10 Iconic Directors Who Don't Have A Film In The IMDb Top 250

10. Tim Burton

Best Known For: Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood Most Deserving IMDb Top 250 Candidate: Edward Scissorhands Despite the fact that gothic price Tim Burton has fallen out of the critical limelight over the past decade or so, churning out ugly and excessive CGI monstrosities like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, he's still one of the most iconic directors of all-time with a couple of near-masterpieces amidst his filmography. Even if you've turned against Burton in recent years, he still has an impressive body of work behind him. Some of his older classics, like Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish, are exactly the sort of films you expect to find buried within the Top 250 rankings; they're great, artistically-inclined flicks that also happen to be highly mainstream, which is what the Top 250 tends to favour. Edward Scissorhands, which is beloved by many in that '90s nostalgic sense and has a very respectable score of 8.0 on the IMDb, does come very close to making the list (and for a while it was actually an inclusion); recently, it's been pushed off - and Burton with it.