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Top Films by Director (A)

George Abbott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Damn Yankees!1 1958 2033

1 Collaborated with Stanley Donen.

Jim Abrahams

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Airplane!1 1980 196
2 Top Secret!1 1984 1492

1 Collaborated with David and Jerry Zucker.

Lenny Abrahamson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Room 2015 1124

J.J. Abrams

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Trek 2009 522
2 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens 2015 565
3 Star Trek into Darkness 2013 1613
4 Super 8 2011 2451
5 Mission: Impossible III 2006 2521

Andrew Adamson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shrek1 2001 338
2 Shrek 22 2004 1114
3 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2005 1467

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

Maren Ade

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Toni Erdmann 2016 1541

Lou Adler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains 1982 2606

Ben Affleck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Argo 2012 1002
2 Gone Baby Gone 2007 1950
3 The Town 2010 2745

Charlie Ahearn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wild Style 1983 2661

Alexandre Aja

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 High Tension 2003 3004

Chantal Akerman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jeanne Dielman 1975 321
2 News from Home 1976 1997
3 Appropriate Behavior 2014 2585

Fatih Akin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Head-On 2004 2106

Robert Aldrich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 480
2 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 530
3 The Dirty Dozen 1967 537
4 The Longest Yard 1974 1490
5 Ulzana's Raid 1972 1856
6 Vera Cruz 1954 2159
7 Attack! 1956 2374

Grigoriy Aleksandrov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 October1 1927 1928

1 Collaborated with Sergei M. Eisenstein.

Tomas Alfredson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Let the Right One in 2008 290
2 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011 1914

James Algar

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 229

1 Collaborated with Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, and Ben Sharpsteen.

Waad al-Kateab

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 For Sama1 1974 2137

1 Collaborated with Edward Watts.

Lewis Allen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Uninvited 1944 2410

Woody Allen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Annie Hall 1977 33
2 Manhattan 1979 191
3 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 567
4 Sleeper 1973 628
5 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 904
6 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 990
7 Love and Death 1975 1403
8 Midnight in Paris 2011 1452
9 Zelig 1983 1493
10 Bananas 1971 1838
11 Match Point 2005 1849
12 Take the Money and Run 1969 2391
13 Broadway Danny Rose 1984 2395
14 Vicky Cristina Barcelona 2008 2432
15 Blue Jasmine 2013 2831
16 Radio Days 1987 2957

Roger Allers

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lion King1 1994 92

1 Collaborated with Rob Minkoff.

Haifaa Al-Mansour

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wadjda 2012 2096

Pedro Almodóvar

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 All about My Mother 1999 320
2 Talk to Her 2002 714
3 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 865
4 Volver 2006 1282
5 The Skin I Live In 2011 1516
6 Bad Education 2004 1699
7 Law of Desire 1987 2534
8 Pain and Glory 2019 2576

Paul Almond

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seven Up! 1964 1227

Robert Altman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nashville 1975 161
2 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 337
3 M*A*S*H 1970 344
4 The Long Goodbye 1973 538
5 The Player 1992 770
6 Short Cuts 1993 1032
7 Gosford Park 2001 1835
8 3 Women 1977 2269

Alejandro Amenábar

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Others 2001 639
2 The Sea Inside 2004 1488
3 Open Your Eyes 1997 2008

Ana Lily Amirpour

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 2014 1655

Thom Andersen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Los Angeles Plays Itself 2003 2307

Brad Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Session 9 2001 2823
2 The Machinist 2004 2850

Lindsay Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 If.... 1968 850
2 This Sporting Life 1963 1223
3 O Lucky Man! 1973 2670

Michael Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Logan's Run 1976 1468
2 The Dam Busters 1955 2244

Paul Thomas Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 There Will Be Blood 2007 125
2 Boogie Nights 1997 318
3 Magnolia 1999 387
4 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 689
5 The Master 2012 1578
6 Phantom Thread 2017 1612
7 Inherent Vice 2014 2431
8 Licorice Pizza 2021 2648

