90's In Film...Best Director/Writer, Plus Teaser for my Top 25 Countdown

Best Director/Writer of the Decade - A word of note...I've combined this into a question of end-to-end authorship.:
NOMINEES:
* Tim Burton – (Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow). Tim Burton is the sort of guy who never wins an academy award because he's always just making Tim Burton movies, which is really creative and interesting, but kind of a genre unto itself. Creepy but not scary...he has that nailed.
* James Cameron – (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, True Lies, Titanic) - Three massive directorial undertakings followed by nearly 13 years of silence. Cameron scores high on degree of difficulty. Quality-wise, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.
* Joel & Ethan Coen – (Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski). Re-read that list of movies. 4 of 5 are instant classics and the one that isn't (Barton Fink) is a think piece about writer's block.
* Michael Mann – (The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider). The no-name of this bunch. I have to admit that I've never seen The Insider. But those other two are taught, strong entries and I've heard the same about The Insider. He barely beat out Wes Anderson and Cameron Crowe, but ultimately, I think his catalogue is deeper.
* Stephen Spielberg – (Hook, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan). I know, I whine about how overrated Spielberg is. And it's true. He picks big topics and then gets credit for not screwing the up. He's not a great artist, and he always works the same theme (reunite the family, Christian redemption). Even with those complaints, he has to be on this list, and he deserves to be. I'll just say it now - the most watchable and most important of his 90's movies was Jurassic Park. Schindler's List, the presumed champ, was just the first movie about The Holocaust. Now that we have several of those, its artistic value can be fairly weighed (and dismissed).
WINNER: The Coens. Was there ever a doubt?

TEASER FOR MY TOP 25 COUNTDOWN:
THE CRITICS' GENERAL CONSENSUS TOP 25 (i.e. HORRIBLY WRONG ACCEPTED WISDOM).
I'll tell you now, no more than 5 of these 'top 25' make the cut.
1. Schindlers List (1)
2. Goodfellas (3)
3. Silence of the Lambs (3.5)
4. Pulp Fiction (3.5)
5. Saving Private Ryan (4.5)
6. Fargo (5.5)
7. Unforgiven (7.5)
8. Shawshank Redemption (8.5)
9. Forrest Gump (9.5)
10. Malcolm X (10)
11. American Beauty (10)
12. Dances With Wolves (11.5)
13. Titanic (13.5)
14. Terminator 2: Judgment day (14)
15. Braveheart (15)
16. The Usual Suspects (16)
17. Barton Fink (18)
18. Reservoir Dogs (18)
19. The Sixth Sense (18.5)
20. Boyz’Nthe Hood (19.5)
21. JFK (20.5)
22. Se7en (21.5)
23. Toy Story (23)
24. Dead Man Walking (23)
25. The Nightmare Before Christmas / The Piano (25)