Top Ranked Directors - Point Totals
All Directors in the top 1011, ranked by total points for all films.
© 2009, William L. Sinclair
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 ] ..1824
- 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
- 1 - Paronnaud, Vincent & Satrapi, Marjane [ Persepolis (2007) #695 ] ..1210
- 1 - Giordana, Marco Tullio [ Best of Youth, The (2003) #701 ] ..1200
- 1 - McDonagh, Martin [ In Bruges (2008) #709 ] ..1188
- 1 - Woo, John [ Killer, The (1989) #710 ] ..1186
- 1 - Chambers, Jack [ Hart of London, The (1970) #712 ] ..1180
- 1 - Marsh, James [ Man on Wire (2008) #713 ] ..1180
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