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Poll: Movie Directors Past Retirement Age

A poll by The-Social-Introvert
The following living directors show an outstanding amount of work ethic and passion for film by continuing to make movies well past the average retirement age of 65.

Which of them do you think has had the best output since becoming 65?

Note: Only feature-length (non-documentary) films are included

Discuss the list here

Results of 6,296 votes:

  1. 1.

    Clint Eastwood

     
    Films Made Past Retirement Age: True Crime (1999), Space Cowboys (2000), Blood Work (2002), Mystic River (2003), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Letters from Iwo Jima (…
  2. 2.

    Martin Scorsese

     
    Films Made Past Retirement Age: Shutter Island (2010), Hugo (2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
  3. 3.

    Ridley Scott

     
    Films Made Past Retirement Age: Kingdom of Heaven (2005), A Good Year (2006), American Gangster (2007), Body of Lies (2008), Robin Hood (2010), Prometheus (2012), The Counselor (2013), Exodus: …
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