The Directors of 2006

I don't like all of them, and they may not have all made the greatest movies of their careers (albeit some certainly did), but just look at this list of note-worthy directors who released films in 2006. It's mind-boggling.

• David Lynch
  
• Pedro Almodovar
  
• Darren Aronofsky
  
• Sofia Coppola
  
• Martin Scorsese
  
• Alfonso Cuaron
  
• Ray Lawrence
  
• Zhang Yimou (x2)
  
• Rolf de Heer
  
• Paul Greengrass
  
• Robert Altman
  
• Guillermo del Toro
  
• Lars Von Trier
  
• George Miller
  
• Clint Eastwood (x2)
  
• Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu
  
• Stephen Frears
  
• Woody Allen
  
• John Cameron Mitchell
  
• Anthony Minghella
  
• Richard Linklater (x2)
  
• Brian de Palma
  
• Michael Mann
  
• Steven Soderbergh (x2)
  
• Alkinos Tsiliminos
  
• Nicole Holofcener
  
• Spike Lee (x2)
  
• Christopher Guest
  
• Michel Gondry (x2)
  
• Tom Tykwer
  
• Steven Shainberg
  
• Sidney Lumet
  
• Mary Herron
  
• Christopher Nolan
  
• John Lasseter
  
• Ridley Scott
  
• Ana Kokkinos
  
• Wim Wenders
  
• The Dardenne Brothers
  
• Paul Curran
  
• Todd Field
  
• Neil Marshall
  
• Oliver Stone
  
• Bryan Singer
  
• Bill Condon
  
• Mel Gibson
  
• Neil Armfield
  
• Barbara Kopple
  
• Sydney Pollack
  
• Francois Ozon
  
• Nancy Meyers
  
• Ron Howard
  
• Robert Towne
  
• Neil LaBute
  
• Gore Verbinski
  
• M Night Shyamalan
  
• Steven Zaillian
  
• Brett Ratner
  
• Robert DeNiro
  
• Larry Clark
  
• Catherine Hardwicke
  
• Michael Winterbottom (x2)

Amazing. Shame that the year is ended as an average one. For me, it's not a bad year at all, but it's nowhere near a 2001 or even 2004. One thing that I've noticed thought is that in technical categories I find myself overrun my possibilities (and I haven't seen stuff like the films by Coppola, Aronofsky, Yimou, etc) but I find the very top awards quite thin in terms of really passionate stuff. I hope the films I have yet to see really boost it up. I'm settled with my number one of the year and I can't see anything overtaking it (if it does, it'll have to be goooood!). Hmmm.