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Top Films by Director (S)

Benny Safdie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Uncut Gems1 2019 1073
2 Good Time1 2017 2268

1 Collaborated with Josh Safdie.

Josh Safdie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Uncut Gems1 2019 1073
2 Good Time1 2017 2268

1 Collaborated with Benny Safdie.

Boris Sagal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Omega Man 1971 2635

Leontine Sagan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Maedchen in Uniform 1931 1925

Gene Saks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Odd Couple 1968 1091
2 Barefoot in the Park 1967 2772

Walter Salles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Central Station 1998 1151
2 The Motorcycle Diaries 2004 2646

David F. Sandberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shazam! 2019 2548

Eduardo Sánchez

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blair Witch Project1 1999 271

1 Collaborated with Daniel Myrick.

Chris Sanders

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 How to Train Your Dragon1 2010 347
2 Lilo & Stitch1 2002 1869

1 Collaborated with Dean DeBlois.

Scott Sanders

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black Dynamite 2009 2632

Mark Sandrich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Top Hat 1935 386
2 Holiday Inn 1942 2777
3 The Gay Divorcee 1934 2916

Yeon Sang-ho

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Train to Busan 2016 1298

Richard C. Sarafian

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Vanishing Point 1971 2843

Joseph Sargent

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 912

Marjane Satrapi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Persepolis1 2007 334

1 Collaborated with Vincent Paronnaud.

Paul Satterfield

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 229

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Ben Sharpsteen.

Carlos Saura

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cría Cuervos 1976 2037

John Sayles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lone Star 1996 1179
2 Eight Men Out 1988 1185
3 Matewan 1987 1757
4 The Brother from Another Planet 1984 2130

Dan Scanlon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Onward 2020 2856

Franklin J. Schaffner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Planet of the Apes 1968 181
2 Patton 1970 302
3 Papillon 1973 1261

Daniel Scheinert

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Everything Everywhere All at Once1 2022 1093

1 Collaborated with Daniel Kwan.

Fred Schepisi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Roxanne 1987 2010

Lone Scherfig

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 An Education 2009 1741

John Schlesinger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Midnight Cowboy 1969 280
2 Marathon Man 1976 2209
3 Billy Liar 1963 2503
4 Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971 2736

Volker Schlöndorff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Tin Drum 1979 1535

Julian Schnabel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007 902
2 Before Night Falls 2000 2976

Ernest B. Schoedsack

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 King Kong1 1933 68

1 Collaborated with Merian C. Cooper.

Paul Schrader

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 1248
2 Blue Collar 1978 2686
3 First Reformed 2017 2826

Barbet Schroeder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Reversal of Fortune 1990 2583

Michael Schultz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cooley High 1975 2140
2 The Last Dragon 1985 3007

Joel Schumacher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lost Boys 1987 1059
2 A Time to Kill 1996 2595
3 Falling Down 1993 2769
4 The Phantom of the Opera 2004 3023

Céline Sciamma

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019 452
2 Girlhood 2014 2187
3 Tomboy 2011 2284

Ettore Scola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Special Day 1977 1814
2 We All Loved Each Other So Much 1974 2753

Martin Scorsese

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Goodfellas 1990 14
2 Taxi Driver 1976 17
3 Raging Bull 1980 44
4 The Departed 2006 153
5 Mean Streets 1973 283
6 Casino 1995 404
7 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 613
8 Shutter Island 2010 638
9 The King of Comedy 1982 875
10 Hugo 2011 919
11 The Last Waltz 1978 935
12 The Irishman 2019 976
13 After Hours 1985 1021
14 Cape Fear 1991 1160
15 The Color of Money 1986 1269
16 The Age of Innocence 1993 1411
17 Gangs of New York 2002 1532
18 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 1609
19 The Aviator 2004 1704
20 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974 2182
21 Killers of the Flower Moon 2023 2409
22 New York, New York 1977 2696
23 Silence 2016 2874

Campbell Scott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big Night1 1996 2677

1 Collaborated with Stanley Tucci.

Ridley Scott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Alien 1979 6
2 Blade Runner 1982 12
3 Gladiator 2000 137
4 Thelma & Louise 1991 402
5 Black Hawk Down 2001 837
6 The Martian 2015 918
7 American Gangster 2007 1523
8 Legend 1985 2909

Tony Scott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Top Gun 1986 816
2 True Romance 1993 925
3 Man on Fire 2004 2062
4 The Hunger 1983 2115
5 Enemy of the State 1998 2516
6 The Last Boy Scout 1991 2755

