Most Watched Directors (7 or More Films)

Submitted by AJDaGreat on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 06:30
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  • 24

  • Woody Allen (What's Up, Tiger Lily?; Take the Money and Run; Bananas; Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (But Were Afraid to Ask); Sleeper; Love and Death; Annie Hall; Interiors; Manhattan; Stardust Memories; Zelig; Broadway Danny Rose; The Purple Rose of Cairo; Hannah and Her Sisters; Radio Days; Crimes and Misdemeanors; Husbands and Wives; Bullets Over Broadway; Sweet and Lowdown; Small Time Crooks; The Curse of the Jade Scorpion; Match Point; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Midnight in Paris)

  • 16

  • Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps; The Lady Vanishes; Rebecca; Mr. and Mrs. Smith; Shadow of a Doubt; Notorious; Rope; Strangers on a Train; Dial M for Murder; Rear Window; To Catch a Thief; The Trouble with Harry; Vertigo; North by Northwest; Psycho; The Birds)

  • 15

  • Steven Spielberg (Jaws; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; 1941; Raiders of the Lost Ark; E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Schindler's List; Saving Private Ryan; A.I. Artificial Intelligence; Minority Report; Catch Me If You Can; Munich; Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; The Adventures of Tintin; War Horse)

  • 14

  • Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets; Taxi Driver; The Last Waltz; Raging Bull; The King of Comedy; After Hours; Goodfellas; The Age of Innocence; Casino; Gangs of New York; The Aviator; The Departed; Shutter Island; Hugo)

  • 13

  • Howard Hawks (Scarface; Twentieth Century; Bringing Up Baby; Only Angels Have Wings; His Girl Friday; Ball of Fire; To Have and Have Not; The Big Sleep; Red River; The Thing From Another World; Monkey Business; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Rio Bravo)
  • Billy Wilder (The Major and the Minor; Five Graves to Cairo; Double Indemnity; The Lost Weekend; Sunset Boulevard; Ace in the Hole; Stalag 17; Sabrina; The Seven Year Itch; Witness for the Prosecution; Some Like It Hot; The Apartment; One, Two, Three)

  • 12

  • Joel and Ethan Coen (Blood Simple; Raising Arizona; Miller's Crossing; Barton Fink; The Hudsucker Proxy; Fargo; The Big Lebowski; The Man Who Wasn't There; No Country for Old Men; Burn After Reading; A Serious Man; True Grit)
  • Blake Edwards (Operation Petticoat; Breakfast at Tiffany's; The Pink Panther; A Shot in the Dark; The Great Race; The Return of the Pink Panther; The Pink Panther Strikes Again; Revenge of the Pink Panther; 10; Victor/Victoria; Trail of the Pink Panther; Blind Date)
  • Akira Kurosawa (Stray Dog; Rashomon; Ikiru; Seven Samurai; Throne of Blood; The Hidden Fortress; Yojimbo; Sanjuro; High and Low; Dersu Uzala; Kagemusha; Ran)

  • 11

  • Mel Brooks (The Producers; The Twelve Chairs; Blazing Saddles; Young Frankenstein; Silent Movie; High Anxiety; History of the World: Part I; Spaceballs; Life Stinks; Robin Hood: Men in Tights; Dracula: Dead and Loving It)
  • John Ford (The Informer; Stagecoach; Young Mr. Lincoln; The Grapes of Wrath; How Green Was My Valley; My Darling Clementine; She Wore a Yellow Ribbon; The Quiet Man; Mister Roberts; The Searchers; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)

  • 10

  • Robert Altman (MASH; Brewster McCloud; McCabe and Mrs. Miller; The Long Goodbye; Nashville; 3 Women; The Player; Short Cuts; Gosford Park; A Prairie Home Companion)
  • Tim Burton (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure; Beetlejuice; Batman; Edward Scissorhands; Batman Returns; Ed Wood; Big Fish; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Corpse Bride; Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
  • George Cukor (Dinner at Eight; Holiday; The Philadelphia Story; Gaslight; Adam's Rib; Born Yesterday; Pat and Mike; It Should Happen to You; A Star Is Born; My Fair Lady)
  • Clint Eastwood (High Plains Drifter; Unforgiven; Space Cowboys; Blood Work; Mystic River; Million Dollar Baby; Letters From Iwo Jima; Changeling; Gran Torino; Invictus)
  • John Landis (The Kentucky Fried Movie; National Lampoon's Animal House; The Blues Brothers; Trading Places; Three Amigos!; Coming to America; Oscar; Beverly Hills Cop III; The Stupids; Blues Brothers 2000)

