Live Poll: Best Director of the Decade

Thanks, done

Indeed: a very good suggestion. :)

There aren't really any spots open, but there seems to be a display error with the numbering. Hopefully it will correct itself.

Spike Lee has one feature film this decade with an IMDb rating over 6. I'm not sure the omission would be glaring. I'd prefer Coogler.

I agree that Coogler (and Jenkins and Baker) had a better decade of films than Lee but there were 33 names on the list, including Eastwood and Refn, and it would be difficult to justify them being on the list instead of any of the four I mentioned. I know that there's a problem with how many options are actually on the list so I'm not seeing two but a list that is very white and includes at least two white directors with mediocre decades and doesn't include any of the three black filmmakers I mentioned is problematic. Again, not intentionally so, of course (this has nothing whatsoever to do with anyone's intentions) but nonetheless problematic. 

Also, IMDb ratings are rather unreliable, for several reasons, including that the scores aren't defined in any way to be consistent, ergo their meanings are nebulous. For example, I read on the old poll board one person's explanation that a 7 was like a C to him and a 5 like an F because, generally, American schools equate a C with 70% and an F with  anything below 60%. To me, a 7 is quite good and a 5 is average. 

Metacritic, which is a much more reliable system quantifiably and are based on critics, who see hundreds more films every year than the average IMDb user, on the other hand, gives every one of Lee's films in this decade above a 70, and Metacritic defines above 60 as recommended. 'BlackKklansmen,' of course was widely considered to be an important and very well-made film.  

According to IMDb ratings, Lars von Trier, for one example, is about on par with Lee for the decade (although Lee made many more films), and below Lee on Metacritic, but while I personally like von Trier and think he does influential work, he's not yet a career giant like Spike Lee and the list reflects some of those career considerations, whether consciously or not. Lee is a glaring omission, I propose, for the above reasons and because the list gives Eastwood, for example, a nod for a good career, while having a mediocre decade.

I don't assert that the three African-American filmmakers of the four directors I mentioned should be included because of their race but because, certainly in the case of Jenkins and Coogler and arguably in the case of Lee, they had much better decades, even quantifiably according to both IMDb and Metacritic, than some of the filmmakers already on the list. I prefer Sean Baker's films to Jenkins', Coogler's, and Lee's, and he had a three for three stellar decade marked by unmatched innovation, but I think that Jenkins, Coogler, and Lee would be much more obvious omissions. 

Before I ramble on anymore, let me say that I think that you assembled a very good list with a lot of lesser known but exceptional talent, as well as the ol' legends. Bravo:  'Well done.

Eastwood and Winding Refn are two but other directors that could be omitted in order to make space for two or more of the above include:
(In order from most justified to remove to least)

Aronofsky: Black Swan, right at the beginning of the decade, did very well at the Oscars, of course, and well on IMDb and Metacritic but his other two films this decade  got a 5.8 and 6.6 on IMDb and a 68 and 75 on Metacrtic. 

I love Sofia Coppola but this was not her decade: she made three features: one rated by 54 people on IMDb and apparently never reviewed, which doesn't mean it wasn't good but it can't be judged, and the other two got ok receptions but lower on IMDb than Coogler, Baker, Jenkins, and Lee, as well as Metacritic.

Kathryn Bigelow: I'd hate to see a woman come off the list but she made only two features, while, unlike Granik and Sean Baker, she certainly had the backing and funding to do more, and one had mixed reviews.

David O. Russell: He made three features: the first two were certainly considered to be very good, though nothing revolutionary, and the last was considered an unmitigated lack of inspiration and execution. 

Jacques Audiard made three solid films and I'd hate to see him go but he's either on par, according to both IMDb and Metacritic, or lower, than Coogler, Jenkins, Baker, and Lee. 

Thanks for his help Peter and Ruby, I have made a couple of arrangements on my list but I have not taken your suggestions into account since I had not seen them, you are probably right and some names on the list should go away, try to be inclusive by choosing Coppola and Bigelow for the list knowing that they had had a poor decade but according to their criteria should leave. Baker and Jenkins have been added and when I have some free time I'll take care of including Cogler and Lee.

Several changes made in the list, including the ones you suggested, i also added several new names.

However, my list has a counting error since the number 5 is counted repeatedly

You could try moving those options around or removing them and adding them back to see if this error goes away.

Edit my list, however the problem with counting positions persists, I hope it is not inconvenient for the poll to come to light.

Peter and Dan are looking into it. They really know what they're doing so you're in good hands. :)

LOL Is this kid mega dumb, immature AF, or just on lots and lots of drugs?

