Saturday, March 19, 2011

Top Ranked Directors on the Net

© 2009-11, William L. Sinclair



All Directors in the top 1011 list that we compiled from all the internet surveys we could find, ranked by total points for all films on our spreadsheet. Alfred Hitchcock led the list [photo above with fellow director, artist Andy Warhol]. John Ford and Jean-Luc Godard had the most films listed at 16 each. Charles Laughton made the list highest with only one film at #100; unfortunately for this consummate actor, it was the only film he directed, Night of the Hunter. Count, Director, Top Ranked Film, Total Points

  1. 14 - Hitchcock, Alfred [Vertigo (1958) #6 ] ..55352

  2. 10 - Kubrick, Stanley [2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) #2 ] ..42161

  3. 12 - Scorsese, Martin [Taxi Driver (1976) #12 ] ..37474

  4. 11 - Kurosawa, Akira [Seven Samurai, The (1954) #7 ] ..33022

  5. 16 - Ford, John [Searchers, The (1956) #46 ] ..32142

  6. 8 - Chaplin, Charles [City Lights (1931) #21 ] ..31835

  7. 16 - Godard, Jean-Luc [Contempt (1963) 74 ] ..31243

  8. 15 - Buñuel, Luis [Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (1972) #88 ] ..29977

  9. 7 - Spielberg, Steven [Schindler's List (1993) #27 ] ..28694

  10. 11 - Fellini, Federico [8½ (1963) #37 ] ..27722

  11. 8 - Wilder, Billy [Sunset Boulevard (1950) #14 ] ..27448

  12. 12 - Bergman, Ingmar [Seventh Seal, The (1956) 29 ] ..27032

  13. 4 - Coppola, Francis [Godfather, The (1972) #1 ] ..26334

  14. 11 - Hawks, Howard [Bringing Up Baby (1938) #118 ] ..25560

  15. 7 - Welles, Orson [Citizen Kane (1941) #5 ] ..24090

  16. 6 - Lean, David [Lawrence of Arabia (1962) #50 ] ..22668

  17. 10 - Lang, Fritz [M (1931) 11 ] ..22392

  18. 10 - Renoir, Jean [Rules of the Game, The (1939) #44 ] ..21204

  19. 8 - Bresson, Robert [Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) 93 ] ..20832

  20. 8 - Huston, John [Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) #62 ] ..20190

  21. 7 - Keaton, Buster [Sherlock Jr. (1924) #89 ] ..19724

  22. 4 - Capra, Frank [It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 10 ] ..17564

  23. 8 - Powell, Michael [Peeping Tom (1960) #360 ] ..17464

  24. 5 - Polanski, Roman [Chinatown (1974) #3 ] ..17376

  25. 7 - Truffaut, François [Jules et Jim (1961) #59 ] ..17238

  26. 7 - Eisenstein, Sergei [Battleship Potemkin (1925) 100 ] ..17070

  27. 4 - Scott, Ridley [Blade Runner (1982) 13 ] ..16179

  28. 5 - Murnau, F.W. [Sunrise (1928) #38 ] ..16168

  29. 5 - Dreyer, Carl Theodor [Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928) 51 ] ..16068

  30. 10 - Rossellini, Roberto [Paisan (1946) #166 ] ..16058

  31. 8 - Eastwood, Clint [Unforgiven (1992) #91 ] ..15976

  32. 4 - De Sica, Vittorio [Bicycle Thief, The (1949) 16 ] ..15656

  33. 7 - Cassavetes, John [Woman Under the Influence, A (1974) #176 ] ..15564

  34. 9 - Visconti, Luchino [Rocco and His Brothers (1964) #237 ] ..15186

  35. 6 - Allen, Woody [Annie Hall (1977) #77 ] ..15039

  36. 5 - Ray, Satyajit [Pather Panchali / Apu Trilogy I (1955) #32 ] ..14988

  37. 6 - Antonioni, Michelangelo [L'Avventura (1960) #187 ] ..14434

  38. 4 - Leone, Sergio [Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) #70 ] ..14418

