Films by Director — Abrahams to Kwan

Jim Abrahams (3)

  • Airplane! (1980)
  • Hot Shots! (1991)
  • Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)

J.J. Abrams (3)

  • Mission: Impossible III (2006)
  • Star Trek (2009)
  • Super 8 (2011)

Andrew Adamson (3)

  • Shrek (2001)
  • Shrek 2 (2004)
  • Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)

Gilbert Adler (2)

  • Bordello of Blood (1996)
  • Demon Knight (1996)

Ben Affleck (2)

  • Gone Baby Gone (2007)
  • The Town (2010)

Alexandre Aja (3)

  • High Tension (2003)
  • The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
  • Piranha (2010)

Chantal Akerman (4)

  • Saute ma ville (1968)
  • La chambre (1972)
  • News from Home (1977)
  • D’Est (1993)

Fatih Akin (4)

  • Head-On (2004)
  • Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)
  • The Edge of Heaven (2007)
  • New York, I Love You (2009)

Robert Aldrich (8)

  • Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
  • The Big Knife (1955)
  • Attack (1956)
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
  • The Dirty Dozen (1967)
  • Ulzana’s Raid (1972)
  • Emperor of the North Pole (1973)
  • The Longest Yard (1974)

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (2)

  • Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)
  • Memories of Underdevelopment (1969)

Tomas Alfredson (2)

  • Let the Right One In (2008)
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

James Algar (3)

  • Fantasia (1940)
  • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
  • Fantasia/2000 (1999)

Woody Allen (33)

  • What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
  • Take the Money and Run (1969)
  • Bananas (1971)
  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (1972)
  • Sleeper (1973)
  • Love and Death (1975)
  • Annie Hall (1977)
  • Interiors (1978)
  • Manhattan (1979)
  • Stardust Memories (1980)
  • Zelig (1983)
  • Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
  • The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
  • Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
  • Radio Days (1987)
  • Another Woman (1988)
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
  • Alice (1990)
  • Shadows and Fog (1991)
  • Husbands and Wives (1992)
  • Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
  • Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
  • Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
  • Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
  • Deconstructing Harry (1997)
  • Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
  • Melinda and Melinda (2004)
  • Match Point (2005)
  • Cassandra’s Dream (2007)
  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
  • Whatever Works (2009)
  • You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
  • Midnight in Paris (2011)

Pedro Almodóvar (8)

  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1985)
  • Live Flesh (1997)
  • All About My Mother (1999)
  • Talk to Her (2002)
  • Bad Education (2004)
  • Volver (2006)
  • Broken Embraces (2009)
  • The Skin I Live In (2011)

Lisandro Alonso (2)

  • La libertad (2001)
  • Liverpool (2008)

Robert Altman (18)

  • The Delinquents (1957)
  • MASH (1970)
  • McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
  • The Long Goodbye (1973)
  • California Split (1974)
  • Nashville (1975)
  • Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (1976)
  • A Wedding (1978)
  • Quintet (1979)
  • Popeye (1980)
  • Streamers (1983)
  • Tanner ’88 (1988)
  • The Player (1992)
  • Short Cuts (1993)
  • Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
  • Kansas City (1996)
  • Cookie’s Fortune (1999)
  • Gosford Park (2001)

Santiago Álvarez (7)

  • Hurricane (1963)
  • Now (1965)
  • Hasta la victoria siempre (1967)
  • Hanoi, Tuesday 13th (1967)
  • LBJ (1968)
  • 79 primaveras (1969)
  • The Tiger Leaped and Killed, But It Will Die… It Will Die… (1973)

Alejandro Amenábar (4)

  • Open Your Eyes (1997)
  • The Others (2001)
  • The Sea Inside (2004)
  • Agora (2009)

Jon Amiel (3)

  • Copycat (1995)
  • Entrapment (1999)
  • The Core (2003)

Brad Anderson (2)

  • Session 9 (2001)
  • Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)

Lindsay Anderson (3)

  • O Dreamland (1953)
  • This Sporting Life (1963)
  • If… (1968)

Paul Thomas Anderson (5)

  • Hard Eight (1996)
  • Boogie Nights (1997)
  • Magnolia (1999)
  • Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
  • There Will Be Blood (2007)

Paul W.S. Anderson (5)

  • Mortal Kombat (1995)
  • Event Horizon (1997)
  • Resident Evil (2002)
  • AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
  • Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

Stephen J. Anderson (2)

  • Meet the Robinsons (2007)
  • Winnie the Pooh (2011)

Wes Anderson (7)

  • Bottle Rocket (1996)
  • Rushmore (1998)
  • The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
  • Hotel Chevalier (2007)
  • The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Roy Andersson (3)

  • World of Glory (1991)
  • Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
  • You, the Living (2007)

Theo Angelopoulos (6)

  • Days of 36 (1972)
  • The Travelling Players (1975)
  • Voyage to Cythera (1984)
  • The Beekeeper (1987)
  • Landscape in the Mist (1988)
  • Eternity and a Day (1998)

Kenneth Anger (9)

  • Fireworks (1947)
  • Puce Moment (1949)
  • Rabbit’s Moon (1950)
  • Eaux d’artifice (1953)
  • Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)
  • Scorpio Rising (1964)
  • Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)
  • Kustom Kar Kommandos (1970)
  • Lucifer Rising (1972)

Jean-Jacques Annaud (3)

  • Quest for Fire (1981)
  • Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
  • Enemy at the Gates (2001)

David Anspaugh (2)

  • Hoosiers (1986)
  • Rudy (1993)

Nimród Antal (2)

  • Vacancy (2007)
  • Predators (2010)

Michelangelo Antonioni (8)

  • The Lady Without Camelias (1953)
  • Le Amiche (1955)
  • Il Grido (1957)
  • L’Avventura (1960)
  • La notte (1961)
  • Blowup (1966)
  • China (1972)
  • The Passenger (1975)

Judd Apatow (3)

  • The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
  • Knocked Up (2007)
  • Funny People (2009)

Michael Apted (8)

  • 7 Plus Seven (1970)
  • 21 (1977)
  • Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)
  • Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988)
  • Blink (1994)
  • Nell (1994)
  • The World Is Not Enough (1999)
  • Enough (2002)

Alfonso Arau (2)

  • Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
  • A Walk in the Clouds (1995)

Roscoe Arbuckle (16)

  • The Butcher Boy (1917)
  • The Rough House (1917)
  • His Wedding Night (1917)
  • Oh Doctor! (1917)
  • Coney Island (1917)
  • Out West (1918)
  • The Bell Boy (1918)
  • Moonshine (1918)
  • Good Night, Nurse! (1918)
  • The Cook (1918)
  • Back Stage (1919)
  • The Hayseed (1919)
  • The Garage (1920)
  • The Movies (1925)
  • My Stars (1926)
  • Fool’s Luck (1926)

Emile Ardolino (2)

  • Dirty Dancing (1987)
  • Sister Act (1992)

Dario Argento (4)

  • The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
  • Deep Red (1975)
  • Suspiria (1977)
  • Tenebre (1982)

Jack Arnold (3)

  • It Came from Outer Space (1953)
  • Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
  • The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

David Aronofsky (5)

  • Pi (1998)
  • Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  • The Fountain (2006)
  • The Wrestler (2008)
  • Black Swan (2010)

Miguel Arteta (2)

  • Youth in Revolt (2009)
  • Cedar Rapids (2011)

Kelly Asbury (2)

  • Shrek 2 (2004)
  • Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)

Hal Ashby (3)

  • Harold and Maude (1971)
  • The Last Detail (1973)
  • Being There (1979)

Anthony Asquith (5)

  • A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
  • Pygmalion (1938)
  • The Way to the Stars (1945)
  • The Browning Version (1951)
  • The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)

Oliver Assayas (5)

  • Irma Vep (1996)
  • Demonlover (2002)
  • Paris, je t’aime (2006)
  • Summer Hours (2008)
  • Carlos (2010)

Richard Attenborough (3)

  • A Bridge Too Far (1977)
  • Gandhi (1982)
  • In Love and War (1996)

Bille August (2)

  • Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
  • Les Misérables (1998)

Tex Avery (24)

  • Gold Diggers of ’49 (1935)
  • I Love to Singa (1936)
  • Porky’s Duck Hunt (1937)
  • Detouring America (1939)
  • Tortoise Beats Hare (1941)
  • The Heckling Hare (1941)
  • Blitz Wolf (1942)
  • Dumb-Hounded (1943)
  • Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
  • Who Killed Who? (1943)
  • Screwball Squirrel (1944)
  • Northwest Hounded Police (1946)
  • King-Size Canary (1947)
  • The Cat That Hated People (1948)
  • Bad Luck Blackie (1949)
  • Little Rural Riding Hood (1949)
  • Car of Tomorrow (1951)
  • Symphony in Slang (1951)
  • Magical Maestro (1952)
  • Little Johnny Jet (1953)
  • Billy Boy (1954)
  • Dixieland Droopy (1954)
  • I’m Cold (1954)
  • The Legend of Rockabye Point (1955)

