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
- 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 (1938) #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 (1929) 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
- 2 - Jennings, Humphrey [Listen to Britain (1941) #563 ] ..2500
- 1 - Clément, René [Forbidden Games (1951) #302 ] ..2488
- 2 - Zwigoff, Terry [Crumb (1994) #611 ] ..2482
- 2 - Wellman, William A. [Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943) #461 ] ..2478
- 2 - Cantet, Laurent [Class, The (2008) #598 ] ..2475
- 1 - Rafelson, Bob [Five Easy Pieces (1970) #305 ] ..2474
- 2 - Sjöström, Victor [Wind, The (1928) #512 ] ..2466
- 2 - Dutt, Guru [Pyaasa (1957) #561 ] ..2416
- 1 - Egoyan, Atom [Sweet Hereafter, The (1997) #314 ] ..2398
- 1 - Jewison, Norman [In the Heat of the Night (1967) #320 ] ..2376
- 1 - Takahata, Isao [Hotaru no Hakaa (Grave/Fireflies, 1988) #319 ] ..2376
- 1 - Wiene, Robert [Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (1919) #321 ] ..2372
- 2 - Forsyth, Bill [Local Hero (1983) #535 ] ..2362
- 1 - Méliès, Georges [Voyage dans la lune, Le (Trip to the Moon, 1902) #330 ] ..2348
- 2 - Loach, Ken [Kes (1969) #526 ] ..2344
- 1 - Aldrich, Robert [Kiss Me Deadly (1955) #336 ] ..2312
- 1 - Wood, Sam [Night at the Opera, A (1935) #337 ] ..2312
- 2 - Becker, Jacques [Casque d'or (1952) #543 ] ..2282
- 2 - Soderbergh, Steve [sex, lies, and videotape (1989) #666 ] ..2280
- 2 - Ichikawa, Kon [An Actor's Revenge (1963) 601 ] ..2278
- 1 - Levinson, Barry [Diner (1982) #341 ] ..2276
- 2 - Anderson, Lindsay [If… (1968) #534 ] ..2244
- 1 - Argento, Dario [Suspiria (1977) #345 ] ..2234
- 2 - Kalatozishvili, Mikheil [I Am Cuba (1964) #639 ] ..2186
- 2 - Kusturica, Emir [Underground (1995) #760 ] ..2184
- 1 - Payne, Alexander [Sideways (2004) #352 ] ..2182
- 2 - Crowe, Cameron [Almost Famous (2000) #677 ] ..2140
- 1 - Bacon, Lloyd [42nd Street (1933) #368 ] ..2098
- 1 - Park Chan-Wook [Oldboy (2003) #370 ] ..2094
- 2 - Park, Nick & Box, Steve [Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) #821 ] ..2050
- 2 - Pudovkin, Vsevolod [Storm Over Asia (1928) #757 ] ..2026
- 2 - Anderson, Wes [Rushmore (1998) #539 ] ..1987
- 1 - Coppola, Sofia [Lost in Translation (2003) #389 ] ..1981
- 1 - Rosenberg, Stuart [Cool Hand Luke (1967) #392 ] ..1974
- 1 - Franju, Georges [Eyes Without a Face (1959) #393 ] ..1972
- 1 - Denis, Claire [Beau Travail (1998) #395 ] ..1964
- 2 - Van Sant, Gus [Good Will Hunting (1997) #796 ] ..1956
- 1 - Olmi, Ermanno [Tree of Wooden Clogs, The (1978) #398 ] ..1956
- 1 - Brooks, Mel [Producers, The (1968) #400 ] ..1952
- 1 - Jonze, Spike [Being John Malkovich (1999) #402 ] ..1950
- 1 - Olivier, Laurence [Henry V (1944) #403 ] ..1946
- 2 - Linklater, Richard [Before Sunset (2004) #669 ] ..1936
- 1 - Jordan, Neil [Crying Game, The (1992) #408 ] ..1912
- 1 - Besson, Luc [Léon (1994) #416 ] ..1864
- 1 - Eustache, Jean [Mother and the Whore, The (1973) #419 ] ..1858
- 1 - Menzel, Jirí [Closely Watched Trains (1966) #422 ] ..1850
- 2 - Varda, Agnès [Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) #822 ] ..1848
- 1 - Beatty, Warren [Reds (1981) #424 ] ..1848
- 1 - Kaye, Tony [American History X (1998) #423 ] ..1848
- 1 - Mungiu, Cristian [4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) #425 ] ..1846
- 1 - Pakula, Alan J. [All the President's Men (1972) #427 ] ..1840
- 1 - Jeunet, Jean-Pierre [Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) #431 ] ..#824
- 2 - Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc [L'Enfant (The Child, 2005) #800 ] ..1815
- 1 - Browning, Tod [Freaks (1932) #440 ] ..1788
- 2 - Mann, Anthony [Man of the West (1958) #805 ] ..1780
- 1 - Rapper, Irving [Now, Voyager (1942) #448 ] ..1764
- 1 - Merielles, Ferdinand [Children of Men (2006) #455 ] ..1755
- 1 - Cuarón, Alfonso [Y Tu Mamá También (2001) #467 ] ..1725
- 2 - Maysles, Albert/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin [Salesman (1968) #792 ] ..1708