  • 9

  • John Huston (The Maltese Falcon; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; Key Largo; The Asphalt Jungle; The African Queen; Beat the Devil; Casino Royale; The Man Who Would Be King; Prizzi's Honor)
  • Stanley Kubrick (The Killing; Paths of Glory; Spartacus; Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; 2001: A Space Odyssey; A Clockwork Orange; Barry Lyndon; The Shining; Full Metal Jacket)
  • Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men; The Pawnbroker; Fail-Safe; Serpico; Dog Day Afternoon; Network; Deathtrap; The Verdict; Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)
  • Vicente Minnelli (Meet Me in St. Louis; The Pirate; Father of the Bride; Father's Little Dividend; An American in Paris; The Bad and the Beautiful; The Band Wagon; The Long, Long Trailer; Goodbye Charlie)
  • William Wyler (Dodsworth; Jezebel; Wuthering Heights; The Letter; The Best Years of Our Lives; The Heiress; Roman Holiday; Ben-Hur; Funny Girl)

  • 8

  • Charles Chaplin (The Kid; The Gold Rush; The Circus; City Lights; Modern Times; The Great Dictator; Monsieur Verdoux; Limelight)
  • Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless; Vivre sa Vie; Contempt; Band of Outsiders; Alphaville; Pierrot le Fou; 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her; Week End)
  • Arthur Hiller (The Americanization of Emily; The Out-of-Towners; Silver Streak; The In-Laws; Romantic Comedy; The Lonely Guy; See No Evil, Hear No Evil; Carpool)
  • Buster Keaton (Our Hospitality; Sherlock Jr.; The Navigator; Seven Chances; The General; College; Steamboat Bill, Jr.; The Cameraman)
  • Mike Nichols (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Graduate; Catch-22; Working Girl; The Birdcage; What Planet Are You From?; Closer; Charlie Wilson's War)
  • Ivan Reitman (Meatballs; Stripes; Ghostbusters; Twins; Ghostbusters II; Dave; Fathers' Day; Evolution)
  • George Stevens (Swing Time; Gunga Din; Woman of the Year; The Talk of the Town; The More the Merrier; A Place in the Sun; Shane; Giant)

  • 7

  • Jim Abrahams (Airplane!; Top Secret!; Ruthless People; Big Business; Hot Shots!; Hot Shots! Part Deux; Jane Austen's Mafia!)
  • Ingmar Bergman (Smiles of a Summer Night; The Seventh Seal; Wild Strawberries; The Virgin Spring; Persona; Cries and Whispers; Fanny and Alexander)
  • Luis Bunuel (L'Age D'Or; Los Olvidados; Viridiana; The Exterminating Angel; Belle de Jour; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie; That Obscure Object of Desire)
  • Federico Fellini (La Strada; Nights of Cabiria; La Dolce Vita; 8 1/2; Juliet of the Spirits; Fellini's Roma; Amarcord)
  • David Fincher (Seven; The Game; Fight Club; Zodiac; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Social Network; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
  • Terry Gilliam (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Time Bandits; Brazil; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen; The Fisher King; Twelve Monkeys; The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
  • Werner Herzog (Aguirre: The Wrath of God; The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser; Stroszek; Fitzcarraldo; Lessons of Darkness; Grizzly Man; The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans)
  • Peter Jackson (Heavenly Creatures; The Frighteners; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; King Kong; The Lovely Bones)
  • Richard Linklater (Slacker; Dazed and Confused; Before Sunrise; The School of Rock; Before Sunset; A Scanner Darkly; Me and Orson Welles)
  • Christopher Nolan (Following; Memento; Insomnia; Batman Begins; The Prestige; The Dark Knight; Inception)
  • Michael Powell (The Thief of Bagdad; The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; A Canterbury Tale; Stairway to Heaven; Black Narcissus; The Red Shoes; Peeping Tom)
  • Carl Reiner (Where's Poppa?; Oh, God!; The Jerk; Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid; The Man With Two Brains; All of Me; Fatal Instinct)
  • Ridley Scott (Alien; Blade Runner; Thelma and Louise; Gladiator; Black Hawk Down; Matchstick Men; American Gangster)
  • Barry Sonnenfeld (The Addams Family; Addams Family Values; Get Shorty; Men in Black; Wild Wild West; Big Trouble; Men in Black II)
  • Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs; Pulp Fiction; Jackie Brown; Kill Bill Vol. 1; Kill Bill Vol. 2; Grindhouse; Inglourious Basterds)
Author Comments: 

Feature-length theatrical releases only.

A few directors with 6: Pedro Almodovar, Robert Bresson, Frank Capra, Francis Ford Coppola, Jim Jarmusch, Mike Leigh, Sergio Leone, David Lynch, Hayao Miyazaki, Michael Moore, Emeric Pressburger, Steven Soderbergh, Preston Sturges, Orson Welles