John G. Avildsen (7)

  • Rocky (1976)
  • The Karate Kid (1984)
  • The Karate Kid, Part II (1986)
  • The Karate Kid, Part III (1989)
  • Lean on Me (1989)
  • Rocky V (1990)
  • 8 Seconds (1994)

Jon Avnet (3)

  • The War (1994)
  • Up Close & Personal (1996)
  • 88 Minutes (2007)

Frédéric Back (8)

  • Abracadabra (1970)
  • The Creation of Birds (1972)
  • Inon or the Conquest of Fire (1972)
  • ¿Illusion? (1975)
  • Taratata (1979)
  • All Nothing (1980)
  • Crac! (1981)
  • The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)

Lloyd Bacon (4)

  • You Said a Mouthful (1932)
  • 42nd Street (1933)
  • Footlight Parade (1933)
  • A Slight Case of Murder (1938)

John Badham (9)

  • Saturday Night Fever (1977)
  • WarGames (1983)
  • Short Circuit (1986)
  • Stakeout (1987)
  • Bird on a Wire (1990)
  • The Hard Way (1991)
  • Point of No Return (1993)
  • Drop Zone (1994)
  • Nick of Time (1995)
Bruce Baillie (2)
  • All My Life (1966)
  • Valentin de las Sierras (1971)

Stuart Baird (3)

  • Executive Decision (1996)
  • U.S. Marshalls (1998)
  • Star Trek: Nemisis (2002)

Ralph Bakshi (2)

  • The Lord of the Rings (1978)
  • Cool World (1992)

Jaume Balagueró (2)

  • [Rec] (2007)
  • [Rec] 2 (2009)

Stanislav Barabas (2)

  • A Song About the Gray Pigeon (1961)
  • The Bells Toll for the Barefooted (1965)

Boris Barnet (4)

  • The House on Trubnaya Square (1928)
  • Outskirts (1933)
  • By the Bluest of Seas (1936)
  • Whistle Stop (1963)

Yevgeni Bauer (8)

  • Twilight of a Woman’s Soul (1913)
  • Child of the Big City (1914)
  • Silent Witnesses (1914)
  • After Death (1915)
  • The 1002nd Ruse (1915)
  • Daydreams (1915)
  • The Dying Swan (1917)
  • Revolutionary (1917)

Noah Baumbach (3)

  • The Squid and the Whale (2005)
  • Margot at the Wedding (2007)
  • Greenberg (2010)

Mario Bava (10)

  • Black Sunday (1960)
  • Erik the Conqueror (1961)
  • Hercules in the Haunted World (1961)
  • The Whip and the Body (1963)
  • Blood and Black Lace (1964)
  • Planet of the Vampires (1965)
  • Kill, Baby… Kill! (1966)
  • Danger: Diabolik (1968)
  • Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970)
  • Bay of Blood (1971)

Michael Bay (9)

  • Bad Boys (1995)
  • The Rock (1996)
  • Armageddon (1998)
  • Pearl Harbor (2001)
  • Bad Boys II (2003)
  • The Island (2005)
  • Transformers (2007)
  • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

Warren Beatty (3)

  • Reds (1981)
  • Dick Tracy (1990)
  • Bulworth (1998)

Steve Beck (2)

  • Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
  • Ghost Ship (2002)

Harold Becker (3)

  • Taps (1981)
  • Malice (1993)
  • Mercury Rising (1998)

Jacques Becker (4)

  • It Happened at the Inn (1943)
  • Casque d’or (1952)
  • Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
  • Le Trou (1960)

Roberto Benigni (2)

  • Life Is Beautiful (1997)
  • The Tiger and the Snow (2005)

Richard Benjamin (4)

  • The Money Pit (1986)
  • Little Nikita (1988)
  • Downtown (1990)
  • Made in America (1993)

Robert Benton (3)

  • Bad Company (1972)
  • Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
  • Places in the Heart (1984)

Bruce Beresford (4)

  • ‘Breaker’ Morant (1980)
  • Her Alibi (1989)
  • Silent Fall (1994)
  • Double Jeopardy (1999)

Peter Berg (4)

  • Very Bad Things (1998)
  • The Rundown (2003)
  • Friday Night Lights (2004)
  • Hancock (2008)

Andrew Bergman (3)

  • Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
  • It Could Happen to You (1994)
  • Striptease (1996)

Ingmar Bergman (33)

  • Crisis (1946)
  • Man with an Umbrella (1946)
  • A Ship Bound for India (1947)
  • Music in Darkness (1948)
  • Prison (1949)
  • To Joy (1950)
  • High Tension (1950)
  • Summer Interlude (1951)
  • Secrets of Women (1952)
  • Summer with Monika (1953)
  • Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
  • A Lesson in Love (1954)
  • Dreams (1955)
  • Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
  • The Seventh Seal (1957)
  • Wild Strawberries (1957)
  • Brink of Life (1958)
  • The Magician (1958)
  • The Virgin Spring (1960)
  • The Devil’s Eye (1960)
  • Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
  • Winter Light (1963)
  • The Silence (1963)
  • Persona (1966)
  • Hour of the Wolf (1968)
  • Shame (1968)
  • The Passion of Anna (1969)
  • Cries and Whispers (1972)
  • Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
  • Autumn Sonata (1978)
  • From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
  • Fanny and Alexander (1982)
  • Karen’s Face (1984)
  • After the Rehearsal (1984)

Luis García Berlanga (3)

  • Bienvenido Mister Marshall (1953)
  • Plácido (1961)
  • El Verdugo (1963)

Raymond Bernard (2)

  • Wooden Crosses (1932)
  • Les Misérables (1934)

Claude Berri (4)

  • Le Poulet (1962)
  • The Old Man and the Boy (1967)
  • Jean de Florette (1986)
  • Manon des sources (1986)

Bernardo Bertolucci (8)

  • La Commare secca (1962)
  • Before the Revolution (1964)
  • Partner (1968)
  • The Conformist (1970)
  • Last Tango in Paris (1972)
  • 1900 (1976)
  • The Last Emperor (1987)
  • Little Buddha (1993)

Luc Besson (4)

  • The Last Combat (1983)
  • Nikita (1990)
  • Léon (1994)
  • The Fifth Element (1997)

Fabián Bielinsky (2)

  • Nine Queens (2000)
  • The Aura (2005)

Kathryn Bigelow (5)

  • Near Dark (1987)
  • Blue Steel (1990)
  • Point Break (1991)
  • K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
  • The Hurt Locker (2008)

Brad Bird (4)

  • The Iron Giant (1999)
  • The Incredibles (2004)
  • Ratatouille (2007)
  • Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)

August Blom (3)

  • Temptations of the Great City (1911)
  • Desdemona (1912)
  • The End of the World (1916)

Don Bluth (3)

  • The Secret of NIMH (1982)
  • An American Tail (1986)
  • Titan A.E. (2000)

Hart Bochner (2)

  • PCU (1994)
  • High School High (1996)

Budd Boetticher (9)

  • One Mysterious Night (1944)
  • Escape in the Fog (1945)
  • The Killer Is Loose (1956)
  • Seven Men from Now (1956)
  • The Tall T (1957)
  • Decision at Sundown (1957)
  • Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
  • Ride Lonesome (1959)
  • Comanche Station (1960)

Peter Bogdanovich (6)

  • Targets (1968)
  • The Last Picture Show (1971)
  • What’s Up, Doc? (1972)
  • Paper Moon (1973)
  • Mask (1985)
  • The Cat’s Meow (2001)

Joon-ho Bong (3)

  • Memories of a Murder (2003)
  • The Host (2006)
  • Mother (2009)

John Boorman (6)

  • Point Blank (1967)
  • Deliverance (1972)
  • Excalibur (1981)
  • The Emerald Forest (1985)
  • Hope and Glory (1987)
  • The Tailor of Panama (2001)

Walerian Borowczyk (2)

  • Les astronautes (1959)
  • House (1959)

Frank Borzage (14)

  • The Pitch o’ Chance (1915)
  • The Pilgrim (1916)
  • 7th Heaven (1927)
  • Lucky Star (1929)
  • The River (1929)
  • Man’s Castle (1933)
  • No Greater Glory (1934)
  • Desire (1936)
  • Three Comrades (1938)
  • The Shining Hour (1938)
  • The Mortal Storm (1940)
  • Strange Cargo (1940)
  • The Spanish Main (1945)
  • Moonrise (1948)

Rob Bowman (2)

  • The X Files (1998)
  • Reign of Fire (2002)

Danny Boyle (6)

  • Trainspotting (1996)
  • The Beach (2000)
  • Millions (2004)
  • Sunshine (2007)
  • Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
  • 127 Hours (2010)

