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Top Films by Director (W-Z)

Andy Wachowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Matrix1 1999 42
2 The Matrix Reloaded1 2003 1249
3 Bound1 1996 1315
4 The Matrix Revolutions1 2003 2104

1 Collaborated with Larry Wachowski.

Larry Wachowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Matrix1 1999 42
2 The Matrix Reloaded1 2003 1249
3 Bound1 1996 1315
4 The Matrix Revolutions1 2003 2104

1 Collaborated with Andy Wachowski.

Michael Wadleigh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Woodstock 1970 828

George Waggner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wolf Man 1941 985

Andrej Wajda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 444
2 Kanal 1957 1319
3 Danton 1983 2326

Raoul Walsh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 White Heat 1949 313
2 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 694
3 The Roaring Twenties 1939 1184
4 High Sierra 1941 1666
5 Gentleman Jim 1942 1916

Charles Walters

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 High Society 1956 1263
2 Easter Parade 1948 1437

James Wan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Saw 2004 1534

Wayne Wang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Joy Luck Club 1993 1099
2 Smoke 1995 1943

David S. Ward

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Major League 1989 1925

Vincent Ward

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 What Dreams May Come 1998 2154

Régis Wargnier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Indochine 1992 1921

Andy Warhol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chelsea Girls1 1966 1489

1 Collaborated with Paul Morrissey.

John Waters

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pink Flamingos 1972 500
2 Hairspray 1988 1068
3 Female Trouble 1974 1649

Mark S. Waters

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mean Girls 2004 1681
2 Freaky Friday 2003 1919

Peter Watkins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The War Game 1965 1408

John Wayne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Alamo 1960 2258

Chris Wedge

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ice Age 2002 1569

Paul Wegener

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Golem1 1920 2051

1 Collaborated with Carl Boese.

Peter Weir

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Truman Show 1998 291
2 Dead Poets Society 1989 384
3 Witness 1985 510
4 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 567
5 Gallipoli 1981 598
6 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 1056
7 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 1189
8 Fearless 1993 1899

Chris Weitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 About a Boy1 2002 1986

1 Collaborated with Paul Weitz.

Paul Weitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Pie 1999 708
2 About a Boy1 2002 1986

1 Collaborated with Chris Weitz.

Orson Welles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 2
2 Touch of Evil 1958 54
3 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 201
4 F for Fake 1973 799
5 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 904
6 Chimes at Midnight 1965 1016
7 Othello 1952 1790
8 The Trial 1962 1794

William A. Wellman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Public Enemy 1931 426
2 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 525
3 Wings 1927 1091
4 Battleground 1949 1707
5 Nothing Sacred 1937 1880
6 Story of G.I. Joe 1945 1907
7 Beau Geste 1939 2147
8 A Star Is Born 1937 2159

Simon Wells

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Prince of Egypt1 1998 2185

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 473
3 Buena Vista Social Club 1999 1498
4 Kings of the Road 1976 1521
5 The American Friend 1977 1653
6 Alice in the Cities 1974 1732

Lina Wertmüller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seven Beauties 1975 1049
2 Swept Away ... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August 1974 1522

Simon West

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Con Air 1997 1406

Haskell Wexler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Medium Cool 1969 1793

James Whale

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 121
2 Frankenstein 1931 137
3 The Invisible Man 1933 731
4 Show Boat 1936 1205
5 The Old Dark House 1932 1321

Joss Whedon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Serenity 2005 893

Tim Whelan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thief of Bagdad1 1940 709

1 Collaborated with Ludwig Berger and Michael Powell.

Bernhard Wicki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Longest Day1 1962 614

1 Collaborated with Ken Annakin and Andrew Martin.

Robert Wiene

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 223

Fred M. Wilcox

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Forbidden Planet 1956 340
2 Lassie Come Home 1943 1787

Ted Wilde

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Kid Brother 1927 1849

Billy Wilder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 10
2 Sunset Blvd. 1950 33
3 Double Indemnity 1944 41
4 The Apartment 1960 127
5 The Lost Weekend 1945 380
6 Stalag 17 1953 569
7 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 573
8 The Big Carnival 1951 728
9 The Seven Year Itch 1955 817
10 Sabrina 1954 1059
11 One, Two, Three 1961 1382
12 Avanti! 1972 2028

Michael Winterbottom

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 24 Hour Party People 2002 1370
2 Welcome to Sarajevo 1997 1947

