1. Art and Diseño

Feature Films by Director
A selection of some of the greatest, most influential and most famous, or infamous, directors
in world cinema, and a ranking of their feature films from best to worst
Director
Movie
Stars Year
Woody Allen
Zelig
Bullets Over Broadway
Annie Hall *
Deconstructing Harry
Love and Death
Hannah and Her Sisters
Stardust Memories
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Radio Days
Mighty Aphrodite
Bananas
Manhattan
Interiors
Crimes and Misdemeanors
New York Stories
Shadows and Fog
Midnight in Paris
Cassandra’s Dream
Husbands and Wives
Sweet and Lowdown
Sleeper
Blue Jasmine
Match Point
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Take the Money and Run
Magic in the Moonlight
To Rome With Love
What’s Up, Tiger Lily?
Whatever Works
Vicky Christina Barcelona
Melinda and Melinda
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Scoop
Small Time Crooks
5
4¾
4¾
4¼
4
4
3¾
3¾
3¾
3¾
3¾
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3¼
3¼
3¼
3¼
3¼
3¼
3
2¾
2¾
2½
2½
2½
2½
2¼
2
2
1½
1½
1983
1995
1977
1997
1975
1986
1980
1985
1986
1995
1971
1979
1978
1989
1989
1992
2011
2007
1992
1999
1973
2013
2005
2010
1971
2014
2012
1966
2009
2008
2004
2001
2006
2000
Robert Altman
Nashville
The Player
Short Cuts
M.A.S.H.
Popeye
Vincent and Theo
The Long Goodbye
A Prairie Home Companion
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Gosford Park
5
4½
4¼
4
4
4
3½
3½
3¼
2¾
1975
1992
1993
1970
1980
1990
1973
2006
1971
2001
Ingmar Bergman
Cries and Whispers FL
Persona FL
4½
4½
1972
1966
Through a Glass Darkly FL
The Seventh Seal FL
Fanny and Alexander FL
Wild Strawberries FL
The Magician FL
The Silence FL
4¼
3¾
3¾
3¾
3¾
2¾
1961
1957
1982
1957
1958
1963
Tim Burton
Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands
The Nightmare Before Christmas (co-directed)
Big Fish
Frankenweenie (3-D version)
Alice in Wonderland (3-D version)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
Dark Shadows
Batman
Beetlejuice
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Big Eyes
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Batman Returns
Mars Attacks
Sleepy Hollow
4¾
4¼
4¼
4¼
4¼
4
4
3¾
3½
3½
3¼
3¼
3
2½
2½
2¼
1¼
1994
1990
1993
2003
2012
2010
2007
2005
2012
1989
1988
2005
2014
1985
1992
1996
1999
Frank Capra
It’s a Wonderful Life
It Happened One Night *
Arsenic and Old Lace
You Can’t Take It With You *
The Miracle Woman
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
5
4½
4
4
2½
2
1946
1934
1944
1938
1931
1939
Charlie Chaplin
Modern Times SlWS
The Circus Sl
City Lights SlWS
The Gold Rush Sl
The Great Dictator
The Kid Sl
Limelight
Monsieur Verdoux
A Woman of Paris Sl
Shoulder Arms Sl
A King in New York
The Pilgrim Sl
Tillie’s Punctured Romance Sl (co-directed with Mack Sennett)
A Countess from Hong Kong
5
1936
5
1928
5
1931
4¾
4½
4½
4
3
2¾
2¾
2½
2
1¼
1¼
1925
1940
1921
1952
1947
1923
1918
1957
1923
1914
1967
Fargo
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Man Who Wasn’t There
A Serious Man
True Grit
No Country for Old Men *
Barton Fink
O, Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Hudsucker Proxy
Intolerable Cruelty
The Big Lebowski
4½
4½
4¼
4¼
4
3¾
3½
3½
3½
3½
3¼
1996
2013
2001
2009
2010
2007
1991
2000
1994
2003
1998
Joel and Ethan Coen
2
Raising Arizona
The Ladykillers
Blood Simple
Miller’s Crossing
Burn After Reading
3¼
3¼
2¾
2
2
1987
2004
1983
1990
2008
Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather *
The Godfather, Part II *
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather, Part III
The Conversation
Peggy Sue Got Married
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
5
5
4½
4¼
4
3
1½
1972
1974
1979
1990
1974
1986
1992
Cecil B. DeMille
The Sign of the Cross
The Ten Commandments Sl
The Ten Commandments $5
The Greatest Show on Earth *
The King of Kings Sl
The Whispering Chorus Sl
The Cheat Sl
The Golden Chance Sl
Carmen Sl
Old Wives for New Sl
3¼
2¾
2½
2½
2
2
2