Stan Brakhage (23)

  • The Wonder Ring (1955)
  • Reflections on Black (1955)
  • Centuries of June (1955)
  • Sirius Remembered (1959)
  • Cat’s Cradle (1959)
  • Window Water Baby Moving (1959)
  • Thigh Line Lyre Triangular (1961)
  • Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962)
  • Dog Star Man: Part 1 (1962)
  • Dog Star Man: Part 2 (1963)
  • Dog Star Man: Part 3 (1963)
  • Dog Star Man: Part 4 (1963)
  • Mothlight (1963)
  • Eye Myth (1967)
  • The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes (1971)
  • The Dante Quartet (1987)
  • Delicacies of a Molten Horror Synapse (1991)
  • Black Ice (1994)
  • Persian Series #1 (1999)
  • Persian Series #2 (1999)
  • Persian Series #3 (1999)
  • Persian Series #4 (1999)
  • Persian Series #5 (1999)

Kenneth Branagh (4)

  • Dead Again (1991)
  • Frankenstein (1994)
  • Hamlet (1996)
  • Thor (2011)

Catherine Breillat (3)

  • A Real Young Girl (1976)
  • Fat Girl (2001)
  • The Last Mistress (2007)

Robert Bresson (6)

  • Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
  • A Man Escaped (1956)
  • Pickpocket (1959)
  • Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
  • Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
  • Mouchette (1967)

Martin Brest (4)

  • Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
  • Midnight Run (1988)
  • Scent of a Woman (1992)
  • Meet Joe Black (1998)

Albert Brooks (3)

  • Real Life (1979)
  • Lost in America (1985)
  • Mother (1996)

James L. Brooks (4)

  • Terms of Endearment (1983)
  • Broadcast News (1987)
  • As Good As It Gets (1997)
  • Spanglish (2004)

Mel Brooks (9)

  • The Producers (1968)
  • Blazing Saddles (1974)
  • Young Frankenstein (1974)
  • High Anxiety (1977)
  • History of the World: Part I (1981)
  • Spaceballs (1987)
  • Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
  • Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)

Richard Brooks (3)

  • Blackboard Jungle (1955)
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
  • In Cold Blood (1967)

Clarence Brown (2)

  • The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
  • Anna Christie (1930)

Tod Browning (7)

  • The Unholy Three (1925)
  • The Unknown (1927)
  • West of Zanzibar (1928)
  • Dracula (1931)
  • Freaks (1932)
  • Mark of the Vampire (1935)
  • The Devil-Doll (1936)

Kevin Brownlow (4)

  • Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite (1968)
  • Hollywood (1980)
  • Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995)
  • Universal Horror (1998)

Clyde Bruckman (6)

  • Call of the Cuckoo (1927)
  • The General (1927)
  • The Finishing Touch (1928)
  • Feet First (1930)
  • Movie Crazy (1932)
  • The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)

Dimitri Buchowitzki (2)

  • Sappho (1921)
  • Othello (1922)

Luis Buñuel (19)

  • Un chien andalou (1929)
  • L’Âge d’or (1930)
  • Las Hurdes (1933)
  • Gran Casino (1947)
  • Los Olvidados (1950)
  • Susana (1951)
  • El (1953)
  • Robinson Crusoe (1954)
  • Wuthering Heights (1954)
  • The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)
  • Nazarín (1959)
  • The Young One (1960)
  • Viridiana (1961)
  • The Exterminating Angel (1962)
  • Simon of the Desert (1965)
  • Belle de jour (1967)
  • The Milky Way (1969)
  • Tristana (1970)
  • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

Tim Burton (15)

  • Vincent (1982)
  • Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
  • Beetle Juice (1988)
  • Batman (1989)
  • Edward Scissorshands (1990)
  • Batman Returns (1992)
  • Ed Wood (1994)
  • Mars Attacks! (1996)
  • Sleepy Hollow (1999)
  • Planet of the Apes (2001)
  • Big Fish (2003)
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
  • Corpse Bride (2005)
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber from Fleet Street (2007)
  • Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Hendel Butoy (2)

  • The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
  • Fantasia/2000 (1999)

Michael Cacoyannis (4)

  • Stella (1955)
  • A Girl in Black (1957)
  • A Matter of Digity (1960)
  • Electra (1962)

Christopher Cain (2)

  • The Principal (1987)
  • Young Guns (1988)

James Cameron (8)

  • Piranha Part 2: The Spawning (1981)
  • The Terminator (1984)
  • Aliens (1986)
  • The Abyss (1989)
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  • True Lies (1994)
  • Titanic (1997)
  • Avatar (2009)

Martin Campbell (6)

  • No Escape (1994)
  • GoldenEye (1995)
  • Vertical Limit (2000)
  • Casino Royale (2006)
  • Edge of Darkness (2010)
  • Green Lantern (2011)

Jane Campion (6)

  • An Exorcise in Discipline – Peel (1982)
  • Passionless Moments (1983)
  • A Girl’s Own Story (1984)
  • Sweetie (1989)
  • The Piano (1993)
  • Bright Star (2009)

Danny Cannon (2)

  • Judge Dredd (1995)
  • I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

Frank Capra (9)

  • Rain or Shine (1930)
  • The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
  • It Happened One Night (1934)
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
  • You Can’t Take It with You (1938)
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  • Meet John Doe (1941)
  • Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
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Joe Carnahan (2)

  • Narc (2002)
  • The A-Team (2010)

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  • Le Quai des brumes (1938)
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  • Le Jour se lève (1939)
  • The Devil’s Envoys (1942)
  • Children of Paradise (1945)

Marc Caro (2)

  • Delicatessen (1991)
  • The City of Lost Children (1995)

Glenn Gordon Caron (2)

  • Love Affair (1994)
  • Picture Perfect (1997)

John Carpenter (15)

  • Dark Star (1974)
  • Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
  • Halloween (1978)
  • Someone’s Watching Me! (1978)
  • The Fog (1980)
  • Escape from New York (1981)
  • The Thing (1982)
  • Christine (1983)
  • Starman (1984)
  • Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
  • They Live (1988)
  • In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
  • Village of the Damned (1995)
  • Escape from L.A. (1996)
  • Ghosts of Mars (2001)

Thomas Carter (2)

  • Swing Kids (1993)
  • Metro (1997)

D.J. Caruso (4)

  • The Salton Sea (2002)
  • Disturbia (2007)
  • Eagle Eye (2008)
  • I Am Number Four (2011)

John Cassavetes (8)

  • Shadows (1959)
  • A Child Is Waiting (1963)
  • Faces (1968)
  • Husbands (1970)
  • Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
  • A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
  • The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
  • Opening Night (1977)

Nick Cassavetes (3)

  • John Q (2002)
  • The Notebook (2004)
  • Alpha Dog (2006)

William Castle (2)

  • The Whistler (1944)
  • 13 Ghosts (1960)

Michael Caton-Jones (6)

  • Memphis Belle (1990)
  • Doc Hollywood (1991)
  • This Boy’s Life (1993)
  • Rob Roy (1995)
  • The Jackal (1997)
  • City by the Sea (2002)

Nuri Bilge Ceylan (3)

  • Distant (2002)
  • Climates (2006)
  • Three Monkeys (2008)

Claude Chabrol (6)

  • À double tour (1959)
  • Les Biches (1968)
  • This Man Must Die (1969)
  • Le Boucher (1970)
  • Violette (1978)
  • Story of Women (1988)

Don Chaffey (2)

  • Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
  • Pete’s Dragon (1977)

Jackie Chan (4)

  • Project A (1983)
  • Police Story (1985)
  • Project A 2 (1987)
  • Operation Condor (1991)

Chang Cheh (12)

  • One-Armed Swordsman (1967)
  • The Assassin (1967)
  • Golden Swallow (1968)
  • Return of the One-Armed Swordsman (1969)
  • The Flying Dagger (1969)
  • The Invisible Fist (1969)
  • Have Sword, Will Travel (1969)
  • The Wandering Swordsman (1970)
  • Vengeance (1970)
  • Duel of Fists (1971)
  • Boxer from Shantung (1972)
  • Five Deadly Venoms (1978)

Charles Chaplin (29)

  • The Rounders (1914)
  • His New Job (1915)
  • A Night Out (1915)
  • The Floorwalker (1916)
  • One A.M. (1916)
  • The Pawnshop (1916)
  • The Rink (1916)
  • Easy Street (1917)
  • The Cure (1917)
  • The Immigrant (1917)
  • The Adventurer (1917)
  • The Bond (1918)
  • A Dog’s Life (1918)
  • Shoulder Arms (1918)
  • A Day’s Pleasure (1919)
  • Sunnyside (1919)
  • The Idle Class (1921)
  • The Kid (1921)
  • Pay Day (1922)
  • The Pilgrim (1923)
  • A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923)
  • The Gold Rush (1925)
  • The Circus (1928)
  • City Lights (1931)
  • Modern Times (1936)
  • The Great Dictator (1940)
  • Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
  • Limelight (1952)
  • A King in New York (1957)

