I totalled up all the films for each listing in the critics top 1000, and these are the resulting point totals, not that I agree with the results. I decided to go to 120 rather than 100 because of some of those just out of the 100, like Yimou, Cimino, Campion, Reifenstahl, Eastwood.
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Director Points
1.Hitchcock, Alfred - US 10091
2.Ford, John - US 9836
3.Buñuel, Luis - Spain 9305
4.Godard, Jean-Luc - France 8474
5.Kubrick, Stanley - US-UK 7974
6.Fellini, Federico - Italy 7698
7.Kurosawa, Akira - Japan 7629
8.Hawks, Howard - US 7504
9.Bergman, Ingmar - Sweden 7191
10.Chaplin, Charles - US 6896
11.Powell, Michael - UK 6452
12.Renoir, Jean - France 6270
13.Bresson, Robert - France 6165
14.Lang, Fritz - US 6014
15.Scorsese, Martin - US 5809
16.Welles, Orson - US 5757
17.Visconti, Luchino - Italy 5703
18.Eisenstein, Sergei - Russia 5497
19.Tarkovsky, Andrei - Russia 5259
20.Keaton, Buster - US 5155
21.Rossellini, Roberto - Italy 5098
22.Antonioni, Michelangelo - Italy 4838
23.Wilder, Billy - US 4726
24.Mizoguchi, Kenji - Japan 4477
25.Spielberg, Steven - US 4456
26.Dreyer, Carl - Denmark 4442
27.Truffaut, François - France 4350
28.Lubitsch, Ernst - US 4271
29.Ophüls, Max - France 4268
30.Murnau, F.W. - US 4266
31.Ray, Satyajit - India 4214
32.Coppola, Francis - US 4196
33.Huston, John - US 4152
34.Resnais, Alain - France 4131
35.Cassavetes, John - US 3931
36.Lean, David - UK 3911
37.Allen, Woody - US 3793
38.Altman, Robert - US 3670
39.Ozu, Yasujiro - Japan 3567
40.Fassbinder, Rainer Werner – Ger. 3534
41.von Sternberg, Josef - US 3450
42.Ray, Nicholas - US 3424
43.Sturges, Preston - US 3378
44.Sirk, Douglas - US 3336
45.Pasolini, Pier Paolo - Italy 3182
46.Kieslowski, Krszystof - Poland 3165
47.Peckinpah, Sam - US 3029
48.McCarey, Leo - US 2985
49.Kiarostami, Abbas - Iran 2953
50.De Sica, Vittorio - Italy 2952
51.Minnelli, Vincente - US 2944
52.Kazan, Elia - US 2923
53.Griffith, D.W. - US 2918
54.Polanski, Roman - UK 2912
55.Bertolucci, Bernardo - Italy 2872
56.Wenders, Wim - Germany 2842
57.Leone, Sergio - Italy-Spain 2627
58.Forman, Milos - US 2624
59.Capra, Frank - US 2622
60.Lynch, David - US 2596
61.von Stroheim, Erich - Germany 2491
62.Cukor, George - US 2490
63.Donen, Stanley - US 2423
64.Vidor, King - US 2414
65.Wyler, William - US 2407
66.Tati, Jacques - France 2368
67.Scott, Ridley - UK 2338
68.Tourneur, Jacques - UK 2264
69.Melville, Jean-Pierre - France 2240
70.Hou Hsiao-Hsien - Taiwan 2162
71.Cocteau, Jean - France 2146
72.Lumet, Sidney - US 2141
73.Herzog, Werner - Germany 2138
74.Coen, Joel and Ethan - US 2090
75.Curtiz, Michael – US 2056
76.Rohmer, Eric – France 1978
77.Demy, Jacques - France 1971
78.Malick, Terrence - US 1953
79.Fleming, Victor - US 1898
80.Reed, Carol - UK 1866
81.Cameron, James - US 1852
82.Roeg, Nicolas - UK 1848
83.Rocha, Glauber - Brazil 1810
84.Stevens, George – US 1808
85.Wong Kar-Wai - Hong Kong 1802
86.Vigo, Jean – France 1765
87.Flaherty, Robert - US 1756
88.De Palma, Brian - US 1755
89.Wise, Robert - US 1740
90.Carné, Marcel - France 1711
91.Mankiewicz, Joseph L. - US 1706
92.Sharpsteen, Ben – US 1699
93.Clair, René - France 1698
94.Pabst, G.W. – Germany 1697
95.Marker, Chris - France 1629
96.Rivette, Jacques - France 1517
97.Lucas, George - US 1482
98.Tarantino, Quentin - US 1471
99.Jarmusch, Jim - US 1440
100.Whale, James - US 1432
101.Romero, George A. - US 1407
102.Gilliam, Terry – UK 1346
103.Weir, Peter – Australia 1337
104.Cronenberg, David - Canada 1325
105.Angelopoulos, Theo - Greece 1301
106.Fosse, Bob - US 1296
107.Clouzot, Henri-Georges - France 1259
108.Jennings, Humphrey - UK 1255
109.Riefenstahl, Leni - Germany 1230
110.Campion, Jane - Australia 1227
111.Eastwood, Clint - US 1225
112.Cimino, Michael - US 1220
113.Reiner, Rob - US 1209
114.Walsh, Raoul - US 1192
115.Zhang Yimou - Japan-China 1183
116.Zinnemann, Fred - US 1172
117.Friedkin, William - US 1150
118.Edwards, Blake - US 1098
119.Hand, David - US 1079
120.Parajanov, Sergei - USSR 1071
These are interesting results to say the least. I've always thought of Hitchcock as more of a popular than artistic director. I'm always surprised by the admiration for Godard - for me he's akin to root canal work, ie 'painful to sit through'. At least Kubrick is near the top (probably my favorite), and Scorsese is just ahead of Welles - yippee! He has a much longer and valuable filmography already, and is still active.
Glad that Buster Keaton showed so well, and Micheal Powell (11th), and that Spielberg is top 25 also. Shouldn't Billy Wilder be a little higher than 23rd though? I always find Chaplin ranked to highly also, and Howard Hawks - he's ahead of William Wyler? Are you kidding?
David Lean is too low at 36, and Elia Kazan is way too low at 52. WHO the heck is Ben Sharpsteen to come in 92? David Cronenberg, too high at 104th, in spite of Dead Ringers - he's ahead of Campion, Eastwood, Friedkin, Reifenstahl, Yimou, and Zinnemann!
"That's just my opinion, I could be wrong!"
Note: Once again, The Critics 1000 list we used was the one at They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
