Director Round Up 2014-15

Current standings of the most surefire directors and a bit of what they got going for them.  

1. Edgar Wright - Last: The World's End, Best: Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World, Next: Ant-Man (writer)/Baby Driver (Writer/director) 
2. Matthew Vaughn - Last: Kingsman: The Secret Service, Best: Stardust, Next: TBA
3. Christopher Nolan - Last: Interstellar, Best: The Dark Knight, Next: TBA
4. Phil Lord and Chris Miller - Last: 22 Jump Street, Best: The Lego Movie, Next: The Last Man on Earth (TV)
5. Guillermo Del Toro - Last: Pacific Rim (writer/director) The Hobbit (Writer), Best: The Strain (TV), Next: Crimson Peak
6. Duncan Jones - Last: Source Code, Best: Moon, Next: Warcraft
7. Rian Johnson - Last: Breaking Bad " Ozymandias" (TV), Best: Looper, Next: Star Wars: Ep. 8 
8. David Fincher - Last: Gone Girl, Best: Fight Club, Next: Utopia (TV)
9. Wes Anderson - Last/Best: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Next: TBA
10. Joss Whedon - Last: Agents of SHIELD Pilot (TV). Best: Serenity, Next: The Avengers: Age of Ultron
11. J.J. Abrams - Last: Star Trek Into Darkness, Best: Star Trek, Next: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
12. Martin Scorsese - Last: The Wolf of Wall Street, Best: Hugo/The Departed, Next: Silence
13. Quentin Tarantino - Last/Best: Django Unchained, Next: The Hateful Eight 
14. Anthony and Joe Russo - Last: Marvel's Agent Carter (TV), Best: Community "A Fistful of Paintballs" + "For a Few Piantballs More" (TV), Next: Captain America: Civil War 
15. Steven Spielberg - Last: Lincoln, Best: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Next: "Untitled Cold War Spy Thiller"
16. Ben Affleck - Last: Argo, Best: The Town, Next: Live by Night
17. David O. Russell - Last/Best: American Hustle, Next: Joy
18. James Gunn - Last: Guardians of the Galaxy, Best: Slither, Next Guardians of the Galaxy 2
19. Ben Stiller - Last: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Best: Tropic Thunder, Next: TBA
20. Coen Brothers - Last: Inside Llewyn Davis, Best: Fargo, Next: Hail, Caesar!
21. The Pool.  

Directors who missed the cut. Somewhat ordered from strongest to weakest but not specifically.

Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg

Drew Goddard (Cabin in the Woods)
Zach Snyder
Joe Wright (Atonement, upcoming Pan)
Martin MacDonough (In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths)
Jim Rash and Nat Faxon 
Jered and Jerusha Hess (Nacho Libre and Napoleon Dynamite)
Gareth Edwards (Godzilla)
Josh Trank (Fantastic Four)
Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World)
Matt Reeves (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Cloverfield)

Guy Ritchie

Justin Lin (Fast and Furious Franchise and the next Star Trek)
Adam McKay

Brad Bird (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol)
Andrew Stanton (John Carter and Finding Nemo)
Paul Feig
Michel Gondry
Doug Liman (Borne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow)
Spike Jonez
Joseph Kosinski (TRON: Legacy and Oblivion)
David Ayer (Fury and upcoming Suicide Squad)
Gareth Evans (The Raid 1 and 2)
Christoper McQuarrie (Jack Reacher)
Alejandro Innaritu (Birdman)

John MacDonough
The Wachowskis

Peter Jackson

Akiva Schaffer
Sam Raimi
Ridley Scott
Danny Boyle
James Mangold
Sam Mendes
Francis Lawrence
Alfonso Cuaron
Nicholas Stoller
Alan Taylor
Tom Hooper
John Woo
Ang Lee
Paul Thomas Anderson
Pete Travis (Dredd)
Payton Reed (Bring It On, Down With Love and Antman)
David Koepp (Premium Rush)
David Slade (30 Days of Night and Hannibal)
Joon-ho Bong (Snow Piercer)
David Leitch and Chad Stahelski (John Wick)
Jeff Nichols (Mud)
Wes Ball (Maze Runner)
Shane Black
Edward Zwick
Brad Furman (Lincoln Lawyer but also Runner Runner)
Andrew Adamson (Shrek and Narnia 1 and 2)
Barry Sonnenfeld (MIB, The Tick, Pushing Daisies, Wild Wild West)
Noah Baumbach
Mike Cahill
Joe Johnston
Adam Wingard (You're Next and The Guest)
Marc Webb
Timur Bekmambetov
Behn Zeitlin
Zal Batmanglij
Richard Curtis (Love Actually and About Time)
Ron Howard
Marc Foster (Casino Royale and World War Z)
Gavin Hood
Garth Jennings
James Wan
Nimrod Antal
Rob Reiner
Michael Mann
Stephen Chow
Stuart Beattie (Tomorrow When the War Began and I, Frankenstein)
Richard Linklater
Mark and Jay Duplass
Tarsem
Jon Favreau
George Nolfi
Gore Verbinski
Rawson Marshall Thurber
Rob Bowman (Reign of Fire and Castle but Elektra)
David Lynch
Neil Burger

Len Wiseman
Tim Burton

Robert Zemeckis
Cameron Crowe

Kevin Reynolds (The Count of Monte Cristo, Tristan + Isolde, but Waterwold and Robin Hood: POT)

Anne Fletcher (Step Up, 27 Dresses, the Proposal, Enchanted 2)
Shawn Levy

These names were inevitably thought of but instantly laughed off.
Michael Bay
M. Night Shayamalan
Andrew Niccol
Paul WS Anderson
Uwe Boll