Top 5 Director Averages

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1. Charles Chaplin (6 Movies)
2. Denis Villeneuve (5 Movies)
3. Hayao Miyazaki (5 Movies)
4. Pete Docter (3 Movies)
5. Christopher Nolan (10 Movie)

Others:
6. Martin Scorsese (9 Movies)
7. Billy Wilder (5 Movies)
8. David Fincher (10 Movies)
9. Stanley Kubrick (7 Movies)
10. Quentin Tarantino (7 Movies)
11. Asghar Farhadi (3 Movies)
13. Alfred Hitchock (8 Movies)
14 & 15. Ethan & Joel Coen (4 Movies)

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Re: Top 5 Director Averages

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2013 rankings:

[spoiler]10+ cutoff:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film

1 Mario Monicelli - 79.60 (10) - Big Deal on Madonna Street
2 Satyajit Ray - 78.83 (12) - Charulata
3 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 78.50 (12) - Gertrud
4 Luchino Visconti - 77.70 (10) – Bellissima
5 Michelangelo Antonioni - 77.50 (10) - The Night
6 Emir Kusturica - 77.45(11) - Time of the Gypsies
7 Federico Fellini – 77.30 (10) – La Strada
8 Sam Peckinpah - 76.80 (10) - Straw Dogs
9 Costa-Gavras - 76.20 (10) - Z
10 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 75.20 (20) - In a Year of 13 Moons
11 Terry Gilliam - 75.20 (15) - Brazil
12 Claude Chabrol - 74.44 (16) - The Girl Cut in Two
13 Douglas Sirk - 74.18 (11) – Interlude
14 John Cassavetes - 73.70 (10) - A Woman under the Influence
15 Ingmar Bergman – 72.95 (19) – Autumn Sonata
16 Ernst Lubitsch – 72.80 (10) – (too many choices)
17 Werner Herzog – 71.97 (33) – Stroszek
18 Sidney Lumet - 71.79 (19) - 12 Angry Men
19 Charles Chaplin - 71.30 (10) - Modern Times
20 Aki Kaurismaki – 70.15 (13) – The Man Without a Past
Close: Woody Allen (24), Ken Loach (10), Peter Weir (11), Abbas Kiarostami (13), Martin Scorsese (17)

5-9 cutoff:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film

1 Jacques Rozier - 82.71 (7) - Adieu Philippine
2 Alan Clarke - 81.00 (6) - The Firm
3 Dino Risi - 79.33 (6) - A Hard Life
4 Lynne Ramsay - 79.20 (5) - Morvern Callar
5 Lina Wertmuller - 79.00 (6) - Swept Away
6 Ermanno Olmi - 77.67 (6) - The Tree of Wooden Clogs
7 Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 76.60 (5) - Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
8 Jean Renoir - 76.14 (7) - A Day in the Country
=9 Nicolas Roeg - 76.00 (6) - Don't Look Now
=9 Sergei Parajanov - 76.00 (6) - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
11 Wojciech Has - 75.40 (5) - An Uninteresting Story
12 Volker Schlöndorff - 75.20 (5) - The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
13 Marcel Carné - 74.60 (5) - The Children of Paradise
14 Masaki Kobayashi - 74.14 (7) - Samurai Rebellion
15 Martin Ritt - 73.50 (6) - The Front
=16 Henri-Georges Clouzot - 73.20 (5) - The Mystery of Picasso
=16 Anthony Asquith - 73.20 (5) - The Browning Version
18 Peter Yates - 72.83 (6) - (too many choices)
19 Ephraim Kishon – 72.80 (5) – The Fox in the Chicken Coop
20 Max Ophüls - 72.20 (5) - La Plaisir
Close: Errol Morris (6), Shane Meadows (6), David Lean (8), Hal Ashby (5), Frederick Wiseman (5), Rob Reiner (6), Sergio Leone (7), Barbet Schroeder (6), Milos Forman (6), Orson Welles (6)[/spoiler]

2015 rankings:

