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New Directors:

Robert Altman - Bumped up with viewings of the decent Thieves Like Us and the laughless O.C. and Stiggs.

Mario Bava - A director of excellent gothic thrillers, although they aren't the most memorable despite their virtues. SUre to benefit from rewatches.

William Beaudine - A director whose speciality is disposable trash. Made perhaps the worst of the Charlie Chan features.

Darren Lynn Bousman - Saw II wasn't up to much but Bousman has still devolved impressively. His most recent film, The Devil's Carnival, is TV-terrible garbage of the most garish variety.

Larry Cohen - One of my favourite directors, whose films almost always transcend their basic themes. Pick Me Up was one of the most enjoyable Masters of Horror episodes and The Ambulance was a surprising success even with Cohen as the director. It's a shame he prefers to play the role of writer over directing nowadays.

Don Coscarelli - A director of decent horror movies and one masterpiece (Phantasm), but I'm not in that much of a rush to see his remaining movies.

Blake Edwards - Enjoyed the Sellers/Edwards Pink Panther movies. Edwards is unusual among contemporary comedy directors in that the visual aspects of his films seem more important to him than scripts and dialogue.

Abel Ferrara - Elite among the American indie directors, he's made a number of excellent movies with gritty, violent themes, and that's just among the five films of his that I've seen. That he has many more credits to his name is very promising.

John Ford - Six films in and already leaning towards agreeing with the consensus that has Ford as one of the greatest of all directors. The Searchers is both beautiful and complex in a way that westerns seldom are, Stagecoach is a splendidly directed hoot and films like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance essentially speak for themselves. Obviously I'm trying to put Judge Priest to the back of my mind right now.

Michel Gondry - Can't make too many judgments since I've only seen three of his features and two fairly dreadful shorts, but I loved what he did with The Science of Sleep and The Green Hornet.

Stuart Gordon - An inconsistent director but also a very stylish one. Re-Animator was delightfully deranged and likely his finest achievement.

Amy Heckerling - Made one great comedy and a couple of decent ones. Alas, she gravitates towards crap and her sense of humour appears to have dilapidated over time.

Stephen Herek - I like Bill and Ted but the rest blows.

John Huston - Dunno what to make of him. With the exception of The African Queen (an ok movie), I haven't seen his most heralded films

Neil Jordan - Another uneven filmography, but The Butcher Boy is one of the more frightening films I've seen. The Company of Wolves is pretty abysmal despite its reputation.

Takeshi Kitano - His films tend to blend together but I enjoy them while they last.

John Landis - He's made some of the most hilarious movies I've seen. Love his work.

Abe Levitow - All five are cartoons, none of them bad.

Richard Linklater - Made one of the seminal teen movies with Dazed and Confused. Again, I've missed out on some of his more praised films.

Les Mayfield - I thought Miracle on 34th Street was pleasant enough but the rest of Mayfield's stuff has been truly repellent, especially The Man.

Adam McKay - A Ferrell collaborator with at least one good comedy (Step Brothers) to his name. The rest isn't so appealing.

Jean-Pierre Melville - A noir specialist if the consensus is to be believed and as much as I liked three of those noirs that I've seen, my favorite Melville is Leon Morin, Priest, which has a grace and humanism that Melville's noirs seem to have lacked.

Roy William Neill - Directed dozens of films but the eight I've seen are all Sherlock Holmes films of varying quality. Didn't have much of a visual style.

Todd Phillips - A director who never moves out of his comfort zone of raucous comedies.

Michael Powell - Peeping Tom and A Matter of Life and Death are among the more adventurous British films of their times and feature some excellent acting performances to boot.

Nicholas Ray - Will likely become one of my favourite directors if his other films are in the same league as four out of the five I've seen (didn't care for Rebel Without a Cause, though). Bigger Than Life and In a Lonely Place are both masterpieces.

