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Top Films by Director (W-Z)

Andy Wachowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Matrix1 1999 59
2 The Matrix Reloaded1 2003 1375
3 Bound1 1996 1750
4 The Matrix Revolutions1 2003 2112

1 Collaborated with Larry Wachowski.

Larry Wachowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Matrix1 1999 59
2 The Matrix Reloaded1 2003 1375
3 Bound1 1996 1750
4 The Matrix Revolutions1 2003 2112

1 Collaborated with Andy Wachowski.

Michael Wadleigh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Woodstock 1970 1049

George Waggner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wolf Man 1941 1026

Andrej Wajda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 416
2 Man of Marble 1977 1642
3 Kanal 1957 1768
4 Danton 1983 2493

Raoul Walsh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 White Heat 1949 249
2 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 571
3 The Roaring Twenties 1939 1144
4 High Sierra 1941 1387
5 Gentleman Jim 1942 2223

Charles Walters

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 High Society 1956 1296
2 Easter Parade 1948 1327
3 Lili 1953 2394

Fred Walton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 When a Stranger Calls 1979 2207

Wayne Wang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Joy Luck Club 1993 970
2 Smoke 1995 1862
3 Chan Is Missing 1982 2163

Vincent Ward

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 What Dreams May Come 1998 2039

Régis Wargnier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Indochine 1992 1709

Andy Warhol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chelsea Girls1 1966 1468

1 Collaborated with Paul Morrissey.

John Waters

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pink Flamingos 1972 631
2 Hairspray 1988 1196
3 Female Trouble 1974 1656

Mark S. Waters

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mean Girls 2004 1867
2 Freaky Friday 2003 2138

Peter Watkins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The War Game 1965 1700

Harry Watt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Night Mail1 1936 2378

1 Collaborated with Basil Wright.

Keenan Ivory Wayans

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Scary Movie 2000 2489

John Wayne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Alamo 1960 2267

Chris Wedge

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ice Age 2002 1824

Paul Wegener

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Golem1 1920 2184

1 Collaborated with Carl Boese.

Peter Weir

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead Poet's Society 1989 310
2 The Truman Show 1998 366
3 Witness 1985 532
4 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 556
5 Gallipoli 1981 590
6 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 1121
7 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 1707
8 Fearless 1993 1833

Chris Weitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 About a Boy1 2002 1922

1 Collaborated with Paul Weitz.

Paul Weitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Pie 1999 698
2 About a Boy1 2002 1922

1 Collaborated with Chris Weitz.

Orson Welles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 1
2 Touch of Evil 1958 49
3 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 142
4 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 801
5 Chimes at Midnight 1965 841
6 F for Fake 1974 1337
7 Othello 1952 1500
8 The Trial 1962 2160

William A. Wellman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Public Enemy 1931 350
2 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 396
3 Wings 1927 934
4 Battleground 1949 1309
5 Nothing Sacred 1937 1334
6 Story of G.I. Joe 1945 1388
7 Beau Geste 1939 1511
8 A Star Is Born 1937 1679

Simon Wells

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Prince of Egypt1 1998 2105

1 Collaborated with Brenda Chapman and Steve Hickner.

Wim Wenders

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wings of Desire 1987 195
2 Paris, Texas 1984 431
3 The American Friend 1977 1279
4 Kings of the Road 1976 1616
5 Buena Vista Social Club 1999 1784

Lina Wertmüller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seven Beauties 1975 887
2 Swept Away ... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August 1974 1078

Simon West

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Con Air 1997 1664

Haskell Wexler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Medium Cool 1969 1012

James Whale

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Frankenstein 1931 114
2 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 116
3 The Invisible Man 1933 713
4 Show Boat 1936 981
5 The Old Dark House 1932 1546

Joss Whedon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Serenity 2005 1992

Tim Whelan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thief of Bagdad1 1940 627

1 Collaborated with Ludwig Berger and Michael Powell.

Bernhard Wicki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Longest Day1 1962 536

1 Collaborated with Ken Annakin and Andrew Martin.

Robert Wiene

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 237

Fred M. Wilcox

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Forbidden Planet 1956 427
2 Lassie Come Home 1943 1730

Ted Wilde

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Kid Brother 1927 1822

Billy Wilder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 12
2 Sunset Blvd. 1950 34
3 Double Indemnity 1944 40
4 The Apartment 1960 147
5 The Lost Weekend 1945 341
6 Stalag 17 1953 508
7 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 600
8 The Seven Year Itch 1955 670
9 The Big Carnival 1951 830
10 Sabrina 1954 1016
11 One, Two, Three 1961 1395
12 Avanti! 1972 1737
13 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970 2137

Hugh Wilson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The First Wives Club 1996 1942

Michael Winterbottom

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 24 Hour Party People 2002 1742
2 Welcome to Sarajevo 1997 2249