  39. 7 - Altman, Robert [Nashville (1975) #192 ] ..13854

  40. 3 - Lucas, George [Star Wars (1978) #4 ] ..13743

  41. 8 - Ophuls, Max [Earrings of Madame de..., The (1953) 264 ] ..13588

  42. 6 - Mizoguchi, Kenji [Ugetsu (1953) 58 ] ..13300

  43. 7 - Tarkovsky, Andrei [Solaris (1972) #263 ] ..13200

  44. 3 - Griffith, D.W. [Intolerance (1916) 64 ] ..13198

  45. 6 - Coen Ethan and Joel [No Country for Old Men (2007) #165 ] ..13163

  46. 5 - Sturges, Preston [Lady Eve, The (1941) 92 ] ..13162

  47. 3 - Jackson, Peter [Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) #84 ] ..12603

  48. 4 - Forman, Milos [One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) #54 ] ..12314

  49. 4 - Cameron, James [Aliens (1986) #159 ] ..12253

  50. 4 - Tarantino, Quentin [Pulp Fiction (1995) #20 ] ..12172

  51. 4 - Lumet, Sidney [12 Angry Men (1957) #124 ] ..11976

  52. 5 - Kazan, Elia [On the Waterfront (1954) #67 ] ..11952

  53. 6 - Lubitsch, Ernst [Trouble in Paradise (1932) #234 ] ..11804

  54. 4 - Wyler, William [Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) #102 ] ..11786

  55. 6 - Resnais, Alain [Last Year at Marienbad (1961) #215 ] ..11250

  56. 2 - Fleming, Victor [Wizard of Oz, The (1938) #18 ] ..11132

  57. 7 - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner [Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) 196 ] ..11128

  58. 4 - McCarey, Leo [Duck Soup (1933) #41 ] ..10924

  59. 7 - Kiarostami, Abbas [Close-Up (1990) 189 ] ..10769

  60. 5 - Pasolini, Pier Paolo [Gospel According to St. Matthew, The (1964) #103 ] ..10760

  61. 3 - Curtiz, Michael [Casablanca (1942) #47 ] ..10506

  62. 5 - Lynch, David [Elephant Man, The (1980) #193 ] ..10266

  63. 5 - Ozu, Yasujiro [Tokyo Story (1953) #57 ] ..10218

  64. 6 - Minnelli, Vincente [Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) #288 ] ..10068

  65. 6 - Ray, Nicholas [Rebel Without a Cause (1955) #280 ] ..10052

  66. 4 - Bertolucci, Bernardo [Conformist, The (1970) 76 ] ..9788

  67. 5 - Cukor, George [Philadelphia Story, The (1940) #148 ] ..9614

  68. 5 - Sirk, Douglas [All That Heaven Allows (1955) #233 ] ..9604

  69. 4 - Donen, Stanley [Funny Face (1957) #735 ] ..9452

  70. 3 - Reed, Carol [Third Man, The (1948) #15 ] ..9246

  71. 4 - Mankiewicz, Joseph L. [All About Eve (1950) #33 ] ..9238

  72. 5 - Peckinpah, Sam [Wild Bunch, The (1969) #87 ] ..8998

  73. 6 - Kieslowski, Krszystof [Dekalog (1988) #235 ] ..8974

  74. 5 - Roeg, Nicolas [Don't Look Now (1973) #301 ] ..8966

  75. 4 - Gilliam, Terry [Brazil (1985) #188 ] ..8783

  76. 4 - Carné, Marcel [Enfants du paradis, Les (1945) #183 ] ..8728

  77. 4 - Herzog, Werner [Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) #72 ] ..8534

  78. 4 - von Stroheim, Erich [Greed (1924) 79 ] ..8234

  79. 6 - von Sternberg, Josef [Blue Angel, The (1930) #269 ] ..8170

  80. 4 - Wenders, Wim [Wings of Desire (1987) #245 ] ..7908

  81. 2 - Vigo, Jean [L'Atalante (1934) 49 ] ..7874

  82. 2 - Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly [Singin' in the Rain (1952) #26 ] ..7604

