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Top Films by Director (S)

Boris Sagal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Omega Man 1971 2243

Leontine Sagan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Maedchen in Uniform 1931 2056

Gene Saks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Odd Couple 1968 972
2 Barefoot in the Park 1967 1415

Walter Salles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Central Station 1998 745
2 The Motorcycle Diaries 2004 1536

Mikael Salomon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 1956

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

Gabriele Salvatores

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mediterraneo 1991 2364

Eduardo Sánchez

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blair Witch Project1 1999 417

1 Collaborated with Daniel Myrick.

Chris Sanders

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lilo & Stitch1 2002 2062

1 Collaborated with Dean DeBlois.

Mark Sandrich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Top Hat 1935 132
2 Holiday Inn 1942 1384
3 The Gay Divorcee 1934 1462
4 Shall We Dance 1937 1520
5 Follow the Fleet 1936 1991

Joseph Sargent

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 2187

Paul Satterfield

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 158

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

Carlos Saura

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cria! 1976 1972

Claude Sautet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Un coeur en hiver 1992 1577

John Sayles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lone Star 1996 667
2 Eight Men Out 1988 852
3 Return of the Secaucus 7 1980 978
4 Matewan 1987 1505
5 The Secret of Roan Inish 1994 1587
6 City of Hope 1991 1660
7 The Brother from Another Planet 1984 2050

Franklin J. Schaffner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Patton 1970 178
2 Planet of the Apes 1968 279
3 Papillon 1973 1093

Fred Schepisi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Roxanne 1987 798
2 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith 1978 1935
3 Six Degrees of Separation 1993 2348

John Schlesinger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Midnight Cowboy 1969 120
2 Billy Liar 1963 1067
3 Darling 1965 1205
4 Marathon Man 1976 1286
5 Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971 1632

Volker Schlöndorff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Tin Drum 1979 561

Volker Schlöndorff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum1 1975 2259

1 Collaborated with Margarethe von Trotta.

Julian Schnabel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Before Night Falls 2000 2487

Ernest B. Schoedsack

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 King Kong1 1933 47
2 Mighty Joe Young 1949 2429

1 Collaborated with Merian C. Cooper.

Paul Schrader

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blue Collar 1978 1604
2 American Gigolo 1980 1957
3 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 2262

Barbet Schroeder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Reversal of Fortune 1990 1357
2 Barfly 1987 2227

Joel Schumacher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Time to Kill 1996 1834
2 The Lost Boys 1987 1849
3 St. Elmo's Fire 1985 2280

Ettore Scola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 We All Loved Each Other So Much 1974 2428

Martin Scorsese

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Taxi Driver 1976 16
2 Raging Bull 1980 18
3 Goodfellas 1990 31
4 Mean Streets 1973 171
5 The King of Comedy 1983 480
6 The Age of Innocence 1993 547
7 Casino 1995 560
8 The Last Waltz 1978 797
9 The Departed 2006 802
10 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 910
11 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974 1076
12 After Hours 1985 1163
13 Gangs of New York 2002 1209
14 The Color of Money 1986 1255
15 The Aviator 2004 1662
16 Cape Fear 1991 1723

Campbell Scott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big Night1 1996 1397

1 Collaborated with Stanley Tucci.

Ridley Scott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blade Runner 1982 25
2 Alien 1979 54
3 Gladiator 2000 138
4 Thelma & Louise 1991 188
5 Black Hawk Down 2001 1006
6 Hannibal 2001 2291

Tony Scott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 True Romance 1993 440
2 Top Gun 1986 461
3 The Hunger 1983 2114
4 Enemy of the State 1998 2381

George Seaton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 421
2 Airport 1970 2102

Edward Sedgwick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cameraman 1928 1166

Peter Segal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult 1994 2339

Susan Seidelman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Desperately Seeking Susan 1985 992

Lewis Seiler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Guadalcanal Diary 1943 2117

William A. Seiter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sons of the Desert 1933 806

George B. Seitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love Finds Andy Hardy 1938 2420

Henry Selick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993 567
2 James and the Giant Peach 1996 2236

Ousmane Sembene

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Xala 1975 1214
2 Ceddo 1977 1830
3 Black Girl 1966 2210

Tom Shadyac

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 1994 1431
2 The Nutty Professor 1996 2281

Steven Shainberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Secretary 2002 1272

Jim Sharman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 333

Ben Sharpsteen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pinocchio1 1940 245
2 Dumbo 1941 507

1 Collaborated with Hamilton Luske.

Ron Shelton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bull Durham 1988 419
2 Tin Cup 1996 1425
3 White Men Can't Jump 1992 1601

Larissa Shepitko

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ascent 1977 2055

Jim Sheridan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Left Foot 1989 739
2 In America 2002 1973
3 In the Name of the Father 1993 2021

Lowell Sherman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 She Done Him Wrong 1933 922

Bill Sherwood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Parting Glances 1986 2440

Kaneto Shindô

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Onibaba 1964 1278

Jack Sholder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hidden 1987 2418

M. Night Shyamalan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sixth Sense 1999 215
2 Signs 2002 2161

Charles Shyer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Father of the Bride 1991 2303

George Sidney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bye Bye Birdie 1963 1521
2 Kiss Me Kate 1953 1526
3 Show Boat 1951 2226
4 Annie Get Your Gun 1950 2400

