10 Iconic Directors Who Don't Have A Film In The IMDb Top 250
Somebody make room for these icons of cinema, please!
The IMDb Top 250 has - and never will be - a particularly useful benchmark for judging the greatest movies of all-time, but it's still a great way to ascertain which movies are popular. The list is packed with films by iconic directors, of course, both classic and modern: several of Charlie Chaplin's films rub shoulders with a bunch of Quentin Tarantino's flicks, for example, though it must be said that modern filmmakers are beginning to overwhelm. Because only votes from regular users are counted when it comes to the IMDb's movie rating system (and nobody knows what, exactly, constitutes a "regular user"), trying to assign any system of logic to the process is somewhat futile. That said, there are good number of directors with films on the list that you'd expect to see: works by Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen... they're all there. But what about those iconic directors that you'd imagine to have at least one movie listed on the IMDb Top 250, but - in actuality - don't? To answer that very question, here are 10 iconic filmmakers who you might very well be surprised to learn haven't made the cut...