Poll Suggestion: Best Director Cameo

It would be interesting to make a list of their cameos.

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FYC:

Zack Snyder

- He appeared in Man of Steel (2013)

I added the names of movies in which each director makes their cameo.

Hi akashpanday11 (AKA zerodeaths434),

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FYC:

Anurag Kashyap

- He made a cameo in 'Black Friday (2004)' and in 'Gulaal (2009)'

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Best Director Cameo (last attempt to make this go live).

Which of these Directors had the best cameo?


List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls099584487/

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Alfred Hitchcock is my all-time favorite director, who pretty much was the first and the best at director cameos, effectively making them a custom and a style element. It's so hard to be better than him in that aspect, that, while many people try, it's hard to reach the same level. Especially since, yeah, it's funny to have a fairly large cameo, minute or so, but it's much cooler to make what Hitchcock did and creatively insert oneself in a scene, rarely repeating the theme and type of appearance.  Director cameos of any type are one of my biggest obsessions (I am a moderator of this small Reddit community, as a result), but what I love the most is finding smallest, most creative and odd ways a director can insert oneself in the movies. I'm delighted that Tarantino's cameos made a shift in that direction in later days, but Hitchcock is truly unrivaled. Although David Lynch, Werner Herzog, John Carpenter and following FYC's are really cool at this, as well. 

I myself decided long time ago as a filmmaker, that I'd much rather appear in very small and creative ways in my directorial works, rather than seizable roles. There are two main reasons: firstly I love to craft and plan small appearances way more than I like to rehearse big roles. Secondly it's actually really hard to direct oneself and I noticed that I'm not as good of an actor under my own direction, requiring more takes. By necessity, though, when you have no budget and a cast to fill, at times it happens that I have seizable screentime. I'm adamant on being uncredited as an actor on my directorial works, though, in order to give the spotlight to more deserving actors. I once divided director cameos in five types and, interestingly enough, found out that my train wreck of a debut feature film, 13 years in the making and counting (I just recorded some voiceovers for it remotely) has me in all five of those, although I originally intended to have one or two. :) And that's not counting the fact that I extensively double many characters by necessity: we've got to a desperate point in production when we have nearly each of the actors from the primary cast both doubling for someone in some shots and being doubled in other shots. Many actors also portray multiple roles: one portrays at least 40  characters, most of which look similar by design, but are also separate characters by design. :) 

FYC: 
Eldar Ryazanov in pretty much any of his movies, the guy was very known in USSR for the same trademark as Hitchcock. Both were very recognizable because of also being TV hosts, so audience enjoyed spotting them in the movies, as well. 
Leonid Gaidai and Georgiy Daneliya were less famous for that, but actually also cameoed creatively in their movies. Between the three of them there are some of the greatest Soviet comedies plus some of the greatest Soviet director cameos. :) 
Sam Raimi in Evil Dead II (1987). Both instances are very much amazing: you don't expect him to appear at all as a medieval knight, but it's even more fun knowing that eerie noises coming from a rocking chair is him in a voice cameo, as well. :)  
Josh Becker in Lunatics: A Love Story (1991)
Peter Jackson in pretty much any movie of his.  

Alfred hithcook or martin scorsese

Thanks for your suggestion zerodeaths, I like the idea.

I'm curious about why did you choose To Catch a Thief as Alfred Hitchcok's cameo, he is known to appear in practically all his movies, was this more significant in some way? Otherwise you could simply write Hitchcok in any of his movies.

For Your Consideration: Stanley Kubrick in Eyes Wide Shut
George A. Romero in The Crazies

Hi,

Could you please update your discussion link so it goes to this thread?

[link=https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/poll-suggestion-best-director-cameo]Discuss the Poll Here[/link]

Congratulations on your first live poll!
https://www.imdb.com/poll/bnsopdJA5Lk/

I think you missed a suggestion made by me a week ago. :(

zerodeaths434,

For some unknown reason, this thread you started became inaccessible:
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/poll-suggestion-best-theater-scene

I reported the problem in this post:
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/attn-gs-imdb-staff-threads-become-inaccessible-after-editing...

Hi zero, there's a note for you on the re-push thread about your re-push request. (https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/faq-poll-authors-re-push-requests?topic-reply-list[settings]... )

You just need to do one little thing and then we can repush this poll for you. 

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