Director Rankings

Quentin Tarantino (8.44)

1. The Hateful Eight (10)

2. Inglourious Basterds (10)

3. Django Unchained (10)

4. Pulp Fiction (9)

5. Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (8)

6. Kill Bill Vol 1. (8)

7. Jackie Brown (7)

8. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (7)

9. Reservoir Dogs (7)

 

Denis Villeneuve (8.00)

1. Arrival (9)

2. Sicario (9)

3. Blade Runner 2049 (8)

4. Prisoners (8)

5. Enemy (8)

6. Dune (6)

 

Wes Anderson (8.00)

1. The French Dispatch (10)

2. The Grand Budapest Hotel (10)

3. The Royal Tenenbaums (7)

4. Fantastic Mr. Fox (7)

5. Isle of Dogs (7)

6. Moonrise Kingdom (6)

 

Christopher Nolan (7.78)

1. The Dark Knight (10)

2. The Prestige (8)

3. Dunkirk (8)

4. Inception (8)

5. The Dark Knight Rises (8)

6. Memento (8)

7. Tenet (7)

8. Interstellar (7)

9. Batman Begins (7)

 

Peter Jackson (7.75)

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (10)

2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (10)

3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (9)

4. King Kong (7)

5. The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug (6)

6. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (6)

7. The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies

 

Spike Lee (7.67)

1. Malcolm X (8)

2. BlacKkKlansman (8)

3. Inside Man (8)

4. Do the Right thing (8)

5. David Byrne's American Utopia (8)

6. Da 5 Bloods (6)

 

Martin Scorsese (7.60)

1. The Age of Innocence (10)

2. The Aviator (9)

3. The Wolf of Wall Street (8)

4. Casino (8)

5. The Irishman (8)

6. The Departed (8)

7. Goodfellas (8)

8. Gangs of New York (8)

9. Silence (7)

10. Taxi Driver (7)

11. Hugo (7)

12. Shutter Island (7)

13. Raging Bull (7)

14. Cape Fear (6)

15. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (6)

 

Steven Spielberg (7.50)

1. Munich (10)

2. Lincoln (10)

3. Schindler's List (10)

4. Saving Private Ryan (9)

5. The Post (9)

6. Catch Me If You Can (8)

7. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (8)

8. West Side Story (8)

9. The Fabelmans (8)

10. Raiders of the Lost Ark (8)

11. Bridge of Spies (8)

12. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (8)

13. Jaws (8)

14. Minority Report (7)

15. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (7)

16. War of the Worlds (7)

17. Jurassic Park (7)

18. The Adventures of Tintin (7)

19. Empire of the Sun (7)

20. Amistad (7)

21. War Horse (6)

22. Ready Player One (6)

23. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (6)

24. The Terminal (6)

25. The Color Purple (6)

26. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (5)

 

Joe and Anthony Russo (7.40)

1. Captain America: Civil War (9)

2. Avengers: Infinity War (8)

3. Avengers: Endgame (7)

4. Captain America: Winter Soldier (7)

5. The Gray Man (6)

6. Cherry (6)

 

Charles Chaplin (7.40)

1. The Gold Rush (8)

2. The Kid (8)

3. City Lights (8)

4. Modern Times (7)

5. The Great Dictator (6)

 

Paul Thomas Anderson (7.33)

1. Magnolia (10)

2. Boogie Nights (8)

3. Phantom Thread (8)

4. There Will Be Blood (8)

5. Hard Eight (7)

6. Licorice Pizza (7)

7. Inherent Vice (6)

8. The Master (6)

9. Punch-Drunk Love (6)

 

Oliver Stone (7.20)

1. JFK (10)

2. Natural Born Killers (8)

3. Platoon (8)

4. Nixon (7)

5. Born on the Fourth of July (7)

6. Any Given Sunday (7)

7. Snowden (7)

8. Wall Street (7)

9. Alexander (6)

10. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (6)

11. W. (6)

 

Michael Mann (7.20)

1. The Insider (8)

2. Collateral (8)

3. Heat (8)

4. Ali (6)

5. Public Enemies (6)

 

Ridley Scott (7.15)

1. Alien (9)

2. Black Hawk Down (8)

3. The Last Duel (8)

4. American Gangster (8)

5. Gladiator (8)

6. All the Money in the World (7)

7. Kingdom of Heaven (7)

8. House of Gucci (7)

9. Prometheus (7)

10. Blade Runner (6)

11. Body of Lies (6)

12. Alien: Covenant (6)

13. Robin Hood (6)

 

David Fincher (7.13)

1. Zodiac (8)

2. The Social Network (8)

3. Se7en (8)

4. Mank (7)

5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (7)

