Directors (cont.)

So the directors have been seeded as follows:
#1- Steven Spielberg, William Wyler, Billy Wilder, Martin Scorsese
#2- Woody Allen, Fred Zinneman, John Ford, Frank Capra,
#3- Alfred Hitchcok, John Huston, David Lean, Geroge Stevens,
#4- Elia Kazan, Sydney Lumet, Joseph Mankewikz, Mike Nichols,
#5- Francis Ford Coppolla, Geroge Cukor, Ridley Scott, Robert Wise,
#6- Oliver Stone, Robert Altman, Clarence Brown, Clint Eastwood,
#7- King Vidor, Michael Curtiz, Frank Lloyd, Stanley Kubrick,
#8- Milos Forman, Cecil B. Demile, Federico Fellini, Joel Schlesinger

These directors will have no oppenent in the first round.

Now the final 64 we broke into higher and lower group and then randomly paired them about the brackets:

Higher Group (in no particular order) Lower Group (again no order)
1. Charlie Chaplin 1. Michael Bay
2. Peter Weir 2. Leo McCarey
3. Ron Howard 3. John Woo
4. Peter Jackson 4. Tony Scott
5. Norman Jewison 5. Bob Fosse
6. Sydney Pollack 6. Wes Anderson
7. Roman Polanski 7. Paul Anderson
8. Carol Reed 8. Warren Beatty
9. Ingmar Bergman 9. Richard Brooks
10. David Lynch 10. Stephen Daldry
11. Steven Soderbergh 11. Barry Levinson
12. Frank Borzag 12. William Friedkin
13. Robert Zemeckis 13. Robert Benton
14. Robert Redford 14. Bernardo Bertolucci
15. James Cameron 15. Vincente Minelli
16. Mel Gibson 16. Geroge Hill
17. Howard Hawks 17. Norman Taurog
18. Ang Lee 18. Peter Yates
19. Spike Lee 19. Josef Von Sternberg
20. Michael Mann 20. Jim Sheridan
21. M. Night Shaymalan 21. Robert Rossen
22. Gus Van Sant 22. Mark Robson
23. Coen Bros. 23. Otto Preminger
24. Brian De Palma 24. Sam Wood
25. Mel Brooks 25. Arthur Penn
26. Buster Keaton 26. Ernst Lubitsch
27. George Lucas 27. Jamesd Ivory
28. Quentin Tarantino 28. Gore Verbinski
29. Orson Welles 29. Christopher Nolan
30. Tim Burton 30. Joel Cronenberg
31. John Hughes 31. Fritz Lang
32. Akira Kurosawa 32.

Directors

I have decided to combine two posts into one to sort of speed this setup process along. So therefore I am going to include both who the directors are and how they were seeded in this post.

Seeding for those that don’t know is a tool for tournament makers to attempt to ensure that the teams most likely to win meet in the championship match. Basically instead of randomly picking names out of a hat and possibly having the two top directors meet in the first round you rank the directors based on how you think they are going to do and put them at different places in the bracket to ensure that if they win your top matches will be towards the end of the tournament.

For this tournament we broke directors into groups of four and then randomly pulled them out of a hat for the top spots to still give some spontaneity to it. This would be very similar to how March Madness NCAA Championship Tournament is done.

Normally seeding is based on a team record or ranking but we don’t really have that when it comes to directors so I’ve again decided to base this on awards won and other distinctions. So basically directors received ranking points for the following: 3 points for a film that won either best picture or director in the Academy Awards. 2 points for a film wining either best director or best picture in the Golden Globes or is on the AFI top 100 movies list. And Finally 1 point for each film that that otherwise did not get the director a point but I feel is of noteworthy significance.