Kirk Wise

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beauty and the Beast1 1991 246
2 The Hunchback of Notre Dame1 1996 2103

1 Collaborated with Gary Trousdale.

Robert Wise

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sound of Music 1965 79
2 West Side Story1 1961 88
3 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 214
4 The Haunting 1963 418
5 The Set-Up 1949 1275
6 The Andromeda Strain 1971 1750
7 Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979 1894
8 Run Silent Run Deep 1958 2043
9 Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956 2169
10 The Curse of the Cat People2 1944 2294

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

Frederick Wiseman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 High School 1968 1558
2 Titicut Follies 1967 1766

Kar Wai Wong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Mood for Love 2000 271
2 Chungking Express 1994 579
3 Happy Together 1997 1282
4 Days of Being Wild 1990 2040
5 2046 2004 2244

John Woo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Killer 1989 398
2 Face/Off 1997 602
3 Hard Boiled 1992 693
4 A Better Tomorrow 1986 1866

Edward D. Wood Jr.

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Plan 9 from Outer Space 1958 1318
2 Glen or Glenda 1953 2377

Sam Wood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Night at the Opera 1935 253
2 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 671
3 Goodbye Mr. Chips 1939 685
4 A Day at the Races 1937 1385
5 For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943 1946
6 Kings Row 1942 2160

Edgar Wright

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shaun of the Dead 2004 394
2 Hot Fuzz 2007 1195

Joe Wright

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Atonement 2007 1655
2 Pride & Prejudice 2005 1751

William Wyler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 126
2 Ben-Hur 1959 140
3 Roman Holiday 1953 300
4 Wuthering Heights 1939 412
5 Funny Girl 1968 628
6 Dodsworth 1936 698
7 Mrs. Miniver 1942 949
8 The Heiress 1949 1045
9 Jezebel 1938 1172
10 The Big Country 1958 1586
11 The Little Foxes 1941 1603
12 Dead End 1937 1990
13 The Letter 1940 2259

Boaz Yakin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Remember the Titans 2000 1536

Edward Yang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yi yi: A One and a Two... 2000 678
2 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 1108

Fenglian Yang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ju Dou1 1990 946

1 Collaborated with Yimou Zhang.

David Yates

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2007 2292

Peter Yates

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Breaking Away 1979 413
2 Bullitt 1968 587

Terence Young

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dr. No 1962 524
2 From Russia with Love 1963 720
3 Wait until Dark 1967 1765

Steven Zaillian

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 1149

Meir Zarchi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 I Spit on Your Grave 1978 2249

Franco Zeffirelli

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Romeo and Juliet 1968 948

Robert Zemeckis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Back to the Future 1985 91
2 Forrest Gump 1994 93
3 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 367
4 Contact 1997 775
5 Back to the Future Part II 1989 1067
6 Cast Away 2000 1119
7 Back to the Future Part III 1990 1192
8 Romancing the Stone 1984 1872

Yimou Zhang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 363
2 Ju Dou1 1990 946
3 Hero 2002 1165
4 To Live 1994 1221
5 Red Sorghum 1988 1362
6 The Story of Qiu Ju 1992 1565
7 House of Flying Daggers 2004 1683

1 Collaborated with Yang Fenglian.

Howard Zieff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Private Benjamin 1980 1796

Fred Zinnemann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 High Noon 1952 58
2 From Here to Eternity 1953 220
3 A Man for All Seasons 1966 482
4 Oklahoma! 1955 801
5 The Day of the Jackal 1973 1373
6 Julia 1977 1403
7 The Nun's Story 1959 1982
8 The Search 1948 2385

Erick Zonca

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Dreamlife of Angels 1998 1671

David Zucker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Airplane!1 1980 175
2 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988 787
3 Top Secret!1 1984 1802
4 The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear 1991 2279

1 Collaborated with Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams.

Jerry Zucker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Airplane!1 1980 175
2 Ghost 1990 416
3 Top Secret!1 1984 1802

1 Collaborated with Jim Abrahams and David Zucker.

Andrei Zvyagintsev

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Return 2003 2234

Charlotte Zwerin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gimme Shelter1 1970 741
2 Salesman1 1968 878

1 Collaborated with Albert and David Maysles.

Edward Zwick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Glory 1989 395
2 Legends of the Fall 1994 2092
3 The Last Samurai 2003 2101

Joel Zwick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2002 1740

Terry Zwigoff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crumb 1994 550
2 Ghost World 2001 815
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