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Top 5s of Director Filmographies

Updated: 2 days ago

For each director's list, feature films and shorts will be included. To avoid excessively skewing any judgment of the cinematic works, the actual star ratings I've awarded each title will not be provided. However, there will be two asterisks included after the release year to signify that the work has received my highest star rating: 4 stars. As directors "graduate" to a higher tier increment, they will be moved to the corresponding director page and their rankings will be re-evaluated.


Highest rated Top 5s director: Wes Anderson


(Currently only have 'A'-'B' directors uploaded)

Robert Aldrich -- 5 films seen

  1. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)**

  2. Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

  3. Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)

  4. The Dirty Dozen (1967)

  5. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)


Pedro Almodóvar -- 6 films seen

  1. All About My Mother (1999)

  2. Julieta (2016)

  3. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)

  4. Talk to Her (2002)

  5. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)


Paul Thomas Anderson -- 8 films seen

  1. Boogie Nights (1997)

  2. The Master (2012)

  3. Phantom Thread (2017)

  4. There Will Be Blood (2007)

  5. Licorice Pizza (2021)


Wes Anderson -- 8 films seen

  1. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)**

  2. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)**

  3. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

  4. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

  5. Rushmore (1998)


Andrea Arnold -- 6 cinematic works seen

  1. Wasp (2003) (short)

  2. Fish Tank (2009)

  3. Dog (2001) (short)

  4. Milk (1998) (short)

  5. American Honey (2016)


Hal Ashby -- 5 films seen

  1. Being There (1979)

  2. The Last Detail (1973)

  3. Coming Home (1978)

  4. Harold and Maude (1971)

  5. Shampoo (1975)


Olivier Assayas -- 9 cinematic works seen

  1. Summer Hours (2008)**

  2. Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

  3. Carlos (2010)

  4. Personal Shopper (2016)

  5. Irma Vep (1996)


Lloyd Bacon -- 5 films seen

  1. 42nd Street (1933)**

  2. Footlight Parade (1933)

  3. It Happens Every Spring (1949)

  4. Brother Orchid (1940)

  5. 50 Million Frenchmen (1931)


Matthew Barney -- 5 films seen

  1. Cremaster 1 (1996)

  2. Cremaster 5 (1997)

  3. Cremaster 2 (1999)

  4. Cremaster 3 (2002)

  5. Cremaster 4 (1995)


Mario Bava -- 5 films seen

  1. Black Sunday (1960)

  2. Blood and Black Lace (1964)

  3. The Day the Sky Exploded (1958) (uncredited, but regarded as primarily responsible for the movie instead of credited director Paolo Heusch, as Bava served as cinematographer and was who many crew members directly reported to)

  4. I Vampiri (1957) (uncredited, served as cinematographer and then completed the movie when original director Riccardo Freda left the production)

  5. Danger: Diabolik


Michael Bay -- 5 films seen

  1. Transformers (2007)

  2. Pearl Harbor (2001)

  3. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

  4. Armageddon (1998)

  5. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)


Busby Berkeley -- 5 films seen

  1. Ziegfeld Girl (1941) (director of musical numbers, with the rest of the film directed by Robert Z. Leonard)

  2. For Me and My Gal (1942)

  3. Girl Crazy (1943) (original director and responsible for "I Got Rhythm" number in the completed film, but was replaced by Norman Taurog during production)

  4. Babes in Arms (1939)

  5. Dames (1934) (director of musical numbers and labeled the film's "cinematerpsichorean" by Warner Bros. studio, with the rest of the film directed by Ray Enright)


Bernardo Bertolucci -- 7 films seen

  1. The Conformist (1970)**

  2. Before the Revolution (1964)

  3. The Last Emperor (1987)

  4. The Dreamers (2003)

  5. La Commare Secca (1962)


Kathryn Bigelow -- 5 films seen

  1. The Hurt Locker (2009)**

  2. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)**

  3. Point Break (1991)

  4. Near Dark (1987)

  5. Strange Days (1995)


Brad Bird -- 5 cinematic works seen

  1. Ratatouille (2007)**

  2. Jack-Jack Attack (2005, short)**

  3. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

  4. The Iron Giant (1999)

  5. The Incredibles (2004)


Peter Bogdanovich -- 7 films seen

  1. What's Up, Doc? (1972)**

  2. The Last Picture Show (1971)**

  3. Paper Moon (1973)

  4. They All Laughed (1981)

  5. Saint Jack (1979)


Frank Borzage -- 5 films seen

  1. A Farewell to Arms (1932)

  2. Stage Door Canteen (1943)

  3. History Is Made at Night (1937)

  4. Moonrise (1948)

  5. Man's Castle (1933)


Kenneth Branagh -- 5 films seen

  1. Henry V (1989)

  2. Dead Again (1991)

  3. Thor (2011)

  4. All Is True (2018)

  5. Hamlet (1996)


Mel Brooks -- 6 films seen

  1. Blazing Saddles (1974)**

  2. Young Frankenstein (1974)

  3. The Producers (1968)

  4. High Anxiety (1977)

  5. History of the World: Part 1 (1981)


Clarence Brown -- 6 films seen

  1. Intruder in the Dust (1949)

  2. Anna Karenina (1935)

  3. Angels in the Outfield (1951)

  4. National Velvet (1944)

  5. Wife vs. Secretary (1936)


Charles Burnett -- 6 cinematic works seen

  1. Killer of Sheep (1977)

  2. To Sleep with Anger (1990)

  3. Quiet as Kept (2007, short)

  4. When It Rains (1995, short)

  5. Several Friends (1969, short)


James Cameron -- 6 films seen

  1. Aliens (1986)

  2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

  3. The Terminator (1984)

  4. Titanic (1997)

  5. The Abyss (1989)


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