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.
The French-Canadian director transitioned from French to English midway through his career with 2013's Prisoners, his major studio debut. His two most recent works have been heady, bigger-budget sci-fi films that collected 13 Oscar nominations between them (including Villeneuve's first directing nomination, for Arrival).
The director seems to be sticking with sci-fi. He is in the early stages of preparing a pair of movies based on Frank Herbert’s Dune (previously adapted with mixed success by David Lynch).
The full filmography (as director):
61 August 32nd on Earth (1998)
66 Maelstrom (2000)
63 Polytechnique (2009)
80 Incendies (2010)
74 Prisoners (2013)
61 Enemy (2013)
82 Sicario (2015)
81 Arrival (2016)
81 Blade Runner 2049 (2017)