Eric Rohmer - Can barely say anything since I've only really seen one of his features (I think we can discount the TV documentary about Louis Lumiere, however excellent it is).

Ridley Scott - His recent films aren't up to much but Alien and Blade Runner bump his rating up a bit.

Steven Soderbergh - Makes some of the coldest movies out there but sprung a surprise with Side Effects, a cleverly plotted and directed drama-thriller that veers off into unexpected territory again and again.

Lee Tamahori - With the exception of Along Came a Spider, he makes completely forgettable films.

Jeff Tremaine - Love Jackass, loved Bad Grandpa.

Agnes Varda - Seen five but only one full-fledged feature in Kung-fu Master!, a poetic but depthless drama. Obviously, I've seen none of her most championed films.

Adam Wingard - Was really hopeful for him after discovering his short films a few years ago. Alas, his ventures into feature filmmaking have been somewhat unsuccessful, although I'm stoked to see You're Next soon.

104, though I guess with the Coens and the Dardennes, it should be more properly 102.

Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Michael Apted, Ingmar Bergman, Danny Boyle, Kenneth Branagh, Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, Tim Burton, James Cameron, Martin Campbell, Frank Capra, Charles Chaplin, Edward F. Cline, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Francis Ford Coppola, Cameron Crowe, George Cukor, Michael Curtiz, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Jonathan Demme, Richard Donner, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Clint Eastwood, Federico Fellini, David Fincher, John Ford, Stephen Frears, Clyde Geronimi, Terry Gilliam, Jean-Luc Godard, Howard Hawks, Stephen Herek, Werner Herzog, Alfred Hitchcock, Ron Howard, John Huston, Wilfred Jackson, Norman Jewison, Zhang Ke Jia, Buster Keaton, Abbas Kiarostami, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Patrice Leconte, Spike Lee, Mike Leigh, Barry Levinson, Richard Linklater, Ernst Lubitsch, George Lucas, Sidney Lumet, Hamilton Luske, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, David Mamet, Michael Mann, Leo McCarey, Vincente Minnelli, Hayao Miyazaki, Errol Morris, F.W. Murnau, Phillip Noyce, Frank Oz, Yasujiro Ozu, Jafar Panahi, Nick Park, Sydney Pollack, Michael Powell, Sam Raimi, Rob Reiner, Jay Roach, Eric Rohmer, Roberto Rossellini, Gus Van Sant, John Sayles, Joel Schumacher, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Jim Sheridan, M. Night Shyamalan, Bryan Singer, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ming-liang Tsai, Tom Tykwer, Peter Weir, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Robert Wise, William Wyler, Franco Zeffirelli, Robert Zemeckis, Yimou Zhang, Edward Zwick

i came up with 123, so i'll only list off the ones with an average of 80+
wes anderson-82.8
don bluth-80.83
danny boyle-84.2
james cameron-80.5
john carpenter-80.13
coen bros-84.4
david cronenberg-82.2
cameron crowe-83
michael curtiz-82
clint eastwood-81
david fincher-83.83
milos forman-85.2
antoine fuqua-80.2
terry gilliam-85.13
buster keaton-82.75
stanley kubrick-83.63
sergio leone-86
barry levinson-80.71
sidney lumet-82
penny marshall-81.8
john mctiernan-80.17
mike nichols-80.33
christopher nolan-86
rob reiner-82.38
guy ritchie-84.8
jay roach-81.2
george romero-80.22
joel schumacher-81.13
martin scorsese-81.3
ridley scott-81.14
m. night shyamalan-81.67
kevin smith-82
steven soderbergh-81.14
steven spielberg-82.15
guillermo del toro-83.6
paul verhoeven-81
robert wise-80.5
robert zemekis-82.2
edward zwick-80.8
surprised to see so many people i've never heard of, and also to not have my favorites on the top of the list.

92 is way more than I thought I had (assuming three directing teams: Wachowskis, Farrellys, Coens). And I'm feeling wily so I posted them all.

