12 Directors Who Have Never Made A Bad Movie

1. Christopher Nolan

Just because Chris Nolan has topped out this list, it doesn't mean he's the best director ever, but it means he's perhaps the most consistently enjoyable. Beginning out by delivering astonishingly unconventional indie thrillers like Following and Memento before moving onto big studio fare (arguably creating the best superhero trilogy of all time in the process), Nolan is one of the only creatives in Hollywood with the freedom to create big-budget, original concept blockbusters.

Consequently, audiences have been given everything from brilliant, intelligent sci-fi in the form of Inception to sparse, harrowing war tales like Dunkirk that continue to push the envelope of blockbuster filmmaking. Even overlooked gems such as Insomnia shouldn't be underestimated when considering the full strength of the director's body of work.

He's not without fault, of course, and Interstellar was probably the closest the director has come to making a movie that wasn't instantly viewed as a masterpiece, but although its nonsense ending became divisive, it's still a genuinely jaw-dropping intergalactic tale in its own right.

Likewise, The Dark Knight Rises is considered another of his lesser works, but considering the ridiculous expectations which were lumped on that movie, Nolan should still be commended for rounding out the trilogy in a respectable and (mostly) satisfying way.