News Film List: Top Ranked Directors - by Point Totals

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Top Ranked Directors - by Point Totals

[Our 100th post!]
Top 200 Directors, films in the Top Ranked 1011 only that we compiled, ranked by total points for all films.
© 2009, William L. Sinclair
Kubrick, photo rt, would be #1 had he made more films.

Count, Director, Top Ranked Film, Total Points

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2 - Fleming, Victor [ Wizard of Oz, The (1939) #18 ] - 11132

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1 - Vertov, Dziga [ Man With a Movie Camera, The (1928) 78 ] - 4602

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See the complete list of all 430 directors with films in the Top Ranked 1000