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Top Films by Director (A)

George Abbott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Damn Yankees!1 1958 1539
2 The Pajama Game1 1957 2520

1 Collaborated with Stanley Donen.

Jennifer Abbott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Corporation1 2003 2504

1 Collaborated with Mark Achbar.

Jim Abrahams

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Airplane!1 1980 164
2 Top Secret!1 1984 2278

1 Collaborated with David and Jerry Zucker.

Lenny Abrahamson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Room 2015 2005

J.J. Abrams

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Trek 2009 623
2 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens 2015 925
3 Star Trek into Darkness 2013 2089
4 Mission: Impossible III 2006 2454

Mark Achbar

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Corporation1 2003 2504

1 Collaborated with Jennifer Abbott.

Andrew Adamson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shrek1 2001 353
2 Shrek 22 2004 1287
3 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2005 1625

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

Maren Ade

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Toni Erdmann 2016 2378

Ben Affleck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Argo 2012 1660
2 Gone Baby Gone 2007 1977

Charlie Ahearn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wild Style 1983 2444

Alexandre Aja

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 High Tension 2003 2563

Chantal Akerman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jeanne Dielman 1975 408

Fatih Akin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Head-On 2004 1543

Robert Aldrich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 335
2 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 488
3 The Dirty Dozen 1967 566
4 The Longest Yard 1974 1214
5 Ulzana's Raid 1972 1760
6 Attack! 1956 2491

Grigoriy Aleksandrov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 October1 1927 1217

1 Collaborated with Sergei M. Eisenstein.

Lexi Alexander

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Green Street Hooligans 2005 2642

Tomas Alfredson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Let the Right One in 2008 395
2 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011 2733

James Algar

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 266

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

Irwin Allen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Towering Inferno1 1974 2306

1 Collaborated with John Guillermin.

Woody Allen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Annie Hall 1977 20
2 Manhattan 1979 117
3 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 459
4 Sleeper 1973 499
5 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 647
6 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 848
7 Love and Death 1975 1088
8 Zelig 1983 1328
9 Broadway Danny Rose 1984 1461
10 Bananas 1971 1477
11 Midnight in Paris 2011 1599
12 Match Point 2005 1831
13 Stardust Memories 1980 2269
14 Take the Money and Run 1969 2333
15 Radio Days 1987 2396
16 Husbands and Wives 1992 2408

Roger Allers

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lion King1 1994 138

1 Collaborated with Rob Minkoff.

Pedro Almodóvar

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 All about My Mother 1999 257
2 Talk to Her 2002 634
3 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 739
4 Volver 2006 1221
5 Bad Education 2004 1577
6 Law of Desire 1987 1758
7 The Skin I Live In 2011 2244
8 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 1989 2803

Paul Almond

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seven Up! 1964 1196

Robert Altman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nashville 1975 121
2 M*A*S*H 1970 248
3 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 288
4 The Long Goodbye 1973 508
5 The Player 1992 551
6 Short Cuts 1993 675
7 3 Women 1977 1706
8 Gosford Park 2001 1753

Santiago Álvarez

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hour of the Furnaces1 1968 1762

1 Collaborated with Octavio Getino and Fernando E. Solanas.

Alejandro Amenábar

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Others 2001 902
2 The Sea Inside 2004 1232
3 Open Your Eyes 1997 1466

Ana Lily Amirpour

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 2014 2191

Thom Andersen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Los Angeles Plays Itself 2003 2163

Brad Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Session 9 2001 2319
2 The Machinist 2004 2332

Lindsay Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 If.... 1968 559
2 This Sporting Life 1963 977
3 O Lucky Man! 1973 1942

Michael Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Logan's Run 1976 1580
2 The Dam Busters 1955 1736
3 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 2078

Paul Thomas Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 There Will Be Blood 2007 147
2 Magnolia 1999 292
3 Boogie Nights 1997 319
4 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 829
5 The Master 2012 2472

Paul W.S. Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Event Horizon 1997 2720