Begs the question, who the hell is George Miller, and why have I seen NINE of his films?

Pedro Almodóvar, Clyde Geronimi, Chan-wook Park, Robert Altman, Terry Gilliam, Wolfgang Petersen, Paul W.S. Anderson, Renny Harlin, Roman Polanski, Kenneth Anger, Alfred Hitchcock, Sam Raimi, Michael Bay, Ron Howard, Brett Ratner, Ingmar Bergman, John Hughes, Rob Reiner, Don Bluth, Peter Jackson, Wolfgang Reitherman, Mel Brooks, Wilfred Jackson, Ivan Reitman, Luis Buñuel, Joe Johnston, Jay Roach, Tim Burton, Chuck Jones, Robert Rodriguez, James Cameron, Stanley Kubrick, Joel Schumacher, John Carpenter, Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Robert Clampett, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Ridley Scott
Ron Clements, John Landis, Tony Scott, Joel & Ethan Coen, John Lasseter, Peter Segal , George Lucas, Tom Shadyac, Rob Cohen, Hamilton Luske, Bryan Singer, Chris Columbus, David Lynch, Kevin Smith, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Mann, Steven Soderbergh, David Cronenberg, John McTiernan, Stephen Sommers, Maya Deren, Georges Méliès, Barry Sonnenfeld, Richard Donner, Takashi Miike, Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, George Miller, Oliver Stone, Roland Emmerich, Hayao Miyazaki, Seijun Suzuki, Bobby & Peter Farrelly, Mike Nichols, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, Hiroshi Teshigahara, David Fincher, Phillip Noyce, Guillermo del Toro, Dave Fleischer, Frank Oz, Hark Tsui, Friz Freleng, Brian De Palma, Jon Turteltaub, Gore Verbinski, Andy & Lana Wachowski, Peter Weir, Robert Wise, John Woo, Robert Zemeckis, David Zucker

76 at moment. Quite disappointed with the lack of variety actually!

Paul Thomas Anderson
Peter Jackson
Tony Scott
Paul W.S. Anderson
Wilfred Jackson
Peter Segal
Wes Anderson
Stanley Kubrick
Tom Shadyac
John G. Avildsen
John Landis
M. Night Shyamalan
Michael Bay
David Lean
Bryan Singer
Don Bluth
Sergio Leone
Steven Soderbergh
Mel Brooks
Shawn Levy
Barry Sonnenfeld
Tim Burton
Hamilton Luske
Steven Spielberg
James Cameron
Michael Mann
Sylvester Stallone
Martin Campbell
John McTiernan
Oliver Stone
Sam Mendes
Quentin Tarantino
Coen Bros
George Miller
Guillermo del Toro
Rob Cohen
Hayao Miyazaki
Jon Turteltaub
Chris Columbus
Christopher Nolan
Gore Verbinski
Francis Ford Coppola
Frank Oz
Paul Verhoeven
David Cronenberg
Brian De Palma
John Woo
Joe Dante
Nick Park
Robert Zemeckis
Andrew Davis
Wolfgang Petersen
Edward Zwick
Richard Donner
Sam Raimi
Clint Eastwood
Harold Ramis
Roland Emmerich
Brett Ratner
Bobby Farrelly
Rob Reiner
Peter Farrelly
Wolfgang Reitherman
David Fincher
Ivan Reitman
Clyde Geronimi
Jay Roach
Terry Gilliam
Robert Rodriguez
Alfred Hitchcock
Joel Schumacher
Ron Howard
Martin Scorsese
John Hughes
Ridley Scott

20 (technically 19 including the Coens as 1 team)

Tim Burton
James Cameron
Ethan Coen
Joel Coen
Werner Herzog
Alfred Hitchcock
Peter Jackson
Stanley Kubrick
George Lucas
Christopher Nolan
Ivan Reitman
Robert Rodriguez
Martin Scorsese
Ridley Scott
Bryan Singer
Steven Soderbergh
Barry Sonnenfeld
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino
Robert Zemeckis

