Wordle: The Best Film Directors of All Time

A new website called Wordle lets you create fun little word clouds. I decided to create a word cloud using the names of some of the best directors of all time. Click the above image to enlarge. If any of you guys create any film/movie related word clouds, post the urls in the comments below! And remember, the more times you list a word, the bigger it will appear in the cloud.

Best Directors of All Time


  • Jeff
    Shyamalan is hardly a good director.
  • Jmoney
    i may just be missing it, but where is Francis Ford Coppola? I believe the godfathers alone would rank him higher than M. night
  • Adam
    Tarantino? Shyamalan? Wachowski? Carnahan? Ritchie? That has to be a joke... And I still couldn't spot Mann on there... Shameful.
  • Chris
    Spielberg? Seriously people? Can we cut it out now?
  • Seriously guys, this is just a post about a cool new website which lets you create tag clouds. It's not the easiest thing to create these clouds. Trying to size the directors by importance in modern film is a pretty tough task. Instead of criticize, the link is in the story. Create something better. If anyone creates anything really cool I'll gladly feature it on the site.
  • Owe
  • Adam
    yeah lay off! the guys given us yet another great website to visit. cheers peter, been looking for a site like this...
  • Hiya
  • Rick Astley
  • Dylan
    Those are basically all my favorite directors [EXCEPT Shyamalan]
  • Greyson
    I enjoyed. Shamylan deserves to be on the list. What good movies have you directed?
  • Fost
    Where is Fincher?
  • Fost
    I just saw it...
  • Joe
    Man, that Benjamin Button one is so good it could be used as an ad for the movie itself.
  • Gary
    Coppola and Fincher are there, you just have to look.
  • Vignir
    Doug Liman?! You must be kidding!
  • Jmoney
    Sorry man, i thought you were doing a post on the website and trying to comment on the best directors. it is a cool site
  • Vignir: Again, the names listed are only names I thought were influential in modern cinema. It's not a definitive list, I was just testing out this new website tool. Liman directed the indie classic Swingers, the vastly underrated Go, and The Bourne Identity. Sure, Mr and Mrs and Jumper weren’t great, but he had three great films under his belt.
  • Salerno posted this one on Hitchcock's filmography: http://wordle.net/gallery/01384/Hitchcock
  • Looks like he also made one for Kubrick http://wordle.net/gallery/01328/Kubrick
  • drake rivera
    is kevin smith in there?? i dont see him.
  • "smith" is listed in there if you look hard enough
  • Jason G
    The only black I is in the background...
    I think Spike Lee would like to have a word with you...
  • Jason: Spike Lee is listed
  • skaught
    favreau? sorry, but no. especially not in a font twice the size of godard.
  • larry
    Someone needs to send that "Benjamin Button" one to get printed.

    That is awesome.
  • Chris
    Wachowski and Ritchie but no Peter Weir? I'm probably just not seeing it.
  • Chris
    Nope. He's not there. And Gore Verbinski? Really?
  • Phoenix
    Hmm... I can't find Uwe Boll. Omission, anyone?

    ;o)
  • Andy
    The opening scene from The Godfather Part 1

    http://wordle.net/gallery/02630/The_Godfather_o...
  • How about a random movie script, parsed in full.

    http://wordle.net/gallery/02871/Bourne_Ultimatu...
  • Blibblobblib
    These are great! Bored at work, i unleashed my Post-Lost anguish and created this one...

    http://wordle.net/gallery/02893/LOST
  • Blibblobblib
    Hmmmm.
  • Kubrick should be much, much bigger than Speilberg. Spielberg stole his AI. This is crap. I don;t see Eastwood either. mann. Gilliam. Oh, and I saw Sarah Marshall last night- the worst movie ever made.
  • Chris
    Are you serious Gajonka? Kubrick had Speilberg in mind to direct that the entire time.
  • Fost
    I'm looking for Fincher's films, anybody?
  • Simmy25
    Just did this of the Disney Movies:

    http://wordle.net/gallery/03584/Disney_Films
  • that website kicks ass
  • Jr. Said Monkey
    HE messed up Alfonso Curon's Name. He Wrote CuaTon.
  • Jason
  • Happy_Evil_Dude
    How about giving the screenwriters their due?
    http://wordle.net/gallery/04891/Screenwriters features some of the biggest names of today.

    Also, video game movies: http://wordle.net/gallery/04636/Video_Game_Movies
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