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Top Films by Director (N-Q)

Mira Nair

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Monsoon Wedding 2001 1588
2 Salaam Bombay! 1988 1683
3 Queen of Katwe 2016 2262

Olivier Nakache

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Intouchables1 2011 853

1 Collaborated with Eric Toledano.

Hideo Nakata

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ring 1998 647

Mikio Naruse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 1960 2251
2 Floating Clouds 1955 2330

Vincenzo Natali

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cube 1997 2290

Ronald Neame

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 2636

Jean Negulesco

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 How to Marry a Millionaire 1953 2937

Jessie Nelson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 I Am Sam 2001 2975

Ralph Nelson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lilies of the Field 1963 2476

László Nemes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Son of Saul 2015 1320

Kurt Neumann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fly 1958 1515

Mark Neveldine

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crank1 2006 2689

1 Collaborated with Brian Taylor.

Morgan Neville

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Won't You Be My Neighbor? 2018 2172

Mike Newell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 441
2 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005 534
3 Donnie Brasco 1997 1173

Joseph M. Newman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 This Island Earth 1955 2899

Fred C. Newmeyer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Safety Last!1 1923 687
2 The Freshman1 1925 2281

1 Collaborated with Sam Taylor.

Fred Niblo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ben-Hur 1925 1798

Andrew Niccol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gattaca 1997 623
2 Lord of War 2005 2365

Jeff Nichols

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Take Shelter 2011 2322
2 Mud 2012 2934

Mike Nichols

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Graduate 1967 73
2 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 559
3 The Birdcage 1996 941
4 Working Girl 1988 1405
5 Silkwood 1983 2112
6 Catch-22 1970 2152
7 Carnal Knowledge 1971 2438

Leonard Nimoy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986 2068

Mizuho Nishikubo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ghost in the Shell1 1995 324

1 Collaborated with Mamoru Oshii.

Gaspar Noé

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Irréversible 2002 1522
2 Enter the Void 2009 1953
3 Climax 2018 2711

Christopher Nolan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Dark Knight 2008 18
2 Inception 2010 74
3 Memento 2000 145
4 Interstellar 2014 266
5 Batman Begins 2005 384
6 The Prestige 2006 392
7 The Dark Knight Rises 2012 438
8 Dunkirk 2017 460
9 Oppenheimer 2023 1446
10 Insomnia 2002 2286

Chris Noonan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Babe 1995 650

Stephen Norrington

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blade 1998 1428

Phillip Noyce

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 2447
2 Clear and Present Danger 1994 2488
3 Patriot Games 1992 2544
4 The Quiet American 2002 2857

Christian Nyby

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thing from Another World 1951 843

Dan O'Bannon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Return of the Living Dead 1985 1913

Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 House 1977 1398

Gavin O'Connor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Warrior 2011 1126
2 Miracle 2004 1193

Gary Oldman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nil by Mouth 1997 2974

Laurence Olivier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Henry V 1944 1503
2 Hamlet 1948 2146

Ermanno Olmi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 1620
2 Il Posto 1961 2551

Marcel Ophüls

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 766

Max Ophüls

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 793
2 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 801
3 Lola Montès 1955 1169
4 La Ronde 1950 2515
5 Le Plaisir 1952 2688
6 Caught 1949 2984

Niels Arden Oplev

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2009 2317

Joshua Oppenheimer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Act of Killing 2012 1070
2 The Look of Silence 2014 1971

Ruth Orkin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Fugitive1 1953 2691

1 Collaborated with Ray Ashley and Morris Engel.

Kenny Ortega

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 High School Musical 2006 2511

Mark Osborne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kung Fu Panda1 2008 1321

1 Collaborated with John Stevenson.

Mamoru Oshii

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ghost in the Shell 1995 324

1 Collaborated with Mizuho Nishikubo.

Nagisa Ôshima

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 758
2 Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence 1983 2588

Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Akira 1988 175

Frank Oz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 1076
2 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 1770
3 The Dark Crystal1 1982 2100

1 Collaborated with Jim Henson.

François Ozon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 8 Women 2002 2586

Yasujirô Ozu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tokyo Story 1953 78
2 Late Spring 1949 593
3 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 1306
4 Floating Weeds 1959 1483
5 I Was Born, But... 1932 1538
6 Early Summer 1951 1723
7 Good Morning 1959 2085

Sergio Pablos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Klaus 2019 2406

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pandora's Box 1929 788
2 Diary of a Lost Girl 1929 2400

José Padilha

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bus 174 2002 2970

Alan J. Pakula

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 All the President's Men 1976 282
2 Klute 1971 1035
3 Sophie's Choice 1982 1075
4 The Parallax View 1974 1587

George Pal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Time Machine 1960 1375

Nina Paley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sita Sings the Blues 2008 2289

Jafar Panahi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Circle 2000 2492
2 This Is Not a Film1 2011 2713
3 The White Balloon 1995 2770

1 Collaborated with Mojtaba Mirtahmasb.

Norman Panama

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Court Jester1 1955 1333

1 Collaborated with Melvin Frank.

Sergei Paradjanov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965 1762
2 The Color of Pomegranates 1969 1815

Dean Parisot

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Galaxy Quest 1999 759

Nick Park

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit1 2005 634
2 Chicken Run2 2000 995
3 The Wrong Trousers 1993 2422

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

Alan Parker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fame 1980 1641
2 Mississippi Burning 1988 1676
3 Angel Heart 1987 1894
4 Pink Floyd the Wall 1982 2081
5 Midnight Express 1978 2171
6 Bugsy Malone 1976 2344
7 Evita 1996 2763
8 The Commitments 1991 2824

Ol Parker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again 2018 2903

Trey Parker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut 1999 578
2 Team America: World Police 2004 1288

Gordon Parks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shaft 1971 866
2 The Learning Tree 1969 2560

Gordon Parks Jr.