  83. 4 - Nolan, Christopher [Memento (2000) #354 ] ..7406

  84. 2 - Clouzot, Henri-Georges [Wages of Fear, The (1952) #134 ] ..7390

  85. 4 - Miyazaki, Hayao [Spirited Away (2001) #255 ] ..7366

  86. 3 - Tati, Jacques [Playtime (1967) #209 ] ..7362

  87. 3 - Anderson, Paul Thomas [There Will Be Blood (2007) #180 ] ..7326

  88. 3 - Wise, Robert [Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951) #318 ] ..7272

  89. 2 - Whale, James [Bride of Frankenstein (1935) #140 ] ..7204

  90. 4 - Almodóvar, Pedro [All About My Mother (1999) #283 ] ..6825

  91. 5 - Vidor, King [Crowd, The (1928) #355 ] ..6759

  92. 3 - Zinnemann, Fred [High Noon (1952) #106 ] ..6560

  93. 4 - Tourneur, Jacques [Out of the Past (1947) #236 ] ..6446

  94. 2 - Zemeckis, Robert [Back to the Future (1985) #175 ] ..6434

  95. 4 - Reiner, Rob [Princess Bride, The (1987) #371 ] ..6426

  96. 3 - Malick, Terrence [Days of Heaven (1978) #260 ] ..6402

  97. 3 - Carpenter, John [Halloween (1978) #317 ] ..6355

  98. 3 - Stevens, George [Shane (1953) #282 ] ..6214

  99. 3 - Cocteau, Jean [Belle et la bête, La (Beauty/Beast, 1946) #240 ] ..6196

  100. 1 - Laughton, Charles [Night of The Hunter, The (1955) 35 ] ..6100

  101. 4 - Melville, Jean-Pierre [Army of Shadows (1969) #291 ] ..6086

  102. 2 - Nichols, Mike [Graduate, The (1967) #107 ] ..6016

  103. 4 - Demy, Jacques [Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (1964) #284 ] ..5954

  104. 2 - Preminger, Otto [Laura (1944) #168 ] ..5952

  105. 3 - De Palma, Brian [Scarface (1982) #210 ] ..5943

  106. 1 - Cooper, Merian C./Ernest B. Schoedsack [King Kong (1933) 40 ] ..5838

  107. 5 - Hou Hsiao-Hsien [Time to Live and the Time to Die, The (1985) #500 ] ..5802

  108. 2 - Stanton, Andrew [WALL-E (2008) #181 ] ..5795

  109. 3 - Fincher, David [Fight Club (1999) #271 ] ..5768

  110. 2 - Campion, Jane [Piano, The (1993) #81 ] ..5697

  111. 3 - Sharpsteen, Ben [Fantasia (1940) #358 ] ..5690

  112. 2 - Lasseter, John [Toy Story (1995) #82 ] ..5588

  113. 2 - Friedkin, William [Exorcist, The (1973) #143 ] ..5562

  114. 1 - Frankenheimer, John [Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) #43 ] ..5559

  115. 3 - Rivette, Jacques [Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) 141 ] ..5542

  116. 2 - Lee, Ang [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) #152 ] ..5452

  117. 3 - Clair, René [Le Million (1931) #313 ] ..5410

  118. 2 - Lee, Spike [Do The Right Thing (1989) #112 ] ..5377

  119. 1 - Hanson, Curtis [L.A. Confidential (1997) #45 ] ..5348

  120. 2 - Bird, Brad [Incredibles, The (2004) #295 ] ..5333

  121. 2 - Darabont, Frank [Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) #155 ] ..5234

  122. 2 - Demme, Jonathan [Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) #90 ] ..5234

  123. 4 - Zhang Yimou [Raise the Red Lantern (1991) #298 ] ..5219

  124. 2 - Cimino, Michael [Deer Hunter, The (1978) #110 ] ..5202

  125. 2 - Hill, George Roy [Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) #149 ] ..5088

