"excellent director" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a person who is highly skilled or experienced in directing, and can be used in a variety of contexts. For example, "John Smith is an excellent director who has won numerous awards for his work."
And Sam Mendes is an excellent director.
(The excellent director of photography is Yorick Le Saux, a longtime collaborator of the French filmmaker Olivier Assayas).
"I was slightly disappointed because I thought he would've been an excellent director of athletics at Princeton," Feiveson said.
During the intermission, I found myself wondering how Daly and her excellent director, Stephen Wadsworth, would keep all this intellectual and emotional splendor aloft.
The play's excellent director, John Crowley, presents a garish live tableau above Crudup as he delivers this monologue with terrifying efficiency.
I think Spielberg, it turns out, is an excellent director of horses as well as of extraterrestrials and just ordinary human beings.
Attila Vidnyanszky, who will replace Mr. Alfoldi at the National Theater in July, may have the right political credentials for the job, but he has also invited several excellent directors to direct next season, including the superbly imaginative Russian Andrei Moguchy.
Ms. Adamson, one of our most consistently excellent directors, focuses on the realism inherent in Euripides' play and builds it into a chilling domestic melodrama with catastrophic results, a sort of "Fatal Attraction" for fifth-century B.C. Corinth.
Having thoroughly reviewed a broad range of highly qualified candidates and sought input from a number of major shareholders, the Committee enthusiastically recommended to the full Board the appointment of these three excellent directors," said Patti Hart, chairman of the Board's Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, which conducted the search process.
No, not "Aida," but "Il Trovatore," in a production by the excellent Canadian director Robert Carsen, led by the fine conductor Fabio Luisi.
"Sue really was an excellent museum director and a really excellent president of the Lanterman Foundation," said Melissa Patton, executive director of Lanterman House.
