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Top Films by Director (N-Q)

Mira Nair

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Salaam Bombay! 1988 1842
2 Monsoon Wedding 2001 1993

Olivier Nakache

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Intouchables1 2011 802

1 Collaborated with Eric Toledano.

Hideo Nakata

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ring 1998 889

Mikio Naruse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 1960 2127
2 Floating Clouds 1955 2200

Vincenzo Natali

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cube 1997 2123

Gregory Nava

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 El Norte 1983 2598

Ronald Neame

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 2402

Hal Needham

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Smokey and the Bandit 1977 2792

Jean Negulesco

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 How to Marry a Millionaire 1953 2716

Jessie Nelson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 I Am Sam 2001 2315

László Nemes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Son of Saul 2015 2498

Kurt Neumann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fly 1958 1482

Mark Neveldine

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crank1 2006 1863

1 Collaborated with Brian Taylor.

Mike Newell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 504
2 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005 827
3 Donnie Brasco 1997 878

Joseph M. Newman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 This Island Earth 1955 2513

Fred C. Newmeyer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Safety Last!1 1923 658
2 The Freshman1 1925 1489

1 Collaborated with Sam Taylor.

Fred Niblo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ben-Hur 1925 1673

Andrew Niccol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gattaca 1997 782
2 Lord of War 2005 2239

Mike Nichols

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Graduate 1967 59
2 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 448
3 The Birdcage 1996 1253
4 Working Girl 1988 1515
5 Catch-22 1970 1796
6 Silkwood 1983 1924
7 Carnal Knowledge 1971 2423

Leonard Nimoy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986 1973

Gaspar Noé

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Irréversible 2002 1348
2 Enter the Void 2009 2115
3 I Stand Alone 1998 2717

Christopher Nolan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Dark Knight 2008 47
2 Memento 2000 139
3 Inception 2010 158
4 Batman Begins 2005 414
5 The Prestige 2006 555
6 The Dark Knight Rises 2012 614
7 Interstellar 2014 638
8 Dunkirk 2017 1439
9 Insomnia 2002 1962
10 Following 1998 2370

Chris Noonan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Babe 1995 492

Stephen Norrington

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blade 1998 1484

Phillip Noyce

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead Calm 1989 2303
2 The Quiet American 2002 2360
3 Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 2510
4 Clear and Present Danger 1994 2786

David Nutter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 2591

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 762

Dan O'Bannon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Return of the Living Dead 1985 2213

Gavin O'Connor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Warrior 2011 1156
2 Miracle 2004 1172

Gary Oldman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nil by Mouth 1997 2357

Laurence Olivier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Henry V 1944 960
2 Hamlet 1948 1501

Ermanno Olmi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 1096
2 Il Posto 1961 2153

Marcel Ophüls

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 709
2 Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie 1988 2610

Max Ophüls

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 490
2 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 571
3 Lola Montès 1955 1181
4 La Ronde 1950 1803
5 Le Plaisir 1952 1851
6 The Reckless Moment 1949 2001
7 Liebelei 1933 2746

Niels Arden Oplev

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2009 2292

Joshua Oppenheimer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Act of Killing 2012 1332
2 The Look of Silence 2014 2057

Mark Osborne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kung Fu Panda1 2008 1327

1 Collaborated with John Stevenson.

Mamoru Oshii

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ghost in the Shell 1995 374

Nagisa Ôshima

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 589
2 Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence 1983 2162

Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Akira 1988 204

Frank Oz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 1227
2 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 1410
3 The Dark Crystal1 1982 2212

1 Collaborated with Jim Henson.

François Ozon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 8 Women 2002 2732

Yasujiro Ozu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tokyo Story 1953 70
2 Late Spring 1949 586
3 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 1187
4 I Was Born, But... 1932 1392
5 Early Summer 1951 1536
6 Floating Weeds 1959 1630
7 Good Morning 1959 1752

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pandora's Box 1929 644
2 Diary of a Lost Girl 1929 2322

José Padilha

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bus 174 2002 2318

Alan J. Pakula

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 All the President's Men 1976 290
2 Klute 1971 880
3 Sophie's Choice 1982 1152
4 The Parallax View 1974 1411

George Pal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Time Machine 1960 1281

Nina Paley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sita Sings the Blues 2008 2676

Jafar Panahi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Offside 2006 2738

Norman Panama

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Court Jester1 1955 1115

1 Collaborated with Melvin Frank.

Sergei Paradjanov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Color of Pomegranates 1969 1125
2 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965 1671

Dean Parisot

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Galaxy Quest 1999 810

Chan-wook Park

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Oldboy 2003 190
2 The Handmaiden 2016 1632
3 Lady Vengeance 2005 2227
4 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance 2002 2349

Nick Park

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit1 2005 563
2 Chicken Run2 2000 962
3 The Wrong Trousers 1993 1954

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

Alan Parker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Angel Heart 1987 1468
2 Bugsy Malone 1976 1649
3 Pink Floyd the Wall 1982 1663
4 Midnight Express 1978 1703
5 Mississippi Burning 1988 1833
6 Evita 1996 2058
7 Fame 1980 2174

Trey Parker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut 1999 407
2 Team America: World Police 2004 936

Gordon Parks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shaft 1971 993

Gordon Parks Jr.

