The two are vastly different directors this is like comparing apples and oranges. But based on when they used to make good films my vote still goes to Lucas. Spielberg never directed a film that changed the culture like star wars. He probably is insanely jealous of that. He can keep his pretentious academy trophies.

Lucas was the movie king and beat Spielberg at his own game. Better ideas and better stories. Lucas a much more theatrical epic approach to things while also being very documentary style. You can tell Spielberg came out of tv directing on his early films they are so suburban in mentality.

I guess Spielberg makes films and Lucas makes movies. Movies are to entertain. Spielberg used to make movies until he wanted to be taken seriously as a director and then lost his ability to make the films he used to make. As important as a film as Shindler's List is it robbed the world of the types of films Spielberg used to make that were fun.

Lucas started to make videogames instead of films or movies. Except they lacked the audience being in control or interactivity and did not engage audiences at all except to assault the eyes with repeated and contrived computer generated imagery that cannot hide the lack of likeable characters, zero plot or story and sterile imagination and complete lack of everything that makes a movie work.