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Top Films by Director (A)

George Abbott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Pajama Game1 1957 1764
2 Damn Yankees!1 1958 2079

1 Collaborated with Stanley Donen.

Jim Abrahams

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Airplane!1 1980 206
2 Top Secret!1 1984 1691

1 Collaborated with David and Jerry Zucker.

Andrew Adamson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shrek1 2001 289
2 Shrek 22 2004 1826

1 Collaborated with Vicky Jenson.
2 Collaborated with Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon.

Percy Adlon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bagdad Café 1987 1410

Chantal Akerman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jeanne Dielman 1976 661

Robert Aldrich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 418
2 The Dirty Dozen 1967 632
3 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 792
4 The Longest Yard 1974 897
5 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 2172
6 Ulzana's Raid 1972 2261

Grigori Aleksandrov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 October1 1928 766
2 ˇQue viva Mexico!1 1932 2350

1 Collaborated with Sergei M. Eisenstein.

James Algar

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 158
2 Fantasia/20002 1999 2253

1 Collaborated with Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield.
2 Collaborated with Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Francis Glebas, Eric Goldberg, Don Hahn, and Pixote Hunt.

Marc Allégret

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fanny 1932 1999

Irwin Allen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Towering Inferno1 1974 1265

1 Collaborated with John Guillermin.

Lewis Allen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Uninvited 1944 1605

Woody Allen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Annie Hall 1977 24
2 Manhattan 1979 135
3 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 372
4 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 488
5 Sleeper 1973 641
6 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 804
7 Husbands and Wives 1992 1291
8 Bananas 1971 1300
9 Zelig 1983 1311
10 Everyone Says I Love You 1996 1452
11 Love and Death 1975 1544
12 Bullets over Broadway 1994 1683
13 Broadway Danny Rose 1984 1958
14 Take the Money and Run 1969 2089
15 Radio Days 1987 2150
16 Deconstructing Harry 1997 2371

Roger Allers

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lion King1 1994 259

1 Collaborated with Rob Minkoff.

Pedro Almodóvar

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 All about My Mother 1999 534
2 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 584
3 Talk to Her 2002 854
4 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 1990 2248
5 Volver 2006 2414
6 Bad Education 2004 2488

Robert Altman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nashville 1975 70
2 M*A*S*H 1970 117
3 McCabe and Mrs. Miller 1971 251
4 The Player 1992 506
5 Short Cuts 1993 594
6 The Long Goodbye 1973 744
7 Gosford Park 2001 813
8 3 Women 1977 1740

Santiago Álvarez

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hour of the Furnaces1 1968 1685

1 Collaborated with Octavio Getino and Fernando E. Solanas.

Gianni Amelio

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lamerica 1994 1389

Alejandro Amenábar

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Others 2001 915
2 The Sea Inside 2004 1681
3 Open Your Eyes 1997 2228

Allison Anders

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gas Food Lodging 1992 1789
2 Grace of My Heart 1996 2271

Lindsay Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 If.… 1968 533
2 This Sporting Life 1963 895
3 O Lucky Man! 1973 1423

Michael Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 985
2 The Dam Busters 1955 1883

Paul Thomas Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Magnolia 1999 267
2 Boogie Nights 1997 430
3 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 1314

Wes Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rushmore 1998 486
2 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 714
3 Bottle Rocket 1996 1236

Theo Angelopoulos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Travelling Players 1975 768
2 Landscape in the Mist 1988 1639
3 Eternity and a Day 1998 2501

Ken Annakin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Longest Day1 1962 536
2 Swiss Family Robinson 1960 1714

1 Collaborated with Andrew Marton and Bernhard Wicki.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Bear 1988 1783
2 The Name of the Rose 1986 1875
3 Enemy at the Gates 2001 2471

David Anspaugh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hoosiers 1986 754
2 Rudy 1993 1359

Michelangelo Antonioni

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 L'Avventura 1960 189
2 Blow-Up 1966 253
3 The Eclipse 1962 794
4 The Passenger 1975 905
5 The Red Desert 1964 931
6 La Notte 1961 1301

Judd Apatow

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The 40 Year Old Virgin 2005 1590

Michael Apted

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 870
2 28 Up 1985 1507
3 42: Forty Two Up 1998 2046
4 Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey 1988 2273
5 35 Up 1991 2506

Alfonso Arau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Like Water for Chocolate 1992 611

Denys Arcand

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 1045
2 Jesus of Montreal 1989 1748
3 The Decline of the American Empire 1986 2490

Emile Ardolino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dirty Dancing 1987 395
2 Sister Act 1992 2307

Dario Argento

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Suspiria 1977 456

Allan Arkush

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rock 'n' Roll High School 1979 1917

George Armitage

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 816

Gillian Armstrong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Women 1994 715
2 My Brilliant Career 1979 860

Samuel Armstrong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 158

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield.

Morten Arnfred

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Kingdom1 1994 1915

1 Collaborated with Lars von Trier.

Jack Arnold

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 930
2 Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954 1385
3 The Mouse That Roared 1959 1493

Darren Aronofsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Requiem for a Dream 2000 484
2 Pi 1998 1171

Miguel Arteta

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Good Girl 2002 2220

Dorothy Arzner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Christopher Strong 1933 1920
2 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 1923

Kelly Asbury

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shrek 21 2004 1826

1 Collaborated with Andrew Adamson and Conrad Vernon.

Hal Ashby

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harold and Maude 1971 256
2 Being There 1979 454
3 Shampoo 1975 928
4 Coming Home 1978 1124
5 The Last Detail 1973 1304
6 Bound for Glory 1976 2165

Anthony Asquith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pygmalion1 1938 1101

1 Collaborated with Leslie Howard.

Olivier Assayas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Irma Vep 1996 1515

Richard Attenborough

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gandhi 1982 221
2 Shadowlands 1993 1733
3 A Bridge Too Far 1977 2353

Jacques Audiard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Read My Lips 2001 2432

Bille August

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pelle the Conqueror 1987 879

John G. Avildsen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rocky 1976 107
2 The Karate Kid 1984 1170
3 Lean on Me 1989 2018

Jon Avnet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fried Green Tomatoes 1991 1289

Gabriel Axel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Babette's Feast 1987 498
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