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Top Films by Director (H-I)

Taylor Hackford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 An Officer and a Gentleman 1982 1040
2 Ray 2004 1230
3 The Devil's Advocate 1997 2491

Paul Haggis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crash 2004 1316

Don Hahn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia/20001 1999 2253

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Francis Glebas, Eric Goldberg, and Pixote Hunt.

Randa Haines

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Children of a Lesser God 1986 1338

Jack Haley Jr.

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 That's Entertainment! 1974 2060

Alexander Hall

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941 965

Lasse Hallström

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Life as a Dog 1985 646
2 Chocolat 2000 937
3 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 1199
4 The Cider House Rules 1999 2109

Robert Hamer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 228
2 Dead of Night1 1945 638

1 Collaborated with Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, and Basil Dearden.

Guy Hamilton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Goldfinger 1964 213

Alexander Hammid

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Meshes of the Afternoon1 1943 906

1 Collaborated with Maya Deren.

John D. Hancock

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bang the Drum Slowly 1973 1391

John Lee Hancock

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Rookie 2002 1318

David Hand

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 87
2 Bambi 1942 311

Jim Handley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 158

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

Michael Haneke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Funny Games 1997 1708
2 The Piano Teacher 2001 1892
3 Hidden 2005 1906

Tom Hanks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 1956

1 Collaborated with David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To.

Curtis Hanson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 L.A. Confidential 1997 105
2 8 Mile 2002 1440
3 Wonder Boys 2000 1790

Catherine Hardwicke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Thirteen 2003 2480

Robin Hardy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wicker Man 1973 317

Renny Harlin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Die Hard 2 1990 1788

Robert Harmon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hitcher 1986 1621

Ed Harris

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pollock 2000 2269

Mary Harron

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Psycho 2000 1986

Hal Hartley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Trust 1990 1657
2 The Unbelievable Truth 1989 2346

Anthony Harvey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lion in Winter 1968 720

Herk Harvey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Carnival of Souls 1962 1020

Byron Haskin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The War of the Worlds 1953 682

Henry Hathaway

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 True Grit 1969 1108
2 How the West Was Won1 1962 1489
3 Kiss of Death 1947 1556
4 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1935 2124
5 Niagara 1953 2351

1 Collaborated with John Ford and George Marshall.

Howard Hawks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bringing Up Baby 1938 44
2 His Girl Friday 1940 86
3 The Big Sleep 1946 122
4 Red River 1948 183
5 Rio Bravo 1959 280
6 Scarface 1932 315
7 To Have and Have Not 1944 332
8 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 717
9 Ball of Fire 1941 890
10 Sergeant York 1941 923
11 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 984
12 Twentieth Century 1934 1008

Todd Haynes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Safe 1995 772
2 Far from Heaven 2002 883
3 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story 1987 1987
4 Velvet Goldmine 1998 2103

Amy Heckerling

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 442
2 Clueless 1995 464

Peter Hedges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pieces of April 2003 1626

T. Hee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 158

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

Victor Heerman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Animal Crackers 1930 1739

Brian Helgeland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Knight’s Tale 2001 2486

Monte Hellman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 1248

Buck Henry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Heaven Can Wait1 1978 1439

1 Collaborated with Warren Beatty.

Jim Henson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Labyrinth 1986 1386
2 The Dark Crystal1 1982 2264

1 Collaborated with John Ford and Frank Oz.

Perry Henzell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Harder They Come 1972 1061

Stephen Herek

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mr. Holland's Opus 1995 1636
2 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 1989 2107
3 The Mighty Ducks 1992 2483

Mark Herman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brassed Off 1996 1666

Werner Herzog

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 181
2 Fitzcarraldo 1982 684
3 The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar 1974 927
4 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 1222
5 Grizzly Man 2005 2203
6 Lessons of Darkness 1992 2311
7 Stroszek 1977 2457

Jared Hess

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Napoleon Dynamite 2004 1237

George Hickenlooper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse1 1991 1367

1 Collaborated with Fax Bahr and Eleanor Coppola.

Steve Hickner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Prince of Egypt1 1998 2105

1 Collaborated with Brenda Chapman and Simon Wells.

Scott Hicks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shine 1996 1018

Colin Higgins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nine to Five 1980 1516

George Roy Hill

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 100
2 The Sting 1973 254
3 Slap Shot 1977 718
4 Slaughterhouse-Five 1972 2188
5 The World According to Garp 1982 2461

James Hill

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Born Free 1966 2202

Walter Hill

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 48 Hrs. 1982 1201
2 The Warriors 1979 1533

Arthur Hiller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love Story 1970 755
2 The In-Laws 1979 1295
3 The Hospital 1971 1652
4 The Americanization of Emily 1964 2025
5 Silver Streak 1976 2090

Lambert Hillyer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dracula's Daughter 1936 2191