Joe Chappelle (2)

  • Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
  • Phantoms (1998)

Larry Charles (3)

  • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
  • Religulous (2008)
  • Brüno (2009)

Jeremiah S. Chechik (3)

  • Christmas Vacation (1989)
  • Benny & Joon (1993)
  • Diabolique (1996)

Chen Kaige (2)

  • Yellow Earth (1984)
  • Farewell My Concubine (1993)

Sylvain Chomet (3)

  • The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
  • Paris, je t’aime (2006)
  • The Illusionist (2010)

Stephen Chow (3)

  • Shaolin Soccer (2001)
  • Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
  • CJ7 (2008)

Benjamin Christensen (2)

  • The Mysterious X (1914)
  • Häxan (1922)

Michael Cimino (3)

  • The Deer Hunter (1978)
  • Heaven’s Gate (1980)
  • Desperate Hours (1990)

René Clair (8)

  • Entr’acte (1924)
  • Paris qui dort (1925)
  • Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
  • À nous la liberté (1931)
  • Le Million (1931)
  • The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
  • I Married a Witch (1942)
  • And Then There Were None (1945)

Robert Clampett (6)

  • Porky in Wackyland (1938)
  • Wabbit Twouble (1941)
  • Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943)
  • A Corny Concerto (1943)
  • Book Revue (1946)
  • The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)

Bob Clark (2)

  • Black Christmas (1974)
  • A Christmas Story (1983)

René Clément (2)

  • The Battle of the Rails (1946)
  • Forbidden Games (1952)

Ron Clements (5)

  • The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
  • The Little Mermaid (1989)
  • Aladdin (1992)
  • Hercules (1997)
  • The Princess and the Frog (2009)

Edward F. Cline (13)

  • One Week (1920)
  • Convict 13 (1920)
  • The Scarecrow (1920)
  • Neighbors (1920)
  • The Haunted House (1921)
  • The ‘High’ Sign (1921)
  • The Boat (1921)
  • Cops (1922)
  • Daydreams (1922)
  • The Balloonatic (1923)
  • The Love Nest (1923)
  • Three Ages (1923)
  • The Bank Dick (1940)

George Clooney (4)

  • Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
  • Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
  • Leatherheads (2008)
  • The Ides of March (2011)

Henri-Georges Clouzot (7)

  • The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)
  • Le Corbeau (1943)
  • Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
  • The Wages of Fear (1953)
  • Diabolique (1955)
  • La Vérité (1960)
  • La Prisonièrre (1968)

Jean Cocteau (3)

  • The Blood of a Poet (1930)
  • Beauty and the Beast (1946)
  • Orpheus (1950)

Joel Coen (16)

  • Blood Simple (1984)
  • Raising Arizona (1987)
  • Miller’s Crossing (1990)
  • Barton Fink (1991)
  • The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
  • Fargo (1996)
  • The Big Lebowski (1998)
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
  • The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
  • Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
  • The Ladykillers (2004)
  • Paris, je t’aime (2006)
  • No Country for Old Men (2007)
  • Burn After Reading (2008)
  • A Simple Man (2009)
  • True Grit (2010)

Rob Cohen (4)

  • Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
  • Dragonheart (1996)
  • The Fast and the Furious (2001)
  • xXx (2001)

Jaume Collet-Serra (2)

  • Orphan (2009)
  • Unknown (2011)

Chris Columbus (8)

  • Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
  • Home Alone (1990)
  • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
  • Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
  • Nine Months (1995)
  • Stepmom (1998)
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Bruce Conner (5)

  • A Movie (1958)
  • Ten Second Film (1965)
  • Report (1967)
  • Permian Strata (1969)
  • Mongoloid (1978)

Jack Conway (2)

  • A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
  • Libeled Lady (1936)

Merian C. Cooper (3)

  • Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life (1925)
  • Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927)
  • King Kong (1933)

Francis Ford Coppola (8)

  • The Godfather (1972)
  • The Conversation (1974)
  • The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  • Apocalypse Now (1979)
  • The Outsiders (1983)
  • Rumble Fish (1983)
  • Dracula (1992)
  • Jack (1996)

Sofia Coppola (4)

  • The Virgin Suicides (1999)
  • Lost in Translation (2003)
  • Marie Antoinette (2006)
  • Somewhere (2010)

Frank Coraci (2)

  • The Waterboy (1998)
  • The Wedding Singer (1998)

Roger Corman (5)

  • A Bucket of Blood (1959)
  • Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
  • The Intruder (1962)
  • X (1963)
  • The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

George P. Cosmatos (3)

  • Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
  • Leviathan (1989)
  • Tombstone (1993)

Costa-Gavras (3)

  • Z (1969)
  • State of Siege (1972)
  • Mad City (1997)

Kevin Costner (3)

  • Dances with Wolves (1990)
  • The Postman (1997)
  • Open Range (2003)

Wes Craven (11)

  • The Last House on the Left (1972)
  • The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
  • Shocker (1989)
  • Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
  • Scream (1996)
  • Scream 2 (1997)
  • Scream 3 (2000)
  • Red Eye (2005)
  • Paris, je t’aime (2006)
  • Scream 4 (2011)

Charles Crichton (2)

  • The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
  • A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

David Cronenberg (13)

  • Shivers (1975)
  • The Brood (1979)
  • Scanners (1981)
  • Videodrome (1983)
  • The Dead Zone (1983)
  • The Fly (1986)
  • Dead Ringers (1988)
  • Naked Lunch (1991)
  • eXistenZ (1999)
  • Spider (2002)
  • A History of Violence (2005)
  • Eastern Promises (2007)
  • A Dangerous Method (2011)

Cameron Crowe (7)

  • Say Anything… (1989)
  • Singles (1992)
  • Jerry Maguire (1996)
  • Almost Famous (2000)
  • Vanilla Sky (2001)
  • Elizabethtown (2005)
  • Pearl Jam Twenty (2011)

Billy Crystal (2)

  • Forget Paris (1995)
  • 61* (2001)

Alfonso Cuarón (5)

  • Sólo con tu pareja (1991)
  • Y tu mamá también (2001)
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
  • Children of Men (2006)
  • Paris, je t’aime (2006)

George Cukor (8)

  • Camille (1936)
  • Holiday (1938)
  • The Women (1939)
  • The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  • Gaslight (1944)
  • Adam’s Rib (1949)
  • A Star Is Born (1954)
  • My Fair Lady (1964)

Michael Curtiz (13)

  • Labyrinth of Horror (1921)
  • The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
  • Mandalay (1934)
  • Captain Blood (1935)
  • The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
  • Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
  • Dodge City (1939)
  • The Sea Hawk (1940)
  • Casablanca (1942)
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  • Mildred Pierce (1945)
  • Life with Father (1947)
  • White Christmas (1954)

John Dahl (2)

  • Rounders (1998)
  • Joy Ride (2001)

Rod Daniel (3)

  • Teen Wolf (1985)
  • K-9 (1989)
  • The Super (1991)

Joe Dante (10)

  • Piranha (1978)
  • The Howling (1981)
  • Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
  • Gremlins (1984)
  • Explorers (1985)
  • Innerspace (1987)
  • The ‘burbs (1989)
  • Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
  • Matinee (1993)
  • Small Soldiers (1998)

Frank Darabont (4)

  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  • The Green Mile (1999)
  • The Majestic (2001)
  • The Mist (2007)

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (4)

  • Rosetta (1999)
  • The Son (2002)
  • L’Enfant (2005)
  • Lorna’s Silence (2008)

Eric Darnell (3)

  • Antz (1998)
  • Madagascar (2005)
  • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)

Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast (2)

  • Laughter (1930)
  • Topaze (1933)

Jules Dassin (8)

  • Nazi Agent (1942)
  • Brute Force (1947)
  • The Naked City (1948)
  • Thieves’ Highway (1949)
  • Rififi (1955)
  • He Who Must Die (1957)
  • Never on Sunday (1960)
  • Topkapi (1964)

Delmer Daves (3)

  • Destination Tokyo (1943)
  • Dark Passage (1947)
  • Broken Arrow (1950)

Andrew Davis (6)

  • Above the Law (1988)
  • Under Seige (1992)
  • The Fugitive (1993)
  • Chain Reaction (1996)
  • A Perfect Murder (1998)
  • Collateral Damage (2002)

Tamra Davis (2)

  • Billy Madison (1995)
  • Half Baked (1998)

Jan de Bont (4)

  • Speed (1994)
  • Twister (1996)
  • Speed 2 (1997)
  • The Haunting (1999)

Segundo de Chomón (9)