2
¾
¾
1932
1923
1956
1952
1927/32
1918
1915
1915
1915
1918
Walt Disney (creative producer)
Pinocchio
Dumbo
Bambi
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs $10
Alice in Wonderland
Lady and the Tramp
Fantasia
The Jungle Book
Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty
Pollyana
Mary Poppins
Peter Pan
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
101 Dalmations
Make Mine Music
Song of the South
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Fun and Fancy Free
Swiss Family Robinson
The Reluctant Dragon
The Sword in the Stone
Melody Time
Saludos Amigos
Victory Through Air Power
5
5
5
5
5
4¾
4¾
4¾
4¼
4¼
4¼
4¼
4¼
4
4
4
3½
3½
3¼
3¼
3¼
3
3
2½
2½
2½
1940
1941
1942
1937
1951
1955
1940
1967
1950
1959
1960
1964
1953
1949
1977
1961
1946
1946
1954
1947
1960
1941
1963
1948
1943
1943
Clint Eastwood
Letters from Iwo Jima FL
Unforgiven *
Mystic River
Flags of Our Fathers
Million Dollar Baby *
Hereafter
4½
4½
4¼
4
4
3½
2006
1992
2003
2006
2004
2010
3
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
American Sniper
J. Edgar
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Changeling
Gran Torino
Space Cowboys
Invictus
3¼
3¼
3¼
2¾
2¾
2½
2½
1¾
1997
2014
2011
1976
2008
2008
2000
2009
Sergei Eisenstein
Battleship Potemkin Sl
October: Ten Days That Shook the World Sl
Strike Sl
3¾
2¼
2
1925
1928
1925
Federico Fellini
La Dolce Vita (The Good Life) FL
La Strada (The Road) FL
Le Notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria) FL
8 ½ FL
4½
4
3¼
2¾
1960
1954
1957
1963
David Fincher
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Social Network
Se7en
Gone Girl
Fight Club
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Zodiac
Panic Room
5
4
4
3
2¾
2¼
2
1¾
2008
2010
1995
2014
1999
2011
2007
2002
Victor Fleming
Gone With the Wind * $1 (co-directed with David Selznick and George Cukor)
The Wizard of Oz
Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
5
5
2½
1939
1939
1941
John Ford
The Grapes of Wrath
My Darling Clementine
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
How Green Was My Valley *
Mister Roberts (co-directed with Mervyn LeRoy and Joshua Logan)
Stagecoach
5
4
3
3
2¾
2¾
2½
1940
1946
1956
1962
1941
1955
1939
Milos Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest *
Amadeus *
Man on the Moon
Hair
5
5
3¾
2¾
1975
1984
1999
1979
Jean-Luc Godard
Le Mepris (Contempt) FL
Weekend FL
À Bout de Souffle (Breathless) FL
3¾
3
2
1963
1967
1960
D.W. Griffith
Birth of a Nation Sl
Intolerance Sl
3¼
2½
1915
1916
Howard Hawks
His Girl Friday
Bringing Up Baby
4½
4¼
1940
1938
4
Red River
The Big Sleep
Rio Bravo
Scarface
Sergeant York
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Thing From Another World (co-directed with Christian Nyby)
3¾
2¾
2¼
2¼
1¾
1¾
1½
1948
1946
1959
1932
1941
1953
1951
George Roy Hill
The Sting *
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The World According to Garp
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slap Shot
Funny Farm
5
5
4½
4
2
1½
1973
1969
1982
1972
1977
1988
Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho
Vertigo
Rebecca *
North by Northwest
Dial M for Murder (3-D version)
Strangers on a Train
The Birds
Rear Window
Shadow of a Doubt
Frenzy
I Confess
Notorious
Saboteur
Torn Curtain
Spellbound
Rope
Marnie
Lifeboat
To Catch a Thief
Family Plot
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Stage Fright
Suspicion
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Trouble With Harry
5
5
4¾
4¾
4½
4¼
4
3¾
3¾
3½
3¼
3¼
3¼
3¼
2½
2½
2½
2½
2¼
2
2
1¾
1¾
1¼
1¼
1960
1958
1940
1959
1954
1951
1963
1954
1943
1972
1953
1946
1942
1966
1945
1948
1964
1944
1955
1976
1956
1950
1941
1934
1955
James Ivory
The Remains of the Day
Howards End
A Room With a View
Surviving Picasso
4¾
4¾
4¾
2½
1993
1992
1986
1996
Elia Kazan
On the Waterfront *
East of Eden
A Streetcar Named Desire
Wild River
Splendor in the Grass
A Face in the Crowd
Baby Doll
The Arrangement
Viva Zapata!