- 2 - Morris, Errol [Fog of War, The (2003) #814 ] ..1702
- 1 - Deren, Maya [Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) #474 ] ..1694
- 1 - Oshima, Nagisa [In the Realm of the Senses (1976) #477 ] ..1688
- 1 - Naruse, Mikio [Floating Clouds (1955) #481 ] ..1684
- 1 - Hirschbiegel, Oliver [Downfall (2004) #482 ] ..1680
- 1 - Reisz, Karel [Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) #483 ] ..1676
- 1 - Inarritu, Alejandro Gonzalez [Amores perros (2000) #488 ] ..1668
- 1 - Ulmer, Edgar G. [Detour (1945) #492 ] ..1660
- 1 - Begnini, Roberto [Life is Beautiful (1997) #493 ] ..1656
- 1 - Rosi, Francesco [Salvatore Giuliano (1961) #494 ] ..1656
- 1 - Berlanga, Luis García [Verdugo, El (1963) #496 ] ..1648
- 1 - Minghella, Anthony [English Patient, The (1996) #501 ] ..1624
- 2 - Ghobadi, Bahman [Marooned in Iraq (2002) #854 ] ..1620
- 1 - Rodgriguez, Robert [Sin City (2005) #502 ] ..1608
- 1 - Gibson, Mel [Braveheart (1995) #508 ] ..1592
- 1 - George, Terry [Hotel Rwanda (2004) #514 ] ..1584
- 1 - McLeod, Norman Z. [It's a Gift (1934) #525 ] ..1566
- 1 - Marquand, Richard [Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) #531 ] ..1552
- 1 - Pennebaker, D.A. [Don't Look Back (1967) #545 ] ..1518
- 1 - Kaufman, Philip [Right Stuff, The (1983) #550 ] ..1510
- 1 - La Cava, Gregory [My Man Godfrey (1936) #552 ] ..1504
- 1 - Kuchar, George [Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966) 557 ] ..1490
- 1 - Klimov, Elem [Come and See (1985) #558 ] ..1488
- 1 - Losey, Joseph [Servant, The (1963) #560 ] ..1484
- 1 - Madden, John [Shakespeare in Love (1998) #564 ] ..1478
- 1 - Warhol, Andy [Chelsea Girls (1967) #565 ] ..1474
- 1 - Anger, Kenneth [Scorpio Rising (1964) #567 ] ..1470
- 1 - Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez [Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) #574 ] ..1450
- 1 - Hicks, Scott [Shine (1996) #575 ] ..1447
- 1 - Shyamalan, M. Knight [Sixth Sense, The (1999) #578 ] ..1444
- 1 - Kramer, Stanley [Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) #584 ] ..1432
- 1 - Lewis, Joseph H. [Gun Crazy (Deadly is the Female, 1950) #583 ] ..1432
- 1 - Richardson, Tony [Tom Jones (1963) #585 ] ..1432
- 1 - Schroeder, Barbet [Reversal of Fortune (1990) #588 ] ..1425
- 1 - Penn, Sean [Into the Wild (2007) #589 ] ..1424
- 1 - Miller, George [Mad Max 2 (1981) #591 ] ..1420
- 1 - Ghatak, Ritwik [Cloud-Capped Star, The (1960) #595 ] ..1402
- 1 - Mamoulian, Rouben [Love Me Tonight (1932) #600 ] ..1392
- 1 - Makhmalbaf, Mohsen [Moment of Innocence, A (1996) #608 ] ..1378
- 1 - Chabrol, Claude [Le Boucher (1970) #612 ] ..1372
- 1 - Tarr, Bela & Hranitzky, Agnes [Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) #614 ] ..1370
- 1 - Hallström, Lasse [My Life as a Dog (1985) #621 ] ..1360
- 1 - Kunuk, Zacharias [Fast Runner, The (2001) #620 ] ..1360
- 1 - Chomet, Sylvain [Triplets of Belleville, The (2003) #626 ] ..1350
- 1 - Hellman, Monte [Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) #630 ] ..1332
- 1 - Allers, Roger & Minkoff, Robert [Lion King, The (1994) #632 ] ..1324
- 1 - Folman, Ari [Waltz with Bashir (2008) #635 ] ..1320
- 1 - Raimi, Sam [Evil Dead II (1987) #641 ] ..1306
- 1 - Duras, Marguerite [India Song (1975) #643 ] ..1304
- 1 - McTeigue, James [V for Vendetta (2005) #644 ] ..1304
- 1 - Davies, Terence [Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) #649 ] ..1290
- 1 - Coster, Henry [Harvey (1950) #650 ] ..1288
- 1 - Hu, King [Touch of Zen, A (1969) #662 ] ..1266
- 1 - Fei Mu [Spring in a Small Town (1948) #676 ] ..1242
- 1 - Jones, Terry [Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) #678 ] ..1240
- 1 - Alfredson, Tomas [Let the Right One In (2008) #680 ] ..1236
- 1 - Berman, Shari, and Pulcini, Robert [American Splendor (2003) #681 ] ..1235
- 1 - Genet, Jean [Chant d'amour, Un (1950) #682 ] ..1232
- 1 - Russell, Ken [Devils, The (aka ..of Loudun, 1971) #685 ] ..1228
- 1 - Jarecki, Andrew [Capturing the Friedmans (2003) #691 ] ..1215
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