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by Moribunny
Tue Nov 27, 2018 9:28 pm
Forum: Filmmakers
Topic: Criticker's Favourite Directors
Replies: 11
Views: 19046

Re: Criticker's Favourite Directors

I love it! Thank you for your effort.

Masaki Kobayashi topping the list is a surprise and I must say a rather pleasant one. It delights me even more that Satyajit Ray is held in such high regard here. Most of the others at the top are sort of off-the-shelf canon, so criticker isn't "special" with regards to them. I'm also happy that Lumet and Zhang made the list. Obviously there are some whom I feel are overrated, but overall it's a really solid list.
by CosmicMonkey
Tue Nov 27, 2018 5:42 am
Forum: Filmmakers
Topic: Criticker's Favourite Directors
Replies: 11
Views: 19046

Criticker's Favourite Directors

So, tonight on a whim I decided to figure which director's were the most favoured on this site. In order to determine this, I decided to average the five films with the highest average percentile, from within a director's filmography. (For example: Spielberg's 5 films with highest average percentile are Schindler's List, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Saving Private Ryan, The Last Crusade, and Empire of the Sun. His score taken by the average percentile of those 5 films.)

With a starting list of over 150 directors, I've spent the last 6 hours systematically going through and calculated each director's average, these are the Top 50 Directors. There likely are some more obscure directors that I've missed that would have places on this list, but this list as it stands should be fairly complete. If you can think of any directors that I may have missed please let me know.

    1. Masaki Kobayashi: 79.13
    2. Akira Kurosawa: 78.14
    3. Satyajit Ray: 76.51
    4. Yasujiro Ozu: 76.38
    5. Ingmar Bergman: 76.05
    6. Billy Wilder: 74.86
    7. Mikio Naruse: 74.55
    8. Andrei Tarkovsky: 74.46
    9. Charlie Chaplin: 74.17
    10. Krzysztof Kieslowski: 73.72

    11. Kenji Mizoguchi: 73.43
    12. Fritz Lang: 72.99
    13. Francis Ford Coppola: 72.96
    14. Sergio Leone: 72.95
    15. Sidney Lumet: 72.92
    16. Luis Bunuel: 72.84
    17. Werner Herzog: 72.76
    18. Stanley Kubrick: 72.56
    =19. Alfred Hitchcock: 72.51
    =19. Buster Keaton: 72.51

    21. Wim Wenders: 72.27
    22. Carl Theodor Dreyer: 71.75
    23. Eric Rohmer: 71.56
    24. Michael Powell: 71.54
    25. Federico Fellini: 71.50
    26. Jean-Pierre Melville: 71.46
    27. John Cassavetes: 71.45
    28. Orson Welles: 71.36
    29. Ernst Lubitsch: 71.28
    30. Robert Bresson: 71.25

    31. F.W. Murnau: 71.09
    32. Michelangelo Antonioni: 71.06
    33. Theo Angelopoulos: 71.04
    34. Henri-Georges Clouzot: 70.98
    35. Jacques Rivette: 70.83
    36. Martin Scorsese: 70.81
    37. Bela Tarr: 70.64
    38. Vittorio De Sica: 70.56
    39. Emeric Pressburger: 70.48
    40. Francois Truffaut: 70.23

    41. Rainer Werner Fassbinder: 70.20
    42. Louis Malle: 69.99
    43. Hayao Miyazaki: 69.95
    44. Abbas Kiarostami: 69.90
    45. Luchino Visconti: 69.88
    46. Robert Altman: 69.58
    47. Nicholas Ray: 69.49
    48. David Lean: 69.38
    49. Costa-Gavras: 69.33
    50. Andrzej Wajda: 69.16



General Observations:

-Very International. None of the Top 10 and Only 4 Directors in the Top 20 were born in the United States. Also, we really love mid-century Japanese cinema here, don't we?
-Skews towards Classics, very few active directors on the list.
-Spielberg, Tarantino, Nolan, Lynch and the Coen Brothers all outside the Top 50.
- No Women in Top 50. Highest Rated Woman is Agnes Varda at #59