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Top Films by Director (D-E)

Morton DaCosta

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Music Man 1962 1440
2 Auntie Mame 1958 2463

Olivier Dahan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 La Vie en rose 2007 1566

John Dahl

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Last Seduction 1994 1338

Stephen Daldry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Billy Elliot 2000 1215
2 The Hours 2002 1445
3 The Reader 2008 2128

Lee Daniels

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire 2009 1251

Joe Dante

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gremlins 1984 840
2 The Howling 1981 2191
3 Gremlins 2: The New Batch 1990 2800

Frank Darabont

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 45
2 The Green Mile 1999 296
3 The Mist 2007 1480

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rosetta1 1999 2245
2 The Son1 2002 2656
3 L'Enfant1 2005 2744

1 Collaborated with Luc Dardenne.

Luc Dardenne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rosetta1 1999 2245
2 The Son1 2002 2656
3 L'Enfant1 2005 2744

1 Collaborated with Jean-Pierre Dardenne.

Julie Dash

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Daughters of the Dust 1991 814

Jules Dassin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rififi 1955 419
2 Night and the City 1950 1106
3 The Naked City 1948 2542

Delmer Daves

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 3:10 to Yuma 1957 1460
2 Broken Arrow 1950 2807

Terence Davies

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 1571
2 The Long Day Closes 1992 2547

Andrew Davis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fugitive 1993 519

Desmond Davis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Clash of the Titans 1981 2695

Garth Davis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lion 2016 2273

Peter Davis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hearts and Minds 1974 1659

Tamra Davis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Billy Madison 1995 2733

Jonathan Dayton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Miss Sunshine1 2006 579

1 Collaborated with Valerie Faris.

Jan de Bont

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Speed 1994 547

Robert De Niro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Bronx Tale 1993 1297

Brian De Palma

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Carrie 1976 159
2 Scarface 1983 220
3 The Untouchables 1987 533
4 Blow Out 1981 872
5 Carlito's Way 1993 945
6 Mission: Impossible 1996 1055
7 Dressed to Kill 1980 1174
8 Phantom of the Paradise 1974 1210
9 Casualties of War 1989 1940
10 Sisters 1972 2047
11 Body Double 1984 2339

Vittorio De Sica

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Bicycle Thief 1948 69
2 Umberto D. 1952 491
3 Shoeshine 1946 2120
4 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970 2593
5 Miracle in Milan 1951 2790
6 Two Women 1960 2950

André De Toth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 House of Wax 1953 1807

Basil Dearden

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead of Night1 1945 787
2 Victim 1961 2207

1 Collaborated with Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, and Robert Hamer.

Dean DeBlois

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 How to Train Your Dragon1 2010 347
2 How to Train Your Dragon 2 2014 1386
3 Lilo & Stitch1 2002 1869
4 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World 2019 2570

1 Collaborated with Chris Sanders.

Donna Deitch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Desert Hearts 1985 1498

Guillermo del Toro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 82
2 The Devil's Backbone 2001 873
3 The Shape of Water 2017 1100
4 Hellboy II: The Golden Army 2008 1361
5 Blade II 2002 1372
6 Hellboy 2004 1426
7 Cronos 1992 2162
8 Pacific Rim 2013 2418

Cecil B. DeMille

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ten Commandments 1956 603
2 The Ten Commandments 1923 2900
3 The Cheat 1915 2941

Jonathan Demme

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 20
2 Stop Making Sense 1984 622
3 Philadelphia 1993 792
4 Something Wild 1986 2465

Ted Demme

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blow 2001 2876

Jacques Demy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 292
2 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 1111

Claire Denis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beau travail 1999 512
2 35 Shots of Rum 2008 1611
3 High Life 2018 2295
4 Trouble Every Day 2001 2346
5 White Material 2009 2788
6 Chocolat 1988 2919

Ruggero Deodato

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cannibal Holocaust 1980 1888

Maya Deren

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Meshes of the Afternoon1 1943 823

1 Collaborated with Alexander Hammid.

Scott Derrickson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Doctor Strange 2016 1810

Arnaud Desplechin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Christmas Tale 2008 2778

Howard Deutch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pretty in Pink 1986 986

Danny DeVito

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Matilda 1996 1495

Ernest R. Dickerson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Juice 1992 2639

William Dieterle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 1846
2 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 2575
3 Portrait of Jennie 1948 2939

