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Top Films by Director (N-Q)

Mira Nair

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Monsoon Wedding 2001 864
2 Salaam Bombay! 1988 1371
3 Mississippi Masala 1991 2001

Hideo Nakata

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ring 1998 1189

Vincenzo Natali

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cube 1997 2148

Gregory Nava

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 El Norte 1983 1050
2 Selena 1997 1951

Ronald Neame

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 983
2 Tunes of Glory 1960 1720
3 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1969 1881

Hal Needham

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Smokey and the Bandit 1977 2405

Ralph Nelson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Requiem for a Heavyweight 1962 2026
2 Lilies of the Field 1963 2352

Kurt Neumann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fly 1958 1940

Mike Newell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 241
2 Donnie Brasco 1997 1099
3 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005 1805
4 Enchanted April 1992 2445

Fred C. Newmeyer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Safety Last!1 1923 606
2 The Freshman1 1925 628

1 Collaborated with Sam Taylor.

Fred Niblo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ben-Hur 1925 861

Andrew Niccol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gattaca 1997 1180

Charles A. Nichols

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Charlotte's Web1 1973 2368

1 Collaborated with Iwao Takamoto.

Mike Nichols

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Graduate 1967 38
2 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 435
3 Working Girl 1988 694
4 Catch-22 1970 1135
5 Silkwood 1983 1274
6 Primary Colors 1998 1651
7 Postcards from the Edge 1990 2134
8 Carnal Knowledge 1971 2318
9 The Birdcage 1996 2373

Leonard Nimoy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986 1693

Gaspar Noé

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Irréversible 2002 2111

Christopher Nolan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Memento 2000 196
2 Batman Begins 2005 1005
3 The Prestige 2006 2417

Chris Noonan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Babe 1995 329

Stephen Norrington

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blade 1998 1451

Phillip Noyce

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 1102
2 Clear and Present Danger 1994 1874
3 The Quiet American 2002 2048
4 Newsfront 1978 2057
5 Patriot Games 1992 2287

Victor Nunez

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ulee's Gold 1997 1595
2 Ruby in Paradise 1993 1870

David Nutter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 1956

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

Christian Nyby

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thing from Another World 1951 482

Gavin O'Connor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Miracle 2004 1795

George Ogilvie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome1 1985 2083

1 Collaborated with George Miller.

Laurence Olivier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Henry V 1944 286
2 Hamlet 1948 708
3 Richard III 1955 1137

Ermanno Olmi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 770

Marcel Ophüls

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 502
2 Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie 1988 2356

Max Ophüls

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 293
2 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 403
3 Lola Montès 1955 497
4 La Ronde 1950 955
5 Le Plaisir 1952 1949
6 The Reckless Moment 1949 2065

Mamoru Oshii

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ghost in the Shell 1995 1116

Nagisa Oshima

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 660
2 Boy 1969 2454

Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Akira 1988 386

Frank Oz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 1524
2 What about Bob? 1991 2077
3 The Dark Crystal1 1982 2264

1 Collaborated with Jim Henson.

Yasujiro Ozu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tokyo Story 1953 130
2 Late Spring 1949 875
3 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 1525
4 Floating Weeds 1959 1809
5 I Was Born, But... 1932 1941

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pandora's Box 1929 367

Marcel Pagnol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Marius1 1931 1454
2 The Baker's Wife 1938 1580
3 César 1936 1671
4 Harvest 1937 2245

1 Collaborated with Alexander Korda.

Alan J. Pakula

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 All the President's Men 1976 309
2 Klute 1971 644
3 Sophie's Choice 1982 775
4 The Parallax View 1974 1346

George Pal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Time Machine 1960 1216

Jafar Panahi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The White Balloon 1995 2088
2 The Circle 2000 2159

Norman Panama

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Court Jester1 1955 959

1 Collaborated with Melvin Frank.

Sergei Paradjanov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Color of Pomegranates 1968 1077
2 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1964 1242

Dean Parisot

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Galaxy Quest 1999 2167

Chan-wook Park

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Oldboy 2003 1203

Nick Park

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chicken Run1 2000 707
2 The Wrong Trousers 1993 1011
3 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit2 2005 1618
4 A Grand Day Out 1989 1677
5 A Close Shave 1995 1803

1 Collaborated with Peter Lord.
2 Collaborated with Steve Box.

Alan Parker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Commitments 1991 1058
2 Evita 1996 1290
3 Pink Floyd the Wall 1982 1366
4 Fame 1980 1572
5 Angel Heart 1987 1876
6 Midnight Express 1978 1960
7 Bugsy Malone 1976 1990
8 Birdy 1984 2141
9 Mississippi Burning 1988 2296

