Post by Martin Stett on Jul 11, 2024 15:31:41 GMT
The idea of this poll is to take the BP winner of each year and reimagine them with the best director nominees of that year, and ask which director would make the best version of that film. If the BP winner was nominated in directing, that option will not be listed.
Nichols won the tiebreaker easily, and Boorman walked all over the competition for The Last Emperor
So our choices for Platoon are...
Woody Allen
James Ivory
Roland Joffé
David Lynch
Previous winners:
2022: Ruben Östlund's Everything Everywhere All at Once
2021: Ryusuke Hamaguchi's CODA
2020: Lee Isaac Chung's Nomadland
2019: Martin Scorsese's Parasite
2018: Spike Lee's Green Book
2017: Jordan Peele's The Shape of Water
2016: Kenneth Lonergan's Moonlight
2015: Lenny Abrahamson's Spotlight
2014: Wes Anderson's Birdman
2013: Martin Scorsese's 12 Years a Slave
2012: Steven Spielberg's Argo
2011: Woody Allen's The Artist
2010: Joel and Ethan Coen's The King's Speech
2009: James Cameron's The Hurt Locker
2008: David Fincher's Slumdog Millionaire
2007: Paul Thomas Anderson's No Country for Old Men
2006: Paul Greengrass's The Departed
2005: Bennett Miller's Crash
2004: Martin Scorsese's Million Dollar Baby
2003: Peter Weir's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2002: Pedro Almodóvar's Chicago
2001: David Lynch's A Beautiful Mind
2000: Ang Lee's Gladiator
1999: Spike Jonze's American Beauty
1998: Steven Spielberg's Shakespeare in Love
1997: Curtis Hanson's Titanic
1996: Miloš Forman's The English Patient
1995: Chris Noonan's Braveheart
1994: Krzysztof Kieślowski's Forrest Gump
1993: Jim Sheridan's Schindler's List
1992: Robert Altman's Unforgiven
1991: Ridley Scott's The Silence of the Lambs
1990: Francis Ford Coppola's Dances with Wolves
1989: Peter Weir's Driving Miss Daisy
1988: Mike Nichols' Rain Man
1987: John Boorman's The Last Emperor
Nichols won the tiebreaker easily, and Boorman walked all over the competition for The Last Emperor
So our choices for Platoon are...
Woody Allen
James Ivory
Roland Joffé
David Lynch
Previous winners:
2022: Ruben Östlund's Everything Everywhere All at Once
2021: Ryusuke Hamaguchi's CODA
2020: Lee Isaac Chung's Nomadland
2019: Martin Scorsese's Parasite
2018: Spike Lee's Green Book
2017: Jordan Peele's The Shape of Water
2016: Kenneth Lonergan's Moonlight
2015: Lenny Abrahamson's Spotlight
2014: Wes Anderson's Birdman
2013: Martin Scorsese's 12 Years a Slave
2012: Steven Spielberg's Argo
2011: Woody Allen's The Artist
2010: Joel and Ethan Coen's The King's Speech
2009: James Cameron's The Hurt Locker
2008: David Fincher's Slumdog Millionaire
2007: Paul Thomas Anderson's No Country for Old Men
2006: Paul Greengrass's The Departed
2005: Bennett Miller's Crash
2004: Martin Scorsese's Million Dollar Baby
2003: Peter Weir's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2002: Pedro Almodóvar's Chicago
2001: David Lynch's A Beautiful Mind
2000: Ang Lee's Gladiator
1999: Spike Jonze's American Beauty
1998: Steven Spielberg's Shakespeare in Love
1997: Curtis Hanson's Titanic
1996: Miloš Forman's The English Patient
1995: Chris Noonan's Braveheart
1994: Krzysztof Kieślowski's Forrest Gump
1993: Jim Sheridan's Schindler's List
1992: Robert Altman's Unforgiven
1991: Ridley Scott's The Silence of the Lambs
1990: Francis Ford Coppola's Dances with Wolves
1989: Peter Weir's Driving Miss Daisy
1988: Mike Nichols' Rain Man
1987: John Boorman's The Last Emperor