Mark Dindal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Emperor's New Groove 2000 2019

Mati Diop

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Atlantics 2019 2983

Edward Dmytryk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Caine Mutiny 1954 1451
2 Murder, My Sweet 1944 1855

Pete Docter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Up 2009 112
2 Inside Out 2015 276
3 Monsters, Inc. 2001 327
4 Soul 2020 1130

Xavier Dolan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mommy 2014 2394
2 Laurence Anyways 2012 2929

Andrew Dominik

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007 713

Stanley Donen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain1 1952 7
2 Funny Face 1957 898
3 Charade 1963 1009
4 On the Town1 1949 1023
5 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 1392
6 Damn Yankees!2 1958 2033
7 It's Always Fair Weather1 1955 2645

1 Collabrated with Gene Kelly.
2 Collabrated with George Abbott.

Richard Donner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Superman 1978 238
2 The Goonies 1985 335
3 The Omen 1976 481
4 Lethal Weapon 1987 862
5 Lethal Weapon 2 1989 2258
6 Ladyhawke 1985 2906

Joaquim Dos Santos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse1 2023 1292

1 Collaborated with Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson.

Gordon Douglas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Them! 1954 1217

Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Earth 1930 1330

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 152
2 Ordet 1955 514
3 Vampyr 1932 652
4 Day of Wrath 1943 799
5 Gertrud 1964 1872

Julia Ducournau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Raw 2016 1323

Troy Duffy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Boondock Saints 1999 1941

Dennis Dugan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Happy Gilmore 1996 1104

Germaine Dulac

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Smiling Madame Beudet 1923 2866

Duwayne Dunham

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey 1993 2612

George Dunning

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yellow Submarine 1968 870

Cheryl Dunye

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Watermelon Woman 1996 1296

Marguerite Duras

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 India song 1975 2222

Guru Dutt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pyaasa 1957 2267

Clea DuVall

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Happiest Season 2020 2953

Ava DuVernay

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Selma 2014 796
2 13th 2016 1803

Julien Duvivier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pépé Le Moko 1937 1033

Allan Dwan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sands of Iwo Jima 1949 2055

Clint Eastwood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Unforgiven 1992 120
2 Million Dollar Baby 2004 341
3 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 475
4 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 690
5 Gran Torino 2008 699
6 Mystic River 2003 707
7 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 1103
8 High Plains Drifter 1973 1231
9 American Sniper 2014 1562
10 Invictus 2009 1771
11 Flags of Our Fathers 2006 1819
12 Pale Rider 1985 1825
13 Changeling 2008 2089

Ezra Edelman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 O.J.: Made in America 2016 1302

Blake Edwards

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 326
2 The Pink Panther 1963 1206
3 The Party 1968 1414
4 A Shot in the Dark 1964 1525
5 Victor/Victoria 1982 1636
6 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 2493

Gareth Edwards

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016 1284

Robert Eggers

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Witch 2015 751
2 The Lighthouse 2019 1022

Atom Egoyan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 1427
2 Exotica 1994 3030

Sergei M. Eisenstein

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 131
2 Ivan the Terrible 1944 987
3 Alexander Nevsky1 1938 1116
4 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 1555
5 Strike 1925 1795
6 October2 1928 1939

1 Collaborated with Dmitriy Vasilyev.
2 Collaborated with Grigoriy Aleksandrov.

Adam Elliott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mary and Max 2009 1019

Stephan Elliott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1994 1166

Roland Emmerich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Independence Day 1996 527
2 The Patriot 2000 2496

Cy Endfield

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Zulu 1964 1036

Morris Engel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Fugitive1 1953 2691

1 Collaborated with Ray Ashley and Ruth Orkin.

Nora Ephron

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 586
2 You've Got Mail 1998 768

Jean Epstein

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fall of the House of Usher 1928 1424

Rob Epstein

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Times of Harvey Milk 1984 1028
2 The Celluloid Closet1 1995 2240

1 Collaborated with Jeffrey Friedman.

Deniz Gamze Ergüven

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mustang 2015 2764

Victor Erice

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 390
2 The Dream of Light 1992 2502
3 El Sur 1983 2980

Jean Eustache

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Mother and the Whore 1973 922

David Mickey Evans

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sandlot 1993 913

Gareth Evans

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Raid: Redemption 2011 965
2 The Raid 2 2014 1745
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