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Top Films by Director (W-Z)

Lana Wachowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Matrix1 1999 26
2 Bound1 1996 698
3 The Matrix Reloaded1 2003 1705
4 Cloud Atlas1 2 2012 2894
5 The Matrix Revolutions1 2003 3044

1 Collaborated with Lilly Wachowski.
2 Collaborated with Tom Tykwer.

Lilly Wachowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Matrix1 1999 26
2 Bound1 1996 698
3 The Matrix Reloaded1 2003 1705
4 Cloud Atlas1 2 2012 2894
5 The Matrix Revolutions1 2003 3044

1 Collaborated with Lana Wachowski.
2 Collaborated with Tom Tykwer.

Michael Wadleigh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Woodstock 1970 858

George Waggner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wolf Man 1941 1047

David Wain

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wet Hot American Summer 2001 1214

Taika Waititi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Thor: Ragnarok 2017 756
2 What We Do in the Shadows1 2014 1356
3 Hunt for the Wilderpeople 2016 1746
4 Jojo Rabbit 2019 2147

1 Collaborated with Jemaine Clement.

Andrej Wajda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 680
2 Kanal 1957 1396
3 Man of Marble 1977 2501

Raoul Walsh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 White Heat 1949 447
2 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 1199
3 High Sierra 1940 2044
4 The Roaring Twenties 1939 2455

Charles Walters

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Easter Parade 1948 2026
2 High Society 1956 2439

James Wan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Saw 2004 828
2 The Conjuring 2013 942
3 Insidious 2010 2467

Lulu Wang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Farewell 2019 1220

Wayne Wang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Joy Luck Club 1993 1868
2 Smoke 1995 2947

Matthew Warchus

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pride 2014 1864

David S. Ward

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Major League 1989 1422

Andy Warhol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chelsea Girls1 1966 1915

1 Collaborated with Paul Morrissey.

John Waters

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pink Flamingos 1972 506
2 Hairspray 1988 1341
3 Female Trouble 1974 1978
4 Serial Mom 1994 2603
5 Cry-Baby 1990 2720
6 Polyester 1981 2966

Mark Waters

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mean Girls 2004 499
2 Freaky Friday 2003 2023

Peter Watkins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The War Game 1966 1749
2 Edvard Munch 1974 2468
3 Punishment Park 1971 2968

Edward Watts

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 For Sama1 2019 2137

1 Collaborated with Waad al-Kateab.

Jon Watts

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spider-Man: Homecoming 2017 1159
2 Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021 1494
3 Spider-Man: Far from Home 2019 2433

Marc Webb

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 (500) Days of Summer 2009 842
2 The Amazing Spider-Man 2012 2885

Lois Weber

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Suspense1 1913 2851

1 Collaborated with Phillips Smalley.

Chris Wedge

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ice Age 2002 1309

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tropical Malady 2004 1670
2 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 2010 1686
3 Syndromes and a Century 2006 2839

Paul Wegener

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Golem1 1920 2134

1 Collaborated with Carl Boese.

Peter Weir

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Truman Show 1998 236
2 Dead Poets Society 1989 291
3 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 851
4 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 1129
5 Gallipoli 1981 1137
6 Witness 1985 1335
7 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 2591

Chris Weitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 About a Boy1 2002 2175

1 Collaborated with Paul Weitz.

Paul Weitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Pie 1999 1196
2 About a Boy1 2002 2175

1 Collaborated with Chris Weitz.

Orson Welles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 11
2 Touch of Evil 1958 87
3 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 456
4 Chimes at Midnight 1965 739
5 F for Fake 1973 951
6 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 1074
7 The Trial 1962 1244
8 Othello 1951 2031

William A. Wellman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ox-Bow Incident 1942 701
2 The Public Enemy 1931 1068
3 Wings 1927 1419
4 Battleground 1949 1926
5 Story of G.I. Joe 1945 3006

Charlotte Wells

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Aftersun 2022 2810

Simon Wells

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Prince of Egypt1 1998 2446

1 Collaborated with Brenda Chapman and Steve Hickner.

Wim Wenders

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wings of Desire 1987 277
2 Paris, Texas 1984 353
3 Buena Vista Social Club 1999 1554
4 Kings of the Road 1976 1818
5 The American Friend 1977 1932
6 Alice in the Cities 1974 1943
7 Pina 2011 2743

Lina Wertmüller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seven Beauties 1975 1805

Simon West

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Con Air 1997 1772

Ti West

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The House of the Devil 2009 2063

James Whale

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 123
2 Frankenstein 1931 177
3 The Invisible Man 1933 627
4 The Old Dark House 1932 2349
5 Show Boat 1936 2453

Leigh Whannell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Invisible Man 2020 1687
2 Upgrade 2018 2681

Ben Wheatley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kill List 2011 1906

Joss Whedon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Avengers 2012 313
2 Serenity 2005 755
3 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015 2103

Tim Whelan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thief of Bagdad1 1940 1359

1 Collaborated with Ludwig Berger and Michael Powell.

Forest Whitaker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Waiting to Exhale 1995 2658

Bernhard Wicki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Longest Day1 1962 864
2 The Bridge 1959 2592

1 Collaborated with Ken Annakin and Andrew Martin.

Robert Wiene

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 174

Fred M. Wilcox

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Forbidden Planet 1956 401

Olivia Wilde

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Booksmart 2019 868

Billy Wilder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 19
2 Sunset Blvd. 1950 41
3 Double Indemnity 1944 51
4 The Apartment 1960 59
5 Ace in the Hole 1951 510
6 Stalag 17 1953 544
7 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 648
8 The Lost Weekend 1945 892
9 Sabrina 1954 1240
10 The Seven Year Itch 1955 1317
11 One, Two, Three 1961 1865
12 Love in the Afternoon 1957 2798

