NOTE: Do not post your votes on a "Closed" thread; your vote will not be recieved. If you'd like to add your vote on a previous battle, feel free to post your vote on the current thread, and I will add your vote among the previous results. However, please do not vote for a previous battle that have green results because I do not have the vote count for those battles.

This is a contest in which the winners of the previous 50 battles go against each other.

Which filmmaker's body of work do you prefer overall? Feel free to discuss!

Brad Bird (films such as Ratatouille, The Incredibles, The Iron Giant)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083348/

or

Hayao Miyazaki (films such as Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594503/

Previous results:
Clint Eastwood vs. Martin Scorsese preferred by 78.3% from 46 votes.
Tony Scott vs. John Woo preferred by 73.3% from 15 votes.
Ridley Scott vs. Steven Spielberg preferred by 71.1% from 38 votes.
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen vs. Paul Thomas Anderson preferred by 62.3% from 61 votes.
Stanley Kubrick vs. Billy Wilder preferred by 54.1% from 37 votes.
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Werner Herzog vs. Wim Wenders preferred by 92.3% from 13 votes.
Clint Eastwood vs. Ron Howard preferred by 91.7% from 36 votes.

George Lucas vs. Steven Spielberg preferred by 89.5% from 19 votes.
Francis Ford Coppola vs. Martin Scorsese preferred by 83.7% from 43 votes.
Doug Liman vs. John Woo preferred by 83.3% from 18 votes.
Michael Bay vs. Tony Scott preferred by 82.8% from 29 votes.
Eli Roth vs. Alexandre Aja preferred by 82.4% from 17 votes.
Alfonso Cuarón vs. Alejandro González Iñárritu preferred by 82.4% from 17 votes.
David Fincher vs. Christopher Nolan preferred by 80.8% from 26 votes.

John Carpenter vs. Wes Craven preferred by 78.7% from 75 votes.
Mel Brooks vs. Billy Wilder preferred by 78.6% from 42 votes.
Paul Thomas Anderson vs. Oliver Stone preferred by 78.3% from 60 votes.
Brian De Palma vs. William Friedkin preferred by 76.0% from 25 votes.
Brad Bird vs. John Lasseter preferred by 75.0% from 16 votes.
Stuart Gordon vs. Brian Yuzna perferred by 75.0% from 20 votes.
Christopher Guest vs. Michael Moore preferred by 73.7% from 19 votes.
Victor Fleming vs. Michael Curtiz preferred by 72.7% from 11 votes.
Federico Fellini vs. Jean Renoir preferred by 72.7% from 22 votes.
Robert Wise vs. David Lean preferred by 72.7% from 11 votes.
Philip Kaufman vs. Paul Verhoeven preferred by 72.7% from 11 votes.
Sergio Leone vs. John Ford preferred by 71.0% from 31 votes.
Sergei Eisenstein vs. Arndei Tarkovsky preferred by 70.8% from 24 votes.
Tod Browning vs. James Whale preferred by 70.0% from 10 votes.

Alfred Hitchcock vs. Ingmar Bergman preferred by 68.6% from 35 votes.
Milos Forman vs. Roman Polanski preferred by 67.6% from 37 votes.
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen vs. Quentin Tarantino preferred by 66.7% from 81 votes.
Sofia Coppola vs. Nancy Meyers preferred by 66.7% from 15 votes.
Woody Allen vs. John Waters preferred by 64.5% from 31 votes.
Stanley Kubrick vs. Orson Welles preferred by 64.4% from 59 votes.
Judd Apatow vs. Kevin Smith preferred by 64.3.7% from 28 votes.
Marc Forster vs. James Mangold preferred by 63.2% from 19 votes.
Peter Jackson vs. Sam Raimi preferred by 62.9% from 35 votes.
Walt Disney vs. Hayao Miyazaki preferred by 60.0% from 25 votes.
Akira Kurosawa vs. Yasujiro Ozu preferred by 60.7% from 28 votes.
Jonathan Demme vs. M. Night Shyamalan preferred by 60.0% from 25 votes.
Richard Donner vs. Spike Lee preferred by 60.0% from 20 votes.

Ridley Scott vs. James Cameron preferred by 57.1% from 28 votes.
Joel Schumacher vs. Wolfgang Peterson preferred by 56.0% from 25 votes.
George Cukor vs. D.W. Griffith preferred by 55.6% from 9 votes.
Jean-Luc Godard vs. François Truffaut preferred by 57.9% from 19 votes.
Guillermo del Toro vs. Robert Rodriguez preferred by 55.3% from 38 votes.
Robert Altman vs. Frank Capra preferred by 55.2% from 29 votes.
Rob Reiner vs. Robert Zemeckis preferred by 55.0% from 20 votes.
Wes Anderson vs. Terence Malick preferred by 54.5% from 22 votes.
John Cassavetes vs. John Huston preferred by 54.5% from 11 votes.
Charlie Chaplin vs. Buster Keaton preferred by 53.8% from 26 votes.
Luc Besson vs. John McTiernan preferred by 53.8% from 26 votes.
David Cronenberg vs. David Lynch preferred by 52.7% from 74 votes.
Fritz Lang vs. F.W. Murnau preferred by 52.0% from 25 votes.
Tim Burton vs. Terry Gilliam preferred by 50.9% from 53 votes.

*Percentages and results are collected from threads posted on several discussion boards (including Horror, Science Fiction, Directors, Best to Worst, and Film General).
**If you have suggestions for future battles, feel free to send them to me through a Private Message. Sorry, but I can't take suggestion right now.

Special thanks to TheDeadMayTasteBad (formerly known as FireCaptain4) for creating and letting me continue this game/contest.

Whitearachnia's Lair
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