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.
Whether they are ballet-filled takes on the Dracula story, or psuedo-autobiographical tales of growing up in Winnipeg, Guy Maddin movies might be an acquired taste (and that acquisition will be helped if you are predisposed to liking surreal, hyper-stylized, black-and-white, silent melodramas), but critics continue to reward them with stellar reviews, and we can guarantee you won't see anything like them from any other director.
The full filmography (as director):
71 Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)
68 Archangel (1990)
62 Careful (1992)
65 Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)
84 Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)
78 The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
82 Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands (2003)
79 Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
84 My Winnipeg (2007)
63 Keyhole (2011)
83 The Forbidden Room * (2015)
79 The Green Fog ** (2017)
* co-directed with Evan Johnson
** co-directed with Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson