Top 5 Director Averages

[metalhank]

now with 3400+ films

8+ films

1. Peter Jackson 94.00% (8)
2. Quentin Tarantino 90.63 (8)
3. Paul W.S. Anderson 89.20 (10)
4. Zack Snyder 87.50 (8)
5. Luc Besson 83.22 (9)
6. Guillermo Del Toro 82.13 (8)
7. David Cronenberg 80.22 (9)
8. Sam Raimi 78.88 (8)
9. Bryan Singer 78.67 (9)
10. Christopher Nolan 75.50 (8)

5-7 films

1. Paul Verhoeven 94.33 (6)
2. George Lucas 93.80 (5)
3. George Miller 88.40 (5)
4. J.J. Abrams 86.33 (6)
5. Tarsem Singh 83.80 (5)
6. James Cameron 83.43 (7)
7. Stephen Sommers 82.60 (5)
8. Matthew Vaughn 82.33 (6)
9. John Carpenter 82.00 (7)
10. Hayao Miyazaki 81.33 (6)

3-4 films

1. Terry Jones 96.00 (3)
2. Len Wiseman 96.00 (4)
3. David Leitch 94.33 (3)
4. Jean-Pierre Jeunet 94.33 (3)
5. Denis Villeneuve 93.25 (4)
6. James Gunn 93.25 (4)
7. Frank Miller 91.33 (3)
8. Stanley Kubrick 91.25 (4)
9. Rob Zombie 91.00 (3)
10. Neil Blomkamp 91.00 (3)

Top with 2 films is Mel Gibson - likely won't make future list

[martryn]

10. Milos Forman (4 films) 84.75
High film - Amadeus (94)
Low film - The People vs. Larry Flynt (72)

9. Martin Scorsese (6 films) 84.83
High films - Taxi Driver, The Departed (92)
Low film - Cape Fear (75)

8. Tarantino (9 films) 85.11
High film - Pulp Fiction (93)
Low film - Four Rooms (67)

7. Brad Bird (4 films) 85.25
High film - The Incredibles (88)
Low film - Jack-Jack Attack (82)

6. Joss Whedon (4 films) 85.5
High films - Avengers: Age of Ultron and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (89)
Low film - The Avengers (82)

5. Kubrick (6 films) 85.83
High films - Paths of Glory and A Clockwork Orange (92)
Low film - Eyes Wide Shut (75)

4. Miyazaki (8 films) 86.5
High film - Princess Mononoke (94)
Low films - Ponyo and Kiki's Delivery Service (81)

3. Wes Anderson (5 films) 86.8
High film - The Grand Budapest Hotel (92)
Low film - Fantastic Mr. Fox (83)

2. Sergio Leone (4 films) 88
High film - A Fistful of Dollars (94)
Low film - My Name is Nobody (77)

1. Christopher Nolan (8 films) 88.13
High film - Inception (95)
Low film - Insomnia (76)

Been a few years, so I thought this would be fun to update. Keeping it at a 4 film minimum.

10. George Roy Hill (4 films) 86.25
High film - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (98)
Low film - Slaughterhouse-Five (73)

9. Edgar Wright (5 films) 86.8
High film - Shaun of the Dead (90)
Low film - The World's End (76)

8. Lee Unkrich (5 films) 87.2
High film - Toy Story 3 (92)
Low film - Monsters, Inc (82)

7. Milos Forman (4 films) 87.25
High film - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (98)
Low film - The People vs. Larry Flynt (76)

6. Quentin Tarantino (11 films) 87.91
High film - Pulp Fiction (99)
Low film - Four Rooms (68)

5. Martin Scorsese (7 films) 88.14
High film - The Departed (98)
Low film - Cape Fear (75)

4. Hayao Miyazaki (9 films) 88.33
High film - Princess Mononoke (96)
Low film - The Castle of Cagliostro (82)

3. Stanley Kubrick (6 films) 89.67
High film - A Clockwork Orange (96)
Low film - Eyes Wide Shut (77)

2. Wes Anderson (5 films) 89.8
High film - The Grand Budapest Hotel (95)
Low film - The Royal Tenenbaums (84)

1. Christopher Nolan (10 films) 90.5
High film - Inception (98)
Low film - Insomnia (74)

Some real interesting developments, if you ask me. I can see that I've been skewing my film rankings higher as time goes on.

• Sergio Leone fell off the list entirely because apparently he was mislabeled as the director on My Name is Nobody (he'd be #1 based on his 3 film rankings of 93.67).
  
  Kubrick jumped Miyazaki after I ranked Miyazaki's early directing work on that Lupin film.
  
  Scorsese and Tarantino are duking it out with less than a quarter of a point separating the two. I think Scorsese will stay on top this time.
  
  Brad Bird is replaced by Lee Unkrich to represent Pixar.
  
  Joss Whedon falls off the list as superhero fatigue has set in and all his films are dropping in ranking.
  
  Edgar Wright enters the list. Rightfully so, as most of his films rank between 88-90.
  
  George Roy Hill also enters the list as I am seeing Butch and Sundance as almost a perfect film. The Sting was also great. Haven't seen any of his "bad" films.

[Moribunny]

January 2024 ratings at 5447 films rated. (^ signifies a director new to that division)

15+ films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Federico Fellini - 80.4 (15) - La Strada
2 Satyajit Ray - 77.2 (15) - Charulata
3 Mario Monicelli - 75.6 (16) - Big Deal on Madonna Street
4 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 74.5 (24) - In a Year of 13 Moons
5 Ingmar Bergman - 72.9 (24) - Autumn Sonata
6 Dino Risi - 72.1 (15) - A Difficult Life
7 Costa-Gavras - 71.9 (15) - Z ^
8 Frederick Wiseman - 71.3 (16) - Near Death
9 Werner Herzog - 71.0 (41) - Stroszek
10 Claude Chabrol - 70.9 (24) - The Girl Cut in Two
11 Douglas Sirk - 70.5 (15) - Interlude ^
12 Terry Gilliam - 70.4 (18) - Brazil
13 Aki Kaurismäki - 70.1 (16) - Drifting Clouds / The Man Without a Past
14 Ken Loach - 69.7 (16) - Kes
15 Woody Allen - 68.4 (33) - Annie Hall
16 Sidney Lumet - 66.3 (26) - 12 Angry Men
17 Martin Scorsese - 66.2 (24) - Raging Bull
18 Robert Altman - 65.1 (15) - 3 Women ^
19 Chia-Liang Liu - 64.7 (16) - The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
20 Abbas Kiarostami - 64.2 (16) - Close-Up / A Taste of Cherry
Next spots: Polanski, Hitchcock, de Palma, Burton, Cronenberg, Lynch

10-14 films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Maurice Pialat - 82.2 (10) - To Our Loves
2 Michelangelo Antonioni - 76.9 (11) - The Night
3 Antonio Pietrangeli - 76.7 (10) - The Visitor
4 Luchino Visconti - 76.6 (11) - Bellissima
5 Emir Kusturica - 76.1 (12) - Time of the Gypsies
6 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 76.1 (13) - Gertrude
7 John Cassavetes - 74.4 (10) - A Woman Under the Influence
8 Errol Morris - 73.7 (12) - The Thin Blue Line
9 Sam Peckinpah - 73.9 (11) - Straw Dogs
10 Jean Renoir - 73.6 (10) - A Day in the Country
11 Louis Malle - 73.4 (11) - My Dinner with Andre
12 Jafar Panahi - 72.3 (10) - Crimson Gold / Offside ^
13 Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne - 72.2 (10) - Two Days, One Night ^
14 Alan Clarke - 71.9 (10) - Rita, Sue and Bob Too
15 Ernst Lubitsch - 70.8 (12) - Design for Living
16 David Lean - 70.3 (11) - Hobson's Choice
17 Ettore Scola - 69.8 (10) - The Dinner
18 Charles Chaplin - 69.3 (12) - Modern Times / The Gold Rush
19 Peter Weir - 67.3 (12) - Gallipoli
20 Martin Ritt - 66.9 (10) - The Front ^
Next Spots: Masumura, Powell, Bresson, Friedkin, Zhang, Waters, Miyazaki, Wyler, Van Sant, Swanberg, Ferrara...

5-9 films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Asghar Farhadi - 85.4 (8) - About Elly
2 Radu Jude - 84.3 (8) - Scarred Hearts
3 Jacques Rozier - 84.1 (7) - Near Orouet
4 Jan Troell - 80.7 (9) - The Emigrants
5 Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 79.8 (9) - Climates
6 Lynne Ramsay - 79.4 (8) - Morvern Callar
7 Matteo Garrone - 78.8 (5) - Io Capitano ^
8 Sergei Parajanov - 78.2 (6) - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
9 Allan King - 78.0 (5) - A Married Couple
10 Andrei Zvyagintsev - 77.8 (6) - Elena
11= Ermanno Olmi - 76.6 (7) - The Tree of Wooden Clogs
11= Cristian Mungiu - 76.6 (7) - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
13 Lina Wertmuller - 76.3 (7) - Swept Away
14 Miklos Jancso - 75.3 (6) - The Red and the White
15= Catherine Breillat - 74.8 (6) - 36 fillette
15= Peter Yates - 74.8 (6) - John and Mary
15= Rithy Panh - 74.8 (6) - The Missing Picture
18 Terry Jones - 74.8 (5) - Life of Brian
19 Jacques Audiard - 74.5 (6) - A Prophet
20 Josh & Benny Safdie - 74.4 (5) - Good Time / Uncut Gems ^
Next Spots: Ophüls, Rosi, Widerberg, Clouzot, Mazursky, Asquith, Has, Kishon, Forman, Leone, Korine...