Stephen J. Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Winnie the Pooh1 2011 2804

1 Collaborated with Don Hall.

Wes Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rushmore 1998 330
2 The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 467
3 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 546
4 Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 564
5 Moonrise Kingdom 2012 757
6 Isle of Dogs 2018 1742
7 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004 1802
8 Bottle Rocket 1996 1834
9 The Darjeeling Limited 2007 2867

Roy Andersson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Songs from the Second Floor 2000 1976

Mark Andrews

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brave1 2012 1808

1 Collaborated with Brenda Chapman.

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Travelling Players 1975 1627
2 Landscape in the Mist 1988 1985
3 Eternity and a Day 1998 2828

Kenneth Anger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Scorpio Rising 1963 1331

Ken Annakin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Longest Day1 1962 864

1 Collaborated with Andrew Marton and Bernhard Wicki.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Name of the Rose 1986 2180
2 Enemy at the Gates 2001 2392

Hideaki Anno

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 End of Evangelion 1997 1407

David Anspaugh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hoosiers 1986 754
2 Rudy 1993 1096

Michelangelo Antonioni

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 L'Avventura 1960 299
2 Blow-Up 1966 346
3 L'Eclisse 1962 806
4 The Passenger 1975 1060
5 La Notte 1961 1454
6 The Red Desert 1964 1583

Babak Anvari

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Under the Shadow 2016 3057

Judd Apatow

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The 40 Year Old Virgin 2005 767
2 Knocked Up 2007 1542

Michael Apted

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 28 Up 1984 1040
2 42 Up 1998 1083
3 35 Up 1991 1153
4 49 Up 2005 1209
5 21 Up 1977 1232
6 Seven Plus Seven 1970 1394
7 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 1552
8 56 Up 2012 1733

Gregg Araki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mysterious Skin 2004 1401

Denys Arcand

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 2074

Emile Ardolino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dirty Dancing 1987 423

Dario Argento

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Suspiria 1977 228
2 Deep Red 1975 784
3 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 2531

Allan Arkush

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rock 'n' Roll High School 1979 2370

George Armitage

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 1886

Gillian Armstrong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Women 1994 1377
2 My Brilliant Career 1979 2481

Samuel Armstrong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1942 229

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

Andrea Arnold

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fish Tank 2009 1158
2 American Honey 2016 2954

Jack Arnold

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 1145
2 Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954 1859
3 It Came from Outer Space 1953 2861

Newt Arnold

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bloodsport 1988 2421

Darren Aronofsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Requiem for a Dream 2000 293
2 Black Swan 2010 440
3 The Wrestler 2008 483
4 Pi 1998 1005
5 The Fountain 2006 2155
6 Mother! 2017 2629

Dorothy Arzner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 2359

Kelly Asbury

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shrek 21 2004 1114

1 Collaborated with Andrew Adamson and Conrad Vernon.

Hal Ashby

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harold and Maude 1971 185
2 Being There 1979 601
3 The Last Detail 1973 2004
4 Shampoo 1975 2676
5 Coming Home 1978 2728
6 Bound for Glory 1976 2944

Ray Ashley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Fugitive1 1953 2691

1 Collaborated with Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin.

Olivier Assayas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Carlos 2010 2518
2 Irma Vep 1996 3024

Ari Aster

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hereditary 2018 575
2 Midsommar 2019 943

Doug Atchison

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Akeelah and the Bee 2006 2472

Richard Attenborough

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gandhi 1982 626
2 A Bridge Too Far 1977 2141

Stéphane Aubier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ernest & Celestine1 2012 1947

1 Collaborated with Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner.

Jacques Audiard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Prophet 2009 692
2 The Beat That My Heart Skipped 2005 2056

Bille August

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pelle the Conqueror 1987 3019

John G. Avildsen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rocky 1976 108
2 The Karate Kid 1984 521

Jon Avnet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fried Green Tomatoes 1991 18246

Gabriel Axel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Babette's Feast 1987 1256

David Ayer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fury 2014 2029

Richard Ayoade

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Submarine 2010 3028
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