Which director have you seen the most films by?

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AtGiza
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Re: Which director have you seen the most films by?

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probably the Coens

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Re: Which director have you seen the most films by?

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20 Steven Spielberg
17 Woody Allen
15 Francis Ford Coppola
14 Sidney Lumet
13 Coen Bros.
13 Martin Scorsese
13 John Landis
13 John Carpenter
12 Stanley Kubrick
12 David Cronenberg
12 Tim Burton
12 Sam Raimi
11 Steven Soderbergh
11 Lars Von Trier
11 Ron Howard
11 Mike Nichols
11 Brian DePalma
11 Terry Gilliam
10 Blake Edwards
10 Akira Kurosawa
10 Peter Jackson
10 Billy Wilder
10 Ridley Scott
9 Tony Scott
9 Robert Zemeckis
9 Norman Jewison
9 Michael Mann
9 John Huston
8 Frank Oz
8 Spike Lee
8 James Mangold
8 Robert Rodriguez
8 William Friedkin
8 Joel Schumacher
8 Barry Levinson
8 Michael Apted
8 Quentin Tarantino
8 Hal Hartley
8 John Cassavetes
8 Hayao Miyazaki
8 Robert Altman
8 David Lynch
8 Oliver Stone
8 Mel Brooks
8 Joe Dante
8 Richard Donner
8 Walter Hill
8 Phillip Noyce
8 Ivan Reitman


Hitchcock should be on here somewhere, but I saw so many of his movies only when I was very young that I don't really know where to draw the line.

Updated: italic stuff is directors I missed in my original count
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Here is an update to my previous post on this thread, it might've missed one or two of directors with 5 films, but %90 of 5+ directors is here. (Thx to a "local" (closed to direct registrations) website that has the exact feature for it, so i didn't have to check one by one, this time)

Steven Spielberg 13
Alfred Hitchcock 10
Quentin Tarantino 9
Clint Eastwood 8
Ridley Scott 8
Christopher Nolan 7
Stanley Kubrick 7
Daniel Attias 7
Ron Howard 6
James Cameron 6
Martin Scorsese 6
David Lynch 6
Robert Zemeckis 6
Tim Burton 6
Kevin Hooks 5
Roland Emmerich 5
Rob Reiner 5
Billy Wilder 5
Michael Mann 5
David Fincher 5
George Lucas 5

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Update. Damn this just made me realize I haven't seen a Bergman film in over a year. I need to rectify that.

Alfred Hitchcock 29
Woody Allen 28
Éric Rohmer 21
Steven Spielberg 21
Martin Scorsese 20
Buster Keaton 18
Akira Kurosawa 17
Luis Buñuel 17
Jean-Luc Godard 17
Charles Chaplin 16
Jean Renoir 16
Ingmar Bergman 16
Howard Hawks 15
Fritz Lang 15
Tim Burton 15
Joel Coen 14
D. W. Griffith 13
John Ford 13
Robert Bresson 13
Michael Powell 12
John Huston 12
William Wyler 12
Robert Zemeckis 12
Billy Wilder 12
Stanley Kubrick 12
Terry Gilliam 12
George Cukor 11
Abbas Kiarostami 11
Ernst Lubitsch 10
Quentin Tarantino 10
Leo McCarey 10
Edward F. Cline 10

Short film guys:
Stan Brakhage 30
Jean Painlevé 17
Chuck Jones 17
Bruce Conner 15
Tex Avery 15
Georges Méliès 12
William K. L. Dickson 11

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The new feature makes this nice and easy to look up. My updated numbers:

Woody Allen - 37
Robert Altman - 13
Ingmar Bergman - 49
Robert Bresson - 14
Luis Bunuel - 29
Joel/Ethan Coen - 13
Federico Fellini - 14
John Ford - 15
Jean-Luc Godard - 17
Peter Greenaway - 17
Howard Hawks - 14
Werner Herzog - 38
Alfred Hitchcock - 36
Aki Kaurismaki - 19
Krzysztof Kieslowski - 18
Stanley Kubrick - 12
Akira Kurosawa - 26
Fritz Lang - 19
David Lynch - 15
Anthony Mann - 13
Kenji Mizoguchi - 16
Roy William Neill - 12
Yasujiro Ozu - 17
Michael Powell - 14
Satyajit Ray - 35
Jean Renoir - 12
Martin Scorsese - 19
Steven Soderbergh - 13
Steven Spielberg - 18
Seijun Suzuki - 12
Francois Truffaut - 23
Orson Welles - 12
Billy Wilder - 13


And guys who did primarily shorts:
Stan Brakhage - 112
Norman McLaren - 41
Jean Painleve - 20
Jan Svankmajer - 16

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Here's my silly little list

Ishirô Honda - 23
Herschell Gordon Lewis - 14
Roger Corman - 9
Jesus Franco - 8
Terence Fisher - 7
Doris Wishman - 7
Jun Fukuda - 6
Jack Hill - 6
Fritz Lang - 6
Andy Milligan - 6
Joel+Ethan Coen - 5
Francis Ford Coppola - 5
Kinji Fukasaku - 5
Antonio Margheriti - 5
Chan-wook Park - 5
Martin Scorsese - 5
Yimou Zhang - 5

Like tthe new feature.

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At an 8 film minimum,

Spielberg-17 films
John Landis- 10 films
Francis Ford Coppola- 9 films
John Woo- 9 films
Richard Donner- 9 films
Tim Burton- 8 films
Robert Rodriguez- 8 films
Sammo Hung- 8 films
Quentin Tarantino (ugh)- 8 films

and adding shorts,

Chuck Jones-83 films
Maurice Noble- 15 films
Fritz Freleng- 15 films

I never realized I had that many shorts added to my list...

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Re: Which director have you seen the most films by?

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Counting more than 5 films seen:
Spielberg - 11
Coens - 9
Kubrick - 8
Burton - 7
Hitchcock - 7
Nolan - 7
Tarantino - 7
Zemeckis - 7

Apparently I haven't seen 6 films out of anybody, which I only just realized writing this down here.

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Martin Scorsese (17) (avg = 68.2)
Orson Welles (9) (avg = 77)
Steven Spielberg (9) (avg = 67.1)
Hayao Miyazaki (8) (avg = 87.9)

Short film guys;
Stan Brakhage (9) (avg = 75.8)
Chuck Jones (8) (avg = 69.1)

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Re: Which director have you seen the most films by?

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Tim Burton (15) - [67.73]
Stanley Kubrick (12) - [77.5]
David Lynch (11) - [68]
Alfred Hitchcock (10) - [67.8]

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