Search found 56 matches: Woody Allen

Woody Allen by a landslide, with 40. Followed by Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin with 30 and 25, respectively. But those include two reelers.

I'm ashamed to say I've seen all of Woody Allen's movies. Every single one.

OK, Time for the annual update

5 or more movies by 44 directors

Ishirô Honda - 26
Roger Corman - 22 (+2)
Herschell Gordon Lewis - 18
Jesus Franco - 18 (+2)
Doris Wishman - 13
Russ Meyer - 11
Andy Sidaris - 10 (previously less than 5)
Dario Argento - 9 (+1)
Francis Ford Coppola - 8 (+2)
Kinji Fukasaku - 8
Martin Scorsese - 8
Bert I. Gordon - 7
Jun Fukuda - 7
Andy Milligan - 7
Steven Spielberg - 7
Joel+Ethan Coen - 7
Fritz Lang - 7
William castle - 7
Terence Fisher - 7
Noriaki Yuasa - 7
John Landis - 6
Curtis Harrington - 6
Jack Hill - 6
Sam Newfield - 6 (previously less than 5)
Antonio Margheriti - 6
Mario Bava - 5
John Waters - 5
Yimou Zhang - 5
Joe Dante - 5
Ridley Scott - 5
Edgar G. Ulmer - 5
Michael Findlay - 5
Teruo Ishii - 5 (previously less than 5)
John Carpenter - 5
William Witney - 5
Woody Allen - 5
Robert Altman - 5
Larry Buchanan - 5 (previously less than 5)
Chan-wook Park - 5
Brian De Palma - 5
Charles Chaplin - 5
Herbert L. Strock - 5 (previously less than 5)
David Cronenberg - 5 (previously less than 5)
Tom Laughlin - 5

That's +7 for the directors already on the list with 6 directors previousy not on the list.

Yearly update time

5 or more movies by 38 directors

Ishirô Honda - 26
Roger Corman - 20
Herschell Gordon Lewis - 18
Jesus Franco - 16 (+2)
Doris Wishman - 13 (+2)
Russ Meyer - 11 (+1)
Kinji Fukasaku - 8
Martin Scorsese - 8
Dario Argento - 8 (+2)
Joel+Ethan Coen - 7
Steven Spielberg - 7
Jun Fukuda - 7
Noriaki Yuasa - 7
Fritz Lang - 7
William castle - 7 (+1)
Terence Fisher - 7
Andy Milligan - 7 (+1)
Bert I. Gordon - 7 (+1)
Antonio Margheriti - 6
Jack Hill - 6
Francis Ford Coppola - 6
John Landis - 6
Curtis Harrington - 6 (previously less than 5)
Charles Chaplin - 5
Ridley Scott - 5
Yimou Zhang - 5
Chan-wook Park - 5
William Witney - 5
Tom Laughlin - 5
Michael Findlay - 5
John Waters - 5
John Carpenter - 5
Robert Altman - 5
Brian De Palma - 5
Joe Dante - 5 (previously less than 5)
Edgar G. Ulmer - 5 (previously less than 5)
Woody Allen - 5 (previously less than 5)
Mario Bava - 5 (previously less than 5)

That's +10 for the directors already on the list with 5 directors previousy not on the list.

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

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

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

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

With 15 films or more:

37 Woody Allen
30 Hitchcock
29 Spielberg
20 De Palma
19 Bergman, Scorsese, Buñuel
17 Eastwood
16 Ford, Burton
15 Coen (Joel)

Top eleven:
Director, avg rating, # of films:
Chuck Jones, 8.89, 47
Alfred Hitchcock, 6.59, 46
Woody Allen, 6.91, 44
Jean-Luc Godard, 7.41, 41
Werner Herzog, 8.00, 33
John Ford, 7.63, 32
Clint Eastwood, 5.87, 31
Buster Keaton, 7.80, 30
Fritz Lang, 7.97, 29
Martin Scorsese, 7.66, 29
Ingmar Bergman, 8.41, 29