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Top Films from Selected Film Producers

Includes executive producers, associate producers and other variations of the title "producer."

Pandro S. Berman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 132
2 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 307
3 National Velvet 1944 Clarence Brown 629
4 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 759
5 Stage Door 1937 Gregory La Cava 839
6 Jailhouse Rock 1957 Richard Thorpe 1065
7 Father of the Bride 1950 Vincente Minnelli 1096
8 The Gay Divorcee 1934 Mark Sandrich 1462
9 Shall We Dance 1937 Mark Sandrich 1520
10 Blackboard Jungle 1955 Richard Brooks 1607
11 Christopher Strong 1933 Dorothy Arzner 1920
12 Follow the Fleet 1936 Mark Sandrich 1991

Anatole Dauman

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 195
2 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais 281
3 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 431
4 The Tin Drum 1979 Volker Schlöndorff 561
5 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Nagisa Oshima 660
6 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 687
7 Night and Fog 1955 Alain Resnais 1066
8 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1243
9 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson 1293
10 Masculine Feminine 1966 Jean-Luc Godard 1312
11 Chronicle of a Summer 1961 Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch 1769
12 Fantastic Planet 1973 René Laloux 1812

Dino De Laurentiis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 209
2 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 425
3 Barbarella 1968 Roger Vadim 820
4 Manhunter 1986 Michael Mann 1288
5 Serpico 1973 Sidney Lumet 1472
6 The Dead Zone 1983 David Cronenberg 1499
7 Army of Darkness 1992 Sam Raimi 1558
8 Conan the Barbarian 1982 John Milius 1715
9 Three Days of the Condor 1975 Sydney Pollack 1732
10 Europa '51 1952 Roberto Rossellini 2126
11 Hannibal 2001 Ridley Scott 2291

Walt Disney

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 87
2 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 158
3 Bambi 1942 David Hand 311
4 The Jungle Book 1967 Wolfgang Reitherman 545
5 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 Richard Fleischer 654
6 Old Yeller 1957 Robert Stevenson 1159
7 One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1961 Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman 1187
8 Alice in Wonderland 1951 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 1433
9 Swiss Family Robinson 1960 Ken Annakin 1714
10 Song of the South 1946 Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson 2108
11 The Incredible Journey 1963 Fletcher Markle 2441

Carlo Ponti

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 167
2 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 209
3 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 253
4 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 373
5 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel 716
6 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 905
7 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda 1070
8 Lola 1961 Jacques Demy 1215
9 Two Women 1960 Vittorio De Sica 1351
10 The Firemen's Ball 1967 Milos Forman 1381
11 Europa '51 1952 Roberto Rossellini 2126
12 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 1963 Vittorio De Sica 2290

David O. Selznick

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 11
2 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 26
3 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
4 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 225
5 Dinner at Eight 1933 George Cukor 692
6 David Copperfield 1935 George Cukor 778
7 Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock 1062
8 The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 John Cromwell 1253
9 Nothing Sacred 1937 William A. Wellman 1334
10 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1421
11 Anna Karenina 1935 Clarence Brown 1530
12 A Star Is Born 1937 William A. Wellman 1679
13 Portrait of Jennie 1948 William Dieterle 1850
14 Christopher Strong 1933 Dorothy Arzner 1920
15 A Tale of Two Cities 1935 Jack Conway 2071

Irving Thalberg

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 162
2 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 232
3 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 258
4 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 300
5 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 306
6 Camille 1936 George Cukor 437
7 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 444
8 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 677
9 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 861
10 Foolish Wives 1922 Erich von Stroheim 946
11 A Day at the Races 1937 Sam Wood 1211
12 The Good Earth 1937 Sidney Franklin 1448
13 The Merry Widow 1934 Ernst Lubitsch 1771
14 Red Dust 1932 Victor Fleming 1816
15 The Broadway Melody 1929 Harry Beaumont 1877
16 Show People 1928 King Vidor 1901
17 Tarzan the Ape Man 1932 W.S. Van Dyke 2007
18 The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg 1927 Ernst Lubitsch 2197
19 Flesh and the Devil 1926 Clarence Brown 2325

Hal B. Wallis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2
2 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 33
3 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 155
4 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 257
5 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 290
6 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 328
7 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy 553
8 Little Caesar 1931 Mervyn LeRoy 595
9 Jezebel 1938 William Wyler 811
10 Dark Victory 1939 Edmund Goulding 824
11 Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks 923
12 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1108
13 The Roaring Twenties 1939 Raoul Walsh 1144
14 The Sea Hawk 1940 Michael Curtiz 1219
15 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Michael Curtiz 1321
16 Captain Blood 1935 Michael Curtiz 1324
17 High Sierra 1941 Raoul Walsh 1387
18 Barefoot in the Park 1967 Gene Saks 1415
19 Kings Row 1942 Sam Wood 1654
20 The Letter 1940 William Wyler 1835
21 The Petrified Forest 1936 Archie Mayo 1975
22 Becket 1964 Peter Glenville 2081
23 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 2175
24 The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942 William Keighley 2194
25 Knute Rockne, All American 1940 Lloyd Bacon 2201

Jack L. Warner

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2
2 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 69
3 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 122
4 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 150
5 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 224
6 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 257
7 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 332
8 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 371
9 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 790
10 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy 859
11 Life with Father 1947 Michael Curtiz 1754
12 The Letter 1940 William Wyler 1835
13 The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942 William Keighley 2194

Bob and Harvey Weinstein

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 20
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 104
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 166
4 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 191
5 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 214
6 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 229
7 Scream 1996 Wes Craven 305
8 True Romance 1993 Tony Scott 440
9 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant 474
10 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 492
11 Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall 680
12 Sin City 2005 Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez 765
13 Princess Mononoke 1997 Hayao Miyazaki 791
14 The Others 2001 Alejandro Amenábar 915
15 Chocolat 2000 Lasse Hallström 937
16 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino 1019
17 Flirting with Disaster 1996 David O. Russell 1035
18 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 Peter Weir 1121
19 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese 1209
20 Jackie Brown 1997 Quentin Tarantino 1341
21 Spy Kids 2001 Robert Rodriguez 1602
22 Finding Neverland 2004 Marc Forster 1613
23 The Aviator 2004 Martin Scorsese 1662
24 Smoke 1995 Wayne Wang 1862
25 Scream 2 1997 Wes Craven 1939
26 Emma 1996 Douglas McGrath 1970
27 Velvet Goldmine 1998 Todd Haynes 2103
28 The Cider House Rules 1999 Lasse Hallström 2109
29 Fahrenheit 9/11 2004 Michael Moore 2347
30 Cop Land 1997 James Mangold 2419
31 Scary Movie 2000 Keenan Ivory Wayans 2489
32 Cold Mountain 2003 Anthony Minghella 2507

Darryl F. Zanuck

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 35
2 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 68
3 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 290
4 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 342
5 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 350
6 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 475
7 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 536
8 Little Caesar 1931 Mervyn LeRoy 595
9 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 659
10 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 Henry King 704
11 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Elia Kazan 1081
12 The Mark of Zorro 1940 Rouben Mamoulian 1513
13 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 Sidney Lanfield 1667
14 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda 1832
15 Viva Zapata! 1952 Elia Kazan 1911
16 Night and the City 1950 Jules Dassin 1934
17 The Snake Pit 1948 Anatole Litvak 1993
18 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl 2169
19 Les Misérables 1935 Richard Boleslawski 2425
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