George Seaton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 807

Edward Sedgwick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cameraman 1928 1409

Peter Segal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 50 First Dates 2004 2196
2 Tommy Boy 1995 2483

Susan Seidelman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Desperately Seeking Susan 1985 1526

William A. Seiter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sons of the Desert 1933 1645

Henry Selick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Nightmare before Christmas 1993 231
2 Coraline 2009 552
3 James and the Giant Peach 1996 1955

Emma Seligman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shiva Baby 2020 2815

Ousmane Sembene

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black Girl 1966 1181
2 Xala 1975 2129
3 Ceddo 1977 2169
4 Moolaadé 2003 2214

Tom Shadyac

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 1994 3027

Steven Shainberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Secretary 2002 1981

Adam Shankman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hairspray 2007 1429
2 A Walk to Remember 2002 1619

John Patrick Shanley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Doubt 2008 2176

Dana Adam Shapiro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Murderball1 2005 973

1 Collaborated with Henry Alex Rubin.

Jim Sharman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 297

Ben Sharpsteen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pinocchio1 1940 224
2 Fantasia1 2 1940 229
3 Dumbo 1941 482

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

Adrienne Shelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Waitress 2007 2972

Ron Shelton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bull Durham 1988 518
2 Tin Cup 1996 1453
3 White Men Can't Jump 1992 1537

Larissa Shepitko

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ascent 1977 1466

Jim Sheridan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Left Foot 1989 890
2 In the Name of the Father 1993 1433

Lowell Sherman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 She Done Him Wrong 1933 2766

Bill Sherwood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Parting Glances 1986 2333

Takashi Shimizu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ju-on: The Grudge 2002 2121

Kaneto Shindô

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Onibaba 1964 1252

Makoto Shinkai

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Your Name 2016 670

Michael Showalter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Big Sick 2017 832

M. Night Shyamalan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sixth Sense 1999 168
2 Unbreakable 2000 1065
3 Signs 2002 1581
4 The Village 2004 2390

George Sidney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kiss Me Kate 1953 2605
2 Anchors Aweigh 1945 2651
3 Viva Las Vegas 1964 2935

Don Siegel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 212
2 Dirty Harry 1971 300
3 The Shootist 1976 1226
4 Escape from Alcatraz 1979 2738
5 Charley Varrick 1973 2780

Robert Siegel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big Fan 2009 2865

Joan Micklin Silver

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crossing Delancey 1988 2928

David Silverman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Simpsons Movie 2007 2884

Elliott Silverstein

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cat Ballou 1965 2104

Bryan Singer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Usual Suspects 1995 134
2 X2 2003 675
3 X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014 1136
4 X-Men 2000 1183
5 Bohemian Rhapsody 2018 2381

Marc Singer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dark Days 2000 2868

Tarsem Singh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fall 2006 1996

John Singleton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Boyz N the Hood 1991 497

David Sington

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Shadow of the Moon 2007 2979

Bruce Sinofsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills1 1996 1854
2 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster1 2004 2448
3 Brother's Keeper1 1992 2456

1 Collaborated with Joe Berlinger.

Robert Siodmak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Killers 1946 1207
2 The Spiral Staircase 1946 2784

Ramesh Sippy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sholay 1975 2007

Douglas Sirk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Imitation of Life 1959 571
2 All That Heaven Allows 1955 782
3 Written on the Wind 1956 1278

Abderrahmane Sissako

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Timbuktu 2014 2441

Victor Sjöström

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wind 1928 861
2 The Phantom Chariot 1921 1476

George Sluizer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Vanishing 1988 743

Phillips Smalley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Suspense1 1913 2851

1 Collaborated with Lois Weber.

Chris Smith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Movie 1999 1439

Jack Smith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Flaming Creatures 1963 2799

Kevin Smith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Clerks. 1994 399
2 Chasing Amy 1997 1606
3 Dogma 1999 2558

Michael Snow

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wavelength 1967 2036

Zack Snyder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 300 2006 726
2 Watchmen 2009 1054
3 Dawn of the Dead 2004 1640
4 Man of Steel 2013 2125
5 Zack Snyder's Justice League 2021 2832

Steven Soderbergh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 909
2 Ocean's Eleven 2001 962
3 Out of Sight 1998 1001
4 Erin Brockovich 2000 1187
5 Traffic 2000 1188
6 The Limey 1999 2484

