I do understand the criticism of CEO's as being nothing more than 'delegators', where they just order people to do the actual work, eg; engineers, marketers, accountants.
But wouldn't this same logic apply to movie directors as well, as their names suggest, they're literally DIRECTers, and also delegate, to eg; editors, writers, actors.
I just feel it would be odd to undermine people like Scorsesse and Spielberg. (At least I wouldn't apply this to directors such as Tarrantino who actually write their movies as well [I believe the writers to be the real stars anyway])