  • Danse des Ouled-Naïd (1902)
  • Barcelona Park at Twilight (1904)
  • Ah! La barbe! (1905)
  • The Golden Beetle (1907)
  • Création de la Serpantine (1908)
  • Sweet Dreams Intermingled with Nightmares (1908)
  • The Electric Hotel (1908)
  • Barcelone et son Parc (1911)
  • Burgos (1911)

Rolf de Heer (2)

  • Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
  • The Tracker (2002)

Manoel de Oliveira (3)

  • Working on the Douro River (1931)
  • Journey to the Beginning of the World (1997)
  • Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (2009)

Brian De Palma (12)

  • Sisters (1973)
  • Carrie (1976)
  • The Fury (1978)
  • Blow Out (1981)
  • Scarface (1983)
  • The Untouchables (1987)
  • Carlito’s Way (1993)
  • Mission: Impossible (1996)
  • Snake Eyes (1998)
  • Mission to Mars (2000)
  • Femme Fatale (2002)
  • The Balck Dahlia (2006)

Vittorio De Sica (8)

  • The Children Are Watching Us (1944)
  • Shoeshine (1946)
  • The Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  • Miracle in Milan (1951)
  • Umberto D. (1952)
  • Terminal Station (1953)
  • Two Women (1960)
  • The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

André De Toth (3)

  • None Shall Escape (1944)
  • House of Wax (1953)
  • Crime Wave (1954)

William Dear (2)

  • Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
  • Angels in the Outfield (1994)

Guillermo del Toro (7)

  • Cronos (1993)
  • Mimic (1997)
  • The Devil’s Backbone (2001)
  • Blade II (2002)
  • Hellboy (2004)
  • Pan’s Labrynth (2006)
  • Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

Cecil B. DeMille (5)

  • The Cheat (1915)
  • The Ten Commandments (1923)
  • The King of Kings (1927)
  • The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
  • The Ten Commandments (1956)

Jonathan Demme (9)

  • Melvin and Howard (1980)
  • Stop Making Sense (1984)
  • Something Wild (1986)
  • The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  • Philadelphia (1993)
  • The Agronomist (2003)
  • The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
  • Jimmy Carter Man from Plains (2007)
  • Rachel Getting Married (2008)

Ted Demme (4)

  • The Ref (1994)
  • Beautiful Girls (1996)
  • Life (1999)
  • Blow (2001)

Jacques Demy (4)

  • Lola (1961)
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
  • The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
  • Donkey Skin (1970)

Claire Denis (4)

  • Chocolat (1988)
  • No Fear, No Die (1990)
  • Beau travail (1999)
  • White Material (2009)

Maya Deren (3)

  • Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
  • At Land (1944)
  • A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945)

Scott Derrickson (2)

  • The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

Howard Deutch (5)

  • The Great Outdoors (1988)
  • Getting Even with Dad (1994)
  • Grumpier Old Men (1995)
  • The Replacements (2000)
  • The Whole Ten Yards (2004)

Danny DeVito (3)

  • Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
  • The War of the Roses (1989)
  • Hoffa (1992)

Ernest R. Dickerson (2)

  • Bulletproof (1996)
  • Demon Knight (1996)

William K.L. Dickson (12)

  • Newark Athlete (1891)
  • Blacksmith Scene (1893)
  • Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
  • Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope (1894)
  • Rip’s Toast (1896)
  • Rip Meeting the Dwarf (1896)
  • Exit of Rip and the Dwarf (1896)
  • Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow (1896)
  • Rip’s Toast to Hudson and Crew (1896)
  • Rip’s Twenty Years’ Sleep (1896)
  • Awakening of Rip (1896)
  • Rip Passing Over a Mountain (1896)

William Dieterle (6)

  • The Secret Bride (1934)
  • The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
  • Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (1940)
  • The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
  • Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Mark Dindal (2)

  • The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)
  • Chicken Little (2005)

Walt Disney (2)

  • Steamboat Willie (1928)
  • The Skeleton Dance (1929)

Edward Dmytryk (3)

  • Murder, My Sweet (1944)
  • Crossfire (1947)
  • Raintree County (1957)

David Dobkin (2)

  • Shanghai Knights (2003)
  • Wedding Crashers (2005)

Pete Docter (2)

  • Monsters, Inc. (2001)
  • Up (2009)

Roger Donaldson (8)

  • Cocktail (1988)
  • The Getaway (1994)
  • Species (1995)
  • Dante’s Peak (1997)
  • Thirteen Days (2000)
  • The Recruit (2003)
  • The World’s Fastest Indian (2005)
  • The Bank Job (2008)

Stanley Donen (3)

  • On the Town (1949)
  • Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
  • Charade (1963)

Richard Donner (15)

  • The Omen (1976)
  • Superman (1978)
  • Superman II (1980)
  • The Toy (1982)
  • The Goonies (1985)
  • Ladyhawke (1985)
  • Lethal Weapon (1987)
  • Scrooged (1988)
  • Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
  • Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
  • Maverick (1994)
  • Assassins (1995)
  • Conspiracy Theory (1997)
  • Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
  • Timeline (2003)

Aleksandr Dovzhenko (4)

  • Zvenigora (1928)
  • Arsenal (1929)
  • Earth (1930)
  • Liberation (1940)

John Erick Dowdle (2)

  • Quarantine (2008)
  • Devil (2010)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (8)

  • The Parson’s Widow (1920)
  • Leaves from Satan’s Book (1921)
  • The Bride of Glomdal (1926)
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
  • Vampyr (1932)
  • Day of Wrath (1943)
  • Ordet (1955)
  • Gertrud (1964)

Dean DuBlois (2)

  • Lilo & Stitch (2002)
  • How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

Dennis Dugan (6)

  • Happy Gilmore (1996)
  • Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)
  • Big Daddy (1999)
  • Saving Silverman (2001)
  • National Security (2003)
  • Grown Ups (2010)

Germaine Dulac (2)

  • The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923)
  • The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928)

Bruno Dumont (3)

  • The Life of Jesus (1997)
  • L’Humanite (1999)
  • Hadewijch (2009)

Julien Duvivier (4)

  • Au bonheur des dames (1930)
  • Poil de carotte (1932)
  • La bandera (1935)
  • Pépé le Moko (1937)

Allan Dwan (2)

  • Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
  • Silver Lode (1954)

Clint Eastwood (19)

  • Play Misty for Me (1971)
  • High Plains Drifter (1973)
  • The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
  • Sudden Impact (1983)
  • Pale Rider (1985)
  • Unforgiven (1992)
  • A Perfect World (1993)
  • The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
  • Absolute Power (1997)
  • Space Cowboys (2000)
  • Blood Work (2002)
  • Mystic River (2003)
  • Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  • Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
  • Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
  • Changeling (2008)
  • Gran Torino (2008)
  • Invictus (2009)
  • Hereafter (2010)

Blake Edwards (2)

  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
  • Switch (1991)

Atom Egoyan (3)

  • Peep Show (1981)
  • Speaking Parts (1989)
  • The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

Sergei Eisenstein (9)

  • Glumov’s Diary (1923)
  • Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  • Strike (1925)
  • October (1928)
  • The Destruction of Oaxaca (1931)
  • Bezhin Meadow (1937)
  • Alexander Nevsky (1938)
  • Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944)
  • Ivan the Terrible, Part 2 (1958)

Breck Eisner (2)

  • Sahara (2005)
  • The Crazies (2010)

David R. Ellis (4)

  • Final Destination 2 (2003)
  • Cellular (2004)
  • Snakes on a Plane (2006)
  • The Final Destination (2009)

Roland Emmerich (8)

  • Universal Soldier (1992)
  • Stargate (1994)
  • Independence Day (1996)
  • Godzilla (1998)
  • The Patriot (2000)
  • The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
  • 10,000 BC (2008)
  • 2012 (2009)

Cy Endfield (2)

  • The Sound of Fury (1950)
  • Mysterious Island (1961)

Nora Ephron (3)

  • Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
  • Michael (1996)
  • You’ve Got Mail (1998)

Jean Epstein (6)

  • Coeur fidèle (1923)
  • La belle Nivernaise (1924)
  • The Lion of the Moguls (1924)
  • The Three-Sided Mirror (1927)
  • The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
  • Finis terrae (1929)

Rob Epstein (2)

  • The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
  • Howl (2010)

Reha Erdem (3)

  • Times and Winds (2006)
  • My Only Sunshine (2008)
  • Kosmos (2010)

Víctor Erice (2)

  • Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
  • El Sur (1983)

Richard Eyre (2)

  • Iris (2001)
  • Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Zoltán Fábri (2)

  • Merry-Go-Round (1956)
  • The Fifth Seal (1976)

Arnold Fanck (3)

  • Cloud Phenomena of Majola (1924)
  • The Holy Mountain (1926)
  • White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)

Bobby and Peter Farrelly (7)

