25. Wes Anderson
THE EVIDENCE: Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
WHY HIM: The knock on the corduroy-clad boy wonder is that his movies lack heart — that he's more interested in set-design dioramas than the interior lives of his characters. We say, Baloney! Go back and watch Bill Murray in Rushmore or Gene Hackman in Tenenbaums again. Heck, he even eked emotion out of George Clooney as a stop-action fox. —Chris Nashawaty
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