[spoiler]10+ cutoff:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film

=1 Federico Fellini - 79.25 (12) - La Strada
=1 Satyajit Ray - 79.25 (12) - Charulata
3 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 78.67 (12) - Gertrud
4 Mario Monicelli - 78.00 (13) - Big Deal on Madonna Street
5 Emir Kusturica - 77.45(11) - Time of the Gypsies
6 Sam Peckinpah - 76.80 (10) - Straw Dogs
7 Michelangelo Antonioni - 76.64 (11) - The Night
8 Luchino Visconti - 76.36 (11) – Bellissima
9 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 74.95 (21) - In a Year of 13 Moons
10 Terry Gilliam - 74.75 (16) - Brazil
11 Dino Risi - 74.45 (11) - A Difficult Life
12 Erroll Morris - 74.36 (11) -
13 Douglas Sirk - 74.18 (11) – Interlude
14 John Cassavetes - 73.90 (10) - A Woman under the Influence
15 Ingmar Bergman – 72.95 (19) – Autumn Sonata
16 Costa-Gavras - 72.25 (12) - Z
17 Charles Chaplin - 71.91 (11) - Modern Times
18 Sidney Lumet - 71.79 (19) - 12 Angry Men
19 Werner Herzog – 71.61 (36) – Stroszek
20 Ernst Lubitsch – 71.45 (11) – (too many choices)

Close: Claude Chabrol (19), Aki Kaurismaki (13), Woody Allen (27), David Lean (10), Ken Loach (10), Peter Weir (12), Abbas Kiarostami (15), Robert Bresson (10), Martin Scorsese (20), Robert Altman (10)

5-9 cutoff:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film

1 Asghar Farhadi - 86.40 (5) - About Elly
2 Jacques Rozier - 83.71 (7) - Adieu Philippine
3 Lynne Ramsay - 80.17 (6) - Morvern Callar
4 Antonio Pietrangeli - 78.60 (5) - Adua and Her Friends
5 Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 78.14 (7) - Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
6 Alan Clarke - 77.71 (7) - The Firm
7 Sergei Parajanov - 76.50 (6) - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
=8 Lina Wertmuller - 76.29 (7) - Swept Away
=8 Volker Schlöndorff - 76.29 (7) - The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
10 Francesco Rosi - 75.83 (6) - (too many choices)
11 Wojciech Has - 75.40 (5) - An Uninteresting Story
12 Ermanno Olmi - 75.14 (7) - The Tree of Wooden Clogs
13 Cristian Mungiu - 75.00 (5) - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
14 Terry Jones - 74.80 (5) - Life of Brian
15 Jean Renoir - 74.56 (9) - A Day in the Country
16 Masaki Kobayashi - 74.43 (7) - Samurai Rebellion
17 Anthony Asquith - 74.33 (6) - The Browning Version
18 Vincente Minnelli - 74.20 (5) - The Clock
19 Jafar Panahi - 74.17 (6) - Crimson Gold / Offside
20 Max Ophüls - 74.00 (6) - La Plaisir

Close: Martin Ritt (7), Kaneto Shindo (5), Pietro Germi (5), Henri-Georges Clouzot (5), Peter Yates (6), Miklós Jancsó (6), Ephraim Kishon (5), Milos Forman (8), Marcel Carné (6), Louis Malle (7)[/spoiler]

2017 rankings:

15+ films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Federico Fellini - 79.40 (15) - La Strada
2 Mario Monicelli - 76.27 (15) - Big Deal on Madonna Street
3 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 75.09 (23) - In a Year of 13 Moons
4 Ingmar Bergman - 72.95 (21) - Autumn Sonata
5 Frederick Wiseman - 71.40 (15) - Near Death
6 Terry Gilliam - 71.06 (17) - Brazil
7 Werner Herzog - 70.88 (40) - Stroszek
8 Claude Chabrol - 70.40 (20) - The Girl Cut in Two
9 Aki Kaurismäki - 70.20 (15) - Drifting Clouds / The Man Without a Past
10 Sidney Lumet - 69.77 (22) - 12 Angry Men
11 Woody Allen - 68.87 (30) - Annie Hall
12 Abbas Kiarostami - 65.50 (15) - Close-Up / A Taste of Cherry
13 Martin Scorsese - 64.90 (21) - Raging Bull
14 Chia-Liang Liu - 64.69 (16) - The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
15 Roman Polanski - 64.05 (20) - Chinatown