  • Dumb & Dumber (1994)
  • Kingpin (1996)
  • There’s Something About Mary (1998)
  • Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
  • Osmosis Jones (2001)
  • Shallow Hal (2001)
  • Stuck on You (2003)

John Farrow (3)

  • Five Came Back (1939)
  • Wake Island (1942)
  • Hondo (1953)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (6)

  • The City Tramp (1966)
  • Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)
  • The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1973)
  • In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
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Robert Florey (2)

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Marc Forster (5)

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John Fortenberry (2)

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Bob Fosse (2)

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Jonathan Frakes (2)

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Stephen Frears (12)

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  • The Queen (2006)
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Friz Freleng (17)

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William Friedkin (8)

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  • To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
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  • Bug (2006)

Kinji Fukasaku (8)

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  • The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
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Samuel Fuller (13)

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  • Hell and High Water (1954)
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Antoine Fuqua (4)

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Sidney J. Furie (3)

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Ernie Gehr (2)

  • Wait (1968)
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  • My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1984)
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Pietro Germi (3)

  • The Railroad Man (1956)
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Clyde Geronimi (7)

  • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
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Ritwik Ghatak (2)

  • The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
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Mel Gibson (4)

  • The Man Without a Face (1993)
  • Braveheart (1995)
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David Gill (2)

  • Hollywood (1980)
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Craig Gillespie (2)

  • Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
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Terry Gilliam (10)

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
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  • Brazil (1985)
  • Twelve Monkeys (1995)
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
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  • Tideland (2005)
  • The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

François Girard (2)

  • Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
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Paul Michael Glaser (2)

  • The Running Man (1987)
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Jean-Luc Godard (14)

  • Breathless (1960)
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  • My Life to Live (1962)
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  • Contempt (1963)
  • Band of Outsiders (1964)
  • Alphaville (1965)
  • Pierrot le fou (1965)
  • Masculin Féminin (1966)
  • Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
  • Week End (1967)
  • Histoire(s) du cinéma (1998)
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Eric Goldberg (2)

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Michel Gondry (4)

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
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Aleksandr Gordon (2)

  • The Killers (1956)
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Seth Gordon (2)

  • The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
  • Horrible Bosses (2011)

Stuart Gordon (2)

  • Re-Animator (1985)
  • Stuck (2007)

Hideo Gosha (4)

  • Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)
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  • Tenchu! (1969)

Heinosuke Gosho (2)

  • The Neighbor’s Wife and Mine (1931)
  • Burden of Life (1935)

Raja Gosnell (5)

  • Home Alone 3 (1997)
  • Never Been Kissed (1999)
  • Big Momma’s House (2000)
  • Scooby-Doo (2002)
  • Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)

Michael Gottlieb (2)

  • Mannequin (1987)
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Alfred J. Goulding (2)

  • From Hand to Mouth (1919)
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Edmund Goulding (4)

  • Queen Kelly (1929)
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F. Gary Gray (5)

  • Friday (1995)
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  • A Man Apart (2003)
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  • Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

James Gray (2)

  • We Own the Night (2007)
  • Two Lovers (2008)

John Gray (2)

  • The Glimmer Man (1996)
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David Gordon Green (5)

  • George Washington (2000)
  • All the Real Girls (2003)
  • Snow Angels (2007)
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  • Your Highness (2011)

Peter Greenaway (3)

  • Windows (1975)
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Paul Greengrass (5)

  • Bloody Sunday (2002)
  • The Bourne Supremecy (2004)
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D.W. Griffith (34)

  • The Adventures of Dollie (1908)
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  • Those Awful Hats (1909)
  • The Sealed Room (1909)
  • The Red Man’s View (1909)
  • A Corner in Wheat (1909)
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  • The Usurer (1910)
  • His Trust (1911)
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  • The House of Darkness (1913)
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  • The Mothering Heart (1913)
  • The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)
  • Judith of Bethulia (1914)
  • The Avenging Conscience: or ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ (1914)
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)
  • Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
  • A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
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  • Way Down East (1920)
  • Orphans of the Storm (1921)

Christopher Guest (3)

  • Waiting for Guffman (1996)
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Sacha Guitry (2)

  • The Story of a Cheat (1936)
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  • The Battle of Chile: Part 1 (1975)
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Taylor Hackford (3)

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Mikael Håfström (4)

  • Evil (2003)
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Don Hahn (2)

  • Fantasia/2000 (1999)
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John Hamburg (2)

  • Along Came Polly (2004)
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Guy Hamilton (3)

  • Goldfinger (1964)
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Alexander Hammid (2)

  • Aimless Walk (1930)
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John Lee Hancock (3)

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David Hand (2)

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
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Michael Haneke (10)

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  • Code Unknown (2000)
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Curtis Hanson (6)

  • Losin’ It (1983)
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Catherine Hardwicke (2)

  • Thirteen (2003)
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Renny Harlin (6)

  • Die Hard II (1990)
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Robert Harmon (2)

  • The Hitcher (1986)
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Ed Harris (2)

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Hal Hartley (2)

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  • The Youth Killer (1976)
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  • The War of the Worlds (1953)
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Howard Hawks (18)

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  • Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
  • His Girl Friday (1940)
  • Sergeant York (1941)
  • Ball 0f Fire (1941)
  • To Have and Have Not (1944)
  • The Big Sleep (1946)
  • Red River (1948)
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  • The Thing from Another World (1951)
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Todd Haynes (4)

  • Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1988)
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Amy Heckerling (4)

  • Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
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Jamali Helander (2)

  • Rare Imports Inc. (2003)
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Brian Helgeland (2)

  • Payback (1999)
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  • Ride in the Whirlwind (1965)
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Jim Henson (2)

  • The Dark Crystal (1982)
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Stephen Herek (6)

  • Critters (1986)
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  • Rock Star (2001)

Werner Herzog (21)

  • Herakles (1962)
  • The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969)
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  • Fata Morgana (1971)
  • Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
  • The Great Ecstasy of Stonecarver Steiner (1974)
  • The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
  • Stroszek (1977)
  • La soufrière (1977)
  • Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
  • Fitzcarraldo (1982)
  • Lessons of Darkness (1992)
  • Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
  • Wheel of Time (2003)
  • The White Diamond (2004)
  • Grizzly Man (2005)
  • The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
  • Rescue Dawn (2006)
  • Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
  • The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

Jared Hess (2)

  • Napolean Dynamite (2004)
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Peter Hewitt (2)

  • Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)
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Scott Hicks (2)

  • Shine (1996)
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George Roy Hill (4)

  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
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Walter Hill (8)

  • The Driver (1978)
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  • The Long Riders (1980)
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  • Red Heat (1988)
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  • Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
  • Supernova (2000)

John Hillcoat (2)

  • The Proposition (2005)
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Arthur Hiller (3)

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Alfred Hitchcock (38)

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  • The Manxman (1929)
  • Murder! (1930)
  • The Skin Game (1931)
  • Rich and Strange (1931)
  • Number Seventeen (1932)
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
  • The 39 Steps (1935)
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  • Young and Innocent (1937)
  • The Lady Vanishes (1938)
  • Foreign Correspondent (1940)
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  • Saboteur (1942)
  • Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
  • Lifeboat (1944)
  • Spellbound (1945)
  • Notorious (1946)
  • Rope (1948)
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  • Dial M for Murder (1954)
  • Rear Window (1954)
  • To Catch a Thief (1955)
  • The Trouble with Harry (1955)
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
  • The Wrong Man (1956)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • North by Northwest (1959)
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Mike Hodges (2)

  • Get Carter (1971)
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Tom Holland (2)

  • Fatal Beauty (1987)
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Ishirô Honda (8)

  • Gojira (1954)
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  • Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
  • Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
  • Yog: The Space Amoeba (1970)

Sang-soo Hong (3)

  • Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000)
  • Hahaha (2010)
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Gavin Hood (2000)

  • Tsotsi (2005)
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  • Passenger 57 (1992)
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  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
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Stephen Hopkins (5)

  • Predator 2 (1990)
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James W. Horne (3)

  • College (1927)
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  • The Boys from Fengkuei (1983)
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  • The Puppetmaster (1993)
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Byron Howard (2)

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Ron Howard (19)

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  • Gung Ho (1986)
  • Willow (1988)
  • Parenthood (1989)
  • Backdraft (1991)
  • Far and Away (1992)
  • The Paper (1994)
  • Apollo 13 (1995)
  • Ransom (1996)
  • Edtv (1999)
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
  • A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  • The Missing (2003)
  • Cinderella Man (2005)
  • The Da Vinci Code (2006)
  • Frost/Nixon (2008)
  • Angels & Demons (2009)
  • The Dilemma (2011)

Peter Howitt (3)

  • Sliding Doors (1998)
  • Antitrust (2001)
  • Johnny English (2003)

Ágnes Hrantizky (2)

  • Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
  • The Turin Horse (2011)

