We took just those directors with two or more films on the Top Ranked 1000. Had we included those with one film, Charles Laughton would have been #2.
Director, Avg Pts per Film, Total Films
- Coppola, Francis - 6584 (4) photo rt
- Fleming, Victor - 5566 (2)
- Lucas, George - 4581 (3)
- Griffith, D.W. - 4399 (3) photo rt, ca 1913
- Capra, Frank - 4391 (4)
- Kubrick, Stanley - 4216 (10)
- Jackson, Peter - 4201 (3)
- Spielberg, Steven - 4099 (7)
- Scott, Ridley - 4045 (4)
- Chaplin, Charles - 3979 (8)
- Hitchcock, Alfred - 3954 (14)
- Vigo, Jean - 3937 (2)
- De Sica, Vittorio - 3914 (4) photo rt
- Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly - 3802 (2)
- Lean, David - 3778 (6)
- Clouzot, Henri-Georges - 3695 (2)
- Leone, Sergio - 3605 (4)
- Whale, James - 3602 (2)
- Curtiz, Michael - 3502 (3)
- Polanski, Roman - 3475 (5)
- Welles, Orson - 3441 (7)
- Wilder, Billy - 3431 (8)
- Murnau, F.W. - 3234 (5)
- Zemeckis, Robert - 3217 (2)
- Dreyer, Carl Theodor - 3214 (5)
- Scorsese, Martin - 3123 (12)
- Reed, Carol - 3082 (3)
- Forman, Milos - 3079 (4)
- Cameron, James - 3063 (4)
- Tarantino, Quentin - 3043 (4)
- Nichols, Mike - 3008 (2)
- Kurosawa, Akira - 3002 (11)
- Ray, Satyajit - 2998 (5)
- Lumet, Sidney - 2994 (4)
- Preminger, Otto - 2976 (2)
- Wyler, William - 2947 (4)
- Stanton, Andrew - 2898 (2)
- Campion, Jane - 2849 (2)
- Keaton, Buster - 2818 (7)
- Lasseter, John - 2794 (2)
- Friedkin, William - 2781 (2)
- McCarey, Leo - 2731 (4)
- Lee, Ang - 2726 (2)
- Lee, Spike - 2689 (2)
- Bird, Brad - 2667 (2)
- Sturges, Preston - 2632 (5)
- Darabont, Frank - 2617 (2)
- Demme, Jonathan - 2617 (2)
- Bresson, Robert - 2604 (8)
- Cimino, Michael - 2601 (2)
- Hill, George Roy - 2544 (2)
- Boyle, Danny - 2526 (2)
- Huston, John - 2524 (8)
- Fellini, Federico - 2520 (11)
- Allen, Woody - 2507 (6)
- Marker, Chris - 2486 (2)
- Truffaut, François - 2463 (7)
- Tati, Jacques - 2454 (3)
- Bertolucci, Bernardo - 2447 (4)
- Anderson, Paul Thomas - 2442 (3)
- Eisenstein, Sergei - 2439 (7)
- Wise, Robert - 2424 (3)
- Antonioni, Michelangelo - 2406 (6)
- Kazan, Elia - 2390 (5)
- Donen, Stanley - 2363 (4)
- Hawks, Howard - 2324 (11)
- Mankiewicz, Joseph L. - 2310 (4)
- Bergman, Ingmar - 2253 (12)
- Lang, Fritz - 2239 (10)
- Cassavetes, John - 2223 (7)
- Mizoguchi, Kenji - 2217 (6)
- Gilliam, Terry - 2196 (4)
- Coen Ethan and Joel - 2194 (6)
- Zinnemann, Fred - 2187 (3)
- Powell, Michael - 2183 (8)
- Carné, Marcel - 2182 (4)
- Gilliam, Terry/Terry Jones - 2165 (2)
- Pasolini, Pier Paolo - 2152 (5)
- Fosse, Bob - 2151 (2)
- Angelopoulos, Theo - 2141 (2)
- Malick, Terrence - 2134 (3)
- Herzog, Werner - 2134 (4)
- Renoir, Jean - 2120 (10)
- Carpenter, John - 2118 (3)
- Wong Kar-Wai - 2103 (2)
- Stevens, George - 2071 (3)
- Hand, David - 2068 (2)
- Boorman, John - 2067 (2)
- Cocteau, Jean - 2065 (3)
- von Stroheim, Erich - 2059 (4)
- Lynch, David - 2053 (5)
