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Top Films by Director (S)

Boris Sagal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Omega Man 1971 1685

Leontine Sagan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Maedchen in Uniform 1931 2319

Hironobu Sakaguchi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 2001 2358

Gene Saks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Odd Couple 1968 791

Walter Salles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Central Station 1998 695
2 The Motorcycle Diaries 2004 1531

Mikael Salomon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 1915

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

Eduardo Sánchez

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blair Witch Project1 1999 283

1 Collaborated with Daniel Myrick.

Chris Sanders

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lilo & Stitch1 2002 2231

1 Collaborated with Dean DeBlois.

Mark Sandrich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Top Hat 1935 172
2 The Gay Divorcee 1934 1756
3 Holiday Inn 1942 1781
4 Shall We Dance 1937 1918
5 Follow the Fleet 1936 2354

Joseph Sargent

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 1186

Marjane Satrapi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Persepolis1 2007 1651

1 Collaborated with Vincent Paronnaud.

Paul Satterfield

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 199

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

Claude Sautet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Un coeur en hiver 1992 2032

John Sayles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lone Star 1996 659
2 Eight Men Out 1988 674
3 Matewan 1987 1420
4 Return of the Secaucus Seven 1979 1631
5 The Brother from Another Planet 1984 1670
6 The Secret of Roan Inish 1994 1814
7 City of Hope 1991 1836

Franklin J. Schaffner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Planet of the Apes 1968 240
2 Patton 1970 241
3 Papillon 1973 1292

Fred Schepisi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Roxanne 1987 993
2 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith 1978 1971

John Schlesinger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Midnight Cowboy 1969 142
2 Marathon Man 1976 966
3 Darling 1965 1084
4 Billy Liar 1963 1535
5 Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971 1838

Volker Schlöndorff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Tin Drum 1979 644

Julian Schnabel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007 1467
2 Before Night Falls 2000 1928

Ernest B. Schoedsack

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 King Kong1 1933 47

1 Collaborated with Merian C. Cooper.

Paul Schrader

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Gigolo 1980 1701
2 Blue Collar 1978 1937
3 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 2297

Barbet Schroeder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Reversal of Fortune 1990 1762

Joel Schumacher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lost Boys 1987 1663

Martin Scorsese

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Raging Bull 1980 18
2 Taxi Driver 1976 19
3 Goodfellas 1990 26
4 Mean Streets 1973 190
5 The King of Comedy 1982 475
6 Casino 1995 488
7 The Departed 2006 522
8 The Age of Innocence 1993 570
9 The Last Waltz 1978 808
10 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 865
11 After Hours 1985 944
12 The Color of Money 1986 1153
13 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974 1268
14 Gangs of New York 2002 1276
15 The Aviator 2004 1495
16 Cape Fear 1991 1646
17 New York, New York 1977 2204

Campbell Scott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big Night1 1996 1133

1 Collaborated with Stanley Tucci.

Ridley Scott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blade Runner 1982 21
2 Alien 1979 38
3 Gladiator 2000 113
4 Thelma & Louise 1991 228
5 Black Hawk Down 2001 866

Tony Scott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Top Gun 1986 411
2 True Romance 1993 430
3 The Hunger 1983 1777
4 Enemy of the State 1998 2038

George Seaton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 540
2 Airport 1970 1979

Edward Sedgwick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cameraman 1928 1208

Susan Seidelman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Desperately Seeking Susan 1985 1227

William A. Seiter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sons of the Desert 1933 844

Henry Selick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993 419
2 James and the Giant Peach 1996 2075
3 Coraline 2009 2242

Ousmane Sembene

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Xala 1975 1234
2 Ceddo 1977 2030
3 Black Girl 1969 2207

Tom Shadyac

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 1994 1667
2 The Nutty Professor 1996 2120

Steven Shainberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Secretary 2002 1271

Dana Adam Shapiro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Murderball1 2005 2379

1 Collaborated with Henry Alex Rubin.

Jim Sharman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 301

Ben Sharpsteen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pinocchio1 1940 217
2 Dumbo 1941 565

1 Collaborated with Hamilton Luske.

Ron Shelton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bull Durham 1988 344
2 Tin Cup 1996 1216
3 White Men Can't Jump 1992 1421

Jim Sheridan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Left Foot 1989 683
2 In the Name of the Father 1993 2000
3 In America 2003 2341

Lowell Sherman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 She Done Him Wrong 1933 1278

Kaneto Shindô

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Onibaba 1964 1324

Jack Sholder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hidden 1987 2268

M. Night Shyamalan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sixth Sense 1999 171
2 Signs 2002 1858
3 Unbreakable 2000 1920

George Sidney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kiss Me Kate 1953 1620
2 Bye Bye Birdie 1963 1917
3 Annie Get Your Gun 1950 1993