King Hu (5)

  • Come Drink with Me (1966)
  • Dragon Inn (1967)
  • A Touch of Zen (1969)
  • The Fate of Lee Khan (1973)
  • Legend of the Mountain (1979)

Reginald Hudlin (2)

  • The Great White Hype (1996)
  • The Ladies Man (2000)

Albert Hughes (2)

  • From Hell (2001)
  • The Book of Eli (2010)

Allen Hughes (3)

  • From Hell (2001)
  • New York, I Love You (2009)
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John Hughes (5)

  • Sixteen Candles (1984)
  • The Breakfast Club (1985)
  • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
  • Plane, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)
  • Uncle Buck (1989)

Patrick Hughes (2)

  • Signs (2008)
  • Red Hill (2010)

John Huston (18)

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  • Across the Pacific (1942)
  • Report from the Aleutians (1943)
  • San Pietro (1945)
  • Key Largo (1948)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  • The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
  • The African Queen (1951)
  • The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
  • Beat the Devil (1953)
  • Moby Dick (1956)
  • The Misfits (1961)
  • The Night of the Iguana (1964)
  • Fat City (1972)
  • The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
  • Victory (1981)
  • Prizzi’s Honor (1985)
  • The Dead (1987)

Peter Hyams (6)

  • Capricorn One (1978)
  • 2010 (1984)
  • Timecop (1994)
  • Sudden Death (1995)
  • The Relic (1997)
  • End of Days (1999)

Kon Ichikawa (9)

  • The Burmese Harp (1956)
  • Enjo (1958)
  • Kagi (1959)
  • Fires on the Plain (1959)
  • Her Brother (1960)
  • An Actor’s Revenge (1963)
  • Alone Across the Pacific (1963)
  • Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
  • The Makioka Sisters (1983)

Shohei Imamura (9)

  • Endless Desire (1958)
  • Pigs and Battleships (1961)
  • The Insect Woman (1963)
  • Intentions of Murder (1964)
  • The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968)
  • Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
  • Ballad of Narayama (1983)
  • Black Rain (1989)
  • The Eel (1997)

Hiroshi Inagaki (6)

  • Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
  • Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
  • Samurai III: Duel on Gonryu Island (1956)
  • The Rickshaw Man (1958)
  • Samurai Saga (1959)
  • Chushingura (1962)

Alejandro González Iñárritu (4)

  • Amores Perros (2000)
  • 21 Grams (2003)
  • Babel (2006)
  • Biutiful (2010)

Otar Iosseliani (3)

  • Akvarel (1958)
  • Sapovneia (1959)
  • Pastolale (1975)

Katsuhito Ishii (2)

  • Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998)
  • Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005)

Juzo Itami (3)

  • The Funeral (1984)
  • Tampopo (1985)
  • Minbo – or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992)

Ivan Ivanov-Vano (4)

  • Black and White (1933)
  • Someone Else’s Voice (1949)
  • Seasons (1969)
  • Ave Maria (1972)

Joris Ivens (14)

  • Flaming Arrow (1911)
  • Studies in Movement (1928)
  • The Bridge (1928)
  • Rain (1929)
  • Philips-Radio (1931)
  • Song of Heroes (1932)
  • Borinage (1933)
  • New Earth (1934)
  • The Spanish Earth (1937)
  • The 400 Million (1939)
  • Power and the Land (1940)
  • …A Valparaíso (1962)
  • Rotterdam-Europoort (1966)
  • A Tale of the Wind (1988)

James Ivory (3)

  • A Room with a View (1985)
  • The Remains of the Day (1993)
  • Jefferson in Paris (1995)

Mick Jackson (4)

  • L.A. Story (1991)
  • The Bodyguard (1992)
  • Clean Slate (1994)
  • Volcano (1997)

Peter Jackson (8)

  • Dead Alive (1992)
  • Heavenly Creatures (1994)
  • The Frighteners (1996)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  • King Kong (2005)
  • The Lovely Bones (2009)

Wilfred Jackson (8)

  • The Band Concert (1935)
  • The Old Mill (1937)
  • Fantasia (1940)
  • Song of the South (1946)
  • Cinderella (1950)
  • Alice in Wonderland (1951)
  • Peter Pan (1953)
  • Lady and the Tramp (1955)

Steve James (2)

  • Hoop Dreams (1994)
  • At the Death House Door (2008)

Miklós Jancsó (6)

  • My Way Home (1965)
  • The Round-Up (1966)
  • The Red and the White (1967)
  • Silence and Cry (1967)
  • Red Psalm (1972)
  • Electra, My Love (1974)

Jim Jarmusch (6)

  • Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
  • Down by Law (1986)
  • Dead Man (1995)
  • Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
  • Broken Flowers (2005)
  • The Limits of Control (2009)

Humphrey Jennings (2)

  • Fires Were Started (1943)
  • A Diary for Timothy (1945)

Jean-Pierre Jeunet (5)

  • Delicatessen (1991)
  • The City of Lost Children (1995)
  • Alien: Resurrection (1997)
  • Amelie (2001)
  • A Very Long Engagement (2004)

Norman Jewison (6)

  • The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
  • In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  • The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
  • Rollerball (1975)
  • Moonstruck (1987)
  • Only You (1994)

Jia Zhang Ke (3)

  • The Pickpocket (1997)
  • The World (2004)
  • I Wish I Knew (2010)

Alejandro Jodorowsky (2)

  • El Topo (1970)
  • The Holy Mountain (1973)

Rian Johnson (2)

  • Brick (2005)
  • The Brothers Bloom (2008)

Tim Johnson (2)

  • Antz (1998)
  • Over the Hedge (2006)

Joe Johnston (9)

  • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
  • The Rocketeer (1991)
  • The Pagemaster (1994)
  • Jumanji (1995)
  • October Sky (1999)
  • Jurassic Park III (2001)
  • Hidalgo (2004)
  • The Wolfman (2010)
  • Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Chuck Jones (40)

  • The Night Watchman (1938)
  • Prest-O Change-O (1939)
  • Sniffles and the Bookworm (1939)
  • Elmer’s Candid Camera (1940)
  • The Dover Boys at Pimento University or the Rivals of Roquefort Hall (1942)
  • Hare Conditioned (1945)
  • Haredevil Hare (1948)
  • My Bunny Lies Over the Sea (1948)
  • Scaredy Cat (1948)
  • Fast and Furry-ous (1949)
  • Long-Haired Hare (1949)
  • Rabbit Hood (1949)
  • The Ducksters (1950)
  • Rabbit of Seville (1950)
  • The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)
  • Bunny Hugged (1951)
  • Rabbit Fire (1951)
  • The Wearing of the Grin (1951)
  • Drip-Along Daffy (1951)
  • Operation: Rabbit (1952)
  • Feed the Kitty (1952)
  • Water, Water Every Hare (1952)
  • Beep, Beep (1952)
  • Going! Going! Gosh! (1952)
  • Rabbit Seasoning (1952)
  • Duck Amuck (1953)
  • Wild Over You (1953)
  • Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)
  • Bully for Bugs (1953)
  • Zipping Along (1953)
  • Baby Buggy Bunny (1954)
  • Knight-Mare Hare (1955)
  • One Froggy Evening (1955)
  • Broom-Stick Bunny (1956)
  • Deduce, You Say (1956)
  • Ali Baba Bunny (1957)
  • What’s Opera, Doc? (1957)
  • The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965)
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
  • The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)

Duncan Jones (2)

  • Moon (2009)
  • Source Code (2011)

Terry Jones (4)

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
  • Life of Brian (1979)
  • The Meaning of Life (1983)
  • Erik the Viking (1989)

Spike Jonze (3)

  • Being John Malkovich (1999)
  • Adaptation. (2002)
  • Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

Henry Joost (2)

  • Catfish (2010)
  • Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Neil Jordan (7)

  • The Company of Wolves (1984)
  • The Crying Game (1992)
  • Interview with a Vampire (1994)
  • Michael Collins (1996)
  • The Butcher Boy (1997)
  • The Good Thief (2002)
  • Ondine (2009)

Mike Judge (4)

  • Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)
  • Office Space (1999)
  • Idiocracy (2006)
  • Extract (2009)

Miranda July (2)

  • Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
  • The Future (2011)

Nathan Juran (3)

  • 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
  • The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
  • First Men in the Moon (1964)

Karel Kachyna (3)

  • Slingboy (1960)
  • Carriage to Vienna (1966)
  • Ucho (1970)

Mikhail Kalatozov (5)

  • Salt for Svanetia (1930)
  • Nail in the Boot (1931)
  • The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
  • The Letter That Was Never Sent (1959)
  • I Am Cuba (1964)

Woo-Suk Kang (2)

  • Public Enemy (2002)
  • Moss (2010)

Semih Kaplanoglu (2)

  • Egg (2007)
  • Honey (2010)