  126. 2 - Boyle, Danny [Slumdog Millionaire (2008) #232 ] ..5051

  127. 2 - Marker, Chris [La Jetee (1961) 184 ] ..4972

  128. 3 - Greengrass, Paul [Bourne Ultimatum, The (2007) #362 ] ..4640

  129. 1 - Vertov, Dziga [Man With a Movie Camera, The (1929) 78 ] ..4602

  130. 3 - Pabst, G.W. [Pandora's Box (1928) #249 ] ..4430

  131. 2 - Gilliam, Terry/Terry Jones [Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) #222 ] ..4330

  132. 1 - Mulligan, Robert [To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) #96 ] ..4324

  133. 2 - Fosse, Bob [Cabaret (1972) #276 ] ..4302

  134. 2 - Angelopoulos, Theo [Landscape in the Mist (1988) 316 ] ..4282

  135. 1 - Penn, Arthur [Bonnie and Clyde (1967) #105 ] ..4240

  136. 2 - Wong Kar-Wai [In the Mood for Love (2001) #268 ] ..4205

  137. 3 - Leigh, Mike [Secrets & Lies (1996) #376 ] ..4195

  138. 4 - Weir, Peter [Truman Show, The (1998) #689 ] ..4172

  139. 3 - Rocha, Glauber [Black God, White Devil (1964) #528 ] ..4166

  140. 2 - Hand, David [Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) #256 ] ..4136

  141. 2 - Boorman, John [Deliverance (1972) #309 ] ..4134

  142. 1 - Wajda, Andrzej [Ashes and Diamonds (1958) 114 ] ..4132

  143. 1 - Hamer, Robert [Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) #117 ] ..4122

  144. 2 - Yang, Edward [Yi yi (2000) #221 ] ..4101

  145. 1 - Lanzmann, Claude [Shoah (1985) #119 ] ..4078

  146. 3 - Cronenberg, David [Dead Ringers (1988) #349 ] ..4076

  147. 1 - Pontecorvo, Gillo [Battle of Algiers, The (1966) #132 ] ..3936

  148. 1 - Mackendrick, Alexander [Sweet Smell of Success (1957) #133 ] ..3896

  149. 2 - Romero, George A. [Night of the Living Dead (1968) #326 ] ..3856

  150. 2 - Lester, Richard [Hard Day's Night, A (1964) #327 ] ..3849

  151. 2 - Snow, Michael [Wavelength (1967) #259 ] ..3842

  152. 1 - Mendes, Sam [American Beauty (1999) #139 ] ..3799

  153. 2 - Siegel, Don [Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) #342 ] ..3780

  154. 1 - Akerman, Chantal [Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) #146 ] ..3740

  155. 1 - Rossen, Robert [Hustler, The (1961) #153 ] ..3686

  156. 1 - del Toro, Guillermo [Pan's Labyrinth (2006) #154 ] ..3681

  157. 1 - Tornatore, Giuseppe [Cinema Paradiso (1988) #158 ] ..3632

  158. 3 - Rohmer, Eric [My Night at Maud's (1969) #497 ] ..3630

  159. 1 - von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel [Lives of Others, The (2006) #162 ] ..3537

  160. 3 - Frears, Stephen [Queen, The (2006) #479 ] ..3515

  161. 1 - Milestone, Lewis [All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) #164 ] ..3514

  162. 2 - Straub, Jean-Marie [Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, The (1968) #850 ] ..3466

  163. 3 - Jarmusch, Jim [Stranger Than Paradise (1984) #628 ] ..3426

  164. 3 - Sembene, Ousmane [Moolaadé (2004) #617 ] ..3419

  165. 1 - Singer, Bryan [Usual Suspects, The (1995) #169 ] ..3410

  166. 2 - Sturges, John [Great Escape, The (1963) #294 ] ..3398

  167. 1 - Burnett, Charles [Killer of Sheep (1977) #173 ] ..3367

  168. 2 - Flaherty, Robert [Nanook of the North (1922) #443 ] ..3362

  169. 2 - Aronofsky, Darren [Requiem for a Dream (2000) #459 ] ..3340

  170. 2 - Meyer, Russ [Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) 315 ] ..3322