Oliver Hirschbiegel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Downfall 2004 1576
2 The Experiment 2001 2443

Alfred Hitchcock

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Psycho 1960 9
2 Vertigo 1958 10
3 North by Northwest 1959 28
4 Rear Window 1954 30
5 Notorious 1946 121
6 Strangers on a Train 1951 220
7 The 39 Steps 1935 223
8 Rebecca 1940 225
9 The Birds 1963 238
10 The Lady Vanishes 1938 400
11 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 401
12 Foreign Correspondent 1940 882
13 Spellbound 1945 1062
14 To Catch a Thief 1955 1090
15 Rope 1948 1257
16 Dial M for Murder 1954 1409
17 Saboteur 1942 1437
18 Marnie 1964 1444
19 Suspicion 1941 1522
20 Blackmail 1929 1535
21 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 1585
22 The Wrong Man 1956 1593
23 I Confess 1953 1692
24 Frenzy 1972 1763
25 Sabotage 1936 2235
26 Lifeboat 1944 2388
27 The Lodger 1927 2464
28 The Trouble with Harry 1955 2514

Gregory Hoblit

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Primal Fear 1996 2438

Mike Hodges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Get Carter 1971 468

Michael Hoffman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Soapdish 1991 2513

P.J. Hogan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Muriel's Wedding 1994 862
2 My Best Friend's Wedding 1997 958

Agnieszka Holland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Europa Europa 1990 1267
2 The Secret Garden 1993 2359

Savage Steve Holland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Better Off Dead… 1985 2139

Tom Holland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fright Night 1985 2449

Nicole Holofcener

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lovely & Amazing 2001 2053

Ishirô Honda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Godzilla 1954 1405
2 Godzilla, King of the Monsters!1 1956 1717

1 Collaborated with Terry O. Morse.

Tobe Hooper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 298
2 Poltergeist 1982 719

Dennis Hopper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Easy Rider 1969 161

James W. Horne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Way Out West 1937 866
2 Big Business1 1929 2516

1 Collaborated with Leo McCarey.

Hsiao-hsien Hou

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Puppet Master 1993 1369
2 City of Sadness 1989 1702
3 The Time to Live and the Time to Die 1985 1840

Ellen Hovde

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grey Gardens1 1975 1481

1 Collaborated with Albert and David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer.

Leslie Howard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pygmalion1 1938 1101

1 Collaborated with Anthony Asquith.

Ron Howard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Apollo 13 1995 375
2 A Beautiful Mind 2001 645
3 Splash 1984 1030
4 Cocoon 1985 1538
5 Parenthood 1989 1591
6 Cinderella Man 2005 1928
7 Willow 1988 2354

Harry O. Hoyt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lost World 1925 2251

Jan Hrebejk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Divided We Fall 2000 1968

King Hu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Touch of Zen 1969 1282

Hugh Hudson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chariots of Fire 1981 297

Albert Hughes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Menace II Society1 1993 2377

1 Collaborated with Allen Hughes.

Allen Hughes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Menace II Society1 1993 2377

1 Collaborated with Albert Hughes.

John Hughes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 347
2 The Breakfast Club 1985 381
3 Sixteen Candles 1984 979
4 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 1340

Ken Hughes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1968 1262

Peter H. Hunt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969 1912

Pixote Hunt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia/20001 1999 2253

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Francis Glebas, Eric Goldberg, and Don Hahn.

Tim Hunter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 River's Edge 1986 1851

Brian Desmond Hurst

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Scrooge 1951 748

John Huston

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Maltese Falcon 1941 33
2 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 69
3 The African Queen 1951 71
4 The Man Who Would be King 1975 509
5 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 557
6 Fat City 1972 795
7 The Dead 1987 856
8 Prizzi's Honor 1985 903
9 Key Largo 1948 990
10 The Red Badge of Courage 1951 1284
11 Beat the Devil 1953 1792
12 Wise Blood 1979 1863
13 The Misfits 1961 1868
14 Annie 1982 2032

Brian G. Hutton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Where Eagles Dare 1968 1786
2 Kelly's Heroes 1970 2098

Nicholas Hytner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Madness of King George 1994 1673
2 The Crucible 1996 1780

Kon Ichikawa

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Burmese Harp 1956 1494
2 An Actor's Revenge 1963 1648
3 Tokyo Olympiad 1965 1846
4 The Makioka Sisters 1983 2196

Shohei Imamura

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ballad of Narayama 1983 1127

Hiroshi Inagaki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto 1954 1716
2 Samurai 3: Duel at Ganryu Island 1956 2120
3 Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple 1955 2133

Rex Ingram

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921 1919

Juzo Itami

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tampopo 1985 1053
2 A Taxing Woman 1987 2515

James Ivory

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Room with a View 1985 443
2 The Remains of the Day 1993 591
3 Howards End 1992 835
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