francis Ford Coppola's worst. Instead, even her lowest-scoring films are compelling enough to merit a viewing. Like the majority of the filmmakers on this list, Coppola also writes her films in addition to directing them.
The full filmography (as director):
76 The Virgin Suicides (1999)
89 Lost in Translation (2003)
65 Marie Antoinette (2006)
67 Somewhere (2010)
66 The Bling Ring (2013)
77 The Beguiled (2017)