10-14 films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Satyajit Ray - 79.50 (12) - Charulata
2 Emir Kusturica - 77.45 (11) - Time of the Gypsies
3 Sam Peckinpah - 77.00 (10) - Straw Dogs
4 Michelangelo Antonioni - 76.91 (11) - The Night
5 Luchino Visconti - 76.64 (11) - Bellissima
6 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 76.08 (13) - Gertrude
7 Errol Morris - 75.09 (11) - The Thin Blue Line
8 John Cassavetes - 74.20 (10) - A Woman Under the Influence
9 Douglas Sirk - 74.18 (11) - Interlude
10 Jean Renoir - 73.60 (10) - A Day in the Country
11 Louis Malle - 73.20 (10) - My Dinner with Andre
12 Costa-Gavras - 72.43 (14) - Z
13 Ernst Lubitsch - 72.00 (11) - Design for Living
14 Dino Risi - 71.93 (14) - A Difficult Life
15 David Lean - 70.27 (11) - Hobson's Choice
16 Ken Loach - 69.38 (13) - Kes
17 Charles Chaplin - 69.25 (12) - Modern Times / The Gold Rush
18 Ettore Scola - 69.00 (10) - The Dinner
19 Peter Weir - 67.33 (12) - Gallipoli
20 Yasuzo Masumura - 66.60 (10) - A Lustful Man
Close: Michael Powell, Robert Bresson, Robert Altman, Hayao Miyazaki, John Waters, Gus Van Sant

5-9 films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Asghar Farhadi - 86.67 (6) - About Elly
2 Radu Jude - 85.80 (5) - Scarred Hearts
3 Jacques Rozier - 84.14 (7) - Near Orouet
4 Maurice Pialat - 83.38 (8) - To Our Loves
5 Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 79.29 (7) - Climates
6 Rithy Panh - 77.80 (5) - The Missing Picture
7 Lynne Ramsay - 77.71 (7) - Morvern Callar
8 Sergei Parajanov - 77.67 (6) - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
9 Antonio Pietrangeli - 76.57 (7) - The Visitor
10 Lina Wertmuller - 76.29 (7) - Swept Away
11 Ermanno Olmi - 76.00 (7) - The Tree of Wooden Clogs
12 Francesco Rosi - 75.83 (6) - Salvatore Giuliano
13 Alan Clarke - 75.75 (8) - The Firm / Rita, Sue and Bob Too
14 Bertrand Tavernier - 75.40 (5) - The Bait
15 Cristian Mungiu - 75.00 (6) - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
16 Terry Jones - 74.80 (5) - Life of Brian
17 Jacques Audiard - 74.40 (5) - A Prophet
=18 Peter Yates - 74.33 (6) - John and Mary
=18 Max Ophüls - 74.33 (6) - Pleasure
20 Miklós Jancsó - 74.17 (6) - The Red and the White
Close: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Anthony Asquith, Martin Ritt, Wojciech Has, Luigi Comencini, Ephraim Kishon, Paul Mazursky, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Pietro Germi, Jafar Panahi, Masaki Kobayashi, Kaneto Shindo, Milos Forman, Albert Brooks, René Clément

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Re: Top 5 Director Averages

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3+ films rated:
1. Bryan Singer 94.00 (3)...X-Men: Days Of Future Past
2. Peter Jackson 84.00 (7)...The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
3. George Lucas 81.67 (3)...Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace
4. Luc Besson 81.00 (4)...The Fifth Element
5. Robert Rodriguez 78.20 (5)...From Dusk Till Dawn
6. Peter Farrelly 78.00 (3)...Me, Myself & Irene
7. Bobby Farrelly 78.00 (3)...Me, Myself & Irene
8. Stephen Sommers 77.00 (3)...The Mummy
9. Paul W.S. Anderson 76.20 (5)...Resident Evil
10. Tarsem Singh 74.00 (3)...Immortals

2 films
1. George Miller 90.50...The Road Warrior
2. Paul Verhoeven 90.00...Starship Troopers
3. Mel Gibson 85.00...Braveheart
4. Jonathan Frakes 83.00...Star Trek: First Contact
5. John Hays 82.50...Spawn
6. Thomas A. Nelsen 82.50...Spawn
7. Neil Blomkamp 80.50...Chappie
8. Eric Radomski 80.00...Spawn 3
9. Brad Rader 80.00...Spawn 3
10. Quentin Tarantino 79.00...Django Unchained

Many of these I would definitely consider among my favourite directors, and some are interesting that they are included. It will be interesting to see how list changes as I finish entering the 2000 or so more movies I have yet to enter.