Aleksandr Sokurov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Russian Ark 2002 1300
2 Mother and Son 1997 2584

Fernando E. Solanas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hour of the Furnaces1 1968 2087

1 Collaborated with Octavio Getino.

Peter Sollett

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist 2008 2594

Todd Solondz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Happiness 1998 1265
2 Welcome to the Dollhouse 1995 2412

Stephen Sommers

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Mummy 1999 1529

Celine Song

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Past Lives 2023 2956

Barry Sonnenfeld

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Men in Black 1997 637
2 Get Shorty 1995 2550
3 The Addams Family 1991 2631
4 Addams Family Values 1993 2945

Shion Sono

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love Exposure 2008 2109

Paolo Sorrentino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Great Beauty 2013 1521

Will Speck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blades of Glory1 2007 3038

1 Collaborated with Josh Gordon.

Penelope Spheeris

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wayne's World 1992 1071
2 The Decline of Western Civilization 1981 1461
3 The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years 1988 2460

Steven Spielberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jaws 1975 13
2 Schindler's List 1993 21
3 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 27
4 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 28
5 Saving Private Ryan 1998 60
6 Jurassic Park 1993 83
7 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 110
8 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 370
9 Minority Report 2002 413
10 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 655
11 The Color Purple 1985 719
12 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984 722
13 Catch Me If You Can 2002 733
14 Empire of the Sun 1987 876
15 Lincoln 2012 1122
16 Duel 1971 1384
17 War of the Worlds 2005 1623
18 Munich 2005 1883
19 West Side Story 2021 1951
20 Bridge of Spies 2015 2216
21 Hook 1991 2708

Morgan Spurlock

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Super Size Me 2004 2157

Chad Stahelski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 John Wick 2014 1167
2 John Wick: Chapter 2 2017 2386

John M. Stahl

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 1954

Sylvester Stallone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rocky II 1979 2069
2 Rocky III 1982 2611
3 Rocky IV 1985 2657

Andrew Stanton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 WALL•E 2008 55
2 Finding Nemo 2003 163
3 Finding Dory 2016 2959

Richard Starzak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shaun the Sheep Movie1 2015 2198

1 Collaborated with Mark Burton.

Bert Stern

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jazz on a Summer's Day1 1959 2718

Art Stevens

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Rescuers1 1977 2627
2 The Fox and the Hound2 1981 3026

1 Collaborated with John Lounsbery and Wolfgang Reitherman.
2 Collaborated with Ted Berman and Richard Rich.

George Stevens

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shane 1953 410
2 Giant 1956 829
3 Swing Time 1936 966
4 A Place in the Sun 1951 1258
5 Gunga Din 1939 1598
6 Woman of the Year 1942 2119

John Stevenson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kung Fu Panda1 2008 1321

1 Collaborated with Mark Osborne.

Robert Stevenson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mary Poppins 1964 204
2 Old Yeller 1957 1450

Ross Stewart

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wolfwalkers1 2020 2035

1 Collaborated with Tomm Moore.

Ben Stiller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Zoolander 2001 1305
2 Tropic Thunder 2008 2324
3 Reality Bites 1994 2572

Whit Stillman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Metropolitan 1989 1709
2 The Last Days of Disco 1998 2347

Nicholas Stoller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2008 1236

Andrew L. Stone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stormy Weather 1943 2076

Oliver Stone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Platoon 1986 268
2 JFK 1991 745
3 Wall Street 1987 1212
4 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 1295
5 Natural Born Killers 1994 1344
6 Any Given Sunday 1999 1729
7 Salvador 1986 2009
8 Nixon 1995 2803

Barbra Streisand

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yentl 1983 2168

Mel Stuart

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 364

John Sturges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Great Escape 1963 154
2 The Magnificent Seven 1960 388
3 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 883
4 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 2403

Preston Sturges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lady Eve 1941 239
2 Sullivan's Travels 1941 389
3 The Palm Beach Story 1942 1119
4 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1943 1843
5 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 2340
6 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 2580

Kevin Rodney Sullivan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 How Stella Got Her Groove Back 1998 2204

Seijun Suzuki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Branded to Kill 1967 1987
2 Tokyo Drifter 1966 2705

Jan Svankmajer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Alice 1988 2368

Jan Sverák

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kolya 1996 2999

David Swift

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Parent Trap 1961 1896

István Szabó

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mephisto 1981 2886

Damián Szifrón

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wild Tales 2014 2320
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