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Top Films by Director (A)

George Abbott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Damn Yankees!1 1958 1544
2 The Pajama Game1 1957 1606

1 Collaborated with Stanley Donen.

Jim Abrahams

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Airplane!1 1980 175
2 Top Secret!1 1984 1802

1 Collaborated with David and Jerry Zucker.

J.J. Abrams

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Trek 2009 2062

Andrew Adamson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shrek1 2001 284
2 Shrek 22 2004 1380
3 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2005 2109

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

Percy Adlon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bagdad Café 1987 1808

Alexandre Aja

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 High Tension 2003 2083

Chantal Akerman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jeanne Dielman 1975 751

Robert Aldrich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 427
2 The Dirty Dozen 1967 518
3 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 682
4 The Longest Yard 1974 854
5 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 2230
6 Ulzana's Raid 1972 2260

Grigori Aleksandrov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 October1 1928 839

1 Collaborated with Sergei M. Eisenstein.

Tomas Alfredson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Let the Right One In 2008 1444

James Algar

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 199

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

Marc Allégret

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fanny 1932 1810

Irwin Allen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Towering Inferno1 1974 1267

1 Collaborated with John Guillermin.

Woody Allen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Annie Hall 1977 25
2 Manhattan 1979 135
3 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 354
4 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 503
5 Sleeper 1973 553
6 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 837
7 Zelig 1983 1269
8 Love and Death 1975 1343
9 Broadway Danny Rose 1984 1394
10 Everyone Says I Love You 1996 1518
11 Husbands and Wives 1992 1581
12 Bananas 1971 1600
13 Radio Days 1987 1869

Roger Allers

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lion King1 1994 270

1 Collaborated with Rob Minkoff.

Pedro Almodóvar

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 All about My Mother 1999 402
2 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 539
3 Talk to Her 2002 668
4 Volver 2006 2012
5 Bad Education 2004 2390

Paul Almond

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seven Up! 1964 2318

Robert Altman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nashville 1975 86
2 M*A*S*H 1970 128
3 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 290
4 The Player 1992 492
5 Short Cuts 1993 603
6 The Long Goodbye 1973 721
7 Gosford Park 2001 886
8 3 Women 1977 1448

Santiago Álvarez

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hour of the Furnaces1 1970 2370

1 Collaborated with Octavio Getino and Fernando E. Solanas.

Gianni Amelio

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lamerica 1994 1771

Alejandro Amenábar

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Others 2001 803
2 The Sea Inside 2004 1431
3 Open Your Eyes 1997 1597

Allison Anders

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grace of My Heart 1996 2084
2 Gas Food Lodging 1992 2342

Lindsay Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 If.... 1968 559
2 This Sporting Life 1963 768
3 O Lucky Man! 1973 1354

Michael Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 1288
2 The Dam Busters 1955 1363
3 Logan's Run 1976 1879

Paul Thomas Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Magnolia 1999 202
2 Boogie Nights 1997 373
3 There Will Be Blood 2007 533
4 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 1131

Paul W.S. Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Event Horizon 1997 2347

Wes Anderson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rushmore 1998 286
2 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 516
3 Bottle Rocket 1996 1286
4 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004 1913

Roy Andersson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Songs from the Second Floor 2000 2202

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Travelling Players 1975 988
2 Landscape in the Mist 1988 2262

Kenneth Anger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Scorpio Rising 1964 1791

Ken Annakin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Longest Day1 1962 614
2 Swiss Family Robinson 1960 2016

1 Collaborated with Andrew Marton and Bernhard Wicki.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Enemy at the Gates 2001 2077
2 The Name of the Rose 1986 2184

David Anspaugh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hoosiers 1986 651
2 Rudy 1993 1295

Michelangelo Antonioni

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 L'Avventura 1960 196
2 Blow-Up 1966 266
3 The Eclipse 1962 967
4 The Passenger 1975 1063
5 The Red Desert 1964 1101
6 La Notte 1961 1299
7 Zabriskie Point 1970 2321

Judd Apatow

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The 40 Year Old Virgin 2005 1339
2 Knocked Up 2007 2171

Michael Apted

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 935
2 42: Forty Two Up 1999 1830
3 28 Up 1985 1835
4 Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey 1988 2364

Alfonso Arau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Like Water for Chocolate 1992 705

Denys Arcand

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 1274
2 Jesus of Montreal 1989 1924

Emile Ardolino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dirty Dancing 1987 362

Dario Argento

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Suspiria 1977 327
2 Deep Red 1975 1906

Allan Arkush

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rock 'n' Roll High School 1979 1996

George Armitage

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 745

Gillian Armstrong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Women 1994 894
2 My Brilliant Career 1979 1096

Samuel Armstrong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 199

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 1960

1 Collaborated with Lars von Trier.

Jack Arnold

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 892
2 Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954 1462
3 The Mouse That Roared 1959 1980

Darren Aronofsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Requiem for a Dream 2000 434
2 Pi 1998 945
3 The Wrestler 2008 1399
4 The Fountain 2006 2278

Dorothy Arzner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 1764
2 Christopher Strong 1933 2251

Kelly Asbury

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shrek 21 2004 1380

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 459
3 Shampoo 1975 1200
4 Coming Home 1978 1356
5 The Last Detail 1973 1442
6 Bound for Glory 1976 2325

Anthony Asquith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pygmalion1 1938 1168

1 Collaborated with Leslie Howard.

Olivier Assayas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Irma Vep 1996 1806

Richard Attenborough

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gandhi 1982 251
2 A Bridge Too Far 1977 1709
3 Shadowlands 1993 1744
4 Chaplin 1992 2072

Jacques Audiard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Read My Lips 2001 2074
2 The Beat That My Heart Skipped 2005 2257

Bille August

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pelle the Conqueror 1987 1104

John G. Avildsen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rocky 1976 101
2 The Karate Kid 1984 1003

Jon Avnet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fried Green Tomatoes 1991 1245

Gabriel Axel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Babette's Feast 1987 576
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