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3 films:
Shunya Ito 100 (3) - Sasori trilogy
Quentin Tarantino 92.5 (10) - Kill Bill
Sergio Leone 90.5 (6) - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Paul Thomas Anderson 90 (9) - Magnolia
Chan-Wook Park 89.11 (9) - Lady Vengeance
Trey Parker 85.67 (6) - Team America
Zach Braff 84.33 (3) - Garden State
Edgar Wright 84.14 (7) - Shaun of the Dead
Lilly & Lana Wachowski 83.00 (8) - The Matrix
William Wyler 82.88 (8) - Ben-Hur


10 films:
Quentin Tarantino 92.5 (10) - Kill Bill
Hayao Miyazaki 81.73 (11) - Princess Mononoke
Paul Verhoeven 80.55 (11) - Total Recall/Basic Instinct
Joel & Ethan Coen 80.44 (18) - No Country for Old Men
Brian de Palma 80.37 (27) - Mission: Impossible
Sergio Corubcci 79.25 (12) - Vamos a matar, Companeros
Jonathan Demme 77.33 (12) - The Silence of the Lambs/Something Wild
Michael Mann 76.18 (11) - The Last of the Mohicans
Takashi Miike 75.83 (36) - Visitor Q
Howard Hawks 75.55 (11) - Bringing Up Baby

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something like this w/a 5 film min. i'd put off rating a lynne ramsay film, but it's there now.

the directors i look forward to are koreeda and wes anderson.
orson welles is too high - i loved lady from shanghai and macbeth, but generally he's not my bag

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Re: Top 5 Director Averages

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3+

1. Edward Yang - 83.75 | 4 |
2. Pedro Costa - 83.75 | 4 |
3. Miklós Jancsó - 82.50 | 4 |
4. Michelangelo Antonioni - 81.00 | 10 |
5. Sharunas Bartas - 81.00 | 5 |

10+

1. Michelangelo Antonioni - 81.00 | 10 |
2. Theodoros Angelopoulos - 80.00 | 10 |
3. Michael Haneke - 77.73 | 11 |
4. Ingmar Bergman - 76.43 | 28 |
5. Aleksandr Sokurov - 75.42 | 12 |

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5+ films

1. Peter Jackson 82.88(8)...Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
2. Robert Rodriguez 79.63(8)...Sin City
3. Paul W.S. Anderson 76.75 (8)...Resident Evil
4. Luc Besson 76.20 (5)...The Fifth Element
5. Ridley Scott 72.50 (8)...Alien
6. Sam Raimi 72.50 (6)...Army Of Darkness
7. Kevin Smith 71.33 (9)...Zack And Miri Make A Porno
8. Bobby Farrelly 69.67 (6)...Me, Myself & Irene
9. Peter Farrelly 69.67 (6)...Me, Myself & Irene
10. David Twohy 68.67 (6)...The Chronicles Of Riddick

3-5 films

1. Paul Verhoeven 88.33 (3)...Starship Troopers
2. Bryan Singer 76.00 (4)...X-Men: Days Of Future Past
3. Terry Jones 83.33 (3)...Life Of Brian
4. Lana Wachowski 82.67 (3)...The Matrix
5. Lily Wachowski 82.67 (3)...The Matrix
6. George Lucas 81.50 (4)...Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace
7. Zack Snyder 79.50 (4)...Sucker Punch
8. Quentin Tarantino 77.00 (4)...Django Unchained
9. Stephen Sommers 77.00 (3)...The Mummy
10. Russell Mulcahy 76.75 (4)...Highlander

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Re: Top 5 Director Averages

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Minimum 5 Films:

Lee Unkrich (87.40) - 5 films -
Christopher Nolan (86.50) - 6 films
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (84.60) - 5 films
David Fincher (84.20) - 5 films
Alfred Hitchcock (81.71) - 7 films

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Minimum 5 films:
Akira Kurosawa (90.00) 5 films
Billy Wilder (89.38) 8 films
Ingmar Bergman (85.63) 8 films
David Lynch (83.57) 7 films
Charles Chaplin (83.13) 8 films

Minimum 10 films:
Alfred Hitchcock (80.00) 14 films
Martin Scorsese (77.73) 11 films
Coen Brothers (77.00) 15 films
Woody Allen (73.24) 17 films
Buster Keaton (72.50) 12 films

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Re: Top 5 Director Averages

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My Top 5 Directors Ranked

1. Paul Thomas Anderson 97.25 (8 Films)
2. Jacques Tati 97.20 (5 Films)
3. Alejandro Jodorowsky 96.80 (5 Films)
4. Yorgos Lanthimos 95.60 (5 Films)
5. Masaki Kobayashi 95.20 (5 Films)

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