Top 5 Director Averages

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Re: Top 5 Director Averages

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Top 5 with a 5-film minimum:
1. Stanley Kubrick - 91.63 (8)
2. Alfred Hitchcock - 89.57 (7)
3. Ingmar Bergman - 88 (5)
4. Quentin Tarantino - 87.57 (7)
5. Coen Brothers - 87.1 (10)

Other directors with an average of 75 or above:
Martin Scorsese - 85.33 (6)
Werner Herzog - 84.5 (8)
Peter Jackson - 82.2 (5)
Christopher Nolan - 79.71 (7)
David Fincher - 78.8 (5)
James Cameron - 76.8 (5)
Ridley Scott - 75 (5)

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Re: Top 5 Director Averages

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The results are a bit of a surprise to me:

1. Sergio Leone 86.8 (5 films)
2. Robert Zemeckis 86.75 (8 films)
3. David Fincher 81.57 (7 films)
4. Quentin Tarantino 80.11 (9 films)
5. Jim Jarmusch 78 (11 films)

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Re: Top 5 Director Averages

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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)

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Re: Top 5 Director Averages

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Alright, only going with directors by whom I have seen at least 4 films:

1. Satyajit Ray [88.75]
2. Michael Haneke [86.25]
3. Billy Wilder [85.6]
4. David Lean [83]
5. Akira Kurosawa [82.4]


And, though unasked for, but still: my least favourite directors:

1. Brian Levant [28.8]
2. Rob Cohen [29.25]
3. Jan De Bont [33.6]
4. Roger Spottiswoode [34]
5. Simon West [34.5]

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Re: Top 5 Director Averages

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With a base minimum of three pictures seen:

1.) George Clooney - 76.25 (4 films)
2.) Eugene Jarecki - 74.33 (3)
3.) Fernando Meirelles - 73 (4)
4.) PTA - 70 (5)
5.) Noah Baumbach 68.33 (6)
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Re: Top 5 Director Averages

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Bergman - 75.05 (20) T9
Welles - 73.4 (8)
Cassavetes - 72.67 (8) T8
Linklater - 72.63 (8)
Eisenstein - 72.4 (5)

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Re: Top 5 Director Averages

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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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Re: Top 5 Director Averages

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With a Minimum of Three Films:

    1: Lee Unkrich - 92.75 (4)
    2: Andrew Stanton - 89.33 (3)
    3: David Fincher - 88.60 (5)
    4 (Tie): Sergio Leone - 88.25 (4)
    4 (Tie): Christopher Nolan - 88.25 (4)

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Re: Top 5 Director Averages

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1) Frank Darabont - 88.67 [3] Favorite Film = The Shawshank Redemption
2) Alfred Hitchcock - 87.92 [12] Favorite Films = Psycho and Rear Window
3) Howard Hawks - 87.5 [4] Favorite Films = The Big Sleep and His Girl Friday
4) Billy Wilder - 87.25 [4] Favorite Film = Double Indemnity
5) Lee Unkrich - 87.0 [4] Favorite Film = Toy Story 3

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Re: Top 5 Director Averages

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Minimum of 3:

1. Edgar Wright - 96.33 (3)
2. Peter Jackson - 92.25 (4)
3. Sidney Lumet - 91.00 (4)
4. Akira Kurosawa - 90.75 (4)
5. Clint Eastwood - 88.00 (4)

The Coens are 6th and Wes Anderson is 7th and I haven't ranked all their movies. I'm relatively sure they'd move past Eastwood as I haven't ranked some of my favorite movies by them that would definitely increase their score.

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