Directors with a hat-trick of top-tier films

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Directors with a hat-trick of top-tier films

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Norman Jewison:
Fiddler on the Roof
Jesus Christ Superstar
Rollerball

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Charles Chaplin
City Lights (1931)
Modern Times (1936)
The Great Dictator (1940)

Billy Wilder
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Apartment (1960)

Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)

Sergio Leone
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Luis Bunuel
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Phantom of Liberty (1974)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

Todd Solondz
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
Happiness (1998)
Storytelling (2001)
Palindromes (2004)

Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings (2001, 2002, 2003)

Quentin Tarantino
Death Proof (2007)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Django Unchained (2012)
The Hateful Eight (2015)

Wes Anderson
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Christopher Nolan
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Interstellar (2014)
Dunkirk (2017)

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Billy Wilder
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Apartment (1960)

Sergio Leone
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather (1972)
The Conversation (1974)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)

The Coen Brothers
Fargo (1996)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Ben Affleck
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
The Town (2010)
Argo (2012)
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I believe these are all of the directors that meet the criteria based upon my rankings:

Darren Aronofsky
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
The Fountain (2006)
The Wrestler (2008)
Black Swan (2010)

Christopher Nolan
Batman Begins (2005)
The Prestige (2006)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Inception (2010)
The Dark Knight Rises (2008)

Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001, 2002, 2003)

Michael Mann
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Heat (1995)
The Insider (1999)

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i think just tarky w/solaris/mirror/stalker

edit: stop the presses - also lynne ramsay, if i allow myself a short - Gasman / Ratcatcher / Morvern Callar
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I got gornischt. If I included tier 9 I would have a few, but I have no director with more than 2 t10 films.

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Tier 10 for me is 86 and up and there's really not a lot of them.

Sergio Leone:

A Fistful of Dollars 89
For a Few Dollars More 88
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 95

Christopher Nolan:

Batman Begins 86
The Prestige 93
The Dark Knight 94

Terry Gilliam:

Brazil 92
The Adventures of Baron Muchausen 87
The Fisher King 87

The Coens:

Miller's Crossing 93
Barton Fink 86
The Hudsucker Proxy 89
Fargo 91
The Big Lebowski 89

Rob Reiner:

Stand By Me 90
The Princess Bride 90
When Harry Met Sally 89



Aronofsky just squeaked under with "The Fountain" at an 85

Kurosawa comes pretty close but since I haven't seen "Sanjuro" and "High and Low" only got an 85, it's a miss.

Zemeckis is under by one also with the first "Back To the Future" at an 85

Del Toro under by one with the first "Hellboy" at 85

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Terrence Malick

Days of Heaven (1978)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The New World (2005)
(have yet to see The Tree of Life)

Stanley Kubrick

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Shining (1980)

Paul Thomas Anderson

Punch Drunk Love (2002)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
The Master (2012)

Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Black Narcissus (1947)
The Red Shoes (1948)

Max Ophuls

Le Plaisir (1952)
The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
Lola Montes (1955)

Michelangelo Antonioni

Le Amiche (1955)
Il Grido (1957)
L'avventura (1960)
La Notte (1961)

Joel & Ethan Coen

Miller's Crossing (1990) [need to watch again]
Barton Fink (1991)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

C.T. Dreyer

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927)
Vampyr (1932)
Day of Wrath (1943)

this would continue but for an obscure 78 minute film after Day of Wrath that I have not seen (and has been disowned by Dreyer as a failure).

Sidney Lumet

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Network (1976)
Equus (1977)

Francis Ford Coppola

The Godfather Part II (1974)
The Conversation (1974)
Apocalypse Now (1979)

Federico Fellini

Il Bidone (1955)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
8 1/2 (1963)

Alain Resnais

Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963)

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