Live Poll: Hollywood Renaissance – Directors

Hi,

The New Hollywood era is my favorite film period and I hope you saw the great documentary: "Easy Rider and Raging Bulls" about that historical sequence that reshaped American cinema.

A few comments:

There is no doubt that Scorsese and Spielberg deserve the highest mentions but since their careers were succesful  in a way that goes far beyond that period, it's a rather unfair deal for the other directors to be submitted to a comparaison with such giants. Not only that but some users could vote for them on the basis of their later works.

And when you think about it, Spielberg and Lucas were responsible for the rise of the blockbuster that took Hollywood back to the big-budgeted spectacular film, thus ending the Renaissance (they were other factors but still...)

Maybe Coppola deserves to be in the list more than any other membre of the Big 4 since he's made his best films during that period... and I believe that would be the best parameter to pay a propre tribute to that glorious era.

Allow me to help you improve this poll because I'm really crazy about that era and I don't think you should rely too much on Wikipedia... after all, how could they miss out these names : William Friedkin, Peter Bogdanovich, Hal Ashby ("Harold and Maude", "Shampoo", "Bound for Glory", "Coming  Home", "Being There") and perhaps the most emblematic director of the 70s: Sidney Lumet.

So many directors started during that career but it would be more interesting to focus on those who made the best films during that specific time... otherwise the word Renaissance loses its relevance.

Good luck!

Hello,

Now, the way I see it, it's interesting to look at all the New Hollywood movies in AFI's Top 100 Greatest Directors and check the directors who only have films from that era listed, which gives us:

Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde)

Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now)

Mike Nichols (The Graduate)

Roman Polanski (Chinatown)

Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

Woody Allen (Annie Hall)

Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show)

William Friedkin (The French Connection)

Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch)

Dennis Hopper (Easy Rider)

George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)

Bob Fosse (Cabaret)

George Lucas (American Graffiti, Star Wars)

Robert Altman (M.A.S.H, Nashville)

John G. Avildsen (Rocky)

Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter)

And now, which other directors were only Oscar-nominated during that era:

Arthur Hiller (Love Story)

John Schlesinger (Darling (British New Wave), Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday)

John Cassavettes (A Woman Under the Influence)

Peter Yates (Breaking Away)

Hal Ashby (Coming Home)

Herbert Ross (The Turning Point)

That's for a start, I believe Sidney Lumet deserves a nomination although he started ten years before but I guess it was a sort of first new wave of Renaissance, I would also include Sidney Pollack.

I guess Stanley Kubrick wouldn't be irrelevant, he made his best films during that era, but he's in such a league by himself that it would have the same effect as with Spielberg or Scorsese.

Why do some options include titles and others not?

status report:

- @Peter_pbn those titles are @ElMaruecan82 suggestions. I completed the list with titles examples. Perhaps each director should have only one title to make it standard to all...

- Due to the limit of #35 I split the list in two

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdb-poll/poll-suggestion-hollywood-renaissance-directors-part-ii/6061a2212b93b131e92b3e3d

(the mega famous here)

Since you're splitting this into two lists, I'd suggest slightly updating the question from

"Who is your favorite "New Hollywood" director?" to "Among those below, who is your favorite "New Hollywood" director?"

I'd also suggest taking the comma out of the title.

'Great poll! It will be a tough choice and I suspect many other people will feel that way, which makes for interesting results. I love New Hollywood films and several of my favorite directors are on these lists. Bravo, Mario. : )

It's not as important as the two suggestions above but may I also suggest one tiny edit? (in bold below -- just moving the comma)

New Hollywood, American New Wave, or Hollywood Renaissance refers to a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of young filmmakers came to prominence in the United States.

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