6. Gone Girl (7)

7. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (7)

8. Fight Club (5)

 

Woody Allen (7.10)

1. Hannah and Her Sisters (9)

2. Crimes and Misdemeanors (9)

3. Interiors (8)

4. Manhattan (8)

5. Zelig (7)

6. Annie Hall (7)

7. Broadway Danny Rose (7)

8. Midnight in Paris (6)

9. A Rainy Day in New York (6)

10. Wonder Wheel (4)

 

Stanley Kubrick (7.00)

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (9)

2. Barry Lyndon (7)

3. Paths of Glory (7)

4. Eyes Wide Shut (6)

5. The Shining (6)

 

Alfred Hitchcock (7.00)

1. Rope (8)

2. Psycho (8)

3. Notorious (7)

4. North by Northwest (7)

5. Vertigo (6)

6. Rear Window (6)

 

Steven Soderbergh (6.93)

1. Sex, Lies and Videotape (8)

2. Side Effects (8)

3. Haywire (8)

4. Let Them All Talk (8)

5. Ocean’s Twelve (8)

6. Ocean’s Eleven (7)

7. No Sudden Move (7)

8. Ocean’s Thirteen (7)

9. High Flying Bird (7)

10. Behind the Candelabra (7)

11. Logan Lucky (6)

12. Contagion (6)

13. Unsane (6)

14. The Laundromat (6)

15. Kimi (6)

 

Terrence Malick (6.86)

1. The Tree of Life (9)

2. The Thin Red Line (7)

3. To the Wonder (7)

4. A Hidden Life (7)

5. The New World (7)

6. Badlands (7)

7. Days of Heaven (6)

8. Song to Song (5)

 

Danny Boyle (6.80)

1. Steve Jobs (8)

2. T2 Trainspotting (8)

3. Trainspotting (6)

4. Slumdog Millionaire (6)

5. Yesterday (6)

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Ingmar Bergman (6.80)

1. Persona (8)

2. The Seventh Seal (7)

3. Wild Strawberries (7)

4. Fanny and Alexander (6)

5. Virgin Spring (6)

 

Taika Waititi (6.80)

1. What We Do in the Shadows (7)

2. Jojo Rabbit (7)

3. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (7)

4. Thor: Ragnarok (7)

5. Thor: Love and Thunder (6)

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Andrei Tarkovsky (6.80)

1. The Sacrifice (7)

2. Mirror (7)

3. Ivan’s Childhood (7)

4. Stalker (7)

5. Solaris (6)

 

David Cronenberg (6.75)

1. A Dangerous Method (8)

2. Dead Ringers (7)

3. Eastern Promises (7)

4. Videodrome (7)

5. A History of Violence (7)

6. Maps to the Stars (7)

7. Crimes of the Future (6)

8. Crash (5)

 

Adam McKay (6.71)

1. Vice (9)

2. The Big Short (8)

3. The Other Guys (7)

4. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (6)

5. Don’t Look Up (6)

6. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (6)

7. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (5)

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David O. Russell (6.67)

1. American Hustle (7)

2. Joy (7)

3. I Heart Huckabee (7)

4. The Fighter (7)

5. Amsterdam (6)

6. Silver Linings Playbook (6)

 

Bryan Singer (6.57)

1. X-Men: Days of Future Past (10)

2. X2: X-Men United (7)

3. Valkyrie (7)

4. X-Men (6)

5. Bohemian Rhapsody (6)

6. X-Men: Apocalypse (6)

7. Superman Returns (4)

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Michael Haneke (6.50)

1. Code Unknown (8)

2. Funny Games (8)

3. The White Ribbon (7)

4. Caché (7)

5. Amour (7)

6. Happy End (6)

7. The Piano Teacher (6)

8. Time of the Wolf (3)

 

David Yates (6.43)

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II (8)

2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (7)

3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I (7)

4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (6)

5. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (6)

6. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (6)

7. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (5)

 

Joel & Ethan Coen (6.42)

1. Fargo (8)

2. The Tragedy of Macbeth (8)

3. No Country for Old Men (7)

4. Inside Llewyn Davis (7)

5. The Big Lebowski (7)

6. Burn After Reading (7)

7. Intolerable Cruelty (7)

8. True Grit (6)

9. O Brother, Where Art Thou (6)

10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (6)

11. Hail, Caesar (4)

12. A Serious Man (4)

 

Lana & Lily Wachowski (6.40)

1. Cloud Atlas (8)

2. The Matrix (8)

3. The Matrix Reloaded (7)

4. The Matrix Resurrections (5)

5. The Matrix Revolutions (4)

 

Rob Reiner (6.40)

