Here's mine:

Mike Bamiloye: He's independent, he is consistent, he makes so many films!

Peter Jackson: His epics are consistently good; he works with talented people.

Tyler Perry: He makes movies based on his best plays, and all his movies are hits.

Honorable mentions: George Lucas, Rodriguez, King Steven Spielberg, and even Mel Gibson.

What about yours?

Do you mean look up to as in you'd like to work just like them or those whose movies impress you.

Impressive, I pick

Quentin Tarintino - BEST dialogue, great cintemotrography. engaging stories. You can always tell a Tarintino movie

Tunde Kelani - I respect this man alot, just love how he presents Yoruba movies now, refreshing outlook even if the story itself is from an era way back. Unlike most Nigerian filmmakers, he's not a sell-out and it's appreciated by us who perfer quality

Ethan & Joel Coen aka "Coen Brothers" - great writing, amazing cinematography and they have amazing range so you cant just based thei previous movies on current ones

Wes Anderson: quirky movies, hilarious dialogue and his stories are hardly ever cliched. He also picks very good songs tio fit the scenes of his films

Honorable Mentions: Roman Polanksi, Takeshi Miike,  Chan-Wook Park (Korean Tarintino), Del Toro, Lars Von Tier, etc

combrazor, have you seen No Country For Old Men, if so what did you think?

Btw, totally agree with you on Michel Gondry

They did get recognition for Fargo though and O' Brother Where Art Though is a fan favorite. Never seen Bartopn Fink but I did like Raising Arizona.
Seriously you really need to watch NCFOM, I loved it. I've seen it in the theatres twice. It's just amazing. Only movie that came out last year Fall that I think rivals it in my mind is Assisination of Jesse James

Lol well I was thinking of Kill Bill when I mentioned cinematography but I do agree he's an awesome writer hence my love for his dialogue. Guy Ritchie too has great dislogue in his movies as well

so, i wondered if he is slightly crippled by the fact that he makes films in English, which is not his first language.

That could be true but that didnt stop Roman Polanski or Lars Van Tier from making some amazing films

But I get what you mean, he should definitely do them in French if that's the case although I did really enjoy Enternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind.

Jerry Bruckheimer

john or is it james cameron

terminator 1 and 2, aliens , true lies . . .

george lucas - may the force be with you!

i'll try to remember the others. . .

I like PA JAMES (IN PAPA AJASCO)

The man is an Icon

He can carve somthing out of nothing

@Seun
methinks we cannot actually give it to Mel Gibson
afterall, he had a 2000 year old sript in four different describtions

Bout the list my one will include most of what's already here then sum additions like

Martin Scorsese(The Goodfellas, Gangz of New York)
Woody Allen (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Antz)
Steven Soderbergh(Ocean's Series)
Paul Anderson (Resident Evil Series)

M. Night Shyamalan - I love his muvees.

Some of his works:
- The Sixth Sense (Bruce Willis)
- The Village
- Signs (Mel Gibson)
- Unbreakable (Bruce Willis + L. Jackson)
- Lady In The Water

Its the twist in the plot that gets me wanting more Shyamalan muvees!

i love me my

Steven spielberg
peter jackson
quentin tarantino
tyler perry

Some peps will mistake this site for Dollarland instead of nairaland considering the number of Hollywood names here.
Lets take sometime to celebrate our Nollywood filmakers, although am not a fan, we arent there yet but sometime someday we will get there, from now we shud mention ur best nollywood and then ur best hollywood filmmakers.

Nollywood:
Jetta Amata, i think Amazing Grace was a step in the rite direction

Hollywood:
Definately the KING Quettin Tarantino, that guy is absolute genious, all his movies hav this kinda eery feeling to them.
From Dusk till dawn, kill billl vol 1 & 2, resevoir dogs, sin city the list is endless.
Kill bill is one of my favs of all time.

na by force to admire Nigerian filmmakers

Tunde Kilani of Mainframe Productions

Jerry Bruckheimer
Quentin Tarantino. . .
The Coen Brothers. ,
and of course, Martin Scorsese.

Sin City isnt Quentin's

~Ditto on justkunmi's list~


~Great choice you got there

I vote for Tade Ogidan and Tunde Kelani. They display professionalism through their concepts.

Tade Ogidan--my favorite--if only he was not in Nigeria.  This man has brains!  I love his work.

Tchide Chikere--That boy is good!

Zeb Ejiro---good job!

Obaino music---for giving young Nigerians a chance!

Herbert Ogunde

Stephen Spielberg

Clint Eastwood

Tyler Perry

Mel Gibson

George Lucas

Aaron Spelling

Spike Lee

Ian Flemming---once a Bond girl, always a Bond girl!

QT
John Woo
Martin Scorsese
Tyler Perry
Steven Spielberg


Naija

Tade Ogidan
Tunde Kelani
Simisola Opepluwa

combrazor:

@ almondjoy--

Ian Fleming never made a film in his life. he was a novelist.

Thanks so much for the correction.  He was the "Bond" novelist!  So a revise ma post!

almondjoy:

Tade Ogidan--my favorite--if only he was not in Nigeria.  This man has brains!  I love his work.

Tchide Chikere--That boy is good!

Zeb Ejiro---good job!

Obaino music---for giving young Nigerians a chance!

Herbert Ogunde

Stephen Spielberg

Clint Eastwood

Tyler Perry

Mel Gibson

George Lucas

Aaron Spelling

Spike Lee

Ian Flemming--- Cubby/Barbara Broccoli -------once a Bond girl, always a Bond girl!

Now, that's berrrrrrrer!

combrazor, do you like Ti Oluwa N'ile / Saworaide ?

You really need to watch those two movies. Great stories compared to Abeni and such

Francis Ford Coppola -The Godfather1,2,3 (They don't make 'em like him any more.)

Ron Howard -The Da vinci Code

M Night Shaymalan

Robert Rodriguez.

Tade Ogidan. The only Nigerian movies I can ever watch must be made by him. All the rest are not too sensible for my liking.

Chico Ejiro. Could have made sense too, but

Tunde Kelani - all dem mainframe movies
Tyler Perry- Madea, Meet the browns, why did i get married
CESS SILVERA- SHOTTAS

none

i'll check 'em out!

ok

steven spielberg

tyler perry

mel gibson

quentin tarintino

spike lee

@Gamine
You no fine but ur mama still like u abi!
Na so we gas support these Nolly directors, their movies no tap, but we got to support the few good ones.

@D reloaded
Frank Rodriguez directed Sin city but Quentin in an advisory role, u know Rodriguez and Quentin a very good friends, they share creative ideas, infact they both did a movie GRINDHOUSE together.

@ Combrazor
I mentioned in my post that i wasn't even a fan of the Nollywood movies, in fact i feel that 90% of Nollywood movies out there are crap, but then there is that 10% dat we need to encourage dats all.

also, i'm interested in knowing why you think Amazing Grace was "a step in the right direction"

Although the script of Amazing was totally crappy, lacked depth and they shud hav done better. It was a BIG movie, which was really planned out and shot pretty nicely, not like the hurriedly done movies, which are characteristic of Nollywood. Directors in Nollywood need to handle movie making in a more professional manner, adequate planning, and all those other hallmarks that come with professional film making.

Besides the film no get PART 2.

I love Alfred Hitchcock RIP