The Directors Guild of America, founded in 1936, celebrated their 85th anniversary by naming what they believe to be the best-directed films, focusing on how legendary directors managed to elevate the visual art-form with their unique artistic visions.
Since such a list is always highly controversial in nature, the Guild made sure to compile the collection in a democratic fashion by polling their members, urging them to name some of the best-directed works of cinema which have come out since the organisation's conception in 1936.
Having said that, the list is a controversial one and a lot of people are sure to disagree with it (including myself). The Guild has named Coppola's The Godfather as the best-directed film of all time, above Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane and Stanley Kubrick's radical revision of the sci-fi genre with 2001: A Space Odyssey.