  171. 2 - Ashby, Hal [Harold and Maude (1971) #346 ] ..3310

  172. 2 - Riefenstahl, Leni [Triumph of the Will (1935) #453 ] ..3310

  173. 3 - Malle, Louis [Atlantic City (1980) #489 ] ..3290

  174. 1 - Ramis, Harold [Groundhog Day (1993) #182 ] ..3262

  175. 1 - Hopper, Dennis [Easy Rider (1969) #190 ] ..3190

  176. 3 - Burton, Tim [Ed Wood (1994) #724 ] ..3188

  177. 1 - Meirelles, Fernando [City of God(2002) #191 ] ..3188

  178. 2 - Walsh, Raoul [White Heat (1949) #322 ] ..3152

  179. 1 - Shaffner, Frank [Patton (1970) #202 ] ..3105

  180. 1 - Pollack, Sydney [Tootsie (1982) #212 ] ..3049

  181. 2 - Parajanov, Sergei [Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) #510 ] ..3030

  182. 1 - Avildsen, John G. [Rocky (1976) #223 ] ..2938

  183. 1 - Wachowski, Andy & Larry Wachowski [Matrix, The (1999) #224 ] ..2932

  184. 2 - Stone, Oliver [Platoon (1986) #390 ] ..2920

  185. 1 - Gondry, Michael [Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) #225 ] ..2915

  186. 1 - Kelly, Richard [Donnie Darko (2001) #226 ] ..2908

  187. 1 - Mann, Michael [Heat (1995) #227 ] ..2904

  188. 1 - Gance, Abel [Napoléon (1927) #230 ] ..2888

  189. 2 - Tarr, Béla [Sátántangó (1994) #547 ] ..2886

  190. 1 - McTiernan, John [Die Hard (1988) #241 ] ..2802

  191. 1 - Peterson, Wolfgang [Das Boot (1981) #243 ] ..2798

  192. 1 - Hooper, Tobe [Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974) #246 ] ..2780

  193. 1 - Dovzhenko, Alexander [Earth (1930) #247 ] ..2774

  194. 1 - Wise, Robert/Jerome Robbins [West Side Story (1961) #251 ] ..2742

  195. 1 - Erice, Victor [Spirit of the Beehive, The (1973) #257 ] ..2688

  196. 2 - Chen Kaige [Farewell, My Concubine (1993) #452 ] ..2678

  197. 1 - Feuillade, Louis [Les Vampires (1915-16) #262 ] ..2666

  198. 2 - Ritchie, Guy [Snatch (2000) #607 ] ..2624

  199. 1 - Bogdanovich, Peter [Last Picture Show, The (1971) #278 ] ..2612

  200. 1 - Attenborough, Richard [Gandhi (1982) #281 ] ..2598

  201. 1 - Sandrich, Mark [Top Hat (1935) #285 ] ..2572

  202. 2 - Edwards, Blake [Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) #596 ] ..2560

  203. 1 - Schlesinger, John [Midnight Cowboy (1969) #289 ] ..2558

  204. 2 - von Trier, Lars [Breaking the Waves (1996) #445 ] ..2548

  205. 2 - Schnabel, Julian [Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2008) #439 ] ..2541

  206. 2 - Jennings, Humphrey [Listen to Britain (1941) #563 ] ..2500

  207. 1 - Clément, René [Forbidden Games (1951) #302 ] ..2488

  208. 2 - Zwigoff, Terry [Crumb (1994) #611 ] ..2482

  209. 2 - Wellman, William A. [Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943) #461 ] ..2478

  210. 2 - Cantet, Laurent [Class, The (2008) #598 ] ..2475

  211. 1 - Rafelson, Bob [Five Easy Pieces (1970) #305 ] ..2474

  212. 2 - Sjöström, Victor [Wind, The (1928) #512 ] ..2466

  213. 2 - Dutt, Guru [Pyaasa (1957) #561 ] ..2416

  214. 1 - Egoyan, Atom [Sweet Hereafter, The (1997) #314 ] ..2398

  215. 1 - Jewison, Norman [In the Heat of the Night (1967) #320 ] ..2376

  216. 1 - Takahata, Isao [Hotaru no Hakaa (Grave/Fireflies, 1988) #319 ] ..2376

  217. 1 - Wiene, Robert [Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (1919) #321 ] ..2372