1. The American President (8)

2. A Few Good Men (7)

3. The Princess Bride (6)

4. LBJ (6)

5. Shock and Awe (5)

 

Clint Eastwood (6.36)

1. Mystic River (8)

2. Unforgiven (8)

3. American Sniper (8)

4. Sully (7)

5. Letters From Iwo Jima (7)

6. Million Dollar Baby (7)

7. The Mule (7)

8. Richard Jewell (6)

9. J. Edgar (6)

10. Flags of our Fathers (5)

11. Cry Macho (2)

 

Guy Ritchie (6.33)

1. Wrath of Man (7)

2. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (7)

3. The Gentlemen (6)

4. Snatch (6)

5. Sherlock Holmes (6)

6. Aladdin (6)

 

Brett Ratner (6.33)

1. Rush Hour 2 (7)

2. Red Dragon (7)

3. Rush Hour (7)

4. Rush Hour 3 (6)

5. X-Men: The Last Stand (6)

6. Tower Heist (5)

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Sam Mendes (6.29)

1. 1917 (8)

2. Skyfall (7)

3. Road to Perdition (7)

4. Spectre (6)

5. Empire of Light (6)

6. American Beauty (4)

 

John Lasseter (6.20)

1. Toy Story 2 (8)

2. Toy Story (7)

3. Cars (7)

4. A Bug’s Life (6)

5. Cars 2 (4)

 

Joe Wright (6.20)

1. Darkest Hour (7)

2. Cyrano (7)

3. Atonement (6)

4. Anna Karenina (6)

5. The Women in the Window (5)

 

Tim Burton (6.17)

1. Beetlejuice

2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (7)

3. Batman (7)

4. Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (6)

5. Big Eyes (6)

6. Batman Returns (6)

 

Ron Howard (6.13)

1. Apollo 13 (8)

2. Frost/Nixon (8)

3. Thirteen Lives (8)

4. A Beautiful Mind (7)

5. The Da Vinci Code (7)

6. Solo: A Star Wars Story (6)

7. Angels & Demons (5)

8. Hillbilly Elegy (4)

9. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (3)

 

George Clooney (6.00)

1. Good Night, and Good Luck (7)

2. The Ides of March (6)

3. The Tender Bar (6)

4. The Midnight Sky (6)

5. Suburbicon (5)

 

J.J. Abrams (6.00)

1. Mission: Impossible III (6)

2. Star Trek Into Darkness (6)

3. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (6)

4. Star Trek (6)

5. Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (6)

 

Kenneth Branagh (5.80)

1. Belfast (8)

2. Murder on the Orient Express (6)

3. Allis True (6)

4. Thor (5)

5. Death on the Nile (4)

 

Robert Zemeckis (5.75)

1. Forrest Gump (8)

2. Back to the Future (7)

3. Back to the Future 2 (6)

4. Allied (6)

5. Back to the Future 3 (5)

6. The Polar Express (5)

7. A Christmas Carol (5)

8. The Witches (5)

 

Doug Liman (5.67)

1. American Made (7)

2. Live Die Repeat (6)

3. The Bourne Identity (6)

4. Mr. and Mrs. Smith (6)

5. Locked Down (6)

6. Chaos Walking (4)

 

Zack Snyder (5.33)

1. Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (7)

2. Zack Snyder’s Justice League (6)

3. 300 (6)

4. Watchmen (6)

5. Man of Steel (5)

6. Army of the Dead (2)

 

Jon Favreau (5.20)

1. Iron Man (6)

2. Iron Man 2 (5)

3. Cowboys and Aliens (5)

4. Elf (5)

5. The Lion King (5)

 

John Lee Hancock (5.20)

1. Saving Mr. Banks (7)

2. The Little Things (6)

3. The Blind Side (5)

4. The Rookie (5)

5. The Highwaymen (3)

 

Robert Rodriguez (4.67)

1. Sin City (7)

2. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (5)

3. Spy Kids (5)

4. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (5)

5. Spy Kids 3: Game Over (4)

6. Alita: Battle Angel (2)

 

Dennis Dugan (4.20)

1. Happy Gilmore (7)

2. The Benchwarmers (6)

3. Big Daddy (5)

4. Grown Ups (2)

5. Grown Ups 2 (1)

 

Chris Columbus (3.60)

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (5)

2. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (5)

3. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (4)

4. Home Alone (3)

5. Pixels (1)

 

Michael Bay (3.56)

1. Ambulance (6)

2. Pearl Harbor (5)

3. Bad Boys 2 (3)

4. Bad Boys (3)

5. 6 Underground (3)

6. Transformers: Age of Extinction (3)

7. Transformers (3)

8. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (3)

9. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (3)