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Top Films by Director (W-Z)

Lana Wachowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Matrix1 1999 35
2 Bound1 1996 839
3 The Matrix Reloaded1 2003 1901
4 The Matrix Revolutions1 2003 2507

1 Collaborated with Lilly Wachowski.

Lilly Wachowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Matrix1 1999 35
2 Bound1 1996 839
3 The Matrix Reloaded1 2003 1901
4 The Matrix Revolutions1 2003 2507

1 Collaborated with Lana Wachowski.

Michael Wadleigh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Woodstock 1970 805

George Waggner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wolf Man 1941 1192

David Wain

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wet Hot American Summer 2001 1381

Taika Waititi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Thor: Ragnarok 2017 1972
2 What We Do in the Shadows1 2014 2688

1 Collaborated with Jemaine Clement.

Andrej Wajda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 547
2 Kanal 1957 1148
3 Man of Marble 1977 2432
4 The Promised Land 1975 2793

Raoul Walsh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 White Heat 1949 336
2 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 813
3 The Roaring Twenties 1939 1456
4 High Sierra 1941 1888
5 They Died with Their Boots on 1941 2487

Charles Walters

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Easter Parade 1948 1472
2 High Society 1956 1795

James Wan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Saw 2004 1158
2 The Conjuring 2013 2661

Bing Wang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks 2002 1908

Wayne Wang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Smoke 1995 2273
2 The Joy Luck Club 1993 2440

David S. Ward

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Major League 1989 1566

Vincent Ward

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 What Dreams May Come 1998 2690

Andy Warhol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chelsea Girls1 1966 1717

1 Collaborated with Paul Morrissey.

John Waters

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pink Flamingos 1972 520
2 Hairspray 1988 1210
3 Female Trouble 1974 1759

Mark Waters

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mean Girls 2004 815
2 Freaky Friday 2003 2220

Peter Watkins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The War Game 1966 1369
2 Edvard Munch 1974 1787
3 Punishment Park 1971 2756

Marc Webb

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 (500) Days of Summer 2009 1106

Chris Wedge

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ice Age 2002 1163

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tropical Malady 2004 2009
2 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 2010 2577

Paul Wegener

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Golem1 1920 1728

1 Collaborated with Carl Boese.

Peter Weir

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Truman Show 1998 242
2 Dead Poets Society 1989 433
3 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 718
4 Witness 1985 857
5 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 1130
6 Gallipoli 1981 1135
7 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 2045

Chris Weitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 About a Boy1 2002 1713

1 Collaborated with Paul Weitz.

Paul Weitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Pie 1999 1026
2 About a Boy1 2002 1713

1 Collaborated with Chris Weitz.

Orson Welles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 4
2 Touch of Evil 1958 55
3 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 405
4 F for Fake 1973 640
5 Chimes at Midnight 1965 858
6 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 865
7 The Trial 1962 1244
8 Othello 1951 1917

William A. Wellman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ox-Bow Incident 1942 539
2 The Public Enemy 1931 753
3 Wings 1927 1283
4 Battleground 1949 2137

Wim Wenders

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wings of Desire 1987 211
2 Paris, Texas 1984 339
3 Alice in the Cities 1974 1375
4 Buena Vista Social Club 1999 1506
5 Kings of the Road 1976 1545
6 The American Friend 1977 1688
7 Pina 2011 2649

Lina Wertmüller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seven Beauties 1975 1721
2 Swept Away ... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August 1974 2700

Simon West

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Con Air 1997 1507

James Whale

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Frankenstein 1931 152
2 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 155
3 The Invisible Man 1933 743
4 The Old Dark House 1932 1797
5 Show Boat 1936 2083

Ben Wheatley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kill List 2011 1918

Joss Whedon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Avengers 2012 540
2 Serenity 2005 891
3 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015 2249

Tim Whelan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thief of Bagdad1 1940 1090

1 Collaborated with Ludwig Berger and Michael Powell.

Bernhard Wicki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Longest Day1 1962 923
2 The Bridge 1959 2478

1 Collaborated with Ken Annakin and Andrew Martin.

Robert Wiene

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 141

Fred M. Wilcox

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Forbidden Planet 1956 351

Billy Wilder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 10
2 Sunset Blvd. 1950 25
3 Double Indemnity 1944 42
4 The Apartment 1960 62
5 Ace in the Hole 1951 423
6 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 480
7 Stalag 17 1953 633
8 The Lost Weekend 1945 691
9 Sabrina 1954 1394
10 The Seven Year Itch 1955 1425
11 One, Two, Three 1961 1540
12 Love in the Afternoon 1957 2252

Chris Williams

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big Hero 61 2014 1315

1 Collaborated with Don Hall.

Kurt Wimmer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Equilibrium 2002 2091