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Super Fly 1972 1714

Vincent Paronnaud

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Persepolis1 2007 334

1 Collaborated with Marjane Satrapi.

James Parrott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Music Box 1932 2315

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 845
2 Salò 1975 1247
3 Accattone 1961 2091
4 Teorema 1968 2292
5 Mamma Roma 1962 2756

Giovanni Pastrone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cabiria 1914 2692

Vincent Patar

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ernest & Celestine1 2012 1947

1 Collaborated with Stéphane Aubier and Benjamin Renner.

Pawel Pawlikowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ida 2013 1730
2 Cold War 2018 2280
3 My Summer of Love 2004 2904

Alexander Payne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Election 1999 543
2 Sideways 2004 742
3 The Descendants 2011 1713
4 Nebraska 2013 2589
5 About Schmidt 2002 2852

Raoul Peck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 I Am Not Your Negro 2016 1308

Sam Peckinpah

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wild Bunch 1969 88
2 Ride the High Country 1962 683
3 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 988
4 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 1128
5 Straw Dogs 1971 1239
6 Cross of Iron 1977 1860
7 The Getaway 1972 2703
8 The Ballad of Cable Hogue 1970 2963

Jordan Peele

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Get Out 2017 187
2 Us 2019 1200
3 Nope 2022 1789

Kimberly Peirce

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Boys Don't Cry 1999 663

Oren Peli

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Paranormal Activity 2007 1369

Arthur Penn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 116
2 Little Big Man 1970 810
3 The Miracle Worker 1962 1597
4 Night Moves 1975 2259

Sean Penn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Into the Wild 2007 749

D. A. Pennebaker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dont Look Back 1967 910
2 Monterey Pop 1968 2225

Stacy Peralta

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dogtown and Z-Boys 2001 1984
2 Riding Giants 2004 3050

Frank Perry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Swimmer 1968 2318
2 Mommie Dearest 1981 2608

Bob Persichett

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse1 2018 189

1 Collaborated with Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman.

Wolfgang Petersen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Das Boot 1981 217
2 The NeverEnding Story 1984 672
3 Troy 2004 2308
4 In the Line of Fire 1993 2442
5 The Perfect Storm 2000 2750

Elio Petri

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion 1970 1829

Daniel Petrie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Raisin in the Sun 1961 1579

Donald Petrie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 2003 2073
2 Mystic Pizza 1988 2855

Nicolas Philibert

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 To Be and to Have 2002 2080

Todd Phillips

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hangover 2009 774
2 Joker 2019 893
3 Old School 2003 2309

Maurice Pialat

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 À nos amours 1983 2210

Irving Pichel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Destination Moon 1950 2889

Prachya Pinkaew

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior 2003 2334

Paco Plaza

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 [Rec]1 2007 994

1 Collaborated with Jaume Balagueró.

Benoît Poelvoorde

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Man Bites Dog1 1992 2131

1 Collaborated with Rémy Belvaux and André Bonzel.

Laura Poitras

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Citizenfour 2014 2343

Roman Polanski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chinatown 1974 34
2 Rosemary's Baby 1968 77
3 The Pianist 2002 166
4 Repulsion 1965 396
5 Knife in the Water 1962 983
6 The Tenant 1976 1421

Sydney Pollack

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tootsie 1982 359
2 The Way We Were 1973 1180
3 Jeremiah Johnson 1972 1243
4 Out of Africa 1985 1259
5 Three Days of the Condor 1975 1617
6 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1969 2663

Sarah Polley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stories We Tell 2012 1277
2 Away from Her 2006 2844

Abraham Polonsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Force of Evil 1948 1354

Gillo Pontecorvo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Battle of Algiers 1966 158

Edwin S. Porter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Great Train Robbery 1903 777

Sally Potter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Orlando 1992 926

Gerald Potterton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Heavy Metal 1981 2647

Michael Powell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red Shoes1 1948 150
2 Peeping Tom 1960 274
3 A Matter of Life and Death1 1946 316
4 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1 1943 394
5 Black Narcissus1 1947 446
6 'I Know Where I'm Going!'1 1945 903
7 The Thief of Bagdad2 1940 1359
8 A Canterbury Tale1 1944 2300
9 The Tales of Hoffmann1 1951 2830

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

Kemp Powers

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

1 Collaborated with Joaquim Dos Santos and Justin K. Thompson.

Otto Preminger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Laura 1944 408
2 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 464
3 Carmen Jones 1954 1438
4 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 1653
5 Advise & Consent 1962 2323

Richard Press

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bill Cunningham New York 2010 3022

Emeric Pressburger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red Shoes1 1948 150
2 A Matter of Life and Death1 1946 316
3 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1 1943 394
4 Black Narcissus1 1947 446
5 'I Know Where I'm Going!'1 1945 903
6 A Canterbury Tale1 1944 2300
7 The Tales of Hoffmann1 1951 2830

1 Collaborated with Michael Powell.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love & Basketball 2000 602

Alex Proyas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Crow 1994 772
2 Dark City 1998 839

Louie Psihoyos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cove 2009 1889

Luis Puenzo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Official Story 1985 2598

Cristi Puiu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Death of Mister Lazarescu 2005 1603

Robert Pulcini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Splendor1 2003 1420

1 Collaborated with Shari Springer Berman.

Joe Pytka

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Space Jam 1996 1765

Questlove

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 2021 1820
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