America America
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Gentleman’s Agreement *
5
5
5
5
5
4½
4¼
4
3¾
3½
3½
3¼
1954
1955
1951
1960
1961
1957
1956
1969
1952
1963
1945
1947
5
The Sea of Grass
Boomerang
Pinky
Panic in the Streets
The Last Tycoon
2½
2½
2½
2¼
1¾
1947
1947
1949
1950
1976
Buster Keaton
The General Sl
Sherlock Jr. Sl
Steamboat Bill, Jr. Sl (co-directed by Charles Reisner)
Seven Chances Sl
Our Hospitality Sl (co-directed by John Blystone)
4½
3½
3¼
3
2¾
1927
1924
1928
1925
1923
Stanley Kubrick
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Srangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
A Clockwork Orange
The Shining
Barry Lyndon
Full Metal Jacket
Lolita
Paths of Glory
Spartacus
Eyes Wide Shut
The Killing
Killer’s Kiss
Fear and Desire
5
5
5
4¾
4½
4½
4¼
4
4
3¼
2
1¼
1
1968
1964
1971
1980
1975
1987
1962
1957
1960
1999
1956
1955
1953
Akira Kurosawa
Ran FL
The Seven Samurai FL
Ikiru FL
Dreams FL
4½
4½
3¾
3¼
1985
1954
1952
1990
David Lean
Lawrence of Arabia *
Bridge on the River Kwai *
A Passage to India
Great Expectations
Doctor Zhivago $8
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Brief Encounter
Hobson’s Choice
Ryan’s Daughter
5
5
5
4¾
4¾
3¼
3¼
3¼
2¼
1962
1957
1984
1946
1965
1952
1945
1954
1970
Barry Levinson
Rain Man *
The Natural
Toys
Diner
Liberty Heights
Good Morning, Vietnam
You Don’t Know Jack
Man of the Year
Young Sherlock Holmes
5
4¾
3¾
3½
3¼
3
2¾
2¾
2½
1988
1984
1992
1982
1999
1987
2010
2006
1985
Herschell Gordon Lewis
The Wizard of Gore
Something Weird
Scum of the Earth
Monster A-Go-Go (co-directed with Bill Rebane)
Blood Feast
¼
¼
0
0
0
1970
1967
1963
1965
1963
6
George Lucas
Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (creative producer)
Star Wars IV: A New Hope $2
Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi (creative producer)
American Graffiti
Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith
TXH 1138
Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace
5
5
4¾
4¾
3¾
2¾
2½
1¼
1980/97
1977/97
1983/97
1973
2005
1971
2002
2000
Sidney Lumet
Dog Day Afternoon
12 Angry Men
Network
Fail-Safe
Serpico
The Verdict
Murder on the Orient Express
The Pawnbroker
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Deathtrap
Family Business
5
5
4½
4½
4¼
4¼
4
3¾
3½
2½
1¼
1975
1957
1976
1965
1973
1982
1974
1965
2007
1982
1989
David Lynch
The Elephant Man
The Straight Story
Eraserhead
Mulholland Drive
Lost Highway
Blue Velvet
Wild at Heart
4½
4
3¼
2½
2¼
2
1¼
1980
1999
1977
2001
1997
1986
1990
Michael Moore
Bowling for Columbine
Roger and Me
Fahrenheit 911
Capitalism: A Love Story
Sicko
4½
4½
4½
4
4
2002
1989
2004
2009
2007
Christopher Nolan
The Prestige
Inception
Interstellar (70MM IMAX and conventional versions)
Memento
Following
Insomnia
The Dark Knight
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight Rises
4¾
4½
4¼
4
3½
3¼
2¾
2¾
2
2006
2010
2014
2001
1998
2002
2008
2005
2012
Alexander Payne
About Schmidt
The Descendants
Citizen Ruth
Election
Sideways
Nebraska
3¾
3¾
3¾
3½
3½
1¾
2002
2011
1996
1999
2004
2013
Roman Polanski
Rosemary’s Baby
The Pianist
4¾
4½
1968
2002
7
Chinatown
The Tenant
Repulsion
The Ghost Writer
The Ninth Gate
Carnage
Knife in the Water FL
4½
3¾
3¾
3¼
2¾
2½
1
1974
1976
1965
2010
1999
2011
1962
Sydney Pollack
Tootsie
Three Days of the Condor
The Firm
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Out of Africa *
The Electric Horseman
The Interpreter
The Way We Were
Sabrina
4¾
4
4
3¾
3½
3¼
3¼
3
3
1982
1975
1993
1969
1985
1979
2005
1973
1995
Martin Scorsese
Hugo (3-D version)
The Aviator
Cape Fear
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Mean Streets
Taxi Driver
The King of Comedy
The Last Temptation of Christ
Shutter Island
Raging Bull
The Departed *
George Harrson: Living in the Material World
Goodfellas
The Age of Innocence
The Color of Money
Casino
The Wolf of Wall Street
Gangs of New York
4¾
4¼
4¼
3¾
3¾
3¾
3½
3½
3¼
3¼
3¼
3¼
3
3
2¾
2
1½
1¼
2011
2004
1991
1974
1973
1976
1983
1988
2010
1980
2006
2011
1990
1993
1986
1995
2013
2002
Ridley Scott
Gladiator *
American Gangster
Alien
Prometheus (3-D version)
Matchstick Men
Robin Hood
Black Hawk Down
Blade Runner
Thelma and Louise
4½
4¼
4
4
3¼
3¼
2¾
2¾
2
2000
2007
1979
2012
2003
2010
2001
1982
1991
M. Night Shyamalan
The Sixth Sense
Unbreakable
The Village
Lady in the Water
Signs
The Happening
4¾
4¾
3¼
3¼
1¾
1¼
1999
2000
2004
2006
2002
2008
Steven Spielberg
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Duel
Jaws $ 7
5
5
5
1977/80
1971
1975
8
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List *
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial $4
Jurassic Park
Raiders of the Lost Ark (creative-produced and partially co-directed by George Lucas)
Empire of the Sun
A.I.