Chris Williams

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big Hero 61 2014 804

1 Collaborated with Don Hall.

Kurt Wimmer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Equilibrium 2002 2414

Gary Winick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 13 Going on 30 2004 1809

Michael Winner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Death Wish 1974 2926

Michael Winterbottom

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 24 Hour Party People 2002 1767

Kirk Wise

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beauty and the Beast1 1991 106
2 The Hunchback of Notre Dame1 1996 2153

1 Collaborated with Gary Trousdale.

Robert Wise

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sound of Music 1965 135
2 West Side Story1 1961 146
3 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 298
4 The Haunting 1963 428
5 The Set-Up 1949 1801
6 The Andromeda Strain 1971 2075
7 Run Silent Run Deep 1958 2536
8 Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979 2706
9 The Sand Pebbles 1966 2795

1 Collaborated with Jerome Robbins.

Tommy Wiseau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Room 2003 2250

Frederick Wiseman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Titicut Follies 1967 1066
2 High School 1968 1999
3 Welfare 1975 2697

Len Wiseman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Live Free or Die Hard 2007 3045

James Wong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Final Destination 2000 2387

Kar-Wai Wong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Mood for Love 2000 94
2 Chungking Express 1994 372
3 Happy Together 1997 735
4 2046 2004 1142
5 Days of Being Wild 1990 1329
6 Fallen Angels 1995 2185

John Woo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Killer 1989 569
2 Hard Boiled 1992 649
3 Face/Off 1997 744
4 A Better Tomorrow 1986 1923

Edward D. Wood Jr.

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Plan 9 from Outer Space 1957 1484

Sam Wood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Night at the Opera 1935 500
2 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 1234
3 Goodbye Mr. Chips 1939 2079

Edgar Wright

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shaun of the Dead 2004 214
2 Hot Fuzz 2007 561
3 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010 691
4 Baby Driver 2017 1146
5 The World's End 2013 2021

Joe Wright

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Atonement 2007 588
2 Pride & Prejudice 2005 968

Alice Wu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Half of It 2020 2835
2 Saving Face 2004 2977

Rupert Wyatt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011 2177

William Wyler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ben-Hur 1959 188
2 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 200
3 Roman Holiday 1953 203
4 Funny Girl 1968 955
5 The Big Country 1958 1098
6 Wuthering Heights 1939 1163
7 Mrs. Miniver 1942 1546
8 The Heiress 1949 1557
9 Dodsworth 1936 1669
10 Jezebel 1938 2445
11 The Little Foxes 1941 2505
12 The Letter 1940 2543
13 The Children's Hour 1961 2888
14 The Westerner 1940 3005

Boaz Yakin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Remember the Titans 2000 846

Yôji Yamada

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Twilight Samurai 2002 2981

Cathy Yan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) 2020 2997

Edward Yang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yi yi: A One and a Two... 2000 457
2 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 659

David Yates

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2011 375
2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2007 635
3 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2009 653
4 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 2010 718

Peter Yates

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Breaking Away 1979 660
2 Bullitt 1968 741
3 The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973 2716

Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blob 1958 1580

Wilson Yip

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ip Man 2008 2039

Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Secret World of Arrietty 2010 2556

Terence Young

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dr. No 1962 781
2 From Russia with Love 1963 889
3 Wait until Dark 1967 1737
4 Thunderball 1965 2181

Masaaki Yuasa

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mind Game 2004 2987

Brian Yuzna

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Society 1989 2915

Steven Zaillian

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 2731

Meir Zarchi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 I Spit on Your Grave 1978 2896

Jasmila Zbanic

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Quo Vadis, Aida? 2020 2573

Franco Zeffirelli

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Romeo and Juliet 1968 1861

Benh Zeitlin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beasts of the Southern Wild 2012 1688

Florian Zeller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Father 2020 2378

Robert Zemeckis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Back to the Future 1985 30
2 Forrest Gump 1994 72
3 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 225
4 Back to the Future Part II 1989 1133
5 Contact 1997 1262
6 Cast Away 2000 1387
7 Back to the Future Part III 1990 1502
8 Romancing the Stone 1984 1899

Yimou Zhang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 509
2 Hero 2002 808
3 House of Flying Daggers 2004 1358
4 To Live 1994 1584
5 Red Sorghum 1988 2620
6 Ju Dou 1990 2714

Jia Zhang-ke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Platform 2000 2232
2 Still Life 2006 2313

Chloé Zhao

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Rider 2017 1648
2 Nomadland 2020 1654

Howard Zieff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Girl 1991 1811

Fred Zinnemann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 High Noon 1952 206
2 From Here to Eternity 1953 357
3 Oklahoma! 1955 1191
4 A Man for All Seasons 1966 1237
5 The Day of the Jackal 1973 1727

David Zucker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Airplane!1 1980 196
2 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988 721
3 Top Secret!1 1984 1492

1 Collaborated with Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker.

Jerry Zucker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Airplane!1 1980 196
2 Ghost 1990 798
3 Top Secret!1 1984 1492

1 Collaborated with Jim Abrahams and David Zucker.

Andrzej Zulawski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Possession 1981 1176
2 On the Silver Globe 1988 3047

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Return 2003 2124
2 Leviathan 2014 2360

Charlotte Zwerin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gimme Shelter1 1970 914
2 Salesman1 1969 1250

1 Collaborated with Albert and David Maysles.

Edward Zwick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Glory 1989 562
2 Legends of the Fall 1994 1607
3 Blood Diamond 2006 1657
4 The Last Samurai 2003 1949

Joel Zwick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2002 1304

Terry Zwigoff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crumb 1994 932
2 Ghost World 2001 970
3 Bad Santa 2003 2633
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