Shekhar Kapur (3)

  • Elizabeth (1998)
  • The Four Feathers (2002)
  • New York, I Love You (2009)

Kazimierz Karabasz (7)

  • Day In Day Out… (1955)
  • Where the Devil Says Goodnight (1956)
  • People from an Empty Zone (1957)
  • From Powisle (1958)
  • A Day Without Sun (1959)
  • The Musicians (1960)
  • People on the Road (1960)

Jake Kasdan (3)

  • Orange County (2002)
  • Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
  • Bad Teacher (2011)

Lawrence Kasdan (6)

  • Body Heat (1981)
  • The Big Chill (1983)
  • Silverado (1985)
  • Wyatt Earp (1994)
  • French Kiss (1995)
  • Dreamcatcher (2003)

Philip Kaufman (5)

  • The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
  • The Right Stuff (1983)
  • Rising Sun (1993)
  • Quills (2000)

Aki Kaurismäki (9)

  • Calamari Union (1985)
  • Shadows in Paradise (1987)
  • Ariel (1988)
  • Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
  • I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
  • The Match Factory Girl (1990)
  • Bohemian Life (1992)
  • Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994)
  • Drifting Clouds (1996)

Jerzy Kawalerowicz (3)

  • Real End of the Great War (1957)
  • Night Train (1959)
  • Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)

Elia Kazan (8)

  • Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
  • Panic in the Streets (1950)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  • On the Waterfront (1954)
  • East of Eden (1955)
  • Baby Doll (1956)
  • A Face in the Crowd (1957)
  • Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Buster Keaton (28)

  • The Rough House (1917)
  • One Week (1920)
  • Convict 13 (1920)
  • The Scarecrow (1920)
  • Neighbors (1920)
  • The Haunted House (1921)
  • The ‘High’ Sign (1921)
  • The Goat (1921)
  • The Play House (1921)
  • The Boat (1921)
  • Cops (1922)
  • Daydreams (1922)
  • My Wife’s Relations (1922)
  • The Balloonatic (1923)
  • The Love Nest (1923)
  • Our Hospitality (1923)
  • Three Ages (1923)
  • The Navigator (1924)
  • Sherlock Jr. (1924)
  • Seven Chances (1925)
  • Go West (1925)
  • Battling Butler (1926)
  • College (1927)
  • The General (1927)
  • The Cameraman (1928)
  • Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
  • Spite Marriage (1929)
  • Streamlined Swing (1938)

Dorota Kedzierzawska (2)

  • The End of the World (1988)
  • Time to Die (2007)

Gene Kelly (2)

  • On the Town (1949)
  • Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Richard Kelly (2)

  • Donnie Darko (2001)
  • The Box (2009)

Gil Kenan (2)

  • Monster House (2006)
  • City of Ember (2008)

Fyodor Khitruk (3)

  • Winnie Pooh (1969)
  • Winnie the Pooh Goes Visiting (1971)
  • Winnie the Pooh and a Busy Day (1972)

Abbas Kiarostami (11)

  • The Bread and the Alley (1970)
  • Breaktime (1972)
  • Two Solutions for One Problem (1975)
  • The Chorus (1982)
  • Where Is the Friend’s Home? (1987)
  • Close Up (1990)
  • Life, and Nothing More… (1991)
  • Through the Olive Trees (1994)
  • A Taste of Cherry (1997)
  • The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
  • Certified Copy (2010)

Krzysztof Kieslowski (23)

  • The Office (1966)
  • From the City of Lodz (1968)
  • I Was a Soldier (1970)
  • Factory (1971)
  • Refrain (1972)
  • Bricklayer (1973)
  • First Love (1974)
  • X-Ray (1974)
  • Curriculum Vitae (1975)
  • Slate (1976)
  • Hospital (1977)
  • Night Porter’s Point of View (1979)
  • Seven Women of Different Ages (1979)
  • Railway Station (1980)
  • Talking Heads (1980)
  • No End (1985)
  • A Short Film About Killing (1988)
  • A Short Film About Love (1988)
  • Dekalog (1989)
  • The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
  • Three Colors: Blue (1993)
  • Three Colors: White (1994)
  • Three Colors: Red (1994)

Ji-woon Kim (5)

  • The Quiet Family (1998)
  • A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
  • A Bittersweet Life (2005)
  • The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)
  • I Saw the Devil (2010)

Ki-duk Kim (6)

  • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (2003)
  • Samaritan Girl (2004)
  • 3-Iron (2004)
  • The Bow (2005)
  • Time (2006)
  • Breath (2007)

Keisuke Kinoshita (2)

  • Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
  • Ballad of Narayama (1958)
  • The River Fuefuki (1960)

Teinosuke Kinugasa (2)

  • A Page of Madness (1926)
  • Gate of Hell (1953)

Dimitri Kirsanoff (2)

  • Ménilmontant (1926)
  • Brumes d’automne (1929)

Takeshi Kitano (8)

  • Violent Cop (1989)
  • Boiling Point (1990)
  • A Scene at the Sea (1991)
  • Sonatine (1993)
  • Kids Return (1996)
  • Hana-bi (1997)
  • Zatoichi (2003)
  • Glory to the Filmmaker! (2007)

Randal Kleiser (4)

  • Grease (1978)
  • Flight of the Navigator (1986)
  • White Fang (1991)
  • Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992)

Elem Klimov (2)

  • Larisa (1980)
  • Come and See (1985)

Masaki Kobayashi (6)

  • The Human Condition I (1959)
  • The Human Condition II (1959)
  • The Human Condition III (1961)
  • Harakiri (1962)
  • Kwaidan (1964)
  • Samurai Rebellion (1967)

David Koepp (2)

  • Stir of Echoes (1999)
  • Secret Window (2004)

Satoshi Kon (2)

  • Perfect Blue (1998)
  • Paprika (2006)

Andrei Konchalovsky (2)

  • Runaway Train (1985)
  • Tango & Cash (1989)

Barbara Kopple (2)

  • Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
  • Shut Up & Sing (2006)

Alexander Korda (2)

  • Marius (1931)
  • The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)

Zoltan Korda (2)

  • The Four Feathers (1939)
  • Sahara (1943)

Hirokazu Koreeda (7)

  • Maborosi (1995)
  • After Life (1998)
  • Distance (2001)
  • Nobody Knows (2004)
  • Still Walking (2008)
  • Air Doll (2009)
  • I Wish (2011)

Ted Kotcheff (3)

  • First Blood (1982)
  • Weekend at Bernie’s (1989)
  • Folks! (1992)

Nikos Koundouros (2)

  • O drakos (1956)
  • Young Aphrodites (1963)

Stanley Kramer (5)

  • The Defiant Ones (1958)
  • On the Beach (1959)
  • Inherit the Wind (1960)
  • Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
  • Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Kurt Kren (2)

  • 15/67: TV (1967)
  • 31/75: Asylum (1975)

Peter Kubelka (3)

  • Abedar (1957)
  • Schwechater (1958)
  • Arnuld Rainer (1960)

Stanley Kubrick (12)

  • Killer’s Kiss (1955)
  • The Killing (1956)
  • Paths of Glory (1957)
  • Spartacus (1960)
  • Lolita (1962)
  • Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  • 2001: A Space Oddyssey (1968)
  • A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  • Barry Lyndon (1975)
  • The Shining (1980)
  • Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  • Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

George Kuchar (2)

  • Hold Me While I’m Naked (1966)
  • Wild Night in El Reno (1977)

Eiichi Kudo (2)

  • The Thirteen Assassins (1963)
  • The Great Duel (1964)

Akira Kurosawa (30)

  • Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
  • The Most Beautiful (1944)
  • The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)
  • Sanshiro Sugata II (1945)
  • No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
  • One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
  • Drunken Angel (1948)
  • The Quiet Duel (1949)
  • Stray Dog (1949)
  • Rashômon (1950)
  • Scandal (1950)
  • The Idiot (1951)
  • Ikiru (1952)
  • Seven Samurai (1954)
  • I Live in Fear (1955)
  • The Lower Depths (1957)
  • Throne of Blood (1957)
  • The Hidden Fortress (1958)
  • The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
  • Yojimbo (1961)
  • Sanjuro (1962)
  • High and Low (1963)
  • Red Beard (1965)
  • Dodesukaden (1970)
  • Dersu Uzala (1975)
  • Kagemusha (1980)
  • Ran (1985)
  • Dreams (1990)
  • Rhapsody in August (1991)
  • Madadayo (1993)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa (5)

  • Cure (1997)
  • Seance (2000)
  • Pulse (2001)
  • Bright Future (2003)
  • Tokyo Sonata (2008)

Emir Kusturica (3)

  • Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981)
  • Time of the Gypsies (1987)
  • Underground (1995)

Stanley Kwan (2)

  • Rouge (1987)
  • The Actress (1992)

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