Albert Parker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Black Pirate 1926 1879

Trey Parker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut 1999 617

Gordon Parks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shaft 1971 685

James Parrott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Music Box 1932 1882

Gabriel Pascal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Major Barbara 1941 1819

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 592
2 Salò 1975 1527
3 Teorema 1968 1669
4 Accattone 1961 1687

John Pasquin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Santa Clause 1994 2478

Ivan Passer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cutter's Way 1981 1342

Giovanni Pastrone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cabiria 1914 1807

Josh Pate

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday Night Lights1 2004 1612

1 Collaborated with Peter Berg.

Bill Paxton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Frailty 2001 2336

Alexander Payne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Election 1999 664
2 Sideways 2004 941
3 About Schmidt 2002 1543
4 Citizen Ruth 1996 2115

Sam Peckinpah

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wild Bunch 1969 51
2 Ride the High Country 1962 672
3 Straw Dogs 1971 963
4 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 1175
5 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 1509
6 The Getaway 1972 1640
7 Cross of Iron 1977 1818

Kimberly Peirce

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Boys Don't Cry 1999 1025

Arthur Penn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 41
2 Little Big Man 1970 699
3 The Miracle Worker 1962 1117
4 Night Moves 1975 1320

D. A. Pennebaker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dont Look Back 1967 630

Stacy Peralta

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dogtown and Z-Boys 2001 1281

Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Barren Lives 1963 1380

Vadim Perelman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 House of Sand and Fog 2003 2035

Jacques Perrin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Winged Migration 2001 2254

Frank Perry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mommie Dearest 1981 1864

Wolfgang Petersen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Das Boot 1981 243
2 In the Line of Fire 1993 1283
3 Air Force One 1997 1779
4 Troy 2004 2051

Daniel Petrie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Raisin in the Sun 1961 1082

Donald Petrie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mystic Pizza 1988 1728

Nicolas Philibert

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 To Be and to Have 2002 2154

Todd Phillips

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Old School 2003 1571

Maurice Pialat

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 À nos amours 1983 1932
2 Van Gogh 1991 2492

Benoît Poelvoorde

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Man Bites Dog1 1992 1735

1 Collaborated with Rémy Belvaux and André Bonzel.

Roman Polanski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chinatown 1974 19
2 Rosemary's Baby 1968 255
3 Repulsion 1965 348
4 The Pianist 2002 586
5 Knife in the Water 1962 620
6 The Tenant 1976 1469
7 Tess 1979 2314

Sydney Pollack

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tootsie 1982 186
2 Out of Africa 1985 445
3 The Way We Were 1973 647
4 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1969 1502
5 Three Days of the Condor 1975 1732

Abraham Polonsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Force of Evil 1948 789

Gillo Pontecorvo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Battle of Algiers 1966 292

Edwin S. Porter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Great Train Robbery 1903 1191

H.C. Potter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hellzapoppin' 1941 2363
2 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House 1948 2376

Sally Potter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Orlando 1992 1775

Michael Powell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red Shoes1 1948 212
2 Stairway to Heaven1 1946 242
3 Peeping Tom 1960 287
4 Black Narcissus1 1947 318
5 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1 1943 368
6 The Thief of Bagdad2 1940 627
7 'I Know Where I'm Going!'1 1945 829
8 49th Parallel 1941 1902
9 A Canterbury Tale1 1944 2512

1 Collaborated with Emeric Pressburger.
2 Collaborated with Ludwig Berger and Tim Whelan.

Otto Preminger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Laura 1944 207
2 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 517
3 Carmen Jones 1954 1085
4 Porgy and Bess 1959 1891
5 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 2355

Emeric Pressburger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red Shoes1 1948 212
2 Stairway to Heaven1 1946 242
3 Black Narcissus1 1947 318
4 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1 1943 368
5 'I Know Where I'm Going!'1 1945 829
6 A Canterbury Tale1 1944 2512

1 Collaborated with Michael Powell.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love & Basketball 2000 2349

Alex Proyas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Crow 1994 847
2 Dark City 1998 1072

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Storm over Asia 1928 1798
2 Mother 1926 1927
3 The End of St. Petersburg 1927 2448

Luis Puenzo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Official Story 1985 974

Robert Pulcini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Splendor1 2003 1537

1 Collaborated with Shari Springer Berman.

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