Which director have you seen the most films by?

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zae
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Re: Which director have you seen the most films by?

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21 rankings: Steven Spielberg (avg tier 4.24)
15: The Coen brothers (7.20)
14: Hayao Miyazaki (7.86), Takashi Miike (7.50)
13: Akira Kurosawa (8.31), Takeshi Kitano (7.15)
10: Alfred Hitchcock (6.90), Stanley Kubrick (8.10), Tim Burton (4.70), Kar Wai Wong (7.10), Kim Ki-duk (6.90), Terry Gilliam (6.70), Quentin Tarantino (8.40)

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Surprisingly few in the double digits.

Ishiro Honda - 22 (Got hooked on kaiju)
Takeshi Kitano - 15
Coen Bros. - 10
Steven Spielberg - 10
Wong Kar-wai - 10

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It's been over two years, so I got curious:

Alfred Hitchcock - 35 +5
Woody Allen - 35 +6
Buster Keaton - 32+13 Lots of shorts here
Eric Rohmer - 26+5
Martin Scorsese - 24+3
Steven Spielberg - 24+2
Fritz Lang - 24+6
Charles Chaplin - 21+5
Luis Buñuel - 20+2
Jean-Luc Godard - 20+2
Akira Kurosawa - 18+1
Tim Burton - 18+3
William Wyler - 18+5
Howard Hawks - 17+2
Ingmar Bergman - 17 Same
John Ford - 17 +2
Abbas Kiarostami - 17 +5
Edward F. Cline - 17+6
Jean Renoir - 17+1
D.W. Griffith - 16+3
Coen Bros - 16 Same
Roman Polanski - 15+1
John Huston - 14+3
Anthony Mann - 14 New
Frank Capra - 14 Same
Stanley Kubrick - 14 Same
Josef von Sternberg - 13+3
Robert Bresson - 13 Same
Billy Wilder - 13 Same
Terry Gilliam - 13 Same
Michael Powell - 13 Same
Alain Resnais - 13+3
George Cukor - 13 +1
Werner Herzog - 13 New
Robert Zemeckis - 12
Elia Kazan - 12+1
Robert Wise - 12 New
David Lean - 12+1
Steven Soderbergh - 12 New
Leo McCarey - 12 +2
Ernst Lubitsch - 12 +2
Michael Apted - 11 Same
Hayao Miyazaki - 11 New
Robert Siodmak - 11 New
Yasujiro Ozu - 11 New
Quentin Tarantino - 11 +1
Orson Welles - 11 New
Brian De Palma - 11 New
John Lasseter - 11+1
Nicholas Ray - 10 New
Gus Van Sant - 10 New
Clyde Geronimi - 10 New
Ridley Scott - 10 New
Carl Theodor Dreyer - 10 New
Sidney Lumet - 10 New
Wilfred Jackson - 10 New
Clint Eastwood - 10 New
Rob Reiner - 10 Same
Tony Scott - 10 Same
Robert Altman - 10 Same


Short film directors
Stan Brakhage - 56 +20
Chuck Jones - 30+13
Georges Méliès - 24+4
Jean Painlevé - 22+3
Hollis Frampton 22 New
Tex Avery - 21+6
Louis Lumière - 19+5
Bruce Conner - 15 Same
Edwin S. Porter - 11 New
Dave Fleischer - 11 New
Norman McLaren - 11 New
Don Hertzfeldt - 10 New
Kenneth Anger - 10 Same

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Post by Vesey »

There are only seven directors where I've seen more than 10 or more of their films and two of them really only ever did shorts.

First place is a tie.
Chuck Jones [18] (All shorts)
Steven Speilberg [18]
Tim Burton [14]
Don Bluth [12]
Koji Yamamura [12] (All shorts)
Robert Zemeckis [11]
Chris Columbus [10] (most surprising)

Unlike other posters top directors mine is influenced mostly by crap I saw as a kid.
I have eight more just under the the cutoff with 9 films which are some the names you'd expect to see up their (Scorsese, Miyazaki, Hitchcock)

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synthono wrote:Surprisingly few in the double digits.

Ishiro Honda - 22 (Got hooked on kaiju)


WOO HOO! Now I don't feel so alone.

Hmmm, Now I need to scratch that itch again.

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I saw another Ridley Scott film, which makes 10. That's five directors I've seen 10+ from (Scott, Spielberg, Burton, McTiernan, and Zemeckis).

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17 alfred hitchcock (5.88)
13 jean-luc godard (6.23)
11 ingmar bergman (9.09)

9 stanley kubrick (8.67)
9 steven spielberg (3.56)

8 werner herzog (8.25)
8 ethan & joel coen (8.00)

6 lars von trier (9.83)
6 david fincher (7.33)
6 christopher nolan (7.33)
6 carl theodor dreyer (7.17)
6 fritz lang (7.17)
6 f.w. murnau (7.00)
6 francois truffaut (7.00)
6 peter jackson (5.67)

5 david lynch (8.40)
5 eric rohmer (6.00)
5 steven soderbergh (5.20)
5 chris columbus (2.20)

hitchcock has so many cuz my mum likes to watch them too. :lol:

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Woody Allen is certainly tops followed by some ranking of Ingmar Bergman, Hitchcock, John Ford.

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David Lynch 19
Jean-Luc Godard 18
Ethan/Joel Coen 16
Chuck Jones 13
Tim Burton 12
Luis Buñuel 12
Woody Allen 11
Steven Spielberg 10
Quentin Tarantino 10

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My updated list, excluding directors who work is primarily known for non-experimental shorts regardless of their ratio of features to shorts, meaning that I won't count those like Dave Fleischer or George Melies, but will count Brakhage and McLaren as they are experimental, and D.W. Griffith, and Charlie Chaplin because their features are what they are known for.

Stan Brakhage 102
D.W. Griffith 64
Norman McLaren 58
Charles Chaplin 56
Jean-Luc Godard 42 (highest with mostly features)
Alfred Hitchcock 40
Werner Herzog 37
Ingmar Bergman 34
Woody Allen 34
Jan Svankmajer 32
Buster Keaton 32
Martin Scorsese 28
Peter Greenaway 26
David Lynch 22
Akira Kurosawa 22
Guy Maddin 21
Steven Spielberg 21
Hollis Frampton 21
Kurt Kren 20
John Ford 20

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