Top 5 Director Averages

[Jeb]

1. Jean-Pierre Melville - 99.33 ( 3 )
2. Andrei Tarkovsky - 98.78 ( 9 )
3. Stanley Kubrick - 96.4 ( 10 )
4. Orson Welles - 96 ( 6 )
5. Alfred Hitchcock - 91.13 ( 23 )

[joseywales]

I like lists


1. F.W. Murnau - 91.7 (3)
2. King Hu - 90.3 (3)
3. Sergio Leone - 89.6 (5)
4. Sidney Lumet - 88.7 (3)
5. Akira Kurosawa - 88.6 (14)


I can't wait til my 4 other King Hu flicks arrive from HKFlix!

[prowler]

Dreyer: 92 out of 4 films
Wilder: 92 out of 4
Kubrick: 95.5 out of 2 (lol, i really need to (re)watch some more)
Cassavetes: 87.5 out of 3
Polanski: 84 out of 4

ftr these are the top 5 directors that i've picked, not the absolute top averages

[theficionado]

I just picked a few directors that I've seen a good number (at least four) of films by and whose films I figure I typically like. Here are my highest:

Kar Wai Wong 91 (4)
Stanley Kubrick: 90.75 (4)
Martin Scorsese 89.43 (7)
Quentin Tarantino 89.43 (7)
Alfred Hitchcock 86.33 (9)

... and the others.
Wes Anderson 85.2 (5)
Joel Coen 83.09 (11)
Satoshi Kon 81.5 (4)
Hayao Miyazaki 80.2 (5)

Spielberg, the director from whom I've seen the most films (14), has an average of 62.71.

[Corleone]

Federico Fellini(5) - 94 (Director)
Ingmar Bergman(5) - 84 (Director)
Christopher Nolan(6) - 85 (Director)
Peter Jackson(3) - 95 (Director)
* I don't like him but i adore Lord of the Rings

but the winner is ...

Zach Braff (1) - 100 (Actor), 100 (Director), 100 (Writer)

Can you guess the movie?

[caocao]

I'm bumping the list up to a 3 movie minimum.

Wes Anderson - 81.3 (7)
Akira Kurosawa - 80.3 (3)
Peter Jackson - 80.2 (5)
Quentin Tarintino - 78.83 (6)
George Roy Hill - 78 (3)

George Roy Hill bumped Orson Welles off of the list. A prime example of how just a few movies skews this list. I love the three movies of his I've seen (Slapshot, The Sting and Butch Cassady) but I'm sure if I saw more his average would come well down.

Lord of the Rings should really be one movie, and that would obviously reduce Peter Jackson's score considerably. I think Welles and Miyazaki were next on the list if it weren't for those two inclusions.

Clearly I need to get around to watching more Kurosawa.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

I looked at a bunch of the most likely candidates and this is how it came out;

Hayao Miyazaki - 89 (6 films)
Orson Welles - 89 (5 films)
Leo McCarey- 88.17 (6 films)
Sergio Leone -88.6 (5 films)
Michael Powell -88.55 (11 films)

[Luna6ix]

i'd love to have some top x page for people, so i could really see what my top five are, because it seems to me that i probably would forget most of the directors i've seen if put on the spot like now, so i'm just going to look up a couple and post the averages.

Darren Aronofsky: 87
Woody Allen: 79.95
Danny Boyle: 84.2
George Lucas: 67.8 (that's pretty bad for me)
Steven Speilberg: 82.84
Peter Jackson: 79.67
Robert Zemeckis: 82.2
Billy Wilder: 84.29

i believe that each of those i've seen at least four movies by.

[epiphany]

1. Ingmar Bergman 87.29 (7)
This doesn't even include Fanny and Alexander, Persona, Cries and Whispers and Scenes from a Marriage, all that I suspect I will love once I get my hands on them

2. David Lynch 86.50 (8)
Does not include Dune and Wild at Heart which I suspect will result in a decrease of about 4-10 points.

3. Jim Jarmusch 82.00 (6)
Not including Mystery Train, Broken Flowers, The Limits of Control and Ghost Dog.


I have too many films that I badly want to watch. This week, I am starting on Bunuel although I have not finished my Lynch marathon.

[Spunkie]

My top 10 with 5+ ratings :

Ingmar Bergman 87.63 (9)
Orson Welles 83.5 (8)
Michael Powell 82.6 (5)
Luis Buñuel 82.56 (9)
Akira Kurosawa 80.87 (15)
Richard Linklater 80.13 (8)
Krzysztof Kieslowski 79.9 (10)
Joel Coen 78 (14)
Mamoru Oshii 78 (6)
Terry Gilliam 76.36 (11)

Possibly some are missing..