Don Siegel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 180
2 Dirty Harry 1971 255
3 The Shootist 1976 1512

Brad Silberling

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 City of Angels 1998 2066

Elliott Silverstein

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cat Ballou 1965 1510

Bryan Singer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Usual Suspects 1995 55
2 X-Men 2000 858
3 X2 2003 888

John Singleton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Boyz N the Hood 1991 568

Bruce Sinofsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster1 2004 2313

1 Collaborated with Joe Berlinger.

Robert Siodmak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Killers 1946 574
2 The Spiral Staircase 1945 1564

Ramesh Sippy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sholay 1975 1987

Douglas Sirk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Written on the Wind 1956 484
2 Imitation of Life 1959 531
3 All That Heaven Allows 1955 670

Rob Sitch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Dish 2000 2330

Victor Sjöström

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wind 1928 483

Jerzy Skolimowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Moonlighting 1982 2088

George Sluizer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Vanishing 1988 818

Chris Smith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Movie 1999 1453

Jack Smith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Flaming Creatures 1963 2340

Kevin Smith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Clerks. 1994 322
2 Chasing Amy 1997 1430
3 Dogma 1999 2059
4 Mallrats 1995 2129

Michael Snow

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wavelength 1967 1303

Zack Snyder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 300 2006 1393
2 Dawn of the Dead 2004 1587

Steven Soderbergh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 520
2 Out of Sight 1998 625
3 Erin Brockovich 2000 649
4 Traffic 2000 713
5 Ocean's Eleven 2001 1352
6 The Limey 1999 1509
7 Solaris 2002 1689
8 Schizopolis 1996 2261
9 King of the Hill 1993 2291

Aleksandr Sokurov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mother and Son 1997 1471
2 Russian Ark 2002 1566

Fernando E. Solanas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hour of the Furnaces1 1970 2370

1 Collaborated with Octavio Getino and Santiago Álvarez.

Todd Solondz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Happiness 1998 763
2 Welcome to the Dollhouse 1995 1626

Stephen Sommers

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Mummy 1999 1246

Barry Sonnenfeld

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Men in Black 1997 562
2 Get Shorty 1995 1374
3 Addams Family Values 1993 2087

Penelope Spheeris

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wayne's World 1992 1180

Steven Spielberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Schindler's List 1993 22
2 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 23
3 Jaws 1975 24
4 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 29
5 Saving Private Ryan 1998 50
6 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 103
7 Jurassic Park 1993 149
8 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 450
9 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 584
10 The Color Purple 1985 630
11 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984 676
12 Minority Report 2002 796
13 Empire of the Sun 1987 843
14 Duel 1971 918
15 War of the Worlds 2005 1449
16 Munich 2005 1923
17 1941 1979 1973

Morgan Spurlock

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Super Size Me 2004 2337

John M. Stahl

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Imitation of Life 1934 1627
2 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 2194

Sylvester Stallone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rocky II 1979 1805
2 Rocky III 1982 2117
3 Rocky IV 1985 2327

Andrew Stanton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Finding Nemo 2003 374
2 WALL•E 2008 650

Frederick Stephani

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Flash Gordon 1936 2108

George Stevens

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shane 1953 200
2 A Place in the Sun 1951 356
3 Swing Time 1936 392
4 Giant 1956 605
5 Gunga Din 1939 623
6 Woman of the Year 1942 827
7 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 1427
8 The More the Merrier 1943 1945
9 The Talk of the Town 1942 2015

Robert Stevenson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mary Poppins 1964 252
2 Old Yeller 1957 1340
3 The Love Bug 1968 2096
4 Jane Eyre 1943 2378

Ben Stiller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Zoolander 2001 1048

Whit Stillman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Metropolitan 1990 1423

Oliver Stone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Platoon 1986 122
2 JFK 1991 423
3 Natural Born Killers 1994 759
4 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 781
5 Wall Street 1987 1120
6 Salvador 1986 1349
7 Nixon 1995 1460
8 Any Given Sunday 1999 1660
9 The Doors 1991 2164

Mel Stuart

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 348

John Sturges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Great Escape 1963 166
2 The Magnificent Seven 1960 318
3 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 639
4 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 1939

Preston Stuges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sullivan's Travels 1941 125
2 The Lady Eve 1941 138
3 The Palm Beach Story 1942 437
4 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 487
5 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 975
6 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 1605
7 The Great McGinty 1940 1841

Masayuki Suo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shall We Dance? 1996 1864

Seijun Suzuki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Branded to Kill 1967 1853

Jan Svankmajer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Alice 1988 1213

Jan Sverák

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kolya 1996 1302

István Szabó

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mephisto 1981 1179
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