Simon Wincer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lonesome Dove 1989 2658

Michael Winner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Death Wish 1974 1991

Michael Winterbottom

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 24 Hour Party People 2002 1661

Kirk Wise

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beauty and the Beast1 1991 154
2 The Hunchback of Notre Dame1 1996 2613

1 Collaborated with Gary Trousdale.

Robert Wise

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 West Side Story1 1961 118
2 The Sound of Music 1965 144
3 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 245
4 The Haunting 1963 497
5 The Set-Up 1949 1437
6 The Andromeda Strain 1971 2011
7 The Curse of the Cat People2 1944 2693
8 Run Silent Run Deep 1958 2760

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

Frederick Wiseman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Titicut Follies 1967 920
2 High School 1968 1730

Len Wiseman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Live Free or Die Hard 2007 2469

Kar-Wai Wong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Mood for Love 2000 135
2 Chungking Express 1994 403
3 Happy Together 1997 816
4 2046 2004 1304
5 Days of Being Wild 1990 1597
6 Fallen Angels 1995 2699

John Woo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Killer 1989 437
2 Hard Boiled 1992 567
3 Face/Off 1997 721
4 A Better Tomorrow 1986 1357

Edward D. Wood Jr.

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959 1893

Sam Wood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Night at the Opera 1935 340
2 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 1014
3 Goodbye Mr. Chips 1939 1621
4 A Day at the Races 1937 2681

Edgar Wright

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shaun of the Dead 2004 260
2 Hot Fuzz 2007 608
3 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010 1330
4 Baby Driver 2017 2495

Joe Wright

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Atonement 2007 771
2 Pride & Prejudice 2005 1208

Rupert Wyatt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011 2334

William Wyler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ben-Hur 1959 159
2 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 184
3 Roman Holiday 1953 213
4 The Big Country 1958 1050
5 Wuthering Heights 1939 1136
6 Funny Girl 1968 1137
7 Dodsworth 1936 1212
8 The Heiress 1949 1391
9 Mrs. Miniver 1942 1496
10 The Little Foxes 1941 1755
11 Jezebel 1938 1824
12 The Letter 1940 2299
13 Dead End 1937 2470
14 The Westerner 1940 2724

Boaz Yakin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Remember the Titans 2000 1053

Edward Yang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yi yi: A One and a Two... 2000 552
2 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 729

Fenglian Yang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ju Dou1 1990 1872

1 Collaborated with Yimou Zhang.

David Yates

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2011 484
2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2007 1030
3 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 2010 1087
4 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2009 1153

Peter Yates

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Breaking Away 1979 622
2 Bullitt 1968 627
3 The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973 2606

Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blob 1958 2206

Wilson Yip

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ip Man 2008 1594

Terence Young

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dr. No 1962 742
2 From Russia with Love 1963 856
3 Wait until Dark 1967 2526
4 Thunderball 1965 2535

Brian Yuzna

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Society 1989 2798

Franco Zeffirelli

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Romeo and Juliet 1968 1398

Benh Zeitlin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beasts of the Southern Wild 2012 2183

Robert Zemeckis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Back to the Future 1985 45
2 Forrest Gump 1994 107
3 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 264
4 Back to the Future Part II 1989 1095
5 Contact 1997 1222
6 Cast Away 2000 1395
7 Back to the Future Part III 1990 1697
8 Romancing the Stone 1984 2167

Yimou Zhang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 454
2 Hero 2002 898
3 House of Flying Daggers 2004 1493
4 To Live 1994 1616
5 Ju Dou1 1990 1872
6 Red Sorghum 1988 2323

1 Collaborated with Fenglian Yang.

Fred Zinnemann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 High Noon 1952 130
2 From Here to Eternity 1953 372
3 A Man for All Seasons 1966 838
4 Oklahoma! 1955 933
5 The Day of the Jackal 1973 1573
6 People on Sunday1 1930 2392
7 Julia 1977 2713

1 Collaborated with Curt and Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer.

David Zucker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Airplane!1 1980 164
2 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988 565
3 Top Secret!1 1984 2278

1 Collaborated with Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker.

Jerry Zucker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Airplane!1 1980 164
2 Ghost 1990 740
3 Top Secret!1 1984 2278

1 Collaborated with Jim Abrahams and David Zucker.

Andrzej Zulawski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Possession 1981 1719

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Return 2003 1320

Charlotte Zwerin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gimme Shelter1 1970 830
2 Salesman1 1969 906

1 Collaborated with Albert and David Maysles.

Edward Zwick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Glory 1989 625
2 Legends of the Fall 1994 1478
3 Blood Diamond 2006 1771
4 The Last Samurai 2003 1922

Joel Zwick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2002 2025

Terry Zwigoff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crumb 1994 621
2 Ghost World 2001 797
3 Bad Santa 2003 1925
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