Don Siegel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 173
2 Dirty Harry 1971 265
3 The Shootist 1976 1207
4 Charley Varrick 1973 2398

Brad Silberling

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 City of Angels 1998 1895

Joan Micklin Silver

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crossing Delancey 1988 2192

Elliott Silverstein

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cat Ballou 1965 1332

Bryan Singer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Usual Suspects 1995 64
2 X-Men 2000 810
3 X2 2003 982

John Singleton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Boyz N the Hood 1991 520

Bruce Sinofsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brother's Keeper1 1992 2052

1 Collaborated with Joe Berlinger.

Curt Siodmak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 People on Sunday1 1930 2451

1 Collaborated with Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, and Fred Zinnemann.

Robert Siodmak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Killers 1946 622
2 The Spiral Staircase 1945 1579
3 Criss Cross 1949 2171
4 People on Sunday1 1930 2451
5 Son of Dracula 1943 2484

1 Collaborated with Curt Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, and Fred Zinnemann.

Ramesh Sippy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sholay 1975 2319

Douglas Sirk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Written on the Wind 1956 405
2 Imitation of Life 1959 487
3 All That Heaven Allows 1955 671
4 Magnificent Obsession 1954 1997

Rob Sitch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Castle 1997 2275
2 The Dish 2000 2335

Victor Sjöström

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wind 1928 410

Jerzy Skolimowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Moonlighting 1982 2302

George Sluizer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Vanishing 1988 1001

Chris Smith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Movie 1999 2093

Jack Smith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Flaming Creatures 1963 2131

Kevin Smith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Clerks. 1994 361
2 Chasing Amy 1997 1345
3 Mallrats 1995 1811
4 Dogma 1999 1889

Mel Smith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Tall Guy 1989 2162

Michael Snow

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wavelength 1967 1168

Steven Soderbergh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 491
2 Traffic 2000 599
3 Out of Sight 1998 603
4 Erin Brockovich 2000 618
5 Ocean's Eleven 2001 1432
6 Schizopolis 1996 1900
7 The Limey 1999 1944
8 King of the Hill 1993 2294

Aleksandr Sokurov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Russian Ark 2002 1477
2 Mother and Son 1997 1910

Fernando E. Solanas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hour of the Furnaces1 1968 1685

1 Collaborated with Octavio Getino and Santiago Álvarez.

Humberto Solás

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lucía 1968 2344

Todd Solondz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Happiness 1998 747
2 Welcome to the Dollhouse 1995 1424

Stephen Sommers

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Mummy 1999 1118

Barry Sonnenfeld

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Men in Black 1997 610
2 Get Shorty 1995 1179

Penelope Spheeris

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wayne's World 1992 1280

Steven Spielberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 21
2 Schindler's List 1993 22
3 Jaws 1975 27
4 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 32
5 Saving Private Ryan 1998 67
6 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 103
7 Jurassic Park 1993 131
8 The Color Purple 1985 481
9 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 514
10 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 648
11 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984 673
12 Minority Report 2002 817
13 Empire of the Sun 1987 1089
14 Duel 1971 1155
15 1941 1979 1663
16 Amistad 1997 2092
17 Munich 2005 2113

Jill Sprecher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Thirteen Conversations about One Thing 2001 2106

John M. Stahl

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Imitation of Life 1934 1848
2 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 2169

Andrew Stanton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Finding Nemo 2003 485

Michael Steinberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Waterdance1 1992 2337

1 Collaborted with Neal Jimenez.

Frederick Stephani

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Flash Gordon 1936 1800

George Stevens

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shane 1953 146
2 Swing Time 1936 307
3 A Place in the Sun 1951 313
4 Gunga Din 1939 388
5 Giant 1956 412
6 Woman of the Year 1942 566
7 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 912
8 The Talk of the Town 1942 1722
9 The More the Merrier 1943 2144
10 I Remember Mama 1948 2518

Robert Stevenson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mary Poppins 1964 263
2 Old Yeller 1957 1159
3 The Love Bug 1968 1680
4 Jane Eyre 1944 2151
5 Darby O'Gill and the Little People 1959 2173
6 Bedknobs and Broomsticks 1971 2503

Ben Stiller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Zoolander 2001 1244
2 Reality Bites 1994 1981

Whit Stillman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Metropolitan 1990 1540

Oliver Stone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Platoon 1986 111
2 JFK 1991 424
3 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 678
4 Natural Born Killers 1994 709
5 Wall Street 1987 1333
6 Salvador 1986 1562
7 Any Given Sunday 1999 1711
8 The Doors 1991 2263

Barbra Streisand

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yentl 1983 2412

Mel Stuart

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 415

John Sturges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Great Escape 1963 175
2 The Magnificent Seven 1960 404
3 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 760
4 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 2175

Preston Stuges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sullivan's Travels 1941 113
2 The Lady Eve 1941 125
3 The Palm Beach Story 1942 360
4 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 433
5 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 938
6 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 1463
7 The Great McGinty 1940 1813

Masayuki Suo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shall We Dance? 1996 1797

Jan Svankmajer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Alice 1988 1486

Jan Sverák

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kolya 1996 1263

David Swift

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying 1967 2145

István Szabó

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mephisto 1981 1145

Jeannot Szwarc

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Somewhere in Time 1980 2401
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