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Super Fly 1972 1830

Vincent Paronnaud

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Persepolis1 2007 472

1 Collaborated with Marjane Satrapi.

James Parrott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Music Box 1932 1691

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 557
2 Salò 1975 928
3 Accattone 1961 1631
4 Teorema 1968 1855

Ivan Passer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cutter's Way 1981 2436

Giovanni Pastrone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cabiria 1914 1974

Josh Pate

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday Night Lights1 2004 1249

1 Collaborated with Peter Berg.

Pawel Pawlikowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ida 2013 2274
2 My Summer of Love 2004 2434

Alexander Payne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Election 1999 546
2 Sideways 2004 606
3 Nebraska 2013 2574
4 Citizen Ruth 1996 2664
5 The Descendants 2011 2684

Cecilia Peck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shut Up & Sing1 2006 2751

1 Collaborated with Barbara Kopple.

Sam Peckinpah

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wild Bunch 1969 63
2 Ride the High Country 1962 684
3 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 712
4 Straw Dogs 1971 915
5 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 1097
6 Cross of Iron 1977 1606
7 The Getaway 1972 1920
8 Major Dundee 1965 2311

Jordan Peele

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Get Out 2017 1061

Kimberly Peirce

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Boys Don't Cry 1999 859

Oren Peli

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Paranormal Activity 2007 2279

Mark Pellington

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Arlington Road 1999 2449

Arthur Penn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 97
2 Little Big Man 1970 620
3 The Miracle Worker 1962 1368
4 Night Moves 1975 1666

Sean Penn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Into the Wild 2007 870

D. A. Pennebaker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dont Look Back 1967 749
2 Monterey Pop 1968 2680

Stacy Peralta

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dogtown and Z-Boys 2001 1806

Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Barren Lives 1963 2386

Frank Perry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Swimmer 1968 2219
2 Mommie Dearest 1981 2702

Bob Persichett

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse1 2018 1118

1 Collaborated with Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman.

Wolfgang Petersen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Das Boot 1981 247
2 The NeverEnding Story 1984 1231
3 Air Force One 1997 2347
4 In the Line of Fire 1993 2350
5 Enemy Mine 1985 2648

Elio Petri

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion 1970 2048

Daniel Petrie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Raisin in the Sun 1961 2335

Nicolas Philibert

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 To Be and to Have 2002 1674

Todd Phillips

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hangover 2009 844
2 Old School 2003 1408

Maurice Pialat

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 À nos amours 1983 1607
2 Van Gogh 1991 2619

Irving Pichel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Destination Moon 1950 2359

Prachya Pinkaew

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior 2003 1815

Paco Plaza

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 [Rec]1 2007 1444

1 Collaborated with Jaume Balagueró.

Benoît Poelvoorde

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Man Bites Dog1 1992 1353

1 Collaborated with Rémy Belvaux and André Bonzel.

Sidney Poitier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stir Crazy 1980 2629

Laura Poitras

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Citizenfour 2014 2764

Roman Polanski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chinatown 1974 21
2 Rosemary's Baby 1968 78
3 The Pianist 2002 269
4 Repulsion 1965 358
5 Knife in the Water 1962 799
6 The Tenant 1976 1034
7 Cul-de-sac 1966 2694

Sydney Pollack

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tootsie 1982 320
2 Out of Africa 1985 930
3 Jeremiah Johnson 1972 1155
4 Three Days of the Condor 1975 1378
5 The Way We Were 1973 1502
6 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1969 2809

Sarah Polley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stories We Tell 2012 1722
2 Away from Her 2006 2635

Abraham Polonsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Force of Evil 1948 850

Gillo Pontecorvo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Battle of Algiers 1966 145

Edwin S. Porter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Great Train Robbery 1903 688

Sally Potter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Orlando 1992 955

Gerald Potterton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Heavy Metal 1981 2492

Michael Powell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red Shoes1 1948 143
2 Peeping Tom 1960 232
3 Stairway to Heaven1 1946 240
4 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1 1943 327
5 Black Narcissus1 1947 410
6 'I Know Where I'm Going!'1 1945 672
7 The Thief of Bagdad2 1940 1090
8 A Canterbury Tale1 1944 1559

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

Otto Preminger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Laura 1944 279
2 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 513
3 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 1383
4 Carmen Jones 1954 1698
5 Advise & Consent 1962 1981

Emeric Pressburger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red Shoes1 1948 143
2 Stairway to Heaven1 1946 240
3 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1 1943 327
4 Black Narcissus1 1947 410
5 'I Know Where I'm Going!'1 1945 672
6 A Canterbury Tale1 1944 1559

1 Collaborated with Michael Powell.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love & Basketball 2000 1564

Alex Proyas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dark City 1998 814
2 The Crow 1994 1005

Louie Psihoyos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cove 2009 1798

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mother 1926 2705

Luis Puenzo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Official Story 1985 2438

Cristi Puiu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Death of Mister Lazarescu 2005 1509

Robert Pulcini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Splendor1 2003 1258

1 Collaborated with Shari Springer Berman.

Joe Pytka

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Space Jam 1996 2525
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