- Yang, Edward - 2051 (2)
- Ozu, Yasujiro - 2044 (5)
- Ford, John - 2009 (16)
- Buñuel, Luis - 1998 (15)
- Eastwood, Clint - 1997 (8)
- De Palma, Brian - 1981 (3)
- Altman, Robert - 1979 (7)
- Wenders, Wim - 1977 (4)
- Lubitsch, Ernst - 1967 (6)
- Godard, Jean-Luc - 1953 (16)
- Romero, George A. - 1928 (2)
- Lester, Richard - 1925 (2)
- Cukor, George - 1923 (5)
- Fincher, David - 1923 (3)
- Snow, Michael - 1921 (2)
- Sirk, Douglas - 1921 (5)
- Sharpsteen, Ben - 1897 (3)
- Siegel, Don - 1890 (2)
- Tarkovsky, Andrei - 1886 (7)
- Resnais, Alain - 1875 (6)
- Nolan, Christopher - 1852 (4)
- Rivette, Jacques - 1847 (3)
- Miyazaki, Hayao - 1842 (4)
- Clair, René - 1803 (3)
- Peckinpah, Sam - 1800 (5)
- Roeg, Nicolas - 1793 (5)
- Straub, Jean-Marie - 1733 (2)
- Almodóvar, Pedro - 1706 (4)
- Sturges, John - 1699 (2)
- Ophuls, Max - 1699 (8)
- Visconti, Luchino - 1687 (9)
- Flaherty, Robert - 1681 (2)
- Minnelli, Vincente - 1678 (6)
- Ray, Nicholas - 1675 (6)
- Aronofsky, Darren - 1670 (2)
- Meyer, Russ - 1661 (2)
- Ashby, Hal - 1655 (2)
- Riefenstahl, Leni - 1655 (2)
- Tourneur, Jacques - 1612 (4)
- Reiner, Rob - 1607 (4)
- Rossellini, Roberto - 1606 (10)
- Fassbinder, Rainer Werner - 1590 (7)
- Walsh, Raoul - 1576 (2)
- Greengrass, Paul - 1547 (3)
- Kiarostami, Abbas - 1538 (7)
- Melville, Jean-Pierre - 1522 (4)
- Parajanov, Sergei - 1515 (2)
- Kieslowski, Krszystof - 1496 (6)
- Demy, Jacques - 1489 (4)
- Pabst, G.W. - 1477 (3)
- Stone, Oliver - 1460 (2)
- Tarr, Béla - 1443 (2)
- Leigh, Mike - 1398 (3)
- Rocha, Glauber - 1389 (3)
- von Sternberg, Josef - 1362 (6)
- Cronenberg, David - 1359 (3)
- Vidor, King - 1352 (5)
- Chen Kaige - 1339 (2)
- Ritchie, Guy - 1312 (2)
- Zhang Yimou - 1305 (4)
- Edwards, Blake - 1280 (2)
- von Trier, Lars - 1274 (2)
- Schnabel, Julian - 1271 (2)
- Jennings, Humphrey - 1250 (2)
- Zwigoff, Terry - 1241 (2)
- Wellman, William A. - 1239 (2)
- Cantet, Laurent - 1238 (2)
- Sjöström, Victor - 1233 (2)
- Rohmer, Eric - 1210 (3)
- Dutt, Guru - 1208 (2)
- Forsyth, Bill - 1181 (2)
- Loach, Ken - 1172 (2)
- Frears, Stephen - 1172 (3)
- Hou Hsiao-Hsien - 1160 (5)
- Jarmusch, Jim - 1142 (3)
- Becker, Jacques - 1141 (2)
- Soderbergh, Steve - 1140 (2)
- Sembene, Ousmane - 1140 (3)
- Ichikawa, Kon - 1139 (2)
- Anderson, Lindsay - 1122 (2)
- Malle, Louis - 1097 (3)
- Kalatozishvili, Mikheil - 1093 (2)
- Kusturica, Emir - 1092 (2)
- Crowe, Cameron - 1070 (2)
- Burton, Tim - 1063 (3)
- Weir, Peter - 1043 (4)
- Park, Nick & Box, Steve - 1025 (2)
- Pudovkin, Vsevolod - 1013 (2)
- Anderson, Wes - 994 (2)
- Van Sant, Gus - 978 (2)
- Linklater, Richard - 968 (2)
- Varda, Agnès - 924 (2)
- Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc - 908 (2)
- Mann, Anthony - 890 (2)
- Maysles, Albert/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin - 854 (2)
- Morris, Errol - 851 (2)
- Ghobadi, Bahman - 810 (2)
- Van Dyke II, W.S. - 456 (2)