  218. 2 - Forsyth, Bill [Local Hero (1983) #535 ] ..2362

  219. 1 - Méliès, Georges [Voyage dans la lune, Le (Trip to the Moon, 1902) #330 ] ..2348

  220. 2 - Loach, Ken [Kes (1969) #526 ] ..2344

  221. 1 - Aldrich, Robert [Kiss Me Deadly (1955) #336 ] ..2312

  222. 1 - Wood, Sam [Night at the Opera, A (1935) #337 ] ..2312

  223. 2 - Becker, Jacques [Casque d'or (1952) #543 ] ..2282

  224. 2 - Soderbergh, Steve [sex, lies, and videotape (1989) #666 ] ..2280

  225. 2 - Ichikawa, Kon [An Actor's Revenge (1963) 601 ] ..2278

  226. 1 - Levinson, Barry [Diner (1982) #341 ] ..2276

  227. 2 - Anderson, Lindsay [If… (1968) #534 ] ..2244

  228. 1 - Argento, Dario [Suspiria (1977) #345 ] ..2234

  229. 2 - Kalatozishvili, Mikheil [I Am Cuba (1964) #639 ] ..2186

  230. 2 - Kusturica, Emir [Underground (1995) #760 ] ..2184

  231. 1 - Payne, Alexander [Sideways (2004) #352 ] ..2182

  232. 2 - Crowe, Cameron [Almost Famous (2000) #677 ] ..2140

  233. 1 - Bacon, Lloyd [42nd Street (1933) #368 ] ..2098

  234. 1 - Park Chan-Wook [Oldboy (2003) #370 ] ..2094

  235. 2 - Park, Nick & Box, Steve [Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) #821 ] ..2050

  236. 2 - Pudovkin, Vsevolod [Storm Over Asia (1928) #757 ] ..2026

  237. 2 - Anderson, Wes [Rushmore (1998) #539 ] ..1987

  238. 1 - Coppola, Sofia [Lost in Translation (2003) #389 ] ..1981

  239. 1 - Rosenberg, Stuart [Cool Hand Luke (1967) #392 ] ..1974

  240. 1 - Franju, Georges [Eyes Without a Face (1959) #393 ] ..1972

  241. 1 - Denis, Claire [Beau Travail (1998) #395 ] ..1964

  242. 2 - Van Sant, Gus [Good Will Hunting (1997) #796 ] ..1956

  243. 1 - Olmi, Ermanno [Tree of Wooden Clogs, The (1978) #398 ] ..1956

  244. 1 - Brooks, Mel [Producers, The (1968) #400 ] ..1952

  245. 1 - Jonze, Spike [Being John Malkovich (1999) #402 ] ..1950

  246. 1 - Olivier, Laurence [Henry V (1944) #403 ] ..1946

  247. 2 - Linklater, Richard [Before Sunset (2004) #669 ] ..1936

  248. 1 - Jordan, Neil [Crying Game, The (1992) #408 ] ..1912

  249. 1 - Besson, Luc [Léon (1994) #416 ] ..1864

  250. 1 - Eustache, Jean [Mother and the Whore, The (1973) #419 ] ..1858

  251. 1 - Menzel, Jirí [Closely Watched Trains (1966) #422 ] ..1850

  252. 2 - Varda, Agnès [Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) #822 ] ..1848

  253. 1 - Beatty, Warren [Reds (1981) #424 ] ..1848

  254. 1 - Kaye, Tony [American History X (1998) #423 ] ..1848

  255. 1 - Mungiu, Cristian [4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) #425 ] ..1846

  256. 1 - Pakula, Alan J. [All the President's Men (1972) #427 ] ..1840

  257. 1 - Jeunet, Jean-Pierre [Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) #431 ] ..#824