Wes Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rushmore 1998 323
2 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 434
3 Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 694
4 The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 917
5 Moonrise Kingdom 2012 963
6 Bottle Rocket 1996 1511
7 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004 1826
8 The Darjeeling Limited 2007 2741
9 Isle of Dogs 2018 2757

Roy Andersson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Songs from the Second Floor 2000 1982

Mark Andrews

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brave1 2012 2463

1 Collaborated with Brenda Chapman.

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Travelling Players 1975 1024
2 Landscape in the Mist 1988 1744
3 Ulysses' Gaze 1995 2781

Kenneth Anger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Scorpio Rising 1963 1122

Ken Annakin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Longest Day1 1962 923

1 Collaborated with Andrew Marton and Bernhard Wicki.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Name of the Rose 1986 1844
2 Enemy at the Gates 2001 2456

Hideaki Anno

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 End of Evangelion1 1997 1591

1 Collaborated with Kazuya Tsurumaki.

David Anspaugh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hoosiers 1986 701
2 Rudy 1993 1194

Michelangelo Antonioni

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 L'Avventura 1960 195
2 Blow-Up 1966 246
3 L'Eclisse 1962 596
4 The Passenger 1975 833
5 La Notte 1961 1400
6 The Red Desert 1964 1415
7 Zabriskie Point 1970 2624

Judd Apatow

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The 40 Year Old Virgin 2005 609
2 Knocked Up 2007 1488

Michael Apted

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 28 Up 1984 1081
2 42 Up 1998 1144
3 21 Up 1977 1290
4 35 Up 1991 1322
5 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 1326
6 49 Up 2005 1329
7 Seven Plus Seven 1970 1431
8 56 Up 2012 2035

Gregg Araki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mysterious Skin 2004 1422

Alfonso Arau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Like Water for Chocolate 1992 2683

Denys Arcand

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 1590
2 Jesus of Montreal 1989 2755

Emile Ardolino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dirty Dancing 1987 477

Dario Argento

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Suspiria 1977 302
2 Deep Red 1975 1049
3 Tenebrae 1982 2542
4 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 2783

George Armitage

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 1434

Gillian Armstrong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Women 1994 1786
2 My Brilliant Career 1979 2251

Samuel Armstrong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 266

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 2810

1 Collaborated with Lars von Trier.

Andrea Arnold

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fish Tank 2009 1306

Jack Arnold

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 783
2 Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954 1849
3 It Came from Outer Space 1953 2313

Newt Arnold

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bloodsport 1988 2228

Darren Aronofsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Requiem for a Dream 2000 259
2 The Wrestler 2008 475
3 Black Swan 2010 676
4 Pi 1998 800
5 The Fountain 2006 1801

Dorothy Arzner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 2547

Kelly Asbury

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shrek 21 2004 1287

1 Collaborated with Andrew Adamson and Conrad Vernon.

Hal Ashby

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harold and Maude 1971 199
2 Being There 1979 554
3 The Last Detail 1973 1553
4 Shampoo 1975 1871
5 Coming Home 1978 2194

Anthony Asquith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pygmalion1 1938 1940

1 Collaborated with Leslie Howard.

Olivier Assayas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Irma Vep 1996 2437
2 Carlos 2010 2666

Ari Aster

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hereditary 2018 2667

Richard Attenborough

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gandhi 1982 482
2 A Bridge Too Far 1977 2099
3 Chaplin 1992 2770

Jacques Audiard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Prophet 2009 842
2 The Beat That My Heart Skipped 2005 1563

Bille August

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pelle the Conqueror 1987 2363

Aram Avakian

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jazz on a Summer's Day1 1959 2804

1 Collaborated with Bert Stern.

John G. Avildsen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rocky 1976 125
2 The Karate Kid 1984 678

Jon Avnet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fried Green Tomatoes 1991 1556

Gabriel Axel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Babette's Feast 1987 1065

David Ayer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fury 2014 2811
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