Spike Lee? Spike Lee? HA!! OMG!
We all know that he really is just an anti-white, race baiting racist loud mouth midget lying punk and it shows in ALL his AWFUL lie filled box office bombs, in fact that is the ONLY thing that comes out of watching his garbage "films"!

FYI, I was born, raised and grew up right here in NYC, went to public schools here and hung out in EVERY borough, especially Brooklyn, a LOT, thru the 1970's and 80's ad 90's (I also lived in Brooklyn for a while in the 80's) and there were NEVER any of the race riot situations his B.S. films always make up, And the REAL TRUTH that he does NOT ever show or tell in ANY of his garbage films is how HIS people really DO shoplift/rob/steal/mug/shoot/stab/rape/murder people like crazy, gang up in packs of 20/30/40 or more and terrorize/hurt/maim/kill/burn down/tear up/destroy white people/white neighborhoods/even their own "hoods", which they were handed for FREE, yet don't respect nor appreciate nor ever say THANK YOU for the FREE housing/free furniture/free schooling (which they almost all NEVER finish)/free food/free medical! (which I get NONE of for free!)
And they DO it all daily and YES, it DOES still happen here, daily, you just NEVER hear about it on the democratically owned/controlled liberal MSM!

Fart at them=it's a hate crime!
They kill whitey and yet, for some reason=not a hate crime!

Spikey doesn't tell you THAT truth either, does he?
He also doesn't tell you how he prefers to sleep with white women while screaming and cursing in interviews and thru his awful films about "how bad" he was "treated by white people"!

Maybe he shouldn't have been a wiseazz or punk and people would have treated him better!
Here in NYC, it doesn't matter what color you are, it's how you act and carry yourself!
If you walk/talk/act like a big mouth/tough guy/jerk/punk, than you will most likely get punked out/knocked out! lol

And I think YOU needed to hear THAT truth about that little Spike Fool!

Barry Jenkins sucks big time, as does his AWFUL and unwatchable "moonlight" garbage

Sean Baker sucks too, if he was any good, a REAL studio would have hired him to make a REAL film by now, and not the lame kiddie junk he's been making!

Ryan Coogler is a tool who only spit out formulaic race baiting garbage that tried to make the BAD people look good and seem justified in being terrorists and murderers which has obviously brainwash the snowflakes of the world with nonsense, hearsay, lies and totally historically inaccurate B.S. and lies that only a real fool would fall for!

You want Nicolas Winding Refn removed because he scored low on some nonsense poll?, WTF is wrong with you, kid?
He's done far better work than ANY of the CLOWNS that you want on the list! You need to grow up, get educated and also, quit hating on Clint Eastwood, he almost 100 years old and he is still walking and working!
Just because he doesn't make sappy "chick flicks" with sissy bois in them doesn't make him bad nor undeserving of anyone's votes!

Clint Eastwood has directed 8, not 7 films since 2010, more than most directors have made in that same period, or their entire lives and some of Clint's films were really good, but we can guess that you were too busy watching kiddie movies and silly, smarmy mindless chick flicks and didn't see any of his good work!

Here's a short list of Clint's decent or better films for you to consider watching,
1-American Sniper -It's a good film
2-J.Edgar - he did a fine job with this one
3-Hereafter - good movie
4-Invictus - this was real good!
5-Letters from Iwo Jima - probably the very FIRST time ANYONE has made a war film from the perspective of BOTH sides, equally!, instead of the usual Hollywood propaganda of USA verses whatever "big bad" nation- (England/Native Indians/Japan/Germany/Vietnam/Korea/Iraq/Etc.) -the US military is "forced" to fight against after being attacked or provoked!
6-Mystic River - was good
7-Bloodwork - was real good!

Clint has now directed over 40 films over his career, not just one or two alone and sure, while not all of them have been great, a few have been real good and 40 is still far more than most of the box office disaster directors you prefer to vote for have ever been hired to make and I seriously doubt that if he was so terrible as a director that any of the big name/big budget studios that he HAS made films for would have hired him to make their films and they certainly would not have throw million and millions of dollars at those films for him to make and he also must be doing something right, since he makes them studios billions of dollars in ticket/ppv/dvd sales/profits!

So give us a break with your sad, silly little kiddie picks!

I'm surprised you didn't also want the guy who directed episodes of Barney the purple dinosaur or that Hardwicke, umm, Lady? who did them terribly awful, putrid Twilight films included, too! lol

Bro, no need to get so emo, get a hold of yourself.

Was about to say the same thing... otherwise people will simply vote for their favorite rather than judging based only on their 2010s footprint and impact.

Done

Thanks Ruby, it was largely thanks to you

Very thanks Dan,
New list: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls097443878/

Dracko,

Thanks for recreating the list. The new version of the list looks fine. I updated your original post to link to the new list.