63 (Coen Bros. and Farrely Bros. both counted as 1 each);

John G. Avildsen
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Paul Verhoeven
John Badham
Stanley Kubrick
Michael Winner
Mel Brooks
John Landis
John Woo
Tim Burton
Sidney Lumet
Terence Young
James Cameron
Hamilton Luske
Woo-ping Yuen
John Carpenter
John McTiernan
Robert Zemeckis
Jackie Chan
Takashi Miike
David Zucker
Robert Clouse
George Miller
Coen Brothers
Maurice Noble
Christopher Nolan
Chris Columbus
Aaron Norris
Francis Ford Coppola
Brian De Palma
Joe Dante
Hawley Pratt
Andrew Davis
Sam Raimi
Richard Donner
Harold Ramis
Clint Eastwood
Rob Reiner
Farrelly Bros
Ivan Reitman
Robert Rodriguez
Friz Freleng
Joel Schumacher
Clyde Geronimi
Martin Scorsese
John Glen
Ridley Scott
Guy Hamilton
Tony Scott
Amy Heckerling
Peter Segal
Stephen Herek
Barry Sonnenfeld
Walter Hill
Steven Spielberg
Ron Howard
Roger Spottiswoode
John Hughes
Sylvester Stallone
Chuck Jones
Quentin Tarantino
Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
Hark Tsui

27 (28 if you count both Coens... but that's cheating)

Wes Anderson, Tim Burton, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, Chris Columbus, Francis Ford Coppola, David Fincher, Terry Gilliam, Michel Gondry, Werner Herzog, Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Jackson, Ki-duk Kim, Sam Mendes, Hayao Miyazaki, Errol Morris, Christopher Nolan, Chan-wook Park, Sam Raimi, Jay Roach, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Kevin Smith, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, Billy Wilder, Kar Wai Wong

Disappointingly banal list, I think. Only thing that stands out to me are the South Korean auteurs.

I guess it's not entirely surprising considering how many of the movies I've ranked are by less-than-prolific documentary filmmakers. I'll come back in a year and hopefully, it will have improved.

Since the new Filmmaker List feature has a default value of 5, how many directors have you seen 5 or more films by?

Also, if your list isn't too unwieldy, or perhaps if it is rather unwieldy but you're feeling bold, post the lot.

Current total: 72
Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, Ingmar Bergman, Don Bluth, Stan Brakhage, Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, Tim Burton, James Cameron, Frank Capra, Charles Chaplin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Chris Columbus, Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg, Cameron Crowe, Jonathan Demme, Jacques Demy, Stanley Donen, Clint Eastwood, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, John Ford, Friz Freleng, Samuel Fuller, Clyde Geronimi, Jean-Luc Godard, Howard Hawks, Werner Herzog, Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, Wilfred Jackson, Jim Jarmusch, Chuck Jones, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Fritz Lang, John Lasseter, Richard Linklater, Ernst Lubitsch, George Lucas, Sidney Lumet, Hamilton Luske, David Lynch, Leo McCarey, Robert McKimson, Errol Morris, Christopher Nolan, Alain Resnais, Robert Rodriguez, Eric Rohmer, Gus Van Sant, Martin Scorsese, Kevin Smith, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, Seijun Suzuki, Quentin Tarantino, Francois Truffaut, Agnes Varda, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, William Wyler, Robert Zemeckis, Terry Zwigoff

Edit:
June 24, 2011: New Total: 90
added: Darren Aronofsky, Claude Chabrol, Federico Fellini, Milos Forman, George Roy Hill, Anthony Mann, Jean-Pierre Melville, Hayao Miyazaki, F.W. Murnau, Sam Raimi, Ridley Scott, Preston Sturges, Jacques Tati, Jacques Tourneur, Kar Wai Wong,