Poll Suggestion: Best Living Director Never to win The Academy Award for Best Director. Suggestions welcomed.

A similar poll has been done, but maybe it would be OK if you include some other options.

https://www.imdb.com/poll/ZQjgosASaUM/

Maybe add a condition that a director has a minimum number of films he/she/they have directed to qualify?

FYC:

Paul Thomas Anderson

John Milius

@riverotter If you are excluding the directors from the first poll, it would be a good idea to link to it.

I would reccomend doing a Google search, it doesn't take long to find a number of articles on the topic and some notable ELITE names. I would think you could fill every answer slot, depending on your threshold for inclusion, especially if your adding international directors.

FYC: Tim Burton, David O. Russell, Guillermo Del Toro, Spike Lee,  Terrance Malik, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott, George Lucas, David Lynch, David Fincher, Brian De Palma, Ken Burns, Peter Weir,  Wes Anderson, Michael Bay, Russo Bros., David Yates, J. J. Abrams, etc.(and that's just limited to white males)

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls063432329/

non-white male lists for possible candidates

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls047702497/

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls033140059/

https://screenrant.com/best-directors-never-won-oscar-snubbed/#tim-burton

https://www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/25_legendary_filmmakers_who_never_won_the_best_director_oscar/s1__30857066

Denis Villeneuve

@riverotter 

Please make this into two sentences. From:

Martin Scorsese had to wait years to win one, which living director is most deserving of a Best Director Oscar?

To:

Martin Scorsese had to wait years to win one. Which living director is most deserving of a Best Director Oscar?

FYC:

James Ivory

FYC:

Claire Denis

Kenneth Branagh

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Noah Baumbach 

Yimou Zhang 

Celine Sciamma

(I personally wouldn't include Sciamma, as she's only made five feature films so far but McDonagh has only made four features so far. They're both among my favorite filmmakers, McDonagh is my favorite living playwright, and their work has been so acclaimed but both are such relative newcomers that I don't know if they fit the list.)

Good list, btw. : )