Search found 6 matches: Hal Ashby

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

Another two years have passed, so here's my update.

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]

Today's rankings:

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)

Things have changed in the two years since I last posted here, so it's time for an update. Once again, I'm splitting it up into 2 top 20 lists. The 1st is of directors by whom I have watched 10 or more films. The 2nd list is of those by whom I saw 5-9 films. After each list I name directors who were close but didn't make the cut. I'm sticking to using "by score" because "by tier" messes up the order.
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Moribunny wrote:I split this up into 2 top 20 lists. The 1st is of directors by whom I have watched 10 or more films. The 2nd list is of those by whom I saw 5-9 films. After each list I name directors who were close but didn't make the cut.
It tends to be unfair if I watch a lot including negligible shorts which kind of drag down the score unfairly. This happened with Herzog, Kiarostami and Polanski, for instance. They probably deserve higher.

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

1 Emir Kusturica - 80.2 (10) - Time of the Gypsies
2 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 79.45 (11) - Gertrud
3 Satyajit Ray - 78 (11) - Charulata
4 Luchino Visconti - 77.7 (10) – Bellissima
5 Federico Fellini – 77.3 (10) – La Strada
6 Sam Peckinpah - 76.8 (10) - Straw Dogs
7 Costa-Gavras - 75.9 (10) - Z
8 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 75.07 (20) - In a Year of 13 Moons
9 Terry Gilliam - 75 (15) - Brazil
10 Sidney Lumet - 74.35 (17) - 12 Angry Men
11 Claude Chabrol - 73.79 (14) - The Girl Cut in Two
12 John Cassavetes - 73.7 (10) - A Woman under the Influence
13 Douglas Sirk - 73.5 (10) – Interlude
14 Ingmar Bergman – 73.22 (18) – Autumn Sonata
15 Ernst Lubitsch – 72.5 (10) – too many choices
16 Werner Herzog – 71.75 (32) – Stroszek
17 Woody Allen – 71.42 (19) – Annie Hall
18 Peter Weir – 69.7 (10) – Gallipoli
19 Aki Kaurismaki – 69.45 (10) – The Man Without a Past
20 Martin Scorsese – 66.19 (16) – Raging Bull
Close: Abbas Kiarostami, Roman Polanski

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

1 Jacques Rozier - 83.33 (6) - Adieu Philippine
2 Mario Monicelli - 83 (5) - Big Deal on Madonna Street
3 Dino Risi - 81.8 (5) - A Hard Life
4 Alan Clarke - 80.5 (6) - The Firm
5 Nicolas Roeg - 79.2 (5) - Don't Look Now
6 Lina Wertmuller - 79 (6) - Swept Away
7 Sergei Parajanov - 78.6 (5) - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
8 Michelangelo Antonioni - 77.75 (8) - The Night
9 William Friedkin - 75.8 (5) - The French Connection
10 Jean Renoir - 75.71 (7) - A Day in the Country
11 Martin Ritt - 75.6 (5) - The Front
12 Marcel Carne - 74.6 (5) - The Children of Paradise
13 Charles Chaplin – 73.14 (7) – Modern Times
14 Ephraim Kishon – 72.8 (5) – The Fox in the Chicken Coop
15 Anthony Asquith - 72.2 (5) - The Browning Version
16 Max Ophuls - 72.2 (5) - La Plaisir
17 Shane Meadows - 72.17 (6) -This Is England
18 David Lean – 72.14 (7) – Hobson’s Choice
19 Hal Ashby - 71.8 (5) - The Last Detail
20 Jean-Luc Godard - 71.8 (5) - My Life to Live
Close: Errol Morris, Rob Reiner, Sergio Leone, Preston Sturges, Orson Welles

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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)

I split this up into 2 top 20 lists. The 1st is of directors by whom I have watched 10 or more films. The 2nd list is of those by whom I saw 5-9 films. After each list I name directors who were close but didn't make the cut.
It tends to be unfair if I watch a lot including negligible shorts which kind of drag down the score unfairly. This happened with Herzog, Kiarostami and Polanski, for instance. They probably deserve higher.