  258. 2 - Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc [L'Enfant (The Child, 2005) #800 ] ..1815

  259. 1 - Browning, Tod [Freaks (1932) #440 ] ..1788

  260. 2 - Mann, Anthony [Man of the West (1958) #805 ] ..1780

  261. 1 - Rapper, Irving [Now, Voyager (1942) #448 ] ..1764

  262. 1 - Merielles, Ferdinand [Children of Men (2006) #455 ] ..1755

  263. 1 - Cuarón, Alfonso [Y Tu Mamá También (2001) #467 ] ..1725

  264. 2 - Maysles, Albert/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin [Salesman (1968) #792 ] ..1708

  265. 2 - Morris, Errol [Fog of War, The (2003) #814 ] ..1702

  266. 1 - Deren, Maya [Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) #474 ] ..1694

  267. 1 - Oshima, Nagisa [In the Realm of the Senses (1976) #477 ] ..1688

  268. 1 - Naruse, Mikio [Floating Clouds (1955) #481 ] ..1684

  269. 1 - Hirschbiegel, Oliver [Downfall (2004) #482 ] ..1680

  270. 1 - Reisz, Karel [Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) #483 ] ..1676

  271. 1 - Inarritu, Alejandro Gonzalez [Amores perros (2000) #488 ] ..1668

  272. 1 - Ulmer, Edgar G. [Detour (1945) #492 ] ..1660

  273. 1 - Begnini, Roberto [Life is Beautiful (1997) #493 ] ..1656

  274. 1 - Rosi, Francesco [Salvatore Giuliano (1961) #494 ] ..1656

  275. 1 - Berlanga, Luis García [Verdugo, El (1963) #496 ] ..1648

  276. 1 - Minghella, Anthony [English Patient, The (1996) #501 ] ..1624

  277. 2 - Ghobadi, Bahman [Marooned in Iraq (2002) #854 ] ..1620

  278. 1 - Rodgriguez, Robert [Sin City (2005) #502 ] ..1608

  279. 1 - Gibson, Mel [Braveheart (1995) #508 ] ..1592

  280. 1 - George, Terry [Hotel Rwanda (2004) #514 ] ..1584

  281. 1 - McLeod, Norman Z. [It's a Gift (1934) #525 ] ..1566

  282. 1 - Marquand, Richard [Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) #531 ] ..1552

  283. 1 - Pennebaker, D.A. [Don't Look Back (1967) #545 ] ..1518

  284. 1 - Kaufman, Philip [Right Stuff, The (1983) #550 ] ..1510

  285. 1 - La Cava, Gregory [My Man Godfrey (1936) #552 ] ..1504

  286. 1 - Kuchar, George [Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966) 557 ] ..1490

  287. 1 - Klimov, Elem [Come and See (1985) #558 ] ..1488

  288. 1 - Losey, Joseph [Servant, The (1963) #560 ] ..1484

  289. 1 - Madden, John [Shakespeare in Love (1998) #564 ] ..1478

  290. 1 - Warhol, Andy [Chelsea Girls (1967) #565 ] ..1474

  291. 1 - Anger, Kenneth [Scorpio Rising (1964) #567 ] ..1470

  292. 1 - Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez [Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) #574 ] ..1450

  293. 1 - Hicks, Scott [Shine (1996) #575 ] ..1447

  294. 1 - Shyamalan, M. Knight [Sixth Sense, The (1999) #578 ] ..1444

  295. 1 - Kramer, Stanley [Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) #584 ] ..1432

  296. 1 - Lewis, Joseph H. [Gun Crazy (Deadly is the Female, 1950) #583 ] ..1432

  297. 1 - Richardson, Tony [Tom Jones (1963) #585 ] ..1432

  298. 1 - Schroeder, Barbet [Reversal of Fortune (1990) #588 ] ..1425

  299. 1 - Penn, Sean [Into the Wild (2007) #589 ] ..1424

  300. 1 - Miller, George [Mad Max 2 (1981) #591 ] ..1420

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