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.
South Korea's highest-scoring contemporary director, Bong has worked mainly in two genres over his 17-year career—crime drama and science fiction—often injecting humor into the mix. He made his English-language debut with Snowpiercer in 2013, and followed that with the Netflix monster movie Okja (also partially in English). He just began filming his Korean-language follow-up, Parasite.
The full filmography (as director):
66 Barking Dogs Never Bite (2001)
82 Memories of Murder (2003)
85 The Host (2006)
79 Mother (2009)
84 Snowpiercer (2013)
76 Okja (2017)