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

1 Emir Kusturica - 80.2 (10) - Time of the Gypsies
2 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 79.45 (11) - Gertrud
3 Satyajit Ray - 78 (11) - Charulata
4 Luchino Visconti - 77.7 (10) – Bellissima
5 Federico Fellini – 77.3 (10) – La Strada
6 Sam Peckinpah - 76.8 (10) - Straw Dogs
7 Costa-Gavras - 75.9 (10) - Z
8 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 75.07 (20) - In a Year of 13 Moons
9 Terry Gilliam - 75 (15) - Brazil
10 Sidney Lumet - 74.35 (17) - 12 Angry Men
11 Claude Chabrol - 73.79 (14) - The Girl Cut in Two
12 John Cassavetes - 73.7 (10) - A Woman under the Influence
13 Douglas Sirk - 73.5 (10) – Interlude
14 Ingmar Bergman – 73.22 (18) – Autumn Sonata
15 Ernst Lubitsch – 72.5 (10) – too many choices
16 Werner Herzog – 71.75 (32) – Stroszek
17 Woody Allen – 71.42 (19) – Annie Hall
18 Peter Weir – 69.7 (10) – Gallipoli
19 Aki Kaurismaki – 69.45 (10) – The Man Without a Past
20 Martin Scorsese – 66.19 (16) – Raging Bull
Close: Abbas Kiarostami, Roman Polanski

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

1 Jacques Rozier - 83.33 (6) - Adieu Philippine
2 Mario Monicelli - 83 (5) - Big Deal on Madonna Street
3 Dino Risi - 81.8 (5) - A Hard Life
4 Alan Clarke - 80.5 (6) - The Firm
5 Nicolas Roeg - 79.2 (5) - Don't Look Now
6 Lina Wertmuller - 79 (6) - Swept Away
7 Sergei Parajanov - 78.6 (5) - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
8 Michelangelo Antonioni - 77.75 (8) - The Night
9 William Friedkin - 75.8 (5) - The French Connection
10 Jean Renoir - 75.71 (7) - A Day in the Country
11 Martin Ritt - 75.6 (5) - The Front
12 Marcel Carne - 74.6 (5) - The Children of Paradise
13 Charles Chaplin – 73.14 (7) – Modern Times
14 Ephraim Kishon – 72.8 (5) – The Fox in the Chicken Coop
15 Anthony Asquith - 72.2 (5) - The Browning Version
16 Max Ophuls - 72.2 (5) - La Plaisir
17 Shane Meadows - 72.17 (6) -This Is England
18 David Lean – 72.14 (7) – Hobson’s Choice
19 Hal Ashby - 71.8 (5) - The Last Detail
20 Jean-Luc Godard - 71.8 (5) - My Life to Live
Close: Errol Morris, Rob Reiner, Sergio Leone, Preston Sturges, Orson Welles

98, Bruce Sinofsky & Joe Berlinger (2)
89, Danny Boyle (2)
84.5, Hal Ashby (2)
82.75, Paul Thomas Anderson (4)
80.5, Tarsem Singh (2)

Here's my top whatever. Apparently Haas only directed 5 films and one isn't available in region 1, so I don't feel so bad knowing that the other two are in my Netflix queue. Some of these others here I have no excuse for. I'm working on it.

Also, I did this by going through my top rankings and looking at each director that I thought might end up here, regardless of what I thought I of their work generally. I'm surprised at pretty much all these results.
This list makes me sad because it fails to depict my deep and abiding love for things like robots, gunfire, and humor. (I almost typed funfire, whoops!)

Philip Haas (2)...................................93.5
Jane Campion (4)..............................92.25
Fritz Lang (3)....................................90.67
John Cassavetes (7)...........................88.83
Hal Ashby (3), John Sayles (3) .............88.67
Elia Kazan (5).....................................86.4
Stanley Kubrick (12)...........................84.92
Hiyao Miyazaki (7)...............................82.57
Akira Kurosawa (10)............................81.8
David Cronenberg (11).........................81.55
Billy Wilder (10)..................................78.4

Interestingly (to me at least) I've been rating things here by how good I think they really are, and rating things on Netflix by how much I enjoyed watching them, and according to Netflix my favorite directors are Kubrick, Lumet (13 and 4 stars), the Coens (14 and maybe 3.75), Wilder, Cronenberg, Kurosawa, and Sam Raimi (everything but the baseball movie and 3.75), which sounds slightly more like me.