Catch Me If You Can
Minority Report
Munich
1941 (premiere/extended version)
Lincoln
War of the Worlds
Amistad
The Adventures of Tintin (3-D version)
War Horse
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Color Purple
The Terminal
Always
Twilight Zone: The Movie (one of four directors)
The Sugarland Express
Hook
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
4¾
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4¼
4
4
4
4
4
4
3¾
3¾
3½
3½
3½
3
3
2¾
2¾
2
2
1½
1¼
1998
1993
1982
1993
1981
1987
2001
2002
2002
2005
1979
2012
2005
1997
2011
2011
1989
1985
2004
1989
1983
1974
1991
1984
2008
1997
Oliver Stone
JFK
Platoon *
Born on the Fourth of July
Salvador
W.
Nixon
The People vs. Larry Flynt
World Trade Center
Natural Born Killers
The Doors
4¾
4¼
4¼
3½
3¼
3¼
3¼
3
2½
1½
1991
1986
1989
1986
2008
1995
1996
2006
1994
1991
Quentin Tarantino
Pulp Fiction
Inglourious Basterds
Jackie Brown
Resevoir Dogs
Death Proof
Django Unchained
Kill Bill
Sin City (co-directed with Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez)
4
3¾
3¾
3¼
2½
1¾
1¼
1¼
1994
2009
1997
1992
2007
2012
2003
2005
Francois Truffaut
La Nuit Americaine (Day for Night) FL
Jules et Jim FL
Fahrenheit 451
Tirez sur le Pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player) FL
Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows) FL
La Sirène du Mississippi (Mississippi Mermaid) FL
4¼
3
3
2¾
2¾
1¾
1973
1962
1966
1960
1959
1969
Peter Weir
The Truman Show
Dead Poet’s Society
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Witness
5
4¾
4¼
3¾
1998
1989
2003
1985
9
The Mosquito Coast
Picnic at Hanging Rock
2½
2¼
1986
1975
Orson Welles
Citizen Kane
The Stranger
Touch of Evil
The Trial
F for Fake
Macbeth
Othello (American version)
The Lady from Shanghai
5
5
4
3¾
3¾
3¼
3
3
1941
1946
1958/98
1962
1974
1948
1952
1948
Billy Wilder
Witness for the Prosecution
Sunset Boulevard
Ace in the Hole
The Apartment *
Some Like It Hot
The Lost Weekend *
Double Indemnity
Five Graves to Cairo
The Seven Year Itch
The Fortune Cookie
4¼
3¾
3
3
2¾
2½
2½
2½
2¼
2¼
1957
1950
1951
1960
1959
1945
1944
1943
1955
1966
Ed Wood
Jail Bait
Night of the Ghouls
The Sinister Urge
Bride of the Monster
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Glen or Glenda
Orgy of the Dead (co-directed with Stephen C. Apostolof)
¼
¼
¼
0
0
0
0
1954
1959
1960
1955
1959
1953
1965
Joe Wright
Atonement
Anna Karenina
The Soloist
Hanna
5
4¾
3¼
2
2007
2012
2009
2011
William Wyler
Wuthering Heights
Ben-Hur *
The Collector
Jezebel
The Best Years of Our Lives *
Mrs. Miniver *
Funny Girl
5
4¾
4
4
3¾
2¾
2¾
1939
1959
1965
1938
1946
1942
1968
Robert Zemeckis
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Forrest Gump *
Back to the Future
Contact
Flight
Cast Away
Back to the Future, Part III
The Polar Express (2-D version)
Beowulf (3-D version)
What Lies Beneath
Back to the Future, Part II
5
4¾
4
4
3¾
3¾
3¼
3
2½
2
1¼
1988
1994
1985
1997
2012
2000
1990
2004
2007
2000
1989
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