Kirk Wise

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beauty and the Beast1 1991 252
2 The Hunchback of Notre Dame1 1996 1827

1 Collaborated with Gary Trousdale.

Robert Wise

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sound of Music 1965 62
2 West Side Story1 1961 84
3 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 240
4 The Haunting 1963 538
5 The Set-Up 1949 1420
6 The Andromeda Strain 1971 1427
7 Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979 1859
8 Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956 2010
9 The Curse of the Cat People2 1944 2070
10 Run Silent Run Deep 1958 2238
11 I Want to Live! 1958 2439

1 Collaborated with Jerome Robbins.
2 Collaborated with Gunther von Fritsch.

Frederick Wiseman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 High School 1968 1653
2 Titicut Follies 1967 2321

Ira Wohl

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Best Boy 1979 2211

Kar Wai Wong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Mood for Love 2000 511
2 Chungking Express 1994 593
3 Happy Together 1997 1032
4 Days of Being Wild 1991 2313
5 2046 2004 2517

John Woo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Killer 1989 355
2 Face/Off 1997 608
3 Hard Boiled 1992 904
4 A Better Tomorrow 1986 1650
5 Bullet in the Head 1990 2305
6 Mission: Impossible II 2000 2392

Edward D. Wood Jr.

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959 1362

Sam Wood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Night at the Opera 1935 232
2 Goodbye Mr. Chips 1939 527
3 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 665
4 A Day at the Races 1937 1211
5 Kings Row 1942 1654
6 For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943 1734

Basil Wright

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Night Mail1 1936 2378

1 Collaborated with Harry Watt.

Edgar Wright

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shaun of the Dead 2004 643
2 Hot Fuzz 2007 2462

Joe Wright

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pride & Prejudice 2005 2125

Tian-Ming Wu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The King of Masks 1996 2446

William Wyler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 96
2 Ben-Hur 1959 101
3 Wuthering Heights 1939 299
4 Roman Holiday 1953 330
5 Funny Girl 1968 516
6 Dodsworth 1936 578
7 The Heiress 1949 650
8 Mrs. Miniver 1942 701
9 Jezebel 1938 811
10 The Little Foxes 1941 1308
11 Dead End 1937 1802
12 The Letter 1940 1835
13 Friendly Persuasion 1956 1884
14 The Big Country 1958 2012
15 Counsellor at Law 1933 2470

Boaz Yakin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Remember the Titans 2000 2049

Edward Yang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yi yi: A One and a Two... 2000 773
2 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 1015

Fenglian Yang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ju Dou1 1990 918

1 Collaborated with Yimou Zhang.

Peter Yates

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Breaking Away 1979 458
2 Bullitt 1968 746

Harold Young

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Scarlet Pimpernel 1934 2504

Terence Young

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dr. No 1962 624
2 From Russia with Love 1963 728
3 Wait until Dark 1967 1553

Steven Zaillian

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 1128

Franco Zeffirelli

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Romeo and Juliet 1968 809

Robert Zemeckis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Forrest Gump 1994 75
2 Back to the Future 1985 137
3 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 408
4 Contact 1997 750
5 Back to the Future Part III 1990 1107
6 Back to the Future Part II 1989 1112
7 Cast Away 2000 1125
8 Romancing the Stone 1984 1478
9 Used Cars 1980 2505

Yimou Zhang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 326
2 Ju Dou1 1990 918
3 To Live 1994 1038
4 Hero 2002 1060
5 Red Sorghum 1987 1178
6 The Story of Qiu Ju 1992 1354
7 House of Flying Daggers 2004 1947

1 Collaborated with Yang Fenglian.

Howard Zieff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Private Benjamin 1980 1412

Fred Zinnemann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 High Noon 1952 45
2 From Here to Eternity 1953 152
3 A Man for All Seasons 1966 428
4 Oklahoma! 1955 651
5 Julia 1977 1287
6 The Nun's Story 1959 1496
7 The Day of the Jackal 1973 1665
8 The Search 1948 2149
9 The Sundowners 1960 2289
10 The Men 1950 2338
11 People on Sunday1 1930 2451

Erick Zonca

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Dreamlife of Angels 1998 1712

David Zucker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Airplane!1 1980 206
2 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988 999
3 Top Secret!1 1984 1691
4 The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear 1991 2327

1 Collaborated with Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams.

Jerry Zucker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Airplane!1 1980 206
2 Ghost 1990 409
3 Top Secret!1 1984 1691

1 Collaborated with Jim Abrahams and David Zucker.

Charlotte Zwerin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gimme Shelter1 1970 726
2 Salesman1 1968 914

1 Collaborated with Albert and David Maysles.

Edward Zwick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Glory 1989 358
2 Legends of the Fall 1994 1725
3 The Last Samurai 2003 2132
4 About Last Night… 1986 2465

Joel Zwick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2002 1464

Terry Zwigoff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crumb 1994 605
2 Ghost World 2001 967
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